SELINA FILLINGER is an LA-based writer and performer. Original plays include The Collapse, Something Clean, Faceless, and The Armor Plays: Cinched/Strapped. She recently made her Broadway debut with her seven-woman farce, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. Her plays have been developed at Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Old Globe Theatre, Alley Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, and Northlight Theatre. She’s currently commissioned at South Coast Repertory and Roundabout. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a resident of McCarter’s Sallie B. Goodman Artist’s Retreat; Something Clean is the recipient of the 2019 Laurents/Hatcher Award and Cinched/Strapped received the 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. POTUS was on the 2019 Kilroys List. Selina wrote for the third season of Apple TV’s THE MORNING SHOW; she’s developing a feature with Chernin/Netflix, and a pilot with Hunting Lane/Hulu.  

MEREDITH McDONOUGH was the Associate Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville for seven seasons where favorite directing includes Angels in America, Peter and the Starcatcher, and the premieres of Colman Domingo’s Dot, This Random World  and Airness.  She has done extensive regional work, most recently directing the premiere of Kate Hamill’s Emma (Guthrie, Playmakers Rep, Denver Center), Other favorites include the premieres of both Miss Bennett and Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberly (Marin Theatre), The Lily’s Revenge with Taylor Mac (Magic Theatre), Noises Off (Guthrie), Falsettos (Latte Da), The 39 Steps (Denver Center), Fair Use (Steppenwolf), Private Lives and Lifespan of a Fact (St Louis REP), and the US premiere of NSFW (Roundhouse).  She was the Director of New Works at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the New Works Director for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and a Drama League Fellow.  Education: Northwestern; MFA, UCSD.

Theo Allyn is ecstatic to be back at City Theatre, having last been seen in their underwear as Stephanie in POTUS - innertube and all. Other City Theatre credits include Tigers Be Still, Precious Little, and The 13th of Paris. Having just completed a nine month tour with Great Lakes Theatre/Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in their joint productions of Twelfth Night (Feste) and Peter and the Starcatcher (Smee), it is very good to be home. Regional credits: Jo in Dobama Theatre’s Little Women (awarded Best Non Musical Production of 2023 Cleveland); A Musical Christmas Carol, Young Frankenstein, Into the Woods and Anything Goes with Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera; the original San Francisco company of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; This Beautiful City with Diversionary Theatre (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Musical); The Upstairs Concierge and The Matchmaker at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago; as well as local credits with Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Pittsburgh Irish and Classical. Training includes the Atlantic Theatre Company Acting School and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. 

TAMI DIXON is so excited to be back at City Theatre and part of this incredible company for POTUS. Ms. Dixon most recently appeared in her critically acclaimed one woman show, South Side Stories Revisited at City Theatre. Favorite roles also include, Heidi in What the Constitution Means to Me at City Theatre, Miss Julie in Miss Julie, Clarissa and John with Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire with barebones productions. In New York she appeared on Broadway in The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant at The Henry Miller Theatre, and off-Broadway in When We Dead Awaken and The Master Builder at The Century Center, and unbecoming at 45^th Street Theater. Regionally she originated the role of Pace Creagan in Naomi Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at The Humana Festival, and starred in Huckleberry Finn at George Street Playhouse. As the Co-Artistic Director of Bricolage Production Company since 2005, Ms. Dixon has devised and co-directed the nationally acclaimed immersive experiences The Forest of Everywhere, OjO: The Next Generation of Travel, and STRATA. She’s been the lead writer for 12 seasons for Bricolage’s Midnight Radio program, and starred in their productions of Dutchman, Key to the Field, and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom. Ms. Dixon received her BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Dixon is the recipient of a TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the Carol R. Brown Emerging Artist Award from The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation, the Tribute to Women Leadership Award for Creative Arts from the YWCA, City Theatre’s Frankel Award, and was named Performer of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

LARA HAYHURST (Dusty) is thrilled to be back at City Theatre, where she was last seen as Justin in An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake. She has Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tour, and numerous regional credits. Up next: reprising her role as Cindy Lou Who in Who’s Holiday with Pittsburgh CLO this December. Unending thanks to this amazing cast and team. This one’s for the folks who love and encourage her to be wild and brave- especially Trey. BFA Pace University, NYC. Much more at larahayhurst.com and @larahayhurst

MISSY MORENO (Point Park Conservatory graduate) is elated to be part of City Theatre's 50th anniversary season, after having been part of YPF many moons ago. Missy is an actor/singer/comedian named “Best Comedian(2nd)” in the PGH City Paper 2022 Best of Issue. Chicago work: Second City, The Annoyance & Jeff Award winning “The Original Grease” produced by Grease writer Jim Jacobs (ATC). PGH credits: “Best Musical” (City Paper Best of) MAMMA MIA! (Rosie) at Stage 62. Some fave credits: Opening act for Laura  Hall of Who’s Line Is It Anyway and the Skivvies (City Theatre)  with musical improv duo babyGRAND with Connor McCanlus; Charity Pandemic Benefit Virtual Show in Washington DC with comedian Sinbad and rocking out with Michael Ceveris as part of the barebones theater "Nightmare Before Christmas" Live Read fundraiser event at PGH City Winery. Addt’l credits: Rock of Ages (Lonny), Merrily We Roll Along (Mrs. Spencer/Ensemble), Bubble Boy the Musical (Mrs Livingston). Always for Mom, Gram, Uncle Jeff. Thank you City Theatre staff and forever love to the STEEL VALLEY.  missymoreno.com

AMELIA PEDLOW New York: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM); Intelligence (Dutch Kills); The Metromaniacs,’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull); Pride & Prejudice (Primary Stages); The Liar, The Heir Apparent (CSC); You Never Can Tell (The Pearl). Regional (select): Emma (world premier Guthrie, Denver Center); Dear Jack, Dear Louise (world premier Arena Stage, George Street); Private Lives (St. Louis Rep); Doubt (Studio); Red Velvet (Old Globe); Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Ether Dome (La Jolla, Hartford Stage, The Huntington); 39 Steps, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet (Denver Center); Legacy of Light (Cleveland Playhouse). Television: The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Shades of Blue, The Blacklist. Training: Juilliard.

SAIGE SMITH is thrilled to return to City Theatre to work alongside such incredible talent! Credits include: POTUS (Chris), Clyde’s (Letitia) - City Theatre Company; The Color Purple (Squeak), Sister Act (Tina/Ensemble), Puffs (Leanne), Kinky Boots (Pat), A Musical Christmas Carol (Fan/Alice/Belle) - Pittsburgh CLO;  Noises Off (Brooke) - Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre; A…My Name is Still Alice (Laura) - Front Porch Theatricals; Skeleton Crew (Shanita) - Barebones Productions; Hamlet (Ophelia) - Quantum Theatre;  Something to Live For (Production Understudy), Steel Magnolias (Annelle), A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Harlem (Hermia), Murder on the Orient Express (Greta) - Pittsburgh Public Theater.

TAMARA TUNIE made her Steppenwolf debut in the role of “Claudine Jasper” in Purpose.  Ms Tunie played the role of “Florence Delva” in the National Black Theater/The New Group’s premiere of Bernarda’s Daugthers,  originated the role of  "Kamala Harris" in The 47th at The Old Vic, London, played the role of "Gloria" in Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s Building the Wall at New World Stages, "Marvelous" in Danai Gurira’s Familiar for which she won an Obie, “Dorothy Brock" in 42nd Street  at the Ordway Theater, and  “Prospero" in the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of The Tempest. She originated the roles of "Kendra" in the Barrington Stage Company production of American Son and "Det. Gwen Washburn" in the Public Theater production of The Library directed by Steven Soderbergh..  She starred as "Maggie" in the first all African American production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, “Calpurnia" in Julius Caesar opposite Denzel Washington,  the 20th Anniversary, Actors Fund benefit concert of Dreamgirls, and shared the Broadway stage with the late, great Lena Horne, in the musical Lena Horne: The Lady and her Music. Film and television roles include I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY, FLIGHT, BLACK EARTH RISING, THE RED ROAD, COWBOY BEEBOP, and 23 seasons on LAW AND ORDER: SVU, to name a few.