Cast

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  Layla Khoshnoudi

  Anoud

  Layla Khoshnoudi is an Iranian-Texan actress based in New York. She received an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. Select theater credits include Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb); 7 Minutes (Waterwell); Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons); Bull in a China Shop (Lincoln Center); Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theater); I am Gordafarid (Noor Theater); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronic (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Will You Come With Me? (Play Company); Nobody’s Girl (NJ Rep); Wyoming (Lesser America). TV: Instinct (CBS); FBI (CBS); All Hail Beth (BricTV), My Ex is Trending (YouTube). Film: Long Nights, Short Mornings; Bad at Birthdays. Short films: Nadia Jaan; Androgen; Bookends.

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  ​Zamo Mlengana

  Zee

  Zamo Mlengana is thrilled to be making her stage debut in Lisa Peterson’s ODYSSEY. Zamo recently earned a BA in Fine Arts from New York City’s famed The Juilliard School, where she was a Shubert Foundation Scholar. Zamo proudly hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. She would like to thank God, her family and team for always supporting her. 

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  Anya Whelan-Smith

  Hana

  Anya Whelan Smith recently completed a run of Hamlet at the Guthrie Theater, playing Ophelia. Other theater credits include: 2022 New Works Festival (Gulfshore Playhouse), His Girl Friday (Barrington Stage Company), A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Group), Macbeth & Taming of the Shrew (MaineStage Shakespeare, repertory) and Blue Ridge (Williamstown Theater Festival, Original Workshop Production). TV: FBI: International (CBS), Law & Order: SVU (NBC). Film: Fall to Rise, Pizza Party, Souvenir Drunk (upcoming). MFA Acting, The Juilliard School.
  

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  Sophie Zmorrod

  Béa

  Sophie Zmorrod is an actor, vocalist and playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. Theatre: Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd (Trinity Repertory Company), Marjana and the Forty Thieves (Target Margin Theater), INVASION! (Ancram Opera House), Miss U in Promenade (The María Irene Fornés Marathon at The Public), Hamlet in Machine Learning Hamlet (MetaPhys Ed), The Protest (Cherry Lane Theatre), Ocean Filibuster (Pearl D’Amour) and James Joyce’s The Dead (Hangar Theatre). Brown/Trinity Rep: Robin in Wolf Play, Yitzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Death in Everybody, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, and Mona in Lex Derman’s Playhouse. Film/TV: For Life (ABC/Hulu). MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity Rep, Stephen Sondheim Fellow and David Wickham Prize in Playwriting. BA cum laude in Music from Columbia University.

  www.sophiezmorrod.com.

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  Abiola Obatolu

  (Swing)

  Abiola Obatolu is a 2023 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. She is thrilled to make her off-Broadway debut this fall in Lisa Peterson’s Odyssey with The Acting Company. Additional professional acting credits include The Color Purple at Broadway at Music Circus Sacramento and This is How You Capture the Light at The Kennedy Center. During her time at CMU, Abiola was awarded the Helen Wayne Rauh Award for Excellence in acting.

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Creative Team

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  Lisa Peterson

  Playwright, Director

  Lisa Peterson is a two-time OBIE Award-winning writer/director. Her works include An Iliad, written with Denis O'Hare (NYTW, OBIE and Lortel Awards); The Good Book (co-written with O'Hare, Court Theater and Berkeley Rep); The Waves (adapted from Virginia Woolf with composer David Bucknam, NYTW). Lisa is renowned for directing new plays and classics across the country; recently she directed the world premiere of Doug Wright's Good Night Oscar on Broadway. She was Associate Director at Berkeley Rep, Center Theatre Group, and La Jolla Playhouse. She is a recent recipient of the Gordon Davidson Award for Lifetime Achievement. Upcoming writing projects include The Song of Rome with O'Hare, and The Idea of Order with composer Todd Almond.

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  Margaret Lee

  Associate Director/Staff Director

  Margaret Lee is a Hawaii-born, NYC-based director/movement director. Current: Install Director of Scarlet Night (Virgin Voyages’ signature immersive show). Past: Director for Moxie Arts NY (3 commissioned World Premieres),
  From A To Double D by Mandy Murphy (IRT Theater), The Golden Spike by Don Nguyen & The Lobbyists (BRIC House Artist Studio), Resident Director of immersive nightclub-theatre Eschaton. While serving as Artistic Director of Chicago troupe 33rd Street Productions, she focused on fostering cross-disciplinary creativity with artists primarily in STEM, in addition to helming productions of Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon, Venus in Fur by David Ives, and Company by Stephen Sondheim. She has been fortunate to assist Kathleen Marshall, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, and David Mendizabal at theatres such as The Old Globe, MCC Theater, New York Stage & Film, and Long Wharf Theatre. Margaret is a Drama League Directors Project Alumna, a member of Roundabout Directors Group, a Fled Collective member, and an SDC Associate Member. LeeMargaret.com 

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  ​Tanya Orellana+

  Scenic Designer

  Tanya Orellana (she/her – Scenic Designer) designs performance spaces for theatre and opera. Originally from San Francisco’s Mission District, she is a core member of the award-winning ensemble Campo Santo. Previous collaborations include the world premiere of Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border directed by Rebecca Martinez, Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 directed by Jaime Castañeda, Fefu and Her Friends directed by Pam MacKinnon, Oedipus directed by Jenny Koons at The Getty Villa, The Industry’s Sweet Land, an immersive opera directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and LEAR by Marcus Gardley, co-directed by Eric Ting and Dawn Monique Williams. Tanya received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. She is a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and an organizing member of La Gente: The Latine Production Network. www.tanyaorellana.com

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  Sarita Fellows

  Costume Designer

  Sarita Fellows (Costume Designer) born in Freetown Sierra Leone, her more recent works include projects such as Death of a Salesman, Broadway; Drinking in America, Audible Minetta Lane Theater; Theater of the Mind, Denver Center of Performing Arts; Elyria, Atlantic Theater Co; A Midsummer’s Night Dream at Portland Center Stage, Blues for An Alabama Sky and Sweat, Guthrie theater; Joy and Pandemic, and Our Daughters Like Pillars, Huntington Theater; Seize The King, Alliance Theater; A Bright Room Called Day, Public Theater; Fefu and Her Friends, American Conservatory Theater. In the dance world, Sarita has worked with choreographers such as Liz Lerman, and Edisa Weeks. MFA in design from Tisch School of Design. Sarita also instructs at the University of Connecticut and Princeton. Recent awards include; Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design (The National Black Theater Festival 2022). Lily Award (2020)

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• Russell H. Champa

  Lighting Designer

  Russell H. Champa previously designed Desire for The Acting Company at 59E59 Theatre. Current and recent projects include The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (The Dallas Opera), Josephine’s Feast (Magic Theater), Fefu and Her Friends (American Conservatory Theater), Becky Nurse of Salem (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Everest (Lyric Opera of Kansas City), and Thresh|Hold (Pilobolus). Broadway credits include China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre), In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater) and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York work includes Playwrights Horizons, Theater For A New Audience, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and New York Stage and Film. Regional work includes Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Wilma Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, California Shakespeare Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, and The Kennedy Center. Thanks J&J! PEACE. russellchampa.com

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• Sinan Refik Zafar

  Sound Design

  Sinan Refik Zafar: Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me (also NYTW, National Tour). National Tour: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (also Playwrights Horizons, BAM, A.R.T.) Off Broadway includes Letters From Max (Signature); Which Way To The Stage, All The Natalie Portmans (MCC); To My Girls (Second Stage); The Vagrant Trilogy, Cullud Wattah (The Public); Wish You Were Here, What To Send Up When It Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons); English (Obie Award), Shhhh (Atlantic); and Montag (Soho Rep). Regional includes Kennedy Center, Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and more. 

  SinanZafar.com

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  Masi Asare

  Composer

  Masi Asare Broadway: PARADISE SQUARE (lyrics, Tony/Outer Critics Circle nominee). Off-Broadway/International: MONSOON WEDDING (lyrics), NOTES FROM NOW (contributed music/lyrics). Commissions: Theatre Royal Stratford East, Barbara Whitman/Grove, Lilly Awards, Concord Theatricals. In development: DELTA BLUE (music/lyrics), THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (book/music/lyrics, O’Neill), RISHVOR (book/music/lyrics), MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD (music/lyrics). Her spy musical SYMPATHY JONES (music/lyrics), and Marvel super hero play MIRROR OF MOST VALUE have collectively had 100+ productions. Honors: Dramatists Guild Fellow, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, Theater Hall of Fame Grant, Women to Watch on Broadway. Degrees: Harvard, NYU Tisch. Masi is on the theatre faculty at Northwestern. masiasare.com / @masiasare 

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  Xavier Clark

  Voice and Speech Coach

  Xavier Clark is a bilingual Voice & Speech practitioner who studied Voice under Alithea Phillips, Ursula Meyer and apprenticed with Dawn-Elin Fraser. He recently served as the Dialect Coach for TFANA's Orpheus Descending and as the Voice and Speech Coach for The Acting Company’s National Tour of Romeo and Juliet and The Three Musketeers. He is on Faculty with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar College. Training: RADA, NYU Tisch (BFA) and UC San Diego (MFA).

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  Jesse Cameron Alick

  Dramaturg

  Jesse Cameron Alick is a dramaturg, producer, poet, playwright, essayist, artistic researcher and science fiction expert.  Jesse is the Associate Artistic Director at the Vineyard Theater in NYC where he is a dramaturg and producer. Jesse is an active freelance dramaturg at various off-Broadway theaters in the city, nationwide and in the UK. Jesse studied writing with Adrienne Kennedy and has taught theater courses, lectured at classes and mentored students at a myriad of programs, currently teaching at NYU.  

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  ​Liam Rudisill

  Props Lead

  Liam Rudisill (he/him – Props Lead) is a carpenter and props maker who has been working with Marin Theatre Company since moving to the Bay Area in 2014. He's excited to be back at full capacity as Assistant Technical Director and Props Lead for the company this season. Recent credits include Boys Go to Jupiter (Word for Word at Z Space), The Sound Inside (MTC), Pass Over (MTC), Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (MTC), Dunsinane (MTC), August Wilson’s Two Trains Running (MTC), and Justice: A New Musical

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  Daria Perkova

  Assistant Costume Designer/ Costume Shop Manager/ Wardrobe Lead

  Daria Perkova (she/they – Assistant Costume Designer/ Costume Shop Manager/ Wardrobe Lead) is a Bay Area native costume designer. She has designed, stitched and run wardrobe for many theatres around the Bay. Her most recent design works include Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya at Chabot College, and How Black Mother’s Say I Love You at Theatre Rhinoceros. She is the Costume Shop Manager and Wardrobe Lead here at Marin Theatre Company.

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• Krys Swan

  Assistant Lighting Designer/ Lead Electrician/ Light Board Programmer

  Krys Swan (he/him – Assistant Lighting Designer/ Lead Electrician/ Light Board Programmer)

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* Denotes member of Actors Equity Association
+ Member, United Scenic Artists
^ Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers