Lloyd Suh is also the author of The Heart Sellers, which premiered in February at Milwaukee Rep, and will play at the Huntington Theatre in November. Other plays include The Chinese Lady, Bina’s Six Apples, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American Hwangap, and more, and have been produced across the country, with Ma-Yi, Atlantic, The Public, Alliance, Children’s Theatre Company, Magic, Long Wharf, Denver Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and more, including internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA at the Guerilla Theatre in Seoul, Korea. He is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Horton Foote Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists and was elected in 2016 to the Dramatists Guild Council.

Ralph B. Peña is an OBIE Award-winning theater maker based in New York City. Recent directing credits include the world premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s SUMO at La Jolla Playhouse; Lloyd Suh’s The Chinese Lady at The Public Theater, Indiana Rep, Long Wharf Theater, Barrington Stage (Drama Desk, Lortel, NY Outer Critics, CT Critics Circle nominations); Michael Lew’s Tiger Style! at South Coast Repertory; and Daniel K. Isaac’s ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME for Ma-Yi Theater Company, where he is currently Producing Artistic Director. For Ma-Yi he has directed the world premieres of Hansol Jung’s Among the Dead (New York Times Critic’s Pick), Michael Lew’s microcrisis, Lloyd Suh’s The Wong Kids (Off Broadway Alliance Best Children’s Play) and Children of Vonderly (both also NYT Critic’s Picks). He wrote and directed the short film Vancouver (Cannes World Film Festival, L.A. Indie Festival, NY International Film Award for Best Short and Best Director, 2023 UNIMA Citation of Excellence), and the documentary Twenty Years of Asian American Playwriting for PBS / ALL ARTS.

Kim Zhou she/her/hers is a Chinese-born set designer and theater maker. Her recent credits include Next to Normal (David Geffen School of Drama); Pride365 (Yale Summer Cabaret); La Doriclea (associate scenic design, Yale Baroque Opera); The Fairy Queen (Crescent Theater); And the Beetle Hums (playwright), Every Brilliant Thing, We Fucked Up, Dr. Ride’s American Beach House, and We’re Gonna Die (Yale Cabaret). She received her bachelor’s degree from OCAD University in Toronto, where she studied and practiced architecture design. She is in her final year of training at David Geffen School of Drama.

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Kiyoshi Shaw he/him is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where he has designed costumes for Ibsen’s Ghosts and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. He received his B.F.A. in costume design and technology from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he designed costumes for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Assistant credits include Fly at Ford’s Theatre, Bodas de sangre/Blood Wedding at the Geffen School, and Choir Boy at Yale Rep.

Matthew Armentrout previously worked at Yale Rep on Escaped Alone, Wish You Were Here, The Brightest Thing in the World, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Today is My Birthday, and Manahatta. Broadway: Birthday Candles, Paradise Square, Flying Over Sunset, and Bernhardt/Hamlet. Off Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Othello (Shakespeare in the Park). Regional: Bliss (The 5th Avenue Theatre), Jitney (National Tour), Paradise Square (Berkeley Repertory Theatre).

Yichen Zhou is a theater designer born and raised in China and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. at David Geffen School of Drama. In her theatrical practice, she is deeply fascinated by the stories told through space and the truth one can find through imagination. Selected recent credits include Invasive Species (The Tank); The Rasa Project (National Sawdust); Furlough’s Paradise, Marys Seacole, Ghosts (the Geffen School); If We Could Turn Back Time (Connecticut College); burnbabyburn: an american dream (Yale Summer Cabaret); and A Number (Beijing Inside-Out Theatre).

Joe Krempetz is a sound designer and composer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent credits include Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Rep); Fucking A, Julius Caesar (David Geffen School of Drama); Transpositions (Yale Schwarzman Center); and Upwelling (multiple Bay Area venues). As a sound engineer, Joe has worked with Microsoft, Stanford University, Berkeley Rep, Theaterworks Silicon Valley, IFAI, and many others. Recently, Joe designed sound for Voices of the New Belarus, an installation for the Oslo Freedom Forum. He is easily Google-able.

Xi (Zoey) Lin is a native of Nanjing, China and holds a BA in Theatre Arts and a B.Music in Piano Performance from Lawrence University. She is currently a Sound Design MFA candidate at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Previous credits include original music composition for Morpho Studio’s Beijing Fashion Week releases of「CORAL 珊瑚」& VINCENT digital fashion collections, the Carlotta Festival of New Plays 2023 (Iseman Theatre, production sound engineer), Next to Normal (Yale University Theatre, assistant sound designer and engineer), Detroit ’67 (Princeton Summer Theatre, sound designer).

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Hana S. Kim she/her Broadway: The Old Man and the Pool; Summer, 1976; The Outsiders. Off-Broadway: The Harder They Come, The Visitor (Lucille Lortel nomination), and Eve’s Song at The Public Theater; Everything Rises (BAM); Magdalene (Prototype Festival). New music/opera: L’Orfeo (Santa Fe Opera), Sweet Land (The Industry), The Anonymous Lover (Los Angeles Opera). Regional: Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Rep, Magic Theatre, A.C.T, among others. Hana is the recipient of the Princess Grace, Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood, Helen Hayes, and LA Drama Critics Circle Distinguished Achievement awards, among others.

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A.B. Orme is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, interested in bringing the worlds of scholarship, performance, and activism into more honest and generative conversation with one another. On the page and on the stage, they love to explore queer theater, theaters of the left, and the legacies of early modern verse drama. Geffen School credits include The Alley and Solstice. They currently serve as the Co-Managing Editor of Theater, Yale’s journal of drama and performance. Permanent Ceasefire Now.

Matteo Lanzarotta is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama.

Midori Nakamura is a Brooklyn-based teaching artist and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She teaches voice for David Geffen School of Drama, The Linklater Center in New York, the Maggie Flanigan Studio, and NYU Tisch at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She has also taught for Columbia University’s Social Impact Fellowship, LAByrinth Theater’s Intensive Ensemble, Molloy/CAP21, New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts, and New York Film Academy, as well as coaching private clients in both acting and voice. As an actor, she has worked in film, television, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, for Shakespeare in the Park, the Kennedy Center, the RSC, and in regional theater—working with George C. Wolfe (three times), Philip Seymour Hoffman (three times), and Alec Baldwin (two times). She has also acted alongside Anthony Hopkins, Patrick Stewart, Angela Bassett, Bill Irwin, Keanu Reeves, Michael C. Hall, Liev Schreiber, Karen Allen, Del Close, Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Aniston. Directors she has acted under include Morgan Freeman, Lena Dunham, Barry Levenson, Peter Sellars, Nicholas Hytner, Austin Pendleton, James Lapine, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe Chaikin. Midori co-directed, co-produced, and co-edited T’an Bakhtale, a documentary about the Russian Roma, which received awards from the American Association of Anthropology and the Royal Anthropological Institute. She assisted Karen Allen in her directorial debut, A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud.

Calleri Jensen Davis is a creative casting partnership among James Calleri, Erica Jensen, and Paul Davis of over 20 years. They began their collaboration with Yale Rep last season with Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles and the ripple, the wave that carried me home. Broadway credits: The Piano Lesson, Topdog/Underdog, for colored girls…, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Burn This, Fool for Love, The Elephant Man, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, A Raisin in the Sun, 33 Variations. Television: Love Life, Queens, Dickinson, and The Path, to name a few.

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Alexus Jade Coney is a graduating M.F.A. candidate in stage management at David Geffen School of Drama, where she has worked on Furlough’s Paradise, Marys Seacole, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Manning, and Bodas de sangre/Blood Wedding. Other credits include The Bleeding Class (Chautauqua Theater Company); The Salvagers, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Between Two Knees (Yale Rep); The Royale, burnbabyburn: an american dream, and Bakkhai (Yale Cabaret). Alexus was the Stage Management Apprentice for New York Stage and Film’s 2023 Summer Season. She proudly holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and dedicates her final production as a Yale student to her parents, Bryan and Jackie Coney—thank you for lifting her up throughout life and especially the last eight years. “Every truly great accomplishment is at first impossible.”

Tina Chilip Off-Broadway: A Delicate Balance (Transport Group); The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Fiasco Theater, Red Bull); Mothers (The Playwrights Realm); Twelfth Night (Fiasco Theater, Classic Stage Company); Golden Child (Signature Theatre); House Rules, Flipzoids (Ma-Yi Theater Company); A Dream Play (NAATCO). Regional highlights: after all the terrible things i do (Huntington Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), Chinglish (Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage), tokyo fish story (The Old Globe), M. Butterfly (Guthrie). Television: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Jessica Jones, It’s Bruno!, FBI: Most Wanted, The Good Fight, Elementary, Deception, Madam Secretary. Film: Nonnas, Miguel Wants to Fight. M.F.A., Brown/Trinity Rep. Company member of Fiasco Theater and The Actors Center.

Đavid Lee Huỳnh (Two) is an actor and writer based in NYC. Off-Broadway: The Merchant of Venice (Theatre for a New Audience), ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME (Ma-Yi Theater Company), the Drama Desk-nominated Henry VI (NAATCO), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Gingold Theatrical Group), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group), Warrior Sisters of Wu, No-No Boy, The Emperor’s Nightingale (Pan Asian Rep). Regional: Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare, Everyman Theatre, Mixed Blood, and many others. Television/film: Blue Bloods, FBI, Solitary, Children of the Dust. He stars in the Dungeons & Dragons television show Encounter Party streaming on Freevee and Plex. M.F.A., University of Houston.

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Haskell King Off-Broadway: Russian Troll Farm (Vineyard Theatre); Kingfishers Catch Fire (Irish Rep); Please Continue, Isaac’s Eye, Photograph 51, Turnabout (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Mother (wild project); Elvis and Juliet (Abingdon Theatre). Regional: Russian Troll Farm (Geva Theatre). Television: Dear Edward, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Film: The Heart Stays, The Fly Room, Shadows and Lies.

Jesse Cao Long he/him is pleased to be making his Yale Rep debut. Previous theater credits include Short Stack 2 (Ma-Yi Theater Company); Big Love, Middletown (Columbia University); Translations (Barnard College); Hamlet and Twelfth Night (RADA). He is currently a first-year M.F.A. acting student at Columbia University and holds a B.A. in modern East Asian and 20th-century American history from Columbia University.

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Joe Osheroff First time at Yale Rep! National Tour: War Horse. Off Broadway: The Public, The Acting Company. Regional highlights: Molly’s Hammer, The Other Place, The Drawer Boy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Proof, The War of the Roses, As You Like It, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Quantico, The Blacklist, East New York, Blue Bloods, plus various commercials and voiceovers. Thank you, Roger Paul Inc.! Love to KLC and SP.

David Shih he/him Broadway: Life of Pi. Off-Broadway: Will Eno’s Gnit (Theater for a New Audience); KPOP (Ars Nova); ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME, Bike America (Ma-Yi); Henry VI (NAATCO); Awake and Sing! (The Public); Somebody’s Daughter (2ST); Crane Story (Playwrights Realm). Regional: SUMO, Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse); Life of Pi (A.R.T.); Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse); The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (Indiana Rep); The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep). Television and film: Billions, Hunters, City on a Hill, Iron Fist, The Path, Blindspot, Elementary, Madam Secretary, The Blacklist, Unforgettable, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Eighth Grade, Mr. Sushi, Saving Face. He is also the voice of Eddie Toh in Grand Theft Auto V. 

Hao Feng is honored to be making his Yale Rep debut, especially as a part of this telling of a vital part of Asian American history that has often deliberately been neglected from the American curriculum. Thank you, Lloyd, for weaving this powerful story with your mellifluous language. Film: Twisted Little Lies (Lifetime). Theater: Grumpy Monkey, The Musical (Pasadena Playhouse); The Dance and the Railroad (Artists at Play/A Noise Within); Twelfth Night, Pericles (Independent Shakespeare Company); Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden (The Huntington Library/CalArts Center for New Performance). Voiceover: Heavenly Delusion (Hulu); Alchemy of Souls (Netflix); Soundtrack #1 (Disney+). M.F.A., acting, CalArts; MPhil, music and science, University of Cambridge; bachelor’s in neuroscience and piano performance, Emory University. In his free time, Hao can be found doing martial arts, photography, or eating. Mostly eating.

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Joyce Meimei Zheng she/her is a proud Jersey Girl, daughter of Chinese immigrants, and lover of song. She is so excited to make her Yale Rep debut with this formidable team and this beautiful play. She holds a B.F.A. from Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. Recent credits: A Christmas Carol (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth (Double Feature Plays); Vicky & Frank, Irina in Three Sisters (Rutgers); Enobarbus in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra (Rutgers at Shakespeare’s Globe); Bounty in Chinatown (LF8 Studios debut short). Remember to rest. Jesus loves you.

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Anzi DeBenedetto he/him is a graduate of NYU Tisch (Atlantic and Stonestreet studios) in 2021. Recent theater includes Chamber Theatre’s Encore!! national tour in which he played 10 characters, and the title role in Thom Pain (based on nothing) in a public performance in Bella Abzug Park in NYC. Television and film credits include CBS’s FBI, Amazon Studios’ Chemical Hearts, and A24’s Y2K. Upcoming: Rosemead, starring Lucy Liu. Anzi is honored to be working at Yale Repertory Theatre under Ralph B. Peña and would like to especially thank his parents for all their love and support.

Sergio Mauritz Ang he/they is making their Yale Rep Debut. New York: Learning How to Read by Moonlight (Leviathan Lab); Colman Domingo’s The Brother(s) (Out of the Box Theatrics); Anna in the Tropics (Gallery Players); Summertime (Between Two Boroughs). Regional: Pride and Prejudice (Hartford Stage); Song of Me (Stages, Houston); Yoga Play, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Wrinkle in Time, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Ragtime (PlayMakers Rep); Flowers of Hawaii (Chautauqua Theater Company); Bruise & Thorn (PlayPenn); Peter and the Starcatcher (Kitchen Theatre Company); Mañanas de Abril y Mayo (Connecticut Free Shakespeare). Film: Relay (Black Bear Films). Television: The Other Two (HBO Max); Law and Order: SVU (NBC). M.F.A. in acting, UNC Chapel Hill; B.F.A. in acting, Brooklyn College. LaGuardia Arts High School. حaحa$j.a The Far Country Team, my beloved husband, BWA and CLA Fam. For *( and ٦} who sacrificed everything to live in this country. sergiomauritzang.com

Edoardo Benzoni is a second-year M.F.A. acting candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where he has been seen in Uncle Vanya, How to Live on Earth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other credits include We F*cked Up (Yale Cabaret); Pride and Prejudice, Cannabis Passover, The Light and the Dark (Chautauqua Theater Company); and The Importance of Being Earnest (Chalk Rep). He received his bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley.

Paul Juhn Theater credits include Coleman ‘72 (South Coast Rep); A Delicate Balance (Transport Group/NAATCO); Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company); Henry VI (NAATCO); The Good Person of Szechwan (The Public Theater); The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep); Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); White Chocolate (The Culture Project); Sides: The Fear is Real (Mr. Miyagi’s Theatre Company); wAve (Ma-Yi Theater). Film and television: Rob Peace, Dr. Death, Girls5Eva, The Blacklist, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Law & Order, Salt, Quantico, 30 Rock, Person of Interest, Works of ART.  Member of Mr. Miyagi’s Theatre Company.  M.F.A., UCSD.

Christina Liang is excited to be understudying in The Far Country at Yale Rep. She is an actress and writer based in New York. Her theater credits include The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre Company); Pride and Prejudice (Triad Stage), Three Musketeers: 1941 (Project Y Theatre); Quack (Alley Theatre); Issei, He Say (New Jersey Rep); A Christmas Carol, Love and Information, and Ah, Wilderness! (A.C.T.). She has also appeared on FBI: Most Wanted (CBS) and Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar). M.F.A., A.C.T, acting; B.A., NYU, individualized studies.

Max Sheldon he/him is a first-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama and thrilled to be working with the incredible team of The Far Country. His credits include Finian’s Rainbow (The Irish Rep), Afloat (WP Theater), West Side Story, Peter and The Starcatcher (Weston Playhouse); and Dracula, or the Undead (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film and television credits include Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC), Theater Camp (Searchlight Pictures), Red Oaks (Amazon), and The Path (Hulu). Max is a proud graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Max would like to thank his family, his chosen family, all of his teachers, Ted Walch, and his parents for their love and unwavering belief.