Anne Gridley she/her is a two-time Obie award-winning actor, dramaturg, and artist. As a founding member of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, she has co-created and performed in critically acclaimed works including the Soho Rep-commissioned No Dice, Life & Times (also presented by Soho Rep and Under the Radar), Poetics: A Ballet Brut, Romeo & Juliet, and Burt Turrido. In addition to her work with Nature Theater, Gridley has performed with Pan Pan, Chameckilerner, Jerôme Bel, Caborca, 7 Daughters of Eve, and Big Dance, served as a Dramaturg for the Wooster Group’s production Who’s Your Dada?, taught devised theater at Bard College, and comedy at Northwestern University. Her drawings have been shown at H.A.U. Berlin, and Mass Live Arts. B.A. Bard College; M.F.A. Columbia University. Love always to Mom, Dad, & John.

Eric Ting he/they is a two-time Obie Award-winning director and one of three Directors of Soho Rep. Credits include world premieres of Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… (Soho Rep); The Comeuppance (Signature Theater); The Far Country (Atlantic Theater Co); The 1491s’ Between Two Knees (OSF and PAC-NYC); and Parable of the Sower: The Opera (Lincoln Center). Most recently: Galas (Little Island) with Anthony Roth Costanzo. Also: Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, McCarter, Williamstown, Alliance, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodman, CTG, ACT, Berkeley Rep. International: Singapore, France, UAE, Holland, Canada, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bali.

Asli Bulbul (she/her) is a NYC-based dancer, performer, and choreographer originally from Istanbul. She danced with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. for a decade after which she joined Nature Theater of Oklahoma for their epic work, Life and Times. Some of the other highlights of her career include working with Martha Clarke, RoseAnne Spradlin and Annie-B Parson. She is very excited to be part of the creative team for Watch Me Walk and getting to work with Anne Gridley once again.

Noah Lethbridge (he/him) is a teacher for the DOE, and has been teaching elementary music at PS 142 Amalia Castro since 2019. Previously, he taught vocal music at The International High School in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn and The Dreamyard School in the Bronx. He holds a B.M. in music education from The Eastman School of Music and an M.A. in musicology from CCNY. He studied voice under Robert Swensen and Constance Haas. Noah co-founded The Indie Opera Podcast in 2009 with conductor Peter Szep. He is also the proud father of Otto Lethbridge, fifth-grader.

Alex Gibson – Broadway: Pirates! The Penzance Musical, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway: Octet (Lortel nomination), The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Fabulation, The Voices in Your Head. Regional: The Old Globe, The Guthrie, Alliance Theatre, Berkeley Rep. Film and television: The Beast in Me, Doom Patrol, Schmigadoon!. Other credits include Adele: Live in New York City (NBC) and touring Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in Disney on CLASSIC.

Jian Jung (she/her) is an Obie Award-winning set designer from Korea, based in NYC. Recent theater credits include Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons; The Following Evening at PAC-NYC; The Nosebleed at LCT3, Woolly Mammoth, and New National Theater Tokyo (Japan); Kiss at Wilma Theater (Philadelphia); Ocean Filibuster at A.R.T. Boston; Bodies They Ritual at Wild Project; The Day You Begin at The Kennedy Center; Suicide Forest at Bushwick Starr; and Ludic Proxy at Soho Rep and Japan Society. Opera and musical credits include productions at Wolf Trap Opera, Fisher Center in Bard, Huntington Theater, Juilliard, and Long Beach Opera. Her productions also have been in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, Korea, and Japan. Jung received an M.F.A. in theater design from NYU, and an M.F.A. in environmental design from Ewha Women’s University in Korea. She teaches at NYU/Tisch’s Design M.F.A. program and Sarah Lawrence College.

Lux Haac (she/her) – Broadway: The Thanksgiving Play. Off-Broadway/New York: O.K.! (INTAR Theatre); Dirty Laundry (WP Theater); Manahatta, Mobile Unit’s The Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater); Between Two Knees, Number Our Days: A Photographic Oratorio (PAC NYC); On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages/59E59); 53% Of (Second Stage Uptown); Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution/Working Theater/New Ohio Theatre). Regional: You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! (South Coast Rep); In Her Bones (CSFAC Theater); Skeleton Canoe (Chicago International Puppet Festival); Dial M for Murder, Espejos: Clean, I and You, Annapurna, Native Gardens (Syracuse Stage); For the People (Guthrie Theater); The Wizard of Oz (Geva Theatre); LEAR (Cal Shakes); Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse, TheatreSquared); Yoga Play, Ragtime (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company). Lux is a member of All My Relations Collective, Wingspace Theatrical Design, and USA 829. M.F.A., NYU/Tisch.

Kate McGee (she/her) is an Obie Award–winning trans lighting designer. She recently concluded a years-long world tour as Lighting Designer for esperanza spalding and Antono Brown Dance’s Off-Brand gOdds. Recent Off-Broadway: Bowl EP (Vineyard Theatre); The Beastiary (Ars Nova); I’m Revolting (Atlantic Theater Company); Snatch Adams, Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Rep), The Hang (HERE Arts). She was a 2022–23 artist-in-residence at Soho Rep, where she developed the VR piece Girl Mode, since seen at Fabric Arts Workshop and the ASU’s MIX Center. Kate devised and designed several pieces with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey that have premiered in Europe and NYC, including while you were partying at Soho Rep.

Tei Blow (he/him) – Soho Rep: Public Obscenities; Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!. Playwrights Horizons: Practice, Wet Brain, The Trees, Staff Meal. Other recent: Galas (Little Island) and Rheology (Bushwick Starr). Awards: Henry Hewes Design Award (2023), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2024), Creative Capital 2016, Bessie Award for Outstanding Sound Design (2015) for I Understand Everything Better (David Neumann/ Advanced Beginner Group).

Grace Zandarski is Associate Chair of the Acting program and Head of Voice and Text at David Geffen School of Drama, where she has taught Voice since 2002. She has coached numerous productions at Yale Rep and the Geffen School including Rhinoceros, Macbeth in Stride, The Brightest Thing in the World, An Enemy of the People, Hamlet, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Between Two Knees. New York coaching credits include the Mike Nichols productions of Death of a Salesman and Betrayal (Broadway), The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (The Public Theater), and Homebody/Kabul (BAM). She was named Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework in 1998. Zandarski is a member and Board Chair of The Actors Center, a member of Pantheatre (Paris), SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and VASTA. Acting credits include McCarter Theatre, OSF Ashland, Wilma Theatre, and ACT. Directing credits include the Peer Gynt Project and Chekhov Shorts. M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater; B.A., Princeton University.

Judith C. Villalva is a third-year M.F.A. candidate in technical design and production at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include the Utopia, Carlotta Festival (assistant technical director), Metamorphoses (properties manager), and Kilele (assistant production electrician). She has also worked as a scenic painter apprentice at Theatre Squared and as an electrician and rigger for Southcoast Audio. Judith designed, built, and painted sets at the University of Texas at El Paso. Born along the El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez border, she continues to grow as an artist driven by curiosity and collaboration.

Stephanie Yankwitt & Company Casting she/her – Selected casting credits with Soho Rep: The Great Privation, The Fires, Public Obscenites, Fairview, Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, Wolf Play, Notes on Killing Seven Oversight Management and Economic Stability Board Members, and many others. Current NYC credits include The Emporium (CSC), Jesa (Ma-Yi @ The Public), and The Laramie Project (Audible). Regional work includes Inherit the Wind at Arena Stage, the national tour of Here There are Blueberries (Tectonic), and the West Coast premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play Purpose at La Jolla Playhouse. Select upcoming film projects include the feature film Still Life and The Year of the Monarchs (Alex Dinelaris, writer/director, Lexicon). Recent film work includes the 2024 Grand Jury Prize Winner In The Summers, written and directed by Alessandra Lacorazza.

Lisa McGinn (she/her) – Recent credits: we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism (Jenn Kidwell, The Flea Theater); Rheology (Misha Chowdhury, Bushwick Starr); A Knock on the Roof (NYTW, directed by Oliver Butler); Geoff Sobelle’s FOOD, HOME, and The Object Lesson; On Beckett: An Evening with Bill Irwin (tour); 300 Paintings (Sam Kissijukian, tour); Underground Railroad Game (Jennifer Kidwell, Scott R. Sheppard, Ars Nova, tour); Those With 2 Clocks (Wilma Theater); Ocean Filibuster, How to Build a Forest (PearlDamour); Detroit Red (ArtsEmerson); Love (Alexander Zeldin, Park Ave Armory); Compass and Sleep (Ripe Time); Chimera and The Wholehearted (Stein | Holum Projects); This is Reading (Lynn Nottage, Kate Whoriskey); LA Dance Project (European tour); Jacuzzi, The Light Years (The Debate Society); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Winners and Losers (Soho Rep); Chekhov at Lake Lucille.

Amanda Blitz is a third-year M.F.A. candidate in stage management at David Geffen School of Drama. Select credits include Rhinoceros at Yale Rep, as well as Machinal, Utopia, and Three Sisters at the Geffen School. She received her B.F.A. from Ithaca College and sends love and thanks to her family and friends.

Soho Rep “…is small, but the company, committed to what it calls ‘radical theater makers,’ punches way above its weight. The theater has regularly introduced New York audiences to work by important, and often provocative, playwrights.” (The New York Times). Established in 1975, Soho Rep provides meaningful opportunities for radical theater makers at critical junctures in their artistic practice through its productions, the Writer Director Lab, and its Studio workshops and commissions. The organization also prioritizes living wages for artists and provides artists with staff positions through Project Number One. Soho Rep was named the “Best Theater in NYC” by Time Out New York and the theater received a Drama Desk Award for Sustained Achievement, recognizing “decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.” Over the last decade alone, César Alvarez and The Lisps’ Futurity won the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical; Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, which was commissioned by and premiered at Soho Rep, went on to win the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Drama; Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play transferred to MCC and won 5 Lucille Lortel Awards including Outstanding Play; Misha Chowdhury’s Public Obscenities was named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama; and Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot (co-produced with Playwrights Horizons) won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play after transferring commercially to Studio Seaview.

Anne Gridley she/her is a two-time Obie award-winning actor, dramaturg, and artist. As a founding member of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, she has co-created and performed in critically acclaimed works including the Soho Rep-commissioned No Dice, Life & Times (also presented by Soho Rep and Under the Radar), Poetics: A Ballet Brut, Romeo & Juliet, and Burt Turrido. In addition to her work with Nature Theater, Gridley has performed with Pan Pan, Chameckilerner, Jerôme Bel, Caborca, 7 Daughters of Eve, and Big Dance, served as a Dramaturg for the Wooster Group’s production Who’s Your Dada?, taught devised theater at Bard College, and comedy at Northwestern University. Her drawings have been shown at H.A.U. Berlin, and Mass Live Arts. B.A. Bard College; M.F.A. Columbia University. Love always to Mom, Dad, & John.

Fernando Contreras (Adonis, Dance Captain) was born in the Dominican Republic, raised in New Jersey, and now lives in Queens, New York. Off-Broadway: Bruise & Thorn, The Wedding March, Parrots at The Pagoda, Playing Hot, La Caída de Rafael Trujillo. First National and Asia Tours: Ghost: The Musical. He is a founding member of Pipeline Theatre Company, and a member of The Dance Cartel and Shiz: Broadway Meets Sketch Comedy. Love to Nealon, the nabesties, and mi familia. Protect the Dolls. Immigrants are Beautiful. @omgizfern

Keith Johnson (he/him) – Credits: Watch Me Walk (Off-Broadway), Ain’t Too Proud (Gateway Playhouse), Austen’s Pride (National Tour, Stages St. Louis), Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Lyric Theatre), Aida (Stages St. Louis), In the Heights (Mill Mountain), Ragtime (MTW), Dreamgirls (Arrow Rock), Bring it On (HSVPA), Ragtime (Stages St. Louis), Cats (San Diego Musical Theatre), and A Chorus Line (Rocky Mountain Rep). Keith attributes his success to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, God’s provision, and the unshakeable support from his family and Ms. McGraw! BBDD Phil 4:8.