Alice Reagan (Director) is a freelance director and lives in New York City. Recent: Evelyn Brown (A Diary) by María Irene Fornés at La MaMa, Measure for Measure at Shakespeare & Company, Cherry Orchard with Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (Portland Monthly Best Theatre of 2022), and the premiere of On Loop by Charly Evon Simpson. Her productions have earned NYC Fringe First Awards, Berkshire Theatre Awards, and Cleveland Critics Circle Awards. Alum: Mabou Mines/SUITE Resident Artist Program, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Women’s Project Directors Lab, and the Drama League. She is Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College where she founded a new play program and received the 2022 Teaching Excellence Award. www.alicereagan.com

Edward T. Morris (Set Designer) is a set and projections designer for live performance and a sustainability consultant. He’s designed 120+ stage sets across the country and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design. He graduated from University of Michigan and Yale School of Drama. Edward is passionate about conserving our environment and co-authored The Sustainable Production Toolkit. He has taught at Connecticut College and The New School and guest lectured on sustainability at numerous universities around the United States. 

Jeannette Christensen (Costume Designer) is a Baltimore based costume designer, recognized for her design of the Broadway national tour of On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan (2022-2024). Her work earned her a Helen Hayes Award in DC for Outstanding Costume Design in 2022. She has also designed costumes for the premieres and national tours of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2019) and Show Way (2024), in collaboration with the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences. Her regional designs have been featured at venues like American Players Theater, Folger Theater Library, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Olney Theatre Center to name a few. As an associate designer, she’s contributed to The Muny MO, Roundhouse Theatre MD, and Studio Theater DC as a design associate. In academia, she served as adjunct faculty at the University of the Arts, PA and George Washington University, DC. Her education includes a BA from Arizona State University, an MFA from the University of Maryland, and an MPS from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her portfolio is available at jcstudios.design.

Kat C. Zhou (Lighting Designer) is an NYC-based lighting designer for live events. OKC Rep: The Brothers Size. OFF BROADWAY: The Butcher Boy (Irish Repertory Theater). REGIONAL: Waitress (Cape Playhouse), The Heart Sellers (Huntington Theater Company), Sweeney Todd (Moonbox Productions), Little Women (Perseverance Theatre); and The Chinese Lady (Central Square Theatre), for which they received an Elliot Norton prize. OPERA: The Monkey King (White Snake Projects), X: the Life and Times of Malcolm X (Odyssey Opera). DANCE: Cinderella (Ballet Rhode Island), With Care (AMOC). She received an MFA from Boston University and an AB in mathematics from Harvard College. More info: katzhoudesign.com

Jacob Henry (Sound Designer) is the Assistant Professor of Sound Design at Oklahoma City University. He earned his BA in Theatre from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, and his MFA from Texas Tech University. Jacob taught technical theatre in Pflugerville and Round Rock ISD, and he has worked with such companies as Walt Disney World, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and locally for Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. Henry also produced plays and new works for Two Beards Theatre Company which he founded in Austin, TX. Henry’s design work has been featured at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial, Samuel French’s OOB Festival, and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival where Henry was a fellow and National Finalist for the Excellence in Sound Design Award.

Hui Cha Poos (Movement Director) has been sharing her love of dance at the University of Central Oklahoma for more than 20 years.  She teaches Jazz, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop History, and is the Dance Education Coordinator. She also founded RACE Dance Collective in 2019. She has choreographed for Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Southern Plains, Pollard, Oklahoma City Rep, UCOMT, RACE Dance Collective, and SPARK Creative Lab. Films include Full Out 2 (Netflix), Finding Carlos (Apple TV), Odd Sense, Swirl, Homecoming Trilogy, The Guard. She received the Governors Arts Award for Arts Education and was one of “6 Theatre Workers You Should Know” by American Theatre Publication, Artist of the Year by the Paseo Arts Association, Women Who Inspire Award-UCO, and the Founders Day Award at Oklahoma Contemporary.  Hui has created opportunities like Race the Space Studios, the Calderon Dance Festival and Cure-8 Choreography Experience and serves as an advisor for the Choreography Guild. 

Kris Kuss (Fight Director/Intimacy Choreographer) is a director, fight director, intimacy choreographer, actor, and educator based in Bethany, OK. He holds his MFA in Directing from the University of Southern Mississippi and is the Associate Professor of Movement at Oklahoma City University. He is a Recognized Senior Instructor and Governing Body President of Dueling Arts International. He last worked with OKC Rep as intimacy choreographer and fight director on Vietgone. He has also worked with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (The Play That Goes Wrong), Oklahoma Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet), Painted Sky Opera (Carmen, Pagliacci), and 3rd Act Theatre Co (7 Stories, Medusa Undone). 

Jenna Rowell (Stage Manager) is a stage manager and dramaturg from Arlington, Texas. Recent SM credits include Shakespeare in Love, Romeo and Juliet, Born With Teeth, Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker, Hamlet (Oklahoma Shakespeare) and Shrek The Musical (Craft Productions of Oklahoma). Her recent ASM & PA credits include Vietgone, The Antelope Party, The Brothers Size, Superstitions, and The Great Leap (OKC Rep); Man of La Mancha (Asolo Repertory Theatre); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oklahoma Shakespeare). She holds a BFA in Dramaturgy and Stage Management and a BA in Journalism from The University of Oklahoma. Love to her friends. @jennarowell

Elise Bear (Assistant Director and Dramaturg) is a Native American (Iowa of OK/Osage) theatre artist from Pawhuska, Oklahoma and is a recent graduate from Oklahoma City University. Recent directing credits include The Thanksgiving Play (OKCU), Bro? (Co.Arts), D.D.M.C (Co.Arts). Recent Dramaturgy credits include Macbeth (Oklahoma Shakespeare) and She Stoops to Conquer (OKCU). Elise is excited and honored that this is their first production at OKC Rep! 

Brittany Atkins (Crafts Person) is excited to be the crafts person for OKC Rep. She has stage managed at 3rd Act and Jewel Box Theatre for Inherit the Wind and Charley’s Aunt. At Oklahoma Shakespeare, she was assistant stage manager and props manager for Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Nights Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing. Brittany also worked on set design for Misery and Gilligan’s Island the Musical. She directed Into the Woods, earning multiple US Army Entertainment TOPPERs Awards. When not in theatre, Brittany enjoys playing D&D with friends and her husband, Adam.

Charis Christy (Assistant Stage Manager) recently graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA in Stage Management. This is her debut production with OKC Rep. 

Larissa FastHorse (Playwright) (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is an award-winning writer and 2020-2025 MacArthur Fellow. Her satirical comedy The Thanksgiving Play made her the first known female Native American playwright on Broadway, at the Helen Hayes under the direction of Rachel Chavkin. Her new plays in 2023 are Wicoun (Cornerstone Theater Company), Democracy Project (Federal Hall), Fake It Until You Make It (CTG Mark Taper Forum), For the People (Guthrie), and the national tour of Peter Pan (Networks). Selected past plays include What Would Crazy Horse Do? (KCRep), Landless and Cow Pie Bingo (AlterTheater), Average Family (Children’s Theater Company of Minneapolis) and Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation (Native Voices at the Autry), as well as numerous productions of The Thanksgiving Play, making it one of the most produced plays in America.

Larissa created the nationally recognized trilogy of community engaged theatrical experiences with Cornerstone Theater Company; Urban Rez, Native Nation and Wicoun. She and her collaborator, Michael John Garcés, spend years on each project in an Indigenized community engagement process. “The engagement itself is the art form.” These projects have earned them national funding and an appointment to Arizona State University's Department of English as professors of practice (literature).

Larissa’s company with Ty Defoe, Indigenous Direction, recently produced the first land acknowledgement on national television for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and continues to consult for them. They also consult for the largest theater organizations in the country.

Larissa also writes in film and television, most recently as a creator for NBC, Disney Channel, Dreamworks, Muse, Netflix and others. She is based in Los Angeles with her husband, the sculptor Edd Hogan, and represented by Jonathan Mills at Paradigm NY. She is especially honored to follow in the footsteps of the last known Native American playwright on Broadway, Lynn Riggs. hoganhorsestudio.com

Playwrights Horizons is dedicated to cultivating the most important American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as well as developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Tim Sanford became Artistic Director in 1996 and Leslie Marcus has been Managing Director since 1993. Under their decades of leadership, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School, and more. Robert Moss founded Playwrights in 1971 and cemented the mission that continues to guide the institution today. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981-1992. Don Scardino succeeded him and served until 1996. Over its 47-year history, Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including six Pulitzer Prizes, 13 Tony Awards, and 39 Obie Awards.

Second Stage Under the artistic direction of Carole Rothman, Second Stage Theater operates three New York City venues, exclusively dedicated to producing living American playwrights. Second Stage recently completed its 43rd season, which included the Tony Award-winning revival of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out and the New York premiere production of Lynn Nottage’s Tony nominated play Clyde’s, as well as the world premieres of Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh and JC Lee’s To My Girls. The company’s 2021–22 productions received several nominations and awards including Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play (Take Me Out) and Best Featured Actor in a Play (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out); the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Revival of a Play (Take Me Out), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out) and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Uzo Aduba, Clyde’s); the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Projection Design (Shawn Duan, Letters of Suresh); and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Play (Jennifer Moeller, Clyde’s). Second Stage’s first season on Broadway at The Hayes Theater included Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Trip Cullman (Tony nominee for Best Revival of Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role, Michael Cera and Brian Tyree Henry) and Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Among Second Stage’s 180 productions are the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis; the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey; the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes; Mary Page Marlowe by Tracy Letts; The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown; Dogfight by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Peter Duchan; Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Steven Levenson; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage; Trust and Lonely, I’m Not by Paul Weitz; Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz; Everyday Rapture and Whorl Inside a Loop by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott; Let Me Down Easy and Notes From the Field by Anna Deavere Smith; Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo; Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein; Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl; The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin; Jitney by August Wilson; Crowns by Regina Taylor; Saturday Night by Stephen Sondheim; Afterbirth: Kathy & Mo’s Greatest Hits by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy; This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan; Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe; A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller; The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry; and Tiny Alice and Peter and Jerry by Edward Albee. The company’s more than 170 citations include six 2017 Tony Awards for Dear Evan Hansen (Best Musical; Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Ben Platt; Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Rachel Bay Jones; Best Book of a Musical; Best Original Score; Best Orchestrations); the 2009 Tony Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Musical (Alice Ripley, Next to Normal), Best Score (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, Next to Normal), and Best Orchestrations (Tom Kitt and Michael Starobin, Next to Normal); the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed); the 2005 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (Rachel Sheinkin, …Spelling Bee) and Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Dan Fogler, …Spelling Bee); the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play (Mary Zimmerman for Metamorphoses); the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, 29 Obie Awards, 11 Outer Critics Circle Awards, four Clarence Derwent Awards, 17 Drama Desk Awards, 11 Theatre World Awards, one Dorothy Louden Award, 20 Lucille Lortel Awards, the Drama Critics Circle Award and 23 AUDELCO Awards. In 1999, Second Stage Theater opened The Tony Kiser Theater, its state-of-the-art, 296-seat theater, designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. In 2002, Second Stage launched Second Stage Theater Uptown to showcase the work of up-and-coming artists at the 99- seat McGinn/Cazale Theater. The Theater supports artists through several programs that include residencies, fellowships and commissions, and engages students and community members through education and outreach programs. In 2018, Second Stage began producing at its 581-seat Broadway home, The Hayes Theater. Originally named The Little Theater and built in 1912, the city landmark has been remodeled by David Rockwell of Rockwell Group. For more information, please visit www.2ST.com.

Actors' Equity Association (“Equity"), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks