GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye (Pecola). THEATER The Public Theater: Fat Ham; Vineyard Theatre/WP Theater: sandblasted; Two River Theater: Wine in the Wilderness, King Hedley II, Seven Guitars; National Black Theatre: Retreat (radio play); Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Romeo and Juliet; Geva Theatre Center: The Magician’s Daughter; Baltimore Center Stage: Skeleton Crew; TheaterWorks Hartford: Sunset Baby; La Jolla Playhouse/Berkeley Rep: The Last Tiger in Haiti; Northern Stage: It’s a Wonderful Life (radio play), The Mountaintop; McCarter Theatre Center: Sunjata Kamalenya (educational tour); The Yard Theater: Archy and Mehitabel; Gallery Players: A Raisin in the Sun. FILM/TELEVISION Short films: Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.; Everything Absolutely; But Rosita, I love you; “The Equalizer” (CBS), “American Rust” (Showtime), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Eye Candy” (MTV), “The Knick” (Cinemax). TRAINING M.F.A., School of Drama at The New School; B.S., Mathematics, Spelman College. www.brittanybellizeare.com 

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER Stephanie was recently seen in Seven Guitars at Yale Repertory Theater and Mothers and Sons at Cincinnati Playhouse. As an actress, she has worked extensively in regional theaters across the country. FILM/TELEVISION The Delivery Man, The Invasion, No Reservations, Finding Forrester; “Blacklist,” “Blue Bloods,” “Louie,” “Broad City,” the “Law and Order” trifecta. Upcoming: Submission, Fade Away, OG. Stephanie currently performs a storytelling show, The Magic Inside You (a version for adults and one for children)

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER New York: Ars Nova, The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, Project Y, Ugly Rhino, Page 73. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville: Detroit ’67, This Random World, How We Got On; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Clybourne Park, Safe House; Two River Theater: Guadalupe in the Guestroom; Weston Playhouse: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; B Street Theatre: Not Medea; Iowa Summer Repertory: Wonder of the World; The Kennedy Center: Barrio Grrrl; The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. FILM/TELEVISION Brazzaville Teen-ager with Michael Cera; “My Crazy Love” (Oxygen Network); PlayStation character in upcoming game release. TRAINING M.F.A., Acting, The University of Iowa

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER Broadway: Memphis the Musical, All the Way; Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: The Good Negro, Head of Passes; New York Theater Workshop: Hadestown; Regional: The Old Globe: How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Berkeley Rep: Party People; Dallas Theater Center: Stagger Lee; Two River Theater: Jitney; The Fox Theatre: Dreamgirls; Trinity Rep Theater: Piano Lesson. FILM/TELEVISION Pelham 123, Man on a Ledge, “The Breaks,” “Blue Bloods,” “Elementary,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “White Collar.” TRAINING M.F.A. in Acting, Brandeis University, B.A. in Theater, Alabama State University

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER Broadway: 110 in the Shade, Hairspray. Other theater: Amélie (world premiere/Berkeley Rep), Fortress of Solitude (The Public Theater), Robert Wilson’s Zinnias, It Shoulda Been You, Ruined. FILM/TELEVISION Knucklehead, Maid in Manhattan, “Gotham,” “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” “Mysteries of Laura.” AWARDS San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award

GUTHRIE More than 20 productions since 1990, most recently The Bluest Eye. THEATER National tour: Little House on the Prairie; Alley Theatre: All the Way, Christmas Carol, The Christians; Dallas Theater Center: All the Way; Center Stage: The Mountaintop; Trinity Rep: The Illusion; Yale Rep: Troilus and Cressida; History Theatre: River Road Boogie; Children’s Theatre Company: Akeelah and the Bee. FILM Wilson. TRAINING University of North Texas, Circle in the Square, Yale School of Drama. Shawn is a proud member of Actor’s Equity

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER PlayMakers Repertory Company: The Tempest (Miranda), Metamorphoses (Iris/Hunger), Into The Woods (Cinderella), We Are Proud To Present… (Actor 4), Sweeney Todd (Ensemble), Private Lives (featured soloist); Red House Arts: Beauty and the Beast (Belle); TRAINING M.F.A., UNC-Chapel Hill Professional Actor Training Program, B.A., Western Connecticut State

GUTHRIE Hamlet, The Tempest; A Christmas Carol; Dining With the Ancestors; Guys and Dolls; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; The Bluest Eye; To Kill a Mockingbird; Othello; The Burial at Thebes; A Streetcar Named Desire; Caroline, or Change; The Falls; The People’s Temple; She Loves Me; Oedipus; Crowns. THEATER Theater Latté Da: Hello, Dolly!, The House of Bernarda Alba, Chicago; Ten Thousand Things: Iphigenia at Aulis, Romeo and Juliet, Doubt, Man of La Mancha; Mixed Blood Theatre: ANIMATE, Barbecue, Ruined, Pure Confidence; Penumbra Theatre/Theater Mu: Brothers Paranormal; People’s Light: Nina Simone: Four Women; Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company: Nina Simone: Four Women; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Sister Act; Pillsbury House Theatre: Scapegoat, Death Tax, Pa’s Hat; Ordway: Damn Yankees; Round House Theatre: Redshirts; Milwaukee Rep: Lady Day…; Penumbra Theatre: Dinah Was; Park Square Theatre: Nina Simone: Four Women, The Color Purple. AWARDS Ivey Award; Helen Hayes Award nomination; Two-time recipient of the McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER Award-winning plays include: Smart People, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, Harriet Jacobs, The Inside, and Stage Black. Theaters include: Arena Stage, Cort Theatre (Broadway), Chicago Dramatists, Congo Square, Goodman, Hartford Stage, Huntington, Jubilee, Kansas City Rep, Lorraine Hansberry, McCarter, Mo’Olelo, New Vic, PlayMakers Rep, Second Stage, Steppenwolf and TrueColors. Commissions include: Arena Stage, Steppenwolf (four), McCarter, Huntington, Center Stage, Victory Gardens and The Roundabout. OTHER Lydia was a 2005–2006 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fellow, a 2007 TCG/NEA Playwright in Residence at Steppenwolf, a 2006–2007 Huntington Playwright Fellow, a 2012 Sundance Institute Playwright Lab Creative Advisor, a 2012–2013 Radcliffe Institute Fellow and a 2013–2014 Playwright in Residence at Arena Stage. EDUCATION B.A., Northwestern University; Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Pine Manor College

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER Off-Broadway and Regional: OSF: Henry IV, Part 1, Much Ado About Nothing; Signature Theater: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World; LCT3/Yale Repertory Theater: War; Soho Rep: Revolt. She said. Revolt Again; New York Theater Workshop: Red Speedo; JACK: SALOME; The Public Theater: Hollow Root; Lincoln Center: Pipeline (upcoming); Williamstown: Actually (upcoming). DANCE Dance New Amsterdam: A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic. OTHER Blain-Cruz is a Lincoln Center Director’s Lab alum, a former 2050 Directing Fellow at NYTW and Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellowship at Arena Stage. AWARDS The Josephine Abady Award, Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize, and Pierre-Andre Salim Prize for leadership and directing. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama

GUTHRIE A Christmas Carol, Noura, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Bluest Eye. THEATER Off-Broadway: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Venus (Signature Theatre); Good Person of Szechwan (The Foundry Theatre/The Public Theater); The Tempest (The Public Theater); Regional: More than 100 productions at various theaters, including The Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Children’s Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company and Philadelphia Theatre Company; Associate Artistic Director of New Paradise Laboratories. TEACHING Professor of Design, Swarthmore College. AWARDS Pew Arts Fellow; Hodder Fellow at Princeton University; Drama Desk Award; Barrymore Award; F. Otto Haas Award. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. www.mattsaunders.net

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER Off-Broadway: Signature Theatre: Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World; NYTW: Red Speedo, Nat Turner in Jerusalem; Public Theater: Hamlet, Teenage Dick, Pretty Hunger; Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3: War; Foundry Theatre: O, Earth; Rattlestick Theater: Orange Julius. Regional: Yale Repertory: War; Brown/Trinity Repertory: Side Show, Our Country’s Good. Upcoming: In the Blood (Signature Theatre), Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater), Ghost Light (Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3), An Octoroon (Berkeley Rep), Measure for Measure (Santa Cruz Shakespeare/Cal Shakespeare), The Bacchae (Princeton University). TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama; M.A., Brown University; B.A., Oberlin College; B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music. montanaleviblanco.com

GUTHRIE A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, The Bluest Eye. THEATER Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award nomination); New York: Greater Clements, Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Fabulation, In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre); Dreaming Zenzile, The House That Will Not Stand, Red Speedo (NYTW); Thunderbodies, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., FUTURITY (Soho Rep); Actually (Manhattan Theatre Club); Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Mark Taper Forum; Dallas Theater Center; Wilma Theater; A.C.T.; Berkeley Rep; Huntington Theatre Company; McCarter Theatre Center; International: Theaternatur Festival (Germany). OPERA Norwegian National Opera; Detroit Opera; Opera Omaha; ArtsEmerson; Curtis Institute of Music; Prototype Festival; Hong Kong Arts Festival. DANCE Sasha Waltz & Guests (Germany); Ballet de Lorraine (France). UPCOMING Lyric Opera of Chicago; Opera Philadelphia; Opera Colorado. AWARDS 2019 Henry Hewes Design Award; 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre. www.yi-zhao.com 

GUTHRIE More than 140 productions since 1997. THEATER West End/A.R.T./St. Ann’s Warehouse: Nice Fish; Seattle Rep; San Jose Repertory Theatre; Children’s Theatre Company (more than 40 productions); Jungle Theater (more than 15 productions); Penumbra Theatre (eight productions); Mixed Blood Theatre; Illusion Theater; Arizona Theatre Company; Ballet of the Dolls (Founding Member); Theater Mu; Eye of the Storm; Teatro Latino; Minnesota Opera. RADIO Production Manager and Live Sound Engineer for “A Prairie Home Companion.” AWARDS McKnight Fellowship; Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award; Star Tribune Outstanding Sound Designer; Helen Hayes Award nomination 

GUTHRIE The Bluest Eye. THEATER Lincoln Center; The Kennedy Center; Performance Space New York; The Public Theater; JACK; National Black Theatre. MUSEUMS The Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Western Front Society (Canada); Nottingham Contemporary (U.K.). OTHER Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz, Austria; The High Line; Member of Kara Walker’s 6–8 Months Space; Collaborations with visual artists, musicians and theater artists, including Abigail DeVille, Charlotte Brathwaite, Kaneza Schaal, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Cauleen Smith, Helga Davis, Chris Myers and Ayesha Jordan. AWARDS Drama Desk nomination for The Public Theater’s production of Mlima’s Tale, written by Lynn Nottage and directed by Jo Bonney. www.justinhicksmusic.com

GUTHRIE More than 75 productions since 1996, including Metamorphoses; The Great Leap; The Legend of Georgia McBride; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; Indecent; Watch on the Rhine; Native Gardens; Refugia; The Bluest Eye; South Pacific; Trouble in Mind; Juno and the Paycock; The Crucible; A Christmas Carol; Crimes of the Heart; Freud’s Last Session; Uncle Vanya; Other Desert Cities; Tales From Hollywood; The Burial at Thebes; M. Butterfly; Faith Healer; Caroline, or Change; Shadowlands; The Glass Menagerie; and Six Degrees of Separation. THEATER Ten Thousand Things Theater: Into the Woods, The Sins of Sor Juana, The Winter’s Tale; Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: Shul. OTHER Artistic council member at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference (2018–2020). TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program; National Theater Institute’s Theatermakers Summer Intensive. TRAINING M.S., Arts and Humanities Research, University of Kentucky; M.A., Theology, The Athenaeum of Ohio  

GUTHRIE Murder on the Orient Express, Born With Teeth, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Little Prince, Vietgone, Sweat, Emma, Twelfth Night, Noura, Floyd’s, Guys and Dolls, Metamorphoses, As You Like It, Noises Off, Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, Indecent, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens, Refugia, The Bluest Eye, The Royal Family, The Parchman Hour. THEATER Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirates of Penzance; Minnesota Opera: Carmen; Park Square Theatre: Hamlet; Commonweal Theatre Company: Deathtrap, The Three Musketeers; Ballet Co. Laboratory: Carmen in the 1920s; Red Bird Theatre: A Bright Room Called Day, Buried Child, Time To Burn; Gremlin Theatre: Dial M for Murder; Theatre Pro Rata: The Illusion, Henry V; Lyric Arts: The Girl on the Train, Superior Donuts, Leading Ladies; Exposed Brick Theatre: Muyehpen; Theatre in the Round: The Three Musketeers; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong. FILM/TELEVISION Stunt Coordinator: Bitcon, Profile of a Killer; Utility Stunts: Marmalade, Body Language, Christmas Break-In, Thin Ice. TRAINING Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; Society of American Fight Directors. www.fakefighting.com

GUTHRIE Stage manager: As You LIke It, Familiar, Romeo and Juliet, The Bluest Eye, We Are Proud to Present … , The Parchman Hour, Trouble in Mind, The White Snake, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Skiing on Broken Glass, Embers, Much Ado About Nothing, After a Hundred Years; Assistant stage manager: More than 25 productions, including A Christmas Carol, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Sunday in the Park With George, The Music Man, The Winter’s Tale, The 39 Steps, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide … , Little House on the Prairie and Private Lives. THEATER Shakespeare & Company; Theater Latté Da; Illusion Theater; Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Minnesota Opera. TRAINING B.A., University of Northern Iowa. www.hosslewoodworks.com

GUTHRIE Stage manager: Cyrano de Bergerac, BAD NEWS! i was there… ; Assistant stage manager: Steel Magnolias, Floyd’s, A Christmas Carol (2018), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Romeo and Juliet, The Bluest Eye. THEATER Chanhassen Dinner Theatres; Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Minnesota Orchestra; Jungle Theater; History Theatre; Dark & Stormy Productions; Cardinal Theatricals; Stages Theatre Company; New Theatre Group; Theater Latté Da’s NEXT Festival; Playwrights’ Center. OPERA Minnesota Opera; Skylark Opera; Mixed Precipitation. TRAINING B.A., Lawrence University