Robert Harling is an actor, playwright, screenwriter and director who was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University School of Law but opted to become an actor instead of taking the bar exam. After successfully working in voiceovers and commercials, Harling was inspired to write the highly acclaimed stage play Steel Magnolias based on his mother and sister. The play premiered off-Broadway in 1987, and Harling bridged his career from stage to screen by adapting his original play into the popular 1989 film of the same name starring Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts. Harling continues to be a sought-after screenwriter whose credits include Soapdish, The First Wives Club, Laws of Attraction and The Evening Star, which he also directed.

GUTHRIE Hold These Truths. THEATER Kansas City Repertory Theatre; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Irish Repertory Theatre; Two River Theater; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Virginia Repertory Theatre; People’s Light; PlayMakers Repertory Company. UPCOMING The Cultch (Vancouver): Hold These Truths; Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Fun Home. AWARDS SDCF’s Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction; Theatre Bay Area Awards for Outstanding Direction and Production for Hold These Truths; Director of new works at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; Co-artistic director of The Actors Center in New York City; Recent co-president of the League of Professional Theatre Women; Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop; Member of the National Theatre Conference; Former director of Global Exchange (The Lark in New York City); Drama League and Fox Fellowships. TEACHING Guest lecturer and director at NYU, Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School and Barnard College. TRAINING M.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.lisarothe.com

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway: All My Sons (Roundabout Theatre Company); Off-Broadway: Original productions of How I Learned to Drive, Stop Kiss, In the Blood, Kit Marlowe, Julius Caesar and The Little Flower of East Orange (The Public Theater); New York: Mabou Mines; LAByrinth Theater Company (co-member); St. Ann’s Warehouse; Playwrights Horizons; WP Theater; New York Theatre Workshop; International: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman (West End/New York); Mabou Mines' DollHouse directed by Lee Breuer (national and world tours); The Syringa Tree (Vienna, Austria/Frankfurt, Germany); Sokrates: A Banquet in Prytaneion (VAT Theatre, Estonia). UPCOMING Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Atlantic Theater Company). AWARDS Fulbright Specialist Program; Drama Desk, Helen Hayes, Elliot Norton and Kevin Kline award nominations; Exhibitor at Prague Quadrennial (2007, 2011). TEACHING Associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. www.narellesissons.design

GUTHRIE Guys and Dolls, Native Gardens. THEATER Off-Broadway: Lockdown (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); The Niceties (Manhattan Theatre Club); Dot (Vineyard Theatre); Regional: Goodnight, Tyler; Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Alliance Theatre); Two Trains Running (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); The Color Purple (Portland Center Stage); The Purists, A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington Theatre Company); Nina Simone: Four Women (Arena Stage); Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). TELEVISION Assistant costume design for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon), “Daredevil” (Netflix) and “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO). AWARDS Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design (The Wiz); NAACP Theatre Award for Best Costumes (Barbecue). TRAINING M.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.karaharmondesign.com

GUTHRIE Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, Hold These Truths. THEATER Alley Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, Murder on the Orient Express; The Old Globe: They Promised Her the Moon; Epic Theatre Ensemble: The Winning Side; Ensemble Studio Theatre; The Civilians; Working Theater; HERE. ARCHITECTURE Plaza 33, a pedestrian plaza near Penn Station in New York City. AWARDS Two Lumen Awards; SOURCE Award (for architectural work with Focus Lighting). TEACHING Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts; Guest lecturer and designer at Yale University, Princeton University, Brown University, Barnard College and Bard College. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama

GUTHRIE The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Steel Magnolias. THEATER Roundabout Theatre Company; Playwrights Horizons; Manhattan Theatre Club; Second Stage Theater; Theatre for a New Audience; Mint Theater Company; National Black Theatre; Repertorio Español; NYTW; Bedlam; The Huntington; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Geffen Playhouse; Alley Theatre; Hartford Stage; Cleveland Play House; The Old Globe; Mark Taper Forum; Asolo Rep; TheatreWorks Silicon Valley; A.C.T.; A.R.T.; Northern Stage. AWARDS Drama Desk Award; Connecticut Critics Circle Award; Henry Award; Bessie Award; Meet the Composer Grant; NEA/TCG Career Development Grant; Nominations: Lucille Lortel, Elliot Norton, Henry Hewes. TRAINING Harvard University; Yale School of Drama. www.janeshaw.com 

GUTHRIE More than 85 productions since 1996; Shakespeare productions include The History Plays, Hamlet (2023, 2006), The Tempest, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Pericles (2015, 2005), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015), Othello, The Winter’s Tale and Macbeth. THEATER Dramaturgy: The Acting Company (The Comedy of Errors, Henry V); University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Hammerstein Center; NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Augsburg University (Cymbeline). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). TRAINING M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Augsburg University

GUTHRIE Emma, A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Steel Magnolias, The Glass Menagerie, Floyd’s, As You Like It, Noises Off, Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, An Enemy of the People, Blithe Spirit, Indecent, Romeo and Juliet, Sunday in the Park With George, The Bluest Eye, King Lear, The Lion in Winter, The Parchman Hour. THEATER Milwaukee Rep (more than 30 productions); American Contemporary Theater (more than 25 productions); Marriott Theatre (more than 20 productions); Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Steppenwolf; Utah Shakespeare Festival; Arizona Theatre Company; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Drury Lane Theatre; Lyric Opera of Chicago. TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; M.F.A. Actor Training Program, American Contemporary Theater; M.F.A. and B.F.A. Actor Training Programs, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. TRAINING Master’s degrees at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London) and Northwestern University 

GUTHRIE Stage Manager/Assistant Stage Manager: Over 50 productions, most recently including Little Shop of Horrors, The History Plays, A Christmas Carol and Shane. THEATER History Theatre; Ten Thousand Things; Theater Latté Da; The Moving Company; Shapiro & Smith Dance; Quicksilver Productions; Three Legged Race Productions; Playwrights’ Center; Penumbra Theatre; Minnesota Centennial Showboat; Walker Art Center: Ocean. OTHER North Star Events, including implementing COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts for the state of Minnesota and 2023 inauguration events for Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan. TRAINING B.A., University of Minnesota

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

GUTHRIE Stage manager: Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, Watch on the Rhine; Assistant stage manager: As You Like It. THEATER Utah Shakespeare Festival: Treasure Island, As You Like It, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra; Children’s Theatre Company: Seedfolks (national tour); Pinocchio, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Mixed Blood Theatre: DJ Latinidad’s Latin Dance Party, Pussy Valley; Park Square Theatre: 30 productions, including Evita, The Rocky Horror Show, Flower Drum Song, Murder for Two, The Color Purple, Romeo and Juliet, The Snow Queen, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, The School for Lies, Of Mice and Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano, Ragtime and August: Osage County. TRAINING M.F.A., Columbia University

GUTHRIE Artistic Team member since 2003; More than 70 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Lehman Trilogy, Little Shop of Horrors, The History Plays, Dial M for Murder, ‘Art’, For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Into the Woods, Hamlet, The Little Prince, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, Familiar, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens and Disgraced. FILM/TELEVISION Casting Consultant: Master Servant. TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Universities in MN and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, MSU Moorhead