Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta-based writer whose plays include Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous, What I Learned in Paris, Flyin’ West, Blues for an Alabama Sky and Bourbon at the Border, which were commissioned by Alliance Theatre where Cleage is Distinguished Artist in Residence. She is also the author of A Song for Coretta, written in 2007 while the Cosby Professor in Women’s Studies at Spelman College, and The Nacirema Society…, which was commissioned by Alabama Shakespeare Festival and premiered in 2010. Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky recently received an award-winning production at London’s National Theatre, directed by Lynette Linton. Her plays have also been performed at Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Just Us Theatre Company, True Colors Theatre, Bushfire Theatre, Intiman Theatre, The Black Repand 7 Stages. She is also an accomplished performance artist, often working with her husband, writer Zaron W. Burnett, Jr., in their Live at Club Zebra! performance installation. They have performed at the National Black Arts Festival, National Black Theatre Festival and colleges across the country. They also collaborated with performance artists Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones on the script for The Love Project, which premiered at the National Black Theatre Festival in 2008. Cleage is also an accomplished novelist, with her New York Times bestseller What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day being chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Cleage has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs and The Coca-Cola Foundation. Among her many awards is a 2008 NAACP Image Award for Fiction and a 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild.  

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Round House Theatre: it’s not a trip it’s a journey (world premiere), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: The West End (world premiere); The Kennedy Center: A Wind in the Door (world premiere); New Dramatists; The Lark; The Fire This Time Festival; The New Black Fest; WP Theater; The 52nd Street Project; Portland Center Stage; Baltimore Center Stage; Signature Theatre; PlayMakers Repertory Company; A.C.T.; Asolo Repertory Theatre; Washington National Opera; Theater Latté Da; Playwrights’ Center; Contemporary American Theater. OTHER BOLD Associate Artistic Director, McCarter Theatre Center; Producer, Adrienne Kennedy Digital Theater Festival; Member, SDC. TRAINING M.A., NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study; B.A., History, Yale University. www.nicoleawatson.com 

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits (Circle in the Square Theatre); What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway/Tour Associate); Regional: Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed Musicals); Patience (Second Stage Theater); The Last Supper (SOPAC); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Brothers Size (American Players Theatre); How I Learned What I Learned, Native Son (PlayMakers Repertory Company); it’s not a trip it’s a journey, “We declare you a terrorist…” (Round House Theatre); Gem of the Ocean (Portland Center Stage); Trouble in Mind (The Old Globe); The West End (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Hype Man (A.R.T./Company One Theatre); Gloria (A.C.T.); STEW (Page 73); Hi, Are You Single? (Woolly Mammoth); House of Joy (CalShakes); The Royale (Capital Repertory Theatre); Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre). OPERA Santa Fe Opera: This Little Light of Mine; Inseries Opera: Requiem. OTHER Member, USA 829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design. TEACHING Lecturer, Princeton University and Queens College. @motendesigns (IG), www.motendesigns.com 

GUTHRIE Sweat. THEATER New York (selected): Death of a Salesman (Broadway); Exception to the Rule (Roundabout Theatre Company); A Jolly Holiday With Disney (Paper Mill Playhouse); A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (DR2 Theatre); SOCIAL! The social distance dance club (Park Avenue Armory); A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theater); Native Son (The Acting Company); Original Sound (Cherry Lane Theatre); Hatef**k (WP Theater); Fur, Mud, Prospect, ¡Fabuloso! (Boundless Theatre Company); Regional (selected): Theater of the Mind (Denver Center); Our Daughters, Like Pillars (The Huntington); Doubt (Westport Country Playhouse); The West End (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Pioneer Theatre Company/Signature Theatre); Seize the King (Alliance Theatre); Fefu and Her Friends, Top Girls, Her Portmanteau (A.C.T.); The Royale (Arizona Theatre Company); Pipeline (Studio Theatre); School Girls… (Pittsburgh Public Theater); The Haunted Life (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Two Trains Running (Weston Playhouse); Berta, Berta; A Late Morning (In America) With Ronald Reagan (CATF); Having Our Say (Philadelphia Theatre Company). TEACHING Lecturer, Princeton University; Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut. TRAINING M.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts 

THEATER Pittsburgh Public Theater: A Raisin in the Sun, Murder on the Orient Express, A Few Good Men, Sweat; Arena Stage: The Heiress, Two Trains Running; Baltimore Center Stage: The Folks at Home, The Garden; Signature Theatre: Spunk, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Scottsboro Boys; The Old Globe: Trouble in Mind, What You Are, Skeleton Crew. TEACHING Assistant Professor, George Mason University. TRAINING M.F.A., Lighting Design, University of California, San Diego; B.A., Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz. www.smojgani.com  

GUTHRIE Watch on the Rhine, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. THEATER Broadway: All the Way, The Great Society; Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival (30 productions); Seattle Rep; Mark Taper Forum; The Old Globe; Arena Stage; South Coast Repertory; A.R.T.; Berkeley Rep; Yale Repertory Theatre; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Hartford Stage; Great Lakes Theater Festival; Geffen Playhouse; Long Wharf Theatre; Asolo Repertory Theatre; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Baltimore Center Stage; Alliance Theatre; Cal Shakes; Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Utah Shakespeare Festival; The Kennedy Center; Alley Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; A.C.T. OTHER Theme Parks: Disney; Universal Studios; Knott’s Berry Farm; Singer/songwriter whose work has appeared in films, on recordings and in music venues nationwide. AWARDS Grammy and Drama Desk Award nominations; BroadwayWorld Award; Ovation Award; Drama-Logue Award; Garland Award; Gregory Award; Footlight Award; Gypsy Rose Lee Award 

GUTHRIE Resident Dramaturg for over 30 productions from 1996 to 2000; One acting season under the artistic direction of Liviu Ciulei. THEATER Local: Founding company member of Penumbra Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre and New Dawn Theatre Company; Guthrie Theater; Jungle Theater; Illusion Theater; Regional: A.C.T.; Baltimore Center Stage; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Circle in the Square Theatre; Women’s Project and Productions; Buffalo Studio Arena. THEATER DIRECTION Former Co-Artistic Producing Director of Pillsbury House Theatre; Ten Thousand Things; Ten Thousand Voices 2022; The Kennedy Center: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963; History Theatre: A Crack in the Sky; Park Square Theatre: Nina Simone: Four Women (world premiere); Pillsbury House Theatre: Mr. Bundy. OTHER Board member, Tofte Lake Center. AWARDS August Wilson Fellowship in Dramaturgy and Literary Criticism; 2021 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. TRAINING M.A., University of Minnesota; B.A., Macalester College

GUTHRIE Over 15 productions, including A Christmas Carol,The Lehman Trilogy, Little Shop of Horrors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Vietgone and Noura. THEATER Theater Latté Da: Chicago, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Five Points, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Six Degrees of Separation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ragtime, Lullaby, Sweeney Todd, All Is Calm; Jungle Theater: Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wickhams, Miss Bennet, Lone Star Spirits, Le Switch, Constellations; Penumbra Theatre: benevolence, Wedding Band; MN Opera: The Fix. TRAINING Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Viterbo University

GUTHRIE Over 20 productions, recently including 'Art', For the People, Into the Woods, Murder on the Orient Express and Vietgone. THEATER Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirates of Penzance; Minnesota Opera: Carmen; Park Square Theatre: Hamlet; Commonweal Theatre Company: The Three Musketeers; Red Bird Theatre: Buried Child; Gremlin Theatre: Dial M for Murder; Theatre Pro Rata: The Illusion; Lyric Arts: Superior Donuts; 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. www.fakefighting.com 

GUTHRIE The History Plays, Dial M for Murder, The Importance of Being Earnest, Murder on the Orient Express, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Sally & Tom, Sweat. THEATER Oregon Shakespeare Festival (14 seasons, selected): Stage Manager: Mother Road, The Book of Will, Manahatta, UniSon, Vietgone, The Happiest Song Plays Last; Assistant Stage Manager: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare in Love, Fingersmith, The Liquid Plain, Party People, The Pirates of Penzance, American Night, The White Snake; Iowa Summer Rep (2006–2007); QTP India (2001–2005). TRAINING M.F.A., Theatre, The University of Iowa; M.A., University of Mumbai

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER McCarter Theatre Center: A Christmas Carol, The Wolves; Adirondack Theatre Festival: The Chinese Lady, The Hobbit; The Bushwick Starr: Preparedness; Foxy Films: A Christmas Carol; Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Bride of the Gulf; Rutgers Theater Company with Theatre C: Vinegar Tom. OPERA Brevard Music Center: Gianni Schicchi, Candide, La Cenerentola, Street Scene, Don Pasquale, Le Nozze di Figaro; NYU Steinhardt: Orpheus in the Underworld, Così Fan Tutte. TRAINING M.F.A., Stage Management, Rutgers University; B.A., Theatre, Georgia Southern University 

GUTHRIE Artistic Team member since 2003; More than 70 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including 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 

GUTHRIE Sweat. THEATER Intimacy Direction: Minnesota Opera; University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program: The School for Lies in the Dowling Studio; An Opera Theatre; University Opera Theatre at the University of Minnesota: Don Giovanni. TRAINING More than 70 hours with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators (formerly Intimacy Directors International); Level 3 Intimacy Coordinator Cohort with IDC Professionals. www.shaepalic.com