Director & Adapter

Anne Bogart is a theater and opera director, former Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, and a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. She is the author of six books: A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then, You Act; Conversations with Anne, What’s the Story and The Art of Resonance. Recent theater productions include Carousel; Existentialism; Eastland; and The Beautiful Lady.  Recent operas include Mahler’s Song of the Earth, Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale, Handel’s Alcina, Dvorak’s Dimitrij Verdi’s Macbeth, Bellini’s Norma and Bizet’s Carmen. 

PLAYWRIGHT

Charles Mee has written Big Love, True Love, First Love, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Orestes 2.0, Trojan Women A Love Story, Summertime and Wintertime among other plays—all available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. He was honored with a full season of his plays at the Signature Theatre. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Award of Merit in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Obies, of a Laura Pels Award, the Booth Award, and of the Richard B. Fisher Award. He is also the author of a number of books of history (Meeting at Potsdam, The Marshall Plan, The End of Order) that have been selections of the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club. He is the former editor-in-chief of Horizon magazine, a magazine of history, art, literature, and the fine arts. And he is a lifetime trustee of the Washington think tank, The Urban Institute. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.

Composers

Daniel and Patrick Lazour (the Lazours) are brothers and music theatre writers. Projects include their musical with communal singing, Night Side Songs (Under the Radar, PTC/A.R.T. co-production dir. Taibi Magar), which opened at Lincoln Center Theater in March 2026 and won the Lortel Award for Best Ensemble, and a musical adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s film The Lunchbox, (Berkeley Repertory Theatre dir. Rachel Chavkin). They wrote original music for Caroline Lindy’s debut feature, Your Monster  (Sundance 2024) and their movie musical Blue Blue Sky is being developed with Bruce Cohen Productions and Spark Features. Their musical We Live in Cairo premiered at the American Repertory Theater in 2019, (dir. Taibi Magar), and ran off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, garnering Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Lortel nominations including Best Musical. They are currently working on an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mark Sonnenblick to premiere at Miami New Drama. Original songs by the Lazours can be heard on their independently released albums: Freres, Flap My Wings (Songs from We Live in Cairo), Beth’s Homemade Cowboy Breakfast and Lullabies. They are Jonathan Larson Grant and Richard Rodgers Award recipients, MacDowell and Yaddo Fellows, and New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspects. They have worked with Noor Theatre Company, Ars Nova and PAC NYC, and are proud teaching artists. Patrick holds a B.A. from Boston College and Daniel holds a B.A. from Columbia University.

Costume Designer

Machine Dazzle is an emotionally driven, instinct based, conceptual artist, designer, and musician living and working in New York City. Maximalist by nature, Machine builds worlds and exists within them, Undefinable and avoiding labels. Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Scorpio, Virgo Ascendant. Call me.

Sound Designer

Darron West is a TONY and two time OBIE award-winning sound designer whose nearly 40 year career spans theater and dance, on Broadway, Off Broadway and regional theaters too numerous to list here. His work has been heard in over 700 productions all over the United States and internationally in 15 countries. Additional honors include the Lortel, Audelco and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award among many others. Spent thirty years as a company member designing the work of Anne Bogart's SITI company. This marks his 41 collaboration with Ms. Bogart.

Scenic Designer

​​Andromache Chalfant is a Brooklyn based designer, writer and visual artist. Her ongoing generative projects fuse text, set design, performance and film with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration. She is the co-founder of Coffey Street Studio which provides an artistic laboratory to artists of all disciplines for experiments in multidisciplinary performance and visual art. Recent set designs include Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte at The Greek National Opera in Athens, Greece and The Beautiful Lady at La Mama.

Other New York credits include productions at The Public Theater, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, HERE Arts Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, BAM Fisher, The Atlantic Theater and Second Stage Theater among others.

Co-Choreographer

Valeria Solomonoff is an Argentine-born, New York-based tango pioneer. Select choreographic credits include Sammi Cannold's Evita (New York City Center, American Repertory Theater, and Shakespeare Theatre Company), which earned her an Elliot Norton Award nomination.

With her company, Valetango, she received two ACE Awards and two HOLA Awards for choreography and direction. She also co-founded TangoMujer, the world’s first all-female tango company. Solomonoff won the Lucy Bowen Prize for Inclusive Choreography and twice received solo awards at Argentine Dance Festivals. She is so thankful for the opportunity to work with Anne Bogart and the ensemble.

Assistant Director & Co-Adapter

Eve Bromberg is a writer, editor, and dramaturg from Brooklyn, New York. She is the former Co-Editor of CULTUREBOT where she still regularly contributes. Her writing has also appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, November Magazine, and American Theatre Magazine. In addition to serving as dramaturg and script developer on A Day To Remember Forever, she is completing an MFA in Dramaturgy at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Her thesis will be an oral history of the career of Anne Bogart. 

Production Manager

Brian Freeland (he/him) is a production manager, director, producer, writer, and sound/media artist. Production management includes works for and with Illinoise (Broadway), Opera Philadelphia, The Flea, BAM, En Garde Arts, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Lincoln Center, Soho Rep, Geoff Sobelle, The TEAM, Wooly Mammoth Theatre, The Park Avenue Armory, Mass MoCA, Ripe Time, The Bearded Ladies, Andrew Schneider, Up Until Now Collective, Bard, Curious Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, Beth Morrison Projects, The LIDA Project, Countdown to Zero, The Brick, and the PROTOTYPE Festival. Brian is also the Director of Production for the annual Under The Radar Festival. www.brianfreeland.com

Production Stage Manager

Erica Zippel Schnitzer is a Brooklyn-based theatermaker. She has collaborated with artists at many institutions, including Lincoln Center, The Shed, The Park Avenue Armory, New York Theater Workshop, The Public Theater, 59E59, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, among many others. Recent credits include I Hope This Finds You Well by Samora Pinderhughes (MoMA, Pomegranate Arts), Petra by Tina Satter (Half Straddle), Testo by Wet Mess (Under the Radar), Mano a Mano by Paul Pinto (La MaMa), and The Door Slams, a Glass Trembles by Paul Zimet (Talking Band). Erica is a resident SM at Mercury Store.

Assistant Stage Manager

Ernie

George Abud is an Arab-American actor. He won the 2026 Helen Hayes Award for his role as Richard Nixon in The Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical. Film: Caught Stealing opposite Austin Butler & Bad Bunny (dir. Darren Aronofsky). Broadway: Marinetti in Lempicka (dir. Rachel Chavkin); The Band’s Visit starring Katrina Lenk & Tony Shalhoub (Daytime Emmy Award, OBC Recording); The Visit starring Chita Rivera & Roger Rees (OBC Recording). George has created roles in a dozen Off-Broadway productions, including Nerd Face in Emojiland (Drama Desk nom.); and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opposite Raúl Esparza (Classic Stage Company). georgeabud.com

George

Will Bond is emeritus founding member of the NYC based SITI Company, co-founders Anne Bogart & Suzuki Tadashi. For 30 years he performed, taught workshops and master classes in Suzuki & Viewpoints training, nationally and internationally.  Will has danced with Deborah Hay, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance, Elizabeth Streb Extreme Action, and Liz Lerman, and performed with Tadashi Suzuki SCOT and Robert Wilson.

He is published in the edited volumes  Movement for Actors, Allworth Press 2002, The Routledge Companion to Stanislavski, Routledge Press 2013, and This Is Not a Handbook: the story of SITI Company, Lulu Press 2023.

Harriet

Ellen Lauren is a SITI Company founding member and co-artistic director with Anne Bogart for over 30 years including at BAM’s Opera House, the Harvey and the Fisher.

Associate Artist with Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) led by Tadashi Suzuki based in Japan since 1989

Ongoing faculty member/director at The Juilliard School of Drama since 1994. (John Erskine Faculty Prize) 

Most recently performed King Lear in Japan and Indonesia directed by Suzuki, and Mahler’s Song of the Earth at Boston Lyric Opera, directed by Anne Bogart 

First recipient of the TCG’s Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement. Published in American Theater (“In Search of Stillness”)

Tilly

Berit Palma is thrilled to be working with En Garde Arts and to be a part of this incredible production. Previous credits include: Off-Broadway: 3Penny Opera (Stuffy Stevie, Off-Brand Opera), Fanny: A Fanstasy in G (Guila/Fanny U/S, Off-Brand Opera). National Tour: Paw Patrol Live! (Nickelodeon, Small Swing). Regional: Gentleman’s Guide (Sibella/Woman Three Understudy, Hope Repertory Theatre) and Comedy of Errors (Egeon/Pinch, Greenwood Lake Theater). Thanks to God, her family, friends, and FTP for their support, without whom none of this would be possible. @berit_palma, www.beritpalma.net

Gus

Off-Broadway/NYC: The Last Ship (starring Sting), Romeo & Bernadette (cast recording), Roughly Speaking, Little House On The Ferry, Relapse. Regional: The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre Of Louisville, The Muny, Walnut Street Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Maine State MT, Fulton Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Co, Portland Center Stage, Paramount Theatre, among many others. National Tour: Jesus Christ Superstar. Europe: International Symphony Orchestra. Opera/Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Metropolitan Opera, Geffen Hall, Tully Hall, Koch Theatre), New York City Opera,  Aretha Franklin with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. TV/Commercials/Voiceovers: “Law & Order: Organized Crime” (NBC); Lifetime; History Channel; Investigation Discovery; UPN.

Construction

Padraig Bond is an actor/playwright who has appeared in the Edinburgh Fringe (Scotland) and Adelaide Fringe (Australia) Festivals, the Japan Society, and the New York Renaissance Faire. He holds a playwrighting residency at FRIGID New York and won Best Play in the 2024 New York City Fringe for "The Climate Fables". He has trained with SCOT Company in Japan, OYL Company in Greece, and SITI Company in New York and Paris. Film: Marty Supreme (A24) TV: The Gilded Age (HBO) Love Story (FX). Love and thanks to Aunt Scoot. Instagram @padraigbond

Construction

Kenard Jackson a theatre and performance artist based in New York. Some of his recent credits include: Chronicles of of Cardigan & Khente (Soho Rep), Lover, I’ll bring you back to life (Ars Nova), This is a Protest of What Happened (The Brick), Doomocracy (Creative Time)  A Midsummer Night's Dream (Classic Stage Company). MFA in Acting: Columbia University, School of the Arts, BA in Theatre Arts from Boston College.

Construction

Joëlle Antonia Santiago (b. New York, NY) is a choreographer. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of the Harriet Hale-Woolley Award for the Arts. Santiago has presented work at venues such as X-Posed on the Chelsea Highline, Roulette Intermedium, Chelsea Piers, The Clark Art Institute, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, la Fondation des États-Unis (Paris), with upcoming projects at Performance Space New York and National Sawdust. Her writing is published in The Whitney Review, Culturebot, and IMPULSE Magazine. Santiago graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University and teaches at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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Tessa Weinland is a New York City based actress and movement artist by way of Seattle, Washington. In New York she has worked with Project Y Theater Company and regionally with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, and Living Room Theatre in North Bennington, Vermont. She has studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is a proud alumna of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. @tessaweinland