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Kait Kerrigan is a playwright, lyricist, and bookwriter. Off-Broadway: The Mad Ones, Henry and the Mudge, and Rosie Revere, Engineer, and Friends. Her work has been developed and performed internationally. Her plays include Disaster Relief, Imaginary Love, Transit, and We Have to Hold Hands. Other musicals include Republic, Unbound, and The Bad Years, an immersive house party. Awards, fellowships, and residencies include the Kleban, Larson, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, I-73 Writer’s Group, Lark Playwright’s Week and Winter Retreat, and MacDowell. Kerrigan is an alumna of Barnard College, and a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and founding member of NewMusicalTheatre.com. For more information, visit www.kerrigan-lowdermilk.com.

M. Graham Smith is a San Francisco-based Director, Educator and Producer. He spent five years as Producer of Aurora Theater’s new play development program and festival The Global Age Project and he is delighted to be directing his first full production here. Graham is an O’Neill/NNPN National Directing Fellow, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR Fellow and a proud Resident Artist at SF’s Crowded Fire. He grew up outside of New York City and has been based in San Francisco for the last fourteen years. He’s directed in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland Oregon, Washington DC, and in the San Francisco bay area. He directed the West Coast Premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera and Truffaldino Says No at Shotgun Players, winning Best Director for the Bay Area Critics Circle. Recent productions include the World Premiere of Obie winner Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion, Kevin Rolston’s Deal with the Dragon at ACT’s Costume Shop & Edinburgh Fringe, Mia Chung’s You for Me for You at Crowded Fire, James Ijames’ White at Shotgun. In April he directed his first full length film, a hip-hop musical adaptation of As You Like It with music and lyrics by Ryan Nicole Austin produced by ACT. You can visit him online at www.MGrahamSmith.com

William Thomas Hodgson is an acting company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Company where he has played: Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Malcolm, Macbeth; Stokes, How to Catch Creation; Romeo, Romeo and Juliet; Dumain, Love’s Labor’s Lost. Locally, his work has been seen at a number of theatres: Dr. Fowler Greenhill in It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Rep); Silvius in As You Like It (California Shakespeare Theater); James Hemmings in Thomas and Sally (Marin Theatre Company), Charlotte in I Am My Own Wife (Ubuntu Theater Project); Eamon Jameson in Calligraphy (TheatreWorks); Cat in the Hat in Seussical the Musical (Berkeley Playhouse). HIs regional credits include: BJJ in An Octoroon (Mixed Blood); Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse), El Jonny in El Henry (La Jolla Playhouse/San Diego Repertory Theatre); Puck (understudy) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (PCPA); Bart Simpson in Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (UCSD); Louis in Angels in America (Santa Fe University of Art and Design). William is the Co-Founder of Ubuntu Theater Project, and was awarded the BroadwayWorld Award for Best Actor and a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and Outstanding Direction. He has an MFA in Acting from UCSD and has trained SFUAD and PCPA.

Sam Jackson is a San Francisco based actor, vocalist and teaching artist. Her most recent acting credits include: Shotgun Player's Vinegar Tom (Ellen), Aurora's Exit Strategy (Sadie), Shotgun Player's Kings (Sydney Millsap) and Kill The Debbie Downers! Kill Them! Kill Them! Kill Them Off!! (Olga). She is also a company member of Nice Tan Comedy, a queer WOC led sketch comedy group based in San Francisco. Jackson would like to send her deepest gratitude to her family (blood and chosen) for their love, support, and moments of sanity in these trying times. (she/her) IG: @little_miss_sj

Kate Boyd, a Bay Area scenic and lighting designer, is thrilled to be at Aurora for her first live show in too long.  Her most “recent” shows were Nine Parts of Desire at the Armory in Portland and Noura at Marin Theater Company (both by Heather Raffo) .  She has designed many sets at Aurora Theater and her work has been seen at Center Rep, Golden Thread, Magic Theater, New Conservatory Theater,  Merola Opera, the SF Conservatory of Music, Company C Ballet and Theaterworks.  Kate is a resident artist with Golden Thread Productions and recipient of the Gerbode Design Fellowship. Kate teaches stagecraft and design at Lick-Wilmerding High School.

Cliff Caruthers is a Bay Area based sound designer and composer with over 20 years experience in the field of theatre sound design. He has created music and soundscapes for over 300 productions near and far, including Frankenstein at Guthrie Theatre, 1984 at Alley Theatre, Caucasian Chalk Circle for American Conservatory Theater, TRAGEDY: A Tragedy for Berkeley Repertory Theater, Man in Love for Kansas City Rep, and A Clean House for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, where he was Resident Sound Designer for seven years.  In 2007 his work on Fighter Airplanes for Cutting Ball Theater was featured at the Prague Quadrennial in 2007.  His work on Earth: A Primer, was featured at the Experimental Gameplay Worship at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in 2015.   He has received several Bay Area Critics Circle awards, including most recently in 2019 for Detroit ’67 at Aurora Theatre Company. Mr. Caruthers is co-curator of the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, and serves as Member Representative to the Western Region Board of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Courtney Flores-Kerrigan is a Costume Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She serves as Costume and Makeup Design Lecturer at San Jose State University, as well as a Lecturer at California State University East Bay in Hayward, California. Recent productions include Water by the Spoonful at Stages Theatre in Houston, TX Kill Move Paradise at Shotgun Players in Berkeley, CA, Native Gardens at Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville, GA, The House of the Spirits at U.C. Berkeley in Berkeley, CA and In Old Age Magic Theatre in San Francisco, CA. To see more of her work, visit: www.CourtneyFlores.com

David K H Elliott (Lighting Design) has designed for American Ballet Theater, San Francisco Ballet, Ballet San Jose, ODC, Joe Goode Performance Group, Robert Moses’ Kin, and Jess Curtis/Gravity. His work includes designs for California Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Teatro Zinzanni, Marin Theater Company, Keith Terry, Joe Goode, John Fisher, West Wave Dance, and Crowded Fire Theater. He is the recipient of the Dancer’s Group Lighting Designer in Dance Award, an Isadora Duncan Award, two Drama-Logue Critics Awards and Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award. This is his first production for the Aurora Theatre Company.