MARY KATHRYN NAGLE (Playwright) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an alum of the 2013 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. Commissions include Arena Stage, Rose Theater, Portland Center Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Repertory Theatre, Round House Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Santa Fe Opera. She is an attorney whose work focuses on the restoration of tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault.

SHANNON R. DAVIS (Director) is a Bay Area director, educator, & community connector originally from Wisconsin. She is a Queer woman of mixed Indigenous/Native descent. She has most recently been: in the Cal Shakes Artist Circle, a Visiting Professor at Saint Mary’s College, the Director of Community Connections at American Conservatory Theater, a Guest Artist/Lecturer at UC-Berkeley, and a co-founder of Bay Area Native Theatre Artists as well as the Bay Area Accountability Workgroup. She holds an MFA in Directing & Acting from UW Madison. She’s worked with: New Native Theatre, SF Shakes, A.C.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Aurora Theatre, Native Writers Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, American Indian Community House, Cal Shakes, Saint Mary's, Anchorage Opera, Theatre of Yugen, Berkeley Rep, MoxieArts, StageWrite, Brava Theater, Theatre Battery, Ohio University: Tantrum Theatre, Ashland New Play Festival, PlayGround, Freestyle Love Supreme, Forward Theatre, UC-Berkeley, Shotgun Players, TheaterWorks, Marin Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, Playwrights Foundation, & others. shannonrdavis.com

LINDA AMAYO-HASSAN (Mother/Bobbie) is a Native/Chicana actor, director, and playwright. She is honored to represent the Lenape people and delighted to make her Aurora debut. Linda’s most recent performance was in Yerma at Shotgun Players and in Oakland Theater Project’s Exodus to Eden. Linda also appeared in her solo show The Missing Songs, for PlayGround’s Solo Fest. Linda is the founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Cultura and a theatre professor at Chabot College and Cal State University East Bay.

LIVIA GOMES DEMARCHI* (Le-le-wa' -you/Jane) is absolutely honored to be performing in this important play in the company of fantastic artists. Recent credits: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at SF Shakes (also directed by the amazing Shannon R. Davis), Cassandra in Somewhere by Marisela Treviño Orta at Perspective Theater, Miri in Sapience at Playground SF and San Diego Rep Latinx festival, and Lola in the world premiere of Ghosts of Bogotá at AlterTheater (both by the incredible Diana Burbano), Tania in Native Gardens at Center Rep and Left Edge, and Olivia/Maria in Twelfth Night also with Perspective Theater (formerly Arabian Shakes, TBA Winner for Best Ensemble). She was also a part of the original production of The River Bride as Belmira, presented at Alter Theater Ensemble. Other companies: SF Playhouse, Magic Theater, Marin Shakespeare, Playwrights Foundation, BRAVA, Shotgun Players, among others. She holds a B.A. in Theater and performance studies from UC Berkeley and is an associate artist with Alter Theater Ensemble and a company member at Playground SF. Hoping this play helps decolonize ways of thinking and question harmful narratives that persist, whether it be in the collective or within oneself. Thank you for supporting theater!

MAX FORMAN-MULLIN* (Jakob/Joe) was born and raised in San Francisco (Yelamu territory) and is delighted to make his Aurora debut. He has performed with numerous Bay Area theatre companies, including Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, Berkeley Rep, Word for Word, and Cutting Ball. In addition to acting, Max has worked extensively as a teaching artist and applied theatre practitioner with people of all ages, in schools, community centers, and prisons. He continues his work with incarcerated people as a paralegal at a local criminal defense law office.

ANTHONY FUSCO* (Peter Minuit/Dick) a multi award-winning actor and Bay Area theatre mainstay, has performed major roles in dozens of productions since returning here in 1999 after twenty years working on- and off-Broadway and at theatres around the country. He’s been a Core Company member of the American Conservatory Theater (35+ shows), an Associate Artist with CalShakes (15 shows), and has appeared with BerkelyRep, SF Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, among others. He is a 1983 graduate of The Juilliard School and trained subsequently with The Barrow Group. He was honored as one of ten American actors named as a 2023 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow by the Ten Chimneys Foundation. He is thrilled to be making his full production debut with Aurora, for whom he participated in the 2020 audio drama The Flats. Anthony and his wife Martha live in San Francisco.

IXTLÁN* (Se-ket-tu-may-qua/Luke) is a proud relative of the Native American Plains Nations and Mexica Indigenous peoples. He has studied acting in New York at the Herbert Berghof studio and various teachers from LA and NY. Notable credits include: A.C.T’s A Christmas Carol as Giles and Ensemble, Marco in Word for Word’s Citizen, Bahoma in AlterTheater’s Pueblo Revolt, Nolan in Braided at CalShakes, Borrachio in SF Shakes’ Much Ado About Nothing, Seketemaqua/Luke in Manahatta at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theater, Wolf in Perseverance Theater’s Winter Bear, Menelaus in Helen, Poe in Puppets and Poe, and Jakubi in A Noh Christmas Carol at Theatre of Yugen, Barrow Group Theater Company’s Last of the Caucasians, The Monster Project film and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for Film and TV. IG: @flowersfromouterspace

OOGIE PUSH (Toosh-ki-pa-kwis-i/Debra) is Bear Clan from the Meskwaki Nation near Tama, IA, and has been a Theatre-maker for over 20 years. Push first started studying and performing Native Theatre at Haskell Indian Nations University (Lawrence, KS) where she received an Associate of Arts in Theatre and a Bachelor of Arts in American Indian Studies with an emphasis in Theatre. From there she studied the technical side of theatre and received an MFA in Theatre: Design & Technology from University of Missouri-Kansas City. She works as an actor primarily in the Twin Cities with various theatre companies, does storytelling performances, works as a production assistant in the Twin Cities tv/film/commercial industry, and at times emcees events.  She is also creating a documentary series about cultural aspects of the Meskwaki Tribe. Tama Flint: A Meskwaki Tradition is the first in the series and is hitting the Film Festival circuit this year and is available for screenings. In November 2024, Full Circle Theater is producing Push's play Adventures of a Traveling Meskwaki at the Andy Boss Stage in St. Paul, MN. In her spare time, Push creates hemp twine bags using the Meskwaki Twine Bag Weaving technique which is a recently revitalized Meskwaki artform. You can see her work on display at the Chicago Field Museum in the revamped Native American Hall. You can find her on Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram @Oogie_Push

VICTOR TALMADGE* (Jonas Michaelius/Michael) is very pleased to be returning to the Aurora after performing here in Awake and Sing and After the Revolution. Most recently he was seen in The Road to Mecca at Z Space and in San Francisco Playhouse’s production of Indecent. Other Bay Area venues include Cal Shakes, Berkeley Rep, ACT, Theater Works, OTP, The Magic Theater, Santa Cruz Shakespeare. He has worked extensively in New York and regional theaters and was on Broadway in the world premiere of David Mamet’s November. He played The King in the Tony Award winning production of the Broadway National Tour of The King and I and was seen as Scar in the Los Angeles production of The Lion King. Talmadge boasts extensive film and television credits, as well and he was a recurring character on the TV series Manhattan and Vegas. As a playwright, his play The Gate Of Heaven was awarded The Nakashima Peace Prize. It was the first live theater to be produced at The U.S. Holocaust Memorial and has been subsequently performed at The Old Globe Theater, Ford's Theater, and The Annenberg Center, as well as various venues around the country. He is currently Professor of the Practice and Director of Theater Studies, Mills College at Northeastern University.

TASI ALABASTRO* (u/s Se-ket-tu-may-qua/Luke) is an actor, multi-disciplinary artist, and self-proclaimed flaneur. Alabastro is excited to be joining the Aurora team for the first time with Manhatta. Professional credits include A Christmas Carol (A.C.T); Twelfth Night, musical adaptation (SF Playhouse); Every Brilliant Thing, VIETGONE, and Stupid F**king Bird (City Lights Theatre Company); Sisters Matsumoto (CenterRep). Alabastro is a recipient of the 2019 Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award and the 2018 SVCreates Emerging Artist Laureate. He is a senior company member of the Red Ladder Theatre Company, a nationally acclaimed, award-winning social justice theatre company. For extended bio, work, blog, and pretty cool art visit tasialabastro.com. Twitter/Instagram: @tasialabastro @themodernclicksmith.

ALAN COYNE (u/s Peter Minuit/Dick, Jonas Michaelius/Michael, & Jakob/Joe) is making his Aurora Theatre Company debut with Manahatta. He has previously performed with Center Rep (The Legend of Georgia McBride), Ferocious Lotus (Evolutions), and Golden Thread (Autobiography of a Terrorist), as well as multiple shows with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (including 2022’s Much Ado About Nothing with Shannon, Steven, and Livia), We Players, Custom Made, and Lafayette Town Hall Theatre. In 2019, he took his two-person adaptation, 2ELFth Night, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. You can see him next in the third installment of Patricia Milton’s Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective series, Accused, at Central Works in July/August, where he will reprise his role as #AllTheMen, or as part of Shotgun Players’ staged reading of David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face in June.

NAILAH UNOLE DIDANAS’EA HARPER-MALVEAUX (u/s Le-le-wa'-you/Jane, & Toosh-ki-pa-kwis-i/Debra) is a queer multiracial director, performer and producer focused on transformative new work that creates space for radical community imagination. She is currently Crowded Fire’s Leader of Artistic Curation and Producing. Directing highlights include: the West Coast premiere of Edit Annie by Mary Glen Fredrick, the world premiere of Getting There by Dipika Guha, and The Light by Loy A. Webb. She has worked at Woolly Mammoth, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, and American Conservatory Theater. She received her B.A. in American Studies and Theatre Studies from Yale University.