Erica Cruz Hernández* (Annie Cannon) she/her, is thrilled to be working with Central Square Theatre! NYC credits: NYU Skirball, Clubbed Thumb. Regional credits: Mojada (Indianapolis Shakespeare); Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, A Christmas Carol, Une Tempête, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, The Tempest (American Shakespeare Center); The River Bride, Hamlet, Cymbeline u/s (American Players Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Soldaderas (Goodman Theatre/Aguijón Theater). TV/Film: Law & Order: SVU, Chicago PD (NBC); Power Book IV: Force (STARZ); independent features En Algún Lugar/ A Place to Be (Iconoclast/Amazon) and the upcoming supernatural horror, Legado. Erica has also had the pleasure of assistant directing the musical Fun Home (Renaissance Theater) and a production of Jen Silverman’s The Moors (American Players Theatre) and is currently on faculty with the American Musical and Dramatic Academy NYC. She is a recipient of the Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship as well as the first in her family to pursue higher education and holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AMOR a mi familia y mi Jess!

A native of Brooklyn, where everyone was indignant before breakfast, Phoebe Potts learned to tell stories to get her family to like her and to understand thorny issues. In Too Fat for China, Potts uses humor and honesty to tell the irreverent story of the terrible things she did for love.

Her comedic theater performance debuted on National Adoption Day, Nov. 23, 2019 and is a sequel to Potts’ graphic memoir, Good Eggs (Harper, 2010), which charts her travails with infertility and the endless rounds of treatments and miscarriages she and her husband endured. Roz Chast, the New Yorker cartoonist, called Potts’ memoir “sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always honest, intelligent, and completely involving.”

Potts’ day jobs have included union organizing, public art after school programs and teaching and learning Torah with children and adults through “Visual Midrash.” Potts lives with her family in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Ken Urban is a playwright, screenwriter and musician. His stage plays include DANGER AND OPPORTUNITY (Drama Desk Winner, East Village Basement), A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK (Off-Broadway at the DR2, Huntington Theatre Company, Trafalgar Studios in the West End), THE REMAINS (Studio Theatre), SENSE OF AN ENDING (59E59 Theatres, London’s Theatre503), NIBBLER (The Amoralists and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), THE CORRESPONDENT (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), THE AWAKE (59E59 Theatres, Chicago’s First Floor Theater), and THE HAPPY SAD (The Public Theatre/Summer Play Festival). His audio play VAPOR TRAIL was selected for the 2022 Tribeca Festival’s Audio Storytelling series and released as part of Playwrights Horizons’ Sound Stage that fall. He is a four-time recipient of the prestigious MacDowell Fellowship. Awards include Venturous Theater Fund Finishing Commission, EST/Alfred P. Sloan Science & Technology Project Commission, The Blue Ink Award, Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Independent Reviewers of New England’s Award for Best New Script, Headlands Artist Residency, Millay Arts Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship and the A IS FOR Playwriting Award for plays about reproductive justice. He is an alumni of New Dramatists and an affiliated writer at the Playwrights’ Center. Ken wrote the screenplay for the feature-film adaptation of THE HAPPY SAD, directed by Rodney Evans. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service/Broadway Licensing. He leads the band Occurrence and they have released six albums on Archie & Fox Records, a label that Ken runs with sound designer and musician Daniel Kluger. His first TV pilot THE ART OF LISTENING was optioned by ITV and Madison Wells Media. Ken is the Senior Lecturer of Theater Arts and Director of Dramatic Writing at MIT. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Princeton University, Tufts University and Davidson College. He lives in New York City with his partner Johnny.