Deborah Salem Smith (she/her) is Trinity Rep’s Playwright-in-Residence. Her plays include The Getaway Driver and Someone Will Remember Us (both co-written with Charlie Thurston); Anna K., Faithful Cheaters, and Love Alone; as well as Some Things Are Private and Boots On The Ground (co-created with Laura Kepley). She has been awarded an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, an Emerging American Artist Fulbright, a National Mellon Fellowship, a National Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honorable Mention, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Drama. Smith was a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, during which time the idea for this play began. She was also a MacDowell Colony Resident, and a recipient of the Bray Visiting Scholar/Creative Artist Fellowship. She has received many commissions, and developed plays at Fiasco Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Trinity Rep, and Playmakers Repertory Company. She attended Princeton University and the University of Michigan.

Jennifer Drummond (Maxine Singer) is thrilled to be working with Central Square Theater for the first time and deep‑diving into DNA—both onstage and off. By day, she works as an Executive Assistant at a biotech company in Cambridge, which feels fitting and fortuitous given the subject matter.

Jen was grateful to collaborate with playwright Patrick Gabridge on Plays in Place for the 2025 performances of The Kittie Knox Plays—adding “acting while riding a bike in period costumes” to her special skills—and A Revelation of Character. Past favorite roles include Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Ophelia in Hamlet (performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and Marlene in Top Girls.

Much love to her endlessly patient and sweet husband—and cheers to science!

Dustin Teuber is grateful to be apart of this project and to get to work with some talented people. Dustin credits include  “Mox Nox” (Moonbox Productions), “Little Shop of Horrors” (Winnipesaukee Playhouse), “Black Super Hero Magic Mama” (Company One), “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy ” (Umbrella Stage Company) and “The Kitty Knox Plays” (Plays In Place). Thank you very much for coming to see our Production.

Gabriel Graetz* (Jane Twisden, Lord Edgar Hillcrest, et al.) Central Square Theater: debut. Gabriel is delighted to be making his CST debut, and to be working with Paul Melendy and David R. Gammons again! Gabriel and Paul shared the stage last fall in GBSC’s world premier production of Featherbaby; David and Gabriel worked together on a different world premier, A Measure of Normalcy, at Gloucester Stage Company in 2015. Recently, Gabriel appeared as Don in Eureka Day and Osric/Player in Hamlet at The Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island, Officer Barrel in Urinetown at Lyric Stage, and Ralph in Reefer Madness at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. Other roles include Morris/ Ensemble in The Outcasts of Penikese Island at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Duke Senior/Duke Frederick in As You Like It, Kurt/Jocke in Let the Right One In, Sir Peter Teazle/Crabtree in The School for Scandal, Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard, and Witch/Flenace/Angus in Macbeth with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Syd Armfield in Hangmen, Charles Guiteau in Assassins, and Lorin in Gloria at The Gamm. Gabriel is an alum of Emerson College and a proud Equity member. Much thanks and love to Tom for running lines and keeping me (mostly) sane!