Cori Thomas is a playwright and actress who lives in New York City. Her plays include: When January Feels Like Summer (World Premiere City Theatre Co., Pittsburgh, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Page73/Women’s Project Theater 2014NY Premiere/ Upcoming Productions: 2016 Mosaic Theatre DC, 2016 Underground Railway Theater MA,);The Ballad of Ella May(The Working Theater 2016); Pa’s Hat (Pillsbury House Theatre, MN 2010); Flight 109, My Secret Language of Wishes (Various theaters and University productions including Mixed Blood, MN 2011); Citizens Market; The Princess, The Breast, and, The Lizard; The Unusual Love Life of Bedbugs and Other Creatures; Waking Up (Ensemble Studio Theatre 2013); His Daddy( Going To The River & Castillo 2009); our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Cori’s plays have been developed and produced at Sundance Institute, Goodman Theatre, City Theatre Company. (Pittsburgh), Ensemble Studio Theatre,  The Women’s Project Theater, Page 73 Productions,, Playwrights Horizons, Lark Play Development Center, The Working Theater, Going To The River, Pillsbury House Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, Passage Theatre, The Playwrights Realm, New Federal Theatre, New Georges, The Black Rep (St. Louis), The New Black Fest, and Queens Theatre in the Park.

 She has been commissioned by South Coast Rep Theatre, Inaugural Catalyst MIT/Central Square Commissions; The Working Theatre, The Sloan Foundation, NYSCA, EST, Pillsbury House Theatre.

Residencies, and Honors:(Class of 2022) Resident Playwright at New Dramatists, 2009 MacDowell Fellow, Edgerton New Play Award, Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow, 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award for Best New Play (When January Feels Like Summer) ; 2005 Theodore Ward Prize (My Secret Language of Wishes), 2003 2nd Place Theodore Ward Prize (“our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor….”).

Representation: Leah Hamos at The Gersh Agency Lhamos@gersh.com

Madeleine George’s two novels are published by Viking Children’s Books. Her first book, LOOKS, was one of Booklist’s 2008 Top Ten First Novels for Youth, and a 2009 ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Her second book, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME, was a Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2012, a Junior Library Guild selection and an ALA Rainbow List selection, and was chosen as the Atlantic Wire’s Best Complicated Romance of 2012.

Madeleine’s plays, including THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE, SEVEN HOMELESS MAMMOTHS WANDER NEW ENGLAND, PRECIOUS LITTLE, and THE ZERO HOUR, have been produced at theaters around the country. She was a founding member of the Obie-winning playwrights’ collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), and is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.

Madeleine grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, and now lives in Brooklyn.

Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime, a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, premiered at the Mark Taper Forum and recently had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. A film adaptation is currently in production, directed by Michael Almereyda. Jordan’s play Maple and Vine premiered in the 2011 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and went on to productions at American Conservatory Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, among others. His other plays include The Amateurs, The Grown-Up (2014 Humana Festival), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Act A Lady (2006 Humana Festival), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep), Futura (Portland Center Stage, NAATCO), Kid-Simple (2004 Humana Festival), Standing on Ceremony (written with Paul Rudnick, Doug Wright, and others), The Museum Play, and a musical, Suprema (O’Neill Music Theatre Conference).

Jordan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, a Theater Masters Innovative Playwright Award, the Loewe Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant, and a NEA/TCG Residency with The Empty Space Theater. His children’s musical, The Flea and the Professor, won the Barrymore Award for Best Production after premiering at the Arden Theatre. A graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA program, Jordan is an alumnus of New Dramatists. He is an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, and The Playwrights’ Center. Jordan currently writes for the Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black.”

Olivia D’Ambrosio is a Boston-based Playmaker, or versatile theatre professional who works as a director, actor, producer and teaching artist. She is honored to direct Intimate Exchanges after serving as Director of Voice, Speech & Text on last season’s Arcadia. Special thanks to Lee for both opportunities. A member of Actors’ Equity, Olivia’s performance credits include: Nora Theatre Co (two-week extension, Arcadia), Bridge Rep, New Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co, Trinity Rep, Asolo Rep, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Hartford Stage. She founded and is the Producing Artistic Director of Bridge Repertory Theater, currently in its fourth season. Under her leadership, Bridge Rep has: produced thirteen fully realized mainstage productions, creating nearly 300 paid work opportunities and serving close to 10,000 audience members; multiplied its operating budget by a factor of 10; received more than 20 nominations from the Independent Reviewers of New England and Boston Theater Critics Association, including an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script; and enjoyed consistent media coverage on outlets including WGBH and the Boston Globe. Olivia teaches Voice & Speech in the MFA Musical Theatre program at the newly merged Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and in the Department of Theatre Arts at MIT. She holds an MFA in Acting from Brown University / Trinity Rep, and a BA in Theatre & Dance from Amherst College (summa cum laude). She is honored to serve on the Board of Directors of the Theater Community Benevolent Fund (www.tcbf.org). Finally, Olivia intends to run for the City Council of Cambridge, where her primary focus will be on advocacy for the arts. www.oliviadambrosio.com | @_playmaker___

Max Jackson*, he/him (Max Florrestal) Max is happy to be back acting and playing music at CST, having rocked around as Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show last fall, as well as performing in Arcadia back in 2016. A recent RADA graduate, he’s just finished a run of Love, Love, Love at Studio Theatre in DC where he got his start acting over ten years ago, appearing in shows such as The Full Monty at the Keegan Theatre and Henry IV, Part 2 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. He is also happy to finally perform with his father David, who he’s helped with sound design in the past, including providing music for CST’s own production of Cloud 9 a few years ago.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.