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* (Peter Shaw) he/him, is happy to be back at CST, having appeared previously as Riff Raff in 2023’s The Rocky Horror Show, last spring’s reading of Song of Extinction, and Arcadia back in 2016. Having worked the stage in Boston and DC since he was 11, he appeared in shows such the Keegan Theatre’s The Full Monty, the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Henry IV, Part 2, and after graduating RADA in 2022, returned to DC for Studio Theatre’s Love, Love, Love and Edge of the Universe’s A Number, which he performed with his real life father David Bryan Jackson. As a multi-instrumentalist, he doubled as part of the band in Rocky Horror and has composed and recorded music for Song of Extinction, CST’s Cloud 9, and Mosaic Theater’s web-series Inherit the Windbag.

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

Liana Asim is a playwright/actor/director and Founding Playwright-In-Residence for Resilience Arts Collective.  She is also a 2016/17 Company One PlayLab Fellow. She recently directed the world premiere of a family musical, The Hairy Scary, for The Outside the Box festival 2016. She was recently seen on stage as Mai Tamba in The Convert at Central Square Theater (winner of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production).  She also played Marcus Lycus in the Stoneham Theatre production of A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. A 2015 BCA and Company One PlayLab Fellow, her full-length plays include Bedfellows, The King of Love Is Dead, Slut Walk or A Play About Marilyn Monroe, The Hairy Scary (musical co-written w/J. Asim and Joshua Stephen Kartes.) Her work has been developed at BCA/Company One, Boston Theatre Marathon, Fresh Ink Theatre, Davenport Studios NYC, Playwright’s Platform and Emerson College in Boston, MA.  She studied performance art at Northwestern University and screenwriting and playwriting at Emerson College.  She is the proud wife of author Jabari Asim, mother to five brilliant children, and grandmother of two delightful grandbabies. She believes in the power of LIVE theatre to change the world.