Michael Breslin is thrilled to return to the Connelly Theater, where he performed in the original musical Count to Ten in 2008. Michael is a writer, performer, and producer who works in theater, film, and television. His play Circle Jerk, co-written with Patrick Foley, is a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. With Foley, he is a creative director of Fake Friends, a theater and media company credited with pioneering digital theater, who recently developed and produced This American Wife, which was featured in the New York Times, LA Times, Vanity Fair, ArtForum and named as one of the "Best Performances of 2021" by the New Yorker. He executive produced and co-wrote the book for Ratatouille: The Tik Tok Musical, which raised $2 million for the Actors Fund. Breslin and Foley are writing a musical commissioned by Seaview Productions and Ars Nova, where they are resident artists. They are developing a pilot for HBO Max, as well as an infinite number of feature films with unspecified yet incredibly legitimate production companies. Michael holds an MFA in dramaturgy from Yale School of Drama (David Geffen School of Trauma), as well as a BA in theater and comparative literature from Hamilton College. www.michaelstevenbreslin.com

Patrick is an actor and writer working in theater, film, and TV. As an actor, Foley has performed Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, regionally, and in television and film. His play Circle Jerk, co-written with Michael Breslin, is a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. With Breslin, he is a creative director of Fake Friends, a theater and media company credited with pioneering digital theater, who recently developed and produced This American Wife, which was featured in the New York Times, LA Times, Vanity Fair, ArtForum and named as one of the "Best Performances of 2021" by the New Yorker. He executive produced and co-wrote the book for Ratatouille: The Tik Tok Musical, which raised $2 million for the Actors Fund. Foley and Breslin are commissioned by Seaview Productions and Ars Nova, where they are resident artists. They are developing a television project for HBO Max. Patrick was awarded the Constance Welch Memorial Scholarship at Yale School of Drama where he received an MFA in Acting in 2018. He also holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Cat Rodríguez (she/ella) werks in theater + media, serving collaboration, community, and lqqks wherever the art takes her and whatever stage or screen it’s on. Re. roles played, she’s vers: Cat performs, directs, and dramaturgs. A co-foundress of Fake Friends, she was seen digitally domming in the livestreamed 2020 production of CIRCLE JERK (2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist). Cat's a "people person" with a politic and a love for the Ridiculous; she’s all about bringing discernment, critical rigor, specificity, playfulness, and laughter to process. Black / Latinx feminisms as well as collectivist organizing experiences fundamentally inform her artmaking and pathtaking. Cat believes in direct action and direct relationship. She lives and labors in English y Español, talks with her hands, and also anda con ganas. A freelancing femme, Cat considers herself a nomad but always names New Orleans and Nicaragua home. www.catlikemeow.com

Ariel Sibert (she/her) is a dramaturg, a producer of film and performances, and a critic. She is a dramaturg and founding member of the Brooklyn-based theater and media company Fake Friends. Her collaborations with Fake Friends and visual/theater artists including Hito Steyerl, Sara Cwynar, Savas Boyraz, Ayham Ghraowi, Shadi Ghaheri, and others have been presented at the Park Avenue Armory, the Performa Biennial, New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, Ars Nova, Exponential Festival, Dixon Place, Spectrum Arts, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Theater Mitu. Currently, she is a professor of Theater Studies at Quinnipiac University; she is also a Teaching Fellow at the Yale School of Drama, Yale University, where she works towards her doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. She is also a visiting critic in the department of Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. In the past, she was the Associate Editor of the journal Theater (Duke UP) and taught undergraduates in the Department of Theater Studies at Yale University. Her work has appeared in TDR, The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Theater, American Theater, and Text and Presentation. She holds an MFA in dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama and BA in Art History from Princeton University. Now she lives in Brooklyn, NY. She publicly identifies as a queer, white, cisgender woman. arielsibert.com

Rory Pelsue is thrilled to return to Gayman Island for Circle Jerk! He serves as the resident director of Fake Friends and has helmed their productions of Circle Jerk, This American Wife, and a workshop of a new musical at Ars Nova. Recent and upcoming credits include the world premieres of The Show on the Roof at Boise Contemporary Theater, Read to Me at Portland Stage, and Deathbed Edition at Ars Nova ANT Fest and Bedlam Theater Company; workshops of Circle Jerk at Ars Nova Makers Lab, Riverbank at Portland Stage, and Alumni Relations at South Coast Repertory Theater; and assistant directing at the Metropolitan Opera, Roundabout Theater Company, McCarter Theater, and Yale Repertory Theater. Artistic leadership experience includes serving as artistic director or associate artistic director of Yale Cabaret, Yale Summer Cabaret, MaineStage Shakespeare, and Oxbridge Opera—a U.K.-based company that specialized in staging rarely-heard editions of Savoy Operas. Originally from Newburyport, Massachusetts, Rory received his MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama, where he received the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize for directing. (rorypelsue.com)

Recent: 1776 (A.R.T.); Bhangin’ It (La Jolla Playhouse); Twilight, Los Angeles: 1992 (Signature); The Visitor (The Public Theater - Lortel Nom.); Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical (Seaview); Bollywood Kitchen (Geffen Playhouse); Einstein’s Dreams (59E59 - Drama Desk Nom.); Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville (HERE/Prototype); We Live In Cairo (A.R.T); Girls (Yale Rep); The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Co.); Frankenstein (Dallas Theater Center); The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre); Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project); Van Gogh's Ear (ERC - Drama Desk Nom.); In The MOment (The Kennedy Center / Ephrat Asherie Dance); Rockin' Road To Dublin (National Tour); MFA: NYU. Proud member: USA-829.

Ted Boyce-Smith is a lighting and projection designer for theater, dance, opera, live television, corporate and private events. Some of his recent design credits include: Self Defined Circuits (HERE Arts), Ransom (Arts on Site), Vigil (Theater Lab, NYC), And Then They Came for Me (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Anything That Gives Off Light (The TEAM & The National Theatre of Scotland), The Album: Here There Are Blueberries (Workshop / Tectonic Theater Project), Conway (Theater Lab, NYC), Rage, Baltimore & Red Speedo (Quinnipiac University), An Evening With Renee Fleming (Michigan Opera Theatre) and Uncle Vanya (Cutting Ball, SF). Some recent associate design credits include: Circle Jerk Live! (Theater Mitu), Jubilee (Arena Stage), Dance of Death & Mies Julie (Classic Stage Company) Eugene Onegin & The Summer King (Michigan Opera Theater) We Shall Not Be Moved (Opera Philadelphia, The Apollo Theater & The Dutch National Opera). Ted is also an assistant lighting director for CNN and CNN+ at Warner Media, Hudson Yards. Ted holds an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of United Scenic Artist Local 829. For more information, please visit www.tedboycesmith.com.

Theater: Tambo and Bones (Playwrights Horizons, Center Theatre Group); Dream Hou$e (Baltimore Center Stage, Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre); Ni Mi Madre (Rattlestick Theatre); Hurricane Diane (Huntington Theatre Company); 39 Steps (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Bakkhai (Baltimore Center Stage); Men on Boats (Baltimore Center Stage); Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (Baltimore Center Stage); This American Wife (Fake Friends, Jeremy O. Harris, FourthWall); Circle Jerk (Fake Friends, Mitu580); Good Faith (Yale Repertory Theater); It’s a Wonderful Life (Hartford Stage); LOVE (Marin Theatre Company); Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage); Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford). Film: Chaperone (world premiere at Sundance); Drills (world premiere at New York Film Festival, upcoming at MoMA), Home Exercise (New Directors/New Films world premiere at MoMA & Lincoln Center); Candace (American Pavilion selection at Cannes Film Festival). TV Art Department: Manifest (Netflix); Girls (HBO); The Night Of (HBO); Nurse Jackie (Showtime). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Awards: Fulbright Scholar; Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship. www.stephanieosincohen.com

A proud native Texan, Cole is an avid reader and collector who relishes getting lost in the stories of other people, and the hunt for beautiful things. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design and Technology from the University of Evansville. Prior to attending the Yale School of Drama, he worked as an assistant on various Broadway, Off-Broadway, and major regional theatre productions. Some of his credits include: Kiss (Yale Repertory Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, Blood Wedding (Yale School of Drama), Antony and Cleopatra, The Trojan Women (Yale Summer Cabaret), Lydia Breeze, The War Boys, Loving vs. Virginia (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Cole is the recipient of the Richard Harrison Senie Scholarship and the Jay and Rhonda Keene Scholarship in Costume Design.

Kathy Ruvuna is New York based sound designer and composer originally from San Antonio, Texas. She is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Tent Revival, Pentecost, and Much Ado About Nothing. Her work has also been heard in Good Faith (Yale Repertory Theatre), Fireflies, Taking Warsan Shire Out of Context on the Eve of the Great Storm, It’s Not About My Mother, the feels… (KMS), In the Red and Brown Water, The Meal, The Red Tent, Ni Mi Madre, Enter Your Sleep (Yale Cabaret); and Mies Julie (Yale Summer Cabaret). She holds a B.F.A. in sound design from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.

Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, All My Sons, True West, St. Joan, My Fair Lady, The Parisian Woman, InTransit, Thérèse Raquin, Little Foxes, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bright Star & Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre), TFANA, MCC, The Atlantic, The New Group, The Public, MTC, NWS. Regional: The MUNY, Geva Theatre, Resident Ensemble Players, Cape Playhouse, Sig. VA, MSM. Associate Hair Designer on over 15 Broadway Productions. Builds wigs for numerous Films/TV shows. For Mommy and Nanny Always!!

Miranda Gohh is a producer originally from Providence, RI. She is currently the Associate Producer at Davenport Theatrical Enterprises. Previously, she served as the Company Manager at New York City Center with MTC from 2019-2021 and the Producing Fellow from 2018-2019. Miranda has also worked with companies such as Arena Stage, The Playwrights Realm, Goodspeed Musicals, and Trinity Repertory Company. She is the founder of Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC), an educational program for BIPOC producers, and a co-founding member of The Industry Standard Group (TISG), the first BIPOC commercial theatre investment and producing organization. She is an Associate Member of The Broadway League and is a recipient of the 2022 Gatchell & Neufeld Award and 2019-2020 Rising Star Fellowship. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute and an alumna of Wesleyan University. Recent: Is This a Room, Dana H. Current: Macbeth.

Emma Orme is a Brooklyn-based performer and producer with a focus on new theatrical work. Her producing practice seeks to prioritize the safety, support (adequate compensation and humane hours), and creative health of her collaborators. She prides herself on her instinct for artistic matchmaking. She is currently the Producing Director of Hypokrit Productions. Producing credits include: Time Out Critics' Pick Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 by Agnes Borinsky (i am a slow tide); NYT Critics’ Pick Red Emma & The Mad Monk (The Tank); NYT Critics’ Pick AGNES (Lesser America); Xandra Nur Clark’s Polylogues; Mud Season Mystery: The Lodger by Brenda Withers, dir. Jess Chayes; and workshops of new plays by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Justine Gelfman, Sunita Prasad, and more. Performance credits include: The Daughters and Black Dick [readings] (New York Theatre Workshop); Tongue Depressor (Weasel Festival @ The Public Theater); Bad Penny (The Flea); Napoli, Brooklyn [reading] and Song For A Future Generation (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and The Bacchae (LaMama Experimental Theatre). Before her time with Hypokrit, she worked as the BOLD Associate Producer at Northern Stage, the Artistic Producer of VoxLab, the Grant Writer for Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a video producer for The New York Times and the documentary The Keptocrats. BA: Dartmouth College.

Violet Asmara Tafari (she/they) is a West Indian, Production Manager and Stage Manager. Violet uses the lens of African and Diaspora teachings as a griot to inform her management style. Allowing storytelling and the creative process to lead the way, Violet supports artists of various calibers and mediums as they unfold their work on and off stage. Blending the gap between technician and artist Violet utilizes her ritual and healing background to create fluid ways to support pushing the boundaries of art and the community that embraces it. Growing up backstage and on stage, Violet learned the inner workings of what it takes to create memories and manifest change. Using love as her medium Violet's created Freequency Connects, a landing space to provide production support and guidance as artists navigate new pathways, rituals, and manifestations of their presented works. Select PM credits include: Whale Fall Opera, Its Showtime, Young World (Abrons Arts Center), AFRIKIN (Art Basel), This American Housewife( Fake Friends), Disclaimer (The Public), Select SM credits: The Space Between the Lines (Here Arts), IKE, Lucky (NYSAF Virtual Series), Yemanadja (The Office).

Codey (they/them) is originally from Idaho and a proud parent to Puppy Bowl XVIII participant Ted D. Bear! Credits include: NYC: Fake Friends (Circle Jerk); The Public (Twelfth Night, Twin Size Beds); Ars Nova (KPOP, Isaac Oliver's Lonely Christmas); 59E59 (Heartland); The Play Company (Times Journey, Recent Alien Abductions). Regional: The Kennedy Center (Next to Normal, Footloose, The Who's Tommy) Actors Theatre of Louisville (Cardboard Piano, Airness, We The Invisibles, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday). TV/Events: Lady Gaga & Tony Bennet: One Last Time, Puppy Bowl XVIII, '20 VMA, '21 Presidential Inauguration, '21 Golden Globes, '21 NYC Pride, '21 Tony Awards, '22 NBA All-Stars.

Full-length plays include: Slave Play (Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, NYT Critics Pick, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences), “DADDY” (Vineyard Theatre/The New Group, Almeida Theatre), Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr), Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1, and WATER SPORTS; or insignificant white boys (published by 53rd State Press). His work has been presented or developed by Pieterspace, JACK, Ars Nova, The New Group, NYTW, Performance Space New York and Playwrights Horizons. In 2018, Jeremy co-wrote A24’s upcoming film Zola with director Janicza Bravo. He is the 11th recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow, an Orchard Project Greenhouse artist, a resident playwright with Colt Coeur, and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale MFA Playwrighting Program. Jeremy is currently developing a pilot with A24 for HBO.

FourthWall Theatrical develops and produces artist-driven, of-the-moment content. Founded by Jana Bezdek and Jen Hoguet in January 2021, their first production, This American Wife (Fake Friends), streamed live in May 2021 and was recognized by both The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times as one of the top theatrical events of that year. FourthWall is also proud to have supported Jagged Little Pill (Broadway, Australia), Nollywood Dreams (MCC) and the live capture of Canyon (CTG). Upcoming productions include the Donmar Warehouse's UK premiere of The Band's Visit and The Lonely Few, an original musical they are producing with the Geffen Playhouse.