Redemption Story at The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres

Peregrine Teng Heard is an actor, playwright, and artistic director of The Associates Theater Ensemble. Her plays Redemption Story and On The Prowl with Ada Tsiao have been named O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalists, and her short play Maggie and Winnie in The Thirteenth Time received its premiere at Actors Theatre of Louisville as a finalist in the National Ten-Minute Play Competition in 2018. Peregrine’s writing has been supported by Fresh Ground Pepper, 59E59, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. With The Associates she has devised, performed, and produced The Cousinhood (The Center at West Park), Sheila (A.R.T./New York Theatres), Black Protagonist (124 Bank St Theatre, NYIT nomination for Best Original Script), and Freesome (The Brick). Most recently, The Associates presented the New York premiere of Grownup by Emily Stout (MITU580). Performance credits include POTUS (Arena Stage), the world premiere of Chuck Mee’s soot & spit (The New Ohio), Ski End (Piehole), Power Couple (ANT Fest), Call Out Culture, or the unbearable whiteness of being (ANTFest), Dragus Maximus (Roulette), Sehnsucht (JACK), and Tom Jones (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Peregrine’s voice can be heard in national commercials for Cadillac, Roomba, Nivea, and Mastercard. She graduated from Yale with a handy BA in East Asian Studies.

Sarah Blush directs, writes and develops original projects for theatre, TV and more. She has developed and presented new plays and devised work with The Public Theater, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Playwrights’ Center, JACK, The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, The Hearth, Lightning Rod Special, Williamstown Theatre Festival, HERE, Dixon Place, 59E59 and more, associate/assistant directed extensively, and directed/taught at NYU Graduate Acting, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and NYU Meisner, Playwrights Horizons, and Atlantic studios. She is a recipient of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship, New Georges Audrey Residency, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Colt Coeur Artist Residency, Barn Arts Residency, and New York Society Library’s Emerging Female Artist Grant. In addition to theatre, Sarah has directed virtual reality, interactive experiments in Google Sheets, experimental audio, and podcasts. Currently, Sarah has an original TV series (co-created with Sofya Levitsky-Weitz) in development with Lionsgate and Peacock.

Shannon Sindelar is a director and producer based in NYC. She’s the current producing director for the Obie Award-winning company The Builders Association and managing director for the composer-driven non-profit Experiments in Opera. She served as the producing artistic director of Brave New World Repertory Theatre, and as managing and programming director for Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater, where the organization’s Incubator program garnered an Obie award and grant under her direction. She’s an adjunct professor at Barnard College, an affiliated artist with New Georges and a board member of Object Collection. She was a John Wells Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, where she received her MFA.

Emmie Finckel is a queer, Asian-American scenic designer. Recent credits include Becoming A Man (A.R.T.), The Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage), Comedy of Errors (Public Theater: Mobile Unit), the ripple, the wave, that carried me home (Yale Repertory Theater), As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse), 53% Of (2nd Stage), In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre), The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre), In the Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door), Athena (JACK), Riot Antigone (La MaMa). Associate design credits include many productions with Gabriel Evansohn (KPOP (Broadway), Empire Travel Agency) as a member of Woodshed Collective. Emmie holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and is currently on the faculty of the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU. www.efinckel.com.

Dan Wang is an international costume designer for film and stage originally from China. She is currently working in New York City. She has designed more than 30 projects, including musicals, plays, feature films, short films, commercials, and TV series.

Jiahao (Neil) Qiu is a Chinese-born theatre collaborator and lighting designer. His recent design credits in the US include: Two Takes: The Peony Pavilion - “Bloom” (Frederick Loewe Theatre), Seven Cousins For a Horse (Thrown Stone Theatre), Tobie (Yale Cabaret), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Repertory Theatre (Connecticut Critics Circle Award), Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama), Radiant Vermin (Yale Cabaret), Over Easy (Yale Cabaret), She Kills Monsters (Yale School of Drama), Measure for Measure (Yale School of Drama). nealqiu.com, @neilqiu_design

John Gasper is an Obie Award-winning sound designer, musician and performer. He has made sounds and performed with Elevator Repair Service, Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, Advanced Beginner Group, Bailey Williams, Sarah Blush, Sibyl Kempson, New Saloon, Lisa Clair Group, Karinne Keithly Syers, Salon Seance, and more. His work has been seen and heard at Playwrights Horizons, The Bushwick Starr, Abrons Arts Center, NYU Skirball, The Flea, The Chocolate Factory, JACK, The Brick, and more. His music for theater is available on cassette via Kapha Selections. MFA: PIMA at Brooklyn College.

Rhys Roffey is a queer New York-based prop master and designer. Recents work can be seen in Partnership (The Mint Theatre; Theatre Rowe), The Importance of Being Earnest (Juilliard), and upcoming productions Dance Nation (Barnard College) and A Winter’s Tale (St. Bernard’s). www.rhys-roffey.com

Amaal Saifudeen (she/her) is a Brooklyn based intimacy/fight coordinator, dramaturg, and director. Intimacy and fight credits include: “Dia Y Noche” (Labyrinth Theatre Company), “The Seagull/ Woodstock, NY” (The New Group), “Elyria” (Atlantic Theatre Company), “Living & Breathing” (Two River Theatre), Good Enemy (Audible/ Minetta Lane Theatre Company), and “Motherf*cker with the Hat” (Brooklyn College). She is also a director whose work includes Mud by Maria Irene Fornes (Syracuse University) Lessons in Survival: 1971 (Assistant Director, Vineyard Theatre), Midsummer- Workshop Reading (Assistant Director, P3 Productions), The Comedy of Errors (Assistant Director, Santa Cruz Shakespeare). Amaal is a co-founder and board member of Grassroots Art Collective, an organization focused on producing new work by those who are generally silenced in artistic spaces. Through Grassroots she has collaborated on productions such as D is for Depression by Catie Kobland, Nannyville by Samantha Toy Ozeas, and Islands Never Say developed by Jueun Kang. She holds a degree in Theatre Management from Syracuse University.

jack daniel woods is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, has traversed the globe over the last 20 years conceptualising and bringing to life an array of production elements for multi-disciplinary arts companies and performers. When head of production for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra they were internationally recognized for their vision, creativity, and for saving an entire concert performance after a Steinway grand piano free fell into a hole in the middle of the stage (story for another day).