When Jesus Divorced Me at off the WALL productions

Laura Irene Young has been a writer, director, and actor for many years. Favorite acting credits include Julie in After Miss Julie, Marian Paroo in The Music Man, and Lorraine in Bubble Boy. A lover of odd contracts, Laura Irene Young also performed as a jellyfish, in an Amish Musical, and as a zombie apocalypse survivor. Laura Irene Young co-directed the 2022 season of Hershey Park Dark Nights and directs a local elementary school musical featuring over 125 children every year. She has written a children's book series, The Dapper Adventures, based on her dog. Dapper teaches kids how to live with anxiety and still go on adventures. Laura is currently writing a few more shows that will soon see the light of day. www.lauraireneyoung.com

Allison M. Weakland (Director)made her New York City debut in the fall of 2011 when she directed Take Two Aspirin and Call Me in the Morning for The Manhattan Theatre Source’s Estrogenius Festival. She is thrilled to return to off the WALL Productions after directing Not Medea in 2019. In the greater Pittsburgh area, she has directed for many companies including South Park Theatre, Old Schoolhouse Players, Little Lake Theatre, Throughline Theatre Company, and Prime Stage Theatre. Allison had the wonderful opportunity to assistant direct the Broadway hit Seminar and the world premiere of Hope and Gravity at City Theatre. Allison earned her BA in Performance and Technical Theatre from Seton Hill University.

Natalie Rose Mabry (she/they) Is a Trans-Queer Scenic & Projections Designer. They Recently Moved From Dallas to Pittsburgh as the Resident Artist aNATALIE nd Teaching Artist at the University of Pittsburgh.Natalie Is the Recipient of the Bill and Gene Eckhart Award for Excellence In Stage Design and, the Taubman Scholarship For Excellence In Stage Design. They Have Designed for Theatres Such as the The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Dallas, Stage West Theatre, Dallas Childrens Theater, Theatre Three, and more. Natalie Is a Trans-Queer Designer Focusing on Stories for a New and Modern Audience and Making Space for Trans Designers Voices. You can find them via: IG: @nrmabryartistry. Website: natalierosemabry.art

hannon Knapp (Sound Design) Shannon (she/her/hers) is a director, sound designer, all-around theatremaker, and the Director of Marketing for the Pittsburgh Playhouse. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh and most recently served as Communications Manager for HowlRound Theatre Commons. Shannon has spent the last decade developing plays and irreverent publicity schemes with her close collaborators at Non-State Actors as well as working frequently with off the WALL productions and Throughline Theatre Company. When not playing theatre make-believe, she plays Dungeons and Dragons make-believe.

Jen Leno (she/they) is a Lighting Designer, Photographer, and Generative Artist working out of Brooklyn, NY. She obtained her MFA in Lighting Design from Brooklyn College (2023) and holds a BFA in Painting from the Honors College at Southern Connecticut State University (New Haven, CT), (2014). Jen has worked professionally in technical theater since 2014 and in New York City since 2016 as a Lighting Designer, Assistant Technical Director (Hunter College), Head Electrician, ETC Programmer, Board Op, Stagehand, and Stage Manager. Their love for theater blossomed out of a 14-year, childhood dance career and small, but impactful theatrical performance history. As a multidisciplinary artist, Jen maintains that Lighting Design is the ideal career to utilize both her creative and problem-solving brains.Diversified collaboration is central to Jen's values as a theater maker. Working with people of underrepresented identities including the BIPOC, AAPI, and especially the LGBTQIA+ communities, is essential to their process and ambitions to continue the work of decentralizing the historically white, cis-male dominated perspective in the technical theater industry. She believes higher educational institutions can provide students from all backgrounds with hands-on skills that can empower them to establish financial and job security in our tumultuous and unpredictable artistic economy. For this reason they are pursuing a career in both Lighting Design and Higher Education.

Erika Cuenca (Stage Manager) Is Associate Artistic Director with off the WALL Productions and the General Manager for Carnegie Stage. Stage Management with OTW: Mother Lode ('23), Etty, What Kind of Woman, Not My Revolution, Limits of Things, or The Mess. Some favorite PGH performance credits include: Gloria (Hatch Arts Collective); The Heiress, Travesties (PICT); The Diary of Anne Frank, L'Hotel (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Tigers Be Still, Opus (City Theatre); August: Osage County, A View From the Bridge, (Playhouse REP); Closer, The Red Shoes (Quantum); Lebensraum, Mazel (JTOP); Hoard, World Builders, Byhalia, Mississippi, 4.48 Psychosis, Scared of Sarah, Or,, A Feminine Ending, Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Other Place, How I Learned to Drive, Agnes of God, Stop Kiss, Shaken and Stirred (OTW). Erika is a graduate of Point Park's Conservatory of Performing Arts and a member of Actors' Equity Association.