Anna Ouyang Moench (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival, NAATCO/The Public Theater, the Geffen Playhouse, the Playwrights Realm, East West Players, InterAct Theater, Theater Mu, and many other theaters across the country and around the world. In television and film, Anna has worked with Apple TV+, HBO, A24, 3000 Pictures, Netflix, Fifth Season, UCP, eOne, PictureStart and Universal. She is a supervising producer on Severance and a co-executive producer on The White Darkness, both on Apple TV+. Anna was a member of the pilot cohort of the WarnerMedia Access Showrunner Program. Anna lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Peter Richards (Director) recently helmed Lucas Hnath’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney and the West Coast premiere of Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally by Kevin Armento, the story of a forbidden teacher-student love affair as narrated by the student’s cell phone, both seen at the Odyssey. Other directing credits include Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus’s Jefferson Award-winning adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famous novel Crime and Punishment at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica; site-specific productions of Chekhov’s The Seagull and Shakespeare’s The Tempest on a farm in Maine; a staging of Julius Caesar with a masked Greek chorus; and critically acclaimed productions of the Pulitzer-nominated drama Dying City by Christopher Shinn, the Obie-winning play The Aliens by Annie Baker, and Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill at the Wild Project in NYC. Among his theatrical avant-garde projects are numerous shows with Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant (an ensemble of which he is a founding member), presented in New York at the Ohio Theater and the Bushwick Starr. Richards also directs educational theater projects at Bates College in Maine. He holds an MFA degree in Acting from the Institute of Advanced Theater Training at Harvard and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.

Arye Gross (John) is an American actor, best known for Minority Report, Big Eden, Gone in Sixty Seconds, A Midnight Clear and House II: The Second Story. Other film credits include For The Boys, Grey Gardens, Mother Night, The Experts, Coupe de Ville and Tequila Sunrise. Television credits include regular and recurring roles on Castle, Wildfire, Ellen, The Riches and The Practice. He has recently been seen in The Rookie/The Rookie Feds, 911, Monster (as Dahmer’s Defense Attorney), and the final season of Better Call Saul. Theater credits include Brooklyn Boy (Biltmore) on Broadway; Parfumerie (The Wallis); Circle Mirror Transformation and the world premieres of Our Mother’s Brief Affair and Future Thinking (South Coast Repertory); The Great Leap (ACT-San Francisco); John Heminges in The Book of Will (Denver Center); Chekhov X 4, Uncle Vanya, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Eight Nights (Antaeus Theatre Company); Ben Joseph in After the Revolution (Baltimore Center Stage); Room Service and Above the Fold (Pasadena Playhouse); Coney Island Christmas and Underneath The Lintel (Geffen Playhouse); and The Winchester House and Stupid Fucking Bird (Boston Court Pasadena). Arye has performed in multiple productions for LA Theatre Works including All My Sons (with Julie Harris), New Jerusalem (with Richard Easton), Pilgrimage to Beethoven (with Allan Corduner), Adam’s Rib (with Anne Heche and Adam Arkin), Crimes of the Heart (with Glenn Headley) and Moving Bodies (with Jessica Chastain).

Jacqueline Misaye (Caitlyn) is ecstatic to be making her Odyssey Theatre debut in this beautiful play. Recent theater credits include Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Independent Shakespeare Co.); Bliss, Or Emily Post is Dead (Moving Arts); Kentucky (East West Players); Reykjavik and At the Table (The Road Theatre Co.); Eurydice (Little Fish Theatre); Little Women (Playwrights’ Arena); Romeo and Juliet and Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare by the Sea). She trained at the British American Drama Academy and the USC School of Dramatic Arts. For more information, please visit www.jacquelinemisaye.com.