SANDRA

MARJAN NESHAT (Sandra) most recently starred as ‘Nazanin’ in Sanaz Toossi’s new play Wish You Were Here at Playwrights Horizons. She also led the cast of Ms. Toossi’s award-winning play English at the Atlantic Theater, which was nominated for the 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Ensemble and winner of Best Play. Other stage credits include the critically acclaimed play Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury at Playwrights Horizons, the controversial Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar (NYSF), and The Seagull (with Alan Cumming and Dianne Wiest). Marjan’s feature film work includes leading roles in the multi-award winning film Rockaway as well as in the indie feature Almost in Love and Cry Funny Happy. She has played supporting roles in many films, including Robocop, Sex and the City 2, Alfie, and the upcoming Love-40. Marjan’s TV credits include “New Amsterdam,” “For Life,” “Bull,” “Elementary,” “Quantico,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Fringe” among others. She is a recipient of the Sam Norkin Drama Desk award for her portrayals in Selling Kabul and English in the same season.

DAVID CALE (Playwright) returns to Vineyard Theatre following his solo play Harry Clarke, starring Billy Crudup, and directed by Leigh Silverman, which transferred to the Minetta Lane Theatre in a run produced and recorded by Audible (2018 Lucille Lortel Award). Cale’s works as both writer and performer include the solo shows The History of Kisses, Palomino, A Likely Story, Lillian (Obie Award), Deep in a Dream of You (Bessie Award) and the musical, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, for which he also wrote the lyrics and co-composed the music (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination). He composed the songs for 600 Highwaymen’s Employee of the Year (Bessie Award nomination) and wrote the monologue The Actor, starring Marin Ireland, for Weston Playhouse’s online, One Room. His most recent stage work is his solo musical memoir We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time, for which he wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed the music with his musical collaborator Matthew Dean Marsh and starred (Goodman Theatre, Public Theater). For We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time, Cale and Marsh received a 2019 Jeff Award and a 2020 Lucille Lortel Award nomination, and Cale was the recipient of a 2020 Drama Desk Award nomination, a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Award and a 2020 Obie Award.

MATTHEW DEAN MARSH (Music) has collaborated with David Cale over the past five years, their anthology of songs growing extensively during this time. Most notably, We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time, the autobiographical one-man musical with Cale as the starring role, featured music written by the duo and arranged by Marsh. For We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time Cale and Marsh received the 2019 Jeff Award for New Musical and a 2020 Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Matthew music directed Clubbed Thumb’s revival of Tumacho, directed by Leigh Silverman, in early 2020. His compositions have sounded at Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, Tribeca Film Festival, The Public Theater, MassMOCA, and The Goodman Theater in Chicago.

LEIGH SILVERMAN (Director) last directed Harry Clarke starring Billy Crudup and written by David Cale at the Vineyard Theatre and subsequent transfer to the Minetta Lane. She has directed over 55 world premiere new plays and musicals. Her Broadway credits include: Grand Horizons (2ST; Williamstown Theater Festival); The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54); Violet (Roundabout; Tony nomination); Chinglish (Goodman Theatre; Longacre); Well (Public Theater; ACT; Longacre). Recent Off-Broadway: SUFFS (Public Theater); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Shed); Soft Power (Public Theater; Ahmanson Theater/ Curran Theater; Drama Desk nom); Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb); Hurricane Diane (New York Theatre Workshop; Two River Theater); Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre/Audible, Minetta Lane; Lortel nom); Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater; La Jolla Playhouse); Sweet Charity (New Group); On The Exhale (Roundabout); The Outer Space (Public Theater). Encores: Bring Me to Light; Violet; The Wild Party; Really Rosie. 2011 Obie Award and 2019 Obie for Sustained Excellence.

RACHEL HAUCK (Scenic Design) Broadway: How I Learned To Drive, Hadestown, What The Constitution Means To Me and Latin History For Morons. Recent work: Good Night Oscar (Goodman), Confederates (Signature), Swept Away (Berkeley Rep), The Wrong Man (MCC), The Garden (Baltimore Center Stage, La Jolla Playhouse), 72 Miles To Go (Roundabout), Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow). Rachel is the recipient of the Princess Grace and Lilly and Jeff Awards; Drama Desk and Lortel nominations, an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, and a Tony Award for her design of Hadestown.

LINDA CHO (Costume Design) (she/her) Vineyard: Eli’s Coming, More Lies about Jerzy, Broadway: Take Me Out, The Great Society, Lifespan of a Fact, Anastasia (Tony Nomination), A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award),The Velocity of Autumn. Recipient of the Craig Noel Award, Connecticut Critic Circle Award, Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Ruth Morely Design Award. Nominations from Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes, Elliot Norton, Bay Area, Robby, IRNE and Jeff Awards. Advisory Committee for the American Theater Wing. MFA, Yale School of Drama. Lindacho.com

THOM WEAVER (Lighting Design) Off-Broadway: The Total Bent (Public), Kingdom Come (Roundabout), Exit Strategy (Primary Stages), King Hedley II, How I Learned What I Learned, The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre Company); Teller’s Play Dead (The Players Theater). Regional: Huntington, Arden, Wilma (Associate Artist), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep, Chicago Shakespeare, Getty, Children’s Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Portland Center Stage, Folger Theatre, Asolo Rep, Round House, Hangar, CenterStage, California Shakespeare Theater, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Spoleto, Lincoln Center Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as numerous designs with Pilobolus. Awards: two Jeff Awards, six Barrymore Awards and two AUDELCO Awards. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale. He is a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and Co-Founder of Die-Cast. He/him. Black Lives Matter.

KATE WILSON (Voice Coach) Broadway: Topdog/Underdog, The Piano Lesson, Leopoldstadt, Take Me Out, for colored girls…, Skeleton Crew, Funny Girl, MJ, Birthday Candles, Trouble in Mind, Lackawanna Blues, Lehman Trilogy, Moulin Rouge!, Soldier’s Play, To Kill a Mockingbird Off-Broadway: Straight Line Crazy, The Bedwetter, Judgment Day, Medea, Hairy Ape. Film/TV: Fingernails, Ben Franklin in Paris, Women Talking, Causeway, The Wall, “The First Lady,” The Last Voyage of the Demeter, “Three Women,” The Tragedy of Macbeth, “Tokyo Vice,”“Outer Range,” “Dopesick,” “Mrs. America,” Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, “Little Women,”“Olive Kitteridge,” Inside Llewyn Davis, Carol. Faculty: Juilliard.

KATIE AILINGER (Production Stage Manager) Vineyard Theatre’s Sandra. Off-Broadway credits
include On Sugarland, Kristina Wong Sweatshop Overlord (New York Theatre Workshop); The
New Englanders, In The Body Of The World (MTC); The Pain of My Belligerence, The
Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons); Nice Fish (St. Ann’s Warehouse); Regional credits:
Trans Scripts: The Women, Nice Fish, The Tempest, Arrabal, The Lily’s Revenge, FUTURITY,
Woody Sez, Ajax (A.R.T.); Choice, The Second Girl, Cry of the Reed, Streamers (Huntington
Theatre,); A Delicate Balance, The Secret Rapture (Trinity Repertory Theatre). Katie is an
alumnus of the University of Southern California.

BORNA BARZIN (Associate Director) Off-Broadway: Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall (New York Theatre Workshop), <<when we write with ashes>> (National Queer Theater/Lincoln Center), Epiphany (Lincoln Center, Assistant Director), English (Atlantic Theater, Assistant Director). Regional: Sing Street (Huntington Theatre, Associate Director), Wintertime (Berkeley Rep, Assistant Director). Borna is the Associate Casting Director of Oklahoma!, a Colt Coeur Resident Artist, and a member of the Roundabout Director’s Group and Mercury Store Director’s Lab.

CORINNE GOLOGURSKY (Prop Supervisor) (they/she) Vineyard Theater’s Sandra. Off-Broadway: As You Like It, Suffs, cullud wattah, Merry Wives, Ain’t No Mo’, Eve’s Song, Sea Wall/A Life, Kings (The Public Theater); 72 Miles to Go (Roundabout), All the Natalie Portmans (Manhattan Class Company). Regional: Once (Bucks County Playhouse); Singin’ in the Rain, Beauty and the Beast, Saturday Night Fever (Maine State Music Theater). Opera: Der Freischütz, Fidelio, Don Giovanni, Dragus Maximus, Hot Mama (Heartbeat Opera).

DUNCAN NORTHERN (Production Supervisor) & JOSHUA BERNARD (Production Manager)

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