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Vineyard debut. He was recently seen in Primary Trust at The Roundabout Theater and the final season of the hit TV show “Atlanta” (FX), Episode 8 – “The Goof Who Sat by the Door”, portraying “short lived Disney CEO” Thomas Washington. Select Off-Broadway: The B-Side-Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, A Record Album Interpretation (Wooster Group/St. Ann’s Warehouse); Toni Stone (Roundabout); Steel Hammer (SITI Company/BAM). Select Regional Credits: Detroit Red (ArtsEmerson-Elliot Norton Award); Private (Mosaic Theater); Moby Dick, A Musical Reckoning (A.R.T.). Select Film/TV credits: “Godfather of Harlem” (Epix/MGM+), “Ramy” (Hulu); “Bonding”, Marriage Story (Netflix); “Evil” (Paramount+); “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. Training: Carnegie Mellon University.

Vineyard Theatre: How I Learned to Drive. Broadway: How I Learned To Drive, The Nap, Sweat (Tony Nomination), You Can’t Take It With You, August: Osage County, Lombardi, Proof (Tony Nomination). Theatre: Des Moines (TFANA), Floyd’s (Guthrie) Peace for Mary Francis (New Group), Peter and Jerry (Second Stage – Drama Desk Nomination) Appropriate (Signature – Obie Award, The Lilly Award), Poor Behavior (Mark Taper), Realistic Joneses (Yale), Choice (Huntington), The Rainmaker (Arena Stage – Helen Hayes Award). Television: “Madam Secretary” (5 Years Recurring), “Bull”, “For Life”, “New Amsterdam”, “The Blacklist”, “Escape at Dannemora”, “The Knick”, “The Americans”, “Masters of Sex”, “Alpha House”, “Royal Pains”. Film: Worth, Save Yourselves, What is Life Worth, The Post, Great Gilley Hopkins, How Far She Went, The Breatharian.

On Broadway, Josh’s credits include Dead Accounts, Proof, and The Coast Of Utopia. Off-Broadway, Josh starred in The Antipodes, This Is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery, Medieval Play, and Hurlyburly (nominated for a Drama Desk Award). In London, Josh’s credits include The Bridge Project and Evening At The Talkhouse. In TV, Josh’s credits include “The Last Thing He Told Me”, “Accused”, “The Walking Dead”, “13 Reasons Why”, “Ray Donovan”, “Mrs. America”, “This Is Us”, and “Mrs. Fletcher”. In film, Josh’s credits include Landscape With Invisible Hand, Reality, and Eighth Grade (nominated for an Independent Spirit Award).

Theater: The Piano Teacher (Vineyard Theatre), Kingdom Come (Roundabout),  Doctor Faustus (Classic Stage), Bachelorette (Second Stage), Five Genocides (Clubbed Thumb), Buffalo Gal (Primary Stages), crooked (Women’s Project; Lucille Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress), The Thugs (Soho Rep), columbinus (NYTW, Drama League Nomination for Ensemble), Top Girls (Huntington Theatre), Recent Alien Abductions (Humana Festival). TV:  “Servant”, “Blue Bloods”, “New Amsterdam”, “Awkwafina is Nora From Queens”, “Mrs. Fletcher”, “High Maintenance”, “Madam Secretary”. Film: The Trouble with Cali, The Switch, The Rebound, Two Lovers, Burn After Reading, Morning Glory, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, My First Kiss and the People Involved.

Kristen Sieh last appeared at the Vineyard in The TEAM’s RoosevElvis, which she co-wrote. Broadway/West End: The Band’s Visit (original cast), RoosevElvis (The Royal Court).  Off-Broadway: February House, Fortress of Solitude (The Public), Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova), Men On Boats (Playwrights Horizons), Iphigenia at Aulis (Classic Stage Company), and work with ERS, Half-Straddle, The Foundry, and other companies. International and regional work includes: Yale Rep, A.R.T., Baltimore Center Stage, and numerous international festivals. Kristen has also appeared on TV (“House of Cards”, “Orange is the New Black”, etc.) and on your phone as an award-winning narrator of audiobooks. In 2023 she received a certificate in horticulture from NYBG.   

Dianne Wiest is an acclaimed actress known for her roles on both stage and screen. She is best known for her Academy Award-winning roles in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway, for which she also received a Golden Globe and SAG Award. She has received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her work in Road to Avonlea and In Treatment. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ron Howard’s Parenthood. Her other recent film roles include Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk alongside Meryl Streep and Gemma Chan, J. Blakeson’s I Care A Lot alongside Rosamund Pike, and Clint Eastwood’s The Mule alongside Bradley Cooper and Laurence Fishburne. Additionally, she has given memorable performances in films such as Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, September, Rabbit Hole, Footloose, Edward Scissorhands and The Birdcage. Dianne can most recently be seen in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series Mayor of Kingstown and will next star in the Paramount Players’ feature Apartment 7A opposite Julia Garner and Jim Sturgess. In addition to her career on screen, Dianne is a force on the stage. She most recently performed her acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days at the Yale Repertory Theater, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Prior to that, she starred in The New Group’s production of Rasheeda Speaking, directed by Cynthia Nixon, The Cherry Orchard at Classic Stage Company, and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons on Broadway. Other New York theater appearances include The Seagull at Classic Stage Company, Third, Memory House, The Shawl, Hunting Cockroaches, After the Fall, Beyond Therapy, and The Art of Dining.

John J. Caswell, Jr.  is a writer originally from Phoenix, a recent fellow at Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, and the recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at Vineyard Theatre. His play  Wet Brain  won the 2021 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and premiered off-Broadway in 2023, produced by  Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater. His play Man Cave premiered off-Broadway in 2022, produced by Page 73, with upcoming productions in Dallas and San Francisco. Honors include the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, the Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, a SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency, and the 2017 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Education: Juilliard School, Hunter College, Arizona State University.  www.johnjcaswelljr.com 

Rachel Chavkin received the 2019 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Director of a Musical for Hadestown. She is a director, writer and dramaturg, as well as the founding Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based ensemble the TEAM whose work has been seen all over the U.K. including the National Theatre, the Royal Court and multiple collaborations with the National Theatre of Scotland. Selected freelance work: Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova, A.R.T., Broadway), Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer’s Lempicka (Williamstown), Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NYTW), Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (Old Globe, Lincoln Center), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova, Off-Broadway, national tour), Sarah Gancher’s I’ll Get You Back Again (Round House) and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac including The Lily’s Revenge, Act 2 (HERE). In addition to her awards for Hadestown, Chavkin is a recipient of a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical, three Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, multiple Lortel Award nominations, two Doris Duke Impact Award nominations and the 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity along with Dave Malloy, with whom she is developing an adaptation of Moby Dick (World Premiere A.R.T). Her first film, Remind Me, was an official selection of the Venice and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. Proud NYTW Usual Suspect and Member SDC.