WRITER & DIRECTOR

Marshall is a director, writer and composer for musical theater, plays, and animated films. He directed, composed, and co-wrote the Off-Broadway musicals Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War (Two-time New York Times Critics’ Pick) and the now internationally-licensed Triassic Parq (Ovation Award, Best Musical). Other writing-directing credits: Claudio Quest (winner of six 2015 NYMF Awards for Excellence); Shrek the Halls (DreamWorks Theatricals); Loch Ness; Hershey’s Unwrapped (Brass Ring Winner, Hershey’s Chocolate World); VeggieTales: Noah’s Ark starring Wayne Brady (Film, Original Songs). Other directing work: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (DR2); Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat; Sequence (Adirondack Theater Festival); The Reunion Experience; Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company); Eudaemonia; Uncle Pirate; Stuck; The 49 Project; Thursday; With Kings in the Back; Bat Boy; Escape Artists; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Developed work with Dreamworks Animation, Goodspeed Musicals, RKO Stage, PBS Kids. Graduate of Yale University.

DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC SIGN LANGUAGE

Alexandria Wailes has worked on stage, on camera, and behind the scenes as an actor, director, dancer, choreographer, and director of artistic sign language. She was director of artistic sign language for the Broadway revivals of Children of a Lesser God and King Lear; Runaways at the Delacorte Theater and New York City Center; television series including “This Close,” “Quantico,” and “Tales of the City;” and the films A Quiet Place 1 & 2, Wonderstruck, and CODA. As an actress, her Broadway credits include Spring Awakening, Big River (Tony Honoree for Ensemble), For Colored Girls.... Off Broadway: For Colored Girls… (Lortel nomination), I Was Most Alive with You, and A Kind of Alaska. TV: “The Flash,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “High Maintenance,” “Little America,” “Nurse Jackie.” Ms. Wailes has spent many years advocating for Deaf and disability rights within the performing arts and received a 2020 Obie Citation for Sustained Excellence as an Artist and Advocate.

CHOREOGRAPHER

Misha Shields is a Boston-based theater choreographer. Whether in a small play, a huge musical, or an original dance piece, she loves storytelling through movement and helps performers them tap into characters through physical awareness and connection to their bodies. Misha received a Chita Rivera Award nomination for Best Choreography for the Off-Broadway production of Baghdaddy and won both the Elliot Norton Award (for her choreography in K-I-S-S-I-N-G) and the BroadwayWorld CNY Award for Best Choreography (for her work on Loch Ness at the Rev Theatre). The Boston Globe called Misha's choreography for Vietgone "one of the funniest fight sequences I’ve ever seen onstage.” She has choreographed plays and musicals at a variety of theaters in New York, Boston, and regionally, including Atlantic Theater Company, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Buck’s County Playhouse, and others.

PRODUCER: HUGO SIX

Isaac Robert Hurwitz is a creative producer with more than two decades of experience producing acclaimed new work and leading successful entertainment businesses. Since co-founding Hugo Six in 2021, Isaac has lead produced the Tony-nominated Broadway productions of Water for Elephants and Gutenberg! The Musical! starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, and Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster. He is also a producer of the London and touring productions of Mrs. Doubtfire and The Devil Wears Prada (both of which he developed for Twentieth Century Fox), and Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway.

PRODUCER: HUGO SIX

Seth A. Goldstein is a two-time Tony Award-winning, multiplatform producer with a history of significant artistic and management achievement. Credits as a producer on Broadway include Maybe Happy Ending, Once Upon a Mattress, Water for Elephants (Tony nomination), Gutenberg! The Musical! (Tony nomination), The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award); The Prom (Tony nomination); Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Tony nomination); The Glass Menagerie; The Front Page; and Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower. He is a producer of The Devil Wears Prada, currently running on London’s West End.