Evan Yionoulis is an award-winning director who has helmed new plays and classics in New York and across the country.   She has enjoyed collaborations with major American playwrights, including Adrienne Kennedy (the critically acclaimed productions of He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Ohio State Murders, Lortel Award for Best Revival, Theatre for a New Audience) and Richard Greenberg (the premieres and New York productions of The Violet Hour, Biltmore Theatre, Broadway; Everett Beekin, Lincoln Center Theatre; and Three Days of Rain, Manhattan Theatre Club, Obie Award for direction). 

In her twenty years as a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre, she directed Richard II, Cymbeline, The Master Builder, George F. Walker’s Heaven, Brecht’s Galileo, Gozzi’s The King Stag (which she adapted with composer Mike Yionoulis and Catherine Sheehy), Caryl Churchill’s Owners, Guillermo Calderon’s Kiss, and numerous other productions.

Credits include work at the Mark Taper Forum, Huntington, NY Shakespeare Festival, the Vineyard, Cherry Lane, 2econd Stage, American Music Theatre Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown, Denver Center, Portland Stage, PlayMakers Rep, and many others. She directed SEVEN, a documentary theatre piece about extraordinary women from across the globe who work for human rights, in New York, Boston, Washington, Aspen, London, Deauville, and New Delhi.

She serves on the Executive Board of SDC, the labor union representing stage directors and choreographers as Secretary, and is a Princess Grace Foundation Awards recipient.

She is the Richard Rodgers Director of the Drama Division at the Juilliard School.  

Paul David Young's 2017 Trump satire, Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal, performed by four clowns at Judson Church, was featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Village Voice ("Voice Choice"), The Wall Street Journal, and Hyperallergic. Upstage Downstage picked his play Kentucky Cantata, at HERE in New York, as one of the top 13 plays of Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway for 2015. Erik Haagensen of Backstage selected his In the Summer Pavilion in NYCFringe and at 59e59 Theaters as a "Critic's Pick." His No One But You won the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and was a finalist for the Kendeda Fellowship. His one-act Aporia was a finalist for the Kennedy Center's John Cauble Short Play Award. His translations, with Carl Weber, of Heiner Müller’s Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome and Macbeth were published as Heiner Müller: After Shakespeare.

A contributing editor at PAJ (MIT Press), he writes regularly for Hyperallergic. His book newARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic, about visual artists appropriating theatre, was issued by PAJ in 2014. He has had residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace, Millay Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Ensemble Studio Theatre's Summer Conference. LMCC awarded him a five-month Process Space residency on Governors Island for 2015, where he conceived and performed Curtain Wall Part 3: An Immersive Landscape Theater Performance of Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, in which he swam across New York Harbor. www.pauldavidyoung.com

Donald Holder (Lighting Design) Broadway: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Straight White Men, My Fair Lady, Anastasia, Oslo, M Butterfly, She Loves Me, Fiddler On The Roof, The King and I, On The Twentieth Century, The Bridges Of Madison County, Golden Boy, Spiderman- Turn Off The Dark, Ragtime, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and many others. He has designed fifty eight Broadway productions, is the recipient of two Tony awards (The Lion King and South Pacific) and thirteen Tony nominations. Opera: Porgy Rigoletto for the Berlin Staatsoper, Porgy and Bess, Otello, ‘wo Boys, The Magic Flute, Samson et Delilah at the New York Metropolitan Opera, Carmen for the Chicago Lyric and Houston Grand Opera, many others. Television/Film: Recent projects include Smash Seasons one and two (NBC Dreamworks),  Oceans Eight (Warner Brothers Pictures).  Mr. Holder is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the University of Maine, and Head of Lighting Design at Rutgers University.

Teresa Snider-Stein (Costume Design) is a twenty-five year veteran of New York and Regional theatre, who has designed costumes for nearly a hundred productions. Selected credits include: I’m not Rappaport (Broadway & regional tour); Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center); the original productions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young Man from Atlanta, (Signature Theatre, Huntington Theatre, and Alley Theatre); Raised in Captivity, (Vineyard Theater and South Coast Rep); and 36 Views (Huntington Theatre, Boston, MA). For nine years as the resident costume designer at Signature Theatre in New York City, Ms. Snider-Stein particularly enjoyed the intensive yearlong collaboration with the various playwrights in residence. She designed the costumes for over thirty-five productions by Romulus Linney, Lee Blessing, Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Sheppard, Arthur Miller, John Guare, and Maria Irene Fornes. Working directly with each of the playwrights she was able to focus on specificity of character and tap into each author’s particular point of view. Through participation in this in-depth exploration of individual playwrights’ work, she was part of the team that helped cement the Signature Theatre’s playwright-centric techniques. New York credits include Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Classic Stage Company, the Vineyard Theatre, Irish Repertory Theatre, The Jewish Repertory Theatre, Mabou Mines, Village Light Opera Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Women’s Project & Productions. Regionally she has worked at South Coast Rep, Goodspeed Opera Company, The Alley Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Dallas Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ford’s Theater, Coconut Grove Playhouse, the Huntington Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Portland Stage Company, and Paper Mill Playhouse. Most recent theatrical costume designs include the NYC premieres of HIM (Primary Stages); The Hereafter Musical (Theater 80); and MIKA created in answer to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s initiative to end violence against women worldwide and presented at the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations, NYC. Ms. Snider-Stein was awarded the Bronze Medal for Costume Design at the 2005 World Stage Design International Exhibition and is a member of United Scenic Artists local 829 and USITT. She holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama and is currently Head of Costume Design and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Ms. Snider-Stein was awarded the Bronze Medal for Costume Design at the 2005 World Stage Design International Exhibition and is a member of United Scenic Artists local 829 and USITT.  She holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama and is currently Head of Costume Design and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Ao Li (Set Design) is a set designer and visual artist who has worked internationally. His designs include: Scraps (Flea Theatre), Real (The Tank), As You Like It (Columbia University), Waiting for Godot (Alfred University), Lucretia (Cantata Profana), Where is My Maple Town (Theatre Row), Kiss (Yale Repertory Theatre), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Yale School of Drama), Titus Andronicus (Iseman Theatre), Yale Cabaret credits include: The Apple Tree, Xander Xyst, Dragon:1 and The Styx Songs. His work in Shanghai include: Cao Zhi (Academy Theatre), Blind (Shanghai International Arts Festival), Everything in the Garden (Duanjun Theatre) among others. Ao associate designed Soft Power (The Public Theatre), The Orphan of Zhao at Beijing Poly Theater and assisted on productions including Judgement Day (Park Avenue Armory), The Twilight Zone (West End), Tamerlano (Frankfurt Opera), Le Nozze Di Figaro (Theatre Des Champs-Elysses) and Scenes From Court Life (Yale Repertory Theater) etc. His artwork has received three solo exhibitions including Expression, 2009 and Childhood. He holds an MFA in Set Design from Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Stage Design from Shanghai Theatre Academy. He is the co-founder and former president of the Intercultural Performance Studio in Shanghai. He is the winner of Donald and Zorca Oenslager Travel Fellowship Award in Design, Richard Harrison Senie Scholarship and Donald M. Oenslager Scholarship in Stage Design. http://aoliarts.com/about

Melissa Friedling (Sound & Video Design) is a filmmaker and media artist.  Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Tribeca Film Festival (NY), Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (Buffalo), Art Space (New Haven), Microscope Gallery (NY); Experiments in Cinema (NM); Cornell Cinemas, Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse),  Apexart (NY), New Orleans International Film Festival, Ann Arbor (MI), Atlanta Film Fest, Women in the Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, International Women Directors’ Film Festival (Créteil, France). She has been a recipient of a Fulbright Award and artist’s grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts.  She has previously created video for theatrical works written by Paul David Young, mounted at PS1 MoMA and at Judson Memorial Church.  Friedling lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at The New School.

Christine J. Colonna (Stage Manager) credits include Broadway: Tootsie. Pre-Broadway: Tootsie. Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge; The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Company), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Pacific Overtures (Classic Stage Company), Ordinary Days; Lonely Planet (Keen Company), The Metromaniacs (The Red Bull Theater), The Dread Pirate Project (world premiere, Baryshnikov Arts Center), Three Wise Guys (TACT), Stupid F*cking Bird (AADA).  Regional:  Hurricane Diane (world premiere, (Two River Theater Company), Evita; Mamma Mia; Fiddler on the Roof (Maine State Music Theatre). MFA: Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Zachary M. Brienza (Assistant Light Design) is a freelance lighting designer based in New York City. He is an alumnus of Rutgers Mason Gross School of The Arts where he received a BFA in Lighting Design. During his time with Rutgers Theater Company he designed eight shows; most notably Julius Caesar, Herakles, and An Octoroon. His professional credits include The Eleventh Hour, No Child, & Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. Other credits include: Assistant Lighting Designer for Shake & Bake: Love’s Labour’s Lost.

 Heather Arnson (Assistant Director) Associate/Assistant highlights: Michael Wilson (BEAU, Fellow Travelers, Right Before I Go, others), Lila Neugebauer (The Wolves), Leigh Silverman (Seat of Our Pants), and Evan Yionoulis (All My Fathers). As a director, selected credits: Apartment Block, Your Title Goes Here, Wasp, and Elizabeth: Almost By Chance A Woman. Associate member of SDC, 2019 Princess Grace Award Reader, SDCF Observership 2017 -2018, Newington-Crosby Fellow, B.A. in Theatre from UCLA. www.HeatherArnson.com Next: https://www.beauthemusical.com/@ Joe’s Pub.

Jonathan Hogan: On Broadway he appeared in Comedians, Otherwise Engaged, Fifth of July, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, As Is (Tony and Drama Desk nominations for Best Actor), Burn This, Taking Steps, and The Homecoming. Among the many plays he appeared in as a member of Circle Rep since 1973 were Lanford Wilson’s The Hot l Baltimore, The Mound Builders, and Balm in Gilead (in collaboration with Steppenwolf – Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble). Other performances Off Broadway include Wilson’s Book of Days, Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney, London Wall, Samuel D. Hunter’s Pocatello (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor), Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold Onto Me Darling (Lucille Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding Featured Actor) and Hindle Wakes. Regionally he has performed at the Dorset Theatre Festival, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Merrimack Repertory, Long Wharf, McCarter, The La Jolla Playhouse, Repertory Co. of St. Louis, George St. Playhouse, and Hartford Stage.  Films and TV include In Country, The House On Carroll Street, A Fish In The Bathtub,  Revolution #9, several Movies of the Week, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, all the Law & Orders, House of Cards, The Looming Tower, and Woody Allen’s yet to be released A Rainy Day in New York. Mr. Hogan is a graduate of The Goodman Theatre and School of Drama.

All My Fathers is an Equity Approved Showcase.

All the actors in the production — Richard Gallagher*, Brian Hastert*, Deborah Hedwall*, and Jonathan Hogan* — are *members of Actors Equity Association and appear in this production Courtesy of Actors Equity Association.