Playwright Martin McDonagh is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, producer, director, and playwright recently known for blockbuster films like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022).

Director Theresa Rebeck is a widely produced writer for stage, film, television, and novels, and the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. The two-time Emmy-nominated writer, and the Festival’s resident playwright, returns to direct this season on the heels of receiving critical acclaim for the New York productions of two of her own plays which were developed at Dorset Theatre Festival. Dig, which had its World Premiere in Dorset’s 2019 season, debuted Off-Broadway at Primary Stages this past August, and I Need That ran on Broadway this past December at the Roundabout Theatre Company and starred Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Danny DeVito.

DTF: Dig, Queen of the Night, Wait Until Dark, Scarecrow, Thirst. Previous designs with: Goodspeed Musicals, Signature Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, Two River Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, People’s Light, Everyman Theatre, Miami New Drama, Resident Ensemble Players at UD, Weston Theater, Primary Stages, Red Bull Theater, Fiasco Theater, Tectonic Theater Project, The New Victory Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Lincoln Center Education, York Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Penguin Rep, Shadowland Stages, IBEX Puppetry, Trusty Sidekick, A$AP Rocky, Sotheby’s, 2020 Summer Olympics, Big Apple Circus, National Geographic. www.cjswaderdesign.com

Collaborations include: MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Florida Grand Opera, Zack Winokur, Opera Philadelphia, Clare Barron, A$AP Rocky. 2020 Bessie Award nominee, 2019 Opera America Tobin Finalist, 2016 Henry Hewes Award nomination, 2014 Live Design Young Designer to Watch, 2011 USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award winner, 2009 Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellow.  Member USA 829.  Professor of Lighting Design at CMU.  MFA, Boston University; AB, Harvard College. www.maryellenstebbinsdesign.com

Winner of the 2019 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Choir Boy, 2021 Tony Nomination for The Rose Tattoo. Broadway: I Need That, The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy, Bernhardt Hamlet, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans, The Father, Blackbird, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, It’s Only a Play, An Act of God, Airline Highway, The Other Place, I’ll Eat You Last, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina, Outside Mullingar, The Other Place, The House of Blue Leaves, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound. He has designed 58 Off-Broadway shows. Additional Drama Desk awards for When the Rain Stops Falling and The Humans. He is a founding editor of Chance Magazine.

Rod is thrilled to be returning to the Dorset Theatre Festival. Rod is a NY based fight director who's credits include: Broadway: The Lightning Thief, Live from Lincoln Center: Porgy and Bess (NYCO). Most Recent: Off Broadway: Between Two Knees at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, Off Broadway (cont’d): Resident Fight Director for 9 seasons for Pearl Theatre Company, The Lucille Lortell, Lynn Redgrave, The Mint, The Minetta Lane, The Acorn, Signature, and the East 13th Street Playhouse. Resident Fight Director for New York City Opera at Lincoln Center from 1995 to 2010. Regional credits include: ART, Yale Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Cleveland Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, The McCarter, Gulfshore Playhouse, The Barter Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Shakespeare on the Sound, Glimmerglass Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and Opera Festival of NJ. Rod is a member of the SDC and on faculty at AMDA teaching Stage Combat. Rodkinter.com

Broadway credits include: Glass Menagerie, Waitress. Regional: American Repertory Theatre: Becoming a Man, Life of Pi, Macbeth in Stride, Moby Dick (Elliot Norton Award winner- Best Design), Black Clown, Waitress, Fingersmith (Elliot Norton Award winner- Best Design), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Elliot Norton award winner- Best Design), Marie Antoinette, and Crossing Huntington Theatre Company: John Proctor is the Villain, Bands Visit, Heartsellers, Joy & Pandemic, The Colored Museum. Rachel is the hair and makeup supervisor for Boston Ballet and the resident hair and wig designer for North Shore Music Theatre. rachelpadulashufelt.com

Judy Bowman has been casting with DTF since 2009. RECENT THEATER: Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth), Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong (NY, PCS & tours), A Christmas Carol (McCarter), No Child (Kitchen Theatre Co), The Great Leap (Cleveland Play House), Sharon Playhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks, etc. TV/FILM: Hallmark’s Redemption in Cherry Springs, Big Dogs (Amazon), One Moment with Danny Aiello, Separation, Hurricane Bianca, Lost Cat Corona, Gold Star. Artios Award nominee for Best Webseries Casting, PT Barnum Award recipient. judybowmancasting.com

Benjamin E. C. Pfister (he/him) is delighted to join Dorset Theatre Festival this season! Ben is a New York based Stage Manager and Broadway credits include Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, Choir Boy, The Rose Tattoo, A Soldier’s Play, Topdog Underdog, A Strange Loop, Wicked, Purlie Victorious, and Kimberly Akimbo. The Public Theater: As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, and Merry Wives. Yale Repertory Theater: Imogen Says Nothing and Peerless. Berkeley Repertory Theater, Weston Playhouse, New London Barn Playhouse, and Northern Stage. MFA Graduate and Lecturer in the Stage Management Department at Yale School of Drama/David Geffen School of Drama.