Originally from the farms and fields of upstate New York, Kate is an award-winning NYC-based actor/playwright. She is deeply passionate about creating new feminist, female-centered classics, both in new plays and in adaptation: stories that center around complicated women. Her work as a playwright celebrates theatricality, often features absurdity, and closely examines social and gender issues - as well as the timeless struggle to reconcile conscience / identity with social pressures. As an actor, she tends to play truth-tellers, oddballs, and misfits.

Kate was named 2017's Playwright of the Year by the Wall Street Journal. She has been one of the 10 most-produced playwrights in the country, 3 seasons running (2017-2020); in both 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, she wrote two of the top 10 most produced plays in the U.S.; many of her plays have been produced internationally. Future productions, including 4 world premieres in 2019/2020: Dracula at Classic Stage Company, Emma at the Guthrie, Prostitute Play at Cygnet Theater, and Scarlet Letter at South Coast Rep. Her previously-produced plays include Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam; in which she originated the role of Marianne) - Winner, Off-Broadway Alliance Award; Nominee, Drama League Award; 265+ performances off-Broadway; "Top Ten Theater of 2014" - Ben Brantley; "the greatest stage adaptation of this novel in history” - Huffington Post. Other plays include Vanity Fair (The Pearl; in which she originated the role of Becky Sharp; Nominee, Off Broadway Alliance Award; WSJ Critic's Pick), Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages / HVSF; in which she originated the role of Lizzy Bennet; Nominee, Off Broadway Alliance Award; "Best Theater of 2017", Huffington Post; WSJ Critic's Pick), Little Women, Mansfield Park (originated role of Mary Crawford), and Dracula (Classic Stage Company; originated role of Renfield; WSJ Critic’s Pick.)

Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, PlayMaker’s Rep, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theatre (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations; Winner, best production) & more. Kate’s Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair, and Little Women are published by DPS. She is currently working on an adaptation of The Odyssey (commissioned by A.R.T.) as well as several new original plays - including Love Poem, In The Mines (Sundance Semi-Finalist; now collaborating with The Bengsons on this piece), Em (Red Bull New Play finalist), the Prostitute Play (O'Neill Semi-Finalist), and The Piper (O’Neill Finalist, PlayPenn Haas Fellow play).

Additional acting credits include: Talley’s Folly (Syracuse Stage; WSJ Critic’s Pick; TheaterMania best productions of 2020) The Seagull (Bedlam; "best classical productions of 2014" - WSJ) Noises Off (Syracuse Stage), The General from America (HVSF), Cyrano (“Outstanding Performance by an Actress”- DFW Critics Awards, Amphibian Stage), Internet Famous (Youngblood), Dreams of A West Texas Marsupial Girl (PearlDamour), All That Fall (Cherry Lane), and more. Numerous independent films that she has performed in have gone on to festival success, including: Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Festival del Film Locarno, Brooklyn Film Festival, Boston Int'l Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival (Jury Award Finalist), Honolulu Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival (Stellar Award), etc. Kate has a BFA in Acting, Ithaca College.

Aneesha Kudtarkar (she/her) is a New York-based theatre director. She is a trained Indian Classical (Bharatanatyam) dancer who calls upon her background in dance to create compositionally-driven pieces of theatre that centralize historically excluded voices. Her recent directorial projects include The Who and The What (Juilliard), Queen (Long Wharf Theatre, National Asian American Theatre Company), The Cherry Orchard (The New School), The Who and The What (TheaterWorks Hartford), Men on Boats (Southern Methodist University), [Veil Widow Conspiracy] (National Asian American Theatre Company), LOCUSTS, Trouble in Mind (Yale School of Drama), The Purple Flower (Yale Cabaret), Mud, Charlotte's Web (Hangar Theatre). Aneesha has also developed new works with Gingold Theatrical Group, Clubbed Thumb, and the Hunter College MFA Playwrighting Program. Aneesha is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. AneeshaDirects.com

Sarah is thrilled to be making her Dorset Theatre Festival debut! Select theatrical credits: Indian Summer (Columbia School of the Arts); Stick Fly (The Juilliard School); The Plot (Yale Repertory Theater). Scenic design assistant for Richard III, As You Like It (The Public). Select film credits: Bad Shabbos (Art Director); Playland (Set Decorator). Sarah holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in scenic design and is a proud member of USA Local 829. (she/her)

A Costume Designer for Stage and Film, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Her U.S. theater credits include Romeo and Juliet (Two River Theater, NJ); Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance (Transport Group/Connelly Theater, NYC); Out of Time (NAATCO/The Public, NYC); Veil Widow Conspiracy (NAATCO/NYTW Next Door); Vis-à-Vis (New York City Ballet, Choreographic Institute); Hanjo (SITI Company/Japan Society, NYC); Williams College Dance Concerts. International theater credits in Japan include The Barber of Seville + The Marriage of Figaro (Rohm Theater Kyoto); Hansel and Gretel (Sony Music Foundation/Suntory Hall, Tokyo); The Count of Monte Cristo (Kinokuniya Hall); Lulu (Shinjuku Bunka) and Carmen (Kanagawa Kenmin Hall) with Tokyo Nikikai Opera. Upcoming projects include SUMO (La Jolla Playhouse) and Migration (Bard College). MFA from NYU Tisch, BA from UNC Chapel Hill. www.marikoohigashi.com

Jackie is a Chicago/New York based production designer. She believes that the best art is disruptive, subversive, and pushes us to examine the most difficult elements of our psyche. Selected lighting credits include: The Who and The What (The Juilliard School), The Oresteia (The Juilliard School), The WOLVES (McCarter Theatre Center), Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Northlight Theatre), Comedy of Errors (Wagon Wheel Theatre), UNTOLD (PARA/MAR Dance Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Wagon Wheel Theatre), Hundred Days (Kokandy Productions). Select scenic credits include: Pretty Fire (Omaha Community Playhouse), Do you Feel Anger (Grinnell College), Pride and Prejudice and Comedy of Errors (Wagon Wheel Theatre). Select projection credits include: House of Desires (Grinnell College), Baltimore (The University of Pittsburgh) Education: MFA in Stage Design Northwestern University. For more information go to jackiefoxdesigns.com

Michael Costagliola is a New York-based sound designer and composer. His work has been heard in New York in productions by The Public, New York Theatre Workshop, La MaMa, Rattlestick, Ars Nova, and Page 73 among others, as well as regionally at Two River Theater, Yale Rep, St. Louis Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Rep, and at various other theaters across the U.S. and abroad. AB in Music from Brown University, MFA in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama. michaelcostagliola.com

Charlotte Bydwell has worked extensively as a choreographer, movement director and fight captain on productions at the Old Globe (San Diego), Williamstown Theatre Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Virginia Stage Company, the Cape Playhouse and at theaters around New York City. She has worked alongside directors such as Scott Ellis, Rob Melrose, Arin Arbus and Jessica Holt. She made her Off-Broadway choreographic debut with Nicholas Tolkien's Terezin at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in Playwrights Horizons and was the season choreographer on Comedy Central's series, ALTERNATINO. She also serves as choreographer for the National Tours and Times Square productions of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Charlotte created ‘Moving into Language’, a movement-based approach to acting for performers and creators of all kinds, and has taught at Gibney, Barnard, Peridance, HB Studio and Dance Device Lab. Training: Juilliard BFA in Dance, The Old Globe/USD MFA in Acting. www.charlottebydwell.com

Robbie Armstrong III is a New York-based stage manager and professor. Robbie’s recent Broadway shows include Once Upon A One More Time, Paradise Square, and Moulin Rouge. On TV: Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Exhumed, and The Big Fib on Disney+. Recent new musicals include Hearts Beat Loud, Sing Street, May We All: a country musical, 38 Minutes by Edie Brickell, and A Walk On The Moon. Other credits include Straight Line Crazy starring Ralph Fiennes, Is There Still Sex In The City, NYC Ballet, The Shed, MCC, WP Theatre, Denver Center, PlayCo, and many others. University of Colorado Colorado Springs BA & MA. Columbia University MFA. Robbie has taught at McGill University, NY Film Academy, and Drew University. Please recycle and donate to Broadway Cares. Love to Adam. @queentacobell

has been casting with Dorset Theatre Festival since 2009. RECENT THEATER: Kerrigan/Lowdermilk/Lauren Gunderson’s Justice (Arizona Theatre Co.); Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong (Woolly Mammoth tour); Lloyd Suh’s Bina’s Six Apples (CTC/Alliance); Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick (Woolly Mammoth/Huntington/Pasadena); Antigone, Light It Up, and The Three Musketeers (Cleveland Play House); and A Christmas Carol (McCarter). TV/FILM: Hallmark’s Redemption in Cherry Springs, Big Dogs season 1(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. Former faculty with Columbia University’s MFA film program, Harlem School of the Arts, & NYU/Strasberg. www.judybowmancasting.com