Kim Powers is an author, playwright, and television writer known for the critically acclaimed memoir The History of Swimming, and has worked at ABC News for the past 23 years receiving two Emmys for his work at both Good Morning America and 20/20. In 2007, he was selected as one of the “Out 100” – Out Magazine’s top 100 most influential LGBTs in the country.

Upcoming projects include the new musical Hard Road to Heaven with a book by Willy Holtzman, and music and lyrics by Marty Dodson, David Spangler, and Jerry Taylor. Recent work includes Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home (world premiere co-production Goodman Theatre and Berkeley Rep); The Mousetrap (Hartford Stage); Wait Until Dark (Dorset Theatre Festival); Karen Hartman’s Goldie, Max & Milk (Volt Festival 59e59); Endless Loop of Gratitude with New Neighborhood (New Ohio’s Ice Factory); Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible, MCC, and New York Stage & Film (Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award); When Harry Met Rehab (Chicago’s Greenhouse Theater, Jeff Nominated); Lover Beloved with Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik (Alley Theatre); God’s Ear and The Seagull (Juilliard); Kleptocracy by Kenneth Lin (Arena Stage); These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, Yale Rep – Critics Pick Time Out NY, Best Production and Adaptation LA Sage Awards, Time Out Los Angeles, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Best Production and Best Director). Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Studio Theatre / New Neighborhood); Shakespeare’s Much Ado adapted with Ken Lin (Cal Shakes); 3C by David Adjmi and Thurber’s Where We’re Born (Rattlestick); A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers (Mint - Drama Desk nomination Outstanding Revival of a Play); Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic and Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Outstanding Production of a Play). Jackson is the co-producing artistic director of New Neighborhood and currently teaches directing at Brooklyn College. MFA Directing Yale School of Drama. BFA Acting University of the Arts.

Riw (pronounced Ree-you) is a Set & Costume Designer, Animator and Chef from Bangkok, Thailand.

He/They has worked at Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Old Globe, Drury Lane Theatre, Asolo Rep, The Acting Company, 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, Primary Stages, Hartford Stage, The Public Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music amongst others. Broadway Associate Set Design: Pass Over, &Juliet, Parade

He/They also works with designers Wilson Chin, Riccardo Hernandez, Jason Ardizzone-West, Donyale Werle, Santo Loquasto, Dane Laffrey, Clint Ramos and Walt Spangler. Board member of WithAll, a non-profit Organization on a fight to end eating disorders. IG: @riwrdesign

B.F.A. Ithaca College, M.F.A Yale School of Drama (Donald & Zorca Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design Recipient).

Connecticut Critics Circle Award - Best Set Design - 2023

Member of United Scenic Artist 829.

This is Fabian’s sixth show at Dorset, previously costuming Wait Until Dark, Queen of the Night, Slow Food, and Misery. Fabian attended the Yale School of Drama for his MFA and Boston University (BFA) to pursue theatrical costume design. Credits include Man of La Mancha (Asolo Rep); American Mariachi, Mother Road (PCPA); Three Sisters, Twelfth Night (Two River Theater) Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Max Makes a Million, Winnie the Pooh (Alliance Theater); Dial M for Murder, Straight White Men, Mlima’s Tale, In the Heights, Man of La Mancha, Romeo and Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse); Mother Road (PCPA); God’s Ear (Juilliard); Afterglow, Safeword (Midnight Theatricals); Recent Alien Abductions (Play Co.); ¡Bienvenidos Blancos! or Welcome White People! (Team Sunshine, Philadelphia), A View from the Bridge, Seven Spots on the Sun, set and costume for The War Boys (NYC); Sabina, Sotto Voce (Portland Stage); Midsummer,; The Moors (Yale Repertory Theater world premier); He Left Quietly (SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto).

SETH REISER is a set and lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance and music whose work has been seen throughout the United States and internationally. Seth is pleased to be making his debut at Dorsett Theatre Festival this summer.  New York credits include Gabriel Jason Dean’s Heartland at 59E59, directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh; Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith’s Radio Play at PS 122, directed by Kip Fagan; The Mysteries at the Flea, directed by Ed Iskandar; Taylor Mac’s Obie Award winning production of The Lily’s Revenge at HERE Arts; Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at the Public Theater.  Regional highlights include designs for, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Dallas Theatre Center, Two River Theatre Company, GeVA, Portland Center Stage, Trinity Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth, American Repertory Theatre, and Playmakers Repertory. MFA, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. www.sethreiserdesign.com

Sinan Refik Zafar (he/him/his) is an award-winning sound designer and composer from NYC. Credits include What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway, National Tour, New York Theatre Workshop); English (Broadway); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (National Tour, Playwrights Horizons); English [Obie Award], Shhh (Atlantic Theater Company); Letters from Max (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations, Signature Theatre); Which Way to the Stage, All the Natalie Portmans (MCC Theater); Lunar Eclipse, To My Girls (Second Stage); The Vagrant Trilogy, Cullud Wattah (The Public Theater); Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons), Montag (Soho Rep). REGIONAL: Kennedy Center, Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, The Goodman, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown, among others. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. sinanzafar.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

Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life, Sunday in the Park with George, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ghost The Musical, Dead Accounts and Relatively Speaking. Off-Broadway credits include: Stargazers (Page 73), Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm) and Mud/Drowning (Mabou Mines). Kate has also worked with: City Center Encores!, The Public Theater, National Asian American Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Two River Theater, Bay Street Theater and Kaimera Productions. She is proud to be a core teacher for the Peridance Certificate Program.