Niegel Smith is thrilled to be back at Alley Theatre after helming 2017’s Syncing Ink. Life Dance IV (Whitney Mu­seum), The Bark of Millions (Sydney Opera House, BAM, Berliner Festspiele), Plays for The Plague Year (The Public), The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist (Lincoln Center, Hopkins Center, Stanford Live), Arden: But, Not Without You (The Flea), The Hang (HERE Arts Center, Drama League nomination for Best Director), The Fre (The Flea), Southern Promises (The Flea), How To Catch Creation (The Goodman), Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce (Town Hall, World Tour), Scraps (The Flea), Father Comes Home From The Wars… (The Goodman, BTAA Award for Best Direction), Syncing Ink (Alley Theatre, The Flea), A 24 Decade History of Popular Music… (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Barbican, World Tour – Kennedy Prize & Pulitzer Prize finalist), Take Care (The Flea), Hir (Magic Theatre, Mixed Blood, Playwrights Horizons), Dream State of Affairs (The Invisible Dog), Marisol (Luna Stage), The Perils of Obedience (Abrons Arts Center), Seed (Classical Theatre of Harlem, Hip Hop Theatre Festival), Neighbors (The Public Theater), Limbs: A Pageant (HERE Arts Center). A Bessie Award-winning di­rector and performance artist, Niegel is the Artistic Director of The Flea Theater; board member of A.R.T./New York; and co-creator of The Climate Sing. niegelsmith.com.

Meagan Rachelle Smallwood received her BFA in Stage Management at the University of Houston. She is in her third season at Al­ley Theatre with previous credits in Seared, The Night Shift Before Christmas, Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium, Little Comedies, and The Servant of Two Masters. Further credits include Houston Shakespeare Festival (ASM): Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing; Houston Broadway Theatre (ASM): MATCH (PM): Cloud Tectonics; Rec Room (SM): The Moon­lit Princess.

Megan Culley Selected Design: Antigone (Cleveland Play House); The Loophole (The Public Theater); Holmes & Watson Apt. 2B (KCRep); Grounded, Hurricane Diane, Stew (Dobama Theater); Terminus (New York Theatre Workshop); Stranger Sings! (Off-Broadway); Inanimate (The Flea Theater); The Last Match (B Street Theatre); Roan @ the Gates (Luna Stage); The Color Purple (Theatre Horizon). Broad­way Associate Design: McNeal; Uncle Vanya; A Christmas Carol (2022); Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; Flying Over Sunset; Eureka Day; Purpose; Floyd Collins. Other Selected Associate Design: The Secret Garden (Center Theatre Group); The Preacher’s Wife (Alli­ance Theatre); King James (MTC).

Xavier Pierce is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Design Stage and Film. Chicago credits include Step­penwolf Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. New York credits include Public Theatre and Syracuse Stage. National credits include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and other works across the country in Oregon, Minnesota, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, Missouri, Washington, Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Florida, Geor­gia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Arizona and Washington, D.C.

Dominique Fawn Hill Dominique’s designs include Broadway: Fat Ham (Tony Award-nomi­nation); Off-Broadway: Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizon-Lucille Lortel nomina­tion), Fat Ham (Public Theatre-Obie Award), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhat­tan Theatre Club), Hang Time (The Flea), The Dark Girl Chronicles (The Shed), and 125th & FREEdom (National Black Theatre). Her regional theatre credits range from Derecho (The La Jolla Playhouse); Bust (Alliance The­atre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Choir Boy, and Rent (Portland Center Stage). You can find her work at DominiqueFHill.com.

Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Circle Critics Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater, John Gassner Award). For television, she has written for Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones and HBO Max’s Julia. As an actor, Eboni has appeared in productions at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, WP Theater, Page 73, Soho Rep., Clubbed Thumb, and more. Eboni is current­ly the Judith Champion Playwriting Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. She is the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Horton Foote Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award, and a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. She is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program and the University of Vermont.