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LIZ DUFFY ADAMS (Playwright) recieved a 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and Best Play/Production, 2022 Houston Press Awards, for Born With Teeth, which had its world premiere at the Alley Theater in 2022, a production that moved to the Guthrie Theatre in March–April 2023. 

Her Or, premiered Off Broadway at WP Theater and has been produced more than 80 times since, including at the Magic Theater, Seattle Rep, and Roundhouse Theatre. She’s a New Dramatists alumna and has received a Women of Achievement Award, Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Weston Playhouse Music-Theater Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and the Will Glickman Award for Best New Play (Dog Act). Her Artistic Stamp virtual play in letters, Wild Thyme, was nominated for a 2021 Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater. 

Publications include Or, in Smith & Kraus’ “Best Plays Of 2010;” Dog Act in “Geek Theater,” Underwords Press 2014; Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause’s “Best American Short Plays 2000-2001;” and acting editions by TRW Plays, Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. 

Adams has an MFA from Yale School of Drama and a BFA from New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing. She has dual Irish and American citizenship, and lives in New York City on Lanape land, and in Western Massachusetts on unceded Pocumtuc and Nipmuc territory.

JOSH COSTELLO✝ (Director) is the Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company. Throughout his career, he has worked to make theatre more accessible for more people, sharing a passion for the visceral experience of live theatre with new audiences and underserved communities. He was the founding Artistic Director of Impact Theatre, which focused on audiences in their teens and twenties. As the Artistic Director of Expanded Programs at Marin Theatre Company, Josh created and administered several programs that built relationships with new audiences. At

Aurora, Josh initiated student matinee and Community Partner programs and led a revision of Aurora’s mission to emphasize the theatre’s role as storyteller to the community.

DEAN LINNARD* (Kit) is a Berkeley lad, born and raised, honored to make his Aurora debut. Bay Area credits include Dave Malloy’s Octet (Berkeley Rep), A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Winter’s Tale (Cal Shakes), Twelfth Night, The Three Musketeers, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Marin Shakespeare Company), and Indecent (San Francisco Playhouse). Dean won Theatre Bay Area Awards for both Hand to God and Bad Jews at Left Edge Theatre and a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Groundhog Day: The Musical at San Francisco Playhouse. New York credits include Museum Hack (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Time Temple (Guggenheim Museum), and the world premiere of Dave Harris’ Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits include shows with Asolo Rep, Portland Playhouse, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Vermont Shakespeare Festival, and the National Tour of the musical The Lightning Thief. Training: BFA from NYU Tisch, Stella Adler Studio, RADA. DeanLinnard.com

BRADY MORALES-WOOLERY* (Will) is making his Aurora Theatre debut and was most recently seen as Victor Prynne in Private Lives at Arizona Theatre Company. He trained at the University of California at Berkeley. Select theatre credits include Clue (Center Rep), Romeo y Juliet (Cal Shakes), The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence (Shotgun Players), Twelfth Night (Cal Shakes), Once (42nd Street Moon), Retablos (Word for Word), Bright Shining Sea (SF Playground), Barefoot in the Park (Willows Theatre Company) The Kentucky Cycle (Willows Theatre Company), and FSM (Stagebridge). Feature films include Quitters, Pushing Dead, The Internship, and the upcoming Avenue of the Giants. He sends love to his family and friends for their continued support.