ISOBEL

Kerstin Anderson (she/her) is a Vermont born, New York based actor. Broadway and National Tour: My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), The Sound of Music (Maria). Other theater: A Little Night Music: in Concert (LCT), Waitress (5th Ave, TUTS) Cult of Love (Berkeley Rep.), Unknown Soldier (Arena Stage & Playwrights Horizons), Afterwords (5th Ave), Doubt (Westport Playhouse), All Shook Up (Goodspeed), Row (Audible), Light in the Piazza (Sheen Center). Film: Ventriculus, Crashlight (upcoming).  She appears on albums Darling: Live in Concert, Future Demons, Her Sound, Tyrell, Discount Ghost Stories and Unknown Soldier. Endless thanks to her friends, family and all the folks at A&R! @kerstanderson1

THOMAS

Miles G. Jackson: Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits; Off-Broadway: The Great Privation (Soho Rep), Stargazers (Page 73), Pay The Writer (Signature), Three Sisters (Sheen Center), Endlings (NYTW); Regional: Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, By Charles Dickens, Again (La Jolla), Endlings (ART), Hand to God (TheaterWorks Hartford), Typhoid Mary (Barrington), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Rep of St. Louis), Mama's Boy (George Street), Tribes (Barrington), My Name is Asher Lev (George Street), 4000 Miles (Capital Rep), Mad Forest (Williamstown). Television: “The Other Two” (HBO Max), “Hunters” (Amazon), “The Last O.G.” (TBS), “Monsterland” (Hulu), “Lisey’s Story” (Apple TV). Film: A Different Man (A24), Problemista (A24).

TONY

Alexander Pobutsky is honored to make his Bridge Production Group debut. Film/TV: the Oscar-winning American Fiction, Hulu/FX’s Justified: City Primeval (in which for five episodes he played an Albanian from Hamtramck, his hometown!), The Blacklist, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, and Dust to Malibu. Theater: Soft Target (Detroit Public), Clyde's (Detroit Public), Sweat (Detroit Repertory), Blue Man Group, Hir (Apollinaire), This Is Our Youth (The Hive). His goal this year is to start smoking cigarettes.

CARTER

Paco Tolson (he/him) was recently nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards (Outstanding Lead Performance for Fiasco Theater’s Knight of the Burning Pestle and Outstanding Featured Actor for Vietgone at Manhattan Theatre Club) as well as En Grade Arts/The Vineyard Theater’s production of The Wind and The Rain, which earned a Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience. Paco originated roles in the Off-Broadway premieres of Poor Yella Rednecks (Manhattan Theatre Club), End Days (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Children of Vonderly and Rescue Me (Ma-Yi Theater Company), and Ma-Yi’s production of SUMO at The Public Theater. With Fiasco: Twelfth Night and Pericles (Classic Stage Company), and Measure for Measure (Actor’s Theater of Louisville). Regional: to the yellow house (La Jolla Playhouse); With South Coast Rep: Peter and the Starcatcher, Vietgone, and Poor Yella Rednecks; With the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale and Vietgone. Audio Drama: (There’s) No Time for Comedy (Playwrights Horizons), The Memory Motel (Two River Theater), Witness (Paramount/Gideon Media), Out of Sight (Unknown 9), Henry V, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure (Play On Shakespeare). Film and TV credits include Billions, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Prodigal Son, Search Party, The Good Fight, Madam Secretary, Happy!, The Code, and 7 DAY GIG. Paco is a graduate of Brown University and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, Fiasco Theater, and The Actors Center. He is grateful for the enduring love and support from his family. @pacotolson

PLAYWRIGHT

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Series two of Doctor Fosteraired on BBC in 2017, as did his adaptation of his stage play King Charles III. He was Associate Playwright at Paines Plough, Writer-In-Residence at the National Theatre, and Pearson Playwright in Residence at The Royal Court Theatre. His play King Charles III won the Critic’s Circle Award for Best New Play and the Olivier Award for Best New Play, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best New Play. Love Love Lovewon Best New Play in the 2011 Theatre Awards UK, and Cock won an Olivier Award in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. He won the Writer’s Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking and the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts. His television series The Town was nominated for a BAFTA for Breakthrough Talent. Doctor Foster also earned BAFTA nominations for the Radio Times Audience Award and Best Mini Series, along with Best Leading Actress for Suranne Jones (win). In 2016, Bartlett won Outstanding Newcomer for British Television Writing at the British Screenwriters’ Awards for Doctor Foster.

DIRECTOR

Max Hunter is the Producing Artistic Director of The Bridge Production Group. Recent directing credits include the New York City premiere of Frederic Sonntag’s George Kaplan (“This great, sour, vivid comedy is a dark hybrid of Chesterton and Annie Baker, and is mean as a snake.” - Helen Shaw, The New Yorker) and Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen’s [title of show], which The New York Times hailed as a “rejuvenating balm” and “a paean to the uneasy but hopeful footing upon which we all find ourselves. [The Times] would be hard-pressed to find a more honest theatrical experience right now.” Prior to the COVID shutdown, Max directed the United States premiere of Guillaume Corbeil’s See You, which Maya Philips championed in The New Yorker as “fascinating and breathless.” He will direct and produce a new production of the American Psycho stage adaptation by Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, opening 2027 at The Empyrean Club in Bushwick. For The Bridge, Max has directed New York revivals of David Hare’s The Blue Room (“Brilliant and immersive, limitless in the ability to evoke raw emotion, an experience every adult should have” writes BroadwayWorld), the world premiere commission of Carol Brown’s hedda (Playwrights Horizons’ Robert Moss Theater), and Shakespeare’s Richard III (New York Theatre Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater). Other directing credits include City Centers Encores! (asst. to Walter Bobbie), Young Pilgrims (World Premiere: Clemente Arts Center), and Access Theatre; readings and workshops at the Abingdon Theatre, Sheen Center, National Black Theatre of Harlem, and Fire This Time Festival. Regional credits include the New London Barn Playhouse, Johns Hopkins University, and Dartmouth College. Max is a member of the Playwrights/Directors Unit at The Actors Studio, is an Associate Member of the SDC, and received a BA from Dartmouth College. www.maxhuntersite.com

SCENIC DESIGNER

Thomas Jenkeleit (they/he) is a prop & scenic designer from Queens, New York devoted to creating new, reimagined, and thought provoking work. Off-Broadway: SUMO (The Public/Ma-Yi), Galas (Little Island), The Fires, Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! (Soho Rep.), QUINCE(Domino Park), Bus Stop (Classic Stage, Transport Group, NAATCO), The Wind & The Rain(Vineyard Theater, En Garde) Franklinland, Have You Met Jane Goolall and Her Mother? (EST), Illinoise (Park Avenue Armory),  All The World’s a Stage (Keen Company). BFA Ithaca College. jenkeleit.com.

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Originally from the Coast Salish region, Cheyenne is a Lighting Designer working in: dance, theatre, performance art, and opera. Most recently was the Associate Lighting Designer for Die Fledermaus and Don Pasquale at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She has designed lighting for three of the performance artist Miles Greenberg’s installations, which were performed at Perrotin New York, Reena Spaulings, and Worthless Studios. Select Design credits: Dance Nation (SkirtsAFire, Edmonton), Seolh (SAXYN Dance Works), Disputation Between the Body and the Worms (Mark Bankin Dance), Clyde’s (Playmakers Rep), Her Portmanteau (George Street Playhouse), Clyde’s (George Street Playhouse), Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr), The Slow Room (PSNY)

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Recent credits include: Quintessence Theatre Philadelphia: James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (directed by Tony-winner Paul Oakley Stovall; Off Broadway: Night Sings Its Songs; This is Not a Time of Peace; The End of Hester (all directed by Jerry Heymann / Produced by New Light Theater Project).  Curtain Theatre of NJ: Macbeth (Directed by Sean Hagerty);  Saratoga Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night (Directed by Helena Binder); Public Theatre of Maine: Polka Dots – the cool kids musical (Directed by Adam Blais); Esther in the Spotlight (Produced by Rich Orloff;).  As a musician: sitar soloist for Holiday Music of Eric Whitacre (Carnegie Hall / Conducted by the composer); Lead guitar during Off Broadway run of Hedwig & The Angry Inch

Member: AEA; Stage Managers

Association.  www.rogerlipson.com.

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Ari Richardson is a stage manager originally hailing from Michigan. Earlier this year, she received her Master’s in Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities from NYU. Credits include The Word of the Day (SheNYC), The Two Noble Kinsmen, Everything You Wanted (New York University), and The Dybbuk on Orchard (University of Michigan Residential College).