Cassie Beck (Aimee Blake)

Broadway: Picnic. Off-Broadway: The Humans (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Whale, The Drunken City (Theatre World Award), Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Horizons); By the Water (Manhattan Theatre Club and Ars Nova); The Insurgents (Labyrinth Theater Company); Happy Hour, Oohrah! (Atlantic Theater Company); and Smudge (Women’s Project Theater). Regional: Elemeno Pea (South Coast Repertory and Humana Festival), Prelude to a Kiss (Huntington Theatre Company), The Cherry Sisters Revisited (Humana), Three Sisters (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and The Consultant (Long Wharf Theatre).

Reed Birney (Erik Blake)

Reed Birney won this year’s Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance in The Humans. Broadway: Gemini, Picnic, Casa Valentina (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award). Off-Broadway: Blasted (Drama Desk nomination), Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award, Drama Desk Award), Uncle Vanya (Drama Desk Award nomination), Tigers Be Still, The Dream of the Burning Boy (Outer Critics Circle nomination), You Got Older (Drama Desk nomination), I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Drama Desk nomination). TV: “House of Cards” (Donald Blythe), “The Blacklist” (Tom Connolly), and “Girls.” He is the recipient of a 2006 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, a 2011 Special Drama Desk Award honoring his career, and the Richard Seff Award from Actors’ Equity.

Jane Houdyshell (Jayne Blake)

Broadway: The Humans (2016 Tony Award, Best Actress in a Featured Role), Fish in the Dark, Romeo and Juliet, Dead Accounts, Follies (Tony nomination), The Importance of Being Earnest, Bye Bye Birdie, Wicked, and Well (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: The Humans; Harrison, TX; Coraline; The Receptionist; The New Century; and The Pain and the Itch. She won Obie and Theater World Awards for Well’s original run at the Public Theater. She is the recipient of a 2013 special Drama Desk Award for her artistry as an exceptionally versatile and distinctive Broadway and Off-Broadway performer. Film: Lucky Stiff, Everybody’s Fine, Garden State, and Trust the Man. TV: “American Odyssey,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,”  and “Law and Order: SVU.”

Lauren Klein (Fiona Blake)

Broadway: Other Desert Cities, Lost in Yonkers (original cast), and Broken Glass (original cast). Off-Broadway: Mr. Goldwyn, Death Defying Acts, and After the Fall. Regional: Death of a Salesman, Plainsong, Eventide, Big Love, The People’s Temple, The Last Night at Ballyhoo, and Denial. National tours: Dirty Dancing, Broadway Bound, and I’m Not Rappaport. TV: “Law & Order” (Judge, recurring for ten years) and “Tales From the Darkside.” Film: My One and Only, A Price Above Rubies, and Then She Found Me. Video game: Red Dead Redemption. Awards: Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a play for Big Love, Carbonell Award for Best Actress for Denial, and Denver Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress for Plainsong. She received her Master of Fine Arts from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Arian Moayed (Richard Saad)

Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony and Drama League Award nominations, Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: The Humans (Roundabout Theatre Company), Guards at the Taj (Atlantic Theater Company), Masked (Drama Desk Award nomination), King Lear (Public Theater), and Homebody/Kabul (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, BAM). Film: Rock the Kasbah, Rosewater, and Appropriate Behavior. As co-founder and artistic director of Waterwell, he devised 13 productions (upcoming Hamlet, A.Jax, and Blueprint Specials); administers the Waterwell Drama Program at the Professional Performing Arts School; and with Waterwell Films, has written and directed films including Day Ten (Tribeca Film Festival) and the upcoming thriller series “The Accidental Wolf.”

Sarah Steele (Brigid Blake)

Broadway: The Country House. Off-Broadway: Slowgirl, Russian Transport, All-American, Speech & Debate, The Netflix Plays, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Regional: Not Waving (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: Speech & Debate, Permission, Viena and the Fantomes, The Mend, Adult Beginners, The To Do List, Please Give, Margaret, Spanglish, and Man (short). Television: “The Good Wife,” “Girls,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Blue Bloods,” “Harry’s Law,” “Gossip Girl,” and “Law & Order.” Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Columbia University.

Stephen Karam (Playwright)

Stephen Karam‘s plays include The Humans (Tony Award, Obie Award for Playwriting and Pulitzer Prize finalist), Sons of the Prophet (Pulitzer Prize finalist), and Speech & Debate. His adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard premiered on Broadway as part of Roundabout’s 2016 season; his film adaptation of The Seagull starring Annette Bening will premiere in 2017. Recent honors include two Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards; a Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League Award and Hull-Warriner Award. Stephen is a graduate of Brown University and grew up in Scranton, PA.

Joe Mantello (Director)

Broadway: Blackbird, The Humans, Airline Highway, The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Other Desert Cities, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Assassins (Tony Award), Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Design for Living, Proposals, Love! Valour! Compassion! Off-B’way: Broadway: Dogfight, The Pride, A Man of No Importance, The Vagina Monologues, bash, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi. As an actor: The Normal Heart (Tony nom. and on HBO), Angels in America (Tony nom.) and The Baltimore Waltz. Recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.