MEET THE TEAM

PLAYWRIGHT

Stephen Foglia is a writer and director from St. Louis. His work has been presented at Undermain Theatre, Dallas Museum of Art, Dixon Place, IRT, Barn Arts Collective, Shanghai Theater Academy, the Ford Studio at the Pershing Square Signature Center, and more. He was a finalist for the Columbia@Roundabout series and the Against the Grain Festival and a semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Civilians Next Forever Initiative. Stephen is a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He earned his MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2017. He currently teaches theater and produces plays with students at Hunter College.

www.stephenfoglia.com

DIRECTOR

Phillip is a black queer member of New Dramatists (class of 2030), a Fire This Time Festival Playwright, Fresh Ground Pepper PGPG, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee (current staff), Playwrights Realm and Lambda Literary Fellow, Winter Playwrights Retreater. O’Neill, PlayPenn, Trustus, and BAPF Finalist. Florida Rep PlayLab, Valdez conference. Co-Literary Director of Exquisite Corpse Company. He teaches acting at Pace University and playwriting at Hunter College. BFA UNM, MFA Yale School of Drama, MFA Hunter College. Roe Green Commission with Cleveland Playhouse.

www.phillipchristiansmith.com

ACTOR / PRODUCER

Charles is an actor and writer. In additio to playing Jacob/Anthe inThe Maenads, he is also producing. His previous New York stage credits include Tommy in Not About Me by Eduardo Machado at Theater for the New City, Liam in Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon at MCS Theater, and Charlie Morris in Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry at HB Playwrights.

SET DESIGNER

Dedalus Wainwright is a set designer and visual artist based in Harlem, New York. He loves to collaborate on vivid and accessible projects. Recent design work: Alcina, directed by Sam Helfrich at The New School; Grape Maestro (film), directed by Alla Kovgan; How Do I Become WE (dance), directed by Parijat Desai; Cosmic Cowboy, directed by Sam Helfrich at White Snake Projects; Elizabeth Cree, directed by Sam Helfrich at West Edge Opera; Cunningham (film), directed by Alla Kovgan. Workshop  projects include: Uncle Stan in Berlin, directed by Dima Krymov at Hunter College; Our Town, directed by Dima Krymov at The New School. From 1999-2010, Dedalus was a founding member of Kinodance Company. 

dedaluswainwright.com