Carey Perloff is a director, playwright, producer and educator who was the Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco from 1992- 2018. At A.C.T. and in New York, Perloff staged eleven of Stoppard’s plays with the playwright in residence, a collaboration that spanned over thirty years and culminated in her 2022 book PINTER AND STOPPARD: A DIRECTOR’S VIEW (Bloomsbury 2022). Perloff continues to direct and write for theaters across America. Recent work includes The Cherry Orchard and Waste at Marin, Leopoldstadt and The Lehman Trilogy at the Huntington and her own play Vienna Vienna Vienna at Six Points in St. Paul. This production is dedicated to my mother Marjorie Perloff nee Gabriele Mintz, who fled Vienna in 1938. Careyperloff.com

Bobby Kennedy is the Director of Artistic Development at Writers Theatre. He has been the resident dramaturg at the theatre since 2008 and has led the theatre's new work program since 2014. Highlights of his tenure include the world premieres of Dhaba on Devon Avenue by Madhuri Shekar, Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol, Wife of a Salesman by Eleanor Burgess, Dishwasher Dreams by Alauddin Ullah, Witch by Jen Silverman, Trevor by Dan Collins and Julianne Wick-Davis, The Hunter and the Bear by PigPen Theatre Co., and Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf by Tim Sniffen; the national premieres of Quixote: On the Conquest of Self by Mónica Hoth, Claudio Valdés Kuri, and Georgina Escobar, and The Dance of Death by Conor McPherson; and the Chicago premieres of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, A Distinct Society, Tiger Style!, Athena, The Last Match, The Niceties, Vietgone, Smart People, and Marjorie Prime. His dramaturgy credits also include the world premieres of Give It All Back (SideShow Theatre Company), Body and Blood (The Gift Theatre), Ibsen is Dead (Interrobang Theatre Project) and The Peacock (Jackalope Theatre Company), as well as the midwest premiere of The Luck of the Irish (Next Theatre Company). Kennedy co-founded The Spontaneous Theater Project in Boston and has also worked with Huntington Theatre Company and New Repertory Theatre. He is an alumnus of Boston University.