Jennifer Barclay is a Chicago-bred actor and playwright. Recently, she relocated to Washington, DC to join the faculty at the University of Maryland. Jennifer is currently a member of Center Stage’s inaugural Playwrights Collective, and was previously the 2009-2010 Shank Playwright in Residence at South Coast Repertory. She has been awarded the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award, Mary Margaret Linn Theatre Award, the Pinter Review Gold Medal Prize for Drama, Best Female Dramatic Solo at the San Francisco Fringe, and the second Prize for the Kennedy Center’s 2008 National Science Playwriting Award. Jennifer has been granted playwriting residencies at The Hawthornden International Writers Retreat in Scotland and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Jennifer’s plays have been produced by La Jolla Playhouse, Teatro Vista, Remy Bumppo, The International Theatre of Vienna, Collaboraction); Red Tape, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, Downstairs Cabaret, The Source Festival, Looking Glass, Son of Semele, Redcat, Moving Arts, the University of Maryland, the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and UC San Diego’s Baldwin Festival of New Plays. Jennifer has written the screenplay adaptations for The Human Capacity and Freedom, NY, the original screenplays The Fontaines, Prank, and The Right Track, and the TV pilot Flesh & Blood.

Afsoon Pajoufar makes her Boston Center for American Performance and New Repertory Theatre debut. Boston area credits include Cabaret, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Boston University). Film credits include Ruined, Zoya, Remembering the Pentagons, and Nar. She received a BA in Painting from the Azad Art and Architecture University of Tehran and is currently pursuing an MFA in Scenic Design at Boston University. Originally from Tehran, Iran, she currently resides in Allston.

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Annalynn Luu returns to Boston Center for American Performance and New Repertory Theatre after assisting costume design for Baltimore and Brecht on Brecht. Recent credits include designing The Cherry Orchard and co-designing Cloud Nine and God’s Ear (Boston University). Past credits include costume design for Hot Mikado (San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts), Disguise Costumes, and various avant garde fashion collections for Exhibit Ambush. She has also worked with The Old Globe and Lamb’s Players Theatre in San Diego. Annalynn is a third year costume design graduate student at Boston University.

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David Orlando makes his Boston Center for American Performance debut and returns to New Repertory Theatre after designing New Rep’s Classic Repertory Company touring productions of Othello and To Kill a Mockingbird. Other recent work includes designing Sweets by Kate and Eurydice (Boston University); and assistant design credits at Boston Conservatory, Berkshire Theater Group, American Repertory Theater, and Boston Lyric Opera. He formerly served as the resident lighting designer of the New Classics Company. David is currently a senior pursuing his BFA in Lighting Design at Boston University. He is originally from Cape Cod. Upcoming projects include La Bohème (Boston Opera Collaborative); and Bull (Boston University Senior Theater Arts Majors Productions).

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DAVID REIFFEL makes his Boston Center for American Performance debut and returns to New Repertory Theatre after creating arrangements and sound for Man of La Mancha, for which he also served as Music Director, Blackberry Winter, The Elephant Man, Master Class, Marry Me a Little, Chesapeake (IRNE Nominee), and Collected Stories, among others. Recent Boston area credits include Hamlet, Blood Wedding, A Beautiful Day In November…, and Stupid F***ing Bird (Apollinaire Theater Company); A Disappearing Number (Underground Railway Theatre, IRNE Nominee); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, and Middletown (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Bridges of Madison County, Dogfight, Big Fish, Carrie, and The Color Purple (SpeakEasy Stage); Doubt, and I Capture the Castle (Greater Boston Stage Company); The Rainmaker, Man in Snow, and Gloucester Blue (Gloucester Stage, LaMama); and The Rag Doll (Blue Spruce, IRNE Nominee, Best New Play). Recent national credits include Shakespeare in Love (US national premiere); Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); and Cymbeline (Shakespeare & Co.). Upcoming projects include the Boston premiere of Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy Stage Company) and The Cradle Will Rock (Boston Conservatory at Berklee). Listen at soundcloud.com/davidreiffel

Jared Mezzocchi makes his Boston Center for American Performance and New Repertory Theatre debut. Boston credits include Astroboy and the God of Comics (Company One). Off-Broadway credits include Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club). New York credits include Downtown Loop (Three-Legged Dog); and You Are Dead. You Are Here (Here Arts Center). Washington, DC credits include The Nether, Women Laughing Alone with Salad, and Chad Deity (Woolly Mammoth); Smart People and Intelligence (Arena Stage); and BELL (National Geographic). Regional credits include work with Baltimore Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep, South Coast Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, and The Wilma. He has designed nationally and internationally for Big Art Group, Builder’s Association, and Connect4Climate (Design Week, Milan). Awards include a 2017 Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Henry Hewes Design Award (Vietgone), the 2015 Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards (Astroboy), and the 2012 Princess Grace Award. Jared currently is the Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse, an innovative NH children’s theater focusing on new work, and currently teaches in the MFA Design program at The University of Maryland.

Renee E. Yancey makes her New Repertory Theatre debut and returns to Boston Center for American Performance after stage managing Exposed. New England-area credits include The Fantasticks (Opera House Arts); The Honey Trap and Faithless (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre/Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre); and Production Manager for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Boys from Syracuse (Landmarks Orchestra/Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). She was the Production Stage Manager for 30 productions at Olney Theatre Center. Favorite Olney credits include The King and I, A Chorus Line, Spring Awakening, and The 39 Steps. This summer, Renee will be the Production Manager for Richard III (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Renee is a Lecturer and Program Head of Stage Management for the School of Theatre at Boston University. She received a BFA in Theatre Arts from Texas State University-San Marcos. Originally from Texas, Renee was based in the DC/MD area before moving to Boston.

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