Scott is thrilled to be back in Exile. Last seen here in The Motherf*cker with the Hat, he is a 30 year veteran of Philadelphia theatre, and has worked for 1812, the Walnut, InterAct,Wilma, Peoples Light, Delaware Theatre Company, Act II Playhouse and many more. Regionally, he has worked for Actors Theatre of Louisville, Round House, and the Pearl Theatre in New York. He has won six Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, including the F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist. He was named “Best Theatre Talent” by Philadelphia Magazine. Love to Jen, Lily & Rita.

Is grateful to be returning to Theatre Exile where he got to play in The Motherf***er with the Hat almost 3 years ago! How time flies. Zach is a graduate from Rowan University, and has since worked at theatres such as Ego Po Classic Theatre, Theatre Exile, Lantern Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Delaware Shakespeare, and Quintessence Theatre Group. Texas Credits include, Theatre Three, and Shakespeare Dallas. Big thanks, and love to Scott, Deb, and Matt. Shout out to my Mofo with the Hat cast who continue to change my life with their artistry and friendship. “Mom, Dad, Joseph and Sarah...you guys are always in my heart”

Matt is a long time resident artist here at Theatre Exile, having directed and/or acted in over 20 productions. Other credits include Arden Theatre, People’s Light&Theatre, Lantern Theatre, 1812 Productions, Interact, Delaware Theatre Co, Theatre Horizon, Walnut St Theatre, Bristol Riverside, and 25 seasons with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, among others. Matt is a 13 time Barrymore nominee and winner for best Director for The Whale and The Invisible Hand both with Theatre Exile. He’s also the recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award. Love to Kim, John, and Annie.

Credits include, Abandon, The Light, Wolfplay at Theater Exile, American Fast with InterAct, Dreamgirls with Theater in the X, In Search of the Kitchen Gods with 1812 Productions, Group!, Janet Wide Awake and Ok Trenton with Passage Theatre. Additional credits: SM for; Publik Private with Playpenn, TURN! Polly Mope, Lashed but not Leashed, Black Light, The Outer Space, The Kinetic Tree, PIFA 2016 at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Minorityland with PowerStreet Theater, The Wiz with Theater in the X, Tiger Style with Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, Master Harold and the Boys, with EgoPo Classic Theater, Barrymore Awards 2018/2019, ASM Whitman! Contradict this! with Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Assistant to the Director for the live capture of La Triviata, Turandot, The Marriage of Figaro with Opera Philadelphia. Assistant Director on Di Hati- Ku with Modero Dance Co. at Fleisher Art Memorial. Lion dance consultant/ guest speaker King of the Yees at Princeton University.

Miranda M Watkins (they/them) is thrilled to be back with Theatre Exile! Their recent stage managing credits include, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show with Theatre in the X, An Army of Lovers with Azuka Theatre, and A Case For The Existence of God with Theatre Exile.

Colin McIlvaine is a Philadelphia-based, Barrymore nominated scenic designer named as one of American Theatre Magazine's 20 People to Watch.  Recent credits include: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Delaware Theatre Company), This Bitter Earth (Interact Theatre), Among the Dead, Wolf Play (Theatre Exile).  Colin’s recent associate design credits include: Daddy (The New Group), Thunderbodies (Soho Rep), Pipeline (Lincoln Center).  In addition to his freelance career, Colin is Production Designer for MC3 Event Design and adjunct faculty for Villanova University.  B.A. University of Maryland; MFA Scenic Design Temple University. www.colinmcilvaine.com

Maria is a Philadelphia-based lighting designer who received her MFA from Temple University. She has a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Hampshire College. Maria designs for many Philadelphia-based companies including: Applied Mechanics, The Riot Group, Swim Pony Performing Arts, InterAct, The Arden, The Wilma, New Paradise Laboratories, The Berserker Residents, and 1812. Maria is the co-founder of Applied Mechanics, a company who devises immersive, multi-narrative performance art. Maria is the recipient of a 2019 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. www.mariashaplin.com

Recent work: The Comedy of Errors (Lantern Theater Company); Children of the Sun (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective); The Lehman Trilogy (Arden Theater) and Camp Siegfried here in Exile. 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts; 8 Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Original Music and Sound Design; Independence Fellowship in the Arts (2012, 2019); MA in Philosophy from Western Kentucky University. BA in Philosophy/Theology from Eastern University. Music (https://tinyurl.com/5cta9ppz); Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/cmsound/sets); IG @christopherm_colucci.

LeVonne Lindsay (Costume Designer) is the Costume Shop Manager for the Lang Performing Arts Center at Swarthmore College. LeVonne received her B.S. in Fashion Design from Philadelphia University and her M.F.A. in Costume Design from the University of Maryland, College Park. A recipient of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship at Arena Stage from 2001-2003, she became the Resident Designer for the African Continuum Theatre from 2002-2004. Since returning to Philadelphia, some recent design credits include Arden Theatre Company: Radio Gulf, Into the Woods, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Ragtime, The Bluest Eye, Gem of the Ocean; Wilma Theater: Kiss, Kill Move Paradise; Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Garbologists, Sweat; InterAct Theatre Company: Selling Kabul. Other regional credits include productions at Arena Stage, The Hangar Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, The Everyman Theater, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Theater, Trinity Repertory Theater, and Indiana Repertory Theater.

Natali Merrill is a sound and technology designer and engineer excited to return to Theatre Exile! Based in Philadelphia, she has been the sound designer for productions including Ghost Ride (Agile Rascal Bike Theatre), Siluetas (Power Street Theatre), Broads (1812 Productions), Spring Awakening (Bryn Mawr College), High Noon (Ninth Planet), Shakespeare’s R&J (New Light Theatre Company), Fucking A (Swarthmore College), Riot Antigone and Cabaret (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges). She has worked with Theatre Exile, 11th Hour Theatre Company, the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, New Century Theatre Company in Seattle, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. A graduate of Haverford College with a major in physics, she researched and wrote a thesis on acoustics in performance halls with RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. She is also a singer and composer. www.nmerrill.com

Nana Nimako has designed props and set pieces for Theatre in the X’s summer productions of One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (2024), Zooman and the Sign (2023), Dreamgirls (2022), The West Philly Meeting (2021), The Beast of Nubia (2019), The Colored Museum (2019), and The Wiz (2018). Nana has also designed props for the company's co-production of Pass Over (2021) with Theatre Exile.