John Leguizamo

Playwright

JOHN LEGUIZAMO (Playwright, Nelson). Award-winning actor, writer, and producer John Leguizamo has established a prolific career that defies categorization and spans film, television, theater, and literature. Leguizamo serves as the host and executive producer of MSNBC’s hit travel show “Leguizamo Does America,” and stars in the Apple TV+ series “Smoke.” He will also appear in the upcoming Christopher Nolan film The Odyssey. He garnered a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as a sensitive drag queen in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and has more than 100 other film credits including Carlito’s Way, Moulin Rouge!, and Encanto. Acclaimed for his one man shows such as Ghetto Klown, he garnered a Tony Award for his 2022 performance in Latin History for Morons. Leguizamo’s Broadway debut was his one-man show, Freak, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. Leguizamo’s play, Spic-O-Rama, received an Obie Award and an Outer Critics Award for Best Play of 1993.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Director

RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON (Director). Directing credits include Jitney (Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk), Kunene and the King, Skeleton Crew (Obie, AUDELCO), Lackawanna Blues (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Obie, Helen Hayes), Othello, The Piano Lesson (Obie, Lucille Lortel, Callaway, AUDELCO), The Happiest Song Plays Last, My Children My Africa, The First Breeze of Summer, Seven Guitars, Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, Two Trains Running, Gem of the Ocean. Acting credits include Seven Guitars (Tony Award), Stick Fly, Gem of the Ocean, Jelly’s Last Jam, How I Learned What I Learned, Lackawanna Blues, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, Henry VIII, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men.

Arnulfo Maldonado

Scenic Design

ARNULFO MALDONADO he/him (Scenic Design). Public: Goddess, Mojada, Twelfth Night (Mobile Unit). Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club (Tony nominee), Dead Outlaw, Real Women Have Curves, Yellow Face, Home, A Strange Loop (Tony nominee), Topdog/Underdog, Trouble in Mind. Additional credits: Atlantic, CSC, LCT, MCC, MTC, New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep, Arena, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, CTG Guthrie, Steppenwolf. Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Award, Lortel recipient, Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: @arnulfo.maldonado.design. arnulfomaldonado.com

Kara Harmon

Costume Design

KARA HARMON she/her (Costume Design). Off-Broadway: The Great Privation (Soho Rep); Watch Night (PAC NYC); cullud wattah (Public); The Niceties (MTC); Dot (Vineyard). Select Regional: We Are Gathered (Arena Stage); The Penelopiad (Goodman); The Three Musketeers (OSF, 42nd Street, Goodspeed; CT Critics Circle Outstanding Costume Design Award); Choir Boy (Steppenwolf); Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Children’s Theatre Company); Hometown to the World (Santa Fe Opera); Shutter Sisters (Old Globe); Guys & Dolls (Guthrie); The Wiz! (Ford’s Theatre, Helen Hayes Award); Barbecue (Geffen, NAACP Award). KaraHarmonDesign.com

Jen Schriever

Lighting Design

JEN SCHRIEVER (Lighting Design). Broadway: Art, Glengarry Glen Ross, Eureka Day, Mother Play, A Strange Loop (Tony nomination), Death of a Salesman (Tony nomination), 1776, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Opera: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Seattle Opera); Die Fledermaus, Les Pecheurs De Perles (Metropolitan Opera); Faust, La Traviata, Britten’s Midsummer (Mariinsky, Russia). Obie Award for sustained excellence in design. Mom: Henry. Adjunct at Purchase College. www.JenSchriever.com

Justin Ellington

Sound Design

JUSTIN ELLINGTON he/him (Sound Design). Public Theater credits: Hamlet (Shakespeare in the Park). Broadway credits include Othello, Our Town, McNeal, Topdog/Underdog, Clyde’s, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, and Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Tony nominations). Off-Broadway credits include work at New York Theatre Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and others. Regional theaters include The Goodman, Steppenwolf, The Guthrie, The Alliance Theatre, and Arena Stage. He currently teaches at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama.

Anika Seitu

Hair and Wig Design

ANIKA SEITU (Hair and Wig Design). Hair and makeup design credits include Norma, Tales of Hoffmann, Tosca, Romeo and Juliet, The Marriage of Figaro, and La Traviata (Palm Beach Opera); Le Prophète, King Arthur, and Dalibor (Bard Summerscape); and Blue (Washington National Opera). Film and TV credits include “The Gilded Age,” Joker: Folie à Deux, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Severance,” and “Hondo.”

Natalie Carney

Prop Management

NATALIE CARNEY (Prop Manager) is a NYC-based props supervisor originally from North Carolina. She is thrilled to be making her Public Theater debut with The Other Americans. Her work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Little Island, and most recently in Heathers: The Musical at New World Stages.

Thomas Schall

Fight Direction

THOMAS SCHALL (Fight Director). Broadway: Over 100 shows. Othello, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play (Drama Desk Award, fight choreography), The Cost of Living, The Cottage, The Kite Runner, True West, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jitney, War Horse, Romeo and Juliet. At The Public Theater: Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Mother Courage. At New York Theatre Workshop: Red Speedo, Othello (Drama Desk nomination, fight choreography). At The Armory: The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk nomination, fight choreography), Hamlet.

Ann C. James

Intimacy Coordinator

ANN C. JAMES (Intimacy Coordinator). Obie Award. Broadway: John Proctor Is the Villian, Sexual Misconduct for the Middle Classes, Sunset Boulevard, A Wonderful World, Eureka Day, Lempicka, The Outsiders, Hamilton, Parade, Sweeney Todd, Illinoise, and others. Off-Broadway: 3 Summers of Lincoln, Jonah, How to Defend Yourself, The Comeuppance, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, My Broken Language, The Half-God of Rainfall, Here There Are Blueberries, The Lonely Few. 

Lorna Ventura

Choreography

LORNA VENTURA (Choreography) is a Director/Choreographer for Broadway, film, and television. Original Broadway Cast or Associate Choreographer: Wicked, Grease, All Shook Up, Harlem Song, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Life. Choreographer: Empire, Destiny of Desire, American Prophet (Helen Hayes nomination). Director: Christmas in Hell.  She is thrilled to be working on The Other Americans at The Public, where she can bring her authentic roots of the NYC dance scene to this production.

Caparelliotis Casting: David Caparelliotis CSA/Joe Gery

Casting

CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING (Casting). David Caparelliotis CSA/Joe Gery. Select Broadway: Good Night and Good Luck, Eureka Day, Mary Jane, Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Cost of Living, Macbeth, Skeleton Crew, The Minutes, The Boys in the Band, Jitney. Off-Broadway: MTC, Signature (NYC), Atlantic, Ars Nova. Select Regional: The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Donmar Warehouse (consulting US casting director). TV/Film: “New Amsterdam” (NBC, series casting), "Boys in the Band" (Netflix, Original Casting).

James Latus

Production Stage Manager

JAMES LATUS (Production Stage Manager). The Public: The Visitor, Mother of the Maid, Plenty, Hamilton, and 20+ others. Broadway: The Collaboration, The Kite Runner, Oklahoma!, True West, Farinelli and the King, Time and the Conways, Indecent, Jitney, All The Way, A Time To Kill, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Clybourne Park, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Stones In His Pockets, Bells Are Ringing, The Capeman. Most recent regional: 3 Summers of Lincoln.

Ana Muñoz

Stage Manager

ANA MUÑOZ they/them (Stage Manager) is a proudly queer + Latine theatre artist. Off-Broadway: Walk On Through (MCC), Assassination of Julius Caesar… (Bedlam), Arcadia (Bedlam). Select Other NYC: Sheltered (the cell), The Dybbuk (The New School), Readings at NYCC and La Jolla Playhouse. Regional: Arena Stage, Spiegeltent @ Bard College, Central Square Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hippodrome State Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, & TheatreSquared. BA: University of Montevallo (PV!). Ana thanks their Papa, Dr. Johnathon Muñoz, for raising them to treasure their Latinidad.

Arena Stage

ARENA STAGE. The first racially integrated theater in our nation’s capital and a pioneer of the regional theater movement, Arena Stage was founded in 1950 in Washington, DC. Today, under the leadership of Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is a national center dedicated to American voices and artists. We produce plays of all that is passionate, profound, deep, and dangerous in the American spirit, and present diverse and groundbreaking work from some of the best artists around the country. Consistently contributing to the American theatrical lexicon by commissioning and developing new plays, Arena Stage impacts the lives of over 10,000 students annually through its work in community engagement and serves a diverse annual audience of more than 300,000. arenastage.org