The Tragedy of Coriolanus

Broadway: Network, The Kite Runner. Off Broadway: Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage), Fuente Ovejuna (TFANA), Macbeth (CSC), Richard II (The Public/WNYC), Hamlet (Waterwell). International: Aftermath (Melbourne, Paris, Amsterdam), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Theater Calgary). Regional companies: Seattle Rep, Guthrie, Berkeley Rep, A.C.T., Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington, Cincinnati Playhouse, Folger, CATF, Virginia Stage, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Film: F.A.S.T. (upcoming), Ezra, Funny Face. Select TV: The Blacklist, Chicago Med, Girls5eva, Smash, Law & Order: CI. MFA: University of Washington.

McKinley Belcher III is a BAFTA TV–nominated actor known for his standout role as Detective Michael Ledroit in Netflix’s Eric, in which he was praised by critics as “quietly magnetic” and “with a confident swagger warranted of an old Hollywood star.” He most recently appears in Netflix’s Zero Day opposite Robert De Niro and the indie film Other People’s Bodies. Belcher’s other notable screen credits include Netflix’s Ozark and the film Marriage Story. On Broadway, he’s appeared in Death of a Salesman and A Soldier’s Play. Also a writer, his screenplay Kinda Blue Burning Bright won Slamdance’s 2020 Mentorship Award, and he holds an MFA from USC.

Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Beaumont). Off-Broadway: Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem, Yale Rep), The Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre). Regional: Henry 6 (Old Globe), Shane (Guthrie, Cincinnati Playhouse), Shakespeare In Love, Indecent (OSF), It's a Wonderful Life (ASF), Sense & Sensibility (DTC), more. International: October in the Chair… (Amsterdam Fringe Festival). Writer, Co-creator: Origin Story (NYIT Award, Best Solo Performance). Film/Television: The Normal Heart, The Noel Diary, Playing Sam, Our Son, The Flight Attendant, NCIS: NOLA, The Outs, more. Education: BFA, Marymount Manhattan; MFA, Yale School of Drama. @demeritt, williamdemeritt.com

Most recently seen on stage in Blood of the Lamb at 59E59 (Drama Desk Award nomination). Other theater credits include: Rosalind in As You Like It (The Old Globe), Maid Marian in Robin Hood (The Old Globe), Christina Mundy in Dancing at Lughnasa (Two River Theater). TV/film includes: Friendship opposite Paul Rudd, Resident Alien (HCA Astra Award Winner, Best Cable Series), The Offer (Critic's Choice Award Nominee), Fosse/Verdon,  Stargirl,  Chicago Med, New Amsterdam, Prodigal Son, The Good Fight, Elementary. Founding member of Society Theatre Company. Education: MFA, NYU Grad Acting, Class of 2017. For Danny and Arlo, always.

Merlin McCormick (he/they) is an actor, singer, dancer, and screenwriter from the suburbs of Wake Forest, NC, but he is simply whatever he needs to be to tell a story. They love dancing, stunting on hoes with a clean fit, Shakespeare, history, and writing poetry. Some of his notable credits include Viola in Twelfth Night (International Black Theatre Festival), Romeo, Hamlet, and Orsino in Shake it Up: Cabaret (Shakespeare and Company), and Millie in Trouble in Mind (Clarence Brown Theatre). Merlin holds an MFA in Acting from University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Off-Broadway: Prosperous Fools (TFANA), Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages), Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Wheelhouse/Duke on 42nd St), Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam/Gym at Judson), The Light and The Dark (Primary Stages), Becomes A Woman (The Mint/City Center), The Saintliness of Margery Kempe (Duke on 42nd St), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Pearl), The Seagull (Bedlam/Sheen Center), and multiple incarnations of Jason's solo show, The Dork Knight (Joe’s Pub, Abingdon Theatre Company, Primary Stages, Bedlam, etc.). Regional: American Repertory Theater, Old Globe, Syracuse Stage, Two River Theater, Hartford Stage, Chautauqua Theater Company, Cape Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, among others. TV: Search Party, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. For GW.

Emma Ramos is a bilingual Mexican multi-hyphenate. She can be seen in Alessandra Lacorazza's 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, In the Summers and will next be seen in Blumhouse/Atomic Monster's SOULM8TE. Previous theatre credits include Ivo van Hove's Scenes From a Marriage, a re-imagined adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro at Little Island, and the "Brave New Shakespeare: ROMEO AND JULIET" opposite Daniel Molina for The Public. Emma most recently wrote La Chef for Gaumont, with Noé Santillán-López attached to direct the feature.

Mickey Sumner is an English actress whose dynamic career spans film, television, and theatre. She currently co-stars in Brad Ingelsby’s HBO series Task alongside Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey and recently wrapped Blood in Snow with Benedict Cumberbatch and Rose’s Baby with Antonio Banderas. Sumner starred in TNT’s Snowpiercer and is recognized for standout performances in Frances Ha and A Mistake. Further credits include Marriage Story, The End of the Tour, and Battle of the Sexes. She made her Off-Broadway and Atlantic Theater Company debut in Craig Lucas's The Lying Lesson. Sumner resides in New York and is a Parsons graduate.

Zuzanna Szadkowski is known for playing Dorota on Gossip Girl. Other credits include The Gilded Age, Three Women, Worth, Bull, Search Party, The Knick, The Good Wife, and Girls. Theater credits include Are the Bennet Girls OK?, Arcadia, and Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet (WSJ Performance of the Year 2018) with Bedlam, Dom Juan at Bard Summerscape, queens at LCT3, The Comedy of Errors at the Public, and Coach Coach and King Philip’s Head… with Clubbed Thumb. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and Alien Nation. Her play, Fall River Fishing (co-written with Deborah Knox), was produced Off-Broadway in 2023 by Bedlam.

Sarin Monae West is an actor, writer, and co-founder of Black Artist Network. Sarin was most recently seen as Bushy in Richard II starring Michael Urie. BROADWAY: The Skin of Our Teeth (dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz). OFF-BROADWAY: Red Bull Theater’s Medea: Reversed (Lucille Lortel Award Winner), Merry Wives at Shakespeare in the Park (dir. Saheem Ali). Other plays include Whitney White’s By The Queen (dir. Shana Cooper, Hudson Valley Shakespeare) Medea: Reversed (dir. Nathan Winklestein, Hudson Valley Shakespeare), The Scenarios (dir. Tiffany Nichole Greene, Studio Theater). TV: The Equalizer (CBS), Evil (CBS), And Just Like That (HBO Max), The Other Two (HBO Max).  MFA: NYU Graduate Acting. 🧡Harold Lewter, CLA Partners. @sarinmonae 

Ash K. Tata (they/ze) is a Brooklyn-based theatre and opera director whose work has appeared on stages around the world including at Miller Theater, Carnegie Hall, The Wexner, LA Opera, and The Summerscape, Big Ears, Crossing the Line, and Holland Festivals, and The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Tata’s Dom Juan was described as a production that “reaches out across the centuries and punches you in the throat” (New York Times), with other reviews citing other stage works as “extraordinarily powerful” (LA Times), and a notable production of the decade (The New Yorker). Currently Assistant Professor and Artistic Producer of Theater & Performance at Bard College. tatatime.live