And Then We Were No More – September 19-November 2

COMPANY

TIM BLAKE NELSON (Playwright) is a celebrated writer, director, actor, and producer. His work as a playwright was most recently on display with The Public’s acclaimed 2019 Off-Broadway world premiere production of his play, Socrates, an intimate portrait of the ancient Greek philosopher, starring Michael Stuhlbarg in the title role, and directed by Tony Award-winner Doug Hughes. He made his NYC playwriting debut in 1996 with the MCC Theater Obie Award-winning production of his play, The Grey Zone, a searing Holocaust drama that won Nelson Newsday’s Oppenheimer Award for Best Debut Play, along with Encore Magazine’s Taking Off Award and the Berilla Kerr Award. He then adapted the play into a 2001 feature film of the same name, starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino, and Harvey Keitel.
The film won the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression Award. MCC Theater also premiered his 1998 play Anadarko, set in a small-town Oklahoma jail, where the intertwined destinies of two men collide as each awaits judgment in adjacent jail cells. His debut play, Eye of God, set in his native Oklahoma, first premiered at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1992 where it was nominated for the Kesselring Prize. It most recently played Off-Broadway in 2009.
This harrowing drama about a naive young woman’s fateful marriage to the disturbed ex-convict was also adapted into a feature film written and directed by Nelson, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature at Sundance and the Someone to Watch Independent Spirit Award, while winning the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival, along with Best Director at the Seattle Film Festival. As a stage actor, Nelson has starred Off-Broadway in Shakespeare in the Park’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beard of Avon, Oedipus, Richard
III, Troilus and Cressida, Mad Forest, Twelfth Night, and at MTC, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, NYTW, and Soho Rep.

A veteran screen actor, Nelson has nearly 100 screen credits, including O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Thin Red Line, Minority Report, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Lincoln, Nightmare Alley, Old Henry, Syriana, Fantastic Four, Holes, Donnie Brasco, Just Mercy, The Incredible Hulk, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Meet the Fockers, Captain America: Brave New World, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. For television, he starred in HBO’s Watchmen, earning a Critics’ Choice Award nomination; and most recently appeared on Peacock’s Emmy- nominated Poker Face and Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. As a filmmaker, he has
written and directed five features, including Leaves of Grass starring Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, and Susan Sarandon; Anesthesia starring Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol, and Corey Stoll; and O, a modern adaptation of Othello starring Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, and Julia Stiles.

This Fall, Nelson will co-star in FX’s new drama series The Lowdown starring Ethan Hawke and created by Sterlin Harjo; in Mona Fastvold’s highly-anticipated musical drama feature film, Ann Lee, starring Amanda Seyfried about the famed real-life religious leader; and will star in the title role of the independent feature, Bang Bang, playing an aging boxer whose glory days are long
past. He is currently editing his latest film as a writer/director, The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, starring Amanda Seyfried, Scoot McNairy, Wunmi Mosaku, Missi Pyle, and Nelson himself. He published his debut novel, City of Blows, in 2023 with Unnamed Press, and will debut his second novel, Superhero, forthcoming in December 2025.

MARK WING-DAVEY (Director) lives in NYC and is an Arts Professor in Grad Acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where from 2008-2020 he was chair. He first came to prominence in the U.S. for his production of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest at New York Theatre Workshop (with Tim Blake Nelson in the original cast), initiating his U.S. directing career and earning him an Obie Award for Outstanding Director.  Working extensively in New York for NYTW, MTC, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, LAByrinth, and most often, The Public, where Troilus Cressida and Henry 5 (at the Delacorte) , School of the Americas, Silence Cunning Exile, 36 Views, Unconditional, The Singing Forest, The Skriker and The Vagrant Trilogy are highlights. Recent work also includes Nina Raine’s Consent, Mike Bartlett’s King Charles the Third and Francis Turnly’s The Great Wave, Peter Barnes’ Red Noses, and a non-male identifying All’s Well That Ends Well. He has directed numerous productions of new and classic plays at major theatres across the US, UK, and Australia.

E.J. AN returns to the Off-Broadway stage in her first understudy role in this incredible production. Recent television work includes appearances on Long Bright River (Peacock), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), and New Amsterdam (NBC). With a growing body of work across stage and screen, she is excited to expand her theatrical repertoire and contribute to this dynamic cast.

WILLIAM APPIAH is proud to be making his Off-Broadway debut with this amazing community of artists at this world-famous theater. He is a recent graduate of the Columbia University MFA Acting Program where he performed in F*cking A, Henry VI: Civil Wars, The Brothers Size, Fool for Love, The Piano Lesson (Lymon), Stick Fly (Flip), Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), among others. Other Theater: Fences (Lyric Rep), Hamlet (Shakespeare Orange County), Group (Defiance Theatre Co – LA), The Long Clock (Antaeus/Workshop). William is of Ghanian-American heritage. All love to his beautiful wife and soon to arrive baby daughter.

 KASEY CONNOLLY is a Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and producer making her La MaMa debut. Select credits include Into the Breeches at Cleveland Play House and FBI on CBS. She is a co- founder of Three of Cups, a production company that uses the surreal to explore the full expanse of human experience. Their original work, Call of the Void, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kasey holds an MFA in Acting from Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House and a BA from NYU Gallatin, where she concentrated in “The Actor’s Artistry and Agency Within the Creative Process”—exploring how performers shape stories, not just embody them. Major thanks to the company of ATWWNM, her reps at DGRW, and her endlessly patient and supportive friends and family.

 CRAIG WESLEY DIVINO is an actor, musician, and fight choreographer based in Brooklyn. Stage credits include Wheelhouse Theatre, Dorset Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Irish Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, NYSAF, Clutch, and Fault Line Theatre. TV credits include The Blacklist, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Evil, and Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Craig co-founded Fault Line Theatre, an off-Broadway company that develops and produces new works, now in its fifteenth season. He serves on the board of Trinity Theatre Group, a nonprofit which offers theater-based literacy enrichment programs for economically disadvantaged communities. Craig is also the General Manager and starting pitcher for the multi-championship-winning Broadway Show League softball team The Downtowners. MFA Brown/Trinity Rep. Thanks to HCKR Agency and CLA Partners.

ELIZABETH MARVEL Broadway: King Lear, Picnic, Top Girls (Drama League Award), Taking Sides, Edward Albee’s Seascape, An American Daughter, The Seagull, Other Desert Cities (Drama League nom). Off-Broadway: Five Models in Ruins, Sabbath’s Theater; Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Drama League, Lortel noms); Julius Caesar (Drama League nom); The Little Foxes (Drama League, Lortel nom); Obie awards for Hedda Gabler, A Streetcar Named Desire, Thérèse Raquin and Misalliance; Fifty Words (Drama Desk nom); Troilus and Cressida. Regional: American Rep., Stratford Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival. TV: “Presumed Innocent,” “Mrs. Davis”; ” Love & Death,” “The Dropout,” “Unbelievable,” “Homeland,” “House of Cards,” “Law Order: SVU.” Film: G20, The Color Purple, News of the World, The Meyerowitz Stories, The Land of Steady Habits, The Bourne Legacy, Lincoln, and the upcoming Untitled Steven Spielberg Film. Training: Juilliard.

JENNIFER MOGBOCK was born In Nigeria and raised in Argentina, Texas, and Canada. Being the daughter of a Diplomat mother, Jennifer moved all around the world but always seemed to find “home” on the stage. She’s performed on some of the biggest stages in North America and most recently starred in Apple TV+’s limited series Lady In the Lake opposite Moses Ingram and Natalie Portman. She has appeared in guest roles on hit shows like Evil, The Good Fight, and Designated Survivor. Her stage credits include Merry Wives (Shakespeare in the Park), Yemandja (Kennedy Center),  off-Broadway’s The Half God Of Rainfall (New York Theatre Workshop) Antony and Cleopatra (Stratford Festival) and Toni Stone (Huntington Theatre). Jennifer holds an MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program.

SCOTT SHEPHERD‘s film credits include The Phoenician Scheme, Killers of the Flower Moon, El Camino, First Cow, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Jason Bourne, and Bridge of Spies. He will next be seen alongside Matthew McConaughey in The Rivals of Amziah King. He guest-starred as the cult leader David on The Last of Us. Other television credits include True Detective, Wormwood, and The Young Pope. An award-winning stage actor, Scott has performed in two of New York’s most celebrated theater companies, The Wooster Group and Elevator Repair Service, for over 25 years. Stage credits include Gatz (Obie and Elliot Norton Awards, Drama League Nomination), The Wooster Group’s Hamlet (as Hamlet) and Poor Theater (Obie and Bessie Awards), The Village Bike with Greta Gerwig (Lortel Nomination), and Blood Knot with Colman Domingo. He will soon appear in Ulysses, which he co-directed, at the Public Theater in New York.

HENRY STRAM BROADWAY: NETWORK, JUNK, THE ELEPHANT MAN, INHERIT THE WIND, THE CRUCIBLE and TITANIC. Recent credits include CAMINO REAL (Williamstown Theater Festival); Dave Malloy’s THREE HOUSES (Signature Theater); Liz Swados’ THE BEAUTIFUL LADY (La Mama ETC); THE HEADLANDS (LCT 3); JUDGMENT DAY and THE HAIRY APE (both at the Park Avenue Armory). In two seasons with Barrington Stage Company Henry played Andy in ANDY WARHOL IN IRAN and directed Harriet Harris in Mark St. Germain’s ELEANOR. He had a twenty-year collaboration with visionary theater director Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater appearing in EDDIE GOES TO POETRY CITY, THE MIND KING and MY HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER. He is thrilled to be working with Tim Blake Nelson again having done Tim’s THE GREY ZONE on stage at MCC and on film. Henry is a graduate of Juilliard and is a recipient of a 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.

ELIZABETH YEOMAN is an English actress and a recent graduate of the prestigious Juilliard Drama Division. Based between New York and London, she is thrilled to make her Off- Broadway debut in And Then We Were No More, in which she was personally cast by playwright Tim Blake Nelson. In addition to acting, Elizabeth is a passionate singer, accomplished pianist, and skilled horseback rider.