THE COMPANY
 | Kristina Wong, Writer/Performer is a performance artist, actor, comedian, writer and elected representative in Koreatown Los Angeles. Following its highly acclaimed premiere at New York Theater Workshop, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord was a New York Times “Critic’s Pick.” Wong was then named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama (2022). Sweatshop Overlord also garnered a veritable awards sweep this year including the Drama Desk Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Wong’s other works have been presented across North America, the UK, Hong Kong and Africa. She has been a guest on late night shows on Comedy Central, NBC and FX. As a published writer, Wong’s work is included in Routledge's Contemporary Plays by Women of Color. Wong wrote the introduction for The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care and Racial Justice, published by University of California Press. She also had Artist Residencies at MacDowell, Hermitage, Montalvo and Ojai Playwrights Festival. Wong’s work has been awarded with grants from Creative Capital, The MAP Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, National Performance Network, a COLA Master Artist Fellowship from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, nine Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence awards, Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood Award, and the Art Matters Foundation. She is currently developing a new work during her three year Artist-in-Residence at ASU Gammage. Other major projects include Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Going Green the Wong Way, The Wong Street Journal, and Kristina Wong for Public Office. Other career highlights include the Visionary Award from East West Players, “Local Hero of the Year” nominee from KCET/PBS, Asian Pacific Honoree from Fuse TV and the Best Of Arts Los Angeles issue from LA Weekly. |
Chay Yew, Director directed La Jolla Playhouse’s acclaimed production of Cambodian Rock Band. His credits include Off-Broadway productions at The Public, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, Signature Theatre Company, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Realm, National Asian American Theatre Company, Ma-Yi Theatre. Regional: American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Denver Theater Center, Humana Festival, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Victory Gardens, East West Players, Writers Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Curious Theatre, Mosaic Theatre Company, Playmakers Rep, Round House, Teatro Vista, Laguna Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Empty Space, Cornerstone Theater, Singapore Repertory Theatre. Opera: Tanglewood Music Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic. Awards: Obie, Craig Noel, Drama-Logue awards. |
Junghyun Georgia Lee, Scenic Design is a Korean-born, New York-based scenic and costume designer. She has designed for New York Theatre Workshop (Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Drama Desk Award nomination), The Public Theater (The Chinese Lady), Ma-Yi, Soho Rep, the Play Company, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, PlayMakers Rep and the Acting Company. She earned her M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama. |
Linda Cho, Costume Design La Jolla Playhouse: Bhangin’ It: A Bangin’ New Musical, The Orphan of Zhao, Wild Goose Dreams, Limelight. Broadway: POTUS, Take Me Out, The Great Society, The Lifespan of a Fact, Anastasia (Tony nomination), A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award), The Velocity of Autumn. Off-Broadway: Twilight, Cambodian Rock Band (Signature Theatre), Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, Endlings (NYTW). Regional: A Thousand Splendid Suns (ACT), Noir (Alley Theatre). Opera: Samson et Dalila (Met Opera). Other awards: TDF’s Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Ruth Morley Design Award. Other: Advisory Committee Member of American Theatre Wing. Education: M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. lindacho.com. |
Amith Chandrashaker, Lighting Design La Jolla Playhouse: Bhangin’ It: A Bangin’ New Musical. Amith’s work has been seen at The Public Theater, Second Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Atlantic, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Colorado and The Atlanta Opera. New Dance works by Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Benoit Swan-Pouffer, Sidra Bell and Rennie Harris. Recipient of the Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards. Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at The University of Maryland’s School for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. |
Mikhail Fiksel, Sound Design is a designer, composer, musician and DJ based in Chicago and NYC. La Jolla Playhouse: Cambodian Rock Band, Seize the King, Tiger Style!. Other recent credits: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Civilians, The Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, Albany Park Theatre Project, Third Rail Projects, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Geffen Playhouse, The Old Globe, Kennedy Center, Center Theatre Group, Dallas Theater Center, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Victory Gardens, Writers Theatre and several audio plays with Make-Believe Association. He is a recipient of two Lucille Lortel Awards, multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards, the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, and is a proud member of TSDCA and USA. |
Caite Hevner, Projection Design Broadway: In Transit; Derren Brown: SECRET; Harry Connick Jr., A Celebration of Cole Porter. Select New York: Sweatshop Overlord, NYTW; Between the Lines, Tony Kiser Theatre; Twenty Sided Tavern, DR2; Bella Bella, MTC; Collective Rage, MCC; Ugly Lies the Bone, Roundabout Underground; Fidelio, Heartbeat Opera; Parade and The Scarlet Pimpernel, Manhattan Concert Productions/Lincoln Center. Select Regional: Alley, Arena, Alliance, Baltimore Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Guthrie, Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage, Long Wharf, McCarter, MUNY, Pasadena Playhouse, Seattle 5th Avenue, TUTS, Woolly Mammoth. Video Coordinator for BC/EFA’s Broadway Bares since 2018. Co-Chair of USA829’s Respectful Workplace Committee. www.caitedesign.com Instagram: @caitehevner |
Jess Slocum, Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Indecent, Side Show, Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis, Most Wanted. Regional: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Dial M for Murder, El Borracho, Hurricane Diane, Noura, As You Like It, They Promised Her the Moon, Familiar, The Imaginary Invalid, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love’s Labour’s Lost, tokyo fish story, In Your Arms, Bright Star, Othello, Water by the Spoonful, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Robin and the 7 Hoods, dozens more (The Old Globe); Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Education: Vanderbilt University. |
Topaz Cooks, Assistant Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: to the yellow house. Regional: Cymbeline, Intimate Apparel (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Akeelah and the Bee (Children's Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet (The Old Globe); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Clarence Brown Theater); Miracle on 34th Street, Memphis, Something Rotten! (Moonlight Stage Productions). M.F.A. from UC San Diego. |