Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA recipient a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, and a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee. Gordon’s work often focuses on marginalized/forgotten histories and/or the obscured figures inhabiting that space. Other current/recent projects include Relics And Their Humans: framing a real-life Ohio couple navigating an ALS diagnosis, presented at the Krannert Center (IL), the Wexner Center (OH), Arizona Arts Live, and La MaMa (NY); Radicals In Miniature: a series of requiems to personal icons, presented at Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY), Vermont Performance Lab (VT), International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Quick Center, Connecticut College (all CT), ’62 Center Theatre and Dance, and The Yard (both MA); 217 Boxes Of Dr. Henry Anonymous: culminating a 2-year residency at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania focused on Dr. John Fryer who, in 1972, disguised as Dr. Anonymous opposed the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of homosexuality as a disease, presented at the Painted Bride (PA), Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY), Transylvania University (KY) and the Center For The Art of Performance UCLA; and Not What Happened: a contrapuntal duet for a historical re-enactor and the woman she portrays – premiering at the BAM Next Wave Festival (NY), plus the Krannert Center (IL), Vermont Performance Lab & the Flynn Center (both VT), etc. Gordon’s work has also been seen at New York Theater Workshop, the Mark Taper Forum (CA), HERE Arts Center (NY), DiverseWorks (TX), Performance Space 122/PSNY, Dance Theater Workshop/NYLA, George St Playhouse (NJ), and MASS MoCA, among many others. Gordon has been Director of the Pick Up Performance Co(s) since 1992.

In a career spanning more than five decades, Kathleen Chalfant’s performances on stage, screen and television have garnered her praise and acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Perhaps best known for her shattering portrayal of Vivian Bearing, a scholar battling cancer, in Wit, she received the Obie, the Drama Desk, the Lucille Lortel, the Outer Critics Circle, the Ovation, Connecticut Critics Circle, the Garland and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for her work. BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nom.), Racing Demon, Dance with Me. She most recently appeared in Here There Are Blueberries with Tectonic Theatre Project/Shakespeare Theatre DC, as well as the upcoming film FAMILIAR TOUCH. Select theater credits: The Year of Magical Thinking, A Woman of the World, Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, Obie Awards), HELLZAPOPPIN’ with Yvonne Rainer, Four Quartets (BAM), A Delicate Balance (Yale Rep/Arena Stage), For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nom.), Tales from Red Vienna, Miss Ovington & Dr. Dubois, Talking Heads (Obie Award), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award).

Bill Kux has been an actor for more than 45 years. Highlights include Broadway (Gore Vidal’s The Best Man and The Trip to Bountiful), Off-Broadway, (Summer of ’42 the musical and Baby with the Bathwater), National tours (David Gordon’s The Mysteries, or What’s So Funny? and Death of a Salesman with Hal Holbrook), as well as appearances at regional theaters from Seattle to Miami. He performed in the Barrymore Award-winning Love! Valor! Compassion!. He was a volunteer intake clinician at Gay Men’s Health Crisis for seven years and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Cherene Snow is a multi-award-winning veteran actor, singer-songwriter and playwright from Chicago. Her theatre credits include Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Scarlett Johansson. Off-Broadway and Regional: For All the Women… (Soho Rep), Walking Down Broadway (Mint Theatre) and The Last of the Thorntons (Signature Theatre). Her regional credits include King Lear (Northern Stage), Familiar (Old Globe Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Theatre Squared), Small Mouth Sounds (National Tour), Welcome to Fear City (C.A.T.F), Having Our Say (Philadelphia Theatre Co), Little Foxes (Goodman Theatre), brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Humana Festival), Black Pearl Sings (Triad Stage), Doubt (Hartford Stage and Cleveland Playhouse). Cherene’s film/television credits: Jules, Arthur, Perhaps Tomorrow, My Sassy Girl, The Code, Almost Family, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Sugar, Third Watch and Chappelle’s Show. Cherene has written her first one-act play, Hiding Inside Him, and her first full-length play, Monday Wednesday Friday.

Alyce Dissette is a producer of performing, visual, film, and digital artists who has worked in a wide range of venues and projects from staff member in the Metropolitan Opera Presentations Department to former Executive Producer of the PBS national series, Alive from Off Center, and on digital media productions with the Voyager Co. She has worked with hundreds of artists including filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, François Girard, visual artist James Turrell, author Art Spiegelman, and in the performing arts, Sir Richard Alston, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Karin Coonrod, Ain Gordon, David Gordon, Philip Glass, Nona Hendryx, John Kelly, Urban Bush Women, and Robert Wilson. She has served on the Board of Directors for Dance/USA and Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York. She has been the Producing Director of the Pick Up Performance Co. since 2002 and worked with David Gordon and Ain Gordon in various roles since 1985.

Ed Fitzgerald has been a professional stage manager for 50 years, working on Broadway (Da, A Little Family Business, The Tap Dance Kid, Carrie: The Musical, The Violet Hour), off-Broadway for Manhattan Theatre Club (The Best of Friends, Tick, Tick…Boom), off-off Broadway, and in major theatres throughout the country (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Baryshnikov Arts Center, American Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Spoleto USA), in Philadelphia (Forrest Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Plays and Players, Painted Bride) and overseas (London, Berlin, Singapore, Seoul, Avignon, Strasbourg). He has been associated with the Pick Up Performance Co. for 32 years and more productions than he can remember.

Kelly Martin is a lighting designer and associate based in New York. In addition to lighting These Don’t Easily Scatter he has toured Ain Gordon’s 217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous and Radicals in Miniature. Opera credits include The Barber of Seville (Virginia Opera), Maria Stuarda (Slovak National Theatre), Circé, Orlando Generoso, and many staged concert productions (Boston Early Music Festival), Scalia/Ginsburg, Extraordinary Women (Opera North), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BU Opera Institute). Further collaborations in dance with The Joyce Theatre, New York Theatre Ballet, Duncan Lyle Dance, Co•Lab Dance, The Bang Group, Suffolk University Theatre Arts, MIT Theatre Arts. Member United Scenic Artists Local 829, alum Boston University.