A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Jeffrey Whitty‘s writing includes Avenue Q (Tony Award, Best Book), Bring It On (Tony nomination, Best Musical); Tales of the City (San Francisco Critics Award, Best Book); his original Head Over Heels (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, The Hiding Place, The Plank Project, Balls and a modern-language translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream coming to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2026. Theaters premiering his work include the Atlantic Theater Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and South Coast Repertory (CA). Screenwriting credits include Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant (Best Adapted Screenplay honors: Independent Spirit Awards and Writers Guild of America, plus Oscar and BAFTA nominations). As an actor, Jeff performed Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Promenade Theater, Goodman Theater. MFA, NYU Tisch Graduate Acting.

Kim Weild is an award-winning theater director and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores Access Aesthetics and Disability Aesthetics as engines of theatrical innovation. Her practice integrates movement, sound, visual design, vibration, media, and multiple languages—including American Sign Language—creating performances in which access is embedded as a core artistic methodology rather than an accommodation. She is Co-Artistic Lead of On Your Imaginary Forces and the founding Artistic Director of Our Voices, an interdisciplinary collective of Deaf, disabled, hard-of-hearing, hearing, and non-disabled artists dedicated to rigorous, access-centered performance. Through Our Voices, Weild has developed immersive ASL/spoken works and long-term, community-engaged collaborations with cultural institutions and public schools. Her work has been supported by major commissions and residencies, including a multi-year residency at The Public Theater (NYC). Weild directed the world premiere of L. Feldman’s bilingual (ASL/English) Another Kind of Silence and the world-premiere ASL translation of Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska as part of Live Ideas: Celebrating the Worlds of Dr. Oliver Sacks, in collaboration with composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Bill Morrison. She also shaped and directed Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor over eight years; the play is published (Methuen), archived (Folger Shakespeare Library) , filmed (Lincoln Center), and taught around the world. Her work has been developed and presented at major venues in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Greece, including Shakespeare’s Globe, Lincoln Center, Teatro alla Scala, Carnegie Hall, New York Theatre Workshop, ArtsEmerson, the Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and City Theater Company. Her production of Uncle Vanya was an official selection of the Prague Quadrennial, and she has directed The Bacchae and The Birds in multiple venues in Greece. She is also the co-writer of the “fusion musical” Dusty, which ran for eight months in London’s West End. A Drama Desk Award nominee, Weild is the recipient of numerous honors and currently serves as Chair of the John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University. www.kimweild.com