Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle), which includes: Skeleton Crew  Paradise Blue, and Detroit ’67. Additional plays include: Pipeline, Sunset Baby; Blood at the Root, and Follow Me To Nellie’s. She is also the Tony-nominated book writer on the new Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations.

​Dominique is alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab and Lark Playwrights Workshop, and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series Shameless (3 seasons).

Additional awards include: Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, Obie Award, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18, and a recent MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow.

Greg Geffrard (he/him) Previous credits: Revolution(s), The Color Purple, The Nacirema Society (Goodman); Hot Wing King, The Band's Visit (Writer’s Theatre); Sanctuary City, Choir Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre); Eureka Day! (Timeline Theatre); The House That Will Not Stand (Invictus); The Mountaintop (Beverly Arts Center); Beneath The Willow Tree (Pulse Theatre); The Factotum (Lyric Opera); Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare); The House That Will Not Stand (Invictus); Fen (Court Theatre); REGIONAL: Fremont Avenue (Arena Stage); Strange Loop, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre); Fairview (Theatre Cedar Rapids); A Third Way (Actor’s Express). UPCOMING: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Goodman); Two Sisters and A Piano (Writers); Piano Lesson (Milwaukee Rep); Threads (Alliance Theatre)

Selected credits: Charges (Theatre Y); House of the Exquisite Corpse V (Rough House); Puppet Lab 2023-25 (Chicago Int'l Puppet Festival); Heaven, Lady Di (Grelley Duvall); The Lifespan of a Fact and A Picasso (Elsinore). BA Theatre Design & Technology from Columbia College Chicago. QuinnChisenhall.Com

Dee Etti-Williams [They/Them] is a Chicago-based Sound Designer/Composer from Dallas, Texas. Dee’s work explores Sound as an intentional yet flexible heightening of storytelling. Select credits include: Brighter Futures (Paramount); The Brothers Size (Oklahoma City Repertory Theater); The Island (Court Theatre), Lavender Men (About Face Theatre); I Ought To Be In Pictures (Peninsula Players); Is God Is (A Red Orchid Theatre); Paris (Steep Theatre); Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins (Strawdog Theatre Company);

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Sofie Schmeltzer is a University of Illinois graduate with a BFA in Stage Management. Some of their recent credits include Facility Theatre’s Pussy Sludge, UrbanTheater Company’s Chicago Lore(s), Campfire Repertory Theatre’s FLUSH, and The Village Theatre’s Calypso. Sofie is so grateful to be working with the Redtwist team to create Confederates.

MARQUECIA JORDAN returns to Redtwist for her second production, Confederates! Other credits: How To Transcend a Happy Marriage (Redtwist); Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery (Pegasus Theatre Company); Tell Me on a Sunday and Assassins (Theo); Fun Home (Porchlight Music Theatre); Hitt Records, The Time Machine: A Tribute to the 80s, and A Taste of Soul (Black Ensemble Theater); Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer (Hell in a Handbag); Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Clue (Mercury Theater). REGIONAL: Slave Play and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Short North Stage, Columbus, OH). TV: Chicago Stories (WTTW). She has received two 2023 Jeff nominations for Big River and Clue, and a 2022 Jeff nomination and 2022 Black Theater Alliance Award for Sister Act the Musical (Mercury Theater) for Best Costume Design.

Dusty Brown (they/them) is the Executive Artistic Director of Redtwist Theatre. They began their career as a stage hand in Atlanta, Georgia, working on everything from Shakespeare to new works. They received their MFA in Directing from Ohio University in 2021. Notable productions include: Steve Yockey's Wolves at Redtwist, and Pluto at Ohio University; William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus at Redtwist, and Macbeth at Three Crows and Ohio University; Tracy Letts' Bug at Ohio University; Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at DramaTech in Atlanta; Uffizi at Bottled Lightning in Atlanta; and Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park at Vox Populi Productions in Chattanooga. This season Dusty is excited to direct Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'night, Mother. They are also thrilled to be in development with two incredible playwrights, Erik Gernand and Melanie Coffey.

Jasmine "Jaz" Robertson (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate artist from Memphis, TN. In her 5 years as a Chicago local, she has been seen onstage in various projects & productions as an actor/singer- she could not be more thrilled to expand her hyphenate with Confederates. Former direction credits include: Ring Ting Ting (cabaret, Redtwist Theatre), Merry & Bright (cabaret, Oil Lamp Theatre), MOVE: The Musical (staged reading, Redtwist Theatre). Former acting credits include: Chicago: The Play (Redtwist Theatre), Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre), Until the Flood (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre), Stabbed in the Heart (Factory Theater), Beyond The Garden Gate (Impostors Theatre), Regression (Redtwist Theatre), The Revolutionists, Failure: A Love Story, and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Oil Lamp Theater). She is also the Front of House/Events Director for Redtwist, a playwright/lyricist & vocal composer, and an alumna of The American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC program. She dedicates this work to her mother, Sharal Patrice Robertson.

Kevin is an award winning Chicago based theater designer, builder and painter. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago he's enjoyed many opportunities to work in Chicago's storefront theater scene both as a scenic and props designer as well as technical director and scenic painter. Elated to be collaborating on this powerful story with Redtwist Theatre. Kevin most recently received The Non-Equity Jeff award for Best Scenic Design for his work on Invictus Theater Company’s production of Edward Albees Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Some Chicago credits include BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY with American Blues Theater, Beneath the Willow Tree with PULSE Theatre, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, Network and most recently Invictus Theaters groundbreaking production of Angels in America Parts I and II. A freelance designer, Kevin also serves as scene shop supervisor at Columbia College Chicago. Thanks to my amazing family and to Zac for his infinite love and support!

Nicolas Bartleson (he/him) previously worked with Redtwist on “The Normal Heart”. Nick has also had the opportunity to work with Steppenwolf, Northlight Theatre, TimeLine Theater, American Blues Theater, Young People’s Theatre of Chicago, Citadel Theatre, Kehoe Designs, Milwaukee Repertory, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, and Glimmerglass Opera. He currently works full time as the properties assistant for Drury Lane Productions. Thank you to Amy Peter and Cassy Schillo for their generosity in providing much of what you see onstage. To see more of his work you can visit nickbartleson.wixsite.com/nickbartleson.

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