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Arliss Howard has credits including: with Scott Elliott, The Monogamist; film: A Map of the World.  Theater: Lincoln Center: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; New York Theatre Workshop: A Number, Scenes from A Marriage; The Atlantic: The Shawl, CQ/CX; Signature Theater: The Late Henry Moss; The Public Theater: Killer’s Head; Labyrinth Theater Company: Ode to Joy; TFANA: Des Moines.  Regional: American Repertory Theater: In the Jungle of Cities, How I Learned to Drive, Uncle Vanya.  Film: David Fincher: The Killer, Mank; Steven Spielberg: The Lost World, Amistad; Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket; Jonathan Glazer: Birth; also Moneyball, Men Don’t Leave, The Thicket.  As writer/director: Big Bad Love, Dawn Anna, Medium.

Gracie McGraw is a New York-based performer/actress.  She recently starred in the workshops of The Death of Desert Rose and Murder at The Gates.  Before moving to New York, Gracie performed in her hometown of Nashville and regionally throughout the country.

Broadway: The Rose Tattoo, The Realistic Joneses, Salome, Top Girls. Off-Broadway includes shows at  Lincoln Center Theater, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, The Roundabout, The Flea, Second Stage, A.R.T., WTF, and many others. She has been recognized by The Drama Desk, The Drama League, Theatre World, and Outer Critic Circle. Film includes My Cousin Vinny (Academy Award), The Wrestler (Academy Award nomination), In the Bedroom (Academy Award nomination), Love is Strange, The Big Short, Upgraded, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and recently Rebecca Miller’s She Came To Me Upcoming: High Tide, Brothers. Founding member of the Naked Angels Theater Company. Last seen at The New Group in Wallace Shawn’s Marie and Bruce.

Jessica Goldberg is a playwright, tv and screenwriter. Plays include Refuge, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her play Good Thing had its NY premiere at The New Group.  Jessica’s television work includes NBC’s Parenthood; she created, and executive produced critically acclaimed The Path, with Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan and Hugh Dancy that ran for three seasons on Hulu. She was the Executive Producer and Showrunner of Away for Netflix starring Hillary Swank.  Jessica’s work on Away earned her a Gracie Award for Showrunner, and a Media Access Award. Jessica’s film work includes Alex of Venice directed by Chris Messina and Cherry directed by the Russo Brothers starring Tom Holland.  She is currently writing a film with Sebastian Lelio about Carl Sagan and The Golden Record, and a movie about the band Heart for Amazon for Carrie Brownstein to direct.

Scott Elliott is the founding artistic director of The New Group theater and New Group Off Stage, a multi-media division of the company. He most recently directed Jessica Goldberg’s Babe, featuring Arliss Howard, Gracie McGraw and Marisa Tomei.  Other recent productions include the world premieres of The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seavey, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY by Thomas Bradshaw, and the musical Black No More by John Ridley and Tariq Trotter.

BETTY is the iconic NYC -based pop/rock trio composed of Alyson Palmer, Elizabeth Ziff and Amy Ziff. BETTY’s cultural legacy ranges from TV themes (Showtime’s “The L Word,” HBO’s “Encyclopedia”) to starring in their own Off-Broadway show, BETTY Rules, directed by Tony- winning Michael Greif (Rent, Dear Evan Hansen). Their boundary-blurring live concerts featuring a mix of a cappella, anthemic pop/rock and avant-garde spoken-word interludes has provided a loyal diverse for four decades. Their 11th album “EAT” drops Fall 2024, containing some of the most danceable and pop-forward songs of their career. www.helloBETTY.com.

BROADWAY: MJ the Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play, American Son, The Parisian Woman, The Price, Noises Off, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Gigi, Anything Goes, The Heiress, The Best Man, Follies, How to Succeed In Business Without Even Trying, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. OFF-BROADWAY: Here There Are Blueberries, Black No More, Merrily We Roll Along, The True, Jerry Spring the Opera, If I Forget, The Whirligig, Into The Woods, Love, Love, Love, Sweet Charity, Evening at the Talk House, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Buried Child, The Spoils, Sticks and Bones, The Last Five Years, A Lie of the Mind, Ruined, Hurlyburly. TELEVISION: He designed the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Academy Awards, 2024 SAG Awards, 2024 Met Gala as well as the NBC LIVE! Musicals The Wiz & Hairspray and others. AWARDS: Winner of 1997 + 2004 OBIE Awards, 2004, 2005, 2007 Lortel Awards; 2009 + 2021 Tony Award, 2011+ 2021 Drama Desk Award, 2015, 2016 Art Directors Guild Award, 2014 + 2017 Emmy Award.

Broadway: Left on Tenth, Kiss Me, Kate, She Loves Me (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle Award), The Terms of My Surrender, Next to Normal, The Little Dog Laughed. Off-Broadway: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Good for Otto, Evening at the Talk House, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, Laughing Wild, Marie and Bruce, Giant, The Kid, The Corn is Green, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Becky Shaw, The Little Dog Laughed, The Scene, Show People, Privilege, Hurlyburly (Drama Desk nomination).

Cha See is an Obie Award-winning lighting designer from Manila, Philippines. Broadway: Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary!. Recent highlights: JORDANS (Public Theater); Babbit (La Jolla Playhouse); Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design); Is It Thursday Yet? (La Jolla, PAC NYC); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout); On That Day in Amsterdam (Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations for Outstanding Lighting Design); The Seagull/Woodstock, NY and one in two (The New Group); Sorry for Your Loss, The Fever, and Lucy (Audible Theater); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T., Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Public Theater); and soft (MCC). Cha received her MFA from NYU Tisch. Seelightingdesign.com.

Jessica Paz is a multi award winning Sound Designer. She has collaborated on the Broadway productions of Hadestown (TONY and Drama Desk Award, Best Sound Design of a Musical); POTUS; and A Beautiful Noise.  Also as Associate Designer of Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Disaster! The Musical, The Assembled Parties, and Fela! (TONY award, Best Sound Design of a Musical). Off-Broadway designs include Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theater); Twelfth Night, Othello, Miss you Like Hell, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As You Like It (The Public Theater); Ugly Lies The Bone (Roundabout); A Sucker Emcee and The Muscles in Our Toes (LAByrinth); The King’s Whore (Starcatcher Productions); Becoming Dr. Ruth (Westside Theater); Looking For The Pony (Vital Theater Co.); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theater); Stretch–A Fantasia (New Georges).

Broadway: Redwood, A Wonderful World, Mother Play, Paradise Square (Drama Desk Nominee), Birthday Candles, Flying Over Sunset, Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Sound Inside. Off-Broadway: The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT), Dear World (NYCC Encores!), Suffs (The Public), The Visitor (The Public), Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Othello (NYSF). National Tour: Jitney. Regional: 3 Summers of Lincoln (La Jolla), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre), Gatsby: An American Myth (A.R.T.), The Far Country (Yale Rep), A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), Ava: The Secret Conversations (Geffen Playhouse), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Yale Rep), Bliss! (The 5th Avenue), Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep.). Television: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Emmy Nominee).

Five OHM is a New York City-based production company specializing in live event management, audio/visual solutions, design, and skilled labor for Off-Broadway theater, corporate events, and immersive installations. We're thrilled to be back working with The New Group as they kick off their 30th anniversary season!  As the Production Supervisor for Curse of the Starving Class, Five OHM collaborated closely with The New Group to ensure seamless production logistics and technical execution. Please visit us at www.fiveohm.com for more! Congratulations, New Group, on 30 years!

Judy Henderson has been honored as one of the top 20 US Film Casting Directors. Highlights: Emmy Award, 6 Artios Awards. 9 Artios nominations. Select Film credits: L.I.E. (6 Spirit Award Nominations), Before Sunrise. Select TV credits: Homeland (Emmy Award and 2 Artios Awards), City On A Hill. Broadway: Barefoot In The Park, Anna Karenina (4 Tony Nominations). Off-Broadway: Forever Plaid (MAC Award for best cast album), Invasion (Obie Award), Lie of the Mind, The Kid (5 Drama Desk Nominations), Hurlyburly and "Daddy". Member of CSA and the Teamsters Theatrical Union. New Group CD since the beginning.

This is Valerie’s 26th season with The New Group. Babe; The Seven Year Disappear; Sabbath’s Theater; The Seagull/Woodstock, NY; Black No More; The Fever; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Happy Talk; The True; Peace for Mary Frances; Good for Otto; Downtown Race Riot; The Whirligig; Evening at the Talk House; Sweet Charity; Buried Child; Steve; Mercury Fur; The Spoils; Rasheeda Speaking; Sticks and Bones; Annapurna; Intimacy; Clive; The Jacksonian; Bunty Berman Presents…; A Lie of the Mind; The Kid; Things We Want; Rafta, Rafta…; Marie and Bruce; Abigail’s Party; Hurlyburly; Aunt Dan; and Lemon. Broadway: Barefoot in the Park and The Women.