Dee Beasnael is an L.A. Independent Film Channel winner for her performance in The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S. with 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr & Perf. Company. This is her ERS debut, and she is delighted to be exploring the complexities of Ulysses! Her performance credits include The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S.; Silence and Fear (touring French production); All Over Everywhere;In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields;12 shouts to the 10 Forgotten Heavens; and Police and Thieves. Her voice-over credits include Caillou (French/Canadian distribution), Sorghum and Spear, Opal Watson Private Eye, and Kyle’s World.

Kate Benson is a writer and actor living in Brooklyn. Performances include Variations on the Main; Raw Bacon from Poland; I’ll Never Love Again; Tiger, Tiger (on the Nature of Violence); Fondly; Collette Richland, Running Away from the One with the Knife, Nomads, and Good Person of Szechwan. Her plays include [PORTO], A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes (Obie winner), Where Are We Going?, Super Magic Wild Forest, and I Will Look Forward to This Later co-written with Emily Perkins-Margolin. Benson is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program.

Maggie Hoffman is a founder of the avant-punk performance ensemble Radiohole, and the artist-run venue The Collapsable Hole in NYC. She has performed in six ERS productions, and will be appearing in their upcoming production of Seagull, premiering at the NYU Skirball Center in July 2022.

Vin Knight's credits with ERS include Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf; Measure for Measure; Fondly, Collette Richland; Shuffle; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); The Sound and the Fury; No Great Society; and Gatz. Additional stage credits include The Music Man, Spam, Our Man in Havana, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Marie Antoinette, The Temperamentals, and U.S. Drag. His film and television credits include Inventing Anna, Search Party, Orange Is the New Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Succession, Bull, The Blacklist, and Homeland. Knight is a graduate of Yale University.

Scott Shepherd is a two-time Obie Award-winner for his performances in Gatz with ERS and Poor Theater with The Wooster Group. Additional productions with ERS include McGurk: A Cautionary Tale, Total Fictional Lie, Measure for Measure, No Great Society, Cab Legs, and Shut Up I Tell You. He has worked with The Wooster Group since 1997, starring in Hamlet, with additional performances in The Town Hall Affair; Vieux Carré; Poor Theater; To You, The Birdie (Phèdre); and Brace Up!, among others. His screen appearances include First Cow, El Camino, Bluff City Law, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, True Detective, Wormwood, The Young Pope, Jason Bourne, and Bridge of Spies.

Christopher-Rashee Stevenson is a theater artist from Baltimore, Maryland, who is currently a resident artist at SUITE/SPACE at Mabou Mines and an alumni of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab 2018. His work as director and performer has been featured at The Performing Garage, The Tank, JACK, HERE Arts Center, The Actor’s Studio, American Repertory Theater, Millennium Film Workshop, Lincoln Center Education, LaMaMa, and the Eubie Blake Jazz Institute.

Stephanie Weeks has performed at Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and La Jolla Playhouse, among others. With Target Margin Theater she was awarded the Obie for Recognition of Artistic Achievement and Commitment to Excellence in Theater as an Associate Artist. Her film and television credits include Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted-Mutha directed by Melvin Van Peebles, Tales of the City, The Good Fight, and Law & Order. She directed A Boy and His Soul by Colman Domingo and Eclipsed by Danai Gurira, which was awarded Outstanding Performance and Production Ensemble by the Kennedy Center, Festivention Series. Weeks holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and has a certificate of study from the London Academy of Music and Drama.

John Collins (Director) founded Elevator Repair Service in 1991. Since then he has directed or co-directed all of the company’s productions while also serving as the company’s Artistic Director. ERS productions directed by Collins include Cab Legs, Room Tone, Gatz, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), The Sound and the Fury, Arguendo, Measure for Measure, and numerous others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.

Maurina Lioce (Assistant Director and Stage Manager) With ERS: The Sound and the Fury; Arguendo; The Select (The Sun Also Rises) (tours); Gatz (tours); Fondly, Collette Richland; Measure for Measure; and Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf. NYC: Stage Management for Half Straddle, Adrienne Truscott, Jim Findlay, David Byrne, Sibyl Kempson’s 7 Daughters of Eve Theater & Performance Co., Andrew Ondrejcak, Mike Iveson, Erin Markey, Suzanne Bocanegra, and Young Jean Lee. Lioce has been a member of Elevator Repair Service since 2014.

Aaron Amodt (Production Manager) has been involved with a number of ERS productions, including tours of Gatz; Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); and Fondly, Collette Richland. In New York City he has worked with New York Theatre Workshop on Slave Play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Othello; Hadestown, and Lazarus. He has been involved with tours such as A Billion Nights on Earth (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental) and Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Outside of theater, Amodt collects commemorative telecom postage stamps and makes ghost photographs, which you can find on IG @amodttech.

Mark Barton (Lighting Designer) has been incredibly lucky to work on a number of ERS productions, including Gatz; The Sound and the Fury; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); Arguendo; Fondly, Collette Richland; and Measure for Measure. He has also been fortunate enough to have toured with them to dozens of venues around the world. On the spectrum between work and family, he is grateful that, for him, ERS falls precisely in the middle. He has also worked extensively off-Broadway, a couple times on Broadway, and many many times regionally, nationally, and internationally. Barton is the recipient of a Henry Hewes Design Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and two Obie Awards.

Mariana Catalina (Company Manager) joins ERS as Company Manager after many years as an arts worker in New York City. In addition to her work with ERS, she is a producer of live performance, as well as a writer and performer. Catalina produces and collaborates with the downtown theater company Half Straddle (Is This a Room, Here I Go: Pt. 2 of You) and has worked as a stage and company manager with a variety of artists both independently and through institutions in New York, such as The Kitchen, Performance Space New York, and Mabou Mines.

Enver Chakartash (Costume Designer) is a British-born Turkish Cypriot costume designer whose work has been presented internationally at numerous venues, including BAM, The Public Theater, Steppenwolf, Centre Pompidou, the Barbican, and the Sydney Opera House. Most recently, Chakartash designed English (Atlantic Theater Company/Roundabout Theatre Company), Wolf Play (Soho Rep.), and Tina Satter’s Is This a Room on Broadway. Other recent works include Tina Satter/Half Straddle’s Ghost Rings; The Wooster Group’s A Pink Chair, The B-side, The Town Hall Affair, and Early Shaker Spirituals; Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men; and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s POWER.

dots (Set Designer) is a design collective based in New York City specializing in designing environments for narratives, performances, and experiences. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa, and Japan, dots is Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. dots offers expertise in multi-disciplinary practices ranging from architecture, theater and performance design, graphic design, and film. dots approaches every project with diversity of thought and burning curiosity, and, above all, believe in the value of the whole being greater than the sum of its individual parts.

Patricia Marjorie (Props Designer) is a Brazilian multidisciplinary theater artist based in New York, with a focus on set design, props, and directing. Upcoming designer works: Re MEMORI by Nambi E. Kelley for WP theater and Eva Luna by Repertório Espanhol. Recent theater credits: Song of Songs (Bushwick Starr), 7 Minutes (Waterwell), Wolf Play (Soho Rep, Ma-Yi Theater Company), Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr), Preparedness by Hillary Miller (Bushwick Starr), SKiNFoLK (Bushwick Starr & National Black Theatre), Addressless (Rattlestick Theatre), In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Theatre), and Lost & Found (The Tank + En Garde Arts & Downtown Alliance). Recent interactive live performance credits include The Sunset PICNIC (The Tank) and Carnavalize the Matter (TheatreLab). Marjorie recently directed What Will Become of Kaaron? (The Tank) and her own work as a playwright A Song to Keep the Wolves Awake (The Tank).

Hanna Novak (Producer) is a theater producer, director, and playwright based in New York City. She is the Producer for Elevator Repair Service (ERS) as of 2022 and previously served as the company’s Associate Producer and Company Manager. She has worked on various ERS tours and premieres, including Gatz (tours); Fondly, Collette Richland; and Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, among others. As a playwright and director, her work has been performed at/developed with Clubbed Thumb, the New Ohio, and the Performing Garage. She has collaborated with theater companies Tina Satter/Half Straddle and minor theater as well as with video and performance artist Liz Magic Laser. Novak has worked with Elevator Repair Service since 2016.

Ben Williams (Sound Designer) is an actor and sound designer. He produces and curates category: other, an award-winning platform for experimental audio. Collaborators include Elevator Repair Service, Minor Theater w/Julia Jarcho, Christina Masciotti, Suzanne Bocanegra, Kate Benson, and many others. Recent projects include Ulysses (Theater Basel), Studio Créole (Manchester Int. Festival), and Lost Sea, a video arcade art installation with Victor Morales. Awards for sound design: Obie, Lortel, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Third Coast International Audio Festival's inaugural Audio Unbound Award (for Songs of Speculation, co-produced with Jillian Walker).