Erica Schmidt (Director) has directed All the Fine Boys, which she also wrote (The New Group); Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country (Classic Stage Company); Dennis Kelly’s Taking Care of Baby and Humor Abuse, which she also co-created and wrote and for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award (Manhattan Theatre Club); Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s I Call My Brothers, the Obie Award-winning Invasion!, and Gary Mitchell’s Trust, for which she received a Joe A. Callaway Award nomination (The Play Company); Rent (Tokyo); Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid, Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer, and Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land (Bard SummerScape); Carnival (Paper Mill Playhouse); Quincy Long’s People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); As You Like It, for which she won the New York International Fringe Festival Award for Best Direction (The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, chashama); Debbie Does Dallas, which she also wrote(Off Broadway for The Araca Group); and Spanish Girl (Second Stage Uptown). Ms. Schmidt’s upcoming credits include directing and adapting Mac Beth (Seattle Repertory Theatre), and directing and adapting the book for Cyrano in collaboration with new music from Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, and Matt Berninger of The National (Goodspeed Musicals). Ms. Schmidt was a Princess Grace Award recipient in 2001.

Andrea Lauer (Costume Design) is a costume designer residing in New York City who works in regional, New York, and international theatre. She designed the Broadway productions of American Idiot and Bring It On: The Musical. Her other recent Off Broadway work has been seen in The Boy Who Danced on Air (currently playing at Abingdon Theatre Company), Brooklynite (Vineyard Theatre), Murder for Two (Second Stage Theatre), Title and Deed (Signature Theatre Company), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classic Stage Company). Internationally she designed the world premiere of Shadowland 2: The New Adventure (Pilobolus) and One Extraordinary Day at the London Cultural Olympiad (STREB). She is also the production designer for the Liverpool Presents Sgt. Pepper at 50 Beatles extravaganza in June 2017. Ms. Lauer works as a fashion stylist and just received the great honor of being selected as an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow for 2017 as an artist, designer, and inventor.

Sten Severson (Sound Design) is pleased to be returning to The Old Globe, where he has designed Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Othello. His selected credits include the Broadway productions of Hair, The Motherf***er with the Hat, and The Merchant of Venice, and theOff Broadway productions of Venice, No Place to Go, The Total Bent, and The Controversy of Valladolid, as well as King Lear, the musical Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Hair, and Hamlet for Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater.His regional credits include Family Album (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Fallaci (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Akeelah and the Bee (Children’s Theatre Company, Arena Stage), and Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches and Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Children’s Theatre Company). Mr. Severson is a partner in Acme Sound Partners, collectively responsible for over 30 Broadway shows since 2000. He has taught at New York University and Yale School of Drama, and he currently serves as the Sound Director at Children’s Theatre Company.

Jim Carnahan, CSA (Casting) has cast the Globe’s productions of Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and The Comedy of Errors. He is the Director of Artistic Development at Roundabout Theatre Company, where his credits include The Price, If I Forget, The Cherry Orchard, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, She Loves Me, Noises Off, Thérèse Raquin, Old Times, On the Twentieth Century, The Real Thing, Cabaret, Violet, Machinal, The Winslow Boy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cyrano de Bergerac, Harvey, Anything Goes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Sunday in the Park with George, The Pajama Game, 12 Angry Men, Assassins, Nine, and Big River. His other Broadway credits include Groundhog Day, Amélie, Fun Home, Constellations, The River, You Can’t Take It with You, Rocky, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Matilda, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Mountaintop, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Jerusalem, Arcadia, The Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot, A Behanding in Spokane, The Seagull, Boeing-Boeing, Spring Awakening, The Pillowman, Gypsy, and True West. His film credits include A Home at the End of the World and Flicka, and his television credits include “Glee” (Emmy Award nomination).

Amanda Salmons (Assistant Stage Manager) has previously worked at The Old Globe on The Blameless, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, October Sky, Macbeth, Rain, The Metromaniacs, Kiss Me, Kate, The White Snake, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Last Goodbye, Globe for All (2014, 2015), the Summer Shakespeare Festival (2011–2013), Somewhere, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, and The Price.Her other credits include Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, miXtape, See How They Run, The Music Man,and The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, and Trial by Jury (Lyric Opera San Diego), and SummerFest (La Jolla Music Society). She received her B.A. in Theatre from UC San Diego.