Douglas Lyons is a two-time Emmy-nominated multi-hyphenate artist. As a writer, he earned a GLAAD nomination for his Broadway playwriting debut, Chicken & Biscuits, which was the second-most produced play in America during the 2022-2023 season. His most recent play, Table 17, premiered Off-Broadway at MCC Theater in 2024. The production received a New York Times Critics’ Pick and won two 2024 Audelco awards for Best Playwright and Outstanding Ensemble. Douglas served as a writer on both seasons of Apple TV’s “Fraggle Rock.” His Broadway performing credits include The Book of Mormon, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (OBC), and the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Parade (OBC). Tour credits include Rent, Dreamgirls, and The Book of Mormon. As a composer-lyricist, his music and lyrics have been featured on Nickelodeon, BET Plus, Apple TV, CBS Sunday Morning, and more. His other stage works include Don’t Touch My Hair (IAMA Theatre Company), Polkadots (Off-Broadway Alliance winner, Best Family Show; Atlantic Theater Company), Beau the Musical (Adirondack Theatre Festival), Five Points (Theater Latté Da), and more. He is currently developing television with Sky Dance and Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort. 

Ethan D. Pakchar is a NYC-based composer, writer, and guitarist. His animated short film “Morning Joy,” which he produced, wrote, and scored, premiered at Sundance Film Festival (BrandStorytelling 2023) and was screened at Tribeca X; Boston, Woodstock, Cleveland, and Dumbo Film Festivals; and earned an Emmy Award nomination. As a guitarist, Pakchar has played for Sara Bareilles, Jennifer Hudson, Cynthia Erivo, and the Broadway productions of Back to the Future, Hamilton, Wicked, and The Lion King. @epakchar. 

Josh Rhodes Broadway: Spamalot, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, It Shoulda Been You, First Date, Bright Star. West End: Carousel, Sweeney Todd. NY City Center Encores!: Dear World, Mack & Mabel, Grand Hotel. Regional: The Who’s Tommy (Kennedy Center); Regency Girls, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Baskerville, Bright Star, Working (The Old Globe); Hair, Evita, The Sound of Music, Knoxville (Asolo Rep); Chess, Paint Your Wagon, Jersey Boys (The Muny). Television: “Sweeney Todd,” “Company,” “Sondheim! The Birthday Concert” (PBS). Film: Beau the Musical.

Chris Gurr is an NYC Music Director, Orchestrator and Arranger from Philadelphia, PA. Beau has been a joy to work on for so many years, it is so exciting to be able to share it with New York City. Broadway: Back to the Future, The Prom, and Bandstand. Chris is excited to continue supporting Off-Broadway and not-for-profit theatre. Off-Broadway credits: Lights Out, Between the Lines and The View Upstairs.

Recent Selected designs: Beau: The Musical (OOTB- 154, Off-Broadway), This is Government, Room 1214 (New Light Theater Co, Off-Broadway), The Boy who Loved Batman (The Straz), Dracula: A Comedy…Terrors (Addl. scenery, The Straz), The Witness Room (AMT, Off-Broadway), Post Mortem (Mosaic), Black Bear Island (Alleyway), Radiant Vermin (5th Wall Theater), Torch Song (RTP). Selected Associate/ Assistant credits: Chicken & Biscuits (Broadway), Hadestown (Korea), His Story (Dallas)  USA 829. @danj.allen. danielallendesign.com.

Rudorigo Muñoz is a NY–based Costume Designer, originally from Mexico City. Recent credits include Sally & Tom (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel Nominee)(The Public), What Became of Us (Atlantic), Sorry for Your Loss (Minetta Lane),Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group), RENT (Paper Mill), Torera (WP/Alley), The Counterfeit Opera, (Little Island), House of India (Old Globe), The Bluest Eye (Huntington). BFA from Mexico’s National School of Theatre and an MFA from NYU Tisch.

www.rodrigomunozdesign.com @rodrigomu.mo

Japhy Weideman is a five-time Tony Award nominee. Broadway: Shucked; The Heart of Rock and Roll; The Piano Lesson; Summer, 1976; Dear Evan Hansen; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Bright Star; The Nance; Of Mice and Men; The Heidi Chronicles; Macbeth (Ethan Hawke); Airline Highway; and The Visit. West End/UK: Come Fall in Love (the DDLJ musical), Nice Fish, and Blackbird. Tours: Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville; Hasan Minhaj's The King’s Jester (Netflix).

Jordana Abrenica (Sound Designer) is a sound designer and engineer from Dallas, Texas- now based in NYC. She is currently the Head of Audio for the Purple Rain musical in Minneapolis. Previous NYC design credits: Beau (Theatre 154)  MAMA (Little Island), Push Party (The Hearth Theatre Co.), Francois and The Rebels (The Public Theatre, DTWG), Britton And The Sting At Second Stage Theatre, Glory Days, Marry Me A Little in Concert (Keen Theatre, Symphony Space) To Feel A Thing (NY Live Arts). HUGE thanks to Tim, Molly, Hannah, and Jason for their support and teamwork on this remount! 

Sean is a Brooklyn-based props designer & set dresser. His recent Props Design/Supervision credits include Road Kills (Good Apples Collective), Beau the Musical, Inspired by True Events (Out of the Box Theatrics), Teeth (New World Stages). Assistant Properties credits include: Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons + Studio Seaview), The Antiquities, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Stereophonic, Wet Brain, Teeth, Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons). BFA Emerson College.

Kimi Handa Brown (They/Them) is so excited to be back intimacy directing with BEAU again! From screen to print to stage to studio, they spend their time doing many things! Recent Intimacy projects: As Time Goes By written by Danny Brown and directed by Noah Eisenberg, See What I Wanna See directed by Emilio Ramos all with Out of the Box Theatrics. Previous works include: Science Park by Noah Mease Dir. Dante Green with The MakersEnsemble and Sex and the Abbey by Diana Ly Dir. By Emily Lyon at the Brick Theatre. Follow their journey as a multi hyphenate creative in NYC @Kimihandabrown

Broadway: PURPOSE, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, CYMBELINE. Off-Broadway highlights: The Public Theatre, Roundabout, Primary Stages, and The Atlantic. Extensive regional credits include: Yale REP, The Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Goodspeed, KC REP, The Old Globe, Asolo REP, The MUNY, The Huntington, Papermill Playhouse, and others. Michael is Resident Fight and Intimacy Director for Yale Rep; Lecturer in Acting and Stage Management, DG School of Drama at Yale. Upcoming: PURPLE RAIN

Charlie (They/She) is a production manager and native New Yorker. Recently seen at Jacob's Pillow, MCC, Signature, Death Becomes Her, and Williamstown Theater Festival. 

Kyra Bowie is delighted to be at The Distillery with this brilliant cast, crew, and team! Select credits: THE OUTSIDERS (First National Tour), OUR CLASS (MART Foundation), SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE (Out of the Box Theatrics), BASEMENT, IL (NYSAF), THE ORCHARD with Mikhail Baryshnikov (Arlekin Players Theatre), HAPPY LIFE (The Hearth). Co-founder of Transcend Streaming. Grateful. Today and every day. www.KyraBowie.com

Welcome to the distillery! Las Vegas: KÁ by Cirque Du Soleil Broadway: The Cottage, The Music Man, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, Chicken & Biscuits. National Tours: Aladdin, Beetlejuice, Dear Evan Hansen. Proud cat Dad to Vision. IG @BrantSennett

Broadway: Wicked, A Christmas Carol, Straight White Men. Off-Broadway: Beau, City Center Encores!, Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise, A Parallelogram, Revolution in the Elbow.... Never ending thanks to the Beau team and Out of the Box. Love to Mom, Dad, Maya, Lauren, Luke. For every mentor and for my Grandparents. UNCSA alum.

Brian has worked on more than 25 Broadway shows within his career. Recently, he was the Associate Makeup Designer & Head for Cabaret. Makeup designer for Travesties, Kinky Boots Second National Tour, Fish in the Dark, A Gentleman's Guide... for Broadway & First National, The Bridges of Madison County First National. Hair Designer for The Humans National Tour, Makeup and Hair Designer for The Kite Runner Broadway & First National, Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical. @BrianStrumwasser on instagram.

Productions include Monty Python’s Spamalot (revival), The Velocity of Autumn, ...Spelling Bee (revival), Cellino v. Barnes, Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, among others. Collaborations with companies including Arena Stage, Asolo Rep, The Civilians, Irish Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center, Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Signature Theatre. www.josscasting.com

Robin is a Webby, Hermes, Davey and Telly Award winning casting director based out of New York City. Select Theatre: Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (Peccadillo Theater Company/Negro Ensemble Company). She was the Casting Director for TheatreworksUSA from 2000-2008 and has cast an array of eclectic projects for The Curtain, Peccadillo Theater, North Coast Rep, New Light Theater Project, Kevin Duda Productions, Mills Entertainment, and the Arizona Theatre Company. Select Film: Elijah Able, Green Flake, Urban Ed, Now Hear This (PBS), James McNeill Whistler and the Case For Beauty (PBS), Adjunct Theatre Professor at the City College of New York. 

Bryan McCaffrey is a two-time Tony Award-nominated producer based in New York, dedicated to bringing new stories and voices to the stage. Select credits include Broadway: Operation Mincemeat, John Proctor is the Villain, Suffs, and The Notebook. Off-Broadway: Conversations with Mother. UK: Here and Now, Evita, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist (West End).

Leah Michalos is a general manager, producer, and consultant, and the owner of Michalos Management LLC. Recent credits include Broadway’s Chicken & Biscuits at Circle in the Square and The Orchard, featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht. Other selected New York and Off-Broadway credits include The Lucky Star; Renée Taylor’s My Life on a Diet (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle nominations); In the Pocket with Mark Rivera; Terms of Endearment with Molly Ringwald; Butler; A Better Place; The Road to Damascus; On a Stool at the End of the Bar (GLAAD Nominee); Almost Home; Jericho; Murder in the First; Poetic License; and The Best of Everything. Leah is also an Assistant Professor of Practice in Arts and Culture Management  at The University of Akron.

Out of the Box Theatrics was founded in 2016 by Liz Flemming, a legally blind artist, to create space for artists who have been historically underrepresented and undervalued. The company stages innovative and site-specific productions of new and classic plays and musicals while challenging audiences to experience these works outside of their expectations. By casting without regard to gender, race, creed, ethnicity, or disability, OOTB seeks to create a more inclusive and equitable theatre industry. OOTB earned recognition for its critically acclaimed streaming co-production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last 5 Years (New York Times’ Critics Pick, 2021 Drama League Nominee for Outstanding Digital Theater, 2022 Antonyo Award winner for Best Digital Theater Production), and its new productions of the 1983 Broadway musical Baby (2022 Drama Desk Award nominee, Outstanding Revival of a Musical) and the 2005 Off-Broadway musical, See What I Wanna See (three 2025 Drama Desk Award nominations, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical). OOTB was awarded an Obie Award for their 2024 season at Theater 154.