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Abigail “Abby” Cady is a new play and production dramaturg in the Baltimore/DC region and the Foundation Relations Manager at Arena Stage. She leads the Horticulture Playwrights Workshop in Baltimore and has served as production dramaturg at many Baltimore theaters including Single Carrot Theatre (Pink Milk, ...The Death of Walt Disney, Promenade: Baltimore) and Interrobang Theatre Company (Heavy Hors D'oeuvres 3, Bully).

Abby was an Education Apprentice at Everyman Theatre and she has interned in the literary departments of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh. She holds a Master’s Degree in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from Miami University of Ohio.

Makeima Freeland is a performer, rhetoric coach, and emerging director. She is an alum of The Center for Visual and Performing Arts at Suitland High School and Notre Dame of Maryland University. Directing: 10x10x10 (Fells Point Corner Theatre) & The Sleepover (Sisters Freehold). Assistant directing: Hamlet, presented in Original Shakespeare Pronunciation (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory). Rhetoric coach: As You Like It (Notre Dame of Maryland University) & The Merry Wives of Windsor (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory). Favorite past roles include William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Agatha in The Moors (Notre Dame of Maryland University), and Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (a co-production of Notre Dame of Maryland University & Baltimore Shakespeare Factory). Makeima is also a proud member of Delta Psi Omega ΔΨΩ.

Ann Turiano is a director, performer, dramaturg, and arts administrator. With a background in devising and new play development, she seeks to create environments where the unexpected can occur.

Directing: The Sleepover (Sisters Freehold), kid simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh (Loyola University Maryland), As You Like It, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Decision Height, and The Rover (Notre Dame of Maryland University), Jerusalem and The Quickening (Fells Point Corner Theatre), The Sea Voyage (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory), The Zero Hour (Iron Crow Theatre), and the original devised work RSVP (Glass Mind Theatre).

BA: Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University; MA: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Resident artist: Iron Crow Theatre. Member: Actors’ Equity Association.

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