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MEET RESIDENT ARTIST: COLM SUMMERS

Colm Summers (he/him) is an award-winning Irish director, based in NYC, and the new Artistic Director of the Working Theater. He recently had his America regional debut at the Geffen Playhouse where he directed Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan MacMillan, starring Daniel K Isaac (“Billions”) to rave reviews, including Theaterly's BEST OF 2024. Colm has developed work with Berkeley Rep, Rattlestick Theatre, Abbey Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, and more. He was a 2023 Groundfloor cohort member at Berkeley Rep and was the inaugural Resident Director at both the Geffen Playhouse and at the Abbey, the National Theater of Ireland. In 2023, he won Ireland's most prestigious bursary for emerging artists, the Next Generation Artist Award, and is a member of Origin Theater Company and Irish Arts Center Scéal Nua playwrights’ group.

MEET RESIDENT ARTIST: CAROLINE HEWITT

Caroline Hewitt is a playwright, audiobook narrator, and actress. Susan Force and the School for Lady Bride Snatchers is her first original play: it won the 2023 Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting award. Her adaptation of Howards End made the 2020 Kilroys List, and was developed at the 2019 JAW Festival at Portland Center Stage and the 2018 What’s Next Fest at The Theater at Monmouth. Her adaptation of The House of Mirth was workshopped at the Dramatist Guild’s Friday Night Footlights. Caroline is an award winning audiobook narrator of with 100+ credits for national and international publishers. As an actress, she has appeared on Broadway in Junk and The Front Page, and worked extensively Off-Broadway and regionally. Television credits include: “Harlem”, “FBI: Most Wanted”, “The I-Land”, “When They See Us”, “New Amsterdam” and “The Black List”. She has her MFA in Acting from ACT, and her BA in French from Vassar.