Crystal is a member of the Playwrights’ Center & alumni of Orchard Project, The Civilians, Soho Rep, EST, & Women’s Project. Plays include: NY Times Critic Picks’ GEEK (Vampire Cowboys), CUT (Theatre Under St. Marks), and OPEN (The Tank/AFO, Offie Nomination 2021). Recipient of NY Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Play, Earth Matters on Stage Prize (RAIN AND ZOE SAVE THE WORLD), & Clifford Odets Ensemble Prize for PULP VÉRITÉ (Kilroys List). UK credits include BIRTHDAY at Waterloo East (Kibo Productions). Musicals include MARY AND MAX (Landestheater Linz, Theatre Calgary) with composer Bobby Cronin, winning several BroadwayWorld Austria Awards & Germany’s MUT Prize. POSTCARD AMERICAN TOWN (Composer Lynne Shankel) premieres this April (SDSU New Musicals’ Initiative). Audio drama includes KING KIRBY (Co-written w/Fred Van Lente, scored by Bobby Cronin) on the Broadway Podcast Network & THE MAGICIAN’S MAGICIAN. Work in comic books include Adventure Time & Marvel.

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Bobby Cronin is the award-winning composer/writer of Mary and Max (2017 Pace New Musicals Award, 2018 MUT Critics Award, 2019 Canada BroadwayWorld Awards, 2020 Austria BroadwayWorld Awards, 2021 Austria BroadwayWorld Streaming Awards) book by Crystal Skillman, ’Til Death Do Us Part (2018-2020 SDSU New Works Award) book by Caroline Prugh; Concrete Jungle, commissioned for London’s ArtsEd with a new version currently under a Broadway option; Welcome To My Life a rock musical-concert hybrid also under a Broadway option. Bobby has composed numerous award-winning scores for musical short films in festivals worldwide, and the hit audio drama King Kirby (by Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente) on the Broadway Podcast Network. He's also written songs for artists such as Tony and Emmy winner Billy Porter and Tony winner Jordan Roth. A Yale graduate where he won the Michael P. Manzella Award. Member of ASCAP, Dramatists Guild. UK rep: The Artists Partnership.

Hersh was artistic director of Home Grown Theatre Co. in Kansas City for six seasons, directing over 20 productions. For several years, he directed the Century Clubs annual benefit of A Christmas Carol (Starring Alec Baldwin, Sam Waterston, Marsha Mason and Chuck Cooper). Recent projects: Mary and Max: The Musical by Crystal Skillman and Bobby Cronin (Dramatists Guild), Pulp Verite by Crystal Skillman (Urban Stages), Disruption by Andrew Stein (Sheen Center), Wanderer, or the Literal Extraterrestrial I Met on Grindr and Turn Back Now both by Kaleb Tank (Chicago’s Otherworld Theatre).

Assistant & associate work includes: The Public, Rattlestick, Theatre Row, CSC (Pacific Overtures, directed by John Doyle) and on the world premiere of Heathers the Musical (New World Stages). He is currently working on short films Question and Block. Member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, alum of Pace Performing Arts, SDC Associate Member, represented by A3 Artists.

Jasmine holds both an MA in Choreography from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (kindly supported by the Trinity Laban Dance Scholarship) and a BA in Drama from the University of Exeter. Jasmine was also part of the Overture 2017/18 cohort of Community Dance Artists with New Adventures Dance Company. 

Credits include: Venus and Adonis (Blackheath Halls Opera); The Middle by Mandi Chivasa (Park Theatre); The Elixir of Love (Into Opera); Eugene Onegin (Buxton International Festival); Slow Motions (music video by Molly Mango); Morph by Mandi Chivasa (Tristan Bates and Tramshed Theatre); Paul Bunyan (ENO); The Day After (ENO); Phoenix (dance film by Aislinn King); No Quarter by Polly Stenham (Duelling Productions); A Single Act by Jane Bodie (Duelling Productions); Blink (RAW Festival, Exeter Northcott). 

As a facilitator, Jasmine works with English National Opera, Disney Theatrical Group, Eastside Educational Trust and Best Theatre Arts.

Recent UK credits include: Malindadzimu (Hampstead Theatre); Deciphering (New Diorama); The Language of Kindness (Shoreditch Town Hall); Fen (LAMDA); We Anchor in Hope (Bunker); The Five Plays Project (Directors Programme, Young Vic) and Living Newspaper collective (Royal Court). 

Zoë has designed for US venues including: Here Arts Center, Ars Nova (AntFest), The Wild Project, and Brown/Trinity Rep.

Associate credits include: Caroline or Change (Fly Davis) at Studio 54, Broadway & Social! (Christine Jones) at the Park Avenue Armory NYC.

Awards and nominations include: Linbury Prize (2019 winner), JMK Award (2020 finalist with Emerald Crankson), Best Set Design - Off West End Awards (twice finalist). 2 designs have been selected to represent the UK at World Stage Design 2022.

Zoë is a graduate of the MFA Design Programme at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and holds a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art, UAL.

Pablo’s recent lighting design credits include Oliver Award-nominated show Warheads, directed by Toby Clarke at the Park Theatre. Contemporary Circus production Staged, Winner Total Theatre awards for Circus 2019. United Queendom, a site-specific, immersive production at the Kensington Palace, produced by Les Enfants Terribles. Nearly Human by Perhaps Contraption, offie nominated (IDEA 2020). Valhalla, site-specific directed by Rich Rusk, nominated Offfest short run 2019. Other companies with which Pablo has collaborated include Talawa Theatre, The Sleeping Rrees, Little Soldier Production, Nofit Circus State.  Recent credits as LD assistant: “El Medico, El Musical” , “El tiempo entre costuras” (Spain Tour).

Elizabeth is a theatre artist and designer based in New York and Singapore. New York: The Tricky Part, A Walk in the Woods (The Barrow Group); They, Themself and Schmerm (The Public’s UTR Festival INCOMING!); Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana… (HERE Arts). Regional USA: Miss You Like Hell (Baltimore Center Stage); already there (Kennedy Center); Tiny Houses (Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse); Bridges of Madison County (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Square Root of Three Sisters (International Festival of Arts and Ideas); The Phantom Tollbooth (Weston Playhouse). Resident designer with Albany Park Theater Project. MFA Yale School of Drama. Represented by A3 Artists Agency. Member of IATSE Local USA 829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design Inc. Founder of Rainshadow Studios, a non-profit dedicated to making art addressing climate change and environmental destruction.

West End Theatre includes:

Be More Chill (Shaftesbury), Heathers (Haymarket), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo), Matilda (Cambridge), Ghost (Piccadilly).

London Theatre includes:

Origin (Almeida), Evita (Regent’s Park), Jesus Christ Superstar (Barbican & Regent’s Park), Local Hero, Jekyll & Hyde, High Society (Old Vic), Othello, I Think We Are Alone, Fatherland (Frantic Assembly), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), The View Upstairs (Soho), But I’m a Cheerleader, My Night With Reg, Torch Song (Turbine), In the Heights (Kings Cross) Five Guys Named Moe (Marble Arch), Xanadu, Carrie, Side Show (Southwark Playhouse).

Regional Theatre & Tours include:

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Crucible), Piaf (Nottingham Playhouse), Bugsy Malone (UK Tour), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (UK Tour), RENT 20th Anniversary (UK Tour).

TV & Film includes:

Matilda (Netflix), Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty & the Beast (Disney), The Voice, So You Think You Can Dance, Over The Rainbow (BBC) and Superstar (ITV).

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Ellie is a Bristolian artist and performance designer now working in London. With a background in devised performance and fine art, Ellie takes a multidisciplinary approach to her practice and she is interested in work grounded in community, sustainability and collaboration. She has made work at The Bristol Old Vic, for shows in Brighton and Camden fringe and as part of Iris Theatre's 2021 design cohort. Recent credits include working as Design Assistant on both National Youth Theatre's 5* production of Animal Farm at Northampton's Royal & Derngate and renowned community company The Big House's Redemption. Ellie is thrilled to be part of bringing Rain and Zoe Save the World to life and to be sharing the necessary message of this show with Jermyn Street's audience.

Drew Desky and Dane Levens are award-winning producers for theatre and web series. They have produced the award-winning revival of Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award and Outer Critics Circle Honor for Outstanding Revival of a Musical), Pageant (Drama Desk nomination), Application Pending (Drama Desk nomination), Who’s Holiday! (Lortel nomination), The Other Josh Cohen (Off Broadway Alliance nomination) Unexpected Joy, Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, R.R.R.E.D., and Fairycakes. They are currently supporting Dear Evan Hansen (including the North American Tour and West End), Hadestown (including the North American Tour), Come From Away (Australia/NZ), and Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Australia/NZ). They are leading the upcoming production of Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors.  They earned the Emmy® Award for Best Digital Drama Series as Executive Producers of After Forever in 2018. Drew is the Founding Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Drew and Dane are also members of the Artists Circle of the Bucks County Playhouse, where they have the honor of being the only couple married on its stage.

Amanda is a graduate of the MFA (Voice) program at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA).  Recent Voice/dialect coaching credits include: The Sugar House (Finborough Theatre). In Sydney she has coached dozens of productions including The Rolling Stone, Gloria;You Got Older, The Cripple of Inishmaan; If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You; The Caretaker; Nell Gwynne and Next Lesson. She has a busy private coaching studio, and has taught Voice, Accents and Acting at East 15, ArtsEd, LAMDA, Mountview, NIDA and in all the major drama schools in Sydney.

Yarit is co-director of Moving Body Arts and Ensemble Associate Artist of Shakespeare’s Globe. Theatre includes: Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre), The Shark Is Broken (Ambassadors Theatre), Death Of A Salesman (Piccadilly/Young Vic Theatre), Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse), Richard II, Hamlet, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe), NW Trilogy (Kiln Theatre), Changing Destiny, Wild East (Young Vic Theatre), Daddy (Almeida Theatre), Macbeth (Royal Exchange), Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Last Easter (Orange Tree Theatre), Miss Julie (Storyhouse), Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre), The Effect (Boulevard Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Squares).

Dance includes: Rooms (Rambert Dance Company), Self And An Other, Leah, 2B, Sunday Morning (Hagit Yakira Company).

Film includes: The Colour Room, Knives Out 2.
Television includes: The Wheel Of Time, Adult Material, Atlanta 3, Pistol, Starstruck.

Evan Bernardin Productions is a full-service theatrical management company that provides general and production management for productions, tours, and immersive experiences in North America. Select: Seven Deadly Sins by Moisés Kaufman's, Afterglow, We Are The Tigers, Douglas Carter Beane's Fairycakes. Touring: CocoMelon, Million Dollar Quartet, Charlie Brown Christmas, Million Dollar Quartet Christmas, Counting Sheep. Additional collaborative projects have included performances at Lincoln Center, The United Nations, The Harvard Club, The White House, Cornell University, Georgetown's Gaston Hall, The Culture Project, The Ohio Theatre and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

David is a producer and general manager. Credits include: Clybourne Park, Rothschild & Sons (Park Theatre); Blindness (Donmar/UK Tour/International); Rocky Road (Livestream); The Realistic Joneses, Wild Goose Dreams (Theatre Royal Bath); The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios); The Life; Dessert; Stalking the Bogeyman; Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse); Agnes Colander (Jermyn Street); Our Friends the Enemy (UK Tour/New York); Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre, Winner of Best Off West End Production Whatsonstage Award); and Our House The Musical – 10th Anniversary Concert (Savoy Theatre).

David worked for legendary Producer Robert Fox on the UK premiere of David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s musical Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre). David was the Festival Producer for the Old Vic New Voices Festival in 2015 and the Producer of the award-winning Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath in 2019/20. David is a member of SOLT and Chairman of Cherwell Theatre Company – an arts charity for young people in his hometown.