Michael Sexton is a director, dramaturg, and teacher from New York. He was the Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Society from 2005-2017 followed by the Director of the Public Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater. Recent credits include, as Dramaturg: Macbeth w/ Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga (Longacre), King Lear (Cort), Hamlet (Public), Othello (NYTW); and as Director: Coriolanus, with Patrick Page and Lisa Harrow, at Red Bull Theater; The Winter’s Tale, with Peter Francis James, at The Pearl Theatre Company; As You Like It and Henry V with Geoffrey Owens, Jacob Fishel, and Miriam Hyman, at Two River Theater Company; Kelly Masterson’s Edith, with Jayne Atkinson and Jack Gilpin, at the Berkshire Theater Festival; and Titus Andronicus with Jay O. Sanders at the Public Theater. He has directed New York and world premieres of plays by Rinne Groff, Will Eno, Marsha Norman, Caryl Churchill, Ain Gordon, Rogelio Martinez, Victor Lodato, Phil Porter, Chloe Moss, Marin Gazzaniga, Eric Gamalinda, and Rosemary Moore. He has directed at Red Bull Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Manhattan Class Company, Classic Stage Company, Soho Rep, PS122, The Old Globe, Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, Rising Phoenix Rep, SPF and the Cherry Lane Alternative. He was born in Brooklyn.

Scott C. Neale is thrilled to return to St. Louis Shakespeare Festival after designing the 2023 Shakespeare in the Streets production of The Game’s Afoot. As You Like It is Scott’s seventh SFSTL mainstage design, after his first production of Taming of the Shrew in 2011 and most recently The Winter’s Tale in 2017. Scott is an award-winning freelance scenic & experiential designer and Chair of the Scenic Design program at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has served as Resident Scenic Designer for Albany Park Theater Project in Chicago since 2006, which recently opened a 12,000 Sq. Ft. immersive production co-created with Third Rail Projects titled Port of Entry, an experience which invites audience members to step inside the real-life stories of immigrants and refugees from all parts of the world living side by side in a single apartment building in one of the country’s most diverse immigrant communities: Chicago’s Albany Park. Port of Entry was recently featured in the Fall 2023 edition of American Theatre Magazine. In addition, he continues to design theatrical sets, exhibits and events, and interactive immersive environments around the world.

Scott is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, Themed Entertainment Association, and USITT. He is also a credited contributor to the collegiate textbook Scene Design and Stage Lighting, 9th and 10th Editions (Parker, Wolf & Block: 9th and 10th Editions © Wadsworth 2009, 2013). www. ScottCNealedesign.com

Oana Botez is a Romanian American costume designer for theater, opera, film and dance. She is an Obie Award, Henry Hewes Award, Princess Grace Award, NEA/TCG Career Development Program,  and Barrymore Award recipient, Henry Hewes Design Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominee. New York: BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/Richard B.Fisher Center, Public Theater, Signature Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Big Apple Circus/Lincoln Center, Classic Stage Company, Soho Rep, PS122, The Kitchen. Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin (Barrington Stage Company); Macbeth (Old Globe); Angels in America (Wilma); Man in a Case (Hartford).  Opera: The Comet /Poppea (The Industry LA, Curtis Institute, Philadelphia); Song of Ambassadors (Alice Tully Hall/ Lincoln Center); Carmen (Minneapolis Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Portland Opera); In a Grove (Pittsburgh Opera & Prototype NY); Persona ( National Sawdust, REDCAT); A House in Bali (BAM), Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap Opera), Cosi (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Guy &Dolls (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Émigré (NY Philharmonic), Dido and Aeneas (Château de Versailles) Internationally: Bucharest National Theater (Romania), Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistances, The Old Vic, Budapest National Theater, Cluj Hungarian National Theater (Romania), Le Quartz (Brest, France), La Filature (Mulhousse, France), Exit Festival /Maison des Arts Creteil, Tanz im August Festival Hebbel am Ufer – HAU1(Berlin, Germany), Edinburgh International Festival, Singapore Arts Festival. She is teaching at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in the Design Department.

Brandon Wolcott is a Brooklyn based sound designer, composer and DJ. His work has been felt and heard at dozens of venues in the U.S. and around the world, including: BAM, The Pubic Theater, Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, The Shed, Mass Moca, Museum of Contepmorary Art Chicago, Le Pompidou, La Mama ETC, Invisible Dog, 3LD, PS122, Playwrights Horizon, Clubbed Thumb, Walker Museum of Art, Fusebox, A.R.T., Mark Taper Forum, CTG, La Jolla Playhouse, Salzburg Festival, Noordezon, Edinburgh Festival and many more…  As a sound designer and composer, Brandon has collaborated on a diverse array of projects, including work in dance, theater, installation and film. Collaborations include 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Taylor Mac, Faye Driscoll, Geoff Sobelle, Kevin Newbury, Lee Sunday Evans, Lila Neugebauer, Lear DeBessonet, Taibi Magar, Tyne Rafeli, and many others.  As a DJ and producer, he has released music with Nicolas Jaar’s Other People, Wolf+Lamb, Archipel and Kingdoms. His Smirk project performed live sets at festivals around the world, including highlights: Mutek Montreal, Unsound Krakow, Dispatch Belgrade and Save Moscow.