The Smoker

NYC: villa, Recent Alien Abductions PlayCo, PlayOn CSC, underneathmybed Rattlestick, Fernando The New Ohio. Select regional: Christmas Carol McCarter, The Art of Burning Huntington/Hartford Stage, Bad Dates Cincinnati Playhouse, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Tenth Muse Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Richard III, As You Like It among others at The Old Globe, multiple works at the Denver Center. Film and TV: Law & Order, FBI: Most Wanted, For Life, “Motor City”, “Love, Repeat”, “Shallow End” and her own short, “Honk”. She teaches Acting and Theatre from Latin America at Princeton University, and just directed The Comeuppance there.www.viviafont.com

\NYC: The Golden Bride (National Yiddish Opera Folksbiene), Leah in Leah, the Forsaken (Metropolitan Playhouse), Delta in the Sky (starring Austin Pendleton), Christmas in Hell (NYMF). Regional: Spring Storm (Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival), Daughters of Lot (Edinburgh Fringe), As You Like It (Connecticut Shakespeare), Charlotte’s Web (Theatreworks/USA). Film: First Rites (Tubi), Spiders (Cannes Festival). TV: Evil Lives Here (IDiscovery). Next up she will be touring her one woman cabaret, Divina, about the life of opera diva Maria Callas. For upcoming performances visit www.divinaonstage.com. BFA NYU TISCH Stella Adler. www.reginagibson.com.

ORLANDO ARRIAGA (Roberto) is pleased to appear at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in The Smoker. Select theatre credits include The Lehman Trilogy (Stages Theatre Repertory), Private Lives, American Mariachi, and Lend Me A Soprano (Alley Theatre), Every Brilliant Thing (A.D. Players), Romeo y Juliet (Cal Shakes), Twenty50 (TheatreSquared), Quixote Nuevo (Hartford Stage), and Fade (Kitchen Theatre Company). Film credits include The Long Game, Do No Harm, and This Station Is My Father. Orlando is a recipient of the prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship and holds a BA from Lamar University.

Theater: 7 Minutes (Waterwell), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb), Neighbors (The Public Theater), An Octoroon (Theater for a New Audience/Soho Rep), Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR), Be the Death of Me (The Civilians), and others. Film and TV: Office Romance, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Master of None (Netflix); The Calling (Peacock); Blue Bloods (CBS); The Blacklist (NBC); Power (Starz); Sneaky Pete (Amazon); High Maintenance, Boardwalk Empire (HBO); The Breaks (VH1) and others. Education: BA Barnard College, summa cum laude. Co-founder of BEM, a Black food bookstore and culinary hub based in Brooklyn, NY (bembrooklyn.com)

Brad Fleischer is an Actor, Director and Producer with over 20 years’ experience in Theater, Film and TV. This is his CATF Debut. He starred on Broadway with Robin Williams in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo as well as acting in Coram Boy, Golden Boy and Streamers. He originated Doug in Gruesome Playground Injuries, and is currently preparing to direct a feature film of the play. Brad’s TV and film credits include: The Walking Dead, The Equalizer, The Good Shepherd, Prison Break, Blue Bloods, The Unit, Law and Order, and Jericho. Brad received an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of California San Diego.

Lisa D’Amour is a playwright and interdisciplinary collaborator from New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in a world of ritual, activism, group spectacle and care, all of which continue to thrive in her work. Her plays have been produced across the globe, including at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway, Playwrights Horizons (NYC), Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.), The National Theater (London) Catastrophic Theater (Houston) and ArtSpot Productions (New Orleans)..Her play Detroit was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Susan Smith Blackburn prize, and she’s received two OBIE Awards. Lisa’s company PearlDamour makes interdisciplinary, often site-specific works, most recently premiering Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown (American Repertory Theater + touring). She has also been honored with the Alpert Award for the Arts, the Steinberg Playwright Award and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.

Shelley Butler has over 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional credits to date working extensively with writers on new plays and musicals at theaters across the country. Notable productions include the world premieres of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 at South Coast Repertory, Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir in a Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theater and Denver Center co-production, along with The Reservoir’s off-Broadway premiere at the Atlantic Theater, and Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter for Two River Theater. She has directed and developed over two dozen new works for theaters including: Contemporary American Theater Festival, Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater, MCC Theater, Primary Stages, E.S.T., WP Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theater, The Alley Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Yale Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Geva, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, New York Stage and Film, PlayPenn, New Dramatists, The Playwright’s Realm, Keen Company and the Lark.