Brian Watkins (Writer) is a playwright, filmmaker, and television creator based in Brooklyn. His most recent play Weather Girl completed its London debut at the Soho Theatre after premiering in Edinburgh where it received the festival’s top awards, including the BBC Writers Award, the Lustrum Award, a Fringe First, and more. He is currently developing the play into a series for Netflix. Watkins’s previous play Epiphany was produced at Lincoln Center (five Lucille Lortel Nominations, Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best New Play); international premiere with Druid Theatre/Galway Int. Arts Festival (Irish Times Award nom. for Best Production). Other plays include Wyoming, Into the Earth with You, Evergreens, and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer. Watkins’s series Outer Range can be seen on Amazon, for which he was creator, showrunner, writer, and executive producer, produced by Plan B. He is the writer-director of the film Diviners starring Julia McDermott and Lewis Pullman. Former Juilliard Playwriting Fellow, New Dramatists Resident Playwright. In development: films for Amblin, Disney, Warner Bros.

Tyne Rafaeli (Director) directs for stage, screen, and audio. Recent stage productions include Em Weinstein’s Becoming Eve (New York Theatre Workshop, Drama Desk, and Drama League nominations for Best Direction); Brian Watkins’s Weather Girl (Edinburgh Festival, Fringe First Award, the Lustrum Award, and The List’s Best International Production); Jen Silverman’s Spain (Second Stage); Keith Bunin’s The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theatre, NY Times Critic’s Pick); Brian Watkins’s Epiphany (Lincoln Center Theatre, NY Times Critic’s Pick); Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons, NY Times Critic’s Pick); Ming Peiffer’s Usual Girls (Roundabout, NY Times Critic’s Pick); Craig Lucas’s I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons, NY Times Critic’s Pick); and Lauren Yee’s In a Word (Cherry Lane, NY Times Critic’s Pick). Recent TV directing includes The Beast in Me starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys (Netflix); Tell Me Lies (Hulu); Single Drunk Female (Hulu); Elsbeth (CBS); and The Good Fight (Paramount+). Upcoming projects include: Antigone (This play I read in high school) by Anna Ziegler at The Public Theater starring Tony Shalhoub and Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Data by Matthew Libby at the Lucille Lortel. 

Adam Coy (Associate Director) (he/him) is a Tejano director, actor, and curator of vibes, originally from San Antonio. Adam is the associate artistic director and co-founder of The Drama Desk nominated Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective. He is currently a New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) 2050 Artistic Fellow, alumnus of Roundabout Directors Group, the Playwrights Horizons Directing Fellowship, and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) Rising Leaders of Color program. Directing: Holes in the Shape of My Father (Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater, Powerhouse Theater part of The Tank residency); What Else is True?; Crave; and Zabelle (Egg & Spoon). He has developed work with Roundabout, The Civilians, Powerhouse Theater, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, Intar, and others. Associate/Assisting: Broadway: Doubt (Roundabout); Off-Broadway/Regional: Spain (Second Stage); The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard Theatre); The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theatre); Tambo & Bones; Wish You Were Here; Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons); Mojada (The Public Theater); and The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep). 

Isabella Byrd (Set & Lighting Designer)  Broadway: Cabaret, Romeo+Juliet, An Enemy of the People. Notable off-Broadway: Jordan Tannahill’s Prince F*ggot; Penelope Skinner’s Angry Alan; Caryl Churchill’s short plays (Public Theater); Annie Baker’s Infinite Life; Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust; Brian Watkins’s Epiphany; Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City; Abe Koogler’s Deep Blue Sound; Talene Monahon’s The Good John Proctor; and Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Plano. International: Cabaret (West End); Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (Dublin); Jeremy O. Harris’s DADDY (Almeida); Edinburgh; and the National in London. Honors: Double-debut 2024 Tony Award nominations, three Lortel Awards, two Obies, Special Drama Desk Award, and a Henry Hewes Award. Isabella is a proud USA829 union member, supporting pay equity and sustainability. www.isabellabyrd.design

Rachel Dainer-Best (Costume Designer) is a costume designer based in New York City, where she works in various media. She has a BA in art history from Brandeis University. She has designed costumes for films including The Assistant (dir. Kitty Green, Bleecker Street, 2019) and Waves (dir. Trey Edward Shults, A24, 2019), both of which screened at Telluride Film Festival; and Assassination Nation (dir. Sam Levinson, Neon, 2018) and I Saw The TV Glow (dir. Jane Schoenbrun, A24, 2024), which both premiered at Sundance. She also worked on the Amazon television series Outer Range (2022) and recently designed the costumes for the upcoming Netflix film Little Brother. 

Kieran Lucas (Sound Designer) is an award-winning sound designer, composer, and theatre-maker. Selected sound and composition credits include: Me for the World; My Name is Rachel Corrie (Young Vic); First Touch; Noah & The Peacock (Nottingham Playhouse); The Legend of Ned Ludd; A Billion Times I Love You (Liverpool Everyman); The Marvellous Myth Hunter Ceilidh (Southbank Centre); Shooting Hedda Gabler; EMMA (Rose Theatre); Winter’s Tale (Dailes Teātris, Latvia); Under The Skin (St. Paul’s Cathedral); Companion: Moon, How We Save The World (Natural History Museum); SHTF (Schauspielhaus, Vienna); VL; Black Love; Really Big & Really Loud; Square Go (Paines Plough Roundabout); Square Go (59E59); Hungry (Soho Theatre); May Queen (Belgrade Theatre); Showdown (Chaäaleon, Berlin); Chester Mystery Plays (Chester Cathedral); Deciphering; Antigone; A Girl In School Uniform (Walks Into A Bar) (New Diorama Theatre); The Future Project (Streatham Space Project); GASTRONOMIC (Shoreditch Town Hall/Norwich Theatre Royal); Found Sound (Coventry Cathedral); TBCTV (Somerset House); The Drill (Battersea Arts Centre); and Hear Me Raw (Soho Theatre/Arcola Theatre).

Jack Boissieux (Production Manager) runs a production management company (JBPM), working across theatre, opera, dance, musicals, and events. He has worked on national and international touring productions, West End musicals, and immersive and site-specific theatre. Alongside a range of productions with Francesca Moody Productions, JBPM has production-managed a variety of projects. Recent and current credits include: The Choir of Man (West End, European and International Touring); Bluey’s Big Play (European and International Touring); Head Of Production @ Waterperry Opera Festival; Pied Piper (National Touring); The Ancient Oak of Baldor (National Touring); A Very Naughty Christmas (Southwark Playhouse, Elephant); Wilko (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Lay Down Your Burdens (Barbican and National Touring); Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew (Bush Theatre); Lost Lending Library and A Curious Quest (Punchdrunk); and Maddie Moate’s Very Curious Christmas (Apollo Theatre). 

Emily Schmit (Associate Set & Lighting Designer) is a designer and collaborative artist based in Brooklyn, NY, working in theater, dance, music, fashion, installation, live events, and immersive experiences. Proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. www.emilyschmit.com

Matt Otto (Associate Sound Designer) is a Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award-nominated composer, sound designer, and adoptee based in New York City. In New York, Matt has designed productions for companies including Red Bull Theater, The New Group, Audible, Pipeline Theatre Company, New York City Children’s Theater, Colt Coeur, The Amoralists, the Barrow Group, Cherry Lane, the Atlantic Acting School Conservatory, New Saloon, and many others. Regionally, his work has been heard at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Imagination Stage, Brown/Trinity Rep, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Theatre Alaska, and more. He has also designed numerous productions for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Matt holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA from Boston University. He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Katie Girardot (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be making her St. Ann’s Warehouse debut and joining the incredible team of Weather Girl. She continues to be in awe of the worlds she gets to help build with her collaborators and hopes to be a part of building a better world outside the theater doors. Nat’l Tour: Girl From the North Country, Jagged Little Pill; Off-Broadway: Becoming Eve (NYTW), We Live in Cairo (NYTW), Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!, Josh Sharp’s tada!. Love to her circle of support, to Tyne and Francesca, and to Duckie. @ktg45

Francesca Moody Productions (Producer) is an Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-nominated production company whose work in theatre has originated two of the most globally successful television shows of the last decade: Fleabag and Baby Reindeer. Current & upcoming productions: Weather Girl (St Ann’s Warehouse), Ohio (Young Vic, Bristol Old Vic, Assembly Roxy), and Relics (Lyric Hammersmith). Recent productions include: Shedinburgh Fringe Festival; My Master Builder (Wyndham’s Theatre); An Oak Tree (Young Vic, Bergen International Festival, Festival d’Avignon, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); How to Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic, Underbelly); Garry Starr: Classic Penguins (Soho Theatre, Underbelly); A Streetcar Named Desire (Noël Coward Theatre, BAM, Phoenix Theatre); Weather Girl (Soho Theatre, Summerhall); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Arts Centre Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Bush Theatre, Roundabout); I’m Almost There (Summerhall); VL (Roundabout at Summerhall); Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder (The Ambassadors Theatre, Underbelly Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic, HOME Manchester, Roundabout); Nutcracker (Southbank Centre) Never Have I Ever (Chichester Festival Theatre); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre); Berlusconi: A New Musical (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Mum (Soho Theatre); Leopards (Rose Theatre); Baby Reindeer (Bush Theatre, Roundabout);  and Fleabag (Wyndham’s Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Soho Theatre, UK and Australian Tour, S.Korea, Underbelly).