Suicide Cowboys
Playwright
Greg T. Nanni
Greg T. Nanni (he/him) is a playwright, comic book writer, dramaturg, educator, solo show performer, and Philadelphian living in the NYC area. Most of Greg’s work focuses on the foreboding secrets that exist inside of us that we are innately afraid of sharing, and everything we do to hide and keep that secret out of fear. He writes to tell heartfelt stories of the human experience, with the peaks of humor and valleys of humanistic ennui creating the roller coaster audiences find rewarding to go on. He was a member of Witherspoon Circle, Passage Play Lab, Cut/Edge Collective, a former Playwright in Residence at Plays & Players, and served as President of the Philadelphia Dramatists’ Center. As Dramaturg, he was the former Literary Manager of the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, and assisted Kristina Wong and Aaron Malkin on the inaugural production of Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord (New York Theatre Workshop). He’s written over 20 full length plays, including: Loneliness (Columbia University Workshop 2020), The Bear Is Here (BAPF Semi-Finalist), Rage (Emerson Stage NewFest Workshop 2022), Love (Among Dreamers) (Broadway For All’s THE HOUSE Workshop 2023), and The Body Filters (the cell theatre Residency 2025). He is a recipient of the MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University, where he was awarded the Dean’s Fellowship.
Meet the Creative Team
Director
ADAM L. SUSSMAN
Adam L. Sussman (he/him) is a director, dramaturg, and educator whose work reckons with knotty cultural questions through radical empathy and bold theatricality. He is a co-artistic director at Dreamlighting, and Artistic Producer of The Greenhouse New Play Festival at SFSU where he teaches new play development in the Creative Writing department. Directing credits includes the world premiere of Zac and Siah, or Jesus in a Body Bag by Jeffrey Lo, the West Coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage (“One of the top shows of the year” SF Chronicle), and a reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice at UT Theatre and Dance (Best Production and Best Director nominations Austin Critics Table). Adam holds an MFA in theater from the University of Texas at Austin, and has worked with Cornerstone Theater, American Conservatory Theater, the Berkeley Rep, Playwright’s Foundation, and This American Life.
Dramaturg
SCOTT HORSTEIN
Scott Horstein (he/him) is grateful and delighted to return as a dramaturg for this year’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Scott’s freelance dramaturgy credits include Marin Theatre Company, Jewish Plays Project, Greenway Court, Denver Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, San Diego Rep, Native Voices at the Autry, Watts Village Theater Company, Alter Theater, and the Old Globe, where he dramaturged for Arthur Miller on his penultimate play Resurrection Blues. New York credits include Port Out, Starboard Home with foolsFURY at La Mama, and Good Bobby with Greenway Court at 59E59 (Off-Broadway). Scott was formerly staff dramaturg for Cornerstone Theater Company. He is based in Marin County and serves as Professor of Theatre Arts at Sonoma State University.
Stage Manager
CHERYLE HONERLAH
Cheryle Honerlah* (she/they) is excited to be joining this year’s Playwrights Festival! She has had the pleasure of working with several theaters in the Bay Area, including TheatreWorks, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Center REP, California Shakespeare Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, ACT, Shotgun Players, Douglas Morrisson Theatre, and African-American Shakespeare Company. They hold a B.A. in Technical Theatre from CSU East Bay, and participated in CalShakes’ Professional Internship Program in 2013. Cheryle is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Meet the Cast
Will Dao* (he/him, LUCKY) is thrilled to return to the Playwrights Foundation’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Select stage credits include Vietgone (Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Seattle Repertory Theatre/ L.A. Theatreworks); Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2, The Matchmaker (A.C.T.); The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, King of the Yees, My Home on the Moon (San Francisco Playhouse); Final Boarding Call (Ma-Yi Theater Company/WP Theater/Playwrights Foundation/ Powerhouse Theater); The Chinese Lady (Magic Theatre/Denver Center for the Performing Arts); The Hundred Flowers Project (Crowded Fire Theater); The Crazed (Central Works); Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Bay Area Children’s Theatre); Language Rooms (Golden Thread Productions/Asian American Theater Company); Antony and Cleopatra, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare in Love, Snow in Midsummer (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). www.willdao.com. Instagram: @thewilldao.
Nicholas René Rodriguez (he/him, STAGE DIRECTIONS) is a Salvadoran Italian actor, writer, teaching artist, and multidisciplinary storyteller from Fairfield, California, now living in Oakland. A graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, Nick was recently seen in How to Make an American Son at NCTC, following appearances in Continuity and The Magnolia Ballet with Shotgun Players. Up next, he joins American Conservatory Theater as an understudy for John Proctor Is the Villain before appearing as Rodolpho in A View from the Bridge. Nick is always looking for new ways to tell stories, whether through theater, film, writing, dance, or whatever comes next. He believes art is inherently political and hopes to make work that questions the world around us while imagining something better!!! Outside of stories, he loves basketball, Fortnite, his family, his Mariah, and finding any excuse to PTSO (put that shiiii on). Free Palestine!
Angel Villalobos (he/him, MILO) is a first-gen Mexican-American lover. His acting, directing, and teaching artistry includes work at Berkeley Rep, CTG, The Actors’ Gang, Cincinnati Playhouse, Theatricum Botanicum, LAUSD. He is an advocate for our Earth and its young humans. BFA, BA: UCSB. @villaslowbos