Jacob Brandt is a New York-based theatre-maker and musician. As an actor, he has performed regionally at Weston Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Huntington, Company One, New Reper- tory Theatre, Speakeasy Stage Company, and Wheelock Family Theatre. He has been a featured composer at New York Musical Festival, and his work as a composer/performer has been developed at Ars Nova, Chinatown Soup, Fresh Ground Pepper, the Exponential Festival, The Tank, and the Motor Company. As a director, he has developed and presented work at Frigid Festival, Dixon Place, JACK, The Flea, and TinyRhino with playwrights Dan Giles, Will Arbery, Sofya Weitz, Cary Gitter, Phoebe Kreutz, Brett Epstein, and others. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied acting and playwriting. www.jacobbrandt.com 

An extremely versatile actor and musician, Paris Ellsworth has played roles from Sondheim to Harold Pinter to Shakespeare and everything in between. Recent credits include URINETOWN (Off-Broadway), ASSASSINS (Oberon at the American Repertory Theater), GO! GO! GILGAMESH, and BOOM by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. He trained with Anya Saffir and Cynthia Silver, and Scott Zigler from the Atlantic Theater School, and has worked with directors such as Stafford Arima, Sammi Cannold and Jaki Bradley. Classically trained in violin, viola and Shakespeare, Paris is thrilled to be making his Next Door@NYTW debut.

Lizzie is an actor/singer/musician/composer. Credits include the national tour of Sweeney Todd, Southern Comfort (Public Theatre, Barrington Stage and CAP21), playing bass for Sweet Charity (New Group), The Black Crook (Abrons Arts Center), The Goree All-Girl String Band (NYMF), Taming of the Shrew (Virginia Stage), and A Marvelous Party (American Stage). She is presently writing on, give or take, four musicals. www.lizziehagstedt.com

Angel Lin is anything synonymous to the word “geek.” Most recently seen at NYMF in Interstate (Adrian Yee). National Tour: Once (Emcee, u/s Girl), Kansas City Choir Boy (by Todd Almond, starring Courtney Love, A.R.T/C.T.G). Regional/NYC: Once (Paramount Theatre, Dir. Jim Corti), Other Josh Cohen (Geva Theatre, Dir. Hunter Foster), Stinky Cheese Man… (Atlantic Theater, Dir. Liz Swados). Workshops/Readings/Concerts: Interstate (MTF), Kpop! (Ars Nova), Burn All Night (TBD Theatrical), York Theater, Cherry Lane, The Civilians, McKittrick Hotel, among others. BFA: NYU Tisch. Love and gratitude to the friend and fam (you know who you are). www.angeldoesthings.com

Musician. Actor. Filmmaker. Maya Sharpe is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New York and Los Angeles. Maya’s passion lies in exploring simplicity in humanity and composition as a means to demonstrate that there is more of a connection and love between everything than the politically derived disconnect and hatred.

Off-Broadway: The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Company), SeaWife (Naked Angels, Drama Desk Nomination), NoNo Boy (Pan Asian Rep). Other NYC Credits: Frontieres sans Frontieres (The Bushwick Starr), Bareknuckle (Vertigo Theater), a cautionary tail and These Seven Sicknesses (The Flea Theater). Regional Theater: NY Stage & Film, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, White Heron Theater, and The Hangar Theater. Workshops/Readings: New York Theater Workshop, The Lincoln Center, Ensemble Studio Theater, Ma-Yi, Soho Rep, The Lark, and New Dramatists. Television: “Queen Sugar” (Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey, OWN), “Alternatino” (Comedy Central). Tony is a founding member of the Drama Desk Nominated folk band/theater collective, The Lobbyists. www.tonyaidanvo.com