MATTHEW BOSTON (Jacob’s Father) makes his T2 debut. New York and regional credits include leading roles at Old Globe, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, A.C.T, Berkeley Rep, Intiman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Trinity Rep, Hartford TheaterWorks, Mosaic Theatre Company of DC, Repertory Theater of St Louis, Portland Center Stage, George Street Playhouse, Centerstage, Dallas Theater Center, A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), Two River Theater Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Human Race Theatre Company, Northern Stage Company, The Kitchen Theatre, 59E59, SoHo Rep, Working Theatre, as well as many others. His film and television credits include City on the Hill, Elementary, The Blacklist, Mysteries of Laura, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, The Kitchen, In the Family, Out and About, Ghost Ship, Into the Blue, Camp Wilderness, One Life to Live and All My Children.

JOE CHISHOLM (Jacob Kohn) makes his T2 debut. Off-Broadway he starred in Afterglow, safeword., and She Has a Name. Recent credits include Justin in Mr. Parker (Penguin Rep); Berger in HAIR (Geva Theatre Center); Tom in 2000 Nickels (NYMF); Guido in The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit (WorkShop Theatre); Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid (Olney Theatre Center); Freddy in My Fair Lady (Westchester Broadway Theatre). He holds an M.F.A. in acting from Drama Centre London and a B.F.A. in musical theatre from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).

ROBERT FLAHERTY HART (Stage Directions Reader) returns to T2, where his many roles have included Wabash/ensemble in Shakespeare In Love, Hubert Humphrey and Strom Thurmond in All the Way, and Count Von Strack in Amadeus. He just completed directing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) for Emporia State University in Kansas. He holds M.F.A.s in both acting and playwriting from the University of Arkansas.

BRYCE KEMPH (Warner Henke) returns to T2 having appeared in several productions, including A Christmas Carol, Shakespeare in Love, The Champion, Great Expectations, All The Way, Peter and the Starcatcher, Amadeus, Superior Donuts, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Period of Adjustment, It’s a Wonderful Life, Moonlight and Magnolias, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, and the Arkansas New Play Festival 2014-2017. Additional credits include Peter and the Starcatcher (Arkansas Rep); Go Dog Go, Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse (Trike Theatre); Twelfth Night (Classical Edge); and Man of La Mancha (Inspire). NYC credits include Off-Off-Broadway productions Garage (NYC Fringe Festival); Andromache (Full of Noises); Superhero Celebrity Rehab the Musical (Access Theatre); The Rivals (Ampersand); and New York To New York Actor’s Showcase (Producer’s Club). Film credits include Greater: The Brandon Burlsworth Story, Riot Act, No Exit, Mayfly, Neapolitan, and Waiting For Godot. He holds an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Arkansas and a B.F.A. from Emporia State University.

STEVEN MARZOLF (Reinhardt Weiss) returns to T2, where his previous credits include A Christmas Carol, Shakespeare in Love, Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley, Great Expectations, All The Way, Amadeus, The Spiritualist, The Fall of the House, and the Arkansas New Play Festival. He also directed Romeo & Juliet in Concert, a collaboration between T2 and The South Arkansas Symphony. Regional acting credits include Cyrano in Cyrano De Bergerac (Riverside Theatre); Coriolanus in Coriolanus (The Old Globe Theatre); Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (Notre Dame Shakespeare); and several more productions at The Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, In Tandem Theatre, Trike Theatre and Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he was a part of the original production of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning-play August: Osage County. He has directed The Glass Menagerie (Riverside Theatre); Crave (The Side Project); The Trojan Women (Stella Adler Institute); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NWA Shakes/Trike Theatre); and several productions for Opera Fayetteville, University of Tulsa and University of Arkansas. He holds an M.F.A. in acting from The Old Globe Theatre/University of San Diego Professional Actor Training Program and he is the head of undergraduate acting at University of Arkansas.

RILEY NEWSOME (Young German Soldier/Young Prisoner) makes his T2 acting debut after serving as the military consultant and u/s for My Father’s War. Additional stage credits include Tartuffe in Tartuffe and Bo.Jr in In The Book Of (University of Arkansas). He holds a B.A. in theatre performance from Huntington University and is an M.F.A. candidate in theatre at the University of Arkansas. He has also served in the U.S. Army as an infantryman for six years.

AMY HERZBERG (Director) is associate artistic director and a co-founder of TheatreSquared and distinguished professor of theatre at the University of Arkansas, where she heads the M.F.A. acting program. Acting and/or directing credits include La Jolla Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Stages Repertory Theater, San Diego Repertory Theatre (resident actor for four years), Valle Christi International Theatre Festival, English Theatre Berlin, and many others. T2 directing credits: Shakespeare in Love, Once, Fun Home, One Man, Two Guv'nors and a dozen others. T2 acting credits include Rapture, Blister, Burn and The Spiritualist. Awards: Kennedy Center's ACTF National Acting Teacher Fellowship, U of A's Charles and Nadine Baum Teaching Award, Fulbright College Master Teacher Award, Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and Governor's Arts Award. A founding co-chair of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, she holds an M.F.A. from Cal Arts, with additional training from American Conservatory Theatre and the Actors Center in New York.

NAYSAN MOJGANI (Dramaturg) is a freelance dramaturg and the literary manager for Arena Stage in Washington, DC, where he is a key member of the new play development program and serves as in-house production dramaturg. As a theatre scholar, director, and dramaturg, he has worked on new and classic work with theatres in San Diego and Minnesota, including MOXIE, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and Malashock Dance, and has taught at UC San Diego and George Mason University. He holds a PhD in theatre & drama from UC San Diego, and a B.A. from Carleton College.

BEN CORBETT (Dialect Coach) returns to T2 having last worked on dialect for A Christmas Carol and Shakespeare In Love. Specializing in voice and accent, and certified as a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and Colaianni Speech Instructor, he joined the University of Arkansas theatre faculty this fall as an assistant professor of voice and speech. His professional vocal coaching credits include Shakespeare Dallas, City Rep, the William Inge Theatre Festival, the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Barter Theatre, Burning Coal Theatre Company, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He has taught at Oklahoma City University, the William Inge Center for the Arts/Independence Community College, and Appalachian State University. He most recently served a voice residency at the University of Kansas. He is a proud member of Actor's Equity, and an associate editor for Oklahoma and Arkansas for the International Dialects of English Archive.

ANNA HOPE COLLEY (Production Stage Manager) returns to T2 after serving in stage management roles since joining the company in the summer of 2017, including Black Book and Staging the Daffy Dame. Additional credits include On The Row (Prison Story Project); Taming of the Shrew (The Classical Edge); Digging Up Arkansas, In My Own Backyard, and The Odyssey (Trike Theatre). She holds an A.F.A. in theatre from Cottey College and a B.A. in theatre from the University of Arkansas.