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Teddy / Nicholas

Broadway: Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman and Private Louis Henson in A Soldier’s Play at Roundabout Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: The Light (MCC), for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, The Royale (Lincoln Center- Drama Desk Award), and Romeo & Juliet  (Classic Stage Company). Film: Alan Brown’s next indie Other People’s Bodies, Eraser:Reborn (Max), Marriage Story (Netflix), The Art of Racing in the Rain (Fox 2000), Trial By Fire, Mapplethorpe, and auteur John Sayles’s indie Go For Sisters. TV: Netflix’s upcoming limited series Zero Day, opposite Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, Netflix’s recent limited series Eric opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, Ozark, and it’s manga-anime adaptation One Piece, David Simon’s Show Me a Hero and We Own This City (HBO), The Good Lord Bird (Showtime), The Passage (Fox), Mercy Street (PBS), Found (NBC), Power (Starz), among others. McKinley is a proud graduate of Belmont University (BA) and USC School of Dramatic Arts (MFA).

Jeremy / Ed

Uly Schlesinger is a New York based actor originally from Providence Rhode Island. He has been seen on screen in projects such as Genera+ion (Nathan), Jerry and Marge Go Large (Tyler), and Chicago Med (Ben), as well as on stage in This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane), and The Animal Kingdom (The Connelly Theatre). He can often be found playing pool across the lower East side, doing poorly. He is absolutely thrilled to be involved in this wonderful production, and gives his thanks to every single person who made it happen. Uly is represented by Rebel Creative Group and Take 3 Talent Agency.

Understudy Teddy / Nicholas

Ryan is a Miami raised, Brooklyn based artist. Theater credits include: Dorante in The Liar (Arvada Center), Asa Bedford in Midwives (George Street Playhouse), Trevor in The Play That Goes Wrong (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Sam in Blues For An Alabama Sky (Barrington Stage), Oshoosi in The Brothers Size(Gablestage), Fish in The Royale (Hippodrome Theater). TV and Voice Over credits include: Law & Order: SVU, The Lesser Dead, and Visionaries. He's humbled to be a part of this wonderful production and story. Love to his family, partner, friends, and team. Visit iamryangeorge.com for more info!

Understudy Jeremy / Ed

ANDREW FARIA is excited to join the cast of A Guide for the Homesick! He recently made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Ivo Van Hove's production of Dead Man Walking. Previously, he appeared in Paper Mill Playhouse’s production of Rent and was part of this year's NAMT presentation of Lewis Loves Clark. Additional theatre credits include Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Great Lakes Theater/Idaho Shakespeare Festival), The Baker in Into the Woods, Charlie in Kinky Boots (Baldwin Wallace), and Snoopy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Forestburgh Playhouse). Bachelor of Music in Music Theatre - Baldwin Wallace University.

DIRECTOR

Shira Milikowsky is a Brooklyn-based director and producer specializing in new plays and radical re-imaginings of musicals and classic texts. She is also a founder of The Neon Coven (@TheNeonCoven on all platforms), a collective of artists making groundbreaking immersive nightlife musicals. OSCAR AT THE CROWN, The Neon Coven hit at 2023’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival is currently in development for a London opening in Spring, 2025. As artistic associate at the A.R.T. in Cambridge, MA, Shira directed great contemporary plays like THE LILY’S REVENGE by Taylor Mac, BRIDE*WIDOW*HAG by KimRosenstock, and countless other productions, workshops, and special projects. As a recipient of the Henry Luce Scholarship, Shira lived in Seoul, South Korea, where she was a visiting artist at the Seoul Metropolitan Theater and a visiting Professor at Kookmin University. A two-time Drama League Directing Fellow, Shira holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia, and a BA in Theater Studies from Yale. Since 2012, she has been an Associate Lecturer in Theater, Dance & Media at Harvard University.

PLAYWRIGHT

Ken Urban is a playwright, screenwriter and musician. His audio play VAPOR TRAIL was selected for the 2022 Tribeca Festival’s Audio Storytelling series and released as part of Playwrights Horizons’ Sound Stage that fall. His stage plays include A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK (Huntington Theatre Company, Trafalgar Studios in the West End), THE REMAINS (Studio Theatre), SENSE OF AN ENDING (59E59 Theatres, London’s Theatre503), NIBBLER (The Amoralists and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), THE CORRESPONDENT (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), THE AWAKE (59E59 Theatres, Chicago’s First Floor Theater), and THE HAPPY SAD (The Public Theatre/Summer Play Festival). He is a four-time recipient of the prestigious MacDowell Fellowship. Awards include Venturous Theater Fund Finishing Commission, EST/Alfred P. Sloan Science & Technology Project Commission, Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Independent Reviewers of New England’s Award for Best New Script, Headlands Artist Residency, Millay Arts Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. His new play THE CONQUERED was recently awarded the 2024 Blue Ink Award by Chicago’s American Blues Theater and CATH CARROLL was named one of three winners of the 2023 A IS FOR Playwriting Contest for plays about reproductive justice. He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and an affiliated writer at the Playwrights’ Center. Ken wrote the screenplay for the feature-film adaptation of THE HAPPY SAD, directed by Rodney Evans. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service/Broadway Licensing. He leads the band Occurrence and their latest album SLOW VIOLENCE, released in April 2023, was called “a sonic tapestry that blends elements of indie pop, electronic music and shoegaze into a seamless whole” (PLASTIC MAGAZINE). The band collaborated with choreographer Dan Safer at MIT’s Theater program on a devised dance theater piece based around the album. They will release three new albums in 2025. His first TV pilot THE ART OF LISTENING was optioned by ITV and Madison Wells Media. He is currently working on a feature film. Ken is the Senior Lecturer of Theater Arts and Director of Dramatic Writing at MIT. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Princeton University, Tufts University and Davidson College. He lives in Washington Heights with his partner Johnny.