The Cake

Bekah Brunstetter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her plays include Going to a Place Where You already Are (South Coast Repertory), The Oregon Trail (Portland Center Stage) Cutie and Bear (Roundabout commission), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova, Collaboraction, The Old Globe), among others. She is an alumna of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writers group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, the Women’s Project Lab and is currently a member of the Echo Theater’s Playwright’s group. She has previously written for MTV, ABC Family and Starz and is currently a Co-Producer on NBC’s This is Us. She received her B.A. from UNC Chapel Hill and her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama.

Casey Stangl is making her Playhouse directorial debut. Regional: The Revolutionists (Everyman Theater); The Nether, Fully Committed, The Drawer Boy (Jungle Theater); Ella Enchanted: The Musical, The Siegel, Venus in Fur (South Coast Repertory); Love and Information, Venus in Fur, Ah! Wilderness (A.C.T.); Stage Kiss, Pygmalion, Blue/Orange, Top Girls (Guthrie Theater); Cloud 9, Peace in our Time, The Liar, The Curse of Oedipus (Antaeus Company); Lombardi (Cleveland Playhouse and Arizona Theater Company); Sirens (Actors Theater of Louisville/Humana Festival); The Big Slam (Woolly Mammoth Theater Company); Resident Artist, Ojai Playwrights' Conference. Currently serving on the Executive Board of SDC, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.