Evren Odcikin (he/him) is a Turkish-American director, writer, and arts leader based in New York City and San Francisco. He is a celebrated champion of historically-excluded voices in the American theater through work that is heart-centered, politically engaged, globally minded, and centers joy as resistance. He is committed to building his work with and for the communities it represents. Recent directing: Baron Vaughn: Cycle Breaker (Geva Theatre), English by Sanaz Toossi (Alley Theatre), The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) by Nia Akilah Robinson (Soho Rep, NY Times Critic’s Pick), Macbeth and Mona Mansour’s unseen (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Eric Reyes Loo’s Simple Mexican Pleasures (NCTC), christopher oscar peña’s our orange sky (Profile Theatre), as well as workshops of T. Carlis Roberts’s musical Stono (Control Group Productions), Yilong Liu’s Stupid Little Fire (Playwrights Center), Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s ALAA: A Family Trilogy (Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and Golden Thread) and Lauren Gunderson’s Muse of Fire (Prague Shakes, Utah Shakes, Marin Shakes, Magic Theatre). His original plays include Oriental, or 1,001 Ways to Tie Yourself in Knots, originally conceived and created with Leila Buck (commissioned by Cal Shakes, developed at Golden Thread) and Istanbul 1995 (upcoming Mercury Store Residency with composer Avi Amon), and an adaptation of Plautus’s The Braggart Soldier based on a translation by Deana Berg (produced by Custom Made). His translations include Sedef Ecer’s On the Periphery (produced by Golden Thread and Crowded Fire), and short plays Zehra Ipsiroglu’s Dream Seller and Ebru Nihan Celkan’s And the Day No One Died (commissioned by NYU Abu Dhabi). His work has been supported by 2024-25 Artist-in-Residence appointment at Golden Thread, an Iris Lab Fellowship with UC Santa Cruz, a National Directors Fellowship by O’Neill Center, NNPN, Kennedy Center, and SDCF, as well as grants by Kenneth Rainin NEW Program and Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Program. Evren served as the Interim Artistic Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2023 where he was Associate Artistic Director and Director of Artistic Programming from 2019-2023. He serves on the Boards of Golden Thread Productions and Middle Eastern North African Theater Makers Alliance.

Fatemeh is a queer Iranian performing artist, and her work combines her passion for performance with her passion for advocacy. These days Fatemeh spends most of her time between NorCal and Los Angeles working on theatre, film, and voiceover! Her most recent works include Once Upon a Time (B Street Theatre), Pilgrimage (Golden Thread Productions), A Distinct Society (Weston Theatre Company), English (Capital Stage), and The Newlywed Game (B Street Theatre). Fatemeh participated in Marin Shake’s Seeds of Time Festival last summer asLeyli in Leyli & Majnun, and she is so excited to be back for As You Like It!! Instagram: @fatemeow

Cathleen Riddley is a multiple award-winning actor, most recently having been honored with the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award.  She’s performed at most Bay Area theaters, including ACT, Aurora, Theatreworks and Cal Shakes.  She is an Artistic Associate at Marin Shakes, and a company member with Shotgun Players and PlayGround.  She is a certified ASL Interpreter, has an MA in Sociology from UPenn, and is passionate about social, language, and disability justice.  As a human, she prides herself on having an open and welcoming heart, and deeply honors difference, diversity, creativity, and play.

Jeunée Simon is an actor, director, and intimacy choreographer based in NY and the SF Bay Area. Recent acting credits include: Les Blancs (Oakland Theater Project), Pilgrimage (World Premiere, Golden Thread Productions/Z Space), Richard II (Magic Theater/PlayOn Shakespeare), The Ripple, the Wave That Carried Me Home u/s (World Premiere, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Men On Boats u/s, performed* (American Conservatory Theater), Intimate Apparel (Lorraine Hansberry Theatre), La Ronde (Cutting Ball Theater)—as well as the one person shows: Tasha (3Girls Theatre) and Stoop Stories (Aurora Theatre Company). Jeunée’s self-conceived piece, oya: un/drowned was last performed at CounterPulse. Simon is a proud recipient of the RHE Artistic Fellowship. www.jeuneesimon.com

David makes his MSC debut in As You Like It.. He’s been most recently seen in Art, and The Motion (Shotgun Players) and in Annie Baker’s The Antipodes as a member of the Actor’s Reading Collective. At Houston’s Alley Theatre he’s played Hercule Poirot in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and Murder On The Orient Express. Bay Area credits include: Timon of Athens; Mount Misery Ubu Roi, The Chairs; Tenderloin; Lady Grey; The Tempest; …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi; The Bald Soprano; Endgame (Cutting Ball); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Hamlet; Antigonick; (Shotgun Players); Jihad Jones & the Kalshnikov Babes (Golden Thread); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (SF Playhouse). With Chicago’s New Criminals Heart of a Dog; The Balcony; Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas; Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

Chris has been performing, producing, and creating in the Bay Area for a decade. Her work centers on highlighting queer and trans narratives throughout history, with a focus on reimagining classics and uplifting genre-explosive new works. Her award-winning drag persona Polly Amber Ross can be found on instagram @pollyamberross.