Raymond Bobgan

Raymond is a director, playwright, and the Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Public Theatre. His theatrical work has been seen in Romania, Brazil, Denmark, Serbia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and throughout the US and Canada. Raymond has won numerous awards and currently serves as the President of the Board for National New Play Network, serves on the Theatre Communications Group Board of Directors, and is the Chair of the Board of the Gordon Square Arts District Cleveland Improvement Corporation. Raymond initiated CPT’s Student Theatre Enrichment Program, Teatro Público de Cleveland, and Station Hope. As the artistic leader of CPT, Raymond has produced 50 world premiere productions. In 2017, Raymond received the Cisgender Ally Award at Cleveland’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, and in 2015, received Equality Ohio’s Ally Award.

Ananias J. Dixon

Ananias is a theatre teacher and coach at the Cleveland School of the Arts, Cleveland Play House, and a full-time teaching artist at Playhouse Square. He has also been a member of George Street Playhouse’s educational touring theatre. Theatre credits include Sunset Baby, The Effect, An Octoroon (Dobama Theatre); Detroit 67, Julius X (Karamu House); Good at Heart, Rastus and Hattie, The Family Claxon, How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes (with 119 people you may or may not know) (A Sojourn Theatre Production at Cleveland Public Theatre) (Cleveland Public Theatre); Black Angels Over Tuskegee (Actors Temple); John Henry (Cleveland Play House); The Toilet (New Federal Theatre).  TV/film Includes Law and Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Person of Interest, Boardwalk Empire, Upstairs, NYC 22, Antwone Fisher, Home_, and Criminal Activity. Ananias was also part of Cleveland Play House’s New Ground Theatre Festival as the Assistant Director for The Nolan Williams Project as well as Assistant Director for The Royale under the direction of Robert Barry Fleming.

Holly Holsinger

Holly Holsinger has been a Cleveland theatre artist for over twenty years. Most recently, Holly directed Teatro Público de Cleveland’s A Xmas Cuento Remix, and in September engaged in a teaching exchange at the Raikin Theatre School in Moscow, Russia. Holly most enjoys creating and performing original works. In the past year, she toured to New Orleans and London with her solo show, Frankenstein’s Wake, which she co-created with Raymond Bobgan. Other original works include Ancestra and Insomnia: The Waking of Herselves, co-devised with Chris Seibert. Holly is an Associate Professor at Cleveland State University where she received a Distinguished Faculty Award, the University’s top honor for teaching. She received an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine, and is a member of CPT’s CORE Ensemble. For more information see CPT’s Season Program.

Anastasía Urozhaeva

Anastasía Urozhaeva is a Russian-born, Cleveland-based actress, artist, educator, writer, and Cleveland State University alumna. Recently, in the fall of 2019, Anastasía performed as part of the ensemble of Crevice, Moth, & Flame in Pandemonium 2019: Alchemy, and also worked as a production assistant for the event.  After, she traveled to Moscow, Russia to work on an acting master classes exchange with professor Holly Holsinger, working with actors from Raikin School of Theatre under the leadership of Holly, translating the classes from English to Russian and vise versa, and focusing on exploration and exchange of the craft of acting between the two cultures of Russia and the United States. Currently, she is focusing on developing a new play inspired by Soviet Russian science fiction, and she also writes, collaborates on, acts in, and production assists local films.