The Brothers Size

Tarell Alvin McCraney is the artistic director of Geffen Playhouse. He sets the strategic artistic course for the Geffen’s Gil Cates and Audrey Skirball Kenis Theaters. McCraney is an award-winning writer, producer, and educator, best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays. His script In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue is the basis for the Academy Award–winning film Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins, for which McCraney and Jenkins also won a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award. He is an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre and a member of Teo Castellanos D-Projects in Miami, a graduate of New World School of the Arts, The Theatre School at DePaul University, and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick. He was recently co-chair of playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama, where he remains on faculty. He is an associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch).

Bijan Sheibani is a writer and director of theater, film, opera, and television. Most recently he directed Till the Stars Come Down for the National Theatre of Great Britain. He also wrote three episodes of One Day for Netflix. His debut play, The Arrival, premiered at the Bush Theatre in London in 2019. He is currently adapting the play for Film4. His second play, The Cord, premiered at the Bush Theatre in April 2024. Other recent theater directing credits include Dance Nation (Almeida Theatre), Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre), The Brothers Size (Young Vic), and Circle Mirror Transformation (HOME, Manchester). He has also directed new operas for the Royal Opera House, Aldeburgh Festival, Danish National Opera, Streetwise Opera, and Glyndebourne. Sheibani was an associate director at the National Theatre for five years, where his credits include Our Class (Olivier nomination for Best Director), The Kitchen, A Taste of Honey, and Emil and the Detectives. Other theater credits include The House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida Theatre), Moonlight (Donmar Warehouse), Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead Theatre), and Gone Too Far! (Royal Court Theatre / Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement). He was artistic director of Actors Touring Company from 2007 to 2010 and won the James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award in 2003.

Juel D. Lane is a multifaceted artist known for his bold creativity and powerful storytelling through movement. He has performed with acclaimed companies like Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and his choreography has been featured by PHILADANCO, Ailey II, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, BODYTRAFFIC, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, Atlanta Ballet, and universities across the country. He also serves as an executive associate of The Black Acting Methods Studio.

As director of The UNCSA Choreographic Institute, Lane curates space for choreographers to explore process and creation on their own terms. In 2025, he brought his dynamic voice to the theater world by choreographing the new musical Co-Founders at American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. Lane is also passionate about dance on film. He was awarded at the BronzeLens Film Festival for The Maestro, a short film honoring the iconic artist Ernie Barnes. Most recently, he co-directed and choreographed the music video “Only-1” for recording artist Dixson.

Suzu Sakai is an NYC-based freelance scenic designer originally from Tokyo. Working and having experience in NYC, Tokyo, and in other large cities, she has a passion for all aspects of artistic development and collaboration, as well as storytelling through new mediums in digital art and media. Recent productions include Blind Spot (short film), The Brothers Size (Geffen Playhouse); Opera: The Rake’s Progress (Shubert Theater, CT); Musical: Lizard Boy (NYC Off-Broadway premiere and Oregon Shakespeare Festival production, Drama Desk nomination), and Straight White Men (Southwark Playhouse, UK); and festival shows in New York as well as space design in the digital art and media industry in Tokyo. She received an MFA from Yale, and is the recipient of a Donald and Zorka Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design. @suzusakai

Dede Ayite is a costume designer based in NewYork City. She has designed over a dozen productions on Broadway, including Othello, Buena Vista Social Club, Purpose, Topdog/Underdog, Jaja’s African Hairbraiding (Tony Award), and Slave Play. She has been nominated for six Tony Awards and five Drama Desk Awards, also earning a special Drama Desk Award in 2022 and The TDF/Kitty Leech Young Master Award. Ayite recently designed X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Met. Select Off-Broadway projects include Goddess, Hell’s Kitchen, Merry Wives (The Public Theater), Buena Vista Social Club, and Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic). Her work has also appeared Off Broadway at Signature Theatre, MCC Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, and Roundabout Theatre Company. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage and more. Television: Netflix, Comedy Central. Awards: Obie, Drama Desk, Henry Hewes, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, an Audelco and Jeff Awards.

Adam Honoré is a Harlem-based designer for the stage. Broadway: Ragtime, Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for a Ride, Purlie Victorious, Ain’t No Mo’, Chicken & Biscuits. Off-Broadway: Saturday Church (NYTW), Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC NYC), Jelly’s Last Jam (Encores!), The Lonely Few (MCC). Regional: Gun & Powder (Paper Mill), Empire Records (McCarter), Trading Places (Alliance). Honoré is a Drama Desk nominee and recent recipient of the Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Design. @itsadamhonore

Spencer Doughtie is a Los Angeles–based lighting and projections designer whose work explores the ability of light to sculpt and transform physical space. Recent credits include Frou Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts at Boston Court and Tiny Father at Geffen Playhouse. He is thrilled to rejoin the team of The Brothers Size and to share this beautiful story with audiences at The Shed! @spencerdoubt

Stan Mathabane is a sound designer, composer, audio engineer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and actor based in New York City. Mathabane’s work spans theater, film, dance, virtual/augmented reality, video games, installation, and live performance. His design has resonated with audiences at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Public Theater, The Juilliard School, The Prague Quadrennial, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Geffen Playhouse, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Stanford Live, and more. Recent sound design credits include Minor Music (BAM Harvey), The Seven by Will Power (Juilliard), The Brothers Size (Geffen Playhouse), the world premiere of The Salvagers by Harrison David Rivers (Yale Repertory Theatre), Passing Strange (Long Wharf Theater), Seared by Theresa Rebeck (Gloucester Stage), and On Love by Mfoniso Udofia (MCC Theater). Mathabane holds a BA from Princeton University, an MFA in sound design from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and is a professor of sound design at Fordham University. IG: @stanmathabane

Sarah Lozoff, hailed as a pioneer of intimacy direction in theater and dance and named a “Woman to Watch on Broadway” by Broadway Women’s Fund, introduced intimacy direction at both Oregon Shakespeare Festival and American Ballet Theatre. Her contributions have been featured by The New York Times, Vice News, Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Playbill, and Broadway World. Lozoff has been guest faculty at institutions including Stanford, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, UCSB, University of Washington, University of Kentucky, University of Illinois, Oklahoma City Ballet, and Society of American Fight Directors. Notable collaborations include AppleTV, RZA with Colorado Symphony, Sorzano Dance Works, RudduR Dance, Guthrie Theater, Geffen Playhouse, and Barnard/Columbia. @sarahlozoff, sarahlozoff.com

Kemar Jewel is a Black queer director and choreographer from New York City who recently obtained his MFA in directing from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. His art has been seen in theater, dance, opera, music videos, live tours, and in musical theater. As a member of the Legendary House of Lanvin, Jewel, an alum of the Drama League Fellowship, draws inspiration from the Ballroom scene and his Caribbean upbringing. Jewel’s mission is to revive classic stories by having them reflect the people in today’s society. Particularly, he is passionate about showcasing the magic of Blackness, queerness, and their intersections through theater, music, and dance. Jewel believes that great stories teach the best lessons, and those stories should have everyone reflected in them. For more details please visit Kemarjewel.com.

JP Queenan is an NYC-based production audio engineer and is thrilled to be making his associate sound design debut with The Brothers Size. His previous credits include: sound designer for Legacy Theatre’s Chaz Esposito Sings Legends of the ’60s, production audio for the York Theatre’s N2NY Series, production video engineer for Long Wharf Theatre’s El Colqui, and sound supervisor for Long Wharf Theatre’s She Loves Me. He would like to thank Stan for giving him this opportunity and the amazing Shed audio team for their great work.

Sarah Lindsley is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and performer and is currently the resident costume shop supervisor for the Geffen Playhouse. There, she has also assisted on designs for Mindplay (2022), Dragon Lady (2024), and The Brothers Size (2024). Other credits include head of wigs/assistant costumes for the international tour of Finding Neverland The Musical (2019 – 20) and costume consultant/designer at Pepperdine University for the operas Le Nozze di Figaro (2022), Die Fledermaus (2019), and Pirates of Penzance (2018). She was also commissioned by Pepperdine University to illustrate their virtual operatic production of Massenet’s Cendrillon (2021). You can see Lindsley’s stitching work in Fox’s American Horror Story season six, Harry Potter World: Universal Studios Hollywood, Kanye West’s St. Pablo Tour, Disney Channel, and more. She would like to thank her family and friends for being a constant well of inspiration and support.

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Phyllis Schuringa, CSA is an artistic associate and the casting director for Geffen Playhouse. Recent productions include The Inheritance: Part 1 & Part 2 (Artios Award), Every Brilliant Thing, The Power of Sail, Witch, and Barbecue. Before joining the Geffen, she cast for Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago where her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London, and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play) and the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award for Best Revival), The Song of Jacob Zulu, and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

Lindsay A. Jenkins is a dramaturg and producer specializing in Black performance studies and the development of new work. Her dramaturgy credits include the The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney at the Geffen Playhouse, as well as collaborations with Pasadena Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, Musical Theatre Factory, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, August Wilson House, the Pacific Playwrights Festival, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, and many more. She has worked with educational institutions such as Pomona College, Loyola Marymount University and, most recently, the University of Louisville where she served as production dramaturg for Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage. Jenkins is the founder of Maroon Arts and Culture, an organization committed to producing and developing Black performance. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, College Park where she is pursuing a PhD in theater and performance studies. Learn more at www.LindsayAJenkins.com.