Heather Raffo (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and actress whose work has been seen Off Broadway, Off West End, in regional theatre, and in film. She is the author and solo performer of the play 9 Parts of Desire (Lucille Lortel Award; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation; Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Helen Hayes Award nominations), which The New Yorker called “an example of how art can remake the world.” The play ran Off Broadway for nine months and has played across the U.S. and internationally for over a decade. Raffo’s libretto for the opera Fallujah featured in The Kennedy Center’s International Theater Festival, received its world premiere at Long Beach Opera, and opened at New York City Opera in 2016. Her newest play, Noura, recently won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Original New Play and Williamstown Theatre Festival’s prestigious L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Noura was developed over five years working inside multiple Middle Eastern communities, as well as at Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics. Noura received its world premiere at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, later moving to Abu Dhabi and Playwrights Horizons in New York City.

Andromache Chalfant (Scenic Design) is a set designer for theatre and opera and is based in New York City. She is very pleased to be returning to The Old Globe. Her recent projects include set and costume design for Blind Injustice, a new opera based on the Ohio Innocence Project (Cincinnati Opera), and Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Chalfant has designed sets in New York for theatres such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, Atlantic Theater Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage Theater, MCC Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Regionally she has designed at Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, American Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Opera Omaha, Opera Philadelphia, Virginia Opera, and Minnesota Opera. Chalfant is a company member of LAByrinth Theater Company and an Associate Artist of The Civilians. She is on the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches set design in the Graduate Department of Design for Stage & Film.

Driscoll Otto (Lighting Design) most recently designed The Purists at Huntington Theatre Company. His Off Broadway credits include Less Than 50%, Under My Skin, Solving the Riddle, and The Importance of Being Earnest. His other New York credits include La Donna del Lago at The Metropolitan Opera, Baden-Baden 1927 at Gotham Chamber Opera, and work with Ars Nova, Mint Theater Company, Ohio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, La MaMa, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Gotham Chamber Opera. Otto’s work is seen frequently in regional opera and theatre. His credits with regional companies include Santa Fe Opera, Pioneer Theatre Company, Drury Lane Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, North Carolina Opera, OperaDelaware, Opera Omaha, Virginia Opera, The Dallas Opera, Dallas Theater Center, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Utah Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Arizona Opera, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, Hangar Theatre, Flat Rock Playhouse, and Utah Festival Opera. He has also designed productions of Legally Blonde and Rock of Ages for Norwegian Cruise Line. Next up, Otto is designing The Golden Cockerel at The Dallas Opera and an adaption of Carmen in Hong Kong. He received his M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. DriscollOtto.com.

Noora Hammi (Cultural Consultant) is a medical-care-coordination supervisor with San Ysidro Health, and she previously worked for Sharp Home Health Services. She is also currently studying to become a physical therapist. She moved to the United States 11 years ago from Baghdad, Iraq, where she studied psychology. She organizes Chaldean-community activities through her church, and she has participated in a variety of social causes since she was 16 years old, such as feeding the homeless and collecting donations for refugees.

Jess Slocum (Production Stage Manager) has been a stage manager on over 40 productions at the Globe, including As You Like It, They Promised Her the Moon, Familiar, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Imaginary Invalid, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love’s Labor’s Lost, tokyo fish story, In Your Arms, Bright Star, Othello, Water by the Spoonful, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, and Robin and the 7 Hoods. Her regional credits include Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Indecent, Side Show, Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis, and Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), and Post Office (Center Theatre Group). She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and a proud member of Actors’ Equity.