Eugene Onegin

Obie Award-winning playwright Sarah Gancher’s work has been seen at London’s National Theatre, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, The Public Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, The Vineyard Theatre, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Geva Theatre, and Ars Nova, among others. A lifelong jazz violinist, she regularly performs bluegrass fiddle. Eugene Onegin is her first book/music/lyrics musical.
Recent work includes The Wind and The Rain (Vulture Best of 2024; dir. Jared Mezzocchi at Red Hook Waterfront Museum, En Garde Arts & Vineyard Theatre) and Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (online production NY Times Top 10 Theater of 2020; 2024 in-person at Vineyard Theatre & Geva Theatre, in association with Dori Berinstein, dir. Darko Tresnjak. ) She was the book writer for two musicals with The Bengsons, Anne Kauffman, and Sonya Tayeh: Hundred Days and The Lucky Ones, and the collaborating playwright for The TEAM’s Mission Drift, composed by Heather Christian and directed by Rachel Chavkin (Top 50 Shows of the 20th Century, The Guardian.)

RACHEL CHAVKIN is a director, sometime writer and founding artistic director of Brooklyn-based experimental collective, the TEAM whose work has been seen all over NY, the U.S., and internationally, and whose consensus-driven writing process was the subject of a feature length documentary. She won the 2019 Tony Award for her work on Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (Broadway, NYTW, National Theatre, London). She is a three-time Obie Winner, and received Tony and Lortel nominations, and a Drama Desk Award for Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). Select projects: Carson Kreitzer’s and Matt Gould’s Lempicka (Broadway), the TEAM’s Mission Drift (National Theatre), Arthur Miller’s American Clock (Old Vic), the TEAM’s RoosevElvis (Royal Court), Larissa Fasthorse’s The Thanksgiving Play (2ST, 1st play by a known Native American woman on Broadway), Lilianna Padilla’s How to Defend Yourself — co-directed with Padilla and Steph Paul (NYTW), Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (LCT; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lortel noms.), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova and national tour), and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac, Heather Christian, the Bengsons, and Manchester-based writer/performer Chris Thorpe. Her first short film, Remind Me, was an official selection of the Venice and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity.

Pete Lanctot is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and teaching artis,. He has worked with John Cale, Yoshiko Chuma, Durand Jones and the Indications, Aaron Frazer, Iris Dement, Lady Lamb, Tony Conrad, Katie Von Schleicher, The Wind And The Rain (Vineyard Theater, En Garde Arts), Eugene Onegin (Orchard Project, Theater Squared, Dorset Theater Festival), Hearthbound Podcast, Hyperballad Studios, Lady Lamb, and Holly Miranda and has appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, and Live at KEXP.

CAROLINE ENGLANDER (Production Stage Manager)
Broadway: King Lear with Glenda Jackson. Off Broadway/Regional: Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (NYSF/Public Theater), Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company), We Are Your Robots (TFANA), Find Me Here, Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb), Helen (En Garde Arts), Half-God of Rainfall (ART, NYTW) The Jungle (St.Ann’s Warehouse, STC); Becky Nurse of Salem (LCT); Hamlet & Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory); The Vagrant Trilogy, The Outer Space, The Great Immensity, The Apple Family Plays (NYSF/Public Theater); sandblasted (Vineyard/WP Theater) runboyrun, In Old Age (NYTW) The Courtroom (Waterwell). Many productions with NYU Tisch Graduate Acting. BA: Barnard College.

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Bobby has recently been heavily involved in recording with chart-topping pop artists in the US. He is most recognized for playing violin on Grammy-award winning album Folklore and Midnights by Taylor Swift. Bobby’s arrangements are featured on Minions:The rise of Gru. He has also recorded for Jack Antonoff/Bleachers, Nick Cave, Sabrina Carpenter, Bartees Strange, Clairo, Lorde, Diana Ross, Bleachers, Phosphorescent, Florence and the Machine, The 1975, St. Vincent, and Kendrick Lamar.

Bridget Kearney—founding member of Lake Street Dive and songwriter behind many of their most enduring songs—crafts music that captures the bittersweet swirl of nostalgia, transformation, and emotional nuance. On her latest solo album Comeback Kid, the Iowa-born, Brooklyn-based artist draws from personal reflection, vintage textures, and her work as a songwriting teacher at Princeton to explore memory, obsession, and the absurd beauty of simply being human. Produced by Dan Molad (Lucius, Buck Meek), the album blends synth-rich soundscapes with Kearney’s signature wit, warmth, and lyrical depth. Bridget is spending much of 2025 on the road touring with Lake Street Dive and continues to produce and record with BB Wisely, Monica Martin, Alwyn Robinson and Jacksonport.

Cesar Moreno is an up and coming mandolinist/vocalist in the NYC bluegrass scene. His music mixes a healthy dose of bluegrass standards as well as covers of tunes across all genres featuring bluegrass instrumentation. Cesar discovered the mandolin during a stint in a Led Zeppelin cover band. He discovered the NYC Bluegrass Music scene shortly after and has been hooked on the music ever since. He plays in bands and with performers such as Moonshine Falls, Chris Luquette, and Michael Daves. Cesar is currently a mandolinist and vocalist in the New York City band The Bushwick Mountain Boys. They tour regularly around the United States and abroad.

MARIANNE RENDÓN is an actor, performer, and musician. Film: Charlie Says (Venice Biennale), Summer Solstice (IFC), Mapplethorpe (Tribeca), One Day As A Lion (Apple), The Life List (Netflix) TV: Imposters, In The Dark (Netflix), producer & lead of These Days (Sundance). Theater: Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (Lincoln Center), Who Left This Fork Here (Baryshnikov Arts Center, dir. Daniel Fish), Lazarus (NYTW, dir. Ivo van Hove). Upcoming: The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard Theater/Civilians, world premiere by Anne Washburn); Friday Night Rat Catchers (NYLA, Under The Radar 2026) John Houseman Prize Recipient. Bard College, Juilliard MFA. @mariannerendon

Nathan Koci is a collaborative performer and music director working across disciplines including theater, folk music, jazz, contemporary classical music, dance, and karaoke singing. His music direction credits include Illinoise (Justin Peck/Sufjan Stevens), Hadestown (Nat’l Tour; Anais Mitchel/Rachel Chavkin), Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! (Broadway, West End), Most Happy in Concert (Williamstown Theater Festival, Bard Summerscape), and Ted Hearne’s The Source (SF Opera, LA Opera, BAM). Performance credits include William Kentridge’s The Great Yes The Great No, and The Head and The Load, Guy Klucevsek’s Bellows Brigade, Maira Kalman and John Heginbotham’s The Principles of Uncertainty, The Solomon Diaries, a multi-volume duo project with composer/clarinetist Sam Sadigursky, chamber-improv-folk quartet, The Hands Free, with Caroline Shaw, Eleonore Oppenheim, and James Moore, and Charleston, SC-based The Opposite of a Train.

Tom Pecinka – Broadway: Stereophonic (Tony Nomination, Drama Desk Award, Theatre World Award) Off-Broadway: Stereophonic (Playwrights Horizons) Henry IV, He Brought Her Heart Back In A Box (TFANA) Troilus and Cressida (The Public) Soldiers Tale (Carnegie Hall) Regional: Ghosts (Williamstown) Arcadia, Father Comes Home From The Wars (Yale Rep) Cloud 9, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Hartford Stage). Film: Imogene, The Kill Room Television: FBI, New Amsterdam, American Rust.