August 27–October 19, 2025

THE INHERITANCE, PARTS ONE AND TWO

POETIC AMERICAN EPIC

Overview
Cast
Creative Team

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By Matthew López
Inspired by the novel Howards End by E.M. Forster
Directed by Tom Story
August 27–October 19, 2025 | Regional Premiere

**Please note that The Inheritance consists of two separate plays**

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Round House Theatre proudly presents The Inheritance—the most awarded play of our generation— performed in a breathtaking two-part theatrical event. Winner of the Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Critics’ Circle, Evening Standard, and Drama League Awards for Best Play, Matthew López’s epic masterpiece instantly became a modern classic. Hailed as “a vast, heartfelt, and hugely ambitious” (The Guardian) work, The Inheritance follows a group of young gay men in New York as they wrestle with love, legacy, and the shadow of the AIDS crisis. Deeply moving and bitingly funny, this unforgettable production asks: What do we owe those who came before us, and what will we leave behind? Presented in repertory, Parts One and Two create an extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime experience. “The most important American play of the century so far” (The Telegraph), The Inheritance is more than a play—it’s an event that will stay with you forever.

The Inheritance is made possible by a generous gift from The Roy Cockrum Foundation.

Thank you to our sponsors:
The Inheritance is sponsored by Nan Beckley.
The Inheritance Part One is sponsored by Rick Kasten.

Recommended for ages 16+

Content advisory: This production contains profanity, nudity, depicted sexual situations, and discussions of addiction, sex work, abuse, and the AIDS epidemic. For additional information, please contact the box office.

The Inheritance, Part One runs approximately 3 hours and 10 minutes including two intermissions.

The Inheritance, Part Two runs approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes including one intermission and one brief pause.

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CAST

Jonathan Atkinson

Jason #2/Young Man 8

Jordi Bertrán Ramírez

Adam McDowell/Leo/Young Man 1

Ben Bogen

Charles Wilcox/Toby’s Agent/Young Man 5

John Floyd

Jason #1/Young Man 2

Robert Gant

Henry Wilcox

David Gow

Eric Glass/Young Man 9

Jamar Jones

Tristan/Young Man 6

Adam Poss

Toby Darling/Young Man 10

Hunter Ringsmith

Jasper/Paul Wilcox/Young Man 7

Nancy Robinette

Margaret

Robert Sella

Morgan/Walter Poole

Cole Sitilides

Young Henry/Young Man 3

Dylan Toms

Young Walter/Young Man 4

Jonathan Atkinson

Jason #2/Young Man 8

Jonathan Atkinson (Jason #2/Young Man 8) está muy emocionado de hacer su debut con Round House Theatre en The Inheritance. DC credits include At The Wedding at Studio Theatre; Daphne’s Dive at Signature Theatre; The Mortification of Fovea Munson at The Kennedy Center; Evita and The Crucible at Olney Theatre Center; and Ragtime, A Christmas Carol, and One Destiny at Ford’s Theatre. Jonathan is co-host of ¡UY QUE HORROR! A Latinx Horror Movie Podcast. Instagram: @jonnyeliot / @uyquehorror.Jordi (He/Him)

Jordi Bertrán Ramírez

Adam McDowell/Leo/Young Man 1

Jordi Bertrán Ramírez (Adam McDowell/Leo/Young Man 1) is grateful to be a part of Round House Theatre’s production of The Inheritance. Select regional credits include Cabaret (Virginia Theater Festival), and The Winter’s Tale (The Old Globe). Jordi graduated from Yale last year with a double major in History of Science, Medicine, & Public Health, and in Theater Studies, where his credits include Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Prior), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Billy), Spring Awakening (Melchior), Cabaret (Emcee), and Sanctuary City (B). For his accomplishments in theatrical performance at Yale, Jordi was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing and Creative Arts. @jordibertranramirez

Ben Bogen

Charles Wilcox/Toby’s Agent/Young Man 5

Ben Bogen (Charles Wilcox/Toby’s Agent/Young Man 5) is honored to be making his DC theatre debut in The Inheritance. Broadway credits: Frozen (U/S Weselton, Olaf). Off Broadway credits: Jersey Boys (New World Stages), Only Human (Theatre St Clements). Broadway National Tours: Jersey Boys (Frankie Valli alternate), Wicked, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Regional credits include Rent (ACT of CT); The Flamingo Kid (Hartford Stage); Sousatzka (The Elgin Theatre in Toronto); and Damn Yankees (Pittsburgh CLO). Television credits: Pose series finale. Ben is also a proud choreographer/movement creator having recently choreographed Spring Awakening at Clear Space Theatre Company and associate directed/choreographed Jersey Boys at Sierra REP. Training: BFA University of Michigan. Instagram: @benmbogen

John Floyd

Jason #1/Young Man 2

John Floyd (Jason #1/Young Man 2) is thrilled to be making his Round House Theatre debut! DC Theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet, Our Verse In Time to Come, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and Timon of Athens at Folger Theatre; A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre; and One in Two at Mosaic Theatre Company. Regional Credits include What Will Happen to All That Beauty? at Contemporary American Theatre Festival. www.johnfloydactor.com

Robert Gant

Henry Wilcox

Robert Gant (Henry Wilcox) is thrilled to make his Round House Theatre debut. He is best known for playing Ben Bruckner on Showtime’s groundbreaking series Queer as Folk. Theater credits include Working for the L.A. Reprise. Recurring television roles include 13 Reasons Why, The Fosters, Good Trouble, Supergirl, Popular, Why Women Kill, the BBC’s Personal Affairs, The Tomorrow People, and Caroline in the City. Other television credits include Friends, Station 19, Hawaii Five 0, All Rise, NCIS:LA, Criminal Minds, Castle, Bones, Hot in Cleveland, NCIS, Nip/Tuck, The Closer, Mike & Molly, and Shameless. Film work includes Save Me, Milada, To Catch a Killer, Summer of Dreams, Kiss Me Deadly, The Contract, and Love Is All You Need. As a producer and writer, Robert develops projects centered on LGBTQ+ stories. A longtime social justice advocate, he holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown Law.

David Gow

Eric Glass/Young Man 9

David Gow (Eric Glass/Young Man 9) is making his Round House Theatre debut! Previous New York credits include Banya at Theaterlab, What I First Desired at Soho Playhouse, Chokehold at 14th St Y, Sweat at Capital Rep, and Bleach at Wilson's Lounge. Regional Credits include Rust on Bone at Denver Center; Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Waverly Gallery, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, The Winter’s Tale, Mother’s and Sons at Shakespeare & Company; Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike and Sense and Sensibility at 4th Wall Theater; Pirira and The Giant Void in my Soul at Luna Stages; and The Foreigner at A.D. Players. Film/TV credits include The Girls on the Bus on HBO; The Good Fight and Madam Secretary on CBS; The Savant, The Intruder, and Chrissy Judy on Apple TV. IG: @davidfgow

Jamar Jones

Tristan/Young Man 6

Jamar Jones (Tristan/Young Man 6) makes his Round House Theatre debut with The Inheritance. DC credits include Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt… at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Regional credits include Blues for an Alabama Sky at Seattle Rep; Fat Ham, Much Ado about Nothing, Emma, The Legend of Georgia McBride, A Wrinkle in Time, Hamlet, and The Christmas Case of Hezekiah Jones at PlayMakers Repertory Company; Black Like Me at Chautauqua Theater Company; Toni Stone at Playhouse on Park; Fires in the Mirror (2022 RTCC Award- Best Lead Performance/Play) and Passing Strange at Firehouse Theater; An Octoroon (2019 RTCC Award- Best Actor/Play) and Topdog/Underdog at TheatreLab; and Fences at Virginia Rep. Television includes Law & Order. UNC at Chapel Hill- M.F.A (Acting). jamarjonesofficial.com.

Adam Poss

Toby Darling/Young Man 10

Adam Poss (Toby Darling/Young Man 10) is thrilled to make his Round House debut in The Inheritance. DC credits include The History Boys (Studio Theatre). Broadway credits include Peter Morgan’s Patriots (Ethel Barrymore Theatre). Select regional credits include Lady Macbeth in Robert O’Hara’s all-male Macbeth (Denver Center); Oedipus in Oedipus el Rey and the world premiere of Maduri Shekar’s Queen (Victory Gardens); Angelo in Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare); the world premieres of Christopher Shinn’s Teddy Ferrara and 2666 (The Goodman Theatre); Dracula in the world premiere of Dracula and Birthday Candles (Cincinnati Playhouse); the world premieres of Rajiv Joseph’s The North Pool (Theatreworks Silicon Valley) and his The Lake Effect (Silk Road Rising). Select television credits include Chicago Med/Fire/PD, Empire, Shameless, Paper Girls, and The Big Leap. Instagram: @santaposs. www.adamposs.com

Hunter Ringsmith

Jasper/Paul Wilcox/Young Man 7

Hunter Ringsmith (Jasper/Paul Wilcox/Young Man 7) is so thrilled to be making his Round House debut with this production. DC area credits include King Lear at Shakespeare Theatre; Shear Madness at Kennedy Center; Desperate Measures at Constellation Theatre; Major Barbara at Washington Stage Guild; and Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Folger Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include The Tempest at the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park. Regionally he’s been in Clarkston at Bridge Street Theatre; Bad Jews, Ghost, Sister Act, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, and First Date at Lake Dillon Theatre Co; and has worked with Pennsylvania, New Swan, Colorado, Arkansas and Great River Shakespeare Festivals and The Dallas Theatre Center. Film work includes Netflix’s Rustin. MFA: University of California Irvine. BFA: Southern Methodist University. www.hunterringsmith.com Instagram: @hringsmith

Nancy Robinette

Margaret

Nancy Robinette (Margaret) is always gleeful when reunited with Round House, having performed here in Jennifer Who Is Leaving, Uncle Vanya, Doll's House 2, Escape from Happiness, Better Living, Love and Anger, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Recent performances elsewhere include roles in Death on the Nile and The Heiress at Arena Stage, Uncle Vanya at Berkeley Rep and Shakespeare Theatre, Problems Between Sisters at Studio Theatre, Steel Magnolias at Gulfshore Playhouse and at Everyman Theatre, Trip to Bountiful at Ford’s Theatre, Nicole Clark is Having a Baby at the Humana Festival, Mother Courage at Scena Theatre, and Prayer for the French Republic at Manhattan Theatre Club for which she received an Outer Critic’s Circle nomination. For her 40+ years in the D.C. area theatre, she received a Helen Hayes Tribute. She dedicates this performance to the memory of her brother John, for whom she and her siblings created an AIDS quilt depicting his favorite things, and who insisted on buying her an elegant dress from Neiman Marcus when first nominated for a Helen Hayes.

Robert Sella

Morgan/Walter Poole

Robert Sella (Morgan/Walter Poole) is proud to make his Round House debut with The Inheritance. DC credits include Design for Living, Don Carlos, and Mourning Becomes Electra (Helen Hayes Award) at the Shakespeare Theatre; the first national tour of Angels in America and Bruinhaha! at the Kennedy Center. Broadway appearances include Flying Over Sunset, Sylvia, My Fair Lady, Cabaret, Sideman, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Robert played opposite Dame Maggie Smith in The Lady from Dubuque on the West End. Favorite off-Broadway and regional projects include Amadeus and Private Lives (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Red Bull/Lucille Lortel) and Stuff Happens (Public). Film and television includes Manchester by the Sea, Sleepy Hollow, and New Amsterdam. Robert is a graduate of UCLA and Juilliard.

Cole Sitilides

Young Henry/Young Man 3

Cole Sitilides (Young Henry/Young Man 3) is delighted to be making his Round House Theatre debut in The Inheritance. Previous D.C. credits include Richard III at Shakespeare Theatre Company; Brighton Beach Memoirs at Theater J; and A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre. Regional credits include The C Word with Los Angeles Theatre Initiative. He is a recent graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Instagram: @colesitilides.

Dylan Toms

Young Walter/Young Man 4

Dylan Toms (Young Walter/Young Man 4) is so excited to be making his Round House Theatre debut with The Inheritance. DC credits include Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, She Loves Me, and Assassins at Signature Theatre; FINN and The Mortification of Fovea Munson at Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences; Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble) at Olney Theatre Center; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, (Helen Hayes Nomination, Outstanding Lead Performer), Charlotte’s Web, Junie B. Jones: The Musical, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Adventure Theatre MTC; Finn: A Concert Reading with Monumental Theatre Co. and Theatre Alliance. Regional credits include Waitress at Mill Mountain Theatre and Cabaret at Showtimers Theatre. @dylan_toms

UNDERSTUDIES

Jonathan Atkinson

Toby/Young Man 10 Understudy

Anthony de Souza

Jason 2/Young Man 8 and Charles/Young Man 5 Understudy

Eric Hissom

Morgan/Walter understudy

Elizabeth Pierotti

Margaret Understudy

Hunter Ringsmith

Eric Glass/Young Man 9 Understudy

Cole Sitilides

Adam/Leo/Young Man 2 Understudy

Drew Sharpe

Young Henry/Young Man 3 and Young Walter/Young Man 4 Understudy

Theodore Sherron III

Tristan/Young Man 6 and Jason #1/Young Man 2 Understudy

Dylan Toms

Jasper/Paul/Young Man 7 Understudy

Jonathan Atkinson

Toby/Young Man 10 Understudy

Jonathan Atkinson (Toby/Young Man 10 understudy) está muy emocionado de hacer su debut con Round House Theatre en The Inheritance. DC credits include At The Wedding at Studio Theatre; Daphne’s Dive at Signature Theatre; The Mortification of Fovea Munson at The Kennedy Center; Evita and The Crucible at Olney Theatre Center; and Ragtime, A Christmas Carol, and One Destiny at Ford’s Theatre. Jonathan is co-host of ¡UY QUE HORROR! A Latinx Horror Movie Podcast. Instagram: @jonnyeliot / @uyquehorror.Jordi (He/Him)

Anthony de Souza

Jason 2/Young Man 8 and Charles/Young Man 5 Understudy

Anthony De Souza (Jason 2 and Charles Wilcox Understudy) is excited to be making their Round House Theatre debut with The Inheritance. Previous DC credits: José in Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! at Maryland Ensemble Theatre; Ignatius in Green Machine in the Capital Fringe Festival. Workshops/Readings: Walter Mercado presents: a queer Puerto Rican (not just) Christmxs Spectacular! at Avant Bard Theatre; and House of Desires at We Happy Few. Anthony is also a director, with previous credits including Ride The Cyclone and Ordinary Days at CenterStage Theatre Company (Catholic University). Anthony is a graduate of the Catholic University of America with a B.M. in Musical Theatre. You can follow their work on their website: www.anthonydesouzaactor.com

Eric Hissom

Morgan/Walter understudy

Eric Hissom (Morgan/Walter understudy) Round House credits include The Tempest, The Great Leap, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. DC credits include Arcadia at Folger Theatre (Helen Hayes award); Death on the Nile at Arena Stage; The Diary of Anne Frank at Olney Theatre Center; Born Yesterday at Ford’s Theatre; The Vibrator Play at Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Body of an American at Theatre J; The Effect at Studio, and many others. Regional credits include work at Seattle Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Asolo Rep, and many others. He did the national tour of The Thirty-Nine Steps, and has done a bit of TV and film, including the feature Out of Time.

Elizabeth Pierotti

Margaret Understudy

Elizabeth Pierotti (Margaret understudy) is pleased to be supporting this production at Round House Theatre. DC credits include Ulysses on Bottles at Mosaic Theater Company; The Apple Family Plays, The Steward of Christendom and Silence, Cunning, and Exile at Studio Theatre; The Women and The Time of Your Life at Arena Stage; The Grapes of Wrath and Inherit the Wind at Ford’s Theatre; Never Swim Alone at Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Well, The How and the Why, and The Glass Menagerie at 1st Stage; The Well of Horniness and The Art of Dining at Source Theatre; Medea at Songs of the Goat; and The Supper at Scena Theatre.

Hunter Ringsmith

Eric Glass/Young Man 9 Understudy

Hunter Ringsmith (Eric Glass/Young Man 9 understudy) is so thrilled to be making his Round House debut with this production. DC area credits include King Lear at Shakespeare Theatre; Shear Madness at Kennedy Center; Desperate Measures at Constellation Theatre; Major Barbara at Washington Stage Guild; and Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Folger Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include The Tempest at the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park. Regionally he’s been in Clarkston at Bridge Street Theatre; Bad Jews, Ghost, Sister Act, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, and First Date at Lake Dillon Theatre Co; and has worked with Pennsylvania, New Swan, Colorado, Arkansas and Great River Shakespeare Festivals and The Dallas Theatre Center. Film work includes Netflix’s Rustin. MFA: University of California Irvine. BFA: Southern Methodist University. www.hunterringsmith.com Instagram: @hringsmith

Cole Sitilides

Adam/Leo/Young Man 2 Understudy

Cole Sitilides (Adam/Leo/Young Man 2 understudy) is delighted to be making his Round House Theatre debut in The Inheritance. Previous D.C. credits include Richard III at Shakespeare Theatre Company; Brighton Beach Memoirs at Theater J; and A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre. Regional credits include The C Word with Los Angeles Theatre Initiative. He is a recent graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Instagram: @colesitilides.

Drew Sharpe

Young Henry/Young Man 3 and Young Walter/Young Man 4 Understudy

Drew Sharpe (Young Henry/Young Walter understudy) is a DC-based actor, musician, and songwriter making his Round House Theatre debut. His recent theatre credits include Wipeout at Studio Theatre; Hand to God, Apropos of Nothing, and Merrily We Roll Along at The Keegan Theatre; Reefer Madness at NextStop Theatre Company; The Tempest, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and Our Town with The Classic Theatre of Maryland; and Amelia Earhart with The REV on Tour. On social media @drew.sharpie21 (Instagram).

Theodore Sherron III

Tristan/Young Man 6 and Jason #1/Young Man 2 Understudy

Theodore Sherron III (Tristan/Jason #1 understudy) is thrilled to be making his Round House Theatre debut with The Inheritance! DC credits include The America Play at Perisphere Theatre. Touring credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare Beyond. Regional credits include Akeelah and the Bee at Baltimore Center Stage; Romeo and Juliet, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and Macbeth at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; and R&J at Strand Theatre Co.

Dylan Toms

Jasper/Paul/Young Man 7 Understudy

Dylan Toms (Jasper/Paul/Young Man 7 understudy) is so excited to be making his Round House Theatre debut with The Inheritance. DC credits include Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, She Loves Me, and Assassins at Signature Theatre; FINN and The Mortification of Fovea Munson at Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences; Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble) at Olney Theatre Center; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, (Helen Hayes Nomination, Outstanding Lead Performer), Charlotte’s Web, Junie B. Jones: The Musical, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Adventure Theatre MTC; Finn: A Concert Reading with Monumental Theatre Co. and Theatre Alliance. Regional credits include Waitress at Mill Mountain Theatre and Cabaret at Showtimers Theatre. @dylan_toms

CREATIVE TEAM

Matthew López

Tom Story

Lee Savage

Colin K. Bills

Frank Labovitz

UptownWorks

Paul Englishby

Kelly Colburn

Britta Joy Peterson

Movement and Intimacy Choreographer

Casey Kaleba

Fight Choreographer

Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe

Dramaturg

Sarah Cooney

Casting Director

Ashley Mapley-Brittle

Associate Director

Mark Costello

Associate Projections Designer

Che Wernsman

Stage Manager

JuanCarlos Contreras

Assistant Stage Manager

Matthew López

Playwright

Matthew López (Playwright) is a Tony-winning, Emmy-nominated playwright and filmmaker. His play The Inheritance is the most honored American play in a generation, sweeping the “Best Play” awards in both London and New York, including the Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Evening Standard Award. With Amber Ruffin, Matthew co-wrote the book for the musical adaptation of Some Like it Hot (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination). His other plays include The Whipping Man, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Somewhere, Reverberation, The Sentinels, and Zoey’s Perfect Wedding. Matthew wrote and directed the film Red, White, and Royal Blue, based on the bestselling novel, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Tom Story

Director

Tom Story (Director) is an actor, director and teacher living in Washington, DC. He has appeared in over 75 plays in Washington, DC; New York; and around the country. He has directed at Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC, and American University. Tom has been nominated for multiple Helen Hayes Awards and is a Fox Foundation Fellow, a Cabinet member of Studio Theatre, and a graduate of Duke University and The Juilliard School. He studied acting with Michael Kahn and directing with Joy Zinoman.

Lee Savage

Scenic Designer

Bio coming soon!

Colin K. Bills

Lighting Designer

Colin K Bills (Lighting Designer) returns to Round House, where his designs include Bad Books, Spring Awakening, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Lyons, Uncle Vanya, and many others. His most recent work in the DMV has included The Marriage of Figaro at Wolf Trap Opera and Job at Signature. He has won three Helen Hayes Awards and is a recipient of a Princess Grace Fellowship in Theater. He has taught design at Howard University and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. (He/him/his).

Frank Labovitz

Costume Designer

UptownWorks

Sound Design

UptownWorks (Sound Design) is a collaborative design team specializing in theatre, film, podcasts and installations. DC credits include The Scenarios and Problems Between Sisters at Studio Theatre. Other design credits includes Becoming Eve with New York Theatre Workshop; Grandiloquent at the Lucille Lortel Theatre; Franklinland at Ensemble Studio Theatre; I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter at Denver Center (DCPA); Dangerous Days at Miami New Drama; Murder on the Orient Express at Syracuse Stage; FIVE: The Parody Musical at Theatre 555; Lady Day and Fires in the Mirror at Baltimore Center Stage; Avaaz at South Coast Repertory, DCPA, and Olney Theatre Center; and Black Odyssey at Classic Stage Company. This design was led by Daniela Hart (uptownworksnyc.com), Liam Bellman-Sharpe (liambellmansharpe.com), Noel Nichols (noelnicholsdesign.com), and Bailey Trierweiler (btsounddesign.com).

Paul Englishby

Composer

Paul Englishby (Composer) studied Composition at Goldsmiths College and The Royal Academy of Music. He is a recipient of an Emmy Award, BAFTA, Ivor Novello and Tony Award Nominations. Paul is an Associate Artist at the RSC and has written scores for over 20 RSC productions, including Kyoto, Loves Labours Lost, Cymbeline, Richard III, Henry V, The Tempest, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other theatre includes Jack Absolute Flies Again, The Visit, Peter Gynt, A Taste of Honey, Emil and the Detectives (National Theatre); The Inheritance (Tony and Olivier nominated original score); Skylight, The Audience (West End/Broadway); The Government Inspector, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, The House They Grew Up In, South Downs/The Browning Version, Three Sisters, Romeo and Juliet (Chichester), White Teeth (Kiln); Hedda Gabler (Old Vic); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead/West End); and Red Velvet (Tricycle/West End/NYC). Television includes Now and Then, Masters of the Air (Big Band arrangements); Lang Lang Plays Disney, Luther (five seasons, BAFTA nominated original score); The Musketeers (two seasons); and Witness for the Prosecution (Ivor Novello award nominated original score). Films include They All Came Out to Montreux, Together, Good Grief (choral arrangements), Page Eight (Emmy Award winner), An Education, A Royal Night Out, Sunshine on Leith, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Confetti, An Englishman in New York, Magicians, and Ten Minutes Older.

Kelly Colburn

Projections Designer

Bio coming soon!

Britta Joy Peterson

Movement and Intimacy Choreographer

Britta Joy Peterson (Movement and Intimacy Choreographer) is a choreographer, director, and intimacy professional who organizes constellations of relations on stage, page, and screen. She is thrilled to make her Round House debut with The Inheritance. Recent work has been seen at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (DC), Studio Theatre (DC), The Floor (NYC), Public Assembly (LA), Performance Mix 33 (NY), Lyric Repertory Theatre (UT), Imagination Stage (MD), Dance Place (DC), Triskelion Arts (NY), Sonics Immersive Media Lab (England), and Paramount Theatre (MN) among others. Recent Intimacy Coordination includes forthcoming feature films Here I’m Alive (dir. Joshua Z. Weinstein), NYX (dir. Kristina Klebe) and short films SLAPHAPPY (dir. Nabeel Jan) and Best Wishes (dir. John Anderson). BJP holds an MFA from Arizona State University and is based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. (she/they)

Casey Kaleba

Fight Choreographer

Casey Kaleba (Fight Choreographer) returns to Round House Theatre for The Inheritance, where he has staged more than a dozen shows including Topdog/Underdog, Girlhood (Teen Performance Company), Nine Night, Quixote Nuevo, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Angels in America, and The Night Alive. DC credits include Fences, Ragtime, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Ford’s Theatre; Il Trovatore, Turandot, and Macbeth with the Washington National Opera; King of the Yees, Blackbeard, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Signature Theatre; and Singing in the Rain, Mary Stuart, and Sweeney Todd with Olney Theatre Center. Recent work includes Hamlet at the Guthrie Theatre and The Play That Goes Wrong at Northern Stage. Casey is a five-time Helen Hayes nominee for Choreography and coordinates the stage combat training program through Round House Theatre’s education wing. ToothandClawCombat.com

Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe

Dramaturg

Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe is a care worker, dramaturg, director, and Literary Manager at Arena Stage. He has developed new works at such institutions as South Coast Rep, Playwrights Center, Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Sundance Institute. He has held posts in Dramaturgy at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Carnegie Mellon University, Theatre at Northeastern University, Women’s Studies and Honors Humanities at University of Maryland, and Theatre Arts at Howard University. He was Associate Artistic Director at banished? productions, Future Classics Program Coordinator at The Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Literary Manager at Center Stage. (he/him/love)

Sarah Cooney

Casting Director

Sarah Cooney (Casting Director) is Round House Theatre’s Casting Director & Associate Producer. In the DC area, Sarah has cast for The Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage series, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, and Rep Stage. As a Casting Director with NYC’s Binder Casting, Sarah cast for The Lion King Broadway and National Touring productions and the Encores! series at New York City Center. Other Regional casting credits include Barrington Stage, Hartford Stage, TheaterWorks Hartford, Seattle Rep, Drury Lane Theatre, Weston Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, ACT of Connecticut, and others. Film and TV casting credits include Crashing (HBO), The Big Sick (Apatow Productions), Kevin Can Wait (CBS), and Clipped (HGTV). Sarah taught at West Virginia University, and is a New York University alum.

Ashley Mapley-Brittle

Associate Director

Ashley Mapley-Brittle is a local theatre director and assistant/associate director. She is excited to be back at Round House and working on The Inheritance. Directing experience includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Nu Sass, Sanditon and a staged reading of Peerless at We Happy Few, and MOJO at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Previous Associate Directing experience includes Private Jones at Signature Theatre and The Hatmaker’s Wife at Theatre J. Some of her Assistant Directing experience includes Colored Museum and Good Bones at Studio Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing and Jane Anger at Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Great Leap, We Declare You a Terrorist…, and Nine Night at Round House Theatre. She has her BA in Performance Theatre from High Point University and her MFA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School (London, UK) and she served as Round House Theatre’s Artistic Apprentice for their ‘21-22 season. Website: www.ashleymapleybrittle.com/ (she/her)

Mark Costello

Associate Projections Designer

Bio coming soon!

Che Wernsman

Stage Manager

Che Wernsman (Production Stage Manager) is beginning her tenth season as Resident Stage Manager at RHT with The Inheritance! Some of her favorite RHT credits include: Bad Books; What the Constitution Means to Me; A Hanukkah Carol; Topdog/Underdog; Ink; On the Far End; The Tempest; Nine Night; "We declare you a terrorist…"; A Boy and His Soul; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Handbagged (Off-Broadway - 59E59, Bethesda); Oslo; Gem of the Ocean; Small Mouth Sounds; The Book of Will; and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Che has worked as an AEA Stage Manager in the DC/Baltimore region for over two decades, with shows at Everyman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Folger Theatre, Imagination Stage, The National, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theatre J, Studio, Rep Stage, Center Stage, and Olney Theatre Center. Che has a Bachelor of Science from Virginia Tech.

JuanCarlos Contreras

Assistant Stage Manager

Bio coming soon!