THE PACK is a theater troupe formed following their award-winning production of Wolf Play (Soho Rep and Ma-Yi Theater, MCC), in a mission to devise an alternate creative and financial model for new play development. They are playwright Hansol Jung (Wild Goose Dreams, Cardboard Piano), director Dustin Wills (Wet Brain, Montag), dramaturg Lexy Leuszler (Desaparecidas, Azul), composer Brian Quijada (Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, Somewhere Over the Border), performers Chris Bannow (Oklahoma!, The Elephant Man), Esco Jouléy (State of the Union, High Maintenance), Nicole Villamil (Network, Queens), and Mitchell Winter (Hamlet, Frontieres sans Frontieres). Honors received individually and collectively include the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, Best Direction, and Best Ensemble, 2023 Obie Awards for Playwriting, Direction, Costume, and Lighting Design, Steinberg New Play Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Princess Grace Award, Jeff Awards, the Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Drama League Directing Fellowship, Macdowell Residency, American Theatre’s People to Watch List, Oliver Thorndike Award, Jerome L. Greene Award, Khan Career Entry Award. For more information, follow them at @the_pack_company.
Chris Bannow is an actor and musician. Recent credits include Marriage of Figaro (Little Island), Simona’s Search (Hartford Stage, CT Critics Circle Nom), Wolf Play (MCC and Soho Rep), the Tony-Winning Revival of Oklahoma! (Circle in the Square), The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), Alamat (Ma-Yi), Awful Event (Baryshnikov Arts Center), The Elephant Man (Williamstown, Broadway and Theater Royal Haymarket, West End). TV/Film: The Late Late Show, #Screamers, Not Fade Away, and Three Christs. Original music written for Ain’t Gonna Make It (Ars Nova ANTFEST) and Mystery Boy (Yale Cabaret). BFA: Boston University, MFA: Yale. He is the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @bannnnnnow
Esco Jouléy Actor, singer, dancer, clown, movement artist, creator. Upcoming: Dying For Sex (FX). Recent Credits: State of the Union (Sundance), Blindspotting (Starz), High Maintenance (HBO), Inventing Anna (Netflix), Monsterland (Hulu), movement coach on In a Man’s World (Bravo). Theatre credits: Twelfth Night, Wolf Play, As You Like It, Interstate, Runaways, Galatea, Magic Theatre Player in The Demise, Beowulf. Other: resident actor at the historic Barter Theatre for three and a half years, alum of the ABC Discovers Talent Showcase. Recipient of the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Ensemble. @escojouley
Hansol Jung, Playwright. Merry Me (New York Theater Workshop) Wolf Play (Soho Rep & Ma-Yi), Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater & La Jolla Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO) Cardboard Piano (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi Theatre), and No More Sad Things (Sideshow & Boise Contemporary). TV & Film: Pachinko (Apple+) Tales of the City (Netflix) including development with Amazon Studios, Apple + TV, Ink Factory, Fifth Season Production and Kindred Spirit. She is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, NYTW's Usual Suspects, and the New Class of Kilroys. MFA: Yale. @chokkie
Lexy Leuszler is a dramaturg, producer, and educator specializing in new work. She has developed works with Kimber Lee, Melis Aker, Keiko Green, Florencia Cuenca, Jaime Lozano, Eliana Pipes, Hansol Jung, Brian Quijada, Robi Hager, and Georgina Escobar, among others. She has taught with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and the Kennedy Center. Lexy is a member of the 2023 Kilroy’s Web and American Theatre Magazine's Role Call: People to Watch list. Current projects in development include: Fly Me To the Sun (1st Stage), Azul: A Bilingual Musical (Joe’s Pub), Little Duende (NAMT, Rhinebeck), and Siluetas (Temple University, Power Street Theatre). @leuszler
Brian Quijada is an Emmy-nominated playwright, actor, and composer. Upcoming: Mexodus (Berkley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Mosaic). Recent acting credits: Wolf Play (MCC), Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout), Oedipus El Rey (The Public), My Mañana Comes (Playwrights Realm), How We Got On and Airness (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV: Law & Order SVU, Blue Bloods, Manhattan Love Story, Search Party. As a writer, his plays include Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Victory Gardens, Teatro Vista, Ensemble Studio Theatre), Kid Prince and Pablo (Kennedy Center), Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, TeatroVista). Brian is a four-time Jeff Award Winner, a three-time Drama Desk nominee, and the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @mrbrianquijada
Nicole Villamil, Actor. Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), Wolf Play (MCC), Wolf Play (Soho Rep), How to load a Musket (59E59), Network (Broadway), Queens (LCT3), Lessons in Survival (Vineyard Theatre -Online Series), MUD (Boundless Theatre), Shakespeare’s R&J (Hangar Theatre), De Profundis (PlayMakers Rep), Tell Me I’m Not Crazy, The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Hunchback of Seville, The Love of the Nightingale (Trinity Repertory Co.); TV/Film: New Amsterdam, The Last OG. MFA: Brown/Trinity Repertory Co. She is the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @nicoleavillamil
Dustin Wills, Director. Upcoming: Six Characters (LCT3), Marriage of Figaro (Little Island), Jeremy O Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You (Hauser & Wirth). Recent: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (Heartbeat Opera), John Caswell Jr.'s Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons), Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (Soho Rep, Ma-Yi, MCC), Kate Tarker’s Montag (Soho Rep). Wills has devised work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, created large-scale puppetry pageants with Creative Action, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, lectures in Directing at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Direction, a Princess Grace Awardee, and a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow. @dustinobenino or www.dustinwills.com
Mitchell Winter, Actor. Recent credits: Hamlet (Public Theater’s Shakespeare In the Park), Wolf Play (MCC & Soho Rep), The Importance of Being Earnest and Dracula (Berkshire Theater Group), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), Awful Event (Baryshnikov Arts Center), A Winter’s Tale (Yale Rep), A Doctor In Spite of Himself (Yale Rep), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon (Australian National Tour), Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company), Miss Julie and Tartuffe (Yale Summer Cabaret), Normativity (NYMF), Die Fledermaus (Australian Opera Studio). Film/TV credits include: Mr. Robot (USA Network), Oh Jerome No (FX), If Not Love (official Sundance selection). MFA: Yale School of Drama. He is the recipient of 2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Ensemble for Wolf Play. @mitchellwinter