Peter Amster, Director of Good Night, Oscar -  Peter Amster is a seasoned director and choreographer with more than 50 years of experience in theater and opera. He spent four decades in Chicago, contributing to esteemed institutions such as the Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Route 66 Theatre, Live Bait Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. 

Beyond Chicago, Amster has directed productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Peninsula Players Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Syracuse Stage, and Laguna Playhouse. 

In Florida, he has been a regular guest director and Artistic Associate at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota. Notably, he directed "Ken Ludwig's The Three Musketeers," which concluded at Asolo Rep in March 2023. Additionally he directed "It's A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" at Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples in 2019 and returned in 2023 to direct Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park."  

Amster has also contributed to academia, teaching theater, opera, and performance studies at Northwestern University, Louisiana State University, California Institute of the Arts, Columbia College, and Roosevelt University, where he served as Director of Opera for ten years. 

Currently, he serves as the Board Vice Chair for Baroque on Beaver, a classical music festival on Beaver Island, Michigan, where he has been involved since January 2016. 

Cat Brindisi, Asolo Rep Associate Artistic Director and Choreographer  of Dancing at Lughnasa -  Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cat Brindisi was a co-founder of 7th House Theater. 7th House produced new work as well as radically reimagined stagings of plays from the canon. 7th House created new musicals and plays with music in both found and theatrical spaces - most recently in collaboration with the Dowling Studio at The Guthrie Theatre. 7th House’s musical The Passage (written by her husband, David Darrow) was accepted into the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival in 2017 sparking her move to New York City where she resided until joining the Asolo Repertory Theatre. 

As an Actor: The Guthrie Theater: 13 mainstage shows since 2014. Cat was not a graduate of the BFA Guthrie program, making this theatrical home even more special to her. New World Stages; Signature Theatre (NYMF 2019); St. Louis Rep (Wind Up Girl); Alabama Shakespeare; Mixed Blood (The Chronicles of Kalki by Netflix writer Aditi Brennan Kapil); Theater Latté Da (Spring Awakening, Aida, ...Spelling Bee); and The Ordway. 

As Producer & Director: 7th House Theater: Little Shop of Horrors, Hair, Rhinoceros, Ceniphilia. 7th House Theater at The Guthrie Theater: Jonah and the Whale, The Great Work, The Passage. Cedar Summerstock: Once Upon a Mattress. Asolo Rep: Assistant Director on Lady Molly of Scotland Yard directed by Peter Rothstein. 

As Choreographer: Asolo Rep: Man of La Mancha, The Sounds Inside at The Southern directed by Kate Sutton-Johnson, Beehive, directed by Regina Marie Williams. Upcoming Asolo Rep: Dancing at Lughnasa directed by Joe Dowling. 

As a Writer: The Daughters: An autobiographical play with music centering around Cat's journey through alcoholism and the other side of recovery (proudly sober since 7/28/2015.) The House at Echo’s End: an original musical for radio theatre developed at Everwood Writer’s Retreat. 

Cat received her BFA in Theatre and minored in Dance from the University of Minnesota, Duluth and was accepted as one of six into the Directing MFA program at Columbia under Anne Bogart. However, pursuing this degree has recently been put on hold as she has stepped into the position of Associate Artistic Director at Asolo Rep for the 2024-2025 season. 

Marcela Lorca, Director of Anna in the Tropics - Marcela Lorca, a Director/Choreographer/Master Teacher, became Movement Director for the Guthrie Theater in 1991, and has since coached more than 100 plays. She is also Head of Movement for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training program. As a Director/Choreographer, her recent productions include: Caroline or Change at The Guthrie Theater and Syracuse Stage; Scorched at Syracuse Stage; The Burial At Thebes and The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde at the Guthrie Theater; House of the Spirits and Found at Mixed Blood Theater; Blood Wedding at the Guthrie Lab and Missouri Repertory Theater; Time Sensitive, Going Live, Macondo, Chain of Fools, Postcards from Earth and Confluence at the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio; The Clean House at Juilliard Drama; Bring Love to My Doorstep, The Long Walk, I Keep Walking on Sinking Sand, Bye Bye Margarita, and In Darkness at the Guthrie Lab; Wilde Honey, Antigone, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Gods: Helen and Orestes at the University of Minnesota; and If You Could Touch My Heart, Raw and Walking Around at the Southern Theater. 

Her choreography includes: The Winter’s Tale at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Persians at Washington Shakespeare Theater; A Light in the Piazza at the Goodman Theater; Pericles at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 

At the Guthrie Theater she has choreographed more than 20 plays including: The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Merrily We Roll Along, Blood Wedding, Sweeny Todd, Much Ado About Nothing, You Can’t Take It With You, Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Lysistrata, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and A Christmas Carol. She has also worked at the National Actor’s Theater and Signature Theater in New York City, Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, National Opera of the Dominican Republic, and Grupo del Centro-Chilean dance company. 

Lorca teaches Lorca Movement at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training program. She has also taught at New York University, Juilliard Drama School, the London International School of Performing Arts, US conferences and the Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training. 

Peter Rothstein, Asolo Rep’s Producing Artistic Director and Director of Ken Ludwig's Lady Molly of Scotland Yard -  Peter Rothstein serves as the Producing Artistic Director for the Asolo Repertory Theatre where he directed Man of La Mancha, Sweeney Todd, and Ragtime. He works extensively as a director of theater, musical theater, opera, and new work development. For 25 years Rothstein served as the Founding Artistic Director of Theater Latté Da, a Minneapolis-based company dedicated to new and adventurous music-theater. Other collaborations include the Guthrie Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Ten Thousand Things, and Seattle’s 5th Avenue, as well as the Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Chicago Opera Theater. Rothstein is the creator of All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, which had its Off-Broadway debut in 2018, receiving the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience; it has been seen around the globe airing on PBS. Rothstein served on the board of directors for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Alive and Kickin’ and the Twin Cities’ Ivey Awards. He has been a panelist and evaluator for the Playwrights’ Center, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals. He holds degrees in Music and Theater from St. John’s University and an MFA in Directing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.