(Co-Director) Andrew McGinn has been a professional actor, director, and teacher since his graduation from The Juilliard School in 1998. McGinn earned his Master of Fine Arts in Directing at the University of Washington, and directed David Edgar's Pentecost as his thesis production. Post-MFA directing credits include Female Transport at Seattle University, Indian Ink at Sound Theatre Company, All's Well that Ends Well for Freehold's Ensemble Training Intensive and Fuente Ovejuna at Cornish College of the Arts.

(Co-Director) Katherine Humes is a three year senior Theatre Performance Major in the Acting Track at Interlochen Arts Academy. She hails from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where she grew up participating in many dance and theatrical endeavors. She will be attending NYU Tisch in the fall to begin earning her BFA in Drama. Katherine has recently discovered her love of directing and devising, and can’t wait to spend her career creating work that tells the stories of voices not usually heard. You can catch her solo directorial debut in the Interlochen One Act Festival this spring, with the play Overtones. She is so thrilled to be a part of this project and sends lots of love to her birds!

(Co- Stage Manager) Harrison Hodister is a 16-year-old sophomore at Interlochen Arts Academy and is loving his second year here and is honored to be able to Stage Manage for The Birds. He hopes everyone is doing ok in these tough times and knows there's a light at the end of this dark tunnel.

(Assitant Stage Manager) Bella is 17 years old, she is from Switzerland and is a first year junior at Interlochen Arts Academy. She has loved theatre since she was little, but so far she has mainly performed on the stage. This is Bella’s first time exploring and working in stage management, and she has truly loved her experience as Assistant Stage Manager. Besides theatre Bella is passionate about the environment and social justice. She feels lucky to have been part of this beautiful production of such a powerful adaptation of The Birds.

(Co-Stage Manager) Jacob Hollens is a first-year senior at Interlochen Arts Academy in the Theatre Design and Production program. This year he has worked on Death and the King's Horsemen (Lighting Designer), Twilight Los Angeles: 1992 (Scenic Designer), and In The Heights (Assistant Lighting Designer). Jacob will be attending the University of Southern California to pursue a BFA in Theatre, Design Emphasis.

(Composer) Anthony Nemeth is the composer/music director for The Birds. They are a first year sophomore majoring in composition. Originally from Philadelphia, they grew up with a passion for the arts. Anthony have been playing, writing, conducting, studying, and directing music for the past 12 years. "I pursue music to not only learn about myself, but to spark a sense of discovery in others. My ambitions lie in the fusion of all art forms; this, undoubtedly difficult task, will keep me on my toes!" Anthony would like to wholeheartedly thank Andy, Katherine, the production team, and the cast in its' entirety for their respective help/support throughout this new musical journey of theirs.

(Assitant Lighting Designer) Abigail is the Assistant Lighting Designer for The Birds under Rachel Diebel (Lighting Designer for The Birds). She is a first year Senior at Interlochen Arts Academy in the Theatre Design and Production program. The past performances she has done this year are Headlines (Stage Managers), Twelfth Night (Co-Light and Sound Designer) and Twilight Los Angeles: 1992 (Light Designer). Abigail will be attending Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, to study for a BFA in Lighting Design. Overall The Birds experience is one she is very proud of and excited for an audience to see!

(Set Designer) Elinore Loomis has worked for 15 years as a stage designer and scenic painter in the United States and abroad. She currently works at Interlochen Art Academy as a production designer and charge artist. Elinore received her MFA at The Ohio State University and worked as a freelance designer and painter in Denver, Co, and has designed and painted scenery for the Oberlin in Italy program, Creed Repertory Theater, and Michigan State University. She participated in a devised work with DAMU at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial where her work was showcased. Recent credits at Interlochen Center for the Arts include: The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes, Death and the King’s Horseman, Lark, Alice, Niceties, Tartuffe, Violet, Music Man, Swan Lake, Sweeney Todd, Streetcar Named Desire, Evita, Cardenio, Sleeping Beauty, Flea in Her Ear, Catch Me if You Can, and Rent.

(Costume Designer) Amanda Lifvendahl is Interlochen Center for the Art’s Costume Shop Manager. Before coming to Interlochen, she spent 16 years working in Chicago at Broadway Costumes, Inc as the Theatrical Show Rentals Manager and as a freelance costume designer, technician and wardrobe supervisor in the Chicagoland area. Previous designs seen in Interlochen are Tartuffe, The Lark, Niceties, and Alice. She is very proud of her costume shop team for creating such fun costumes for The Birds and not getting their feathers in a bunch while making them. Thank you to The Birds design team for giving them a world to play in and, especially the students, for giving those costumes life.

(Playwright) Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg. Her works include the play The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, the short play-for-film Katharsis, and the audio plays Lâche Pas la Patate and You Can’t Get There From Here. She was one of the ten writers on Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show. She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt, about relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015. She is an Artistic Associate with Signal Theatre, and the Company Dramaturg for Sum Theatre. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Public Policy at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy.

(Dramaturgy Consultant) JoAnne Cook, a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa/Chippewa Indians, is from Peshawbestown. She is an attorney; her professional experience includes one term on Tribal Council and with Tribal Courts as a Tribal Court Judge for two tribal communities. She believes tradition and culture is vital to the Anishinaabek way of life and has presented to various communities and taught a course at the NMC Extended Education on the way of life and culture/traditions of the Odawa.