Emil Weinstein / Playwright

Emil is a writer and director whose work spans theater, television, and filmmaking. He graduated from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he directed the first workshop production of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. His productions as a theater director include Twelfth Night and Romeo & Juliet at Two River Theater, Comedy of Errors and As You Like It(upcoming) at the Old Globe, and developmental work with EnGarde Arts, Rattlestick Theater, Shakespeare and Company, and New York Theatre Workshop.

For television, Emil worked as a staff writer on Amazon’s A League of Their Own, and directed four episodes for the final season of The L Word Generation Q for Showtime. His short films Candace and In France Michelle is a Man’s Name played at festivals around the world, winning multiple awards including two Academy Award Qualifying Grand Jury Prizes. Becoming Eve is Emil’s Off-Broadway playwriting debut. Emil is a transgender man, and uses he/him pronouns.

Tyne Rafaeli / Director

TYNE RAFAELI directs for stage, screen and audio. Recent productions include Jen Silverman’s Spain (Second Stage), Keith Bunin’s The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theatre), Brian Watkins’ Epiphany (Lincoln Center Theatre), Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons); Ming Peiffer’s Usual Girls (Roundabout), Craig Lucas’ I Was Most Alive With You (Playwrights Horizons) and Lauren Yee’s In a Word (Cherry Lane). Her work has also been seen at The Public, MTC, Atlantic, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla, CSC and MCC amongst others. TV: “The Good Fight,” “Single Drunk Female” “Evil”. Upcoming TV: “Tell Me Lies” & “Elsbeth”