Amel Khalil (Kahdy) is a Palestinian American SAG Actress from New Jersey. As a content creator and ARTivist, Amel focuses on elevating the narrative of Arabs and Muslims in all aspects of media. Recent credits include a recurring Co-star on Showtime's Super Pumped and a recurring Guest Star on City on Fire (Apple 23’). Other credits include appearances on Equalizer, New Amsterdam, Madam Secretary and more.

Hend Ayoub (Suzan) is a New York-based actor and writer. Theatre credits include: Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, as well as its previous run at Los Angeles’s Mark Taper Forum; A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arena Stage); Kiss(Yale Repertory Theatre); First Down's world premiere at NYC's 59E59 Theater and Veils (world premiere, Portland Stage; Barrington Stage). Television credits include Homeland, Orange Is The New Black, The Looming Tower, Madam Secretary, Royal Pains, Feed the Beast, The Accidental Wolf, Comedy Central’s The Watch List, and recurring roles on Transparent and Damages. In Film, she co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning film Death of a President and the multi award-winning film Private, in addition to the new upcoming film If You See Something. Hend is currently workshopping her autobiographical solo show titled, “HOME?” about being a Palestinian born and raised in Israel. 

Abdul Sesay (Gabe) is a Philadelphia based actor who has had the opportunity to work with EgoPo, Delaware Shakespeare, Theatre Ariel and Philadelphia Artist Collective. He is honored and overjoyed to play Gabe in InterAct Theatre’s production of American Fast.

Ontaria Kim Wilson (Coach) is a multi hyphenated artist based out of Philadelphia. She is an actress, choreographer, playwright, and director who holds a B.A. in Theatre (Acting Concentration) from Temple University. Currently Ontaria is an MFA Directing Candidate at Temple University looking forward to receiving her masters in the Spring of 2025. Notable Credits: DANCE: Founding member of Rennie Harris Puremovement Hip Hop Theatre Company; Choreographer and touring dancer for recording artists: Gina Thompson, Eve, and Teddy Pendergrass. THEATER:  Say That He Had More Than A Dream (First World Theatre Ensemble/Zuhaira McGill); Detox and Beautiful Toxicity which were written, produced, and directed by Ontaria; Alien Nation (Williamstown Theater Festival/Michael Arden); Wine In The Wilderness (Egopo Classic Theatre/Damien Wallace); School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play (Arden Theatre/Amina Robinson); Fences/US (PA Shakespeare Festival/Ryan Quinn); The Ways of White Folks (Egopo Classic Theatre/Ontaria Kim Wilson & Dane Eissler). TV & FILM: For My Man TV ONE; and Detox, Feature Film (Written, Produced, and Directed by Ontaria). Ontaria is excited to be making her debut performance with InterAct Theatre along with the phenomenal cast of American Fast. For more information please visit: www.ontariawilsonllc.com

Kareem Fahmy (Playwright) is a Canadian-born playwright and director of Egyptian descent. He received the 2022 Woodward/Newman Playwriting Award (for American Fast), a NYSCA/NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Janet Sloane Literature Residency at Yaddo, is a two-time finalist for the National Showcase of New Plays, and was named a Rising Leader of Color by TCG. American Fast is receiving a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, and InterAct Theatre. A Distinct Society received a co-world premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Pioneer Theatre and will soon be seen at Writers Theatre. Dodi & Diana (O’Neill NPC Finalist) received a world premiere at Colt Coeur. Other plays include Pareidolia, The In-Between, and an adaptation of the acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building. Kareem’s work has been seen at Atlantic Theatre Company, Denver Center, Northlight Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, New York Stage & Film, and more. Commissions: Artists Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan, Colt Coeur. Fellowships: The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Sundance Theatre Lab. Co-founder/Chair of the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab. MFA (Theatre Directing), Columbia. www.kareemfahmy.com

Zaina Yasmin Dana (Co-Director) (she/her) is a Palestinian-American director based in Philadelphia. She is a founder and the Resident Director of Eat Purple Theater Co., a new theater-making collective in the city. She is the Associate Producer with Suli Holum / The Work, a theatre company/incubator for new, exciting performance work in Philadelphia. In the past, she had the pleasure of developing R3TURN: A Palestinian Pop-Punk Musical at Swarthmore College and Facepaint: A Morality Play as a part of the 2022 Fringe Festival. Recent Associate Directing credits include Love Unpunished (Pig Iron Theater) and Kiss (The Wilma Theater). She dedicates the rest of her time to uplifting the plight of Palestinian refugees through her work with UNRWA and UNRWA USA.

Seth Rozin (Producing Artistic Director) co-founded InterAct in 1988 and has directed over 60 productions for InterAct, including Eureka Day, The Great Leap, How to Use a Knife, The Nether, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety, Permanent Collection, It’s All True, Lebensraum, and 6221. He has also directed at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, Blue Heron & 45th Street Theaters in New York, and at theatres across the Philadelphia region. Seth is the author of more than a dozen plays, including Settlements, Human Rites, Two Jews Walk into a War... and Black Gold, which have been produced at 28 theatres across the country and in Australia. Seth is the recipient of two playwriting fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the National New Play Network’s 2007 Smith Prize, a commission from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and two Barrymore Award nominations. He co-founded Philadelphia Scenic Works (PhiladelphiaScenicWorks.org), a nonprofit scenic fabrication shop, and MusiCoLab (MusiCoLab.org), dedicated to the development of new musical theatre works.  Seth has twice served as President of the Board of National New Play Network, as well as Philadelphia Artists Collective, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and New Paradise Laboratories.

Eli Lynn (Intimacy Director) (they/them) is a certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, a Barrymore Nominated fight director, and an actor in the greater Philadelphia area. Recent Intimacy credits: Head Over Heels (Theatre Horizon), The Light; Motherf*cker With The Hat (Theatre Exile), The Moors (Rutgers Camden), Wine in the Wilderness (PAC), A Streetcar Named Desire (Arden Theatre), Wine In The Wilderness (PAC), Carroll County Fix (Azuka Theatre), Love Notes (Bearded Ladies), Shakespeare in Love; Such Things As Vampires (People’s Light), Dance Nation (Wilma). They are also an Artistic Associate at Philadelphia Artists’ Collective. Love always to Vanessa. Soli Deo Gloria. www.Eli-Lynn.com

William Bryant (Assistant Scenic Designer) is a professional scenic designer, technical director, performer, and director in the Philadelphia region. Originally from Delaware, William has also worked at theaters in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. William is currently the Managing and Technical Director for Philadelphia Scenic Works, America's only non-profit scenic shop.

Tiffany Bacon (Costume Designer), the Creative & Production Director for WURD Radio, began her career in radio in 1990 at WRTI. At Power 99FM she created Inner City, a show that broke new artists like Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild and more. Tiffany Bacon is the co-author of a Health & Wellness  program for African American teens. Talking Matters is currently being tested for effectiveness by the Research & Evaluation Group at Public Health Management Corporation.  Tiffany is also a freelance costume designer whose​ recent work includes:  Galilee, Azuka Theatre; Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill​, Philadelphia Theatre Company; Hymn, Inis Nua Theatre; Tuck Everlasting, Centre Theater; Good Grief, Hedgerow Theater; Meet Me at Dawn, Inis Nua Theatre and The Light, Theatre Exile. Tiffany is the 2022 winner of the Broadwayworld.com/ Philadelphia Best Costume Design Award for a Play or Musical for the Theatre in the X production of Dreamgirls.

Natali Merrill (Assistant Projection Designer) is a sound and technology designer and engineer excited to work with InterAct Theatre Company! Based in Philadelphia, she has been the sound designer for productions including Broads (1812 Productions), Spring Awakening (Bryn Mawr College), High Noon (Ninth Planet), Shakespeare’s R&J (New Light Theatre Company), Fucking A (Swarthmore College), Riot Antigone and Cabaret (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges). She has worked with Theatre Exile, 11th Hour Theatre Company, the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, New Century Theatre Company in Seattle, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. A graduate of Haverford College with a major in physics, she researched and wrote a thesis on acoustics in performance halls with RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. She is also a singer and composer. www.nmerrill.com

Eileen Deisemann (Props Manager) is an actor/stage manager and is excited to be working on her first production here at InterAct Theatre Company. Her past stage management credits include Delaware Theatre Company, Uptown! Knauer PAC, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and has performed at both Hersheypark and Dorney Park. She is a graduate of DeSales University and currently based in Philadelphia. 

John Kolbinski (Audio Engineer) Past Sound Design Work: The Winter Wonderettes (Hampton Arts, The American Theatre); Always…Patsy Cline, Civil War Voices, The Winter Wonderettes, Baskerville, Souvenir, The Gift, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, (Walnut); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in Clark Park); Basic Witches (Robert Hager); Behold Her (FringeArts/Half Key Theatre Co); Mort (New Paradise Laboratories); Every Brilliant Thing (Arden). Sound Supervisor at Arden Theatre Company and Chautauqua Theater Company. Audio Engineer at InterAct Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre and Lantern Theater Company. Sound Systems Designer, InterAct’s Drake Theater.