Ephraim Birney’s Off-Broadway credits include: Chester Bailey at The Irish Rep (Outer Critics Circle Nomination, Berkshire Theater Critics Award Winner), Jonah at Roundabout, As Time Goes Byat Out Of The Box Theatrics, The Book of Mountains and Seas in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and The Good Person of Szechwan at The Public Theater. Regionally, Ephraim performed in Studio Theater DC’s Admissions, and TheaterWorks Hartford’s The Sound Inside and The Rembrandt (Connecticut Critics Circle Nomination). TV and Film credits include: Gotham, The Americans, Strawberry Mansion (Sundance Film Festival 2021) and Things Like This, coming to theaters later this year.

Charlotte Cohn will be directing Walden by Amy Berryman at Premiere Stages this coming September. She most recently directed the critically acclaimed UK premiere of Canned Goods by Erik Kahn, following the world premiere production at the American Theatre Group last spring.

Other directing highlights include Church & State (Berkshire Theatre Group), The Whole Shebang and Baltimore in Black and White (The Cell Theatre, NYC), My Italy Story (ATG), and Best Friends (Jazz at Lincoln Center).

She has appeared on Broadway in La Bohème, directed by Baz Luhrmann, and Coram Boy, directed by Melly Still. Her producing credits include Here Lies Love (Broadway), Without You (starring Anthony Rapp), and Handle with Care and Church & State by Jason Odell Williams (Off-Broadway).

Ms. Cohn is an Ovation Award winner and a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award nominee. Her musical The Sound, based on her father’s true story of escaping from Denmark to Sweden during WWII, was presented on November 17th, 2024 by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC. It will have a full production in 2026 — more details coming soon!

For more information, please visit: https://charlottecohn.wixsite.com/charlotte

An actor since her teens, Maddie has appeared on and off Broadway and on TV and in some movies. Her critically acclaimed, award winning solo show ACCIDENTALLY BRAVE is now a feature film currently streaming on HBOMAX.

Maddy McLean is originally from North Carolina and has now planted her roots in New York to pursue her dream of performing, learning and inspiring others in the community. Maddy is a double major at Marymount Manhattan College studying as a B.F.A dance major and a B.A. Media and Arts Manager. Madison is extremely grateful to be performing with Royal Family again. She made her Off-Broadway debut with Royal Family in Women on Fire: Fair is Foul, and danced in Anne of Green Gables and Marilla of Green Gables. She has recently performed in Marymount Manhattan College's Mainstage productions with choreographers Nathan Trice and Pedro Ruiz Jr. Madison is looking forward to continuing to grow her craft and share the love of storytelling with others.

Elizabeth A. Davis most recently starred Off-Broadway in Abingdon Theater’s Maybe Tomorrow and was last seen on Broadway in Roundabout’s 1776 revival while pregnant. She recently featured as Queen Margaret in the historic Henry 6at The Old Globe.

Elizabeth is a Tony Award nominee for Once, a Drama Desk Award nominee for Allegro, and a New York Musical Festival Award winner for Dust Can’t Kill Me. She co-stars in the upcoming feature film A Break in the Rain.

Elizabeth has performed at New York Theatre Workshop, Classic Stage Company, 59E59, City Center, New World Stages, Center Theater Group, American Repertory Theatre, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Huntington, and many more.

Select TV/Film credits include Daredevil: Born Again, New Amsterdam, Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Taxi Brooklyn, Fringe, and Trauma Is a Time Machine.

Elizabeth has written five full-length theatrical works.

@ElizabetADavis

Kelly recently completed filming the movie, TOX. TOX is about the quest for

perfection on the outside. Prior to that, she starred in the movie, The Greatest Ever. She has had recurring roles including, Chicago Fire and Power: Raising Kanan. She has also done ALL of the Law and Orders multiple times. One of her fave jobs was a beauty web series for Harper’s Bazaar, The Younger Games. Comedy and Botox. A dream. She currently hosts a podcast that she records with her friend, Stacey Farrar Hermes, called Murder, Murder on the Wall. True crime, beauty, gossip. It seems to be a theme for me. You can find it on your favorite podcast apps. Don’t forget to rate and review. Kelly and Victor are married to each other. So that is fun. Sometimes. We are both beyond thrilled to work with Royal Family!!!

Miss Halston was recently in the critically acclaimed production of OUR TOWN on Broadway. She received rave reviews for her performance of Luella Soames. In 2021, she received the Isabelle Stevenson TONY AWARD for her advocacy of The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Her Broadway credits are numerous, including Tootsie, Hairspray, Gypsy, Anything Goes, and The Twentieth Century. She received the Richard Seff Award for her acclaimed performance in You Can’t Take It With You and has garnered four Drama Desk nominations for her Broadway and Off-Broadway work.

Miss Halston was a founding member of Charles Busch’s legendary theatre company and co-starred with Mr. Busch in many productions, including The Divine Sister, Red Scare on Sunset, and The Lady in Question. They starred together in the independent feature film The Sixth Reel.

In addition, Miss Halston can be seen in the independent feature films Intermedium, Simchas and Sorrows, and Chosen Family with Heather Graham. Television credits include the recurring role of Sharon on Gossip Girl, guest roles on The Good Fight, Almost Family, and Divorce. She is most known, however, as the popular character Bitsy Von Muffling on Sex and the City and the reboot And Just Like That on HBO Max.

Miss Halston’s web series Virtual Halston was a pandemic hit with over 40 YouTube episodes. Her Birdland comedy appearances have been SRO engagements for over 10 years.

Kim made her Broadway debut in Les Misérables in the ensemble and appeared in the roles of “Eponine” and “Cosette.” On Broadway and in the Toronto premiere, Kim appeared as “Magnolia” in the Hal Prince/Susan Stroman Tony Award-winning revival of Show Boat.

Speaking of boats, Kim went down with the ship as Irish immigrant “Kate Murphey” in Titanic on Broadway and survived the sinking as English newlywed “Caroline Neville” in the National Tour.

Other New York credits include: “Ava” in the Drama Desk-nominated production of The Audience; “Petra” in A Little Night Music at New York City Opera (standby); the City Center’s Encores! production of One Touch of Venus; and several concerts at Carnegie Hall, including Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington with Peter Jennings and the star-studded Sweet Charity with the Broadway Gospel Choir at Avery Fisher Hall.

Some of Kim’s international and regional credits are: West Side Story Suite (NYC Ballet, Tokyo), Guys & Dolls (Sarah Brown), My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), Phantom (Christine Daaé), Carousel (Carrie Pipperidge), Company (Kathy), Chess (Florence Vassy), and Annie (Grace Farrell).

Adrian Miranda is a Colombian-Salvadoran-American actor and filmmaker based in Washington Heights, NYC. A Manhattan native, he began acting at the Heights Players in Brooklyn in 2012 and has performed in West Side Story (Bernardo), Finian’s Rainbow (Gospeleer), A Chorus Line, Kiss Me Kate, and Tommy(Pinball Wizard). He is the founder of Gross Anatomy Studios, where he created and starred in the dramedy web series Gross Anatomy, and currently produces short films with uptown residents through his initiative, Uptown Actors. Adrian also wrote and performed the original musical A Chronic Line at several NYC festivals and at Caveat Theater. He’s a proud member of the NYC based swing dance troupe, Big Apple Lindy Hoppers.

Emilio Picayo (he/him) is an actor born and raised in New York City. Recent credits: Sightings (Philipstown Depot), Ghost Punchers (Kalani Hubbard), The Shelter (Corey Reiter), Post Mortem (Alfonso Vigliero), Nathan and Annie (Daniel Mihailescu), First Date Blues (Carson McKenna), and Behind the Line (Vinay Umapathy). New play workshops: The Board by Anthony Scarpone, Heddy by Emily Breeze, and Things to do Before We Die by Tristan Rodriguez. He studied theater and math at Brown University, before training with Scott Freeman and Sheila Gray. Other interests include playing basketball, wrestling puppies, and circus training.

Victor Verhaeghe is a writer, actor and producer. His most recent project

that he wrote and performed, was his solo show, “The Book of Shame”, at

the Emerging Artists Festival, and then again at United Solo, where it won

Best One-Man Show. Victor wrote and starred in his musical “Doorman,

The Musical”, at The NY Theater Festival, where the show won Best

Musical. He has written multiple festival award winning short films,

including: COP-DOC, The Doctor Cares, The Parker, Saving Kevin and

Caleb Vs. Trialagor

As an actor, Victor can currently be seen in Daredevil: Born Again. Also in

recent films “Notice to Quit”, with Michael Zegen, No Hard Feelings, with

Jennifer Lawrence and several short films in between. Other film work:

Bad Education with Hugh Jackman; Bridge of Spies, with Tom Hanks and

Mark Rylance, directed by Steven Spielberg.

On TV: Recurring roles on the TV shows Raising Kanan – Power Book III;

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, For Life, HBO’s The Night Of, Three seasons

on Boardwalk Empire and many episodes of Law & Order and Law & Order

SVU.

Chris Henry is an award-winning theatre director and writer based in New York City. CREATIVE DIRECTOR  Anthony Rapp’s Without You, WRITING/DIRECTING CREDITS WITH ROYAL FAMILY:  WOMEN ON FIRE: Stories from the Frontlines, WOMEN ON FIRE: Scorching the Dividing Lines, WOMEN ON FIRE: Fair is Foul, Louie, Red, and the Jazzman (in collaboration with Wycliffe Gordon), Nobody Suspects a Butterfly (originally a feature film treatment Henry wrote for Ross Greenburg, Former President of HBO Sports), MM2000 (in collaboration with Shane W. Evans) and Opal Ann Meets the Fabulous Kit Katt, A Play with Musical Fantasies (in collaboration with Summer Hyde and Daniel A. Weiss). DIRECTING CREDITS WITH ROYAL FAMILY: Brass Heart the musical, thoughts of a COLORED MAN on a day when the sun set too early, LOVE/SICK, Four Last Things, Dedalus Lounge, Safe Home.  NYC DIRECTING HIGHLIGHTS: Joe (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Trans-Euro Express (Irish Arts Center), Art of War (Madison Square Garden), Sharpen Your Blade (“Time Out” Critic’s Pick), Fishbowl (New York Magazine Critic’s pick), Suicide Society (Winner Best Director). ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE: The Actor’s Nightmare, Grace of I, Dog Named Becky, One Hundred Women, Electric Roses, Sure Thing. Henry is twice nominated for the Zelda Fichlander award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and won the New England Theater Conference Regional Directors Award. 

Lorna Ventura is a Director/Choreographer with a long list of credits from Broadway to film and television. Original Broadway productions include: Wicked, Grease, All Shook Up, Harlem Song, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and The Life, as an Original Cast Member or Associate Choreographer —In addition, her collaborations and relationships with elite directors such as George C. Wolfe, Joe Mantello, Kathleen Marshall, Charles Randolph Wright, Ruben Santiago Hudson and Billy Porter have allowed her to hone her craft and transition with grace into the Director/Choreographer’s seat.

Recent projects include: Destiny of Desire(Choreographer) Old Globe, American Prophet (Choreographer) Arena Stage, Christmas in Hell, (Director/Choreographer), Reinkus Heinz Theater, Las Vegas premiere, Fiddler on the Roof- (Choreographer,) Olney Theater,WOMEN ON FIRE: Stories from the Frontlines, WOMEN ON FIRE: Scorching the Dividing Lines, , WOMEN ON FIRE: Fair is Foul, (Director/Choreographer), Royal Family.

Lorna’s choreography was recently featured in Empire the Musical at New World Stages and She earned a Helen Hayes nomination for her work on American Prophet at Arena Stage. Lorna is passionate about the continued development of Black Birding with Queen Esther at Women’s Project, and all the new development at Royal Family Productions where she serves as the Creative Director.