THE PACK is a theater troupe formed following their award-winning production of Wolf Play (Soho Rep and Ma-Yi Theater, MCC), in a mission to devise an alternate creative and financial model for new play development. Founding members include playwright Hansol Jung (Wild Goose Dreams, Cardboard Piano), director Dustin Wills (Wet Brain, Montag), dramaturg Lexy Leuszler (Desaparecidas, Azul), composer Brian Quijada (Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, Somewhere Over the Border), performers Chris Bannow (Oklahoma!, The Elephant Man), Esco Jouléy (State of the Union, High Maintenance), Nicole Villamil (Network, Queens), and Mitchell Winter (Hamlet, Frontieres sans Frontieres).
Honors received individually and collectively include the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, Best Direction, and Best Ensemble, 2023 Obie Awards for Playwriting, Direction, Costume, and Lighting Design, Steinberg New Play Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Princess Grace Award, Jeff Awards, the Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Drama League Directing Fellowship, Macdowell Residency, American Theatre’s People to Watch List, Oliver Thorndike Award, Jerome L. Greene Award, Khan Career Entry Award. For more information, follow them at @the_pack_company.
As of September 2025, we’re thrilled to announce our newest cohort of members:
Dorcas Leung (The Counterfeit Opera,The Notebook), Shannon Tyo (Yellow Face, The Comeuppance), and Amelia Workman (Well I’ll Let You Go, The Antiquities).
Chris Bannow is an actor and musician. Broadway: Daniel Fish’s Tony Award Winning Oklahoma!, The Elephant Manstarring Bradley Cooper (also West End, Theater Royal Haymarket). Off-Broadway: The Counterfeit Opera, The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island), Wolf Play (Lortel Award, MCC Theater and Soho Rep), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory), Electra in a One Piece(Wild Project). Regional: Center Theater Group, Kennedy Center, Williamstown, Huntington, McCarter, Berkshire Theatre Group, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Boston Playwrights Theater. Film/TV : Not Fade Away, Three Christs, Screamers, Fidelity, “The Late Late Show with James Corden”. Boston University, Yale School of Drama. He is the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @bannnnnnow
Esco Jouléy Actor, singer, dancer, clown, movement artist, creator. Esco is winning over audiences as “Sonya” in the acclaimed FX series DYING FOR SEX, alongside Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate, and previously starred opposite Patricia Clarkson and Brendan Gleeson in the Sundance series STATE OF THE UNION. Theater credits include: Trophy Boys (MCC) Wolf Play (MCC, Soho Rep) and other recent theatre includes Merry Me (NYTW) Twelfth Night (The Old Globe) and As You Like It (La Jolla). Additional television includes BLINDSPOTTING (Starz), HIGH MAINTENANCE (HBO), INVENTING ANNA (Netflix), MONSTERLAND (Hulu), and the ABC Discovers Showcase. Recipient of the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Ensemble. @escojouley
Hansol Jung, playwright and director. Plays: Merry Me (NYTW), Wolf Play (Soho Rep & Ma-Yi), Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater & La Jolla), Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO & Two River) Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi), and No More Sad Things (Boise Contemporary). TV & Film: Pachinko (Apple +) Tales of the City (Netflix) including development with Amazon Studios, and Apple + TV. Hansol is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel award for Best Play, Obie Award, Herb Alpert Award, Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark’s Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, Two-time MacDowell Fellowship, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court. She is a proud member of NYTW's Usual Suspects, the Kilroys and a founding member of The Pack. MFA: Yale.
Dorcas Leung (she/her) is an actor and artist currently based in New York City but originally hails from Houston, Texas. Before coming to Wildwind, she completed a run of "The Counterfeit Opera" (Little Island, NYC) as Polly Peachum, a new take on the legendary satire – The Beggar’s Opera. Other credits include, Broadway: The Notebook as Georgie/Others (covering Young Allie), Gigi Van Tranh in Miss Saigon. Off-Broadway: Dou Yi in Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company). Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, translated by Hansol Jung (NAATCO/Two River Theater). Tour: Roles of Eliza, Angelica, Peggy/Maria in first National Tour of Hamilton. Regional: Georgie in The Notebook (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, World Premiere), Despereaux in The Tale of Despereaux (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Cosette in Les Misérables, Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theatre Center); Rhoda in A New Brain, Little Red in Into the Woods (Barrington Stage Company); Les Misérables (The MUNY); Bye Bye Birdie (Goodspeed Opera House). Television: “Bull,” “Madam Secretary” (CBS).
Lexy Leuszler is a dramaturg, producer, and educator specializing in new work. She has developed works with Melis Aker, Florencia Cuenca, Georgina Escobar, Jayne Deely, Eliana Pipes, Hansol Jung, Lina Patel, Brian Quijada, Tatiana Pandiani, and Jacinta Clusellas. As Literary Manager for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, she established the NMTC Incubator program alongside Alexander Gemignani. She has taught with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, the National Theater Institute, Connecticut College, and the Kennedy Center. Member of The Pack, the 2023 Kilroy’s Web and American Theatre Magazine's Role Call: People to Watch list. She is the Co-Artistic Director of the WildWind Performance Lab at Texas Tech University. @leuszler
Brian Quijada is an Emmy-nominated playwright, actor, and composer. Upcoming: Mexodus (Berkley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Mosaic). Recent acting credits: Wolf Play (MCC), Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout), Oedipus El Rey (The Public), My Mañana Comes (Playwrights Realm), How We Got On and Airness (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV: Law & Order SVU, Blue Bloods, Manhattan Love Story, Search Party. As a writer, his plays include Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Victory Gardens, Teatro Vista, Ensemble Studio Theatre), Kid Prince and Pablo (Kennedy Center), Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, TeatroVista). Brian is a four-time Jeff Award Winner, a three-time Drama Desk nominee, and the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @mrbrianquijada
Shannon Tyo, Actor, Broadway: Yellow Face. Off-Broadway: The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre), Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons), The Far Country (Atlantic Theater, Pulitzer finalist), peerless (Primary Stages), The Chinese Lady (Ma-Yi Theater at The Public), Kentucky (Ensemble Studio Theater), and Bikeman (Tribeca PAC). Select regional credits include The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), The White Snake (The Old Globe), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage), Smart People (Geva Theatre), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage, Tuacahn Center), and Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre, MT Wichita). She specializes in new works and has helped develop countless new plays and musicals in New York and around the country. Shannon has received two Obie Awards (Sustained Achievement in Performance, and a Special Citation for the cast of The Comeuppance), a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play (for The Chinese Lady), a Theater World Award, the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, a Bessie nomination, and a Drama Desk nomination.
As an audiobook narrator, Shannon has narrated dozens of books and is an Earphones and SOVAS Award winner, and an Audie finalist. She has directed for the Adirondack Theatre Festival, Ma-Yi Theater Company, the American Playwriting Foundation, and Theater J in DC. Her one-act play, Younger Battles the Possible Ghost, was produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre and is published in the 2023/2024 TRW Short Plays collection.
Nicole Villamil, Actor. Romeo and Juliet (A.R.T),: Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), Wolf Play (MCC Theatre), Wolf Play (Soho Rep), How to load a Musket (59E59), Network (Broadway), Queens (LCT3), Lessons in Survival (Vineyard Theatre -Online Series), MUD (Boundless Theatre), Shakespeare’s R&J (Hangar Theatre), De Profundis (PlayMakers Rep), Tell me I’m not Crazy, The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Hunchback of Seville, The Love of the Nightingale (Trinity Repertory Co.); TELEVISION: New Amsterdam, The Last OG; [Edu] M.F.A., Brown/Trinity Repertory Co.; B.A., University of Pennsylvania. She is the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @nicoleavillamil
Mitchell Winter, Actor. Theater credits include: Hamlet (dir. Kenny Leon, Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park), Wolf Play (dir. Dustin Wills, MCC & Soho Rep)(Lortel Award for Best Ensemble), Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. David Auburn, Berkshire Theatre Group), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), Redemption Story (ART/NY), A Winter’s Tale, A Doctor In Spite of Himself, American Night (Yale Rep), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), Miss Saigon (Australian National Tour), Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company), Normativity (NYMF), Die Fledermaus (Australian Opera Studio) and Joseph… Dreamcoat (Really Useful). Film/TV credits include: Mr. Robot (USA Network), Oh Jerome No (FX), If Not Love (official Sundance selection). MFA: Yale School of Drama. He is the recipient of 2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Ensemble for Wolf Play. @mitchellwinter
Amelia Workman is an actress, singer and writer. She's originated many groundbreaking roles in the American theatre, and helped reimagine several rarely seen theatrical masterpieces with award-winning playwrights and Tony-winning directors. She has worked with Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, David Cromer, Kenny Leon, Liesl Tommy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Young Jean Lee, Leslye Headland, Dave Malloy, Annie Kauffman, Neil Pepe, Leigh Silverman, David Adjmi, and Eisa Davis (selected). She's worked at Second Stage, The Public, Lincoln Center, Soho Rep, Yale Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Atlantic, Signature Theatre, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The Goodman, Julliard and Theatre for a New Audience (selected). Her Broadway debut was as Kerry Washington’s understudy in American Son. Amelia was a recurring cast member on American Rust (Amazon) and can be seen in Sundance winner A Thousand and One. For more information visit ameliaworkman.com
Additional Founding Members:
Dustin Wills, was recently described by the Obie Award Committee as having an “ability to navigate chaos with precision,” and that about sums it up. Recent productions include Tennessee Williams’ sprawling Camino Real at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Counterfeit Opera and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Little Island (Best Theater of 2024, New York Magazine), Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Production), and John J. Caswell Jr.’s Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons/MCC). Dustin has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a 2023 Obie Award winner, Princess Grace Award recipient, and Baryshnikov Center Artist Resident 2018. He teaches in the Directing and Playwriting programs at the David Geffen School.