Uma Incrocci has four writing credits on the Hallmark Channel: "Romance with a Twist," "Nature of Love," “Hats off to Love,” and "A Christmas Carousel.” Her play To Keep and Bear had a workshop at Cleveland Playhouse’s New Ground Theater Festival, and her short plays — including the published shorts The Oyster, A Hot Brick and The Vault — have been performed all around the country. Her acting credits include Actors Theater of Louisville, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New Jersey Repertory, seven seasons at Connecticut Free Shakespeare, and TV appearances on “Modern Family,” "How To Get Away With Murder,” “Jane The Virgin,” and "Lipstick Jungle.” Uma was born in India, grew up in Italy, and is a graduate of Pomona College.
ERICA JENSEN - CO-CREATOR/CO-WRITER
Erica Jensen is a casting director at and co-owner of Calleri Jensen Davis. Her 20-year plus career with partners James Calleri and Paul Davis spans film, television, regional, off Broadway and Broadway theater. Casting credits include Yale Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick Theater, City Theater, McCarter Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre, Hartford Stage, LaJolla Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and The Flea Theater. B’way credits include Purpose (Tony Winner); Topdog/Underdog (Tony Winner); For Colored Girls…, Thoughts of A Colored Man, and The Piano Lesson. Past B’way credits: Fool For Love, Hughie, A Raisin In The Sun, Of Mice and Men, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. TV credits include Queens, Love Life, Dickinson, Lipstick Jungle, and The Path.
Erica is also a playwright. Her play Black Friends was selected for Fault Line Theatre’s Irons In the Fire in 2025. She is a marathon runner, co-owner of She-Collective, and on the board of The Make Good Project. And she is a proud mom of a teenager.
KIRK McGEE - CO-CREATOR/CO-WRITER
Kirk McGee is an award-winning actor and playwright with a background in clowning, whose career spans theater, film, and television, creating funny, loose-limbed theatrical performances that speak to the survival of the human spirit. McGee acting credits include various off-Broadway, Regional, and NYC productions (Philly Shakespeare, StageWorks Hudson Theater, Cherry Lane Theater). He is also a former company member of the American Mime Theater. His TV appearances include Are We There Yet? (recurring), Law & Order, and Sesame Street. McGee received nominations for his work in the title role of the romantic comedic film Chasing Taste (Amazon) at the Idyllwild International Film Festival (Best Actor) and at VisionFest (Jack Nance Breakthrough Performance Award.)
Recently, McGee has been touring his one man show, The Honorable Herbert Peabody, (dir. Corey Atkins) for which he was awarded a performance grant from the Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation and won "Best One Man Show" at the United Solo Festival NYC in 2026. He is a proud dad of an incredible teenage daughter.
CHRISTIAN PEDERSEN - COMPOSER
Christian is excited to lend his guitar playing and songwriting talents to Mother Eve! As an actor he made his Broadway debut opposite Audra McDonald in Ohio State Murders. Recent stage credits include the world premiere of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk at Yale Rep, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in San Francisco, the world premiere of Ken Ludwig's Moriarty at Cleveland Play House, and the National Tour of Moises Kaufman's Here There Are Blueberries. His TV credits include This Is Us, The Offer, Seal Team, Superstore, The Good Wife, and recurring roles on One Life To Live. When he's not acting in plays or strumming his guitar, Christian likes to solve crossword puzzles, explore old houses, play tennis, and ponder the fabric of the universe that unites us all.
ASHLEY WREN COLLINS - C0-CREATOR/CO-DEVELOPER/DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER
Ashley Wren Collins is a director, choreographer, producer, author and actor. Recently, Collins served as the Associate Director/Associate Choreographer to Gabriel Barre for the world premiere of two musicals, This is Not a Drill at The York Theatre and Reunions at City Center Stage II. She was the choreographer of the smash hit Foxy Ladies Love Boogie 70s Explosion in the Hollywood Fringe in Los Angeles. Upcoming: Associate Director/Associate Choreographer of a new musical based on Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield in fall 2026.
Collins produced the indie feature film, Chasing Taste, “Best Comedy” winner of the Burbank International Film Festival and Manhattan Film Festival and directed and co-produced the award-winning short film, i only miss you when i’m breathing. Her most recent book, She Wrote, He Wrote: A New York Love Story, was named “this summer’s must-read” by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Member: SDC, NYWIFT, SAG-AFTRA. BA, University of Pennsylvania. MFA, American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School IATT at Harvard University. Ashley lives in Washington Heights with her husband, Colombian-born classical guitarist Francisco Roldán, their daughter, Leopoldina, and chihuahua, Taco.