David Garelik
DAVID GARELIK (Nathan) Select TV/Film: “Power Book 2: Ghost” (STARZ), “FBI” (CBS), “FBI: MOST WANTED” (CBS), “The Blacklist” (CBS), “Dear White People” (Netflix), “MacGyver” (CBS), “Madam Secretary” (CBS), Trey Edward Shults’ Waves (A24), Peter Berg’s Mile 22 (STX), Zoey Cassavetes’ Junior (Blackpill), and a lead role in Daniel Byers’ upcoming film Paradise. Theater: u/s LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (The Geffen), THE GOOD MUSLIM (Ensemble Studio Theater). Love to my family, my teachers, and those that have believed in me/helped me memorize lines over the years. Thrilled to be here with WP Theater and Colt Coeur. Socials: @DavidGarelik
Malika Samuel
MALIKA SAMUEL (Melody) who starred in WP Theater’s Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, is an interdisciplinary storyteller and teaching artist, presently faculty at her alma mater NYU Tisch. Additionally, she applies her creative experiences and professional skills towards developing curricular interventions across the medical/healthcare education/practice continuum. Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (OBC), The Music Man NY Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Double Feature Plays), Bernarda’s Daughters (TNG/TNBT and TNG/Audible Theater), Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Keen), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP) TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, EVIL, Orange Is the New Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Chicago P.D., Law & Order: SVU, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, The Big C Hosting: Nick Studio 10, 2013 Kids’ Choice Awards Pre- Show, Kidz Bop Kidz Star USA Film: Holiday Rush, Submission, Central Park, Hello Apartment, Kilimanjaro Directing: in lucem: a devised piece (Tisch Drama Stages), The Wolves, Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes, The House of Bernarda Alba (NYU MSNR), Bloom Bloom Pow ( A.R.T/NY Theaters, movement direction) XOXO to family, friends, Paradigm and A3!
Eliana Pipes
Eliana Pipes (Playwright) is a writer, filmmaker and actor based in her hometown of Los Angeles. Her plays include Dream Hou$e (world premiere co-production Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage, published by Concord Samuel French); Hoops (world premiere commission Milwaukee Chamber Theater); and Bite Me (world premiere WP Theater). She holds commissions from Two River Theater and South Coast Repertory. Her work has been developed or presented at the New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, Playwright’s Realm Scratchpad Series, South Coast Repertory Pacific Playwright’s Festival, NNPN National New Play Showcase, Kennedy Center NNPN MFA Playwright’s Workshop, Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival, Fire This Time Festival, and Drama League DirectorFest. Her writing awards include the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Alliance Kendeda Prize, Leah Ryan Prize, KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, National Latine Playwrights Award, and Dr. Floyd Gaffney Award. As a filmmaker she’s been awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women through AMPAS, the WAVE Grant and Outfest x Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant. BA English Columbia University, MFA Playwriting Boston University. www.elianapipes.com.
Rebecca Martínez
Rebecca Martínez (Director) is a multidisciplinary director, the Cohort Collaborations Director for One Nation/One Project and the former BOLD Associate Artistic Director at WP Theater. Recent projects: a musical adaptation of The Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit), Sancocho (WP Theater), Living and Breathing (Two River), Los Complicados (EST Marathon), Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle (Egg & Spoon Collective), Songs About Trains (Working Theater and Radical Evolution), Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage and Geva Theatre). Rebecca has developed new work with The Public Theater, Amas Musical Theater, the O’Neill, Latinx Playwrights Circle, the Sol Project, NAMT, INTAR, Working Theater, The Playwrights Realm, among others. Affiliations: Sojourn Theatre Ensemble, 2021 TCG Rising Leaders of Color; Sol Project Collective, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, New Georges Affiliated Artist, WP Theater Directors Lab, Drama League Directing Fellow, member of SDC. Awards: Colorado Henry Award for Directing; four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards; Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists. Rebecca is originally from Colorado with deep ancestral roots in the Southwest. rebeccamartinez.org
Chika Shimizu
Chika Shimizu (Scenic Design) is a New York based scenic designer. REGIONAL: RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), Pacific Overtures (Signature Theatre, DC), The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep), Sanctuary City (Pasadena Playhouse), Somewhere (Geva Theatre), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), Vietgone, Tiger Style! (TheatreSquared), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Rep, CT Critics Circle Award Nom). OFF-BROADWAY: Belfast Girls (Irish Rep), The Naturalists (The Pond Theatre Company, Soho Rep), The Winning Side (Epic Theatre Ensemble, Theatre Row), Awake (The Barrow Group), Romulus The Great (Yangtze Repertory Theatre). INSTALLATION: Another Dream, Un(re)solved AR installation (Ado Ato Pictures, 2022 SXSW Innovation Award, Emmy Award, Currently On Tour). MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama. chikashimizu.com
Sarita Fellows
Sarita Fellows (Costume Design), born in Freetown Sierra Leone, her more recent works include projects such as Death of a Salesman, Broadway; Drinking in America, Audible Minetta Lane Theater; Theater of the Mind, Denver Center of Performing Arts; Elyria, Atlantic Theater Co; A Midsummer’s Night Dream at Portland Center Stage, Blues for An Alabama Sky and Sweat, Guthrie theater; Joy and Pandemic, and Our Daughters Like Pillars, Huntington Theater; Seize The King, Alliance Theater; A Bright Room Called Day, Public Theater; Fefu and Her Friends, American Conservatory Theater. In the dance world, Sarita has worked with choreographers such as Liz Lerman, and Edisa Weeks. MFA in design from Tisch School of Design. Sarita also instructs at the University of Connecticut and Princeton. Recent awards include; Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design (The National Black Theater Festival 2022). Lily Award (2020)
Lucrecia Briceno
Lucrecia Briceno (Lighting Design) is a Peruvian artist currently based in Brooklyn. Much of her work has been in association with artists developing innovative and original pieces. Her work includes theatre, opera, puppetry & dance, as well as collaborations in several non-performance projects. Her designs have been presented at such venues as Spoleto USA, The Public Theater, Oxford Playhouse (UK), Arena Stage, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dallas Theatre Center, WP, BAM (Fischer), Kennedy Center, Atlas Performing Arts (DC), Berlind Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, La Mama ETC, Birmingham Repertory (UK), Pregones Theatre/PRTT, Intar, HERE Arts Center, Soho Rep, Ohio Theatre, Irondale Center, among many others. She is a co-artistic director of Anonymous Ensemble, associate artist with The Civilians, and resident designer with Pregones Theatre/PRTT and La Micro; she has also been a guest artist/lecturer at NYU, Princeton University, Hunter College, the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and JMU. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Member of 829
Tosin Olufolabi
Tosin Olufolabi (Sound Design) (she/her) is a sound designer and deviser. Her sound designs include Ain’t No Mo (Woolly Mammoth/Baltimore Center Stage); Sense & Sensibility (The Village); Fires in the Mirror (Theater J); Crying on Television, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery & The Sound Inside (Everyman Theater); Incendiary, There’s Always the Hudson, Hi, Are You Single?, Gloria* (Woolly Mammoth); it’s not a trip it’s a journey, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Round House Theatre); The Great Khan (San Diego Rep); The Thanksgiving Play (Olney Theatre Center); In the Middle of the Fields (Solas Nua); A Wind in the Door (Kennedy Center TYA); Distance Frequencies (Rorschach Theatre); Loveday Brooke in the Mystery of the Drawn Daggers & Lovers’ Vows (We Happy Few); Head Over Heels (Monumental Theater); My Barking Dog (Edge of the Universe Players 2); Peepshow (dog & pony dc); Lela & Co. (Factory 449). Assistant design credits include Plays for the Plague Year (Joe’s Pub); Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Kennedy Center TYA); Still Life with Rocket (Theater Alliance); and Proof (Olney Theatre Center). *Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Sound Design for a Hayes Production
Ashley Wise
Ashley Wise is a Wig Hair Designer, native New Yorker from The Bronx, who recently made her Broadway design debut on Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. Ashley earned her Master of Fine Arts for Wig Design & Makeup design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts after also completing the Juilliard Apprentice Program for wigs. She’s toured the country as wig and makeup Supervisor on the Hamilton tour and has made a career working on many other opera and theater productions. She also served as Hair Design Associate on shows including KPOP, 1776, Disney’s Hercules, and Once Upon a One more Time!
Judi Lewis-Ockler
Judi Lewis-Ockler (Fight and Intimacy Director) has collaborated with Classic Stage Company (Snow in Midsummer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of No Importance), Signature Theater (Hot Wing King,One in Two,Jasper), WP theater/Second Stage (Hatef**k, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord), Cherry Lane Theater (This Beautiful Future), New World Stages (Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors!, MsTrial), The Mint Theater (The Rat Trap, US premiere) Bedlam Theater Company (Persuasion), TOSOS (Bar Dykes, Rock the Line) and Williamstown Theater Festival (A Raisin in the Sun, A Human Being,of a Sort, directed by Robert O’Hara; Whitney White). Intimacy Coordinator tv/film credits include Out of the Blue, directed by Neil La Bute; Plan B, with Jamie Lee and John Heder, Up Here (Hulu). She teaches and directs intimacy and violence in performance at NYU Tisch, National Theater Institute, Atlantic Theater School, AMDA, and Sarah Lawrence College. Judilewisockler.com
Caren Celine Morris
Caren Celine Morris (Production Stage Manager) (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist from The Bronx. She aims to promote inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in all of her projects. Caren has worked on projects with The Tank, The Shed, Ping Chong & Company, HERE Arts Center, Audible @ Minetta Lane Theatre, NYC Civic Engagement Commission, The Public, and The Bushwick Starr.
Siobhan Petersen
Siobhan Petersen (Assistant Stage Manager) (They/He) is a Brooklyn based stage manager. Their past credits include One Drop Cool (Moxie Productions), The Legend of the Chalk Circle (Tier 5 Theatre Company) and Twelfth Night (EMIT Theatre). He’d like to thank his parents for being pillars of support in his life, and always pushing him to do what he loves.
Addison Heeren
Addison Heeren (Properties Supervisor) is a NYC based prop supervisor. Some recent credits include (Broadway): Almost Famous (Asst. Props), Freestyle Love Supreme, Flying Over Sunset, Pass Over. (Off-Broadway): Monsoon Wedding (St. Ann’s), Sancocho (WP Theater), Fiddler Afn Dakh (Directed by Joel Grey), A Clockwork Orange (NWS), A Room of My Own (Abingdon), Pericles (Public). Instagram: @propstitutenyc
