Roshni Lavelle (she/her) is an arts administrator, curator, and creative producer currently working as a Line Producer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she primarily focuses on the annual free and choose-what-you-pay summer festival, Summer for the City. She proudly supported the reopening of David Geffen Hall, and has led collaborations with organizations such as GlobalFEST, the Bushwick Starr, and Deaf Broadway. She is passionate about cultivating and presenting works that reveal new ideas, generate empathy and joy, and encourage audiences to reflect on their roles within the worlds they inhabit. In her current role, she strives to create community-driven spaces where people can gather, believing that we find our purpose through conversation with others. A proud Chicago native, she holds a BFA in Drama and English from New York University and an MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College.
Mikhaela Mahony is a Brooklyn-based director working at the intersection of theatre, film, and opera. She is a frequent collaborator with Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Obie-Award winning EST/Youngblood, and has developed work with New York City Opera, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, The Syndicate, The Lobbyists, City Lyric Opera, the Chautauqua Institution, Bard College, and Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts. Summer, Mikhaela’s debut as a film director, was an official selection at the Buffalo International Film Festival, Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, and FilmColumbia. She is the Director of Opera at Rutgers University, and serves on the faculty of Mannes School of Music at The New School. As an associate, Mikhaela regularly works alongside artists such as Lileana Blain-Cruz, Daniel Fish, and Anne Bogart. Mikhaela is a proud volunteer artist with The 52nd Street Project. MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, BA from Barnard College. Mikhaela is a proud volunteer artist with The 52nd Street Project.
Skye Pagon (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based producer, director, performer, and arts administrator. She received her BFA in Drama from New York University, where she first fell in love with classical theater and telling epically theatrical stories in curious and intimate spaces. She is a resident producer for the actor-lead company, Atomi Theatre Collective, and has produced shows and events at Lincoln Center, the Tada! Youth Theater, and Hedgepig Ensemble. As a director, she has worked at NYU and with Hedgepig Ensemble. She served as a founding Curator for Expand the Canon, an annual shortlist of classical plays aimed at expanding gender diversity in the classical theater canon and championing underproduced works from a multiplicity of global theatrical traditions. She currently works on the Programming team at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Mukta Phatak is a playwright, actor and teaching artist based in New York City. Her writing has been produced/developed at the Children’s Theater of Charlotte, Ancram Opera House, The Workshop Theater, Trike Theatre and in devised works as part of Fringe festivals. She has also written extensively for children through her work with Mind Body Music NYC.
Mukta is a project-seeker and much of her work blossoms from the creative communities she cultivates. A proud daughter of Indian immigrants, her intersectional identities are at the core of her artistry. In her writing, acting and everyday life she strives to be a force for justice, learning, and play.
Lianna Rada-Hung is an arts administrator and producer born and raised in New York City. She received her B.A. in Dramatic Literature at NYU’s College of Arts and Science and is currently the Artistic Programs Manager at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Lianna serves as the Program Coordinator for the American Repertory Theater, a co-producer on the Broadway-bound Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth, and the co-founder and producer of the Episodic Theatre Project. Before her time at WTF, she was a Production Intern at Back Roads Entertainment, Sesame Workshop, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. She has stage managed several theatrical productions, including the original musical Ships: A Musical Trilogy at The Tank and Soho Playhouse, several musicals as part of NYU’s Lamplighters, and the 2022 season of WTF’s Fridays@3 reading series.
Jordan Ramirez Puckett is a Chicanx writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Their plays include A Sapphic Family Christmas, Transitional Love Stories, Untitled Dad Play, Huelga, En Las Sombras, To Saints and Stars, A Driving Beat, Las Pajaritas, Restore, and Inevitable. These works have been produced and/or developed by Abingdon Theatre Company, Creede Repertory Theatre, Flint Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Intar Theatre, Playwrights Realm, San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, among others. Jordan was named a finalist for the 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize and is a 2024 graduate of the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott’s plays include BITING THE HAND (Florida Studio Theatre Commission, 2022), SHOEBOX PICNIC ROAD SIDE: ROUTE ONE (World Premiere at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Fall 2021), BABES IN HO-LLAND (2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, World Premiere at, Shotgun Players, Winter 2024), PARTICULARLY MEDDLESOME ANCESTORS (2022 Ingram New Works Festival, Nashville Rep) and BATON (2018 Premiere Stages Play Festival, Staged reading at Florida Studio Theatre’s 2022 Summer Reading Theatre, San Diego Rep’s 2021 Black Voices Reading Series). She contributed work to 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company’s Telephone Plays, True Colors’ 2022 Next Narrative Monologue Competition and The Billie Holiday Theatre’s 50in50: Shattering the Glass Ceiling. Deneen was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2019-2020 Early-Career Writers’ Group and participated in SPACE at Ryder Farm’s Family Residency in Summer 2022. She is a New Georges affiliated artist.
Amy Staats is a writer, actor, director, producer, and a 2018 Tow Playwright in Residence through the Atlantic Theater Company.
The world premiere of Amy’s play EDDIE AND DAVE had an extended run off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater and co-starred Amy in the role of ‘Eddie Van Halen.”
Her one-act play, THROWS OF LOVE, has received multiple productions and is the winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Other plays include BAT KITTY (The Momentum Festival); I HOPE SHE’LL BE OKAY (New Works Now) and HANDS (developed at ATC and SPACE at Ryder Farm). As an actor, Amy most recently performed the lead in the Broadway production of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY (u/s three performances). She is a resident artist at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and SPACE on Ryder farm (RIP), an affiliated artist with New Georges, and a semi-finalist at Sundance Theater Lab and The O’Neill Playwrights Festival. Her Russian spy/gymnastics dramedy DEFECTED is in development with Olivia Wingate (MO Studios) and Wren Arthur (Olive Productions).
Maia Safani (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based creative producer, education programs strategist, and arts administrator. Her work centers community, accessibility, and collaborative placemaking. She is a former member of Signature Theatre’s artistic team, where she created Signature’s inaugural education program and line produced various artistic productions and initiatives supporting Signature playwrights, including Quiara Alegría Hudes, Dominique Morisseau, and Sarah Ruhl. Prior to Signature, she worked on global programs at The Lark Play Development Center, where she helped produce convenings and staged readings of works by writers from Russia, Mexico, China, Romania, and the Middle East. Beyond theater, she has also produced live music events and supported film and visual arts initiatives. She is currently the Associate Director of Arts Administration at NYU Gallatin. Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
Danielle Stagger is a playwright and performer from Queens, NY. Her plays largely engage questions of performance, respectability, and shame through the exploration of the appropriate and the forbidden. She prioritizes the authentic presence of Blackness, queerness, and womanhood both on and off stage and, as an artist in practice, works to decentralize and destabilize the product-driven, linear theatrical process. Danielle is the inaugural recipient of the Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Fellowship, is a two-time Eugene O’Neill NPC Finalist, and was a nominee for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Danielle’s plays have been finalists for the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Ollie New Play Award, and the Lark’s Venturous Playwrights Fellowship. She has been commissioned by Second Stage Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club; she holds a B.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University and an MFA in Playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
Mary Bacon (Blue) Drama Desk Award for Patti in Coal Country, and Susan in Nothing Gold Can Stay, and her NYC theatre career. Broadway: Rock N Roll, Arcadia. Off-Broadway select credits: DIG, (Primary Stages), Coal Country, (Audible/The Public), Giant; (The Public), Harrison, TX, Roads to Home, Little Women, Happy Now? and Charles Busch’s The Tribute Artist; (Primary Stages), Days to Come, Women Without Men (Drama Desk/Lortel nominations, The Mint), Eccentricities of a Nightingale ( TACT). Recent regional: THE SCARLET LETTER (Two River),SWEAT (Guthrie). Film/TV and more at marybacon.net. Actors Center Member. For Andrew.
Sasha Diamond (Red) (she/her) New York: Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons & WP Theatre), Peerless (Primary Stages), Once Upon a (Korean) Time (Ma-Yi), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi & The Public), Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout), Significant Other (Broadway), Kentucky (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and others. Television credits include: Mystic Christmas (Hallmark), The Equalizer (CBS), Bull (CBS), New Amsterdam (NBC), NCIS: New Orleans (CBS), Magnum: PI (CBS), Tommy (CBS).
Amy Jo Jackson (Green) (they/she): WP Debut! NYC: Ensemble Studio Theater, Company XIV, Prospect, Red Bull, NY Shakespeare Exchange, Exit Pursued by a Bear. Fav Regional: Singin’ in the Rain (Weston), Fun Home (SpeakEasy Stage), Cabaret (Flat Rock), Little Mermaid (Arkansas Rep), Cymbeline (Opera House Arts), Film/TV: Dicks: The Musical (A24), High Maintenance, and the singing voice of a crab in Under the Boardwalk (Paramount). They won a 2022 Bistro Award for their acclaimed Tennessee Williams solo show The Brass Menagerie (official selection of the 2022 Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival and 2023 Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis). Her play You Know What They Say About Scorned Women was a 2024 winner of the Red Bull Short New Play Festival. Their original musical Hatchetation (@hatchetationthemusical) was a 2021 selection at the O’Neill (NMTC) and the 2023 Kilroy’s List/Web. She was a finalist for the 2022 Larson Grant and is the recipient of a 2023 EST/Sloan Commission. Their work as a nightlife artist has found them on just about every cabaret and comedy stage in NYC, with solo engagements at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, the Green Room 42 and the Duplex. This one’s for Jeff and the fam.
Richard Masur (My Dad) Here is a sampling of his 52 year career: Broadway: Prayer For The French Republic, Lucky Guy, Democracy, and The Changing Room; Off-Broadway (partial): Sarah, Sarah, The Ruby Sunrise, Fetch Clay, Make Man, Relevance, The Net Will Appear. He has appeared in over 60 feature films, including Who’ll Stop the Rain; The Thing; Heartburn; Risky Business; Under Fire; My Girl; License to Drive; Another Year Together; Before, During and After; and Hudson. TV series (partial) – The Girls on the Bus, Kaleidoscope, Transparent, Younger, Girls, Bull, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Orange Is the New Black, Red Oaks, MASH, One Day at a Time. Over 40 TV movies including – Fallen Angel, Adam, The Burning Bed (Emmy Nomination), It, And The Band Played On, and 61*. He was most recently seen on the HBO Max series The Girls On The Bus. Former National President, VP and Board Member of Screen Actors Guild & National Board Member of SAG-AFTRA. For a full list of his credits go to imdb.com.
Lakisha May (Me) (she/her) Broadway: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Skeleton Crew (Manhattan Theatre Club); Off-Broadway: Everybody, In The Blood (Signature Theatre Company), Sojourners (NYTW, Playwright’s Realm), The Miser (Moliere in the Park); Regional Theater: La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Alliance Theater, Arden Theatre, Marin Theater Company, and others. Film & TV: Historias del Canal, City on a Hill, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, Forever, Blue Bloods and others. Education: MFA, The American Conservatory Theater. BA, Spelman College. Lakisha creates her own work and has produced projects with Nikyatu Jusu, Rashad Frett, Saheem Ali, Monkeypaw Productions, and others. kishamay.com @kisha_may
Constance Shulman (Another Woman): Recent: Summerworks/Winterworks at Clubbed Thumb (Find Me Here/Chairs), The Best We Could, Manhattan Theater Club, Shhhh, Atlantic Theater Company, The Rose Tattoo, Roundabout, Broadway, Bobbie Clearly, Roundabout Underground (Drama Desk Nomination). TV: The Curse, SHO; Orange Is The New Black (three time SAG award for Best Ensemble in a comedy series), DOUG, animated series Nickelodeon/Disney. Film: From Fried Green Tomatoes to Strawberry Mansion.
Mathilde Dratwa (Playwright) is a Belgian playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn. Her plays include Dirty Laundry (world premiere WP), which was commissioned and released as an audio play by Audible, for which she won the Henley Rose Award; Milk & Gall (world premiere Theatre503, London, published by Nick Hern Books); A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein; and Esther Perel Ruined My Life. Her work has been presented by the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Roundabout Theatre Company, Rattlestick, Berkshire Theatre Group, American Players Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company, the Cape Cod Theater Project, and in London at the Young Vic. Mathilde is an inaugural Powers Playwriting Fellow at the Old Globe, an Affiliated Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, and was recently a member of the Orchard Project’s Greenhouse, a Dramatist Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellow and a member of New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Program. She also writes for film and television; she has developed content for Netflix, FX, Chernin Entertainment, LuckyChap, Endeavor, Dirty Films, Red Wagon, Sony/TriStar and Wiip.
Rebecca Martinez (Director) (she/her) is a multidisciplinary director and the Cohort Collaborations Director for One Nation/One Project. Recent projects: Bite Me (WP Theater / Colt Coeur), It Happened in Key West (Fulton Theatre), 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 co-adapted and directed the 2023 & 2024 touring bilingual musical production of The Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit, Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Adaptation). She 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: Member of the Obie Award winning Sol Project Collective, Co-facilitator of the WP Directors Lab, 2021 TCG Rising Leaders of Color, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, New Georges Affiliated Artist, 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 ancestral roots in the Southwest and Bohemia. rebeccamartinez.org
Raul Abrego (Set Designer) is a set designer for Opera, Theater and Television. His work has been seen at The Juilliard Opera Center, The Manhattan School of Music, The Spoleto Opera Festival in Italy, The Rattlestick, Cherry Lane Theater and Intar. Noted Recent projects: Adamandi for Princeton University, book and lyrics by Mel Hornyak and Elliot Valentine Lee Directed by Georgina Escobar, Ain’t Misbehavin’ for Barrington Stage and Geva Theater Center, directed by Jeffrey Page. The Brobot Johnson Experience by Darian Dauchan at The Bushwick Starr, Living and Breathing by Mando Alvarado Directed by Rebecca Martinez for Two River Theater, How to Melt Ice by Amalia Oliva Rojas for Boundless Theater Company and New Perspectives directed by Elena Araoz. Assistant Art Director credits for Television include: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 & 4, Ghost (Power Book 2) and John Wick, Art Director for Falling Water (pilot), The Outcasts (film) and Production Designer for 2009 film Cruzando.
Lux Haac (Costume Designer) Broadway: The Thanksgiving Play. Off-Broadway/New York: Manahatta, Mobile Unit: The Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater); Between Two Knees, Number Our Days: A Photographic Oratorio (PAC NYC); On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages/59E59); 53% Of (Second Stage Uptown); Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution/Working Theater/New Ohio Theatre); Giizhibaa Giizhig | Revolving Sky (Incoming! Under the Radar/The Public Theater); Eureka Day (Colt Coeur/Walkerspace); Ajijaak on Turtle Island (IBEX Puppetry/New Victory Theater); R + J (Hypokrit NYC/Access Theater); ¡Figaro! (90210) (The Duke on 42nd Street). Regional: For the People (Guthrie Theater); The Wizard of Oz (Geva Theatre); Between Two Knees (OSF, Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre Center, Seattle Rep); Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage, Syracuse Stage); LEAR (Cal Shakes); Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse, TheatreSquared); Yoga Play, Ragtime (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company); Kamloopa (WAM Theatre); I and You, Annapurna (Syracuse Stage); Hear Me Say My Name (Discovery Theater/NMAI); Native Gardens (Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, Portland Center Stage). Upcoming: Dial M For Murder (Syracuse Stage). luxhaac.com @luxhaac
Tosin Olufolabi (Sound Design) (she/her) is a sound designer, deviser, facilitator, and performer who received her education at the University of Richmond. After internships at two regional theaters, Berkshire Theatre Group, and Barrington Stage Company, she began professionally designing at SPARC, a children’s theater in Richmond VA. After graduating, she performed and sound designed at Raleigh Little Theatre in Stick Fly and dog & pony dc’s Beertown and later joined dog & pony dc as a company member. Then she was selected as the 2016 – 2017 sound apprentice for Olney Theatre Center where she assistant designed Proof. Since becoming a freelance artist her work includes NYC: Stargazers (Page 73); Bite Me (WP Theater). REGIONAL: The Thanksgiving Play (Steppenwolf Theatre); Gloria (2018 Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Sound Design for a Hayes Production); There’s Always the Hudson and Hi, Are You Single?; Incendiary; The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (Woolly Mammoth); Ain’t No Mo (Woolly Mammoth/Baltimore Center Stage); Life is a Dream (Baltimore Center Stage); Crying on Television, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Sound Inside, The Chinese Lady, Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Everyman Theater); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; it’s not a trip it’s a journey (Round House Theatre); Sense & Sensibility (The Village); Moses, Fires in the Mirror (Theater J); The Thanksgiving Play (Olney Theatre Center); A Wind in the Door (Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences). OTHER: Lovers’ Vows (We Happy Few); My Barking Dog (Edge of the Universe Players 2); She Sings Light, Hatpin Panic, & Shakespeare’s Worst (Capital Fringe); Ties That Bind, Caucasian Chalk Circle, & Antigone (Catholic University); God is Dead & April is Getting Married (Three Muses); Peepshow (dog & pony dc); Abortion Road Trip, & Soldier Poet (Theatre Prometheus); Lela & Co. (Factory 449); Blacktop Sky (York College). Assistant design credits include Sally and Tom, Manahatta, & Plays of the Plague Year (The Public); Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Kennedy Center TYA); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest & Baggage (Gallaudet University); Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth, Thumbelina, Anatole & Davy Copperfield (Imagination Stage); Still Life with Rocket (Theater Alliance); and Proof (Olney Theatre Center). Most of her experience as a performer was in devised shows, such as Peepshow & DISCOVERED! (dog and pony dc), and Treasure Island (We Happy Few). Furthermore, she has designed two short films, Midheaven, an art film about life in Atlanta, and Silver Bullet, a dreamy animation.
Brittany Hartman (Hair Design) (she/her/hers) is currently the wig shop manager for Saturday Night Live and NBC studios. Film: Fire Island (Key Hairstylist, Hulu). Broadway: The Thanksgiving Play. Regional: DiscoShow (Speigelworld, Vegas), Rent (Papermill), Camp Siegfried (Second Stage), Wizard of Oz (GeVa), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company), Ragtime, Secret Garden, The Wiz, Singin’ in the Rain (Broadway Music Circus), Gypsy (Theatre Aspen), A Christmas Carol, La Dispute, Macbeth (Hartford Stage). Broadway (selected associate design credits): Jagged Little Pill, Frankie and Johnny… (2019 revival), Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard (2017 revival), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Of Mice and Men (2014 revival), Violet.
Judi Lewis Ockler (Intimacy Director) has had the privilege of collaboration 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/Colt Coeur (Hatef**k, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Bite Me), Cherry Lane Theater (This Beautiful Future), New World Stages (Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors!, MsTrial), Theater Row (Inheritance of a Long Term Fault, w/Clutch Productions),The Mint Theater (The Rat Trap, US premiere) The Connelly Theater (Persuasion, w/Bedlam; Stargazers, w/Page 73),The Flea Theater, w/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, The New School, and Sarah Lawrence College. judilewisockler.com
Fran Acuña-Almiron (Production Stage Manager) New York based Stage Manager who has worked with various companies around the city and has worked internationally as a Company Manager for One Year Lease Theater’s Summer Program. She is thrilled to be working with WP Theater for the first time on this amazing production! Endless thanks to Christian who makes it possible for her to continue doing what she loves.
Celina Revollar (Assistant Stage Manager) is a proud Dominican and Peruvian stage manager from New Jersey. She is a graduate from Montclair State University with BFA in Theatrical Production focused in Stage Management. Recent credits include Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella (Broadway), Death Becomes Her (Broadway In Chicago), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (Off Broadway), Vámonos (Off Broadway), The Hours Are Feminine (Off-Broadway), In Corpo (Off Broadway) and developmental projects for 321 Theatrical and RCI Theatricals.
