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
ZULEYMA GUEVARA (Caridad) is a NY based actress whose most recent stage credits include Somewhere by Matthew Lopez at Geva Theater, Carla in Grand Horizons at People’s Theater and this past spring was seen in the NYTimes pick of the week, Bruise and Thorn. Previous theater credits include the New Jersey premiere of Water by the Spoonful at Kean University, Columbia Stages La Paloma Prisoner and The Hour of The Star, the world premiere of Seven Spots on the Sun at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Working Theatre’s production of La Ruta. TV credits include “Sonia’s Choice”, “Legend of the 13 Suns”, “Gotham”, “FBI Most Wanted” as well as “Law and Order” and the CBS pilot “Limitless”. Film credits include New York State of Mind, Third Trinity, The Meal and the soon to be released Tumba del Mar.
SHIRLEY RUMIERK (Renata) is of Puerto Rican and Colombian descent will next be seen in Zack Braff’s film Good Person starring Morgan Freeman. She was series regular “Vanessa Suarez” on the NBC series “Rise” and appeared in HBO’s “Scenes from a Marriage”. She recurred as “Autumn Cox” on “Manifest” and as “Yolanda Carrion” in the Netflix series “Teenage Bounty Hunters” Shirley has guest-starred on “Chicago PD”, “New Amsterdam”, “East New York” and “Power”. She starred in the independent film 11:55 and can be seen in David Frankel’s feature Collateral Beauty. Shirley is a board member and alumna of The 52nd Street Project and Oliver Scholars. She is a graduate of Harvard University.
RAUL ABREGO (Scenic Design) 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.
HARRY NADAL (Costume Design) Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. NEW YORK: Lincoln Center Institute, Atlantic Theater Co., Brooklyn Academy of Music, Juilliard, Intar, Labyrinth Theater Co., Pregones/PRTT, Boundless Theater, HERE Arts Center and Theater for the New City among others. REGIONAL: Arena Stage (Washington, DC), Chicago Opera Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford, Des Moines Metro Opera, Zach Theatre (Austin, TX), George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, NJ), UrbanArias (Arlington, VA), Baltimore Center Stage, Boise Contemporary Theater, People’s Light Theater (Malvern, PA), Open Stage (Harrisburg, PA), Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble and Danza del Alma (Cuba) among many. Faculty member at Pratt Institute’s Film School. MFA: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. WEBSITE: harrynadal.com
MARÍA-CRISTINA FUSTÉ (Lighting Design) Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, Associate LD 2021 remount. Off Broadway: Songs About Trains (Working Theater/Radical Evolution); Fur, Mud, and The Conduct of Life (Boundless Theatre Company, NYC) Regional: Cleveland Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare, Bay Street Theater. American Mariachi (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare Co); Anna in the Tropics (Barrington Stage, MA); Airness (Geva Theatre Center, NY); Children of Eden (Aurora Theatre, GA); Sweat (People’s Light Theater, PA); In The Heights (Westport Country Playhouse, CT); The Heath (MRT, MA). Opera: Cecilia Valdés (Teatro Colón, Bogotá); Tosca, Bluebeard’s Castle, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, and L’Elisir d’Amore (Ópera de Puerto Rico, San Juan PR). Training: MFA in Lighting Design (NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts). Awards: Princess Grace Award 2018, Suzi Bass Award 2016/ 2017, Nomination 2019, HOLA Award 2022. MC is the Executive Artistic Director of Boundless Theatre Company: www.boundlesstheatre.org. Website: www.mcfuste.com
GERMÁN MARTÍNEZ (Sound Design) A proud son of immigrant parents, Germán Martínez is a Honduran-American NYC/NJ based Sound Designer. Germán is a Montclair State University alum (2018), and is the current Eastern Representative for the TSDCA (Theatrical Sound Designer and Composers Association). His work has been featured at: The Public, Theaterworks Hartford, Playhouse 46 ,Page 73, Williamstown Theatre Festival, MCC, American Repertory Theatre, Repertorio Español, GALA Hispanic, George Street Playhouse, Two River Theater, and Trinity Rep. Broadway credits include Associating on: Into The Woods. The Piano Lesson, and Ohio State Murders. As a designer, he seeks work that will uplift and support BIPOC, queer, and immigrant stories in innovative and beautiful ways. Germán calls this work, “art from the heart”. He invites any like-minded artists to collaborate. You can keep up with his work on Instagram: @GermanTheSoundDesigner.
The Latinx Playwrights Circle (LPC) is an artist-led development and production organization for Latinx(é) playwrights. Founded in 2017 by playwrights Guadalís Del Carmen and Oscar Cabrera with the mission to build a network of Latinx(é) playwrights nationwide in order to promote, develop and elevate their work while making their plays accessible to theater makers looking to find the next generation of American Storytellers. Its programs include Sunday Service, Fresh Draft Series, Greater Good Commision and Festival, Intensive Mentorship Program, LPC Community Nights and Page-to-Stage, whose inaugural production is Sancocho by Christin Eve Cato. In 2020 LPC received a residency at Kabayitos Theater, located in the Clemente Soto Velez Center where it produces a portion of their programming. In 2022 LPC was awarded a Creatives Rebuild New York Grant (CRNY) as well as the HOLA Award for Excellence in Theater.
For more information on Latinx Playwright Circle and its many programs please visit latinxplaywrights.com
LPC embraces the ever evolving landscape of Latinidad and the names used to describe this community, including Latiné, Latinx, Hispanic, and the next generation of names to come. Like language itself, this is an ever evolving name.
The Sol Project is a national theater initiative dedicated to amplifying the voices of Latiné playwrights by supporting, nurturing, and advocating for fully realized productions in NYC and beyond. Founded by Jacob G. Padrón and driven by an artistic collective, The Sol Project works in partnership with leading theaters to center Latiné dramatists and nurture a growing community of Latiné theater artists. With the writers we champion, The Sol Project aspires to create a bold, timeless, and kaleidoscopic body of work for the new American theater.
The Sol Project launched in 2016 with the world premiere of Alligator by Hilary Bettis in collaboration with New Georges, followed by the New York premieres of Seven Spots on the Sun by Martín Zimmerman (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) and Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro (The Public Theater). In the fall of 2018, The Sol Project collaborated with Yale Repertory Theatre to produce the world premiere of El Huracán by Charise Castro Smith and in early 2020 partnered with Baltimore Center Stage and The Playwrights Realm to produce the world premiere of Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz. In 2022, The Sol Project partnered with Soho Rep for the world premiere of Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members by Mara Vélez Meléndez. And in spring of 2023, The Sol Project will partner with MCC Theater for the world premiere of Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen, as well as WP Theater and Latinx Playwrights Circle for the world premiere of Sancocho by Christin Eve Cato. In addition to productions, The Sol Project advances its mission by producing a yearly new play festival, SolFest, in partnership with Pregones/Puerto Riacan Traveling Theater, while also supporting our community through readings, workshops, a podcast (SolTalk), and ongoing symposia.
The artistic collective includes Adriana Gaviria (Co-Artistic Director), Rebecca Martínez, David Mendizábal, Jacob G. Padrón (Co-Artistic Director), Julian Ramirez, and Laurie Woolery. Isabel Pask is the Producing Associate. Brian Herrera is the Resident Scholar. Stephanie Ybarra is the Resident Dramaturg. Our partners include Atlantic Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, LAByrinth Theater Company, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Magic Theatre, MCC Theater, New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, The Playwrights Realm, The Public Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Soho Rep, WP Theater, and Yale Repertory Theatre.
For more information visit: www.solproject.org
Amara (she/her/hers) is a generative artist & cultural dramaturg from Chicago. Her purpose is to show the humanity and divinity of Black women and connect underserved communities with experiences that mirror their own. Favorite Credits: “my dick is david duke” or The Sad Fat Negress Can’t Get a Date (Ars Nova- Star; Writer; Producer), This is Where We Go (MCC- Actor + Writer), NYT’s Critic Pick, Jillian Walker’s SKiNFoLK (Bushwick Starr- Assistant Producer). YouTube series, ‘Skinny & White’ Aren’t Character Traits. Resist, check your privilege, & then make some space. Ashé to the ancestors. All Power to all people.
Website: https://linktr.ee/ajbrady
CHRISTIN EVE CATO (Playwright) is a playwright and performing artist from the Bronx. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University and completed her BA in Political Science and Philosophy at Fordham University. Cato is also a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts. She is affiliated with NYC theater companies, Pregones/PRTT (ensemble member & former Resident Dramaturg), INTAR Theatre (UNIT 52 ensemble member), and the Latinx Playwrights Circle. Cato’s artistic style is expressed through Caribbean culture and the Afro-Latinx diaspora, honoring her Puerto Rican and Jamaican roots. Recent Off-Broadway productions include The Good Cop (DUAF 2022) . Recent productions include, Sancocho (Vision Latino Theatre Company/ Destinos, 5th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival); American Made (Samuel French OOB Festival/ NYC); and an audio play journey, The Mayor of Hell’s Kitchen Presents: A Time Traveling Journey Through NYC’s Wild West (The Parsnip Ship & Playwrights Horizons/ NYC). www.christinevecato.com
Jordana De La Cruz (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based stage director, curator, creative producer, and co-conspirator in the movement to spread Black & Brown joy. She concentrates on new work that questions what it means to be free and, more urgently, how we are helping each other achieve this freedom. Their practice aims to expand the concept of community and serve as inspiration for action, whether it be protest, rest as resistance, or artistic creation. Jordana is also the Co-Director of JACK, an award winning Brooklyn performance meets civic space, whose mission is to fuel experiments in arts and activism with adventurous artists and neighbors. She has served as a visiting faculty member at Fordham University and held producing, curating, and directing positions at Park Avenue Armory, INTAR Theatre, 52nd Street Project, Story Pirates, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Lark Play Development Center, Japan Society, Iati Theater, La Mama Experimental Group, and The New School.
(she/her) Raised in Atlanta GA and embedded in Charleston SC’s Lowcountry, Queen Esther uses her Southern roots as a touchstone to explore cultural mores in America. A graduate of The New School, she developed solo performance with PS 122, Dixon Place, Samuel Beckett Theater, The Royal Theater Company and the Public Theater, and held performance residences with George St. Theater, PS NBC at HERE and The Apollo Theater as well as an artist residency at Gettysburg National Military Park. Playlabs include Liberation Theater Company, Classical Theater of Harlem, New Perspectives Theater Company and American Theater Group. A 2018 TED Resident with a TED Talk about the roots of country and bluegrass, a 2022 Artist Fellow with the National Arts Club and a recipient of the 2022 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater, she is a proud member of The Recording Academy, Actor’s Equity, SAG/AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild.
Amina Henry (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Productions include: The Animals, Ducklings, Hunter John and Jane and The Johnsons (JACK), P.S. (Ars Nova), Little Rapes (The New Group/Long Island University), Troy (HERO Theatre), The Great Novel (New Light Theater), and Bully produced by Interrobang Theater, Clubbed Thumbs 2019 Winterworks, and SUNY Purchase, among other venues. Her work has been produced by/ developed by/presented at: The New Group, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, Page 73, Project Y Theatre, National Black Theater, Little Theater at Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Generator, The Brick, Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 2013 Black Swan Lab Series, Kitchen Dog Theater, The Brick, Brooklyn Public Library, the cell, and HERO Theatre. She has been a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group, Page73’s writers group, and the 2017-2018 Ars Nova writers group. She was a 2017-2018 recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Space Residency and is a 2018 recipient of a space residency at Dixon Place. She is a 2020 recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award. She is an affiliate artist of New Georges.
Onyekachi Iwu is a Nigerian-American director and playwright from Nashville, TN. Drawing from her Southern and Nigerian roots, Iwu’s work explores themes of love, sisterhood, violence, and transformation. Iwu’s most recent directing credits include: Assistant Director for Stereophonic, directed by Daniel Aukin at Playwrights Horizons. Assistant Director for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, directed by Anne Kauffman at Brooklyn Academy of Music and on Broadway. As a playwright, Iwu was an inaugural member of the American Theatre Group Playlab. She was a finalist for UCROSS +The Blank Theatre’s 2022 Future of Playwriting Prize, 2021 Crossroads Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative, and the 2020 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers. Her short play, Georgia Rose, was published in an anthology by Concord Theatricals in 2023.
Alverneq Lindsay (she/her) is a creative producer and performer from Brooklyn, NY. She is currently working as a Line Producer at The Public Theater (Richard III, A Raisin in the Sun). She has previously worked at Little Island and the New Victory Theater, curating artistic programs and providing developmental support for artists across various disciplines. She believes the arts have the ability to generate empathy and joy and strives to help increase arts access through her work as a producer and arts advocate. Alverneq uses her independent producing projects to curate spaces that build community through shared experiences and encourage emotional vulnerability.
Emma Orme (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based producer and performer with a focus on new theatrical work. She is currently the Producing Director of Hypokrit Productions, where she has produced & developed work with Sharbari Ahmed, Aya Aziz, Neal Gupta, Sathya Sridharan, and more. She has performed in and developed work at NYTW, The Public, Williamstown, LaMama, The Flea, Atlantic Theater, EST, Drama League, and more. Producing credits include: Circle Jerk Off-Broadway at The Connelly; Pleasure Machine, a podcast starring Starr Busby and made with Colt Coeur; Running, a short film starring Danny Pudi; Time Out Critics’ Pick Brief Chronicle: Books 6-8 by Agnes Borinsky; NYT Critics’ Pick Red Emma & The Mad Monk; NYT Critics’ Pick AGNES; and workshops of new plays by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Sunita Prasad, Gina Femia, Celeste Jennings, Justine Gelfman, Deborah Yarchun, and others. She has served as a video producer for The New York Times, the BOLD Associate Producer at Northern Stage, and the Artistic Producer of VoxLab. BA: Dartmouth College
Sami Pyne (she/her) is an NYC-based independent producer passionate about decluttering and demystifying the production process for creators. Curiosity is a huge component of Sami’s producing process and she’s at her happiest when grappling with something new. She’s had the pleasure of working with companies such as 600 Highwaymen, The Arts & Climate Initiative, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theatre Workshop, Aeon, The Martin E. Segal Center, Signature Theatre, The Play Company (PlayCo), Theatre Development Fund (TDF), and HERE Arts Center. Sami is currently the associate producer for ArKtype, one of the world’s leading supporters of new, experimental work under the direction of Thomas O. Kriegsmann. Sami is a proud member of the Creative & Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA) and holds a position on the operations committee. Graduate of the Columbia University Theatre Management & Producing MFA program, 2020. www.samipyne.com
Barbara Samuels (she/her) is a queer producer, organizer and lighting designer residing on unceded Wappinger and Munsee Lenape land. Barbara values a diversity of approaches and ideas in creating intimate and explosive environments for new plays, opera and dance, aiming to unearth the human condition and consciousness of our surroundings while destabilizing harmful power structures. Barbara is currently developing projects with Kedian Keohan and Becca Blackwell. She served as the General Manager of OBIE Award-winning 13P from 2008-2012, and as Producing Director of Morgan Gould and Friends from 2014-2018. Barbara holds a B.A. from Fordham University and an M.F.A in Lighting Design from NYU. Proud member of USA Local 829. New Georges Affiliated Artist. www.barbarasamuels.com.
Julia Sirna-Frest (she/her) is a performer, composer, director and teaching artist. She has performed at WP Theater (!), The Kitchen, NYTW, BAC, The Incubator, Hartford Stage, Wild Project, The Brooklyn Museum, La MaMa, Abrons Art Center, The New Museum, Mass MoCA, PS 122, Joe’s Pub, The Bushwick Starr and New Dramatists. Directing collaborations with playwright Zoë Geltman: Puffy Hair (The Tank), Sea Fraud (Dixon Place, The Brick), Lolly, Lolly, Lolly (Development at NACL, The Bushwick Starr and New Georges). As a founding member of the Obie winning theater company Half Straddle she has toured to France, Croatia, Portland and Philadelphia with Seagull (thinking of you), In the Pony Palace/Football and Ghost Rings. She composes with Shane Chapman and their work has been at Target Margin, Ars Nova, The Exponential Festival and The Fisher Center. Their first album will be released Jan 2023. She co-fronts Doll Parts, a Dolly Parton Cover Band.
Dina Vovsi (she/her) is a New York-based director and theatermaker. Recent projects include EXITS, an audio-theatrical journey through Fort Greene, supported by New Georges and the Brooklyn Arts Council, and Love is… [Kocham Cię], a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA collaboration with Pete McGuinness Senior Center. She has directed and developed new work with The Civilians, New Georges, Working Theater, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and more. Dina is a member of the 2022-23 Roundabout Directors Group, a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a Working Theater 5 Boroughs 1 City Initiative commission recipient. She was a 2021 Brooklyn Arts Council Grantee, a Robert Moss Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons, a member of The Civilians’ R&D Group, the recipient of an SDC Foundation Observership, a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, and a Mass MoCA Assets for Artists Grantee. As an associate/assistant director, Dina has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway, and regionally with Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Spoleto Festival USA, WP Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Ma-Yi, and more. www.dinavovsi.com
Else Went (they/she) is a Brooklyn based playwright and sound designer whose work often deals with the formation and continuance of outsider communities. Their work has been incubated in groups at The Public Theatre (EWG), Ars Nova (Play Group), WP (Trans Lab), Playwrights Realm (Fellow), and Bechdel Group (Resident Artist). Fellow at MacDowell, Stillwright, and Barn Arts. Commissions include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with MTC (An Oxford Man), Weston Playhouse (Mirror Game; short), and Parity Productions (Boxcar). Else’s plays have been finalists and semifinalists for the O’Neill, Princess Grace, ASC’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, and the Carlo Annoni Prize, among others. Her work has been previously developed with The Tank, International Shakespeare Center, Florida Studio Theatre, and The Brick. Else is the co-founder and playwright of The Renovationists, an artistic collective dedicated to queering traditional modes of theatre.
Else Went (they/she) is a Brooklyn based playwright and sound designer whose work often deals with the formation and continuance of outsider communities. Their work has been incubated in groups at The Public Theatre (EWG), Ars Nova (Play Group), WP (Trans Lab), Playwrights Realm (Fellow), and Bechdel Group (Resident Artist). Fellow at MacDowell, Stillwright, and Barn Arts. Commissions include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with MTC (An Oxford Man), Weston Playhouse (Mirror Game; short), and Parity Productions (Boxcar). Else’s plays have been finalists and semifinalists for the O’Neill, Princess Grace, ASC’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, and the Carlo Annoni Prize, among others. Her work has been previously developed with The Tank, International Shakespeare Center, Florida Studio Theatre, and The Brick. Else is the co-founder and playwright of The Renovationists, an artistic collective dedicated to queering traditional modes of theatre.
Praycious Wilson-Gay (she/her) is an arts administrator and creative producer. She received her B.F.A in Stage Management from Syracuse University and her M.F.A in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College. She is currently the Associate Director for The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit. She works from an anti-racist and decolonized praxis in all her projects and encourages artists to do the same. Amongst many other projects in her position, she launched a digital Hip-Hop vs. Shakespeare writing course for the incarcerated community amidst the pandemic. Praycious has years of experience in community organizing, event planning, stage management, theater management and producing. Recently, Praycious was an adjunct lecturer for the Performance Arts Management Master’s Program at Brooklyn College. She is also a Board Member of SpiritHouse South based in Durham, NC. Praycious specializes in working with communities to amplify the stories that matter to them.
