SOUND DESIGN (she/her) returns to WP Theater, having previously designed Hatef**k and the 2018 Pipeline Festival. She is a NYC-based Sound Designer and Audio Engineer with over 30 years of experience in Live Entertainment. Her Off-Broadway and Regional designs include work at Alliance Theatre, Asolo Rep, 5th Avenue Theatre Seattle, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Public Theater, and Seattle REP. She has extensive credits associate designing and engineering Broadway Shows and National Touring Companies. TV credits include audio engineering the NBC-Live! Productions of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz. Her work as a recording engineer was honored with a 2022 GRAMMY Nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album for Snapshots. She has lectured at Ithaca College, Princeton University, and University of Cincinnati. She holds degrees in music and audio engineering from Ithaca College and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Jlssound.com
PROJECTION/VIDEO DESIGN is a production designer, film & video maker and educator working in Live Music, Theater, Film & Video. For over a decade he has toured internationally as a video director & designer with multi-Grammy Award winning singer Lila Downs. As a film / video maker & cinematographer, he directs and creates visual material across a variety of mediums. Projects include work for composer Hans Zimmer, Production Design on José Rivera’s short film The Fall of a Sparrow, Executive Producer on award winning short film Early Light. He provided camera work for designer Peter Nigrini on Broadway’s MJ the Musical, Dear Evan Hansen and MCC’s Space Dogs of the Cosmodrome. Theater Design: Fandango for Butterflies and coyotes (La Jolla Playhouse), For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad; (Soho Rep), Addressless; (Rattlestick Theater), A Grave is Given Supper; (New Ohio Theater / Teatro Dallas), Definition; (Bushwick Starr) Art / Public Installations include: Sweet Crude Video Sculpture (Anna Kustera Gallery), As Above So Below (Dumbo Arts Festival) Upcoming: Public Obscenities; (Soho Rep). johnnymoreno.com IG/Twitter: @johnnymoreno
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER (she/her) NYC: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Greenwich House Theater), Jersey Boys (New World Stages), Pacific Overtures (Classic Stage); Oh, Hello (Cherry Lane); Straight (Theatre Row); By the Water (Manhattan Theatre Club); Pageant (Davenport Theater); Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova); The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (Play Company); Three Men on a Horse, Bedroom Farce (The Actors Company Theatre); Twelfth Night (Sonnet Repertory Theatre). REGIONAL: May We All (TPAC), Other World (DTC), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage Company), Gypsy! (starring Karen Ziemba, Sharon Playhouse), I Promised Myself to Live Faster, Twelfth Night, Zero Cost House (Pig Iron Theatre Co.); Guys and Dolls, Saving Aimee, Memphis! Hello, Dolly! (5th Avenue Theatre)
(WRITER, she/her) Award-winning playwright/actress, was chosen by Toni Morrison to adapt her novel Jazz. Her adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son which had its world premiere at Court Theatre has been seen across the country and premiered off-Broadway in 2019 at The Duke on 42nd Street (The Acting Company; AUDELCO Award for “Best Play”). She is currently developing multiple commercial theatre projects and is a former playwright-in-residence at the National Black Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, The Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, and New Victory LabWorks. She is the recipient of the 2020 NNPN annual commission, the Prince Prize 2019, and a Dramatists Guild Foundation Writers Alliance Grant 2018-19. Nambi’s newly formed production company, First Woman LLC, is currently producing a digital and national tour of Nambi’s young audiences’ play, Jabari Dreams of Freedom, directed by Daniel Carlton. Also an executive story editor in television, Nambi served as a writer on Showtime’s “The Chi”, “Our Kind of People” (Fox), and on an Apple Plus show, TBA. She is also in development with several other film and TV projects. www.nambikelley.com
(DIRECTOR, she/her) is a Dominican-American director and creative collaborator based in NYC, who specializes in the development of new work and aesthetic world building. Regardless of medium, she’s invested in generating rigorous images, in support of framing stories to their fullest potential. She’s developed work with Agnes Borinsky (A Song of Songs), Aziza Barnes (NANA), Daniella De Jesús (Mambo Sauce), Deaf West (“T“), PigPen Theatre Company (Phantom Folktales), Ellen Winter (This House Is your Home), and directed the world premiere of Jeremy O. Harris’ Black Exhibition at The Bushwick Starr. Machel is a 2022 Ars Nova Visionary Resident, and a 2020 Sundance Theater Lab Fellow. BFA-NYU
(PRODUCER, she/her) is a Nigerian-American creative producer, dramaturg, and company manager hailing from Brooklyn, NY. She is the Artistic Director of The Parsnip Ship, a radio-play series and platform amplifying underproduced playwrights via audio theater. In addition, she is the Director of Artistic Programs at Signature Theatre (NYC). She is a recipient of the Fulbright International Scholarship and Gilman International Scholarship (both to Italy) and the recipient of the 2019 Mark O’Donnell Prize. Iyvon is an Affiliate Dramaturg with Beehive Dramaturgy Studio. B.A. Brandeis University. M.A. Baruch College (CUNY) Arts Administration. @iamiyvon
Broadway: Originated the role of Mrs. Phelps in Matilda The Musical. International: Starred in the international tour of Battlefield and Le Costume, both directed by Peter Brook. Karen is a proud ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago. Chicago Theatre: extensive work at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre, as well as Writers’ Theatre and Next Theatre Company. Karen portrayed the role of Zelmare Roulette in Season 4 of the FX television series Fargo. She most recently appeared in SEVERANCE (Apple TV+.) Other television: The Get Down (Netflix), Chicago Fire (NBC), Chicago Med (NBC), Boss (STARZ!), Blue Bloods (CBS), Unforgettable (CBS).
is a Brazilian Multidisciplinary Theatre artist based in New York, with focus on set design, props and directing. Upcoming designer works: The Seagull and Ulisses by Elevator Repair Service; Eva Luna by Repertório Espanhol; Recent theatre credits Song of Songs (Bushwick Starr, dir. Machel Ross), 7 Minutes (Waterwell, dir. Mei Ann Teo); Wolf Play (Soho Rep, Ma-Yi Theater Company), Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr with Jeremy O. Harris dir. Machel Ross), Preparedness by Hillary Miller (Bushwick Starr), SKiNFoLK (Bushwick Starr & National Black Theatre), Addressless (Rattlestick Theatre), In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Theatre) and Lost & Found (The Tank + En Garde Arts & Downtown Alliance). Recent interactive live performance credits include The Sunset PICNIC (The Tank) and Carnavalize the Matter (TheatreLab). Patricia has also recently directed What Will Become of Kaaron? (The Tank) and her own work as a playwright A Song to Keep the Wolves Awake (The Tank)
is originally from the Coast Salish territory on so-called Vancouver Island, she works on a wide range of projects including dance, installation, music, and theatre. Select Recent Design Credits: Be More Chill (Area Stage Company, Miami), Polylogues (Colt Coeur), The Softstream (Digital Concert from Softee), PNEUMOTHERAPY (II) (Miles Greenberg at PERROTIN New York), HAEMOTHERAPY (1) (Miles Greenberg at Reena Spaulings), Black Exhibition (The Bushwick Starr), The Slow Room (PSNY), AGNES (59E59, Lesser America). Select Assistant/Associate Credits: Bonnaroo Site Lighting (David Weiner Design), Outside Lands Site Lighting (David Weiner Design), Mary (Kanye West at Lincoln Center), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwright’s Horizons), “Daddy” (New Group/Vineyard), The Good Swimmer (BAM), Drake-Boy Meets World (European Tour).
is a New York based interdisciplinary artist. (Select Sound Credits): David Cromer’s A Case for the Existence of God (Signature Theater), NY Times Critic’s Pick This Beautiful Future (TheaterLab), Yoga Play (PlayMakers Rep. Co.), PS (Ars Nova), Fly Away (Petzel Gallery), Preparedness, Black Exhibition (The Bushwick Starr), MTA Radio Plays (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Neptune (Dixon Place, Brooklyn Museum). Chris has serviced sound design for installations, devised works and theatrical productions in collaboration with National Black Theater, The Movement Theater Company, WP Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The TEAM, Trinity Rep, Theater for a New Audience, The Atlantic, and The Shed. Wingspace 2019-2020 Sound Design Fellow. www.darbassiedesign.com
(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, Derek Fordjour Studios, The Public, and The Bushwick Starr.
has an extensive career in international stage direction and theater education spanning over three decades. James recently made her debut as the first Black Intimacy Coordinator of Broadway for Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over. In addition to her Broadway credit, she served as Intimacy Director and Sensitivity Specialist® for the provocative Off-Broadway productions of Moises Kaufman’s Seven Deadly Sins by Tectonic Theatre Project, Seize the King produced by Classical Theatre of Harlem, Twilight Los Angeles:1992 at Signature Theater, F*cking A at Fordham University and most recently for Dominique Morisseau’s compelling play, Confederates also at Signature Theater.. On the West Coast, James provides consultation and intimacy coordination for the television and film industry most recently working with Rashida Jones, Mark Wahlberg, Issa Rae, Will Ferrell and Cynthia Enrivo. Her intimacy work has featured James as an expert voice for Theatre Communications Group, HowlRound, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, and Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab West. Her company, Intimacy Coordinators of Color, has partnerships with Adelphi University, New York University, Columbia University, American Conservatory Theater, Brown University, Trinity Repertory Theater and A.R.T./New York. James is in the second year of her studies as America’s first MFA in Performance Pedagogy with an emphasis in Afrocentric Intimacy Pedagogy at Loyola Marymount University.
(they/them) is a performer and maker of music, video and live shows, and collaboration is a vital part of their process. A member of the bands A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Roman à Clef, Goma also works in partnership with Obie Award winning writer Haruna Lee. Recently the duo brought their iterative performance piece plural (love) to the Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab and Goma worked as a composer for Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest directed by Aya Ogawa (Ma-Yi Theater Company, Bushwick Starr). A frequent collaborator with Ziwe, the two create live performances and are currently working on Ziwe’s eponymous television show. Goma’s 2017 album Smiley Face, released under the moniker Showtime Goma, made with Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and A Sunny Day in Glasgow bandmates, was placed on Rolling Stone’s list of “Albums to Stream Now” and Showtime Goma’s music and videos have appeared on Playboy, NPR and Pitchfork. Goma has toured frequently, opening for acts like of Montreal, in a piece made with Lou Tides (Teeny Lieberson of the band TEEN.) Goma has been featured in recorded and live collaborations with musicians like Jherek Bischoff and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. As a member of People Get Ready, Goma worked with Steven Reker, James Rickman and Luke Fasano to mount shows at The Kitchen and New York Live Arts. P.G.R. have also provided live, original music for Jodi Melnick in the Fall For Dance festival and performed at the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival.
(they/them) is a non-binary Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, screenwriter, educator and community steward whose work is rooted in a liberation-based healing practice. Recent plays include Suicide Forest published by 53rd State Press (Ma-Yi Theater Company and The Bushwick Starr), plural (love) (Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab; New Georges), and Memory Retrograde (UTR; Ars Nova; BAX). Lee is a recipient of an Obie Award for Playwriting and Conception of Suicide Forest, the Ollie New Play Award, FCA Grants to Artists Award, the Mohr Visiting Artist Fellowship at Stanford University, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Map Fund Grant, and Lotos Foundation Prize for Directing. They were a member of the 2019 artEquity cohort, and is a co-founder and lead facilitator for the Women-Trans-Femme-Non Binary Asian Diasporic Performance Makers Potluck. They are currently writing for HBO Max’s “The Flight Attendant”, as well as teaching the Brooklyn College M.F.A Playwriting Program. Harunalee.com
(DIRECTOR, she/her) is from New Delhi, India. She is an ensemble member with Definition Theatre, member of Director’s Lab Chicago 2017, and was a resident in Milwaukee Rep’s 2017/18 season. She is part of the SDC Foundation’s Observership Class, through which she worked on Soft Power by Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang at The Public. Recent work includes: Good Years by Ada Alozie (Definition Theatre), Being Julia Roberts by Omer Abbas Salem (Jackalope Theatre), MLK Project by Yolanda Androzzo (Writers Theatre), EthiopianAmerica by Sam Kabede (Definition Theatre) which won BTA Awards for Best Play, Featured Actor and Actress and a Jeff award for Fight Choreography. Most recently she directed Shakuntala by Lavina Jadhwani (Future Labs, Goodman Theatre). Currently, she is workshopping a screenplay with Sundance Collab under Jessica Sharzer. Learn more about her on sophiyaanayar.net
(PRODUCER, she/her) is the Senior Producer for Performing Arts at BRIC in Brooklyn where she is the manager of the BRIClab Residency Program and producer for BRIC’s theater and dance programs and short-term and long-term performing arts residencies. She has worked with 80+ artists at BRIC across a spectrum of disciplines; from theater and dance, to poetry, non-fiction and visual art. Her creative producing career spans nearly a decade and includes producing and serving in the artistic departments at The Dallas Theater Center, Working Theater, The Public Theater, Our Town (off-Broadway), and Sleep No More. B.J. is also a freelance dramaturg specializing in participatory, experimental, and devised performance, and holds an M.A. in Applied Theatre.
(Editor She/Her) Katherine Freer is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, organizer, and educator. Her artistic practice lives at the intersection of story, technology, and civic engagement. It is rooted in joy, curiosity, mutual learning, and the pursuit of justice for all living beings. She is core collaborator with All My Relations Collective, Projections Design Instructor at University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and a Teaching Artist with Roundabout Education. She is a proud member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and United Scenic Artists Local 829. katherinefreer.com
From her earliest memories, Deilis recalls enjoying anything and everything that involved creating something out of nothing. Stemming from watching her Dominican grandmother sew together outfits for her and cousins, she has always been infatuated with the ability to think up ideas and bring them to life in tangible forms. Her studies of Fashion Merchandising as an undergrad set the way for her career with top fashion brands. After almost a decade in fashion production, she decided to switch gears and pursue her place in the creative world, honing in on her true passion of art, photography, and set design. This led her to work as production assistant under Apple TV, NFL Films, FX, and Showtime. Independently, she has taken on roles as a set decorator, creative director, and production designer for short films, music videos, and short plays of up and coming indie production and well established theater companies such as MCC & WP Theater. Ultimately, this multifaceted artist wants to leave her mark on the industry and set waves in the culture showing the world what an immigrant from Queens is capable of.
is a costume designer based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Fiber and Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Past and recent collaborators include choreographers Catherine Galasso, nicHi douglas, Sarah Dahnke, and Sunny Hitt; theater makers harunalee, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Object Collection, MetaPhysEd, Target Margin Theater, Little Lord, Pan Asian Repertory; and filmmakers Imelda O’Reilly, Ben Finer and Aaron Schimberg. karenrachelboyer.com.
is a producer and writer based in the Bronx by way of North Carolina. She received her Master’s in Media Studies from Pratt Institute, where she studied the intersections of race, gender, and class in horror films. She has worked on documentary and narrative projects, including Break: The Musical, A Peculiar Silence, and most recently, Artist Unknown, a feature-length action rom-com.
(WRITER, she/her) is a playwright from Washington, D.C. She has developed work with JAG Productions, The Hearth, The Fire This Time Festival, The Liberation Theater Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Playwright’s Center, Ars Nova, and WP Theater. She is a Resident Artist with Ars Nova’s Play Group, a 2020- 2022 member of the WP Lab, and a 2021-2022 Jerome Fellow at the Playwright’s Center. Additional residencies from VONA and the Millay Colony. Winner of the Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series. Winner of the 45th Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Finalist for Space on Ryder Farm’s Creative Residency, the Van Lier New Voices Fellowship at the Lark, and the Founders Award at New York Stage and Film. MFA: Columbia University. Gethsemane splits her time between New York City and Minneapolis, where she is a Proud member of the Dramatist’s Guild. She’s enamored with Sailor Moon and other magical girl warriors. She writes for survivors.
(DIRECTOR, she/her) is a Brooklyn and Chicago based theatre director and dramaturg with a pull towards intimate epic journeys. Recent productions include Kentucky, A Swell in the Ground (The Gift Theatre); Everybody, Antigone (Atlantic School/ NYU); Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (First Floor Theatre Company); In the Blood (Red Tape Theatre), and the upcoming premiere of And Certain Women (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival). Currently, she is serving as an associate director for Hadestown (Broadway/ National Tour), as well as the associate director for Spacedogs at MCC and for the upcoming musical Goddess at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She has worked with The Public Theatre, A.R.T., Playmakers Repertory Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens and developed work with The Lark, The Playwrights’ Center, Faultline Theatre, About Face Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, and more. Chika is the recipient of the Drama League New York Fellowship, SDCF Gielgud Directing Fellowship, Bret C. Harte Directing Fellowship, and is an alumna of Victory Garden’s Directors Initiative Apprenticeship Program and of the SDCF Observership Class of 2016-17. Currently she is a member of the 2020-2022 WP Theatre Directors Lab. She is an ensemble member of the Gift Theatre. www.chikavike.com
PRODUCER, (she/her) is an Asian-American creative producer working across commercial (Broadway and off-Broadway), non-profit, and regional theatre. Her artistic roots are in dance; she spent the first 22 years of her life in the studio. Rich collaborations with artists feed her soul, where process matters as much as product. Cynthia is Associate Producer at Tom Kirdahy Productions (Upcoming: The Piano Lesson with Samuel L. Jackson, Current: Little Shop of Horrors, Past: The Inheritance) and a founding member of The Industry Standard Group, the first BIPOC commercial theatre investment and producing organization. Highlights from past independent producing projects include 600 Highwaymen’s A Thousand Ways (across 18-19 venues nationally and internationally), NYCLU’s Sing Out for Freedom Concert (Town Hall, 2021; Virtual, 2020), Playbill’s Women in Theatre: A Centennial Celebration (Virtual, 2020), LORDES (New Ohio Theatre, 2019), and Noah Wise (independent feature film). Based on her fast talking and walking, most people don’t believe this, but she’s originally from a laid-back sunny beach town called Rancho Palos Verdes in California. She now lives in a place much better suited to her anxieties: New York City. Education: Wesleyan University (B.A., Sociology) @cinnabunny24 // www.cynthiajtong.com
is a Mother/Actress/Author and Proud Military Brat from Frederick Maryland. She holds a BFA from North Carolina A&T State University AGGIE PRIDE! She is a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated. TV: EVIL, The Last O.G., Bluebloods, BULL, Blindspot, It’s Bruno, First Wives Club, Harlem. FILM: Art Thieves. NYC: Cherish The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit (The Jack), Melissa Roughly Speaking Tada Theatre, Gina The Bright Side of Keurig (Peter Norton Symphony Space). Regional: Joanne RENT (Redhouse Arts Center,) Michelle/Deloris u/s Sister Act (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Celie The Color Purple (Redhouse Arts Center), Elizabeth u/s In the Next Room (Berkeley Repertory Theatre),and Mattie Campbell u/s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). To my baby boy, you are my WHY! Mommy Loves you. www.joanieanderson.net IG jo.knee
is a theatre/film New York City based actor hailing from the sunny twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. An Atlantic Acting School Alum and current teaching artist, Kieron also represented Trinidad and Tobago on the world stage for track & field as a teenager. During his collegiate years as a student-athlete at the University of Miami, FL he studied Kinesiology. Recent credits: Inventing Anna (Netflix/Shondaland), One Night in Miami (Miami New Drama), Field Awakening (Signature Theatre).
