Ashley Ganger (Asha; You Can Sit With Us) is thrilled to be a part of the reading for YOU CAN SIT WITH US. She is an Indo-Canadian actress now based in NYC. Her on screen credits include the television series GRAND ARMY as well as LATE BLOOMER. She has also starred in the feature film CALORIE as well as the short film ALL AT ONCE. @ashleyganger
Imani Russell (Z; You Can Sit With Us) is a born and raised and representing Brooklyn artist. Trained in classical music, musical theatre, and acting, Imani made their Broadway debut in November 2023 in the new musical HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO. Imani has performed off-Broadway and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They also write music under the name NANí. Selected Off-Bway/NYC: TROPHY BOYS (MCC); ON THE EVOLUTIONARY FUNCTION OF SHAME (2ST). Thank you Russell Fam, Kiyomi, and CLA. Pa’lante pa’siempre! @imanithecowboy
Gabe Calleja (Stage Directions; You Can Sit With Us) A New York City native, Gabe attended Bucknell University where he graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering, but don’t let that fool you. While there, he spent most of his time on the stage starring in shows such as The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Black Comedy (Brindsley), and Radium Girls (Arthur). Unable to resist the call of the stage, Gabe moved back home to continue his training at The Acting Studio New York’s Meisner Conservatory. His most recent New York stage credits include R.U.R. (Domin), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Picasso) and, Buscando a Copi (Didier), where he had his Spanish theater debut and won the Fuerzafest award for best supporting actor. Gabe is slated to make his Off Broadway debut later this month in the production You and Me.
Eva Shannon-Dabek (Stage Manager; You Can Sit With Us) Off-Broadway: Public Charge, The Seat of Our Pants (The Public). Business Ideas, Deep Blue Sound, Grief Hotel, Winterworks (Clubbed Thumb). Prince Faggot, Sad Boys in Harpy Land, Wet Brain, Regretfully So the Birds Are, The Trees, Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons). Mary Gets Hers (The Playwrights Realm). Invasive Species. Education: BA in Theatre, Smith College; SM Fellow, Playwrights Horizons. Eva thanks her family and friends for everything!
Rachel Sachnoff (Julia; Beautiful Curtains For Sale) is an actress based in New York. Most recently, she starred as Abby in the short film Plus One and appeared as Vitrucchia in the Netflix series The Decameron. Previously, she appeared as Jane Jr in the New Group production of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery, directed by Danya Taymor. Rachel has been in original productions with companies including New Neighborhood, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, Dixon Place, The Tank, Cloud City, The Wild Project, The New Ohio, Two Headed Rep, Calliope, and the Brick. She’s developed new work Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, The O’Neill, The Bushwick Starr, The New Group, The Lark, Mabou Mines, and many more. rachelsachnoff.com @rsachnoff on instagram
Nicole Shalhoub (Nancy; Beautiful Curtains For Sale) Broadway: China Doll. Off Broadway: The Play Co., Lincoln Center, The Mint, St. Ann’s Warehouse. Regional: Berkeley Rep, The Kirk Douglas CTG, South Coast Rep, Yale Rep, The Goodman, Hartford Stage, Lookingglass, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, KC Rep. TV/Film:Recurring roles on Law & Order: Organized Crime and Evil, FBI, Goosebumps, Tulsa King, Blue Bloods, The Good Fight, The Village, Elementary, Seal Team, Bull, Madame Secretary, The Gaffigan Show, New Girl, The Mentalist, Legends, Scandal, The Good Wife, Sex & The City 2, The International, Wetware.
Paco Tolson (Terry; Beautiful Curtains For Sale)Paco was recently nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards (Outstanding Lead Performance for Fiasco Theater’s Knight of the Burning Pestle and Outstanding Featured Actor for Vietgone at Manhattan Theatre Club) as well as En Grade Arts/The Vineyard Theater’s production of The Wind and The Rain—which earned a Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience. Paco originated roles in the Off-Broadway premieres of Poor Yella Rednecks (Manhattan Theatre Club), End Days (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Children of Vonderly and Rescue Me (Ma-Yi Theater Company), and Ma-Yi’s production of SUMO at The Public Theater. With Fiasco: Twelfth
Night and Pericles (Classic Stage Company), and Measure for Measure (Actor’s Theater of Louisville). Regional: to the yellow house (La Jolla Playhouse); With South Coast Rep: Peter and
the Starcatcher, Vietgone, and Poor Yella Rednecks; with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale and Vietgone. Audio Drama: (There’s) No Time for Comedy (Playwrights
Horizons), The Memory Motel (Two River Theater), Witness (Paramount/Gideon Media), Out of Sight (Unknown 9), Henry V, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure (Play On Shakespeare). Film and TV credits include Billions, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Prodigal Son, Search Party, The Good Fight, Madam Secretary, Happy!, The Code, and 7 DAY GIG. Paco is a graduate of Brown University and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, Fiasco Theater, and The Actors Center. He is grateful for his incredible family and their enduring support. @pacotolson
Colleen Werthmann (Candy; Beautiful Curtains For Sale): Recently, [my utopias] by Jay Stull dir. Jillian Jetton (Exponential Festival); YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, dir. Katie Devin Orenstein (BCTR); Ariel Stess’s KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA (2025 OBIE), dir. Meghan Finn (The Tank). Colleen is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer (Daily Show, Nightly Show, Oscars, etc.). She’s also a founding member of The Civilians (MR. BURNS, GONE MISSING,THE LADIES, etc.) and the experimental theater group Elevator Repair Service (GATZ, TOTAL FICTIONAL LIE, etc.). Off-Broadway: Public, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons. Film/TV: SISTERS, SALT, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Law & Order(s).
Haliya Roberts (Stage Directions; Beautiful Curtains For Sale) is a New York based actor and voiceover artist. She most recently appeared at Lincoln Center LCT3 in the staged reading of Three Weeks in Paris by Christina Anderson, and Boomerang Theatre Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet. She holds a MA in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She is also a graduate of The Honors Acting Conservatory at The Theatre Lab: School of the Dramatic Arts in Washington, DC. Haliya was awarded Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2019 Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Awards for her performance in the one woman show, Pretty Fire, by Charlayne Woodard (5th Wall Theatre). Website: haliyaroberts.com | IG: joi2thewrld
Ellery Suffridge-Brown (Stage Manager; Beautiful Curtains For Sale) is an NYC-based Events, Production, and Stage Manager who brings over a decade of experience to events and performances. They currently work with Lincoln Center, BRIC, Mercury Store, Cherry Lane Theatre and Pocket Ghost Productions in addition to private and corporate clients. They enjoy blending artistic and technical disciplines together to bring live experiences to life!
Messiah Cristine (Quo; Home by Ten) is a recent MFA Acting graduate from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. They hold a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. They are currently a part of Ensemble Studio Theater playwriting collective, Young Blood and are an MFA candidate for playwriting at Brooklyn College.
Cindy De La Cruz (Mel; Home By Ten) can currently be seen recurring on the new Fox series BEST MEDICINE. This past summer, Cindy could be seen on stage in Camino Real at the Williamstown Theatre Festival alongside Pamela Anderson. Cindy is an Obie Award recipient for her work as founding artistic producer of the Dominican Artists Collective. Previous television credits include BLUE BLOODS, THE VILLAGE and BLINDSPOT. Cindy is a 2025 graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
Paige Gilbert (Pippa; Home by Ten) is a NYC based storyteller and spiritualist. Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center), The Rose Tattoo (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Chiaroscuro (NBT) The Welkin (Atlantic), A Raisin in the Sun (Public), Demons (Bushwick Starr), BLKS, and School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play (MCC). Film/TV: Russian Doll, The Deuce, Late Night.
Chloe Howard (Rita; Home by Ten) is a New York-based actor, vocalist, and creative, originally from the California Bay Area. Chloe has worked across both film and theatre where recent credits include; WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F**K?! (New York Theatre Workshop), ESCAPED ALONE (Yale Repertory Theatre), Tom Hooper’s BEYOND REAL (Short), THE JURY (TheatreNow New York), A MOTHER’S SONG (Edinburgh Film Festival), and PSYKHODRAME (Independent Feature). Chloe co-created and starred in VIRAL, an independent web series which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Yale School of Drama MFA Acting Class of 2025, Northwestern University BA. Represented by Innovative Artists and Mainstay Entertainment. Instagram: @chloehoward88
Hayward Leach (George; Home by Ten) Off-Broadway: Practice (Playwrights Horizons) He has developed work with Roundabout, NYTW, Vineyard, Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, and more. TV: The Terror (AMC, upcoming), Elsbeth (CBS), Love Life (HBOMax), Tom Swift (The CW) Film: Sneakerella (Disney+), One Stupid Thing (BIFF Best Picture), DRILLS (NYFF Official Selection). Juilliard.
Alisa Rabin (Stage Manager; Home by Ten) Super excited to join WP Theater for the 2026 Pipeline Festival! Select Off-Broadway and Regional: Atlantic Theater Company, Park Avenue Armory, The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, Westport Country Playhouse, A.C.T. of CT, Bay Street Theater, Hangar Theatre. National Tour: Girl From The North Country. University of Connecticut BFA and The Juilliard School Apprentice Program alum. For Autumn.
Alex Fetchko (Lighting Consultant) NYC-based Lighting Design & *Associate. Recent: Events at The Glasshouse and Cipriani, Camille A. Brown & Dancers (I AM), Westport Country Playhouse (Importance of Being Earnest), Nantucket PAC (What the Constitution Means to Me, Theater People), 2nd Stage Theater (*Lunar Eclipse, *The Apiary), Glimmer glass Festival / Detroit Opera (*Rinaldo), The Public Theater (*Good Bones), TheaterWorks Hartford (Sandra), Company XIV (*Nutcracker Rouge, *Queen of Hearts), Signature Theatre (*Letters From Max). Additional Companies: Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, La MaMa, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. Boston University, BFA.
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.
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.
