B.J. EVANS
CREATIVE PRODUCER

B.J. Evans is a NY Emmy-nominated curator and producer of time-based art, and is currently the Senior Producer for Performing Arts at BRIC in Brooklyn where she serves as curator and producer for BRIC’s theater, dance, and interdisciplinary programs. She has served as the senior curator for artist residencies on Governor’s Island focusing on embodied and devised work, and has developed work across a spectrum of disciplines; from theater and dance, to poetry, visual art, and film/tv. She has served in the artistic departments at The Dallas Theater Center, Working Theater, The Public Theater, HERE Arts Center, and Sleep No More. B.J. is also a freelance dramaturg specializing in participatory, experimental, and devised work, and holds an M.A. in Applied Theatre. 

DARA MALINA
DIRECTOR

Dara Malina is a director of theatre, performance, opera and film. She often makes politically-driven, art-forward, collaboratively-created or playwright-driven performance, and reinvents classic works while investigating avant-garde movements through a contemporary feminist lens. Currently, she is continuing development on an opera adaptation of Clarice Lispector’s THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H. (Mabou Mines RAP 2019) with composer Lacy Rose. In 2020, she received a grant with playwright Alexis Roblan from the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre to premiere Roblan’s play, SAMUEL, which will premiere as an audioplay/visual installation in Summer 2021. Recent work: ENDOGAMY (Ensemble Studio Theatre), MEASURE FOR MEASURE (LIU-Post), MACHINAL (Pace), LACY ROSE & THE STARTLING QUARTET (HERE), WILL THEY PLAY GOLF ON MARS? (Dixon Place). MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. Member: Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges Jam. www.daramalina.com 

ALEXIS ROBLAN
PLAYWRIGHT

Alexis Roblan is a playwright and WGA Award-nominated screenwriter. Her plays have been produced and developed by and at Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, Project Y, FringeNYC, Exquisite Corpse Company, New Perspectives Theatre Company, The Tank, The Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation, The Shelter NYC, The Blank Theatre (Los Angeles), Theatre 503 (London), Edinburgh Fringe, Festival de Teatro Alternativo (Bogotá), World Interplay (Australia), and more. Originally from Coos Bay, Oregon, she is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s MFA in Dramatic Writing program.

Alexis’ plays include SAMUEL (Finalist, Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission), DAUGHTERS OF LOT (Edinburgh Fringe), AND IT SPINS TWICE (Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), OURS (Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), YOU FEEL SO FAR AWAY RIGHT NOW (Finalist, The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), LILIYA (Exquisite Corpse Company), THE ANDREW PLAY (Thomas Barbour Playwrights Award), and RED EMMA & THE MAD MONK (The Tank; NY Times Critic’s Pick). She is a 2020-21 Audrey Resident at New Georges, and a 2020 recipient of funding from the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre.

RAY ARCHIE
AUDIO PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Ray Archie is the Executive Director of Notes to the Soul and head engineer of Brooklyn Sound Lab. As a musician, Ray plays cello, bass, & piano and has performed internationally with Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson-Thomas, LSO, SF Symphony orchestra, & many others. Ray crosses the boundaries of classical, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and soul music. Ray is also an award-winning engineer/producer who has worked in television and radio for over 15 years, has spoken internationally at both AES and EBU conventions, and has recorded 30+ albums, 25+ audiobooks, and 100’s long format journalism pieces for major publishers and media companies.

CAROLINE ENG
RECORDING ENGINEER & DIALOGUE EDITOR

Caroline Eng (Recording Engineer & Dialogue Editor) is a New York based sound designer and audio engineer. Recent work includes the Ensemble Studio Theatre's "Youngblood Monday Lunch" Podcast Series, Conference Room B (The Atlantic Acting School), Marjorie Prime (New York University), Where Are You (Digital) (SUITE/Space, Mabou Mines), Rarámuri Dreams, Taxi Radio, and May 35th (The Columbia University International Play Reading Festival 2020 Podcast Series), The Broken Machine, The Amateurs and The Luck of the Irish (American Academy for the Dramatic Arts). Find Caroline's online portfolio at carolineengdesign.com.

STEPHANIE SINGER
COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER

Stephanie Singer is a songwriter, composer, and director of live music experiences. Her work is disarmingly intimate. Through original pop, experiential live music, electronica-choral composition, animation, and theatre, she draws the audience into varied worlds of unbridled joy where they can celebrate the insanity of the human experience together. Previous credits include: Violet Disruption (Royal Opera House, Sirt and The Canadian Ballet.), New Symmetry (British Council), Held (BitterSuite), The Moth (ballet with NYCB) with producer Ray Archie, Simon and His Shoes (Original musical). She is also the director of BitterSuite, an immersive music company whose work has featured at The Royal Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Gulbenkian, The Science Gallery, Midlands Art Centre, Rich Mix, Roundhouse, Nesta, Bristol Arnolfini, TEDx, and Wilderness Festival. 

KATE MCGEE
LIGHTING DESIGNER

Kate McGee is a trans* lighting and scenic designer. For the Tank: A Hunger Artist, Steepshow, Ruffles: or a Progression of Rakes, Other New York Work Includes: My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Playwright's Theater), Infinite Love Party (Bushwick Starr), Gillian Walsh's FAME NOTIONS (Performance Space New York), 50/50 old school animation (Under the Radar, The Public, Volks Theater, Munich), Early Plays (New York City Players/Wooster Group, Henry Hewes Award Nomination, with Aaron Deyo),Masculinity Max (The Public Theater), Sound House (New Georges), Kidnap Road (La Mama), International Concert Tours: Emily’s D+ Evolution World Tour for Esperanza Spalding. Regional Work: Life of Galileo (Playmaker's Rep), An Iliad (Long Wharf), Esai's Table (JAG Productions), A Tale of Two Cities (Trinity Rep), These Seven Sicknesses, An Acorn, and Neva (Brown, Trinity) kateisalightingdesigner.com

ANT MA
INSTALLATION ARTIST

Yi-Hsuan (Ant) Ma, originally from Taiwan, now New York and Taiwan-based, is a scenic and production designer. Coming from a different culture and background of literature training, her approach to design is interdisciplinary and inclusive. See more: yihsuanma.wixsite.com/ant-setdesign

NINA PAN
INSTALLATION ARTIST

Yizhu (Nina) Pan is a China-born set and production designer currently based in New York City.She is the co-founder of Huangyuan Production Studio in Hangzhou, China. Her theater work credits include Watermelon Eating Contest (Stevie Walker-Webb), The Odyssey(Scott Illingworth). She has designed many short films and has designed commercials for companies includes Shiseido, NetEase, and Alibaba. Her background in textile design and graphic design is an essential part of her interdisciplinary skillset. 

JONNY AG DESIGN
GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGNER

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BRITTANY CROWELL
PRODUCTION MANAGER

Brittany Crowell is a theater producer and administrator. She is currently the production manager for Manhattan School of Music, supporting their opera and musical theatre productions. Previously, she spent 6 years with Third Rail Projects, production managing their long-running project Then She Fell and aiding the company in the creation and supervision of over 13 new works. Brittany has also freelanced as a producer, production manager, and stage manager for over a decade and served as the managing director of Crashbox Theater Company from 2013-2019, aiding in the development of new plays be emerging writers.

MEET THE CAST

JESS M BARBAGALLO
SAMUEL

JESS BARBAGALLO. Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Off-Broadway: Orange Julius, Oresteia. Film: The Puzzlers 1+2. TV: "Law & Order: SVU." BFA: New York University, MFA: Brooklyn College.

MORGAN MCGUIRE
JANE

Morgan is an actor and playwright originally from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. She now calls the county of Kings home. She is a huge fan of The Living Calendar and Elinor T. Vanderburg and is super pleased to be a part. Most recently she was seen on the virtual stage as Major Bella Marjorie in Bloodshot: The Call produced by The Underlords. For other recent credits and somewhat useless information you can find her at www.morganamcguire.com.

KEILLY MCQUAL
CHARLIE

KEILLY MCQUAIL (Charlie). Theater: Lunch Bunch + Of Government with Clubbed Thumb, Her Requiem (LCT3/Lincoln Center), You Got Older (Page 73), Significant Other (The Geffen), Bad Jews (Long Wharf). TV: "The Good Fight," "Monsterland," "The Plot Against America," "Tales of the City," "Orange is the New Black". Radio/Podcast: David Greenspan's "The Memory Motel" (Two River Theater), "MS Phoenix Rising" (Playwrights Horizons' Soundstage), "Split Valley," "Limetown". Education: NYU's Tisch School of the Arts + the Atlantic Theater, proud member of the Ensemble Studio Theater. www.KeillyMcQuail.com  

CAROLYN MIGNINI
MOM

Carolyn Mignini has spent her professional life as a stage, television and film actress. Most recently, she appeared on Broadway in Roundabout Theatre’s production of The Rose Tattoo opposite Marisa Tomei.  She can also be seen in the newly released feature Worth starring Michael Keaton, premiering on Netflix in September 2021. In all three seasons of HBO’s The Deuce, she played Maggie Gyllenhaal’s mother, “Joan Merrell.” Carolyn portrayed “Ilene Mulvaney” in Showtime’s acclaimed Limited Series Escape At Dannemora, directed by Ben Stiller. Recent TV includes Veep, House of Cards, Blue Bloods and The Good Wife. 

​​She began in New York, on Broadway and Off. Highlights include: Fiddler On The Roof, The Fantasticks, Christoher Durang’s A History of the American Film and Sister Mary Ignatious Exlains It All For You, and a Drama Desk Nomination for her role as “Anna Held” in Tintypes.

​​Her years in Los Angeles brought a long list of television credits: The Practice, Picket Fences, Mad About You, Chicago Hope, , Murphy Brown, Touched By An Angel, Wonder Years, Newhart, Family of Spies and Days of Our Lives, to name a few. 

​​She and her husband, actor Steve Vinovich now split their time between NY and LA and have never been busier, including as much time as possible with their four-year-old grandson.

LORI ELIZABETH PARQUET
DELIA

Lori Elizabeth Parquet is an actor, director, and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. Her New York City stage credits include Macbeth, Dispatches From (A)mended America (Off-Broadway, Epic Theatre Ensemble), The Providence of Neighboring Bodies (Dutch Kills Theater/Ars Nova), The Honeycomb Trilogy: Sovereign (Gideon Productions), Medea (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Dog Act, Ajax in Iraq, Honey Fist, Operating Systems (Flux Theatre Ensemble), and Republic, Baal, Murder In the Cathedral (JACK/Hoi Polloi). She made her international debut performing in Pillars of Society at Teater Ibsen in Skien, Norway. She also performed in The Providence of Neighboring Bodies at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. In 2019 she was nominated for and won the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in Operating Systems. As a director, Lori has directed Topdog/Underdog at Princeton Summer Theater and assistant directed The Public Theater’s most recent Shakespeare in the Park productions of As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. She was also as an acting coach on Disney’s Hercules, a Public Works production. Lori just served as Associate Director of New York City Center’s Encores: Off-center production of Maria Irene Fornes’ Promenade and has directed many readings and workshops with Public Works, Flux Theatre Ensemble, The Brooklyn Generator, and other theatre companies across New York City. As a playwright, Lori was selected as one of six featured playwrights for Season Five of The Fire This Time Festival, which produced a reading of her full-length play In Communion. Her short plays Sir and Blood Money have been produced through Flux Theatre Ensemble and New York Madness respectively.

LYNNEA PRUNTY
ALICE

Lynnea Prunty is 8 years old and lives in Philadelphia, PA. She has performed in Brown Eyed Rapunzel, White Dress, and others at Philly PACK. Lynnea loves singing, rock climbing, and reading, and she dreams of caring for a pet bunny someday.

AMY STAATS
WYNETTE

Amy is an actor, writer, director, producer and a 2018 - 2019 Tow Playwright in Residence through the Atlantic Theater Company. The world premiere of her 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.”  As an actor, Amy’s recent performances include MILES FOR MARY (created by the Mad Ones, directed by Lila Neugebauer, which enjoyed extended runs at Bushwick Starr and Playwrights Horizons.) She is a resident artist at Berkeley Rep’s GroundFloor and SPACE on Ryder farm, and a finalist at Sundance Theater Lab and a semi-finalist at The O’Neill Playwrights Festival. TV/Film work includes roles on FBI Most Wanted, Bull (recurring) and Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Her Russian spy/gymnastics sports dramedy DEFECTED is currently in development with Olivia Wingate (MO Studios) and Wren Arthur (Olive Productions). She has been spending the pandemic in Brooklyn with her parlor rock star husband and two cats who are brothers and have very glossy coats. She is happy to be voicing the role of Wynette.