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Creative Team
ERICA MANN (Playwright) is a Queens-based playwright and screenwriter. She was a semi-finalist for a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship, and her play DITMAS PARK received special consideration from the subcommittee of readers at the American Playwriting Foundation for the 2018 Relentless Award. Her play, PROCEED TO HIGHLIGHTED ROUTE, will receive a developmental production at the Acadiana Repertory Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana in December 2019. She is a member of Pipeline Playlab's Class of 2020 and Gingold Theatrical's 2019-2020 Speakers' Corner Writers' Group. MFA in Playwriting from The New School, 2018.
PETER J. KUO (Director) is bi-coastal LA native, currently serving as the Associate Conservatory Director at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) where he chairs the Staff EDI Committee and sits on the core faculty of the MFA in Acting program. He recently earned his MFA in Directing at The New School for Drama in New York City where he was the Social Justice Programs Coordinator. He is a theatre director, producer, writer, educator, and social justice advocate focusing on raising the visibility of marginalized communities. He is a Round 3 grantee of Theatre Communication Group's Rising Leaders of Color Program and held a First Stage Residency at The Drama League. He was a finalist for the Drama League Classical Directing Fellowship and Clubbed Thumb Fellowship. He is a co-founder of Artists at Play, an Asian American theatre collective that produces Los Angeles premieres of works for Asian Americans. As a director/assistant director he has worked at American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, East West Players, South Coast Repertory, The Play Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Rattlestick Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, among others. He has developed new plays with Luis Alfaro, Erica Mann, Karina Billini, Lauren Yee, Carla Ching, Madhuri Shekar, Christopher Chen, among others.
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ALI SKYE BENNET (Producer) has been writing, performing, and creating theatre since childhood. She is the Artistic Line Producer at The Drama League, helping to provide a lifelong artistic home for Directors and a platform for dialogue with and between audiences. As the former Associate Producer of Vineyard Theatre, Ali had a hand in bringing to life critically acclaimed world-premieres by some of the most renowned artists in our field, including Paula Vogel (INDECENT), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (GLORIA), Michael Mayer, John Kander, and Susan Stroman, to name a few. Other select producing projects include: Producing Coordinator for Transport Group Theatre Company; Associate Producer (and star) of the short film Sináptica, which garnered 6 awards and 37 selections in film festivals around the world; Artistic Producer of the multimedia theatrical adaptation, THE UNTITLED GINSBERG PROJECT; and Company Producer for PuppetCinema's PLANET EGG (Washington Post Editor's Pick, Capital Fringe 5-star "Best of the Fringe" selection). As a playwright, Ali has been awarded residency to the HBMG Foundation’s 2018 National Winter Playwrights Retreat, and her first full-length play, RAFETUS, was a Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill (2017), the Woodward/Newman Drama Award (2019-2020), the Blue Ink Playwriting Award (2019), the New Light New Voices Award (2019-2020), and the Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award (Barrington Stage, 2019). Ali is also an award-winning photographer with international publication (Image International, Photolife Magazine), and has traveled all over the world documenting her adventures through her photos and journals. She is a proud member of TCG and graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute's 14-week program (2014). Upcoming: a documentary short currently in development with CompassNeedle.
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Cast
DANA DELANY (Carm) Broadway: TRANSLATIONS, A LIFE. Off-Broadway: COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN FIVE BETTIES (MCC), DINNER WITH FRIENDS, BLOOD MOON. Regional: THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (A.R.T.), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Old Globe), THE PARISIAN WOMAN (South Coast Repertory). TV/Film: “China Beach” (Colleen McMurphy), “Body of Proof” (Dr. Megan Hunt), “Desperate Housewives” (Katherine Mayfair), “Hand of God” (Crystal Harris), “Pasadena,” “Kidnapped,” Tombstone, Housesitter, Fly Away Home, Light Sleeper, and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Dana is on the boards of New York Stage & Film and Ojai Playwrights Conference.
HYOJIN PARK (Ha-Yoon)
Her theatrical career began on Korean Broadway. Credits include MY MOM, THE CURTAIN CALL FOR HER, SEOUL TERROR, ALMOST MAINE, MIDDLE TOWN, KING JOHN, and 99 HISTORIES. Upon her move to New York, she appeared in the films 3,000, which was screened at 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and Sunny (CAAMFest, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Boston Asian American Film Festival), and in other notable works like Homework (글동냥), Egg, Jenny and Jihye, and Devotion. She also directed and wrote the films Between Us and Heemang. Hyojin was born and raised in South Korea. MFA in Acting from The New School of Drama, 2019. iamhyojinpark.com |
AMANDA CAMILA (Beatriz) is an actress born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She graduated from the Drama Department of the University of Puerto Rico in 2016. In Puerto Rico, she played characters such as Claire in THE MAIDS OF JEAN GENET and Erotium in THE MENAECHMI by Plautus. She just completed her MFA in acting at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts where she had the opportunity to play characters like Irina in THREE SISTERS, Mayannah in BRAINPEOPLE, Cordelia in KING LEAR, and Ophelia in HAMLET.
GRACE PORTER (Iris)
recently graduated from the 2019 class of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program where she played some of her favorite roles, like Ma in MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM and Emmy in A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART II. Other theatre includes LEMPICKA THE MUSICAL and FADED, both at Williamstown Theatre Festival. STACEY KAREN ROBINSON (Narrator) is a multidisciplinary theater artist. She performed her solo work, YOU NEVER CAN ALWAYS SOMETIMES TELL, in NYC at JACK and at Salvage Vanguard Theater, TX. The show was developed with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. Her previous monodrama, QUIET FRENZY, is published in solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, and essays, Northwestern University Press, 2014. As an actress, Stacey has appeared in numerous productions. Most recently she performed at BAM, New York Live Arts, the Walker Art Center, On the Boards, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, PICA, REDCAT, and the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati with the touring production of JACK &, directed by Kaneza Schaal.
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