Jeesun Choi
Playwright
Jeesun Choi is a transnational Korean playwright, librettist, and physical theatre artist. Select plays:
BUST,
To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지,
Lost Coast, and
The Seekers. Her work has been presented at Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Realm, Bushwick Starr, American Opera Project, Prelude Festival, Nashville Rep, and more. She has been honored with the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, NYC Women's Fund, MacDowell Fellowship. A member of DGA. MFA, Dell'Arte International.
www.jeesunchoi.com
Keenan Tyler Oliphant
Director
Keenan Tyler Oliphant is a Theatre-maker and Director from South Cape Town whose work is in the lineage of the communal theatre-making and storytelling traditions of Southern Africa.
Hadestown (associate director);
The Singularity Play (Havard TDM);
Will You Come with Me? US Premiere, PlayCo (director);
Oratorio for Living Things (associate director);
Intro To (Ensemble Stage Theatre);
Kyk Hoe Skyn die Son (Clubbed Thumb);
queen (Dixon Place). Drama League Fellow 2021/2022; Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow 2020/2021.
www.keenantyleroliphant.com
Sami Pyne
Producer
Sami Pyne is an independent producer passionate about decluttering and demystifying the process for creators. She's had the pleasure of producing work with 600 Highwaymen, The Arts & Climate Initiative, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, The Martin E. Segal Center, HERE Arts Center, and more! Currently the producing director for ArKtype, one of the world's leading supporters of new, experimental work. Fellow of WP Theater's 2022-2024 Producers Lab. Columbia University Theatre Management & Producing MFA program, 2020.
www.samipyne.com
Bridget Kim
Performer
Bridget Kim is an Appal-Asian actress who galloped over to NYC from Eastern Kentucky. Bridget studied political science at the University of Louisville and earned her MFA in Acting at Case Western/Cleveland Play House. Her recent roles include Ismene in Antigone (Cleveland Play House), Kitty in The Three Musketeers (CPH) and on "Law & Order" this season. A thousand thanks to my team, to my parents, and to my Charles.
Yeena Sung
Performer
Originally from South Korea, Yeena Sung is an actor and singer-songwriter. Her favorite theater credits include The Great Leap (Arc Stages), Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem), and Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Sci-Fi (La MaMa). Film/TV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Younger, Happy Cleaners, and Clique Bait. Graduate of Columbia University (MFA) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (BFA).
Maggie Manzano
Stage Manager
Maggie Manzano (they/them) is a stage manager and local tomato aficionado. Past credits; Williamstown Theatre Festival, Little Island FREE NYC, Wedding Band (Theatre for a New Audience), The Chinese Lady (Long Wharf Theatre, The Public), A Christmas Carol (St. Louis Rep), Men on Boats (American Conservatory Theatre). All art should be free and fully accessible.
Emmie Finckel
Scenic Designer
Emmie Finckel is a queer, Asian-American scenic designer. Recent credits include
Comedy of Errors (Public Theater: Mobile Unit),
the ripple, the wave, that carried me home (Yale Repertory Theater),
As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse),
53% Of (2nd Stage),
In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre),
The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre),
In the Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door),
Athena (JACK),
Riot Antigone (La MaMa). Associate design credits include many productions with Gabriel Evansohn (
KPOP (Broadway),
Empire Travel Agency) as a member of Woodshed Collective. Emmie holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and is currently on the faculty of the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU.
www.efinckel.com
Hahnji Jang
장한지
Costume Designer
Hahnji Jang is an activist & fiber artist utilizing their skills to create anticapitalist styling and affirming costume designs. They have designed costumes for new plays with Theatre For One:
Here We Are, a collection of virtual interactive plays written and directed by women of color, costumes for political tours with Pan Asian Repertory Theater,
Men on Boats directed by Jenny Koons at Baltimore Center Stage, translated premiers of Korean plays such as
Sister Mokrahn (목란언니), and
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames and directed by Taylor Reynolds, at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
www.hahnji.com
Abigail Hoke-Brady
Lighting Designer
Abigail Hoke-Brady is a Brooklyn based lighting designer. Selected works include:
Romeo et Juliette,
Kiss Me,
Kate, and
Otello (Central City Opera);
The Night Falls (Peak Performances/BalletCollective);
BUST (Soho Repertory Theater) *scenic and lighting design*;
MukhAgni (Under the Radar/Ars Nova);
How I Learned What I Learned (Playmakers Repertory Company);
Cosi fan Tutte (San Diego Opera);
The Last American Hammer and
FLORIDA (UrbanArias);
Glory Denied and
Three Decembers (Tri Cities Opera). She is the resident designer at DiMenna Center for Classical Music. MFA : NYU 2016; Member of USA 829.
www.hokebradydesigns.com |
@hokebradydesigns
UPTOWNWORKS
Sound Designer
UPTOWNWORKS is a collective of Bailey Trierweiler, Daniela Hart, Noel Nichols. Select sound design highlights: Black Odyssey (Classic Stage); Avaaz (South Coast Rep); Tiny Father (Barrington, Chautauqua, Geffen); The Ripple (Berkley Rep/Goodman); Espejos (Hartford Stage, Syracuse Stage); Complicity Island (Audible); Chicken & Biscuits (Asolo Rep); Blues Clues and You! (Round Room Live); Happy Life (The Hearth, Soho Rep); Queen (Long Wharf/A.R.T.NY); Choir Boy, Today is my Birthday (Yale Rep); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf), already there (Kennedy Center); First Down (59E59); Pleasure Machine (Colt Coeur); Sidewalk Echoes (En Garde Arts); Nightwatch (Dorset Theatre Festival). M.F.As in Sound Design - Yale School of Drama.
Shannon Molly Flynn
Production Manager
Shannon Molly Flynn (she/they) is a director, producer, and writer in NYC. Shannon's passion and empathy for the human spirit are what inspired her wild love affair with the theatre. She splits her time between the non-profit sector, currently sitting as the Founding Artistic Director of Normal Ave, and the NYC nightlife, producing concerts and shows at 54 Below, The Cutting Room, Green Room, and The Duplex. Director of Sons of the Prophet and The Dream of the Burning Boy at Normal Ave, as well as numerous readings and workshops of new plays. Producer of the world premiere of Lily Houghton’s
of the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die and Kayla Martine’s
Indoor Person. Shannon’s believes good humans make good artists and fiercely defends a human-first approach to every aspect of her work. Flynn is book half of writing duo Pearlstein and Flynn. Check our their new musical,
WAKE YOU UP.
www.shannonmollyflynn.com |
@shanmofly
Sierra Lancaster
Associate Producer
Sierra Lancaster (she/her) is a producer, actor, and singer-songwriter based in NYC. She is the founder of Samuel-Lancaster Productions, and currently serves as the Artistic Programming Coordinator at the Tony-Award winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition. Recent credits include:
DOUBLE FEATURE PLAYS (Producer),
Payanam alMuhajir at the University Settlement (Payanam),
For Your Consideration at the DR2 (Surya), and
Pass Over on Broadway (Co-Producer). Sierra is a proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is a member of the Theater Producers of Color 2023 cohort.
www.sierralancaster.com |
@_sierralancaster_ /
Taeeun Yeo
Community Outreach Consultant
Taeeun Yeo is a Seoul and NYC-based theatre producer. Since she moved to NYC, she worked for events at Korean Cultural Center New York, Korea Arts Management Service, and various community-based organizations. She received an MA in Performing Arts Administration from NYU and an MFA in Theatre Management & Producing from Columbia University. She also received a Management Fellowship from the Black Theatre Coalition and worked for KPOP Broadway. She is currently developing a new original musical based on the life of a Korean-American playwright featured at La MaMa and Caffe Cino in the 1960s.
Claire Yenson
Casting
Theatre includes Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm), Hello Kitty Must Die (Edinburgh Fringe), Jane Anger (New Ohio/Shakespeare Theatre), the Public Theater, the Alley, and the Donmar Warehouse (UK). Film/TV includes Pachinko (Apple TV+), Fleishman is in Trouble (FX, Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Casting), Sharper (A24), Modern Love (Amazon). Claire is the resident casting director at New York Theatre Workshop and the Playwrights Realm.
