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Liliana Padilla (they/them)
Author
Liliana Padilla's (they/them) work explores community, the body, power and death. How to Defend Yourself, written and co-directed by Liliana, will be produced at New York Theatre Workshop in Winter 2022. Liliana co-created Born 1000 Times, a visual book and time capsule of friendship, loss and change. Liliana teaches at Dartmouth College and the Sewanee Writers Conference. Liliana is a theatremaker, performer, teacher and creative doula. MFA Playwriting: UCSD, BFA Theatre: NYU.
Jack Ferver (they/them)
Director
Jack Ferver (they/them) is a New York based writer, choreographer, and performer. Ferver’s genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), interrogate and indict psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of trauma, power, gender and sexuality.
Ferver’s works have been presented in New York City at the New Museum; The Kitchen; New York Live Arts; The French Institute Alliance Française, as part of Crossing the Line; Abrons Arts Center; Gibney Dance; Performance Space 122; the Museum of Arts and Design, as part of Performa 11; Danspace Project; and Dixon Place. Domestically and internationally, Ferver has been presented by the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (NY); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (OR); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (ME); the Institute of Contemporary Art (MA); Fusebox Festival (TX); Diverse Works / Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston (TX); Temperance Hall (Australia); and Théâtre de Vanves (France).
Ferver’s work, which blurs the boundaries between fantastic theatrics and stark naturalism, character and self, humor and horror, has received critical acclaim in The New York Times; La Monde; Artforum; The New Yorker; Time Out NY; Modern Painters; The Financial Times; and The Village Voice. They are the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Ferver has acted in numerous theater, television, and film projects, as well as creating the chaotic TikTok account @thereallittellad.
They have collaborated with their partner, the visual artist and filmmaker, Jeremy Jacob on performances and short films which draw from both artist’s research of cinema, queerness, memory, and AIDS. Ferver teaches at Bard College.
Desiree S. Mitton (she/they)
Dramaturg
Desiree (Des) Mitton (she/they) is a collaborator who works with a wide array of artists on theater and performance based projects as well as visual art installations. Des is also an independent writer and curator who is currently working towards a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU). Forthcoming publications include a title essay for a book on the photographer Stanley Stellar who documented queer communities at the Christopher Street piers in the 1970s and 1980s (Kapp Kapp Gallery). Recent theater and TV credits include “Mine” at Dixon Place, "The Summit" at Guild Hall, and “Dinette” (Bric TV).
Annika Prager (they/them)
Annika Prager (they/them) is an Oakland born NYC-based queer neurodivergent Director, Intimacy Director, Stage Manager, and Teaching Artist. Some of their recent credits include Twelfth Night (Hunter College); Pistachio & the Worms (PS Family NYC); Die Anywhere Else (Hunter College); FREAKS, or the First Werewolf (Abrons Arts Center); The Interrobangers (TransTheatreFest); Dance Nation (Hunter Theatre Company); and Fuck Off Julia (Dixon Place’s HOT Festival). Annika works to amplify and center the voices of queer/trans artists, female artists, and artists of color by facilitating work that is trauma-informed, healing-centered, abolitionist, and antiracist. annikaprager.com
Jojo Brown (she/her/hers)
Jojo Brown (she/her) is a stage, television, and film actor. Past theatre credits include the U.S. Premiere of 7 Minutes at Waterwell Theater, the Off-Broadway premiere of CHARM at MCC Theater, and her breakout role as Mindy on 'Single Drunk Female' (hulu). More credits include the short film 'Pink & Blue' as well as roles on NBC, Showtime, and Comedy Central. With roots in the documentary-theatre scene of Chicago, Jojo Brown has a passion for telling stories that shift paradigms and challenge oppressive systems.
Joslyn defreece (she/her/they/them)
Joslyn DeFreece (she/her/they/them) is a NYC-based writer, producer, actor, and activist. Joslyn starred in Carl(a) -- a feature film depicting one girl’s path of transition -- and in The Enclave at Rattlestick Theatre. She also starred in a landmark national commercial for Sonnet -- one of the first to ever feature a Trans protagonist. She has appeared on the Daily Show, Comedy Central, and CNN. Joslyn can be seen playing a German trans woman who escaped the Nazis on the show "Strange Angel" season 2, streaming on Paramount+. Upcoming project: Marque and Hector turn Trash into Treasure - A crazy queer comedy co created with actor/director Linus Ignatius. Check it out on IG or Tiktok: @marqueandhector Represented by Paul Hilepo of PhEntertainment
Marilee Talkington (she/they)
Marilee Talkington (she/they) Actor. Writer. Director. Activist. Marilee is MacDowell Fellow (Playwriting), California Center for Cultural Innovation Grantee (Directing), Winner of the A.C.T. Carol Channing Trouper Award for dedication and excellence (Acting), a recipient of the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award (Disability Justice), one of Park Armory's Artist/Activist 100 years / 100 women, and one of the first legally blind women to earn an M.F.A. in Acting, work professionally in theatre, and appear on television. Their professional acting work spans 25 years in theater, tv, and film and their original works have been seen across the U.S. and internationally. A few favorite roles: Master Sunflower in The Lily's Revenge, performed with Taylor Mac (Magic Theatre), Naomi in Imaginary Comforts by Daniel Handler/a.k.a. Lemony Snicket (Berkeley Rep), Janice in Scott Z. Burns upcoming Extrapolations (Apple TV+).
Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir)
Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir) Theater credits include The Visitor (The Public, Original Cast Recording), Dom Juan (Fisher Center/ Bard Summerscape), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse), House of Dance (Half Straddle, Zürich Theater Spektakel, Kyoto Experiment, MASS Live Arts), Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement), Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf), The Aliens (Chester Theatre Company). TV/Film: “Instinct” (CBS), Fry Day (streaming on Criterion). Most recently, Pauli choreographed Julia Jarcho's Marie, It's Time for minor theater. MFA: NYU Grad Acting.
Spencer Weidie (they/them)
Spencer Weidie (they/them) is a visual and performing artist based in New York City. They graduated from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY with a BFA in Dance and a concentration in Dance Composition. They also studied at London Contemporary Dance School, Springboard Danse Montreal, and with the Merce Cunningham Trust. Spencer has performed works by Kyle Abraham, Kimberly Bartosik, Brian Brooks, Merce Cunningham, Sharon Eyal, Andrea Miller, Omar Roman de Jesus and many more. Spencer has previously held company positions with Brian Brooks/Moving Company, Bocatuya, Gallim Dance, MADBOOTS Dance, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. In 2022, Spencer was invited to join the Trisha Brown Dance Company.
TL Thompson (they/them/T)
TL Thompson (they/them/T) credits include: Broadway: Straight White Men (Person In Charge u/s) at Second Stage Theater. Theater: Is This A Room (Agent Taylor) at Vineyard Theatre, Waafrika 123 (Aweeno) at Criminal Queerness Festival, NERVOUS/SYSTEM (Pollster) at BAM Next Wave, AFTER (Company) at Public Theater Podcasts, Meet Cute Podcast. “Adventures in New America”, “Welcome to Nightvale”. Webseries: “THESE/THEMS” (TI), Dir. Jett Garrison. THE HUNTED (Nic), Dir. Crystal Arnette. Films: Flu$h (Wrex), Dir. Heather Acs. Friday Afternoon Dir. Paige Campbell. TL is also in the NY Neo Futurist, who performs frequently in The Infinite Wrench, an ongoing attempt to perform 30 plays in one hour.
Meghan Piper Johnson (mpj)
Meghan Piper Johnson (MPJ, they/them) is queer interdisciplinary artist and arts educator based in nyc. Their soul soars most freely and excitedly within movement and dance, however they also studied acting/theatre at NYU (New Studio on Broadway / Experimental Theatre Wing). They also studied Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health (NYU CAS), which has hugely impacted their work as an artist. Most recently mpj has been exploring themself as a whore clown, studying pole dancing and aerial arts since 2020 and becoming immersed in the extraordinary nyc nightlife scene. mpj’s burlesque alter ego is Lavender Lightning (who loves to cover their body in glitter and paint). mpj feels passionately about sensual self-expression, protecting sluthood, unironic sincerity, arts education for young people, and just how deeply our childhoods shape us.