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Working with almost every major non-profit theatre in NYC, including the Public Theater, Roundabout, Vineyard, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre for a New Audience, New York Theatre Workshop, and Classic Stage Company.

Including Liberation, Waiting for Godot, Dead Outlaw, Othello, Gypsy, English, Cult of Love, Swept Away, Moulin Rouge, Mother Play, Purlie Victorious, Jajaโ€™s African Hair Braiding, Between Riverside and Crazy, Fat Ham, Life of Pi, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, The Piano Lesson, A Beautiful Noise, A Strange Loop, Slave Play, and many more.

Including top shows from every network, such as The Gilded Age, The Pitt, Poker Face, Paradise, Elsbeth, Ghosts, Somebody Somewhere, Untamed, The Fall of the House of Usher, Long Bright River, Zero Day, Abbott Elementary, Succession, Ozark, Atlanta, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Handmaidโ€™s Tale, and Billions.

Including Materialists, Relay, Lost & Found in Cleveland, A Complete Unknown, Christy, Ballad of a Small Player, Civil War, Maestro, American Fiction, The Holdovers, Snow White, Dune, The Trial of the Chicago 7,ย and working with directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Ava Duvernay, and Denzel Washington.

Teaching at training programs across the country including Juilliard, Yale, NYU, Brown, Columbia, USC, A.C.T., Purchase, among others, as well as independent studios and public school programs.

Working at regional theaters and national tours in 40 of 50 states including at the Guthrie, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Arena Stage, Huntington, Yale Rep, Trinity Rep, PlayMakers Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, and Cincinnati Playhouse.

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Company members Sepideh Moafi and Jeff Hiller were nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards. Sepideh was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi on the critically acclaimed HBO series The Pitt. Jeff was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his guest role on Pluribus on Apple TV. Both The Pitt and Pluribus were recognized across all categoriesโ€”The Pitt received 25 total nominations, and Pluribus received 18 nominations.

In addition, several company members were part of the ensemble casts for shows nominated for this year’s Emmy Awards. Shows nominated for Outstanding Drama Series were The Gilded Age, featuring Louisa Jacobson and Celia Keenan-Bolger; Your Friends & Neighbors, featuring Stephanie Kurtzuba, Matthew Rauch, and Bre Blair; and The Pitt, featuring Sepideh Moafi and Kristin Villanueva. Shows nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series were Abbott Elementary, featuring Chris Perfetti, and Widow’s Bay, featuring Jeff Hiller. Shows nominated for Outstanding Limited Series were DTF St. Louis, featuring Chris Perfetti, and Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, featuring Sydney Lemmon. The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards will be presented on September 14 on NBC.

Company member James Udom is in Othello, written by William Shakespeare and directed by Carl Cofield, presented by Classical Theatre of Harlem. This free Uptown Shakespeare in the Park production brings this searing tragedy of love, jealousy, power, race, and betrayal to Marcus Garvey park. As manipulation takes root and trust begins to fracture, Othello examines how a single lie can ignite a world of suspicion, desire, and destruction. Othello continues the companyโ€™s celebrated tradition of bold, accessible, world-class theatre for New Yorkers and visitors alike. Performances are free and open to the public, and RSVP is encouraged. Performances run through July 26.

Company members Irene Sofia Lucio, Jason Ralph, and Joe Tippett are in Disruption, written by Andrew Stein and directed by Hersh Ellis, Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. After tremendous Silicon Valley success and a big exit, tech entrepreneur Nick presents his three best friends with his next big idea: an algorithm that is more complex than the human brain and promises to guide them through big life decisions better and more effectively than they can guide themselves. In an era where every aspect of human life has been documented with data and disrupted by technology, do computers know us better than we know ourselves? And even if they do, should we listen? The cast also includes John David Washington and Conrad Ricamora. Performances run July 22-September 13.

Company member Jeb Brown is in Fireflies, written by Matthew Barber and directed by Daniela Varon, presented by Shakespeare & Company. Retired schoolteacher Eleanor Bannister lives alone in tiny Groverdell, Texas, settled into her routines and secure in her standing as the townโ€™s most respected woman. When a hole in her roof brings Abel Brownโ€”a charming, smooth-talking drifterโ€”onto her doorstep, he offers to repair the house and quietly begins to upend her carefully ordered life. As an unexpected late-life romance flickers to life, gossip spreads and doubts surface. Can Abel be trusted, or is he not quite who he seems? Either way, the whole town is watching. Performances run through July 19 in Lenox, MA.

Company member Gillian Glasco is in the world premiere of Estate Sale, written by Keelay Gipson and directed by Steph Paul at Barrington Stage. A grieving son confronts the pain of his loss and the impossible task of clearing his deceased parentsโ€™ home. The semi-autobiographicalย story reveals how the objects of our lives inform, reveal, and preserve our personal mythologies. Performances run through July 25 in Pittsfield, MA.

Company member Megan Loomis is in Music City, with music by JT Harding, book by Peter Zinn and directed by Eric Tucker, presented Off-Broadway at St. Luke’s Theatre. Follow two young singer-songwriters into the Wicked Tickle, an East Nashville bar that serves up cheap beer, open mics, and dreams of big breaks. The bar regulars bravely pursue love and music in the face of addiction, poverty, and haunting pasts. But in Nashville, heartbreak is the only thing they hand out for free. Performances run through October 31.

Tala Ashe appears on Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed in Season 1, Episode 8 โ€œHallidaysโ€œ and Season 1, Episode 9 โ€œErroneousโ€œ on Apple TV.

 

Maury Ginsberg appears on Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed in Season 1, Episode 5 โ€œScamboyโ€œ and Season 1, Episode 6 โ€œRosebudsโ€œ on Apple TV.

 

Geneva Carr appears on Cape Fear in Season 1, Episode 1, โ€œFingers & Toesโ€ on Apple TV.

 

Jill Larson appears on Cape Fear in Season 1, Episode 7 โ€œMongrelโ€ on Apple TV.

Company member Dede Lovejoy writes and stars in solo show Shamaniac, directed by Joy Donze, at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A series of mysterious debilitating seizures and a freak elevator accident send Dede on an off-road scavenger hunt for healing. From sound baths to bean diets, this deeply personal solo play traces one womanโ€™s unconventional recovery, as she flips the bird to western medicine and swan dives into otherworldly remedies to reintegrate body, mind and soul. A mystical post-traumatic-stress-fantasia featuring bad choices, safety tips, spirit guides and shamanismโ€“ with cameos by polyamory and The Patriarchy. Performances run August 7โ€“29 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dede is also in The Misfortunes of a Spy and Her Mystic, written and directed by Joy Donze at 59E59 Theaters and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In this modern-day, queer-coded witch hunt, Eve, a woman working on the fringe of the mental health system blurs the line between hired advocate and spy. On a rollercoaster of grey areas and spiritual awakening, her alluringly witchy, enigmatic client challenges Eveโ€™s sense of ethics, truth and perception, leaving her questioning who gets to judge and ultimately shape reality. Performances run through July 26 at 59E59 Theaters in NYC, and August 7โ€“29 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Company members Purva Bedi and Becca Lish are in Men on Boats, written by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Carson Joenk at Nantucket Performing Arts Center. The play follows ten explorers charting the Colorado River in 1869, armed with questionable maps, oversized egos, and absolutely no idea what theyโ€™re doing. Inspired by John Wesley Powellโ€™s journals, the play skewers the myth of American heroism and the idea of โ€œdiscoveryโ€ itself. Performances run through July 29 in Nantucket, MA.

Company member Maggie Bofill is in ยกVOS! by Christina Pumariega, directed by Kimberly Senior at Contemporary American Theater Festival. Annie returns to her estranged birthplace of Buenos Aires to undergo IVF treatments from the famed Dr. Cossi. But her motherhood journey brings to light the lives of two women lost to the Dirty War decades ago. This play is an exhilarating hunt for home, family, and the Disappeared, inspired by Las Madresโ€”past, present and hopeful. A heart-pounding, hilarious, heartbreaking tour de force told by two Latinas spinning as fast as they can. Performances run through August 2 in Shepherdstown, WV.

Company member Vivia Font is in The Smoker, written by Lisa Dโ€™Amour and directed by Shelley Butler at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. What makes community? For this unlikely gathering of under-employed, under-insured dreamers on a New York street corner, itโ€™s the communal need for a cigarette. They are as different as different can beโ€“in gender and sexual orientation and relationship status, in their aspirations, vocations and avocations. But in this warm-hearted premiere, these characters come together to consume the chemicals that unite them: nicotine and the endorphins produced by friendship. Performances run through August 2 in Shepherdstown, WV.

Company member Joan MacIntosh is in Small Triumph, a short film written and directed by Antonia Grilikhes Lasky. The short follows the journey of a painter who struggles with the toughest model she’s ever had: her daughter. The film is an official selection of the Indy Shorts International Film Festival, and will screen online July 21-26 and in-person on July 23 in Indianapolis, IN.

Company member Zachary Booth is in the short film Method Cowboy, directed by Carlos Valdivia. When a struggling actor feigns being gay to land the role of a lifetime in an Oscar-bait Cowboy Western, he decides to transform himself for the role, blurring the lines between reality and performance. The short is currently on the festival circuit and was an official selection at Palm Springs International ShortFest, Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, and Raindance Film Festival in London. Watch trailer here.

Company members Cindy Cheung and Keilly McQuail are in the short film Higher Education, directed by Tessa Lee and Jenna Rossman. The cast also includes Gabby Beans. The short screened earlier this month at Wyoming International Film Festival, and was an official selection at NewFaces NewVoices and Big Apple Film Festival. The short will make its West Coast premiere in August at the HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA.

Company member Bre Blair is in the short film The Subway Act, written and directed by Nick Riley Bentham. The short, which follows two strangers who fall in love on a subway platform, is part of Bentham’s series Stories About Love, an independent narrative short film project comprising of 12 short films released monthly. The short is now available to stream on YouTube.

Company member Erik Liberman produces and stars in the short film Our Lives After, directed by Yoni Rusnak and Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal. After surviving a harrowing synagogue shooting, a driven young lawyer is forced to confront his own emotional scars. In the aftermath, he takes on the responsibility of fulfilling his late mother’s final wish: helping his 10-year-old Ukrainian cousin navigate the challenges of starting a new life in America. As their bond deepens, he learns that healing takes time and sometimes, moving on means learning to let go. The film is an official selection at LA Shorts International Film Festival, and will be screened on August 4 in Los Angeles, CA.