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Paula Ali* as Jane
Paula is a half-Persian Performer /Director from Nashville, TN, with a BFA from Auburn and CAP21. Acting credits include Berenike (Mary), God Learns the Death of Harambe (God), Q2 (Yasmin), Randy Dandy’s Coaster Castle(Burgess), Texas for Four More Years (Connie), Crybaby (Pepper Walker), and Once Upon a Mattress (Winifred).As an assistant/ associate she’s worked with Zhailon Levingston on and off Broadway on his various projects. She directed/starred in the dance short What If? (available on@notpaulaabdulnyc), directed The Bad in Each Other by Alexander Perez at The Tank, and The Jason Williams Experience at Alvin Ailey. Upcoming: Anticipated One Woman show and 7 Actors 1 Room by Matthew Keaton at DUAF
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Sagan Chen as Dru
Sagan Chen is a queer genderfluid chinese american artist. Recent onstage credits include: Isabel (NAATCO), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb), Happy Life (The Hearth at Soho Rep), Fight Call (Breaking the Binary at The Public), Two Mile Hollow (Yale). Onscreen: Survival of the Thickest (Netflix/A24), Grand Crew (NBC), High Maintenance (HBO), This Really Happened (Tribeca 2024), Girl Talk (Outfest)(dir. Erica Rose). Sagan has co-created two award-winning digital series called Here We Wait and Sideways Smile. Heard in the Audible Original The 126 Year Old Artist, and narrating the audiobooks: Ana On the Edge, All The Things We Don’t Talk About, and The Jump. Directed at Dartmouth College, Samuel French OOB, Frigid, Corkscrew, and Women in Theatre Festivals. Seeking representation, and seeking liberation for all.
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Antiquated F*ckery (PooL PLays, 59E59), t)re(equilt (United Solo, Best Poetry Show), Fun Home (Broadway NationaL Tour), She Like Girls (gLAAD Award), Wolf in the River (Adam Rapp Dir), Waafrika123 (NationaL Queer Theater); Dietland (AMC), ParalleLs (LA WebFest, Outstanding Supporting Actor); Curfew (Academy Award), Lady Liberty (TribecaTV), PRoGRAM (NYFF)._DiFF rIng As _oU : |_eT Us PLay. karenEiLbacher.com (a) /v|As/<:wĒn br\-/ND pRoduk:tioniNG
Ianne Fields Stewart as Lulu
Ianne Fields Stewart (she/they) is a Black, queer, lesbian, and nonbinary transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism. Their work spans across many fields including: theatre, film, dance, creative writing, arts administration, and social justice. She is dedicated to creating art, facilitating spaces, and influencing organizational practices that allow Black queer and trans people to radically luxuriate in our own joy. To put it simply, she wants to make their people feel good.
Ianne moved to New York in 2015, where she began their career as the Artistic Directing Fellow at Girl Be Heard, a nonprofit theatre company that brings global issues affecting girls center stage by empowering young women and gender expansive youth to tell their stories. Their work as a choreographer and director with Girl Be Heard has been seen at various organizations in New York City, the United Nations, and the Pitchwise Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia. At the same time, Ianne booked their first professional audition out of college and made their New York Acting debut in the world premiere of Daria Marinelli's Untameable as the Lady Queen. Since then, Ianne has worked consistently in productions at NYC venues such as: Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, La Mama, and many more.
Jude Tibeau* as Mark
Jude Tibeau: Theater credits include Bad Kreyòl (Off-Broadway, Premiere & Drama Desk Nominee). What Will Happen To All That Beauty (CATF), The Hot Wing King (Baltimore Center Stage), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew (The Old Globe), Brother Toad (KC Rep), and Ruined (Arena Stage). Film: 'Tough' (Short). Television: 'Elementary,' 'Happy!' Education: The Old Globe Theatre’s M.F.A. program and a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Howard University.
Benita de Wit - Director
Benita de Wit (they/them) is a non-binary Australian director based in New York. They specialize in theatre, film and multidisciplinary projects. Benita is the Associate Director for Jamie Lloyd’s Sunset Blvd on Broadway starring Nicole Scherzinger. Most recently they were the Resident Director for SIX on Broadway the Assistant Director for Straight Line Crazy at The Shed starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses.
Directing credits include Small Mouth Sounds (Circle in the Square Theatre School), The Moors (Theatre Row), The Laramie Project (Pace University), Slaughterhouse (Belvoir St Theatre), Razorhurst (Hayes Theatre Co), Salty (Access Theatre) and Bat Out of Hell (New York City Center, US & UK tours, Associate Director).
Benita is an SDC Member, a Barbara Whitman Award 2024 Finalist, a New Georges affiliated artist and has been an artist in residence at Barn Arts, Catwalk Residency and Vox Theatre Festival. Their work has been performed at National Sawdust, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the New York Public Library, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Playwrights Horizons Theater School as well as in London, Edinburgh and Australia. Benita has an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and is on Faculty at Circle in the Square Theatre School.
Jessica Charles - Playwright
Jessica Charles is a Black queer woman-identifying playwright, storyteller, and cultural worker whose work holds and uplifts historically underrepresented voices. Her passion is bringing to life nuanced stories of her community. Born and raised in Oakland, CA with family throughout Louisiana and New York, the rich tapestry of Black people, culture, her ancestry, and her upbringing shape all of her art. As a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the University of California, Berkeley, Jessica’s work has been workshopped, heard, and seen in spaces and stages across the world. Most recently, her play Antiquated F*ckery had its off-Broadway debut at 59E59 Theaters. She was a finalist for the National Black Theatre’s 24/26 I AM SOUL Playwriting Residency and a SPACE on Ryder Farm 2024 Creative Resident. Jessica has also been a member of Liberation Theater Company’s New Voices Writing Residency 19/20 and a finalist for The Lark’s Van Lier New Voices Fellowship. Her plays include In the tradition, High, The Road Trip, Inflatables, "the genuine minstrel show!", Antiquated F*ckery, [THE BLACK WOMAN] and The Myth, White Savior, and We are all Psychopaths.
Miranda Sage Rhode - Stage Manager
Miranda Sage Rhode (she/her) is thrilled to be stage managing the reading "Hot Girls Making Out"! She has also stage managed with The Anthropologists, Tippet Rise Art Center, Walnut Street Theatre, Milton Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Scranton Shakespeare Festival, National Music Festival, and she is the current Resident Stage Manager at Vivid Stage in Summit, NJ.
My Black Job Productions - Producers
My Black Job Productions is a boutique-style, multidisciplinary producing initiative centering Black artists living within the margins of the margins—those navigating the intersections of race, gender, queerness, ability, geography, and class.
We build creative infrastructure and reimagine producing as a liberatory practice. Our model blends cultural organizing, radical hospitality, and person-first production to resource artists whose stories are often excluded from dominant narratives. We are not a company chasing credit—we are a strategy rooted in community.
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