Who's Who
KATE BERLANT (Writer/Performer) is a comedian and actress with notable appearances in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, and the upcoming Warner Bros film Don’t Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde. She has appeared in television series including Search Party, Transparent, and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, and will next be seen on A League of Their Own on Amazon Prime. Kate was named a Just for Laughs "New Face of Comedy" and a Variety "Ten to Watch" and can be seen opposite John Early in their sketch comedy special Would it Kill You to Laugh? on Peacock. Kate has performed at festivals across the globe including a sold out run at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and The New York Comedy Festival. Her performances have been commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and she has been described by The New York Times as a "magnetic improvisational comic" at the forefront of experimental comedy.
BO BURNHAM (Director/Producer) is a director and comedian whose most recent special was Inside. He wrote and directed the film Eighth Grade, and directed Jerrod Carmichael’s Rothaniel earlier this year.
DOTS (Scenic Designer) We are a design collective based in New York City specializing in designing environments for narratives, performances and experiences. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa and Japan, we are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk and Kimie Nishikawa. We offer expertise in multi-disciplinary practices ranging from architecture, theater and performance design, graphic design, and film. We approach every project with diversity of thought and burning curiosity and, above all, we believe in the value of the whole being greater than the sum of its individual parts. Recent Credits : We Are Continuous (Williamstown Theater Festival), La Traviata (Wolftrap Opera), The Green Veil - TV mini series starring John Leguizamo, Nations Lending – national commercial starring Dennis Rodman.
AMITH CHANDRASHAKER (Lighting Designer) has worked with The Public Theater, Second Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Colorado, and The Atlanta Opera. Amith has worked on dance pieces by Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Rennie Harris. He is the recipient of a Drama Desk Award and a Henry Hewes Design Award. Amith is an Assistant Professor of Lighting at the University of Maryland.
PAUL VAILLANCOURT (Associate Lighting Designer) works as a designer, assistant and programmer both Off-Broadway and regionally. His designs have been seen at Hudson Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ithaca College, Massasoit Theater Company, The Company Theater, and others. He has been fortunate enough to work at theaters such as Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, La Mama, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Ogunquit Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, and others. pvaillancourtdesigns.com
PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer) is a sound designer and composer for theater, podcasts and art installations. She was recently nominated for a 2022 Tony Award for her Sound Design of The Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Center Theater. Other theater credits include BROADWAY: Grand Horizons (Second Stage); The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54); The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center Theater). Select OFF-BROADWAY credits: what the end will be, Something Clean, Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre Company); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Minetta Lane, Audible Theater); Merry Wives, shadow/land, Shipwreck, Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater); Fefu and Her Friends (Drama Desk nomination, TFANA); Marys Seacole (LCT3); Nollywood Dreams, BLKS, Collective Rage, Charm, School Girls (MCC Theater); The New Englanders, Sugar in Our Wounds, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Club); Eddie & Dave (Atlantic Theater Company); Fabulation, The Death of the Last Black Man In The Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre); Samara, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep.); Today Is My Birthday (Drama Desk nomination, Page 73). AWARDS: 2019 Obie Award (Sustained Excellence in Sound Design): 2018 TBA Award (Peerless); Helen Hayes Award (Baby Screams Miracle); 2020 Henry Hewes Award (Fefu and Her Friends); 2018 Henry Hewes Award (Today Is My Birthday). WEBSITE: palmerhefferan.com
BAILEY TRIERWEILER (Assistant Sound Designer) (he/they) is a New York based sound designer, editor, engineer and mixer for live theater performance, installation, dance and audio drama. Select design credits include Dance Nation (Square Product Theatre), Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre), already there (The REACH at the Kennedy Center), She Kills Monsters, Measure for Measure (Yale School of Drama), The Conduct of Life (Verano Cabaret), COCK, Rubberneck, Expats Anonymous (Yale Cabaret), Tiny Shakes: Romeo & Juliet (Two River Theater), Auntie Vanya (Ars Nova ANT Fest), among others. He has served as associate sound designer for Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theatre), King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), When Monica Met Hillary (Miami New Drama) and assistant sound designer for Peerless (Primary Stages), ….What the End Will Be (Roundabout Theatre Co.), MERRY WIVES (The Public) and GIRLS (Yale Repertory Theatre). Bailey works as a sound associate for UptownWorks, a NYC-based film and theater production company. Select associate credits include the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Berkeley Rep/The Goodman), Complicity Island (Audible), Queen (Long Wharf Theatre/NAATCO), Choir Boy, Today is My Birthday (Yale Repertory Theatre), Night Watch (Dorset Theatre), First Down (Noor Theatre Co.), Pleasure Machine (Colt Coeur), BBoy Blues (Supermassive Productions), among others. Bailey holds a B.F.A from CU Boulder and a M.F.A from the Yale School of Drama. btsounddesign.com
JAMIE TIPPETT (Assistant Sound Designer) (They/He) is a sound designer and engineer. Off-Broadway: Little Girl Blue (New World Stages). Regional: Orlando (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Summer’s Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Assistant Design: Hound Dog (System Design, Ars Nova), Merchant of Venice (TFANA, Shakespeare Theatre Company), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Minetta Lane), Becky Nurse of Salem (Berkeley Rep), White Noise (Berkeley Rep), Tell Me I’m Not Crazy (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Selected Engineering: Merrily We Roll Along (New York Theatre Workshop), Most Happy in Concert (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Bedwetter (Atlantic Theater Company), A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (DR2). Education: Stanford University, B.A. & B.S.
LINDSAY JONES (Production Stage Manager) is an Austin born, New York based Stage Manager. Selected credits include: Fiddler on the Roof (Stage 42), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Manhattan Concert Productions, Lincoln Center), Is Anyone Alive Out There? (Audible Original at Minetta Lane), The Comedian's Tragedy (The Access Theater), and PETE(HER)PAN (Cleveland Musical Theatre). Love to Jared.
ZACH BRECHEEN (Assistant Stage Manager) is an NYC based Stage Manager. Selected credits include: Catch as Catch Can, Corsicana, Tambo & Bones, Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons), Annie Hamilton: Looking For Papa (Cherry Lane), Sandblasted (The Vineyard), and Elf on the Shelf (1st National Tour).
ROMO HALLAHAN (Technical Supervisor) is currently the Lighting and A/V Supervisor at Stella Adler Studios and freelances as a Production Electrician for varying venues around NYC. He has been known to dabble in Sound, Lighting, and Video design and really enjoys making things work together when they shouldn't. He is also a three time citywide karaoke champ.
MELANIE MCSWEENEY (Company Manager) is a stage performer turned arts administrator that hails from Canada. Previous credits include: Alex Edelman: Just For Us (Mike and Carlee Inc.) and Titaníque (Maximum Entertainment). Melanie was previously the Managing Director of Rattlestick Theater Company and the General Manager for Simple Studios. She is currently working towards her Masters in performing arts administration at NYU. While not working and at school she enjoys spoiling her dog and a good farmer’s market.
LIBBY J'VERA (Production Manager) Recent credits include: Oh God, A Show About Abortion (Cherry Lane), Just For Us (Soho Playhouse), Get On Your Knees (Lucille Lortel), DirectorFest (Drama League), Colin Quinn's Red State, Blue State (Minetta Lane), Mike Birbiglia's The New One (Cherry Lane), A Clockwork Orange (New World Stages) and Turn Me Loose (Westside Theater). Resident Production Manager at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and AfterWork Theater. Love to T.Rex and River. libbyjvera.com
CARLEE BRIGLIA (Producer) is one half of Mike and Carlee Productions. Selected credits include Alison Leiby: Oh God, A Show About Abortion, Alex Edelman: Just For Us, Colin Quinn's The Last Best Hope, Red State Blue State and Unconstitutional,Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Oh Hello On (Off) Broadway, Chris Gethard Career Suicide, Neal Brennan 3 Mics, Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. In another life, Carlee worked in film, commercial and live event production with credits on Crown Heights (Sundance Audience Award), Love Beats Rhymes and Other People’s People (HollyShorts Award Winner), among others. mikeandcarlee.com
MIKE LAVOIE (Producer) is the older, tireder half of Mike and Carlee Productions. Selected credits include Alison Leiby: Oh God, A Show About Abortion, Alex Edelman: Just For Us, John Mulaney and Nick Kroll’s Oh Hello On (Off) Broadway, Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees, Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, Thank God For Jokes, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend and Sleepwalk With Me, Colin Quinn’s The Last Best Hope, Red State Blue State, New York Story and Unconstitutional, Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide. Film: Other People’s People (Austin Film Festival). Mike lives in Brooklyn with his chaise lounge, Contratto and Advil. mikeandcarlee.com
ELI BUSH (Producer) is a producer of films including Uncut Gems, Eighth Grade, and Lady Bird. He most recently was a producer of Jerrod Carmichael’s Rothaniel.
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE (Co-Producer) The Lucille Lortel Theatre’s mission is to foster both new and established artists, increase awareness and appreciation of Off-Broadway, and uphold fair and equitable business and artistic practices in service of creating a larger, more diverse community of theatre makers and audiences. In addition to Kate, this season the Lortel Theatre is producing Four Saints in Three Acts at the Doxsee at Target Margin Theater. The Lortel has numerous programs, including its NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship, Live at The Lortel podcast, the Lucille Lortel Awards and Playwrights’ Sidewalk, the Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDB.com), Non-Profit Theatre Strategic and Management Services, Subsidized Theatre Space, and Fellowships in Theatre with Bennington College. For more information, please visit lortel.org.
NATHAN MARDIS (Co-Producer) is an attorney in New York City who is passionate about supporting talented artists. He has been involved in a number short film productions, including No Man’s Land and Otherside.
GRAPEVINE PR (Publicity) is a full-service boutique P.R. firm specializing in theatrical talent. Founded by longtime press agents Molly Barnett and Chelsea Nachman, grapevine has worked with a myriad of Award-winning Broadway shows, actors, composers, playwrights, directors and more. Before starting grapevine in 2017, the duo worked as a team at DKC/O&M, one of the industry’s leading firms. There, they helped spearhead more than forty campaigns for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning productions of Dear Evan Hansen, Kinky Boots, Beautiful, Fun Home and many more. To learn more, visit grapevineprny.com or follow them on Instagram @grapevineprny. (And while you’re at it, give their personal handles a follow too – @mollybarnett / @chelseanachman
SAM LEVY (Director of Photography) is a cinematographer who most recently collaborated with director Bo Burnham on Rothaniel, Jerrod Carmichael’s live special for HBO. Sam’s feature films include Mayday for director Karen Cinorre, Lady Bird for director Greta Gerwig; Frances Ha, While We’re Young and Mistress America for director Noah Baumbach, Wendy and Lucy for director Kelly Reichardt, Maggie’s Plan and She Came To Me for director Rebecca Miller and Confess, Fletch for director Greg Mottola. He photographed the pilot Compliance for director Sam Gold. He has filmed music videos for many artists including Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Beck, Garbage, Cat Power and Sonic Youth. Sam photographed live projection elements for the Frank Ocean Blonded tour as well as the live performance Changers, part of a fashion week presentation for the label Opening Ceremony, both for director Spike Jonze.
TEDDY BLANKS (Poster Designer) is a co-founder of the Brooklyn-based graphic design studio CHIPS. He has designed and produced title sequences for over 150 films and television shows, including Lady Bird,Russian Doll, Midsommar, Zola, and In The Heights. In addition to titles, he designs film posters, book covers, and album art. chips.nyc
THE CONNELLY THEATER (Venue) The historic Connelly Theater is a beautiful 99-150-seat jewelbox space in the heart of NYC’s East Village that now serves as a home for adventurous independent theater productions. Past productions include Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns: The Musical, The Crucible (Bedlam), Plano (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk-nominated), Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Diaries 2018 (New York Theatre Workshop), The Bengson’s The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova, Lortel and Drama Desk-nominated), Sinking Ship’s A Hunger Artist (The Tank’s Flint & Tinder series, Drama Desk-nominated), Jomama Jones’ DUAT (Soho Rep.), Mac Wellman’s The Offending Gesture (The Tank/Flint & Tinder), Daniel Kitson’s A Show for Christmas, The Lisps’ Futurity (Soho Rep. & Ars Nova, Lortel Award), Lyspinka! The Trilogy (TWEED), Mission Drift (The TEAM), The New York International Fringe Festival, Lucy Thurber’s Monstrosity (13p), Anne Washburn’s Apparition, and many others. The theater also serves as a location for film and television productions, including shows on HBO, Netflix, Amazon, FX, ABC, MTV, PBS, and many more. The building, originally an orphanage, dates back to the mid-1870s. The theater itself was once a choir hall, with the distinctive proscenium arch and raised stage added later.
JOSH LUXENBERG (Connelly Theater General Manager) is a playwright, director, and photographer. He is the co-artistic director of Sinking Ship Productions. His plays include Cassandra, an Agony (commissioned by the Getty Museum), The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (Sinking Ship/Theater in Quarantine; NY Times Critics Pick), A Hunger Artist (Connelly Theater/The Tank, nominated for two 2018 Drama Desk Awards, and winner of Summerhall’s Lustrum Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017), Powerhouse (New Ohio, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist, NY Times Critics Pick), Ocean (Mabou Mines Residency), Flatland (EST/Sloan Commission). Josh co-wrote THE DIAL, an interactive narrative augmented reality installation created by NightLight Labs (premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2019). In addition to his work at the Connelly, he has worked as a producer/curator around the city, including The Tank’s Flint &Tinder series (multiple Drama Desk Award nominations) and Sinking Ship’s Puppet Playlist. Josh has also worked as an assistant director at several major regional theaters and in NYC. He worked in the writer’s office of HBO’s The Wire, and is an alum of the Baltimore School for the Arts and Oberlin College.
KATE STAFF
Additional Production Stage Managers Cate DiGirolamo
Additional Assistant Stage Manager Lee Donegan
Photography Sela Shiloni
Website Stephen Gilewski
Video System Design Five Ohm Productions
Production Video Ben Moll
Video Programmer Cheyenne Doczi
Lighting Programmer Evan Herman-Chin
Production Audio Hayden Bearden
Video Production Manager Anja Powell
Assistant Production Manager Madison Lane
Production Electricians Dan Mullins, John Anselmo
Production Associate Sam Lane
Production Assistants Da’Merius Ford, Ned Gaynor, Kalen Sierra Hughes, Kirsten Pasewaldt, Michael Rebarchak, Samantha Lindsay Robbins, Luis Rueda
Box Office Manager Daigoro Hirahata
House Manager Drew O’Bryan
Ushers Kennedy Allen, Emma Buford, Oscar Castillo, Kaye Hoffmeyer, Julia Larsen, Charles Meckley, Beth Miller, Nick Nutting, Bailey Whitehead, McKenna Mobus, Heather Sandler