Montag

Nadine Malouf

Novella

Off-Broadway: The Vagrant Trilogy, A Bright Room Called Day (The Public); Dead are my People (Next Door at NYTW); Intractable Woman, Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company); queens, The Who & the What (LCT3); Today is my Birthday, Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73). Regional: Yerma (Huntington); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Old Globe/A.C.T./Theatre Calgary); Salomé (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Television/Film: “High Fidelity,” “High Maintenance,” “The Looming Tower,” American Insurrection, May in the Summer. Lincoln Center Theater’s 2019 Emerging Artist Award.

Jacob Orr

David/Death

Jacob is thrilled to be making his Soho Rep debut in Montag. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and is passionate about the development of new and exciting work. NYU credits include Mr. Burns, Consent, and The Seagull – he was last seen on EVIL (Paramount+). Huge love to Britain, the Caton House, and all his Portland loved ones, related and otherwise. He is based out of Brooklyn.

Dane Suarez

Greg

Lauded as a “vocal tour de force of surpassing splendor”, operatic tenor Dane Suarez has developed an exciting and varied career. His 2021-2022 season saw returns to Opera Memphis as Canio (Pagliacci); Opera in the Heights as Manrico (Il trovatore), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), and Scalia (Scalia/Ginsburg); and Butler University as guest soloist in Verdi’s Requiem. Suarez made two company debuts as Rodolfo (La bohème) with Newport Classical and Opera Birmingham, a debut with Penn Square Music Festival as Scalia (Scalia/Ginsburg), and role and company debuts as Pollione (Norma) with Festival Opera. Dane was seen in concert with New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Maryland Opera, and Il Cenacolo Club of SF. For the 2020-2021 season, Mr. Suarez joined Opera Memphis where he debuted Scalia in Scalia/Ginsburg and debuted Memphis Symphony Orchestra for their annual holiday pops concert. 

Ariana Venturi

Faith

Broadway: The Minutes. Off-Broadway/Regional: Mary Page Marlowe (Steppenwolf), These Paper Bullets! (The Atlantic, The Geffen, Yale Rep), In A Year with 13 Moons (Yale Rep), The Skin of Our Teeth (Berkshire Theatre Group), Don Juan (Westport Playhouse), Dance Dance Revolution (Les Freres Corbusier), Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb), Michael von Siebenburg (Humana). Television: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Monsterland. Vassar College BA, Yale School of Drama MFA. Ari is also the co-host of the podcast Having A Night.

Kate Tarker

Playwright

Kate Tarker is an American playwright who grew up in Germany. Her plays include THUNDERBODIES (Soho Rep.), Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man (The Wilma, FoolsFURY), and Laura and the Sea (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble). She is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship, The Vineyard’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award, and she has been featured twice on the Kilroys List. Kate has been in residence at Tofte Lake Center, SPACE at Ryder Farm, and twice at the MacDowell Colony. She is an alum of Ars Nova Play Group, New Georges Jam, and The Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Program. Kate currently holds commissions from Soho Rep. and Playwrights Horizons’ Soundstage, and she recently published work in the McSweeney’s anthology, I Know What’s Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, as well as in The Paris Review. MFA Yale.

Dustin Wills

Director

Dustin Wills directs theatre and opera. Upcoming: John J. Caswell’s WET BRAIN (Playwrights Horizons), Jeremy O Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You. Recent: Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (Soho Rep & Ma-Yi), Keith Reddin’s Black Snow (Juilliard), Phillip Howze’s Frontières Sans Frontières (Bushwick Starr—named a Top Ten Theatrical Production of 2017 by New York Magazine), Will Arbery’s Plano (Paper Chairs, Austin TX), Casey Llewellyn’s O, Earth (Foundry Theatre—Off-Broadway Alliance Best Play 2016), and a 2018 Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency. Wills has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, created large-scale puppetry pageants with Creative Action, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a Princess Grace Award recipient, as well as a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Daniel Schlosberg

Composer

Brooklyn-based composer-pianist Daniel Schlosberg’s music has been performed by the Dover Quartet, Minnesota Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and Lorelei Ensemble, at venues including Carnegie Hall, (le) poisson rouge, and David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption. Daniel received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards. He has performed as a soloist in Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond’s Only an Octave Apart with the New York Philharmonic, was the pianist for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and has collaborated with Angel Blue, David Shifrin, and the Imani Winds. Daniel is Music Director of NYC’s Heartbeat Opera, for which his radical arrangements of classic operas have garnered national acclaim. Current projects include The Extinctionist, a new opera for Heartbeat Opera, and composition and music direction for Jeremy O. Harris’s A Boy’s Company Presents. www.danschlosberg.com

Lisa Laratta

Scenic Designer

Lisa Laratta received her B.F.A. in Toronto, Ontario and her M.F.A. in Theatrical Design from The University of Texas at Austin and has been in Austin ever since. Lisa creates vast, detailed worlds for stage and screen using architecture, furniture, fabric, string, found objects and paint. Some of the theatre projects she has designed for include Plano, Poor Herman and Baal (paper chairs), Antigonick, Bright Mother (Salvage Vanguard Theatre), Sonnets For An Old Century and UTNT (University of Texas) and Heroic Dose, Now Now Oh Now and Stop Hitting Yourself (Rude Mechs). She also has been Production Designer on films including jumping off bridges and Lover, Beloved. She is teaching set design at the University of Texas.

Montana Levi Blanco

Costume Designer

Soho Rep: Fairview & Is God Is. Broadway: A Strange Loop, The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award). Select Off-Broadway: Ain’t No Mo’, The House That Will Not Stand, Fefu and Her Friends, ‘Daddy’, The Death of the Last Black Man, He Brought Her Heart in a Box, Fabulation, In the Blood, Red Speedo, Pipeline, WAR, and O, Earth. Winner of the Tony, Special Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, two Henry Hewes Design, and two OBIE Awards. Education: Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, Brown University, and the Yale School of Drama. www.montanaleviblanco.com

Masha Tsimring

Lighting Designer

Masha is a NYC based designer for live performance. Recently: Der Freischütz  (Wolf Trap Opera); Straight White Men (Westport); Private (Mosaic); Cunning Little Vixen & Salome (Bard); Puppet Lab (St. Ann’s Warehouse); To the Yellow House (La Jolla Playhouse). Internationally, her work has taken her to Russia, Chile, China, Germany, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Bolivia, and one very big boat. Homes for New York projects include Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, The Kitchen, Atlantic Theatre Co., Clubbed Thumb, PlayCo, Invisible Dog, Page73, and Bushwick Starr. In addition to design, Masha’s interests include progress towards pay equity and a more ethical model of making in the American theater. Masha received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. She is the Masha of design collective, Masha and the Bear Design and a proud member of USA829. More info at www.mashald.com.

Sinan Refik Zafar

Sound Designer

Sinan Refik Zafar (Sound Designer; he/him) Broadway/National Tour: What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-Broadway: MCC Theater, Second Stage, The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick Theater, and The Movement Theatre Company. Regional: The Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and more. sinanzafar.com

Patricia Marjorie

Props Designer

Patrícia Marjorie is a Brazilian Multidisciplinary Artist based in NYC with experience on different types and scopes of projects in theater. Director, Performer, Designer and Craft Master, Patrícia moved to NYC after 19 years of extensive work in theater productions in Brazil, where she got her Bachelor Degree in Performing Arts by Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Experienced executing measurable creative solutions in Arts, Design and interactive marketing for theatre, Patrícia’s theatrical credits have included performing in classical plays like Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (Brasilia 2014), directing modern adaptations as Heiner Muller’s Hamlet- Machine (Brasilia 2001), and new works as On How to Be a Monster by Maria Luiza Muller with At Alia Theatre Company (NYU – Dec 2019); What Will Become of Kaaron by Kaaron Briscoe (Oct 2021) and her own work as a playwright A Song to Keep the Wolves Awake (Nov 2019) both at The Tank NYC.

Her Designer works run from props designer and set dresser for shows like Black Exhibition by Jeremy O. Harris, Preparedness by Hillary Miller and Skinfolk by Jillian Walker all by Bushwick Starr; Set designer for Addressless by Jonathan Payne and Ïn the Southern Breeze by Mansa Ra both at Rattlestick Theatre – to Interactive Performances as Carnavalize the Matter by Rodrigo Fisher at TheatreLab (NYC 2021) and Design solutions for alternative venues like for Lost & Found directed by Meghan Finn at a garage of 4 New York Plaza for Downtown Alliance and The Sunset PICNIC for The Tank at Lincoln Tunnel’s ramp, among others.

Hannah Roccisano

Fight Director

Hannah “Rock” Roccisano is a NYC based director, fight director and educator. Although she is very open to collaborating on any project, she usually finds herself choreographing work either written centuries ago, or very recently. Recent assistant fight directing credits include: Money Heist The Experience (Netflix), Dracula (Classic Stage Company), Sideways the Experience (Peccadillo Theater Company), All the Natalie Portmans (MCC), The Effect (Barrow Street Theater), Crumbs From the Table of Joy and Paradise Blue (The Juilliard School). She has taught at: NYU Tisch, The Knickerbocker Studio, The Atlantic Acting Studio and University of West Florida. Training: Advanced Actor/Combatant and Chair of Development, Society of American Fight Directors; MFA Directing and Master of Letters in Shakespeare, Mary Baldwin University. hannahroccisano@gmail.com

Kasson Marroquin

Production Stage Manager

Kasson Marroquin (they/he) is an AEA stage manager, show-caller, and overall creative freelancer who has worked across continents and contexts for the past eleven years. Off-Broadway and Regionally Kasson has collaborated with companies including Soho Rep., the Park Avenue Armory, the National Asian American Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, Fiasco Theater, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, and Spoleto Festival USA. Kasson’s dance experience includes work with the American Dance Festival, Cora Dance, and four years with Pilobolus, stage managing domestic and international tours, summer festivals, and a run at the Joyce Theater, as well as co-developing and co-teaching a dance-centric stage management curriculum. Kasson’s event work includes MCC Theater’s Miscast (2019 and 2022), Primary Stages Gala 2021, the Queer Liberation March Rally, Yo-Yo Ma’s Day of Action, The Good Place Activation at San Diego Comic-Con, Symphony at the Salk with Leslie Odom Jr., and many corporate conferences. Kasson was an advisor for American Theatre’s September 2020 Digital Issue – Trans Voices Lead the Way, and co-wrote the piece “Pushing Past Norms and Into Equitable Authenticity: How TGNC production and stage managers are leading the field by example”. Kasson grew up around Austin TX, and their career began in Dallas, TX with companies including Shakespeare Dallas, Kitchen Dog Theater, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Theatre Three, and Park Cities Dance. Kasson holds a BA in Theatre from the University of North Texas, and a MFA in Stage Management from the University of California, San Diego.

Kelsey Vivian

Assistant Stage Manager

Kelsey is excited to be working with this wonderful cast and crew. Some credits include: Off-Broadway: Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova), The Mother (Atlantic Theater Company); Twelfth Night, We Rise: A Celebration of Resistance (The Public Theater). NYC: Hamlet Rehearsed, Lear’s Shadow (Smith Street Stage); The Mile-Long Opera (The High Line), Medicine the Musical (Startup Productions); Ghost Story (Little Spoon, Big Spoon Productions); 36 Juniper, Really Really (Wrong House); Larvae (The Alchemical). Regional: Um (The Greenwich Odeum), Pride & Prejudice (Long Wharf Theatre); Into the Breeches!, I Love You…, Godspell, Outside Mullingar, Spamalot, Fox on the Fairway, Young Frankenstein (Saint Michael’s Playhouse); Fun Home, The Call, Blackberry Winter, Native Gardens, American Hero (Vermont Stage Company); Julius Caesar (Vermont Shakespeare Festival). For Madi.

Laura Valenti

Associate Scenic Designer

Laura Valenti is a NYC-based set designer, model builder, and scenic artist. She primarily assists numerous set designers in the city, but mainly Emmy-Award winning set designer, Jason Ardizzone-West, and Tony-Award winning designer, Alexander Dodge. She is also the Assistant Charge Artist at Atlantic Theatre Company and paints for various Off-Broadway shows. Her work can be viewed at www.lauravalentidesigns.com.

John Polles

Assistant Costume Designer

John Polles is a costume designer who was born in New Mexico. They graduated from The University of Mississippi in 2019, earning a BFA in Costume Design. Recent design credits include work with the Juilliard Dance Division. Assistant costume design credits include: The Skin of our Teeth (Broadway), and Berta, Berta (CATF). www.johnpolles.com .

Venus Gulbranson

Associate Lighting Designer

Born in Davao City, Philippines, Venus is a proud Filipino lighting designer for theatre, dance, and events. Credits include: New Studio on Broadway: Breathe; Monumental Theatre: Tick Tick Boom; Head Over Heels; Keegan Theatre: N; Shakespeare in Love; Creative Cauldron: Girls On Madison Street; BSU: Dreamgirls; Dance Concert; Arena Stage: Kathleen Turner Concert; Voices of Now; Dance Place DC: Reform Live; ASST: Ford’s Theatre: Grace; My Lord What A Night; La Jolla Playhouse: To The Yellow House; Signature Theatre: RENT; She Loves Me; Arena Stage: Indecent; Jubilee; Anything Goes; Baltimore Center Stage: The Garden; Barrington Stage Company: Into The Woods. Venus also serves as an Artistic Advisor for Monumental Theatre and is an alum of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Gateway Program for underrepresented artists in the industry. venusgulbranson.com

Tye Hunt Fitzgerald

Associate Sound Designer

Juliana Suaide

Assistant Props Designer