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The Loneliest DJ
By: Skylar Fox & Simon Henriques
Skylar Fox (co-writer/director) and Simon Henriques (co-writer/performer) are the co-artistic directors of Nightdrive. They’ve made a live, immersive alien movie about becoming a better person (Alien Nation, The Paradise Factory); created a town in a theater, complete with city council meetings and a community pancake breakfast cooked onstage (Providence, RI, The Tank); and played a fictionally autobiographical rock concert about an artists’ residency in a haunted foreclosed house (Thank You Sorry, Ars Nova). They’ve been members of Ars Nova’s Makers Lab and Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab. Their show Apathy Boy was a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and Society was a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award. Skylar is the Illusions & Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway and around the world, and has directed Pussy Sludge by Gracie Gardner (HERE) and the Boston premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play (IRNE Award nom.). Simon’s non-Nightdrive writing has won the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival and been published by McSweeney’s. Nightdrive’s latest show, The Grown-Ups, is performed outdoors around a campfire, and just extended its sold-out run for the second time. Tickets on sale at thegrownups.brownpapertickets.
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Ella Lee Davidson (she/her) is an Actor, Writer, Comedian and Biore Pore Strip Model from Albany, New York. She is finishing her last year of undergrad at NYU Tisch where she studies Drama and Dramatic Writing. She writes absurdist comedy plays, her own memoir, television, stand up and is currently working on a one person play about Ben Shapiro because she is a little masochistic. Ella also plays electric bass and is a devoted Barb in her free time.
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Wolfcrush
By: Haygen-Brice Walker
Haygen-Brice Walker is a half-Puerto Rican, half-white trash playwright-creative producer raised by professional bodybuilders in a southern swamp and currently dividing his time between Philadelphia, Nashville, and NYC [because throuples are sexy and fun]. In Philadelphia, Haygen-Brice is the Co-Founder of ON THE ROCKS, a production company devoted to the deep-fried, late-night, BYOB theatrical dumpster-fires that Haygen-Brice makes with Director-Producer, Elaina Di Monaco. He is a member of Page 73’s I73 Writing Group, a 20/21 Season Playwright with Playwrights’ Realm, an Ingram New Works Fellow at Nashville Rep, and an Affiliated Writer with The Playwrights’ Center (2018-2019 Jerome Many Voices Fellow). Haygen-Brice’s work is like if Streetcar Named Desire, Mean Girls, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Beloved got shit-tanked at a Buffalo Wild Wings happy hour (extra bleu cheese please) and then sashayed into the neighborhood bathhouse while belting the soundtrack of In The Heights. Each day, Haygen-Brice is one step closer to becoming Jennifer Lopez, which is trite for a gay boricua, but he’s embracing the cliché and living in his truth.
Directed By: Sarah Boess
Sarah Boess (she/her) is a new work focused director and producer, and the Artistic Director of Sanguine Theatre Company. Recent producing and directing credits include Black Feminist Video Game (Associate Producer, The Civilians), Showing Up (Associate Producer, The Civilians), 24 Hour Play Fest: Nationals (Director, The 24 Hour Plays), A Mouthful of Birds (Director, Boston University), and 26 Pebbles (Director, Boston University). She has worked with a range of companies including Manhattan Theatre Club, The Civilians, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Brown Box Theatre Project, and People’s Light and Theatre. In 2015, she co-founded Tredyffrin Performing Arts Camp, a non-profit community program that connects children in the Philadelphia area to affordable arts education in a safe social environment. She is most passionate about pieces written by lesbian and Trans/GNC playwrights telling specific stories that are accessible to a wide range of audience members.
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Ashley Hope Villanueva is a Latina actress from New York. She is a recent graduate of SUNY New Paltz with a BA in Theater Performance. Ashley’s recently made her Off Off Broadway debut as ‘ASH’ in Girl Power, Sex Positive Joyride by Zoe Kamil. Throughout the pandemic Ashley has been featured in small roles on TV/Film while writing her own web series. She loves all things horror and is so excited to be a part of this production! Follow her journey on instagram @
Madison Findling (She/Her) is an actor and director originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She is a proud alumni of Boston University, where she earned a BFA in Theatre Arts. She can’t wait to see the amazing things Sanguine continues to do. Enjoy the show and thank you for supporting new work!
Born, raised, and based in Brooklyn NY, Danté Crichlow (he/him) is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Recent credits include See You Yesterday (Netflix). His acting training includes time spent at the Atlantic Acting School studio, NYU’s Experimental Theatre wing, and the Black Arts Institute. When Danté isn’t acting he also takes up photography, writing poetry, and dancing wherever music can be heard
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Amputees
By: Quentin Nguyen-duy
Quentin Nguyen-duy began playwriting when he produced a comedic scene for him and his two Asian classmates to perform so they could have speaking roles. As an outlier of two cultures, Quentin‘s curiosity is peaked by stories that lay on the fringes. Recently, he oversaw a production of this comedic scene — which has now expanded into his full-length show “Amputees” — at the Boston University Fringe Festival, and has had the same work produced by the Asian American Playwrights’ Collective (AAPC) in their Cape Cod Festival and ArtsEmerson. He made his TV debut as a staff writer for the operatic digital series “desert in” with the Boston Lyric Opera. During his time in lockdown, Quentin co-authored “#SinceYallWantMeToBeWhite” for the Pao Arts Center virtual play festival, contributed to Company One as a member of their Volt Lab Writers’ cohort, worked alongside the Vietnamese Boat People Podcast and the Sống Collective to tell stories from his outlook of the Vietnamese experience. He currently holds a BFA from Boston University and resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Directed By: Sarah Shin
Sarah Shin (She/Her) is a Korean American director/performer/producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Recent directing credits include Final Contact (Central Square Theater), A Very Herrera Holiday (New Repertory Theater), The First Pineapple and Other Folktales (Central Square Theater), The Miseducation of Drea and Lon (Company One Theatre), ZAPI Artists’ This is the Hour: Under Our Own Pen, Nothing Rhymes with Juneteenth (Free Soil Arts Collective), and Amputees (Boston University). Associate/Assistant Credits include Twelfth Night (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare) My H8 Letter 2 the Gr8 American Theatre (Assistant Director, Public Theater, Ma-Yi Theatre/AYE DEFY), Endlings (Assistant Director, NYTW), Moby Dick (Choreography Assistant, ART). She is the Co-Founding Artistic Producer of Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (AATAB). Sarah is also a proud Board Member of StageSource, Advisory Board Member of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 2020-2021 Asian American Arts Alliance Virtual Residency Cohort Member, and a Steering Committee Member of API Arts Network.
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Eric J. Cheng (he/him) is a Chinese American actor, writer, and filmmaker based in LA and NYC. He is a 2021 alum of the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals and graduate of Harvard College. He is passionate about creating comedically-driven queer and Asian stories and dancing to Kim Petras.
Co-founder of NYC’s premiere Asian American sketch comedy group, MODEL MAJORITY, Kevin Chew‘s true passion is being a stay at home Brooklyn dad to his two girls and teaching them about the New York Yankees. Acting credits include Step Up 3D, Blue Bloods and The Blacklist.
Rob Chen is an NYC based actor/director working in film, music, and media. He’s made appearances on shows like Law & Order: SVU and The Sinner, and he’s also a member of Model Majority, NYC’s first Asian American sketch comedy team. He likes pistachio ice cream and anime.
Christina Chen was raised in Tokyo, Beijing, and San Diego, and is an actor and writer currently based in NYC. Previous theatre includes GIRL POWER SEX POSITIVE JOY RIDE (SheNYC Theatre Festival at the Connelly Theatre), VIETGONE (Company One Theatre), THE WOLVES (Lyric Stage Company), and FLYING TIGERS FLYING AWAY (York Theatre). Christina is from a multi-cultural family and is passionate about work that unites people from different communities.
Content Warning:
Wolfcrush includes a moment of self harm. This moment is read in the stage directions but not phsycially acted out.