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Can't Ignore The Rat
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Emma Lea Hasselbach – Playwright
Emma Lea Hasselbach (they/she) is a NYC-based theatre artist who works as writer, sound designer, composer, and educator. Emma is a frequent collaborator with Ana Radulescu. They are a member of the 2022/23 Wingspace Mentorship Program and a Fordham Lincoln Center graduate. @theemlea emmaleahasselbach.com
Ana Radulescu – Director
Ana Radulescu (she/her) is a Romanian-American theatre director currently based out of Chapel Hill,
North Carolina. In 2019 she graduated Greensboro College with a degree in Theatre Directing and has gone on to work with various arts organizations and theatre companies including the University of Pennsylvania, Skidmore College, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Burning Coal Theatre Company, Triad Stage, the National Theatre Institute, Hangar Theatre Company, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Built for Collapse, The National Women’s Theatre Festival, and Greensboro College. She has served as the Associate Artistic Director at Burning Coal Theatre Company where she continues to direct experimental works and champion new plays.
Michael Liebhauser – Movement Director
Michael Liebhauser (he/him) is a performer and stage combat instructor/choreographer whose style has been described as “like that of a loping, grinning Jack Skelington” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “[he] seems like he’s having fun” by Encore Rhode Island, and “loud and very sweaty” by a third grader from Concordia Elementary School in Boulder CO. He couldn’t be happier to be working on this show with this community of artists.
Taylor Harvey – Intimacy Coordinator
Taylor Harvey (she/her) is an actor, narrator, and intimacy choreographer based here in NYC. She’s completed Levels 1 and 2 of training with IDC and supplemental education through TIE and is very excited to be working on this project with all these wonderful humans.
Eliza Kelley – Essie
Eliza Kelley (she/they) was born and raised in Southern California, they are an alumnus of The University of North Carolina School of The Arts, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and The Iowa Writers Workshop. Some of their past credits include Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, Harper Pitt in Angels in America, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Arkadina in The Seagull. In their free time they enjoy making shadow puppets and playing the banjo.
Pedro Gonzalez – Rat
Pedro Gonzalez (he/him) is a New York City based actor, writer, and director originally from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He is a recent graduate of Fordham University’s theatre program and is thrilled to be a part of this reading with such a wonderful cast and creative team! Some of his past roles include: Agamemnon (Aulis), Anibal (Cloud Tectonics), Jake (Continuity).
Nathan Malin – David
Nathan Malin (he/him) is a New York and Boston based actor and director. Previous credits include Just Tell No One, Witness (Arlekin Players), Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Admissions, The Sound Inside (SpeakEasy), The Crucible (u/s, Bedlam), Vanity Fair and The Happy Prince/Matchless (u/s, Underground Railway Theater), 1984 and The Lathe of Heaven (Boston University), Maura Dunne (The Poets’ Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Boston Theatre Company). Training: Boston University, Shakespeare & Company. www.nathan-malin.com.
Chidube Egbo – Jon
Chidube Egbo (he/him) is an actor/creative based in New York City. He holds a BFA in acting from Syracuse University. Recent performance credits include Chicken & Biscuits at Portland Playhouse and Why This Night? at ART’s Mercury Festival. He feels so honored to be a part of this production and would like to thank the team at Sanguine Theatre Company.
At God's Back
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Camille Simone Thomas – Playwright
Camille Simone Thomas (she/her) is a Jamaican/African-American playwright, screenwriter, and creative from Detroit, Michigan. She is currently the Broadway Advocacy Coalition 2023 Artivism fellow. She is an Associate Company Member of Sanguine Theatre Company. She was a New Harmony Project finalist, an Art House Inkubator Finalist, and a Reel Sisters Film festival fellowship recipient. Her work has been developed with Dixon Place, National Women’s Theatre Festival, Blackboard, and Dramatic Question Theatre among others.
Si Si Boudoin – Director
Si Si (they/them) is an actor, director and filmmaker based in NYC. Their most recent projects include leading in “I’M SO SORRY BABY” a film by Friday Anderson. Writing, directing, and producing “Switch Seats With Me” a sketch comedy show featuring all our friends and lovers, dramaturging Ellipses, a new musical, directing Camille Thomas’s pAreNt pLus lOan, and director of JJ Maley’s I’m (Also) Not that girl. They have also worked with The LGBTQ Center in coalition building and The Next Generation Project for the advocacy of TGNC folks across the state of New York. They hope to use storytelling as not only a medium for creating change, but facilitating joy and belonging.
Sarah Hecht – Stage Manager
Sara Hecht (she/her) is a stage manager and artist from the California Bay Area. She is currently a student at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, where she is studying for her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Production and Design: Stage Management. Sara believes in fostering safe and inclusive working environments where artists can feel comfortable sharing. Her work aims to uplift others and help them share their stories.
Amara Brady – Dramaturg
Amara Brady (she/her) is a generative artist & cultural dramaturg. Her artistic ethos is to show the humanity and divinity of Black women. Current fellow of WP Theater’s Playwrighting Lab (2022-2024) & The Public Theater’s Devised Working Group (2023-2024). All Power to all people. Ashé.
Jalen Rashad – Jacob
Jalen Rashad (he/him) is a NYC-based actor originally from Detroit, Michigan. Graduated from New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts where he studied Film and Television Performance. He is absolutely thrilled to be making his New York debut with Sanguine Theatre Company. A proud Alumni of Michigan State University. Jalen wants to thank you, family and friends for all the love and support. www.OfficialJalenRashad.com |IG: @_jayrashad
Jordan Antonette Mosley – Iylan
Jordan Antonette Mosley (she/her) originally Metro Detroit. Received her MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama class of 2021. She is excited to be working with fellow artists from her hometown. God bless all the little black girls.
Gabrielle Barlatier – Gabby
Gabrielle Barlatier (she/her) is a Haitian-American actor, born and raised partly in NJ and Miami and currently based in New York. Most recently, she’s been honored to play Catherine in Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge”, Mercy Lewis in “The Crucible” and Travis Younger in “A Raisin in the Sun.” She can be seen in short films such as “PG-13” a New Faces New Voices selection and “To the Girl that Looks like Me” a Student Academy Award Finalist or heard for her voice acting in “The Matumbilas” on Kweli TV and “Prestige the Podcast” on Apple podcasts. When off screen, Gabrielle writes and directs her own films and runs a production company, called The Conscious Co-Creative, where she helps actors produce their reels. She is honored and excited be part of this staged read of At God’s Back and hopes you enjoy the show!
Caretake of her
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kanishk pandey – playwright
kanishk pandey (he/him/his) is a joyous exile who attempts to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. As a writer, he believes that art must be in constant conflict with society and express the love all beings deserve. His work interrogates this through the guiding light of the oversoul – that all souls are intertwined and that consciousness can only exist through dialogue and connection. And he follows these concepts in everything he does, be it plays, short stories, films, essays, poetry, graphic novels, and more. As long as he gets to talk to you.
Neeta Thandani – Co-Director
Neeta Thadani (she/they) is a queer Desi-American actor, writer, director, and producer for theatre, film, and podcasts. They are a recent grad from NYU Tisch with training from Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Atlantic Acting School, Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Stonestreet Studios, and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Nine Muses Lab. Their interests in artmaking and audio storytelling revolve around the crafting of South Asian identity in America, stories centering diaspora, queerness, caste privilege, and the decolonization of educational work. Neeta is so excited to be co-directing Caretake of Her!
Max Mooney – Co-Director & Line Producer
Max Mooney (he/him/she/her) is a playwright, director, stage manager, producer, dramaturg, and theatre educator who works primarily in New York City and the greater Philadelphia area. Max graduated from NYU Tisch’s Playwrights Horizons Theatre School in 2022, studying directing and playwriting. He has worked with Ars Nova, New Victory Theatre, Playwrights Downtown, The Tank, SoHo Playhouse, Garden Level Theatre and The Strafford Players to create work. Currently, Max is the Director of Programming at Sanguine Theatre in Brooklyn.
Arjun Biju – Cyrus
Arjun Biju (he/him) is an actor and writer from San Jose, California. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, Arjun has gone on to appear in various professional workshops, plays, and short films. On weekends he likes to go to the Italian cafe across the street and pick up a toasted focaccia sandwich with avocado, hot pepper jelly, italian ham, and red onions.
Mia Walsh Corbett – Lily
Mia Walsh Corbett (she/her) is an actor and writer originally from Verona, NJ and is currently based in Brooklyn. She is a passionate collaborator, quick-thinker, and on-demand crier. She thinks she’s funny. Mia studied acting (Atlantic Acting School, Stonestreet Studios) and creative writing at New York University, where she graduated cum laude in December 2020. Previous credits include Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Atlantic Theater Stage 2), Because the Grass Started to Breathe (Garden Level Theatre Co.), among others. You can find her @miawalshcorbett on instagram, or miawalshcorbett.com.
Michael Berbano – Garp
Michael Berbano (They/Them) is an NYC/Philadelphia based actor, and is ecstatic to be working on this new piece! Graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, they have been involved in numerous projects on the stage, as well as film and commercials. Recent projects include “Levi’s Big Leap” a new musical, as well as “Encore!” a national tour adapting 19th century gothic literature such as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven.” When not performing, Michael enjoys eating sushi, online chess, and reading.
Ethan Jones – Brian
Ethan Jones (he/him) is a NYC-based actor from LA. He most recently can be seen on Hulu’s “The Food that Built America.” Other recent credits include an indie short film opposite Keith William Richards (Uncut Gems), a SuperBowl commercial, and multiple off-Broadway new works. Ethan graduated in 2022 with a BFA from NYU Tisch. This is his Sanguine debut! ethanjones.work
Char Nakashima-Conway – Midori
Char Nakashima-Conway is a Bay Area -raised artist and graduate of New York University’s Drama and Creative Writing programs. Char’s recent work — in writing, performance, dramaturgy and design — centers live-action role-play, escape rooms, and alternate reality games. Inspired by forum sites and folklore in the digital age, she strives to turn intangible spaces physical. Love to this team!
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Founded in 2010, Sanguine Theatre Company is a new-work laboratory that dismantles barriers for emerging artists. We create communal, collaborative processes and rehearsal rooms dedicated to artistic joy. Sanguine sees a world where any artist, regardless of background, class, race, gender, age, or education has the ability to professionally introduce themselves to the theatre industry and exercise their artistic voice in a fully supported container.
In recent years, we’ve expanded our programming to include more robust new play development workshop offerings, an open play submission process, and a virtual education series catered to managing the practical business aspects of a career in the arts. We practice a unique model of horizontal leadership by balancing our decision-making across our Board of Directors, Core Administrative Team, and Associate Artist community.
Our core team
Sarah Boess
She / Her
Michael Valladares
He / Any
Max Mooney
He/Him, She/Her
Honey Ferhat
She / Her
Our board of directors
Jillian Robertson, Co-Board Chair
Anna Fearheiley
Ken Sims
Emily Tiernan
Eric Tam
Our associate artists
Katherin Behena-Benitez
Nia Banks
Amara Brady
Zahra Budhwani
Michelle Chan
Stevie Jae Davis
Elissa Goetschius
Nico Krell
Lim Mui
Michelle Moriarty
Cortland Nesley
Joseph O’Malley
Bea Perez-Arche
Lucy Powis
George Strus
Camille Simone Thomas
Sarah Shin
Peter Walsh
Annie Wang
Andrew Watkins