Welcome to 1,001 Plays!
Welcome to 1,001 Plays! 1,001 Plays 2021-2022 Season Connecting playwrights and audiences from worlds apart We are pleased to present 30 original student works reflecting the theme of trust.
Meet Our Global Partners
ARTISTIC ADVISER
Manuel Guerrero has a Master of Arts in acting and directing and a Ph.D. in History. He works as a professor of Performing Arts at UPC. His research focuses on the relationship between Theater and History.
Paulo Ricardo Berton Playwright, Theater Director, Translator and Professor both at the undergrad (ART) and graduate (PPGLit) levels at the Santa Catarina Federal University (UFSC, Brazil). B.A in Theater Direction (UFRGS, Brazil/1999), M.A in Literature (PUCRS, Brazil/2007) and Ph.D. in Theater (CU Boulder, CO, USA/2010) with a full doctorate scholarship CAPES/Fulbright. Credits: The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter (2016, translator, actor and director), ART (2018, translator and director). Publications: The Vietnamese Theatrical Tradition in the Plot of Monsun (2017), Conflict as the Foundation of Drama (2019).
Memberships: Forum Junge Bühnenangeh.riger (Berlin/2001), Lincoln Center's Director's Lab (NY/2010). Secretary of Culture of UFSC (2012 2014). Coordinates the NEEDRAM (Research Center in Theatre Directing and Dramatic Writing), the SBEDR (Brazilian Seminar of Dramatic Writing), and the Miletrê Theater Company
FACULTY MENTORS
MANUEL GUERRERO
CHRISTOPHER “CJ” ODHIAMBO JOSEPH
Professor of Literature and Applied Drama/Theatre at Moi University’s Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies. Dean School of Graduate Studies and National Chairman, Kenya National Drama and Film Festival Committee. He is an arts adjudicator and facilitator. Has written and directed plays. Has published widely in the fields of Literature, Applied Drama/Theatre, Popular Culture and Film. Has presented papers and keynote addresses on various topics in Literature, Theatre and Popular Culture in conferences and Seminars. In 2007 was awarded a two year Melon Research Fellowship at Wits University at the Department of African Literature and Dramatic Art Division. In 2013 was awarded Wits University’s SPARC Distinguished Scholar Award and is also Alexander van Humboldt Senior Research Fellow. Here are sampled publications: Volume Editor with Christine Matzke, Lena van der Hoven and Hilde Roos, African Theatre 19; Opera & Music Theatre (2020); Guest Editor Ricarda de Haas, Marie Anne Kohl and Samuel Ndogo.”Power to the People?” Patronage, Intervention and Transformation in African Performance Arts” Matatu 5,1 Journal for African, Culture and Society, (2019); Orientations of Drama, Theatre and Culture. Opiyo Mumma, Evan Mwangi and Christopher Odhiambo, Eds. Nairobi: KDEA (1998); Theatre for Development in Kenya: In Search of Appropriate Procedure and Methodology; ‘In Search of New Performance Spaces: Theatre Practitioners and FM Radio Stations in Kenya” in Ed. Kene Igweonu and Osita Okegbue. Performative Inter Actions in African Theatre3: Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa;“Ambiguities and Paradoxes: Framing Northern Intervention in the Constant Gardener in Hollywood’s Africa After 1994;“Intervention theatre traditions in East Africa and the paradox of patronage”. In East African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes; “From Diffusion to Dialogic Space: FM Radio in Kenya” in Radio Publics and Communities in Africa: Shared Pasts, Shared Futures; In Between of Activism and Education: Intervention Theatre in Kenya” in Ed. Hazel Barnes, Arts, Activism and Therapies: Transforming Communities in Africa.Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society (No.44).; “Memory, Expiation and Healing in Bole Butake’s Family Saga. Co authored with Naomi Nkaleah. The English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies.
CARLOS GARCíA ROSELL ARAMBURÚ Director of the Performing Arts area at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) since 2020. Actor, theater director, and university professor since 2011.
DJANET SEARS is a playwright, a director, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Her work has graced such stages as the National Arts Centre, Mirvish Productions, Tarragon Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop, Centaur Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, the Public Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Crossroads Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Grand Theatre, St. Louis Black Repertory, Canadian Stage, and Factory Theatre. Best known plays, Harlem Duet and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, have been widely published and translated. She has been awarded several honours, including a Governor General's Literary Award, a Canadian Screenwriting Award, the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award and a Gold Prize at the International Radio Festival of New York. She is a founding member of the Obsidian Theatre Company, and the editor of two anthologies: Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Vols. I & II.
Alice Wrigglesworth is originally from Brisbane, Australia, but she has spent more than half her life living abroad. In addition to Korea, China, and Kuwait, she has lived in Vanuatu, New Zealand, England, and the United States. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her reluctant teenage daughters, reading, baking, jogging, and traveling. GAO “Alex” ZIWEN associate professor at Nanjing University, head of the Department of Theatre, Film and TV. He received a bachelor's degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University and a PhD in Theatre. In 2011, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. In 2013, he participated in the Austria Resident Artist project. In 2019, he was selected as Excellent Youth of Social Sciences in Jiangsu Province. His main research interests are avant garde theater and theater
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Professor Wrigglesworth has been teaching English language and composition at the university level for 18 years, primarily in Korea, with stints in Kuwait and China. Prior to settling in academia, she worked as a content developer and editor in educational publishing. Currently a Ph.D. candidate researching peer review in the writing classroom, she holds a B.A. in Journalism and Government Studies, an M.A. in Creative Writing, and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics.
Alice Wrigglesworth is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University Korea. Since joining Mason Korea in the fall of 2017, she has primarily taught academic and professional writing to freshman students undertaking 100 level composition courses.
The Thankless Children of Civilization: Staging China in American Theatre.
ALICE WRIGGLESWORTH
Translation: American Avant Garde Theater: A History (written by Arnold Aronson). Stage Plays: Day and Night Here (2012), Pollution (2013) and Hometown (2019).
GRADUATE MENTOR
AGUSHOMA STEPHEN Hello. My name is Agushoma Stephen, producer, comedian, and actor at Fireside Players, a company founded by Octav and me. I just turned 23, and I am a graduate of Moi University, Class of ’21. I received a Bachelor of Science in Education. I am an outgoing person, a social magnet, and therefore I am a great fan of interactions and all platforms that allow me to interact with new people. I love watching movies, bike riding, and traveling and, as such, I love to achieve all the good things in life. Inasmuch as they are vanity, and will pass, I want to ensure that they pass through me. Acting is not only my passion, but it’s also in my blood. As I slowly hone my writing skills, my dream is to take the world by storm in theatre and film. I hope this will come to fruition.
SARAH ABERNETHY
Sarah Jean Abernethy is a third year student at Victoria College in the University of Toronto double majoring in English and Drama with a minor in Creative Expression and Society. She is an emerging theatre writer, director, and occasional actress. She also is a News Editor for and regular contributor to Victoria College’s undergraduate newspaper The Strand. Her monologue “The Front Steps” is a scene in a larger play in progress which seeks to question the messages sent to young girls about “empowerment” and sexuality, and who, in the end, this supposed empowerment really benefits.
Meet Our Playwrights & Their Plays (listed alphabetically by author)
Megan Ayers is a current Sophomore at George Mason University pursuing a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Theatre with a concentration in Theatre Studies and a minor in Film and Media Studies. She has been involved in theatrical productions since middle school and is glad to be able to participate in productions again post shutdown. Last year, Megan participated in The Mason Players' Originals! as Tessa in Inside Are We Monsters? and Josnei in Canasta for 1,001 Plays. This year, she participated as a playwright in Players4Change’s For Your Consideration event and GMU’s chapter of Alpha Psi Omega’s 24 Hour Play and is very excited to be involved with 1,001 Plays again, but this time as a playwright. Megan hopes to continue to write pieces like Nobody that showcase her passion for theatre and for writing about topics she loves.
MEGAN AYERS
ALEX BERRIOS
Alexandra Berrios is a current Senior at George Mason University, studying Theater and Korean Studies. Since she was little, she has always known her passion was writing, however, she has also participated in acting for both stage and screen. At Mason she has been able to see her work The Inner Critic performed in The Mason Players Originals! and Ainara in the first round of 1,001 Plays. She looks forward to this year's 1,001 Plays and hopes it continues to expand.
Ana Lucía Neyra Casanova is an actress in the 9th cycle of the Performing Arts program at UPC. She was awarded Best Young Actor at the FirstGlance Film Festival in Los Angeles (2020) and is a member of the UPC Academic Excellence Group. She has worked as a host for numerous programs, as an announcer, has participated in many contests and festivals, and served as a workshop facilitator. She currently works as an Executive Production Assistant at Sonder Compañía. The focus of her creative practice is to foster an honest and transparent encounter with “the other”, with their personal history and their cultural heritage. Ana shares the legacy of Peruvian indigenous heritage through her work.
ANA LUCíA NEYRA CASANOVA
Carol Chen is a student at the University of Toronto. They are currently studying Drama, alongside Biology and English. Their passions lie in storytelling, and they often find themselves exploring and experimenting with a variety of mediums from comics, to prose, and to of course playwriting. They hope to be able to continue telling stories far into the future.
CAROL CHEN
YUNAH CHOI
Yunah Choi is from Seoul, Korea. She is currently a freshman studying Conflict Analysis & Resolution at George Mason University Korea. Since she was young, she has been interested in writing. Yunah participated in this year’s 1,001 plays by writing a monologue about the theme, Trust. In her free time, Yunah enjoys watching plays, writing, and singing.
CARLA D’AMBROZ
Carla D’ambroz is an actress and playwright, who is currently an undergraduate student in Performing Arts at the Santa Catarina Federal University. She acted in Letters for June (2018) and This is not Emilia Galotti, after G.E. Lessing (2019). Her play Feijoada has been selected for the 1001 PLAYS Project, 2022 edition.
MALIKA DAYA
Malika Daya is an emerging director, writer, and community arts facilitator. Malika is a third generation, South Asian East African Canadian, fascinated by stories of the diaspora and how living between cultures produces its own sets of values, challenges, and narratives. Malika is currently pursuing Global Development and Theatre at the University of Toronto. She is inspired by her experiences working on Productions like We are Proud to Present, The Shell, and This is War. She most recently directed Letters to My Grandma by Anusree Roy as part of the Paprika Festival’s Directors Lab.
THALIA DIAS
Thalia Dias is an actress and playwright, who is currently an undergraduate student in Performing Arts at the Santa Catarina Federal University. She received third and first prizes in the ‘Poetry at School’ contest (2014 and 2015) and adapted for the stage the short story Carcará (2019) also as a director and actress. She can currently be seen acting in Villains in Crisis (2021). Her play This One or That One? has been selected for the 1,001 PLAYS Project, 2022 edition.
LIZ DONOVAN
Liz Donovan is an actress and playwright, who is currently an undergraduate student in Performing Arts at the Santa Catarina Federal University. Her play Romeo and Juliet has been selected for the 1001 PLAYS Project, 2022 edition.
PRAISE FURAHA
Hi, my name is Praise Furaha, 22 years old. I am a third year student at Moi University. I have a passion for acting. I love reading novels, which motivates me as an up and coming writer. I love taking pictures, singing, travelling, and watching movies.
Christina Gross is a third year student at the University of Toronto majoring in English and Drama, focusing on performance and playwriting. She began acting in high school, touring the island of Taiwan with a professional youth theatre group and has most recently appeared in the UC Follies’ The Year and Two of Us Back Here. A lover of storytelling and comedy, she is often found writing silly little conversations into her laptop, often featuring way too many exclamation points!!! Inspired by her experiences as a biracial woman, Christina hopes to explore the complexities of being multiracial in her writing.
CHRISTINA GROSS
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HEIDI HAMMOND
SONG JIA
Song Jia is a master’s student of the liberal arts at Nanjing University in China. She specializes in theater, film, and TV criticism, especially transcultural drama adaptation and theater studies. She has published several articles. At the same time, she has participated in film and drama writing, directing and acting many times. Her works include Looking at the Shadows (a micro documentary), Youth Years (a micro film), Illusion (drama & theater), etc. She also participated in the venture capital project of the 5th International Women's Film Festival (Producer of The Little World). This is the second year she has taken part in the 1,001 Plays Project, and she is focusing on the female’s dilemma and true emotions of daily life.
Shi Jun, a post 90s girl born in Nanjing, graduated from JXUST with a major in Mechanical Engineering and is currently studying for MFA at Nanjing University. Always be passionate about how one story develops and how it ends. A girl full of contradictions, not good at talking, an amateur of drama, but still dreaming of becoming an excellent story teller, recently served as the stage supervisor in the play "Hometown" written by Gao Ziwen.
SHI JUN
EDUARDO KARASIAK
Eduardo Karasiak is an actor, screenwriter and playwright, who is currently an undergraduate student in Performing Arts at the Santa Catarina Federal University. He holds a BA in Publicity & Advertising from UNISUL. His play The Night Shift has been selected for the 1,001 PLAYS Project, 2022 edition.
VANESSA KELLY
Hi, my name is Vanessa Kelly, a 22 year old girl studying English and Literature. I love acting; it’s my lifelong passion. Be it theatre or film, I enjoy bringing characters to life. I love reading novels, the Harry Potter series being my favourite. I play badminton as a pastime. Listening to music is also a favourite hobby of mine. Only recently I tried my hand at writing, and I'm eager to see how it goes.
Shelley Mayer is a fourth year music and drama student at the University of Toronto. She is currently in the playwriting and performance streams. Shelley started writing short stories when she was six. She also performed in several musicals. Shelley discovered her passion for playwriting during a high school drama project, when she got to write her own scene and present it with her scene partner. Since then, she has written many dramatic works on her own, including a screenplay for a potential TV series.
SHELLEY MAYER
I am Murage Felix, currently a second year student at the renowned University with a Difference, Moi University (Main Campus). I am pursuing a course in the vast field of Education. What I like most is acting and this currently new field of scriptwriting under the wing of Fireside Players and being supervised and guided by our director and mentor. I am also a dancer and engage in dance activities, partially and sometimes wholly. Adding an experience with 1,001 Plays will be a great achievement for me.
FELIX MURAGE MBURU
VINCENT OTIENO OKECH
My name is Vincent Otieno. I’m an undergraduate student at Moi University, currently pursuing a BSC in Computer Science. I’m an actor, script writer, and director. Some of my hobbies include writing, swimming, working out, reading, and design. I like being a problem solver, so that makes me unsettled most of the time but I assure you, I’m awesome.
Student of Theatre and Film at Moi University. Writer, Director, Actor, Musician, Dance Choreographer Hobbies: Playing the piano, writing poetry and going on hikes. I have a knack for languages as I can speak six languages: English, French, Swahili, Luo, a little Spanish and a little German.
OCTAVIOUS ONYANGO OBONYO
Bella Panciocco is an emerging playwright who is thrilled to be involved in 1,001 Plays again! Primarily a stage actor, Bella has recently appeared in productions of A Midsummer's Night Dream (City of Fairfax Theatre Company), Are You There? (Mason Players) and Rags (Mason Players). She is a sophomore at George Mason University, working toward her BFA in Theater with a Concentration in Performance. Her play Tomorrow is My Day was featured in George Mason’s 2020 1,001 Plays and The Mason Players’ Originals! She wants to thank her mom and dad for being her biggest supporters.
BELLA PANCIOCCO
FRANCESCA PERI
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Writing has always been part of my nature, I started to do it without knowing that I was doing it.My name is Francesca Peri and I consider myself a great lover of life, I have written everything, because for me writing is a way of living. I am a student of performing arts and I want to dedicate myself to write scripts and turn stories into bridges between people and their emotions.
JEREMY PRITCHARD
A Chinese Aurora who writes stories in her dreams
A lover of Disney music and musicals
WANG QIANYI
A fan of Disney's bad bear Lotso on the loose
A sheep that's wild about crime fiction and the Grandmother paradox
A liberal arts student with dreams of becoming a forensic scientist
Hemali Ratnaweera is a third year student at the University of Toronto, pursing a major in Theater. Her passion for theatre stems from her high school experiences of acting in plays and musicals such as Rock of Ages and Oedipus Rex. Though she started out as an actor, Hemali has a budding love for playwrighting that she is very excited to explore as an emerging artist. She hopes to use her art as a medium to generate conversation about issues she feels passionate about, such as mental health as well as the intersections of identity.
HEMALI RATNAWEERA
ERIC TOMAS
Eric Tomas is a theater director, actor and playwright, who is currently an undergraduate student in Performing Arts at the Santa Catarina Federal University. He directed and acted in This is not Emilia Galotti, after G.E. Lessing (2019). He was a member of the NEEDRAM Japanese Theater Study Group (2020). His play Cuisse de Nymphe has been selected for the 1001 PLAYS Project, 2022 edition.
Yin Yuanwei is a student studying for a master’s degree in Drama at Nanjing University. She received her bachelor’s in Drama and Film Studies at Nanjing University.
YIN YUANWEI
WU YIZHEN
Wu Yizhen is a junior at Nanjing University and a major in the department of Theatre, Film and Television. Wu Yizhen won the National Scholarship of China in the 2019 2020 Academic Year and the First Prize in the 20th Beijing Film Academy Animation Academy Awards. Wu Yizhen studies in the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of Nanjing University and has acted as the director or playwright in several short films and plays.
I’m Jennifer Zhou from Nanjing University. I’m currently a senior student major in Drama and Literature. I enjoy a colorful and challenging life I used to be a part time waitress at Pizza Hut and an intern at Disneyland, which brought inspiration to my plays. I have great passion for the world and for different kinds of people. I believe wonderful things will always happen in the near future.
JENNIFER ZHOU/ZHOU XIAOBING
Actor: Valeria Venturo Video Editor: Cherry Zhang
Director: Sydnie Phillips
Directed by Jenna Harris
I Agree That We're Not Friends by Malika Daya The Front Step by Sarah Abernethy
NEEDRAM, Santa Caterina Federal University, Brazil
Feijoada by Carla D'Ambroz
Video Editor: Cherry Zhang
Please note that everyone listed is a student.
Mashakara by Ana Lucia Neyra Casanova Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Peru
Agatha in Digital land by Song Jia Nanjing University, China
Presented Readings & Production Teams
Director: Malika Daya
The Art Circle by Carol Chen Trust by Shelley Mayer
Actors: Dorian Grey, Aaheli Mukherjee and Daniel Nguyen
Lost in the Clouds by Wu Yizhen Nanjing University, China
Actors: Darcy Gerhart, Soykan Karayol and Aisling Murphy Video Editor: Cherry Zhang
Director: Hemali Ratnaweera
CENTRE FOR DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES (CDTPS), at the University of Toronto Creative Team
Dinner at the Pear Dragon by Christina Gross Monologue #2 by Hemali Ratnaweera
READINGS:
Production Design and Artwork: Benny Soave Actors: Darcy Gerhart, Jenna Harris, Soykan Karayol, Tessa Maki, Aisling Murphy & Monica VideoWalshEditors: Jenna Harris and Cherry Zhang
PLAYWRIGHTS:
Dramaturg Peter Dasher Stage Manager - Fe Miranda
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY KOREA Creative Team
Spring 2022 Dionjala Janice Thompson Actor Student
Actors: Christina Gross, Ayesha Maria Khan and Nicholas Spina Video Editor: Cherry Zhang
Spring 2022 MinJi Kim Actor Student
Director - Professor Theresa Ohanian
George Mason University, USA
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY USA Creative Team
Semester Name Role Status
The Night Shift
Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Alice Wrigglesworth Faculty Mentor Faculty
Vibrance by Jeremy Pritchard
Fall 2021 Yunah Choi Playwright Student
Spring 2022 Enoch Mulembe Jr Actor Student
Spring 2022 Ji Eun Lee Actor Student
Presented Readings
By Eduardo Karasiak
Trevor Handlin Palhares
Ahmet Cavus Oliveira
Director: Christina Gross
Spring 2022 Hannah Lee Actor Student
Santa Catarina Federal University, Brazil Cast
Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Jiye Chang Coordinator Staff
Spring 2022 Junyoung Son Actor Student
By Felix Murage Mburu
Director - Paisley LoBue
Moi University, Kenya Cast
Dramaturg - Josiah Arnett
Class Assistant Stage Managers – Josiah Arnett, Jay Dews, Kevin Kaluarachchi, & Viann Tran
Monologue 2
University of Toronto, Canada Cast Steve Pham
Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Strunk
Class Assistant Stage Managers - Steven Franco, Savannah Lagana, Bella Panciocco & Carl Saunders Widowed Before Death
By Hemali Ratnaweera
Director - Albee Horowitz
Dramaturg - Josiah Arnett
Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Strunk
Erin Birchfield, Dyllan Hutchison, Julian Lee, Quinn Schwendiman & Rylan Snyder
Stage Manager - Fe Miranda
Rachael Abbott Agnes
Director Lillian Della Maggiora Dramaturg Theresa Ohanian
Nanjing University, China
Cast Erica Bartell Eileen
Cast
Dyllan Hutchison Gene
Dinner at the Pearl Dragon
Martin Desjardins Old Man
Assistant Stage Manager Rachael Abbott
Albee Horowitz Joe
Ty Wright Steven
Class Assistant Stage Managers Marco Arias, Shayla Beckman, Sharon Caraballo, Nolwenn Favre & Benji Lord Bag By Wang Qianyi
Steve Pham Bear
Director - Paisley LoBue
Dramaturg - Megan Lederman
By Christina Gross University of Toronto, Canada
Saralinda Contompasis Old Woman
Sarah RachaelStrunkAbbott
Shayla Beckman Joana
Santa Catarina Federal University, Brazil
1,001 Plays Co-Directors
Cast
This One or That One?
Dramaturg Megan Lederman
Nicholas Horner & Kristin Johnsen Neshati Production Manager
Fe Miranda
Assistant Stage Managers
Class Assistant Stage Managers - Lillian Della Maggiora, Keaton Lazar, Nathan Tilley & Brett Womack
Director - Lillian Della Maggiora
By Thalia Dias
Dr. Ruth Yamamoto
Stage Manager
Elie Griggs Camila
Stage Manager Fe Miranda Production Team
Lillian Della Maggiora
Directors
TheresaPaisleyHorowitzLoBueOhanian
Class Assistant Stage Managers
Shayla
Albee
Marco Arias
BrettViannNathanCarlBellaBenjiKeatonSavannahKevinStevenNolwennJayLillianSharonBeckmanCaraballoDellaMaggioraDewsFavreFrancoKaluarachchiLaganaLazarLordPancioccoSaundersTilleyTranWomack
Josiah Arnett
Dramaturgs
Sloan Martin Background Coordinator
Caleb McMurtry
Acting Company
Erica Bartell Erin
Peter TheresaMeganDasherLedermanOhanian
Lighting Coordinators
Merin Lemoine
Sound Coordinator
TrevorElieMartinSaralindaAhmetShaylaBirchfieldBeckmanCavusContompasisDesjardinsGriggsHandlin
Sarah Strunk
Rachael Abbott
3. Roylevis Kanyi Actor
11.Vanessa Kelly Playwright, The Beginning of The End; Director, Romeo and Juliet and The Art Circle
2. Agushoma Stephen Director, Playwright, Producer, Director of Photography
5. Murage Felix Playwright, Widowed Before Death; Actor/Director, Pinocchio's Love
10. Sharon Muthembwa Actor, A Sprout
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6. Jackline Kaiyu Actor, Romeo and Juliet
8. Cynthia Subira Actor
4. Joseph Okwach Actor, Lighting Designer
14. Keziah Njeri Actor, Romeo and Juliet
Dyllan Hutchison
7. Nashon Kabale Actor
15. Kelvin Njeru Actor, The Art Circle
16. John Njau Actor, The Art Circle
PLAYERS Creative Team
Albee Horowitz Julian Lee Steve
1. Octavious Onyango Director, Playwright, Co ordinator, Director of Photography
12. Linet Maina Actor, A Sprout
9. Celine Muthoni Actor, Pinocchio's Love
13. Praise Furaha Director; Playwright, Tales of Elder Pete
Xiaobing Zhou actor, director, playwright directorQianyistudentWang,editor, actor, playwright student
18. Odhiambo Clinton Actor, A Sprout
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NANJING UNIVERSITY Creative Team
17. Kate Monicah Actor, A Sprout
TALE OF ELDERS PETE
3. Carla D'Ambroz, playwright, undergrad student
student NEEDRAM/SCFU Creative Team
10. Paulo Tomazoni, actor, graduate student
12. Waleska de Oliveira, actress, former graduate student
5. Liz Donovan, playwright, undergrad student
Yunjian Gu editor student
11. Kauana Machado, actress, undergraduate student
AnaActors:Lucía Neyra Casanova (actress and producer)
Alekz Kevin Ruiz Saavedra
7. Robson Esteves, actor, former undergrad student
8. Simone Buttelli, actress, former graduate student
Yuan Zhang actorJingstudentactorPan
2. Eric Tomas, playwright and video editor, undergrad student
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) Creative Team
1. Paulo Ricardo Berton, mentor, director and translator, Faculty
13. Lilian Zoldan, actress, undergrad student
6. Eduardo Karasiak, playwright, undergrad student
9. Agnaldo Stein, actor, graduate student
4. Thalia Dias, playwright, undergrad student
Global Partner Mentor: Prof. Carlos García Rosell
Yingjie studentpropertyHaomaster
Megan Ayers Nobody Nanjing Alexandra Berrios A Sprout Moi
Percy Luis Díaz Torres
Nelson Noel León Huamán
Narrator/Dr. Astro: Bárbara Cermeño
Heidi Hammond Complex Cassandra SCFU
Enzo Sebastián Meloni Baltodano
Mother: Maria Belén Velázquez
Jeremy Pritchard
Vibrance Toronto GEORGE SOUTHUNIVERSITYMASONKOREA
Castor: Diego López
Yunah Choi Trust SCFU
Bella Panciocco
THE SONG OF THE STARS
The Son of the Stars UPC
Camera Operator: Irían Chaman Rebaza
Daniela Palma Meza
Colomba Andrea Farfán Solari
Director: Prof. Manuel Guerrero
Casting and Assistant Director: Francesca Peri
Sponsoring Institution & Playwright Play InstitutionPresenting
Maria Alejandra Adrianzén Yndigoyen
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY USA
Orion: Mauricio Flores
Jennifer Zhou
Feijoada Toronto
Ana Lucia Neyra Casanova Mashakara Toronto
Eric Tomas Cuisse de Nymphe Nanjing
The Night Shift Mason USA
UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA DE CIENCIAS APLICADAS
Wang Qianyi Bag Mason USA
SCFU
Eduardo Karasiak
Lost in the Clouds Toronto
Carla D’Ambroz
Yin Yuanwei Pinocchio’s Love Moi
MOI UNIVERSITY
Tales of Elder Pete UPC
Wu Yizhen
Praise Furaha
Vincent Otenio Okech Savannah Mason South Korea
Liz Donovan Romeo and Juliet Moi
Song Jia Agatha in Digital Land Toronto
NANJING UNIVERSITY
Octavious Onyango Obonyo Give Me Back My Boxers
Shi Jun Trust is a Fragile Thing Moi
SANTA CATARINA UNIVERSITY (SCFU)
The Beginning of the End Nanjing
Felix Murage Mburu Widowed Before Death Mason USA
Laugher SCFU
Thalia Dias
Vanessa Kelly
Francesca Peri Solo Amar Nanjing
This One or That One? Mason USA
Dinner at the Pearl Dragon Mason USA
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Shelley Mayer Trust Nanjing Hemali Ratnaweera Monologue #2 Mason USA
The Front Steps SCFU
The Art Circle Moi Malika Daya I Agree That We’re Not Friends Nanjing
Sarah Abernethy
Christina Gross
Carol Chen
NICHOLAS M. HORNER
Nicholas M. Horner (Co Director) is a professional singer, voice over artist, theatre actor, and director based in Washington D.C. He has directed, taught, and performed in numerous professional and educational venues in D.C., New York, and around the country. Horner has received Voice and Theater training from renowned institutions such as Stella Adler Conservatory, The Juilliard School, Studio A.C.T. (San Francisco), The Roy Hart Institute (Paris, France), Shakespeare and Company (Lenox), Catholic University, and University of Cambridge (England). Horner earned a B.A. in Theater from George Mason University where he is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Visual and Performing Arts and teaching as a Graduate Lecturer. He also serves as Co Director of 1,001 Plays. Horner owns and operates Awaken the Voice: Studio offering classical and musical theater voice and speech.
Meet Mason’s 1,001 Plays Staff
Recent publications: Stop Stopping: Elemental Voice and Breath (Voice Teachers International); The Harder Disease to Beat (LMDA Forum); Parasite or Symbiont: Voice Stress in muscle and bone (Voice and Speech Review).
KRISTIN JOHNSEN-NESHATI
Kristin Johnsen Neshati (Co Director) is Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs & International Programs for George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is also Professor of Theater for Mason’s School of Theater, where she has taught theater history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism since 1993. Kristin produces and co moderates the Kritikos Anti Racist Reading Group with curator and head moderator, Jessica Kallista from CVPA’s School of Art. As a professional dramaturg, she served on the staff of Theater of the First Amendment for 18 years, where she focused on new play development for professional and student playwrights. She also works as a freelance theater writer and director and has translated four of Chekhov’s plays. Awards include LMDA’s 2022 Innovation Grant, George Mason’s Fenwick Fellowship, Fairfax County’s Strauss Fellowship, KC/ACTF Criticism Fellowship and a Fulbright research grant for work in Egypt. Research interests include new play development and theater practice in the Middle East and North Africa. Education: Swarthmore College (BA, Russian and Theater); Yale School of Drama (MFA, DFA, Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism).
Ruth Yamamoto (Production Manager) is an adjunct professor in the School of Theater, where she has taught Stage Management and Acting I. She has been a teaching artist of theatrical arts for over 25 years and holds a Ph.D. from Walden University. Ruth has worked all over the D.C. metro area for such theaters as the Kennedy Center Theater Lab, the Studio Theatre, the Folger Theatre, and A.S.I.A. In New York, she was the production manager for The Kitchen. She is a member of SAG AFTRA, The Association for the Study of Play (TASP), and the Applied Improvisation Network
Website Development Pam Muirheid
RUTH YAMAMOTO
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Rick Davis, Dean of George Mason’s College of Visual and Performing Arts
Ken Elston
Djola Branner, Director of George Mason’s School of Theater
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Kevin Murray
Mason Friends of Theater