1,001 Plays Fall 2022

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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

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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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Yizhen Wu director, playwright, producer, actor dJiastudentSongirector, actor, playwright, director dJunstudentShiirector, actor, playwright Yuanweistudent Yin director, dramaturg, playwright, editor studentcHongruistudentactorHstudentactorMstudentoLiuanQinFanameraoperator

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

Website Maintenance Mary Burgess

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

SPECIAL THANKS

Kevin Murray

Mason Friends of Theater

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