present
written & directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
based on the book by Edwidge Danticat
starring Brittany Bellizeare, Thiana Berrick, Charlene Francois, Edson Jean, Andrea Patterson, and Paul Pryce
associate director abigail jean-baptiste
scenic design
Adam Rigg
costume design Montana Levi Blanco
lighting design Yi Zhao
sound design & composition Palmer Hefferan
projection design Hannah Wasileski
assistant set designer
Kate Campbell
assistant costume designer Jessica Crawford
assistant lighting designer Jordan Vera
assistant sound designer Caroline Eng
assistant projection designer Katerina Vitaly
production stage manager Naomi Zapata
assistant stage manager Katelyn Bourke
general manager Jessica Kaschube
technical director Steven Nuñez
company manager Jenna Fernandez
Casting by Stephanie Yankwitt, CSA
director of social responsibility
Christina Alexander
CAST (alphabetical)
The Ensemble
Brittany Bellizeare*
Thiana Berrick
Charlene Francois
Edson Jean
Andrea Patterson*
Paul Pryce*
Naomi Zapata* production stage manager
*Member, Actors’ Equity Association
Understudies never substitute for a listed player unless a specific announcement is made at the time of appearance. Understudy will appear May 25-28.
Understudy for Brittany Bellizeare: Sydney Presendieu
Our community, still young and ever-changing, boasts a population where 54% of us are foreign born. Miami’s rich diversity is both a source of pride and a testament to the decisions many of us have made to call this city home. Despite our varied origins, however, we sometimes find ourselves living in separate worlds, our connections tenuous, as if the melting pot has yet to fully ignite.
At Miami New Drama, we believe it is crucial to foster a shared sense of history, purpose, and identity within our dynamic community. Through the power of theater, we strive to tell stories that reflect and unite our many perspectives. From the 1980s Drug War and the Elián González case, to the struggles against segregation and the rise of the Art Basel era, our productions have illuminated key moments in our collective past. We have delved into the immigrant experiences of Cubans and Venezuelans, among others, and today, we are excited to shed light on the inspiring and complex Haitian immigrant journey.
It is our absolute pleasure to collaborate on this project with two phenomenal artists: National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and Tony Award nominee Lileana BlainCruz. I first encountered Edwidge’s genius through her work, as her words in “Krik, Krak” snuck into my soul, broke my heart, and lingered in my subconscious. We are grateful for her continued support and friendship at Miami New Drama.
I met Lileana during our time as fellows at New York Theatre Workshop, where her wisdom, vision, and contagious joy left a lasting impression. Over the past decade, she has become a transformative figure in the theater world, creating poignant, important, and often epic works.
This collaboration has been years in the making, and we are deeply grateful to the Knight Foundation for their extraordinary support in bringing it to life. As you immerse yourself in this production, may you be moved by the remarkable talents of our collaborators and the resilience of the stories we share. Enjoy the show!
Michel Hausmann | Artistic DirectorLILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ (Director/ Playwright) is a director from New York City and Miami. Recent projects include: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center, Tony nomination); White Girl in Danger (Second Stage / Vineyard Theatre); The Listeners (Opera Norway); Dreaming Zenzile (NYTW / National Black Theatre); Marys Seacole (LCT3, Obie Award); Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s …(Iphigenia) (MASS MoCA, Arts Emerson, The Kennedy Center); Hansel and Gretel (a film for Houston Grand Opera); Afrofemononomy (PSNY); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Girls (Yale Rep.); Faust (Opera Omaha); Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine (Signature Theatre); Thunderbodies and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep.); The House That Will Not Stand and Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum/CTG); Pipeline (Lincoln Center); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre, Obie Award). She is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2022 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing, and is currently the resident director of Lincoln Center Theater. Lileana was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist, a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, and a 2018 United States Artists Fellow. Upcoming: Stranger Love (LA Philharmonic).
EDWIDGE DANTICAT (Book Author) is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, Krik? Krak! The Farming of Bones, and Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Award finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Haiti Noir, and Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for young adults and children, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, and a collection of essays, Create Dangerously. Her most recent book, Everything Inside is a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, a Reese Book Club pick, and the National Books Critics Circle winner for fiction. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
BRITTANY BELLIZEARE (Actor) Theatre: The Guthrie: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Delia), The Bluest Eye (Pecola); Vineyard Theatre: sandblasted (Angela); The Public: FAT HAM (Opal, short term u/s); Two River Theater: Wine in the Wilderness (Cynthia), King Hedley II (Tonya), Seven Guitars (Ruby); National Black Theatre: RETREAT, a radio play (Constance); Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Romeo & Juliet (Juliet); The Geva: The Magician’s Daughter (Miranda); Baltimore Center Stage: Skeleton Crew (Shanita); TheaterWorks Hartford: Sunset Baby (Nina); Northern Stage: It’s A Wonderful Life, the radio play (Mary), The Mountaintop (Camae); La Jolla Playhouse/Berkeley Repertory: The Last Tiger In Haiti (Rose). TV: The Equalizer, American Rust, The Blacklist, Eye Candy, The Knick. FILM: shorts Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul [which is featured on Issa Rae’s YouTube Channel for #ShortFilmSundays], Everything Absolutely. Education: MFA in Acting, The New School for Drama; BS in Mathematics, Spelman College. www.brittanybellizeare.com
THIANA BERRICK (Actor) is grateful and thrilled to be making her Miami New Drama debut in Create Dangerously. Recent credits include I Am Me 2023 (Arsht Center), Mouse King 2022 (Mandelstam Theater), Where or When (Lost Girls Theatre / Incomparable Radio Theatre) and NCPLab Short Play Festival 2022 (New City Players). She is an actor and musician who achieved a BFA theatre degree from New World School of the Arts and has worked in South Florida for companies such as City Theatre, Juggerknot Theatre, Faena Theatre, Thinking Cap Theater, Mainstreet Players and several more. She has trained at The Green Room Acting Studio and has worked on a few short films, as well as a tv series Shiny New Things. If you’d like to keep up with Thiana, follow her on Instagram @thianaberrick
CHARLENE FRANCOIS (Dancer and Movement Facilitator) is both energized and calmed by the process of creation, artistic or otherwise. In 2019, she was named a fellow at the Poets’ House (NYC), during which time she created a chapbook entitled “homebodies.” Later, she began to express through Haitian-folklore dance, accepting the
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proverbial baton from her aunt, also a dancer. Charlene has danced in various venues throughout Miami, namely with Tradisyon Lakou Lakay (TLL/@tllakay) founded by Dr. Weislande “Yanui” Cesar, whom Charlene cites as an influence and role model. Charlene is dedicated to utilizing forms of movement, including dance, for experiencing healing and connection to Self and Other. She thanks Lazaro Godoy and Carlota Pradera of GoPra (@gopra_performance) for pointing her towards this curious, passionate way through contact improvisation dance.She values courage, tenacity, passion, and uninhibited expressions of self, when beneficial. She creates to express herself, and she is consistently expressed through creation. Feel free to send her a note at charlene. elizabethfrancois@gmail.com. iloveyoulileana!
EDSON JEAN (Actor) is a Haitian-American Actor/Writer/Director who’s debut feature film Ludi premiered at SXSW(2021), and is set to release in 2023. He served as a consultant with Issa Rae’s Rap shit on HBO max. Jean was most recently nominated for a Streamy and Mipcom award for directing all eight (23 minute) episodes of his dramedy, Grown, for Complex Networks. Edson also wrote, directed, and starred in The Adventures of Edson Jean, which aired on HBO. As an actor, he was most recently seen in A24’s Oscar winning Moonlight, Warner Bros. Pictures’ War Dogs, HBO’s Ballers and Netflix’s Bloodline. Edson is currently in post-production with his second feature film based on the true events that took place in Miami in 2012.
ANDREA PATTERSON (Actor) based in NYC, Andrea is an Obie Award winner and Drama Desk award nominee for her recent performances in Confederates at The Signature Theatre, and cullud wattah at The Public. Andrea is also an Applied Theatre Artist utilizing theatre to support Social Emotional Learning within NYC public schools. Film credits include upcoming project Claude w/ Jordan E. Cooper and TV: Jessica Jones, Manifest, and Blue Bloods.
PAUL PRYCE (Actor) as an actor, he appeared on television shows like Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix, Unforgettable
on A+E and on stage played roles in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Pericles among others. He has performed in numerous plays across the United States and internationally. As a Filmmaker Paul’s debut film Come Out, Come Out World Premiered at 2017 Cannes Short Film Corner. His screenplay for his latest project The Deliverer was a Sundance short-listed finalist and the short film screened at multiple film festivals around the world. Paul is on faculty at Brooklyn College, Fordham University and is the Director of the Hagen Core program at HB Studio. A Yale School of Drama alum and was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago.
SYDNEY PRESENDIEU (Understudy) is honored to be working on Create Dangerously as an understudy with Miami New Drama. She just closed up her second professional production; Defacing Michael Jackson by Aurin Squire at Miami New Drama and had an amazing experience. Sydney; a New World School of the Arts Alumni, is excited to be working alongside other talented New World Alumni in this heartfelt production that feels very close to home. Some of her favorite roles include: Queen Margaret in Henry VI part 3, Satan in The last days of Judas Iscariot, and her own one person show exploring her roots in Haiti entitled Tifi Natif Natal (the native girl). She thanks her family, friends and mentors for the abundant guidance and inspiration!
ADAM RIGG (Scenic Designer) Adam Rigg is an award-winning set and costume designer based in New York. They have designed more than 50 world premiere productions and received a Special Drama Desk Award 2022. Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center Theater; Tony Nomination; Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design). Recent and other notable highlights include White Girl in Danger (Second Stage Theater & The Vineyard Theatre), On Sugarland (NYTW, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design), Cullud Wattah (The Public Theater; Lucille Lortel Award Nomination), Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA, Henry Hewes Design Awards Special Citation for Scenic Design), soft (MCC Theater), and Is God Is (Soho Rep). Upcoming projects include
El Niño at The Metropolitan Opera; the world premiere of A Transparent Musical at Center Theatre Group; and the world premiere of Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois at The Fisher Center at Bard, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck. www.adamriggdesign.com
MONTANA LEVI BLANCO (Costume Designer) made his Broadway debut in 2022 with The Skin of Our Teeth and A Strange Loop, the former earning him a Tony Award. His designs have appeared Off Broadway at the Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Soho Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Theatre for a New Audience, Atlantic Theater, Roundabout Theatre, and the Shed; regionally at the Houston Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and the Yale Repertory Theatre. He has also received a Sam Norkin Special Drama Desk Award, two Henry Hewes Design Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, and two Obie Awards. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, Brown University and the Yale School of Drama.
YI ZHAO (Lighting Designer) THEATER New York: The Skin of Our Teeth (Broadway, Tony Nomination), Greater Clements, Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Fabulation, In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre); Dreaming Zenzile, The House That Will Not Stand, Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); Thunderbodies, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., FUTURITY (Soho Rep.); Actually (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Guthrie Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Mark Taper Forum; Dallas Theater Center; Wilma Theater; American Conservatory Theater; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Huntington Theatre Company; McCarter Theatre Center. International: Theaternatur Festival (Germany). OPERA Norwegian National Opera; Opera Colorado; Detroit Opera; Opera Omaha; ArtsEmerson; Curtis Institute of Music; Prototype Festival; Hong Kong Arts Festival. Upcoming: Chicago Lyric Opera; Opera Philadelphia; Opera Colorado. DANCE Sasha Waltz & Guests (Germany), Ballet de Lorraine (France). AWARDS 2019 Henry
Hewes Design Award; 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre. www.yi-zhao.com
PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer/ Composer) is a Tony Award® nominated sound designer and composer for theater, audio dramas, and podcasts. She has designed over 75 productions on stages in New York and across the country. Most recently her work was heard in the NY production of KATE by Kate Berlant and directed by Bo Burnham. In 2019, she received an Obie Award® for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design from the American Theatre Wing. Highlights from the last decade include eight collaborations with director Lileana Blain-Cruz. Select credits: Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony nomination, Lincoln Center Theater), Grand Horizons (Second Stage), The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54); Off-Broadway: Fefu and Her Friends (Drama Desk nomination, Henry Hewes Award, TFANA); Becky Nurse of Salem, Marys Seacole (Lincoln Center Theater); Fabulation, Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre). Merry Wives, shadow/ land, Shipwreck, Wild Goose Dreams (The Public). www.palmerhefferan.com
HANNAH WASILESKI (Projection Designer) is a visual artist and projection designer whose work spans theater, opera, music and installation. Recent designs include: The Listeners (Norwegian National Opera), The Skin of Our Teeth (LCT), Dreaming Zenzile (NYTW), Hansel & Gretel (film production with Houston Grand Opera), Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company), Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theatre; Henry Hewes Award), 18 Stanzas Sung to a Tatar Reed Whistle (FiveMyles), The Magic Flute (Staatsoper Berlin), Lohengrin (Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival), Pipeline (Lincoln Center; Lortel Award), Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper), Sleep (BAM), La Voix Humaine (National Sawdust), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre), A Proust Sonata (Wortham Center), Angel’s Bone (Prototype Festival), The Wreckers (Bard SummerScape Opera), The World is Round (BAM; Obie Award). Her video installations have been exhibited in New York City, London, Brighton, Glasgow, and Prague. MFA Yale School of Drama.
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JESSICA CRAWFORD (Asst. Costume Designer) is a costume designer from New York City. She received her BFA in Theater Design & Technology at Syracuse University in 2017. Recent design credits include Hair (Weston Playhouse), November (The Shed), LORDES (New Ohio Theater), and Crave (Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective). jessicatcrawford.com
KATE CAMPBELL (Asst. Set Designer) is a NYC-based set designer and set design associate. Upcoming projects with Adam Rigg include: A Transparent Musical at Mark Taper Forum; Illinois at Fisher Center at Bard.
JORDAN VERA (Asst. Lighting Designer)
Originally from Miami, Florida, Jordan Vera resides in Knoxville TN after completing his MFA in Lighting Design at the University of Tennessee. He has had the opportunity to work for the Miami Summer Opera Festival, the Clarence Brown Theatre, Oak Ridge Playhouse, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Cincinnati playhouse at the park, Flying Anvil Theatre, and North Carolina stage Co. Some of his design work includes Detroit 67 (Clarence brown theatre) I and You (Flying Anvil Theatre) Stones in his pockets (North Carolina Stage Co.) Urine Town (Clarence brown theatre) and The Marriage of Figaro (Miami Opera Festival). To see more of Jordan’s work, please visit his online theatre portfolio www. JveraDesigns.com. Jordan is honored to be working alongside a talented group of artistic collaborators here at Miami New Drama and is excited to present Create Dangerously.
CAROLINE ENG (Asst. Sound Designer) (she/her) is a sound designer and podcast engineer based in New York. Selected Sound Design : Little Women (Theaterworks, UCCS), Three Sisters (Two River Theatre), Belfast Girls (Irish Rep), A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep), The Late Wedding (Brown University/Trinity Rep), Popcorn Falls (Greater Boston Stage Company), Twelfth Night (Theatreworks, UCCS) Selected Assistant Design : Bring Down The House (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre For A New Audience) Selected Training: Fordham College At Lincoln Center (NY). More info at carolineengdesign.com
KATERINA VITALY (Asst. Projection Designer) (she/her) is a Russian video designer and illustrator based in NYC. Previous work includes The Thanksgiving Play (The Hayes Theater), Skin Of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center), MJ: The Musical (Neil Simon Theater), Cannabis! (La MaMa), Indecent (The Juilliard), Already There (The Kennedy Center).
NAOMI ZAPATA (Stage Manager) South Florida credits include: IlluminArts, Actors’ Playhouse, The Amparo Experience, Young Arts, Orchestra Miami, City Theatre, Miami New Drama, Miami Theater Center, Mosaic Theatre, Acme Acting Company, Florida Shakespeare Theatre, Florida Grand Opera, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and New World Symphony. New York credits include: Brooklyn Academy of Music, La MaMa E.T.C., Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the New York Philharmonic. National credits include: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Naomi holds a BFA in Stage Management from North Carolina School of the Arts and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
KATELYN BOURKE (Asst. Stage Manager) is a Miami-based theatre artist, choreographer, and stage manager. She is a Florida International University graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a Minor in Dance. Some recent credits include Defacing Michael Jackson (PSM), Anna in the Tropics (SM) and Elián (ASM) with Miami New Drama and Matilda, Clue, and the School of Rock with Artistic Vibes Kids. Some of her performance credits include Eve Addaman in She Stoops to Comedy and Betty Lovell in Red Velvet. She, along with her castmates, were even invited to perform in South Carolina as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Katelyn has experience in teaching music and creative movement for tiny humans, as well as dance, movement for actors, and musical theatre for performers of all ages! Katelyn would also like to thank everyone at Miami New Drama for welcoming her to the team with open arms.
ABIGAIL JEAN-BAPTISTE (Associate Director) (uses all pronouns) is a theater maker, director, and writer born & based in New York City with familial roots in Haiti and the American South. Her work intersects with critical race theory to reimagine understandings of the past. Guided by questions about blackness and femininity and kinship, her work uses images, fragmented language, repeatable gestures, and tangible objects in a search to build unconventional and nonsensical ways of being. Currently: I Am Soul Directing Residency at National Black Theater. Previously: Project Number One Artist at Soho Repertory Theater, Roundabout Theater Directors Group, Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Resident Lead Artist at The Mercury Store. A Proud Lilly Award Winner and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Most Recently: Director for ‘Bov Water by Celeste Jennings at Northern Stage in Vermont. Upcoming: Dramaturg for The Whitney Album at Soho Rep. B.A. Princeton University. www.abigailjeanbaptiste.org
STEPHANIE YANKWITT (Casting Director) (she/her) is owner of the NYC based TBD Casting Co., which specializes in casting new work across all mediums including Theatre, Television and Film. TBD is strongly committed to inclusion and diversity of ALL kinds, and prioritizes casting every project in a way that truly mirrors the heterogeneity of the real world. With strong backgrounds in Producing and Dramaturgy, we work tirelessly to ensure that the creator’s vision of the story unfolds in dynamic and diverse ways. New York highlights include Frankie & Johnny in the Clare de Lune by Terrence McNally, starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon, Zora Howard’s Stew for Page 73 Productions, and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview for Soho Rep and Theatre for a New Audience, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This past Spring, tbd cast the first season of a hybrid docuseries for Disney+/Culture House. TBD Casting Co. is the resident casting office for Soho Repertory Theatre, and frequent collaborators of Tectonic Theater Project in NYC, and La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. Stephanie sits on the Equity in Entertainment Committee of the CSA.
MICHEL HAUSMANN (Artistic Director) is a Venezuelan-born theater director, producer, and writer. He is the recipient of the Drama League Award for conceiving and directing Seven Deadly Sins, “the biggest live professional theater production in the country” during the pandemic (The New York Times). He is the founder and Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, the largest bilingual theater company in the country and resident and operator of the historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach. Under his artistic leadership, Miami New Drama has produced world premiere plays that are as diverse, multicultural, and multilingual as Miami›s extraordinary community, including: A Wonderful World, Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, ¡Viva La Parranda!, The Cubans, Fake, When Monica Met Hillary, Gente Ociosa, Queen Of Basel, Papá Cuatro, The Cuban Vote, 7 Deadly Sins, and the first multilingual production of Our Town. Other productions include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (in co-production with Asolo Rep), The Album (in co-production with Tectonic Theater Project), A Special Day (in co-production with The Play Company), Terror (Directed by Gregory Mosher), One Night in Miami...(Directed by Carl Cofield), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Directed by David Greenspan), among others. Michel is the book writer and director of The Golem Of Havana, a critically acclaimed original musical that has been produced across the country, including a sold-out, extended run at the Colony Theatre. Hausmann’s Off-Broadway credits include the New York Premiere of Vassily Sigarev’s Black Milk and the New York premiere of The Color Of Desire by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nilo Cruz. He was the co-founder and Artistic Director of an award-winning theater company in Venezuela, where he directed over a dozen productions. Michel received a BA from Emerson College and an MFA in Theater Directing from Columbia University. He is a New York Theater Workshop 2050 Fellow, an IRNE nominee, a Silver Palm Award winner, a Richard Rodgers Award finalist, and a two-time Knights Arts Challenge Award recipient.
NICHOLAS RICHBERG (Managing Director)
Nicholas Richberg is a Cuban-American award-winning producer, actor, and nonprofit executive who has received critical acclaim for his broad range of work. Under his executive leadership Miami New Drama has produced 7 Deadly Sins, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Cubans, A Wonderful World, When Monica Met Hillary, The Cuban Vote, Papá Cuatro, Elián, and Anna in the Tropics. He previously served as Managing Director of Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, where he produced numerous world premiere and award-winning plays and musicals. As an actor and director, Richberg has voiced national radio campaigns, appeared on national television, and worked in theaters across the country, including nearly every stage in South Florida, originating numerous roles, including in Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy at Miami New Drama prior to his tenure as Managing Director. He is a Drama League Award winner, Carbonell Award winner, multiple Silver Palm Award winner, twice named Best Actor by Miami New Times, and was named a Miami Leader by the Miami Foundation. A Miami native, Richberg is a graduate of Miami Country Day School and University of Miami Frost School of Music. He holds a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University and an MBA from IE Business School (Madrid) and Brown University.
MIAMI NEW DRAMA is a nonprofit professional theater company based in Miami Beach, Florida committed to artistic excellence and groundbreaking work, with a vision of theater as a powerful form of social engagement. In residence at the historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach, the company focuses on the development of new plays and musicals in both English and Spanish, most notably 7 Deadly Sins, winner of the 2021 Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater, the world premiere development of the new Louis Armstrong musical A Wonderful World, When Monica Met Hillary by Winter Miller, Puras Cosas Maravillosas by Duncan Macmillan, the first ever multilingual adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town, The Cubans by Michael Leon, Confessions of a
Cocaine Cowboy by Billy Corben & Aurin Squire, Queen of Basel by Hilary Bettis, Viva La Parranda! by Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo in collaboration with Juan Souki, and Gente Ociosa by Karin Valecillos. Miami New Drama is the winner of two Knight Arts Challenge awards and a Knight New Works Miami award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It was the 2018 and 2022 Miami New Times Best Theater for Drama and was honored with the Thornton Wilder Prize in 2022.
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFLCIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.
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PRODUCTION STAFF
Head Electrician
Luisa Suarez
Light Board Operator / Assistant to the Head Electrician
Dorys Bello
Lighting Programmer
Zach Pizza
Head Sound & A2
Rafael Otero
Sound Board Operator / A1
Bruno Romero
Head Video / Video Programmer
Kacey Koploff
Costume Supervisor
Saul Mauricio Mendoza
Wardrobe Supervisor
Jimena Guevara
Wig Consultant
Carol Raskin - Artistic Images
Makeup & Hair
Wig Rental & Design
Cookie Jones
Costume Tailoring & Alterations: Nicole Alcaro, Desirae Allen, Daniela Emory, Tailor Republic
Scenic Charge Artist
April Pullo
Set Construction
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Load-in Crew
Christian Cardona, Ana Maria Morales, Eric Lesende, Saul Mendoza, Xen Ni, Rafael Otero, Victor Pinto, Luisa Suarez, Dory Bello, Tyler Correa, Nelson Martin, Luis Paraguacuto, Miguel Machado, Bruno Romero, Ximena Guevara, Daniel Martinez, Justin Lobo, Kacey Koploff, Josieu
Nat Denoun, Shawn Denoun, Annette Fromm, Janiaya Forbs, Quanecia Pittman, Emily Woodhouse, Kaitlin Martin, Steven (Ray) Wriston & Volunteers from Miami Beach Senior High
Language and dialect coach
Chantal Jean-Pierre
Musical Arrangement
Edson Jean
Marketing
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Graphic Design
Manuel González Ruiz
MIAMI NEW DRAMA STAFF
Artistic Director
Michel Hausmann
Managing Director
Nicholas Richberg
General Manager
Jessica Kaschube
Director of Programming
Claudia Urdaneta
Director of Education
Vyana Preti
Education Coordinator & House Manager
Natalia Dubón
Technical Director
Steven Nuñez
Assistant Technical Director
Eric Lesende
Director of Development
Glen Jack
Company Manager
Jenna Fernandez
Box Office Manager
Amy Ruiz
Media & Communications Manager
Gaby Tortoledo
Public Relations
Yvette N. Harris
Executive Assistant
Karen Figueredo
Assistant House Manager
Ari Feldman
Box Office Associates
Nat Denoun, Francesca MondelliBove, Roraima Ruiz
Custodial Manager
Yolanda Pittman
Custodial Team
Clarissa Pittman, Deldrick Pittman, Jonathan Pittman
Social Media Content Creator
Shaakti Maal
Content & Media Consultant
Anabel Romero
Special Thanks:
Maltz Jupiter Theatre Actors’ Playhouse
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
David Michael Scharlin
chair
Charles Million
vice chair
Alexander Galsky
treasurer
Yael Muller
secretary
Rudy Aragon
Steven Bandel
Gerry Barad
Evan Fancher
Gary Farmer
Larry Gragg
Maureen Gragg
Nicholas Griffin
Michel Hausmann
Helene Lindenfeld
Martin Lindenfeld
Eduardo Muller
Enrique Norten
Amy Scharlin
David Schrader
André L. Williams
non-voting
Brandi Reddick
city of miami beach
cultural affairs
Tanpèt
The thunderstorm is striking. It electrocutes the sea but it looks beautiful to me.
Tanpèt la frape.
Li elektwokit lanmè a. Men, li sanble bèl m
-- Amarii, 4th grade
DONORS
$100,000+
• Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade Mayor and Board of County Commissioners
• John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
• The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation
• State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
• Terranova
• Gary L Wasserman & Charles Kashner
• Don & Amanda Mullen
$20,000+
• The Betsy Hotel - Jonathan Plutzik & Lesley Goldwasser
• Maureen & Larry Gragg
• The Hausmann Family
• Sharon Sullivan & Jeff Kindler
• Lincoln Road Business Improvement District
• The Miami Foundation
• City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council
• Janet Melk
• Leslie Miller Saiontz
• PNC Arts Alive
• Benjamin Nahum
• Galvan Foundation Charitable Trust
• Gary L. Wasserman
• Timothy Schmand
$10,000+
• Rudy and Jeanne Aragon
• Gerry Barad and Bridget Thomas
• Funding Arts Network
• Nicholas Griffin
• Grace and Nicholas Leone
• Martin and Helene Lindenfeld
• Mailman Foundation
• Daniel Nir & Jill Braufman Family Foundation
• Benjamin Nahum & Tammie Roodner
• Yael and Eduardo Muller
• Amy and David M. Scharlin
• David Schrade
$5,000+
• Ann Anthony
• Aurin Squire
• Charles Herring
• Dan & Jill Nir
• Danya Lindenfeld
• Enrique & Denise Lerner
• Hon. Daniela Levine-Cava & Dr. Robert Cava
• Ricardo Hausmann
• Steven Bandel
• Vera Muller
$2,500+
• Andrea and Patricio Kreutzberger
• Andrea Berdichevsky
• Andres Hausmann
• Edwin Naamon MD
• Florida Theatrical Association
• Fred & Joy Malakoff
• Jane D & Saul Gross
• Lisa Dozier King
• Mary McIntosh
• Ray Breslin & Patrick Pecoraro
• Robert Rosenberg
• Roselyne Freeman
• Seth Weinberger
• Uri & Vanessa Benhamron
$1,000+
• Adrienne & Matt Hamer
• Ana Raley
• Anthony Goodman
• Antoinette Baldwin
• Bobby Freeman
• Brett Schmulian
• Deborah Landesman
• Debra Swiatek
• Eva Cooperman
• Fred & Joy Malakoff
• German Chulmire
• H Jordan Weitz
• Jack Glottmann
• Jacqueline Gonzalez Touzet
• Janet Altman
• Jefferey Davis
• Jeffrey Davis
• Justin Dangel
• Kevin & Andi Wolfer
• Kevin Wolfer
• Marta Olchyk
• Mary Wolfson
• Michael Iveson
• Michael Peyton
• Paula & Mickey Finkle
• Peter Gatof
• Rebecca Wehby
• Rhoda Levitt
• Ross Dakin
• Rudy & Jeanne Aragon
• Sally Hodgson
• Sarah Scharlin Ben-Hamoo
• Seth Weinberger
• Sidney Stolz
• Stephanie Rosen
• Steven Gombinski
• Victoria Pelletier
$500+
• Andres Hausmann
• Anonymous Anonymous
• Barbara Martinez
• Catherine Adler
• David Greenberg
• Dennis Edwards
• Elizabeth Stamps
• Gary Saslaw
• Henry Raattama
• Jennifer Beber
• Joel Hoffman
• John Malloy
• Madeleine Kreitman
• Margalit Edelman
• Michel Hausmann
• Moises Naim
• Nick Richberg
• Peter Klosowicz
• Raoul and Ana Cantero
• Roberto Vainrub
• Stinson Stroup
$100+
• Adrienne Hamer
• Andrea Sharp
• Andrew Dolkart
• Ann Morrison
• Annika Savill
• Anonymous
• Aubrey Kessler
• Barbara Goldfarb
• Belissa Alvarez
• Brenda Sokolowski
• Cheryl Deknatel
• Cheryl Dunn Bychek
• Clotilde Tamers
• Cynthia Silva
• Dana Polan
• Daniel Warman
• Dave Lawrence
• David Lawrence
• Deanna Debrecht
• Debra Turpin
• Eliane Keane
• Elli Scharlin
• Erik Rodriguez
• Gabriela Contreras Pietri
• Gabriela Muller
• Gary Farmer
• Gayle Goodman
• Gloria Romero Roses
• Jacomo Bairos
• James Judd
• Janet Altman
• Jaqueline B. Traurig
• Jennifer Buttrick
• Jenny Carson
• Joanna Hausmann
• John Clinton Eisner
• Jorge Saladrigas
• Josh Greenberg
• Josie Mendoza
• Judy Kettler
• Kerin Fredman
• Larry Hyer
• Larry Rivero
• Laura Dominguez
• Leila Kight
• Leonor Weinstein
• Linda Hausmann
• Lisa Beal
• Louis Casado
• Lucy Totten
• Luis Ramirez
• Lynda Richards
• Lynn Wiener
• Malka Rodrig
• Margarita Fernandez
• Maria G Stampino
• Maria L. Navas
• Maria Vegas
• Marli Scharlin
• Matt Haggman
• Maureen Gragg
• Max Ben-Hamoo
• Meyrav Barak
• Michael Carpenter
• Michael Sinder
• Michelle Paley
• Myra Silverstein
• Nancy Gelles
• Naomi Scharlin
• Nina Eoniski
• Nora Weinreich
• Norman and Nancy Lipoff
• Olga Echevarria
• Pam Srebrenik
• Patrick Muehleise
• Paul Pataky
• Paul Schwiep
• Paula Finkle
• Raquel Robaina
• Rebecca Lipsey
• Renee Sall
• Rich Pototsky
• Sharon Sandler
• Sheldon Philp
• Shimon Wdowinski
• Sneh Gulati
• Stuart Meltzer
• Sydney Carpel
• Tamara Nixon
• Teresa Zohn
• Terrie Temkin
• Thomas Knapp
• Thomas Proctor
• Tracie Hamersley
• Vanessa Ressler
• Walter Lambert
• Wendi Adelson
Donations of $100+ received April 14, 2023. If your donation is listed incorrectly or missing, please email glen@miaminewdrama.org
CREATE DANGEROUSLY IS PRESENTED, IN MATERIAL PART, DUE TO THE SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH.
