SEPTEMBER 13 & 14 | 7:30PM
ANTIGONE
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meet the cast
Kayla Juntilla | ANTIGONE ​
Kayla (she/her) is a Filipina actor/singer/clown based in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her BFA in Drama from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Her most recent performance was Kinderkrankenhaus at The Brick.
Aaliyah Raghnal | ISMENE
Aaliyah was most recently in Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, directed by Brittyn Dion Bonham, and Roaches, directed by Patrick O'Connell, at The Flea Theater. Readings include Weekend at Barry's: Greatest Hits, directed by Jess Barbagallo, at The Brick Theater, and Away Uniform, directed by Tina Satter, at New York Theater Workshop. Aaliyah was also in Stranger Things: The Experience with Netflix and Fever. Recent film credits include High Functioning: A Chronicle of Chronic Ills, directed by Samantha Brooks. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Jess Barbagallo | CREON
Jess is a theater artist and writer. His work has been presented at Dixon Place, LaMama, BAX, New Ohio Theater, Poetry Project, Performance Space New York, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York University, The Brick, Abrons Arts Center, The Park Avenue Armory (studio presentation: Prelude 2023), and Luv Story Bar. Last fall, Jess directed It’s That Time of the Month at Soho Rep. He has published writing in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, them, Movement Research Journal, The Cincinnati Review, 53rd State Press, and Spectrum Literary Journal. Currently he is editing his short story collection Cherry and The Others, inspired by plays he has seen, the actors he has loved, and a life spent in the theater. And he’s curating Prelude 2024 (October 16-19) at the Martin E. Segal Center of the CUNY Graduate Center! Because centers have centers.
Jordan Baum | HAEMON
Jordan writes, directs and teaches, and has performed in plays by Jess Barbagallo, Agnes Borinsky, Julia Jarcho, Normandy Sherwood, Ariel Stess, Ben Gassman, and Hanna Novak. He has shown work at Judson Church, The Tank, Dixon Place, the Mark O’Donnell Theater, Uncanny Valley, and under commission at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA Playwriting program. A play he is writing, 21st Century Princess, will be performed at Pageant on January 16th and 17th, 2025.
Jorie Latham | EURYDICE
Jorie is ending twenty-some years of retirement from the stage (referring to herself as a recovering actor), since her last performance in Irene O’Garden’s Women On Fire at the Vail-Levitt Theater in Riverhead, NY. Her wide ranging prior career in New York City included roles as Olivia in Twelfth Night; Katherine in Taming of the Shrew; (writing and performing) the Rotocopter Pilot in Wings Over Utah; Maggie in Maggie a Girl of the Streets; and creating the role of Queen Rose for the first Renaissance Faire of the Arts in Tuxedo Park. She studied with Suzanne Shepherd, and Lloyd Williamson after graduating from Denison University.
Andrew Hardigg | POLYNEICES
Andrew Hardigg is an actor and writer based in New York. Recent Theatre: Effigy and Jimbo by Jordan Baum (The Tank), Crazy Meshugge Hurricane Earthquake (New Yiddish Rep), All Smoke No Gun (The Loading Dock.). Film: Citizen Khan, Time Warped. Writing: Plays performed at Dixon Place, Jermyn St Theatre, RADA, The Salon on Kingston. Short stories in Colectivo Tabú. Truman Capote Fellow, MFA Playwriting, English lecture at Brooklyn College.
Misha Brooks | Text & Direction
Misha is an actor originally from Berkeley, California currently based in Brooklyn, NY. He currently serves as the Director of Programs for theater development company The Barn at Lee. He is a co-founder and member of the performance art group Subtle Pride. Most recently he starred in Players on Paramount Plus, and in Michael Weithorn’s upcoming film Connescence alongside Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Misha’s performances can also be seen on Netflix (Social Distance), Apple TV+ (Loot), and Amazon Prime (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). Misha has a BFA in acting and performance in the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU Tisch School of Arts.
Zach Donovan | Music & Direction
Zach is a performance artist working across several mediums including concert performance, editorial publishing, music production, and personal essay. He leads NY-based performance collective Subtle Pride and their online fashion magazine, Waif. His work has been presented in New York most recently at Joe’s Pub and in print by Howlround Theatre Commons, an online theatre journal run by Emerson College. He is currently developing a solo performance for Alexandra McVicker (HBO’s Vice Principals). He holds a BFA in Drama from NYU.
Kicking off New Works is a brand new adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone (September 13 & 14, 7:30pm), that reimagines the timeless tragedy as an exploration of “pop-theatre” - a dramaturgical movement pioneered by Zach Donovan and Misha Brooks that places live performance within the canon of contemporary mainstream media.
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This program is made possible, in part, by The Mass Cultural Council 2024 Festival Grant.
We are proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Department of Public Health's WIC Nutrition Program, the Massachusetts Health Connector, and hundreds of organizations by making cultural programming accessible to those for whom cost is a participation barrier. EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive a 50% discount on all our performances. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.
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