“The MS Phoenix Rising” Bios
Creative Team
Trish Harnetiaux (Creator, Writer). Plays: Tin Cat Shoes (Clubbed Thumb), How To Get Into Buildings (New Georges), Bender and Brian (pandemic postponed, JACK). Film: You Wouldn’t Understand (Sundance). MFA Playwriting: Brooklyn College. Residencies: Yaddo, MacDowell, SPACE on Ryder Farm. Ars Nova Playgroup. Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab. trishharnetiaux.com @trishharnetiaux
Katie Brook (Creator, Director, Audio Producer). Theater: Dr. Ride's American Beach House (Ars Nova), The Power of Emotion (Abrons Arts Center), How to Get Into Buildings (New Georges), She Is King (Incubator Arts Project). Director of Production at StoryCorps. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University. katiebrook.net @katiebrooktv
Cast
Anthony Arkin (Rupert Lake). Playwrights debut. Broadway: I’m Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway: Original Sound, Medieval Play, Make Me, The Waverly Gallery (original cast), Power Plays, The Wanderer, Maurice Sendak’s Night Kitchen Theater (company member). Film: You Wouldn’t Understand, SENDER, Neal Cassady, Hollywood Ending, Two Family House, Samuel Beckett is Coming Soon, You Should be a Better Friend. TV: “Succession,” “The Americans,” “Madoff,” “Sneaky Pete,” “Blue Bloods,” “Smash,” “Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” “The Good Wife,” “Damages,” “100 Centre Street.” Podcasts: “Rated P For Paranormal,” “The Arkin Bros. Talk About Movies.” @clemtorment
Jess Barbagallo (Dave from Operations). Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Off-Broadway: Orange Julius, Oresteia. Film: The Puzzlers 1+2. TV: "Law & Order: SVU." BFA: New York University, MFA: Brooklyn College.
Eric Berryman (Terrence Standish). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, A Record Album Interpretation (Wooster Group/St. Ann’s Warehouse-Drama Desk nomination); Toni Stone (Roundabout); Lockdown (Rattlestick); pool, no water (Barrow Street). Film: Marriage Story, Motherless Brooklyn, Empathy Inc,. TV: “Bonding,” "Barry." Carnegie Mellon University
Susan Blommaert (Cyd McCormick). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Grease. Off-Broadway: Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova); The Metal Children, Mary Rose, Phaedra (Vineyard Theatre); Measure For Pleasure, Fucking A (The Public). Film: The Kitchen, John Wick 3, Doubt, United 93, Kinsey, Pet Sematary, Edward Scissorhands. TV: “The Blacklist,” “Elementary,” “Louie,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “The Good Wife,” “The Sopranos,” “The X-Files.”
John Gasper (Ted Rickles). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: The Art of Luv, Parts 6 & 4, (Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble); I Understand Everything Better (Advanced Beginner Group); Twelve Shouts to Ten Forgotten Heavens (7 Daughters of Eve). Podcasts: "On The Trail With Dwayne & Courtney" (category : other); "7 Daughters of Eve Astrocast." MFA: Brooklyn College - PIMA. @realjohndwayne.
Jeremy O. Harris (The Karaoke King of Majorca) is the playwright and creator of the most Tony-nominated Broadway play ever Slave Play (Golden Theatre on Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Times Critic’s Pick, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences). Jeremy co-wrote A24’s upcoming film ZOLA with director Janicza Bravo, which premiered at Sundance in 2020. He is currently adapting the sci-fi epic The New World by Ales Kot for Warner Bros. Pictures. In television, Harris is in an overall deal with HBO and is a co-producer on their hit series “Euphoria.” MFA: Yale.
André Holland (Co-Captain Two – Moranis Jackson). Broadway: Jitney, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Off-Broadway: The Whipping Man (MTC); All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It. (The Public's Shakespeare in the Park). Film: High Flying Bird, A Wrinkle in Time, Moonlight, Selma, 42, Miracle at St. Anna, Sugar. TV: “The Eddy,” “Castle Rock,” “The Knick.” The Globe: Othello with Mark Rylance.
Mateo Hurtado (Pot Belly). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Citizens United II: What Happened? (Ars Nova), Cafe La MaMa Live: July Month (La MaMa), Uncut From Air! (Dixon Place). Podcasts: "The Sad Chismosa Podcast." hosted by Mónica Alvarez, "What's Good Inside", hosted by Marga Gomez. MA Performance Studies: NYU; BFA Theatre Studies, BA Latina/o Studies: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. @_laserpipe
Haruna Lee (Talk Less). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Suicide Forest (Obie Award for Playwriting & Conception), The Nosebleed, Pathetic, The Offending Gesture, Little Match Girl Passion, Futurity (Lortel Award), Great Lakes (Obie Citation), Comrades of Time (Whitney Biennial), The Lily’s Revenge (Obie Award). MFA: Brooklyn College, BFA: NYU Tisch.
April Matthis (Angela Hove). Playwrights Horizons: Iowa, Antlia Pneumatica. Off-Broadway: Toni Stone (Roundabout); Fairview, LEAR (Soho Rep.); Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature); The Sound & the Fury (ERS); Fondly, Collette Richland (NYTW); Measure for Measure (The Public); GATZ (Perth Festival). TV: “Instinct” (CBS), “New Amsterdam” (NBC). Film: Black Card, Fugitive Dreams. Podcasts: “Playing on Air,” “The Truth.
Emily Cass McDonnell (Marsha DuBois). Playwrights Horizons: The Thin Place. Emily originated the role of Hilda in The Thin Place (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and has also originated roles in the works of Annie Baker, Wallace Shawn, Adam Rapp, Richard Maxwell, and Denis Johnson. Recent plays: The Antipodes (Signature), Tin Cat Shoes (Clubbed Thumb), Mercury Fur (New Group), Grasses of a Thousand Colors (The Public, Royal Court in London). Films: Marriage Story, The Man in the Woods. emilycassmcdonnellcoaching.com
Keilly McQuail (Sasha Heron). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Lunch Bunch, Of Government (Clubbed Thumb), Her Requiem (LCT3/Lincoln Center), You Got Older (Page 73). Regional: Significant Other (The Geffen), Bad Jews (Long Wharf). TV: "The Good Fight," "Monsterland," "The Plot Against America," "Tales of the City," "Orange Is the New Black.” Podcasts: "Split Valley," "Limetown," and upcoming: David Greenspan's "The Memory Motel." Education: NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, The Atlantic Theater, proud member of EST. www.KeillyMcQuail.com
John-Andrew Morrison (Dale DelMonico). Playwrights: A Strange Loop (Lucille Lortel Award, Obie Award). Off-Broadway: Blues for an Alabama Sky (KEEN Company, Outer Critics Circle Award). He hails from Kingston, Jamaica and does a weekly online show with fellow A Strange Loop castmate James Jackson Jr. called “5 Questions with James and JAM.” MFA: UCSD. @5qjandj @jandymorri
Estelle Parsons (Mrs. Lamont). Playwrights: Unknown Soldier. Broadway: Miss Margarida’s Way, August: Osage County, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, The Seven Descents of Myrtle, and more. Tours: Miss Margarida’s Way, August: Osage County, The Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya. Film: Bonnie and Clyde; Rachel, Rachel; Watermelon Man; Diane; and more. TV: “The Conners,” “Roseanne,” “All in the Family,” and more. Regional: many. The Actors Studio. Five lifetime achievement awards, Theater Hall of Fame.
Katiana Rangel (Lit Pony). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: What This Stillness Brought Us, New York City Players (co-director), What Where by Samuel Beckett (co-director/actor), Four Seasons: Blasted by Sarah Kane (co-director/actor). Film: Bebete & Daniboy, Desert World of Black Souls by Ruy Veridiano. Education: Arts, Music, Theater and Teaching at Universidade Estadual Paulista, Film Critics at Fundação Armando Alvarez Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil. @katjanarangel
Jessie Shelton (Jingle Singer/Backup Vocals) Broadway: Hadestown. Tour: Waitress (First Nat’l tour). Off-Broadway: Conflict (Mint Theater), The Skin Of Our Teeth (TFANA), Futurity (Ars Nova/Soho Rep.). Film: Feast Of The Epiphany. Podcasts: "36 Questions: a musical podcast,” “The Orbiting Human Circus,” and upcoming “Shipworm.” Carnegie Mellon, Rhodopi International Theatre Lab, Moscow Art Theatre. @jezry.
Danielle Skraastad (Jackie Bowers). Playwrights: The Pain and the Itch. Broadway: All My Sons, A View From A Bridge. Off Broadway: Paris, Anon, The Moundbuilders (Atlantic), Hurricane Diane (Two River, NYTW/WP), Architecture of Becoming (WP), IHO (Signature/The Public), The Wake (The Public), Big Times (W.E.T.). Film: 27 Dresses Draw Up and Stare, Being, Hard Sell , Michael Clayton, The Business of Story. TV: "Succession,” "SVU,” "Law & Order," "Unforgettable,” "Mercy,” "Fringe.” MFA: NYU.
Nidra Sous la Terre (Valerie Dane). Playwrights: A Life, Mr. Burns. Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Marvin's Room. Off-Broadway: The Underlying Chris (Second Stage), The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW), Lost Lake (MTC). TV: "NCIS: New Orleans," "Evil," "Orange Is the New Black," "Random Acts of Flyness," "Instinct," "Elementary," "Jessica Jones," "Bull," "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "Blue Bloods," "Law and Order: SVU," "30 Rock." MFA: Actors Studio Drama School. @nidrasouslaterre.
Corey Stoll (Co-Captain One – Rigor Johnson). Playwrights debut. NY theater: Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar, Plenty, Troilus and Cressida, A View from the Bridge, Intimate Apparel (Drama Desk nomination). Selected TV: “Billions,” “Ratched,” “The Deuce,” “Baghdad Central,” “The Romanoffs,” Guillermo del Toro’s “The Strain,” “Girls,” “House of Cards” (Golden Globe nomination). Selected film: The Report, First Man, The Seagull, Ant-Man, Black Mass, Cafe Society, This Is Where I Leave You, Midnight in Paris (Independent Spirit Award nomination). Upcoming: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and The Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark. MFA: NYU Grad Acting.
Shannon Tyo (Coral DeMornay). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: The Chinese Lady, Kentucky, Bikeman. TV: “30 Rock,” “Rediscovering Christmas,” “The Last O.G.” BFA: Syracuse University. Shannon-tyo.com
Jacob A. Ware (Gregory Limon). Playwrights debut. Film: You Wouldn't Understand, An Unquiet Grave, Sender, Tumble Dry. TV: "FBI," "Law & Order: SVU," "Gotham," "Blue Bloods," "Shades of Blue," "Driver Ed," "Boardwalk Empire." Twitter: @jacobaware
Crew
Ben Williams (Audio Producer, Designer, and Engineer). Off-Broadway: Gatz; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); The Sound and the Fury; Fondly, Collette Richland; Arguendo; Dr. Ride’s American Beach House. Producer and creator of Category : Other. Awards: Obie, Lortel, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Third Coast International Audio Festival inaugural Audio Unbound Award (with Jillian Walker). @category_other
Nyseli Vega (Production Manager). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: One Day the Musical, BATSU!. International: Carmen La Cubana (Paris World Premiere). TV: “Orange Is the New Black,” High Maintenance. Podcasts: “Operation DadPod.” Education: Sam Houston State University, BFA in Acting and Directing. Instagram: @nyseli_vega (personal) @menage_music (music), and @justBeiN_Productions (production company).
Riley Thomas (Composer/Music Director). Playwrighrs debut. Off-Broadway: My Real Mother, Wearing Black, Stuck. Film: Stuck. @RileyThomasWriter
