Cast
Ioana Alfonso
Ioana Alfonso is the proud mother of a curious and sweet 8 year old boy named Zahi. Actor (select credits): Dancin’ (OBC Revival), Wicked (OBC), 9 to 5 (OBC), “Orange Is the New Black”, “Broad City”, “Nurse Jackie", “Smash", “Law & Order: SVU", In the Heights, Across the Universe. Upcoming recurring role on “The Walking Dead: Dead City”; Associate Director: Othello (starring Denzel Washington/Jake Gyllenhaal), The Balusters, Purlie Victorious, Topdog/Underdog, American Son, Kiss of the Spider Woman (wkshp), Soul Train (wkshp); NBC’s Hairspray Live! and The Wiz Live!; Director: Culture Shock, Un-Hero’s Journey; Choreographer: LCT’s Amahl..Night Visitors (also Associate Director), original solo for NYCB’s Tiler Peck in collaboration with Black Thought; Associate Choreographer: Holler If Ya Hear Me (Broadway), Bare (Off-Broadway), national commercials, etc. ; many works with Mia Michaels. Tony-nominated co-producer of Buena Vista Social Club (Broadway).
Theodora Miranne
Theodora Miranne is proud to be a part of the Matraspeak family. A London-born, New York City-based actress, producer, and mother of three. Screen credits include Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, Sony’s The Night Before, ‘Kat Carlson’ on the full season of NBC’s The Blacklist: Redemption, and roles on CBS’s Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, the CW’s Legacies, and MTV’s Eye Candy. Independent film credits include Orion, Entangled, and Landing Up, among others. Off screen, Theodora is the co-founder and producer of Little Engine Theater (LET), a company dedicated to bringing international plays to life in unique and unexpected locations.
Grace Morgan
Grace Morgan most recently made her Carnegie Hall debut in Oklahoma! She was a part of the Encores! production of Titanic at New York City Center. Other credits include playing the role of Christine Daaé in the National Tour of The Phantom of The Opera. She has worked regionally at The Denver Center, Forestburgh Playhouse, Beef and Boards, and Indiana Repertory Theater. When Grace is not performing on stage, she is a vocal recording session singer in the film and music industry and recently sang on the Oscar winning movie K Pop Demon Hunters. She is a voice and acting coach for young people. A graduate of the University of Michigan Musical Theater Department, Grace now resides in New York City with her husband and two children.
Elizabeth Stanley
Elizabeth Stanley has starred on Broadway in Company, Cry-Baby, Million Dollar Quartet, On the Town (Drama Desk nomination), and Jagged Little Pill (Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics, Grammy Award winner). Theater highlights: Nine (Kennedy Center), Merrily We Roll Along (Encores!), Anyone Can Whistle in Concert (Carnegie Hall), Pal Joey (City Center), Hello Again (Transport Group), F**king A (Signature), All the World’s a Stage (Keen Co.), Xanadu (First National Tour), and The Bridges of Madison County (First National Tour). Numerous TV/Film credits including the upcoming Steven Spielberg/David Koepp Feature—Disclosure Day and Season 3 of P-Valley. Elizabeth is also a solo performing artist in her one woman shows as well as a frequent soloist with symphonies including the NY Pops at Carnegie Hall and the Boston Pops at Tanglewood. She is a Graduate of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. You can find her living in NYC with her partner and child, and online @El.Stans
Pearl Sun
Broadway: Come From Away, If/Then, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Off-Broadway: Upcoming: Dear Everything; BAM, Regretfully, So the Birds Are; Playwrights Horizons, Plays for the Plague Year; The Public Theater, Assassins & Merrily We Roll Along; City Center Encores!, Long Story Short; 59e59, Happiness; Lincoln Center Theatre, The Seven; New York Theatre Workshop, First National Tour: Next to Normal. Regional: Upcoming: Into the Woods; Cape Playhouse, Wonder: American Repertory Theatre, Sunset Blvd.; ACT of CT, The Price; Arena Stage, Bernstein’s Mass; Philadelphia Orchestra, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots; LaJolla Playhouse, tick, tick… Boom!; Westport Country Playhouse. TV: Law & Order SVU (NBC), Fleishman Is In Trouble (hulu/Disney+), New Amsterdam (NBC), The Blacklist (NBC), Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Gotham (FOX), The Good Wife (CBS). Education: B.F.A., New York University.
Ashley Thaxton-Stevenson
Ashley Thaxton-Stevenson (she/her) is a theater maker and educator who specializes in new play development, interview-based theatre, and Shakespeare adaptation. She holds an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College and a BA from NYU Gallatin. SDC Associate Member. As a director, she has led productions and readings with Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Future Classics Series, NYU, Adelphi University, Actors’ Theatre of Boston/Parsnip Ship, Center at West Park, the Episcopal Actor’s Guild, and Andy’s Summer Playhouse. She has served as assistant and associate director with the award-winning Fiasco Theater at Classic Stage Company, Roundabout, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As an educator, Ashley teaches with BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Fiasco Theater, NYU’s Program in Educational Theatre, and Adelphi University’s Theatre Department. She is a member of the performing ensembles of the Verbatim Performance Lab and Spellbound Theatre. In all her other time, she is a parent, a romance novel aficionado, and lucky to call both Brooklyn and Altadena, CA home. www.art-s.co @arts.directs
