Our Creatives

 AEA, SAG-AFTRA (Pauline) Los Angeles theatre: Theatre of NOTE; Ghost Road Company - Clyt at Home: The Clytemnestra Project; Orestes Remembered: The Fury Project+; A Bright Room Called Day; Monologue for a Century City Secretary; The Balcony; Antigone. +Winner: Best Supporting Actress, Ticketholder Award, Entertainment Today.

Special thanks and love to Ed Wingenbach and my friends and colleagues at Hampshire College, without whom I couldn’t be here.

Thanks to Kyle Staples for the shelter from the storm!  All my love!

Jennie Webb and Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings program, where this play was developed, we are so grateful for your care and nurture.

For all my friends who traveled great distances to see the show and generally kept me sane this past year, this one is for you.

For Rex.

**Appearing through an Agreement between Ivan Faute, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 

(Alex) is absolutely delighted to be debuting The Dog Show, with  the brilliant Ivan Rodden at the helm. He most recently appeared on stage in The Attic Collective’s award winning production of The Last Croissant at the Broadwater Mainstage in Los Angeles. Other theatre: Hamlet (title role), Henry V (u/s Henry), Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Film/T,V.: “The Good Place” (NBC); “Straight Up” (Valparaiso Pictures); “Heed the Call” (Dual Mind) “The Longest Night” (Wibben Media); “Buckshot” (Enzo Films); “Jessica California” (RGM Productions) Representation: A3 Artists Agency- (310.859.0625). 

(Shawna) was born in Nebraska, grew up in Bolivia, and came back to the United States in 2015. Since then she has graduated with a BFA and is a multifaceted artist; actress, a commercial visual artist and a ukulele lover. Her website can be found at www.raimyowashington.com

(Commodore) is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Peculiar Works Project, an Obie award winning site-specific performance group in NYC, and has written or directed many of PWP’s original productions. With partner Catherine Porter he has developed performance projects as visiting artists in Sofia and Varna, Bulgaria. As a playwright, his Floydada was a finalist in the Texas Playwrights Festival; his Before I Wake was presented at Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles, and his 10-minute play, Dialogue in 3 Parts, was a finalist in the inaugural Stage This! festival and is in the published collection on amazon. As an actor, he appeared in Reza Abdoh’s production of Mira-Lani Ogelsby’s Father Was a Peculiar Man in the Meatpacking District and Charles L. Mee’s Another Person is a Foreign Countrydirected by Ann Bogart, both for En Garde Arts. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University and studied postgraduate theatre history and criticism at the University of Texas at Austin. Peculiarworks.org

I (Playwright) production credits include the OFFCom and OFFFest recommended one-woman show ON ARRIVING in London, the City Lit (Chicago) Art of Adaptation Festival winner "Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher," THE DARLING CHILDREN at New York International Fringe, and the Capital Fringe (DC) movement piece LIFE, DEATH, & EVERYTHING IN-BETWEEN. LOST SOCK LAUNDRY, developed through the Clamour Theatre’s Clay & Water Playwrights’ Retreat and the Broadway Bound Incubator Reading Series, was awarded the OnStage Award in Italy and part of the TRU Voices New Play Reading Series (2023). ELEPHANT: A COMEDY was named a finalist in the Award of Excellence in Playwriting by the Association for Theater in Higher Education. In addition to productions in New York, London, Houston, and Chicago, his prose appears in over three dozen journals and was named a finalist for the Calvino Prize. www.ivanfaute.org

(Director) is an Alaskan theater artist living in Brooklyn. Christina specializes in new work creation and the reimagining of classics. This play marks her fourth collaboration with Ivan Faute. Select past credits include “Lack of Milk,” “Lost Sock Laundromat Astoria Queens” and “Suspicion Obsession Paranoia Marriage,” all by Faute; “Living With an Angel,” a semi-autobiographical clown fantasia by Catherine Restivo-Romito; “Life is a Dream: a New Vintage” by Calderon and adapted by Annie R. Such. Christina recently directed the charming children's musical "Petunia's Playhouse Live: Petunia's Big Day" by Laura Kay Clark with music and lyrics by BIlly Reece. Christina is the founding artistic director of Permafrost Theatre Collective (PTC.) Through PTC, Christina conceived and directed Are You Alice: A New Wonderland Tale, a classic reimagining that had several short runs in New York City and made its international debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August of 2019. Her current devised adaptation, Poe's Children, is a meditation on grief and generational trauma told through selected poetry of Edgar Allen Poe. The piece had a workshop performance in October of 2021. Christina is also a teaching artist and has taught in Alaska, New York, and West Virginia. MFA in directing from the Actors Studio Drama School. Instagram @christinaroseashby Twitter @tvschristina www.christinaroseashby.com

(she/her; Stage Manager) began her stage management career in her hometown of Austin, Texas while studying theatre at St. Edward’s University. For the past several years, she has been working in theaters around New York City, and is pleased to be working on her first production at the Players Theatre. Previous credits include the New York premier of Friendly’s Fire (Rising Sun Performance Company), Abnormal (Theatre Row), Guns, God, and Gomorrah (American Theatre of Actors), Lost Again (The Tank), and one of the inaugural performances at the new AMT Theatre with their youth program’s production of Shrek, Jr. She enjoys getting to work on a wide variety of shows with talented artists. On Instagram @cstribl.

(Lighting Design) is a freelance designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Primarily focused on lighting and projection design for theatre and dance, she also works as a costume designer, scenic designer, inter-media collaborator, lighting director for corporate events, and architectural lighting design. DC credits include Baby Screams Miracle; Woolly Mammoth: To Swing Through the Sky featuring The Met Jazz Orchestra; Hylton Presents: ABC’s of American Art Song; IN Series: Master Class; Lyric Opera Virginia: The Bison Beast of Dubois (workshop); Spooky Action Theatre Company. Off-Broadway credits include The Stone Witch assisting Betsy Adams; The Westside Theatre. Other select credits include Skippyjon Jones; Dallas Children’s Theatre: Time Again in Oz; Seattle Children’s Theatre: Measure for Measure and An Ideal Husband; Blueprint Theatre. She has worked on gala performances with dancers from American Ballet Theatre, Bandaloop, Beijing Dance Theater, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and New York City Ballet. Inter-media design installations include Give & Take, Sonic Glimpses, and award winning Research Embodied: Sound, Media, and Performance in the LBJ Presidential Library. She also has academic experience at George Mason University and Texas A&M University teaching design, technology, and design as performance courses.

(they/them; Sound Design) is a composer, music director, conductor, sound designer, and vocalist originally from Hartford, CT. After graduating from Princeton University cum laude in 2015 with a BA in Music and certificates in German and Theater, Sam obtained their Masters in Music degree in 2019 from NYU Steinhardt, where they studied concert composition with Caroline Shaw and Joan La Barbara. Sam was also a member of the improvising group Ensemble Consensus, formed with several of their graduate school peers. They have worked in New York City as a freelance composer, music director, and sound designer since 2015. Some of the theaters Sam has worked with include Soho Rep., Ars Nova, The Dramatists’ Guild, New Georges, Everyday Inferno, Prospect Theater Company, Joust Theater, 23.5 Degree Tilt, Boomerang Theater Company, The Tank NYC, and many more. Sam also performs as their drag king alter ego Mr. Sam Bam Thankyoumaam. samkaseta.com

(he/they: Violin) is a composer, educator, tenor, and multi-instrumentalist. With work converging on social justice, principles of sound, and contextual human experience, Genese's work asks how artistic, sonic, and educational mediums can best reveal new understandings of the self, and how the presence of intersectionality in our thinking can be fostered through our interactions with music.Genese's compositional work takes interest in the aleatory elements of embodied space, how these elements affect our music making, and how one may authentically utilize several sonic atmospheres at once through mediums of evocative thought, electronics, and multimedia. They hold degrees in Music Education, Vocal Performance, and Music Composition, having studied with Timo Andres, Hannah Lash, and Missy Mazzoli.Genese is a founding member and head of communications for the internationally acclaimed social justice artist's collective, VOICES 21C. They are also a member and creative partner of Boston choral ensemble et al, and arts incubator coordinator for The Choral Commons. They teach private violin, piano, and voice lessons in New York City. Genese's broad-reaching work, especially as an educator and multimedia artist, is rooted inframeworks of abolition and restorative justice. They are currently presenting a soundwalk in partnership with the New York Civil Liberties Union, based in locations where the New York City police department brutalized protestors in 2020-2021. The soundwalk aims to educate the public through artistic means not only about police (mis)conduct prevalent in our city, but what we can most strategically do within the scope of our immediate power to eradicate it. Genese echoes the sentiment that the arts and humanities can be invaluable tools for affecting states of consciousness and ignorance as art-makers and listeners, to further win the world we need. michaelgenese.com | @michael_genese

 The Players Theatre is dedicated to helping original plays and musicals move onto an Off Broadway or New York run. While many shows move onto readings and festivals few move beyond this point. Through mentoring and a box office split this program is meant to help creative teams self-produce their show. More info at www.theplayerstheatre.com/self-producing-artist-residency.html