ms. estrada

Dolores Avery

Actor

Dolores Avery  (Student 1, Limpita U/S, DJ U/S) is a New York City based actor and proud Syracuse University Alum! She is excited to be making her BAT debut at The Flea Theater. Off Broadway: Orphans and Outsiders (John Cullum Theatre).

Caturah Brown

Actor

Caturah Brown (Limpita, Female Dance Captain) is a born and raised New York based actor who is excited to be a part of the world premiere of ms. estrada. She  recently graduated from Marymount Manhattan College where she received her BFA in Acting. Other theatre credits include The Coward (NYNW Theatre Festival Winner), On Striver’s Row (St. Jean’s Theatre), Marc in Venice (St. John’s Lutheran Theatre), and Mirth, Myth, Music: The Medieval World of Theatre (MMC’s Theresa Lang Theatre).

Raiane Cantisano

Actor

Raiane Cantisano (Student 3, Dean’s Secretary, Cheryl U/S, Marina U/S) is thrilled to be part of the first Bat production in The Sam, with such a ridiculously awesome cast and crew. Ms. Cantisano was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she studied acting before coming to NYC, to further her education at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Recent theatre credits include Éléphant (Rising Sun Performance Company), Cosmicomics (Cereals @ The Flea), the nominated Dead Wives Dance El Mambo (Planet Connections Theater Festivity), NYC premiere of Child’s Play (The Kraine Theatre), Unity 1918, Our Lady of 121st Street and The Wild Party (The Irma Sandrey Theater). Raiane can also be seen in the short film Narcissus, by W.A.Y. Productions. She’d like to thank her incredible family, teachers and friends for all the love and endless support in this journey (specially her grandma Duca and grandpa Luiz – I miss you everyday). You’re in my heart every step of the way.

Marguerite Frarey

Actor

MARGUERITE FRAREY (DJ) is a Rochester, NY born, New York City based actor and thrilled to be working on this wildly fun show as her first at The Flea! Theatre credits: Pullman Car Hiawatha and A Funny Thing… (Hangar Theatre), Miss Julie (Blackfriars Theatre), Reveries (The Tank), and Inherit the Wind (Geva Theatre). Upcoming film/web credits: Last Looks (NYU) and Crazy Bitch Magnet (Sheyne Lee Benoit). Marguerite holds a BA in Theatre Performance from Fordham University. Endless thanks to Mom, Dad, Alexander, Michelle, the entire cast, crew, and team at The Flea, and especially Pos. www.margueritefrarey.com

Jack Horton Gilbert

Actor

Jack Horton Gilbert (Leaf) BFA Theatre Performance Ohio University. The Flea: Wolf In The River, but i cd only whisper (u/s) Student Body (u/s), The Feast (u/s), The Mysteries, The Cutthroat Series. Select past credits include the Off-Broadway production of Happily After Tonight, Endtimes’ annual, notorious Naked Holidays, and Ripple Effect’s production of Waiting For Lefty.

Arielle Gonzalez

Actor

Arielle Gonzalez (Swing, Yoga Instructor U/S) is so excited to be back at The Flea for ms. estrada. You can catch her again as Fancy in LOCKED UP BITCHES when it returns to The Flea on April 11. Arielle was recently seen in Bluelaces’ production of All Aboard!, a show created for audiences with developmental difference. In 2015, she assistant directed Small Mouth Sounds at Ars Nova under Rachel Chavkin. Other Credits include: Old Turtle and the Broken Truth (Dorothy Strelsin Theatre), Pedo Reye’s Doomocracy (Brooklyn Army Terminal), The Fall (2016 NYCFringe), The Visitors (B.O.S.S.S Festival), The Matter 2012 (St. Mark’s Church), and Love Awkwardly (Manhattan Theatre Source). She received her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Jenna Krasowski

Actor

Jenna Krasowski (Ms. Spencer) is thrilled to make her Flea debut with the Q Brothers’ latest and greatest hip-hop adaptation. Past projects include: Across the Park (Araca Group), Bodies of Water (NY Fringe), Antigone (Capital Fringe), Three Sisters (Alchemical Lab), A Seagull (Prova workshop), and various festivals and workshops throughout the city. Upcoming projects include the short film The Resistance, and feature Nesting Dolls. Training includes: Atlantic Theater Conservatory, the Freeman Studio, UCB, and SITI Company workshops. For more info visit her website: www.jennakrasowski.com

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Madeline Mahoney

Actor

Madeline Mahoney (Cali) is a New York City and Boston based actor, writer, and improviser, as well as an Associate Producer of SERIALS @ The Flea. She is so grateful to be working with the Q’s and Michelle on this fabulous new show! Favorite credits include: Neighborhood 3 (The Flea Theater, dir. Joel Schumacher), The Merchant of Venice (Punchclub in NYC, and int’l production in Florence), and Hostess (Funny or Die). Madeline is a recent grad of NYU/Tisch, training at Stella Adler and Stonestreet, and continues improv in advanced study at UCB.

www.madelinemahoney.com

Maggie McCaffery

Actor

Maggie McCaffery (Bonnie) Couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this wonderful company. Previous credits include Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea Theater), The Second Girl (Vineyard Playhouse) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare on the Shoreline). Education: BFA Boston University.

Michael Ortiz

Actor

Michael Ortiz (Harry Stefani, Frat Boy, Max U/S, Leaf U/S) is a new addition to the New York acting circuit. He is ecstatic to be a new member of The Bats and The Flea’s Season of the Womyn. Ortiz received his BFA Degree in Acting from the University of Florida in Spring 2017 before relocating to New York City in the fall. Previous acting credits include Screenplay by Stalin (Theatre at St. Clements), Once Upon a Time in the Berkshires (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and 5×10 (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

Karsten Otto

Actor

Karsten Otto (Max) is a phantom of the downtown theater scene. He’s been seen all Manhattan and Brooklyn (and even Queens!) Selected NYC Credits: Measure for Measure (The Brick/ Kathleen Anne Hefferon), As I Lay Dying (Live Source Theatre Group/ Dir. Tyler Mercer) The Mysteries (The Flea/ Dir. Ed Sylvanus Iskandar), The Dudleys! A Family Game (HERE Arts/ Dir. Jacob Titus), Kapow-i GoGo (The PIT/ Kristin McCarthy Parker). Readings and Workshops: The Bushwick Starr, The Flea, The Lark, Crashbox Theater Company, Mission To (dit)Mars. He also acts in and produces the podcast New World Sonata on Apple Podcasts and most other streaming platforms. He is looking for legit representation! Holla atcha boy! Thanks to my family and Marlowe. BFA: NYU, Atlantic Acting School.

www.karstenotto.com

Malena Pennycook

Actor

Malena Pennycook (Liz) Flea Mainstage debut! Regional: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Candide (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); NY: Under the Radar, Dixon Place, The Brick. Malena is a recurring player with Shakespeare in the Square, What Will the Neighbors Say and The Bats. BFA: NYU Tisch (ETW).

www.malenapennycook.com

Zac Porter

Actor

Zac Porter (Younger Brother Russ (Steve U/S, Brian U/S) was born in Sacramento and raised in a military family.  He’s a New York City based actor excited to be in his first show at The Flea Theater. Recent Credits: Pop Punk High (Parkside Lounge) Conference of the Birds (Tisch Mainstage), The Fever (Tisch Stageworks, 600 Highwaymen) BFA NYU/Tisch (ETW).

Hassan Nazari Robati

Actor

Hassan Nazari Robati (Steve Cinesius, Frat Boy, Cop, Dean U/S, Stefani U/S) is so excited to be making his Flea debut! A graduate of Oklahoma City University, Hassan has since worked regionally with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (The Fantasticks), Prather Entertainment (Jesus Christ Superstar), and The Palace Theatre (Oliver!), as well as touring nationally and internationally with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Many thanks to Michelle, The Q Brothers, and everyone at The Flea Theater for this awesome opportunity.  Much love to my family and friends for their endless support!

Ben Schrager

Actor

Ben Schrager (Dean Jaffe) has done several shows at The Flea, including: Erin Courtney and Liz Swados’ The Nomad, SERIALS, Every 28 Hours, A 24-Decade History…, and this season’s world premiere of Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill. New York/Regional: Robert Lopez’s 1001 Nights (Atlantic), Dancing Lessons (Lake Dillon Theater, Henry Award Nomination), and Man of La Mancha (Barrington Stage). Ben has performed in readings, workshops, and cabarets, working alongside artists such as William Finn, Elizabeth Stanley, Nora York, and Norm Lewis. Ben is also a co-producer of The Flea’s children’s theater initiative, Cereals. Education: BFA NYU Tisch (Atlantic and RADA).

www.benschrager.com

Pearl Shin

Actor

Pearl Shin (Marina) recently moved to NYC from Boston to pursue acting full time and is super stoked to be in the world premiere of this revaginalutionary hip-hop remix of Lysistrata. New York theater credits include: The Lorikeet (The Flea), Could This Meeting Have Been an Email (Spicy Witch Productions). Boston theater credits: The Chronicles of Kalki (Company One), Hookman (Company One). Web/Video credits: The Shit List and a recurring role in the upcoming web series On the Line. Pearl received training from Boston College and The Barrow Group. Inquire about her Celine Dion and Macy Gray impressions for your next wedding or children’s birthday party: www.pearlshin.com | pshin310@gmail.com

Lily Sondik

Actor

Lily Sondik (Student 2, Stefani’s Arm Candy, Cali U/S) is a born and bred New Yorker. She is thrilled to be making her debut at The Flea in ms. estrada! Credits include: Water, Are You Listening? (Williamstown Theater Festival) Crimes of the Heart (Michael Howard Studios) Sweet Tooth (TinyRhino). Film and Television credits include Detective Detective, November and Vivid. Lily was a drama major at Laguardia High School of Performing Arts and received her BA in theater from George Washington University.

Monique St. Cyr

Actor

Monique St. Cyr (Cheryl, Yoga Instructor) is excited to be in ms. estrada! She loves new work and has collaborated with New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, The Barrow Group, and others on plays in various stages of development. Favorite credits include: Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park), You Do Not Look (Signature Theatre), Lunafest (The Duke Theater), Beardo (Pipeline Theatre Company), Playing Hot (Pipeline Theatre Company), Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Cortland Rep), and Syncing Ink at The Flea. Film/TV credits: Long Goodbye, Ask for Jane, 195 Lewis, and upcoming series Astral.

moniquestcyr.com

David A. Wallace

Actor

David A. Wallace (Herman) is a New York City based actor excited to be in the world premiere of ms. estrada, a hip-hop adaption written by The Q Brothers Collective. Theatre credits include Faust on 147th Street (Theater For The New City), The Beach Once Here (Drama League), Romeo & Juliet (Access Theater). Film and TV credits include The Jump- Off, Note To Self, Grave Mysteries (Discovery ID), and High-School Lover (Lifetime Network). David A. Wallace received training from Humanity Studios, Primary Stages and Studio 4 in New York City. For more information about David, please visit www.DavidAWallace.com.

Quest Washington

Actor

Quest Washington (Frat Boy, Herman U/S, Male Dance Captain) is a Chicago born and raised, NYC based actor and is proud to be a part of The Flea family as well as the cast of ms.estrada. Credits Include: The Tin Woman, Midsummer Jersey, Pride and Prejudice, Seussical The Musical, and Motown The Musical (Thornwood Theater). Quest received training from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.

Brittany Zaken

Actor

Brittany Zaken (Ms. Spencer U/S, Bonnie U/S) is an actress born and raised in the Big Apple. She has appeared onstage at the New York Theatre Workshop and the Workshop Theater. Favorite recent credits include R+J Damascus (TheatreSquared/La MaMa) and the workshop of Today Is My Birthday (Page 73). Brittany received her training from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is excited to be a part of ms. estrada at The Flea and is committed to telling stories that speak to our world and what we can do to change it.

Rokafella

Choreographer

Rokafella (Choreographer) is an NYC native who has represented Hip-hop dance professionally over the past two decades. She co-founded Full Circle Prod Inc- NYC’s only non-profit Break Dance Theater company with her husband veteran Bboy Kwikstep. Rokafella has acted in theater pieces, performed poetry, directed a documentary highlighting the Bgirl lifestyle entitled “All The Ladies Say” and performs her original music based on growing up in Hip-hop’s Mecca. She is hired internationally to judge Breakdance competitions based on her mastery of the classic Hip-hop dance style and she teaches unique workshops aimed at evolving and preserving its technical aspects. Presently she is an artist in residence at the American Tap Dance Foundation, an adjunct professor at The New School. She has been featured in pivotal Rap music videos, tours, film, and commercials as well as choreographed for diverse festival concerts such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Rokafella is a multi-faceted Hip-hop artist who references street and Latino culture as her foundation. She believes this culture was born to help urban youth get through the ups and downs of life with something to hold on to.

John McDermott

Scenic Designer

John McDermott (Scenic Designer) is happy to be back at The Flea where he designed Kaspar Hauser, Girls in Trouble, The Happy/Sad and other shows. Other designs include Pygmalion, Sense and Sensibility, Peter Pan, Saint Joan and Hamlet for Bedlam. 25 shows for Rattlestick including The Revisionist, Killers and Other Family, A Summer’s Day and Saved or Destroyed. 7 shows with Colt Coeur including Dry Land, Zurich and Everything is Ours. Hard Love and Lost in Yonkers (TACT), Transfers (NY Stage and Film), Tribes and Peerless (Barrington Stage), Red Velvet and 4,000 Miles (Shakespeare and Company), Red (Dorset Theater Festival), season designer last 3 years at HVSF. Assistant Professor Adelphi University.

Robin I. Shane

Costume Designer

Robin I. Shane (Costume Designer) A Boston Native, Robin has been doing costumes for theater, television, opera and film for over 25 years. Robin has worked off-Broadway, Regionally, at the university level and occasionally will help her children’s school out on their productions. Select credits: Julius Caesar LIVE! (Shakespeare Theater of NJ), The Hairy Ape (EgoPo Classic Theatre), Little Rock (Passage Theater).

www.robinishane.com

Oona Curley

Lighting Designer

OONA CURLEY (Lighting Designer) is a lighting and scenic designer. Recent: The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Co.), Lashed but not Leashed (Under the Radar), The Workshop (124 Bank Street), in a word (Lesser America), Far Away (Sharon Playhouse), Underground Railroad Game (ArsNova + International Tour), The Body Artist (Abrons), Ski End (Piehole), The Light Princess (Arden Theatre), Krazytown (Playwrights Downtown), Sweat & Tears (M34 Productions), An Intimate Evening with Typhoid Mary (The New Ohio), Loveplay/Play Money (La MaMa). Nominee: Princess Grace Award, Hewes Design Award (Underground Railroad Game). Recipient: J.S. Seidman Award for Design Excellence, Weston Award for Design. MFA NYU/Tisch.

www.oonacurley.com

David Ferdinand/One Dream

Sound Designer

David Ferdinand/One Dream (Sound Designer) provides audio, video, lighting, staging, design and services for about 600 shows every year – for the last 22 years.  Partial Credits Include- (Broadway) Little Dog Laughed, Bill Maher. (Off-Broadway) 2 other shows with the Q Brothers: Bombitty of Errors & Othello the Remix. (Major Events/Broadcast) Pen America, Rain Forest Alliance, United Nations, Google/YouTube, Yahoo. (Live Concerts) Jay Z, Green Day, Diddy, Pharrell, Katy Perry, NAS, Common, The Roots, Macklemore & many, many more. I Love The (New) Flea!

Marina McClure

Assistant Director

Marina McClure (Assistant Director) creates emotionally charged theater, opera, and spectacles by fusing striking visual design and physical work with performers. She collaborates with multicultural performers to bring diverse stories (including from Iraq, Cambodia, Ukraine, South Africa, China, and Afghanistan) to American and international audiences. She helms the multidisciplinary art lab The New Wild and is a resident director at The Flea Theater. Recent: Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea), Tear a Root from the Earth, a new musical for Afghanistan in collaboration with Qais Essar and Gramophonic (New Ohio’s Ice Factory; Kennedy Center); Kalean Ung’s Letters from Home (ISC in Los Angeles; UC San Diego); Leisure, Lust (Art House; The Mount). She collaborated on CasablancaBox (2017 Drama Desk Nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience) and directed Wing It! a giant puppet parade and large-scale community performance for the Tony-winning Handspring Puppet Company in celebration of South Africa’s National Day of Reconciliation. She is currently directing an episodic adaptation of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics as a part of The Flea’s new initiative for young audiences, Cereals, and is developing a performance for Caveat’s Talks Progress Administration series. Marina teaches directing at The National Theater Institute at the O’Neill and frequently directs at Dartmouth College and NYU-Tisch. MFA: CalArts.

www.marinamcclure.com

Claire Edmonds

Assistant Director

Claire Edmonds (Assistant Director) is a New York City based director. Recent projects include: Horse Girls (The Siggy, SERIALS @ The Flea) Red Light Winter (The Robert Moss Theatre, Bridge Production Group), Inanimate (The Siggy, The Flea Theater), Romeo & Juliet & Anybodys (Know Theatre, Critic’s Pick, Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2017) Spring Awakening (Swirnow Theatre, Johns Hopkins University). Upcoming projects include: Delivery (The Tank, The Functional Shoes Production Company). University of California, Irvine, Honors in Directing.

www.claireedmonds.com

Megan Deets Culley

Assistant Sound Designer

Megan Deets Culley (Assistant Sound Designer) is a New York based Sound Designer and Composer. Credits include LOCKED UP BITCHES, Inanimate (The Flea Theater), Pete Rex (Dreamscape Theatre), Terminus (NYTW), Grounded (Dobama Theater in Cleveland, OH), and Hedda (Bridge Production Group). Megan earned her MFA from Ohio University and has designed throughout New York and Ohio.

Gina Solebello

Production Stage Manager

Gina Solebello (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be back for another production at The Flea! She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Musical Theatre from Marywood University, and is the Co-Director of THE CREATORS COLLECTIVE, a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary arts collective. Gina was the Production Assistant for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where she worked directly with the stage management team for over two years. Her most recent stage management credits include: Miss Nelson is Missing! (Two Beans Productions), Inanimate (The Flea Theater), Bone on Bone (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival), Twinkle Tames A Dragon (Vital Theatre Company), and Gregor (InVersion Theatre Company).