RUNNING TIME
approx. 80 minutes without an intermission
CAST
JULIA STEPHENS (Sophie / Playwright) is a writer and performer based in Los Angeles and New York City. Her work spans theatre, film, and nonfiction, with essays published in The New York Times. She is currently working on a Paramount+ series while developing new plays. Julia has long created and performed her own work, from digital projects such as Really It’s Rita and Ctrl+Alt+Underground to her current play Roomies, which marks her debut as both playwright and performer on the stage. www.julia-stephens.com​
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CREATIVE
PORTIA KRIEGER (Director) has been directing new plays and musicals since 2006. Her artistic stomping grounds include New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Williamstown Theater Festival, the O'Neill, and Ars Nova. She has directed at 2ST, the O’Neill, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, New York Stage & Film, Rattlestick, Page 73, the Lark, the Juilliard School, NYMF, and many others. Currently, she is developing the musical Manifester with Anna K. Jacobs and Rob Rokicki, a solo-ish musical by Susan Bernfield, Rob Jost, and Greta Gertler Gold, titled Available Hooks, and the play The Permanent Collection with Tori Keenan-Zelt and Elinor T Vanderburg. In addition to many years spent working off-Broadway and beyond, Portia was the Associate Director of Broadway's Seminar, Almost Famous, and the Tony-award winning Fun Home. www.portia-krieger.com.
JORDAN MCCREE (Sound Designer) is a sound artist based in Philadelphia. Their most recent collaborations include: fallawayinto (Ninth Planet), we come to collect: a flirtation with capitalism (jenn kidwell), The Comeuppance (Woolly Mammoth/Wilma Theater), Good Person of Setzuan (Wilma Theater), Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb), Cost of Living (Philadelphia Theatre Company), The World
Takes (short film, Eight Flow Studio), Eternal Life Part 1(The Wilma Theater), The
Karamazovs(film, Village Park Productions), Fat Ham(2021 World Premiere, The Wilma Theater). They were one of the 2022 grant recipients to the 1/52 Project. They are also a member of Philly-based, Barrymore Award winning, hip hop collective, ILL DOOTS. Their album, Divine Transmission, is available everywhere!
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JENNIFER FOK (Lighting Designer) is a queer Chinese - American lighting designer. Her design collaborations center on reimagining classics, exploring new work, and collaborating with artists in the fields of movement, dance, and music. She is a graduate of Ithaca College and a proud member of USA 829. Many thanks to the entire cast, crew, and design team. See more of her work at www.jenniferfok.com
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KELLY BARTNIK (Movement Consultant) is an industry leader in Immersive Theater with an extensive ability to produce, write, choreograph, direct , perform and run large scale Immersive Experiences. She is a NY-based choreographer, performer, director, teacher and producer and was an original cast member of both the Boston and NY productions of Sleep No More. She has performed in the Immersive experiences Waking La Llorona and Portaleza, by Optika Moderna and The Unbrunch, created by Cinereal Productions. She also was Movement Director for Optika Moderna’s latest project, Las Quinceañeras. She was the recipient of an evening-length commission by Gibney Dance for the premiere of her latest stage work - Fuck / Love: The Poetics of Adoration. She has taught at Colby College, Queens College, NYU's Playwright’s Horizons Theater School, Emory University, Spelman College and has conducted Immersive performance training at Meow Wolf, Santa Fe. She has directed and choreographed Immersive experiences for Amazon, Tentr, Twitch, and AMC. Kelly is currently mounting new large-scale Immersive productions in both Atlanta and New York called HERE{after} and was recently the Director of the first large-scale Immersive experience called Hotel Wonderland in Amsterdam. She is currently the Producer of the inaugural immersive production by Artemis is Burning called The Death of Rasputin. Additional work can be found at www.hereny.com and www.comboplatterproductions.com and www.deathofrasputin.com
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CARA KIENITZ (Stage Manager) is excited to be working on this production! Some of her previous credits include: Deep Blue Sound, Grief Hotel, Coach Coach, Work Hard Have Fun Make History, Spindle Shuttle Needle, and four years of Winterworks (Clubbed Thumb); Titanique (Daryl Roth Theatre); Galatea (MJ Kaufman); Bruise + Thorn (Pipeline Theatre Company); and the What the Constitution Means to Me tour. She holds a BFA from NYU. Love and thanks to my family and Madison.
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PAUL HUTSON (Director of Photography) is a Director and DP based out of Baltimore, MD. His work primarily focuses on live entertainment, documentary, and advertisements with clients such as HBO, Adult Swim, PBS, Warner Brothers Music, and many more.
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LILLY DE LUCIA (Graphic Design) is a Queens-based artist and graphic designer for a restaurant group in Brooklyn including Locanda Vini e Olii in Clinton Hill and Biddrina Gelato, where she is Creative Director. She also designs the menus and weekly DJ event posters for Bed Stuy’s underground HIFI bar, Suono. Her design style is influenced by nostalgia, paper ephemera, collage, and print-making. When she’s not moving tiny pixels around a screen, she loves crafting of all sorts, from making Halloween costumes and subway-tiling her table to sculpting candlestick holders and redesigning book covers. See some of the fun at lillydelucia.com.
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MARYCLARE RAMIREZ (Production Assistant) is a multi-hyphenate recent TCU graduate with her B.F.A. in Theatre, emphasis in Theatre Studies. Professional Credits: Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Sol Project, TV show The Chosen (Talent Coordinator), Casa Mañana (Grease and The Color Purple Asst. Director), and Circle Theatre (Kodachrome Asst. Director). Maryclare is dedicated to creating impactful stories and doing that inspire positivity and empathy.
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NATHAN WINOTO (Production Assistant) is a writer and producer born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. A recent graduate of Brown University, he made his Broadway producing debut as a co-producer of John Proctor Is the Villain. He is passionate about unexpected theatrical stories that, by reflecting the world we live in, bring people together. How exciting!
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ALLISON PARKER (Producer) is a freelance producer and stage manager based in NYC. With her company, A/Park Productions, Allison has produced shows both in NYC, including most recently THE WHOLE OF TIME at The Brick, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe with most recent Fringe credits including DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME (Bedlam, 2024), UNSEEN (Zoo Playground, 2024), and FUNNY GUY (Greenside George Street, 2024). Allison took this year off from the Fringe to have a bébé but is excited to return to Edinburgh next year and introduce her new little one to the best arts festival in the world! Allison is thrilled to join this talented group of artists and is excited for what's next for ROOMIES! Love to my boys: Stephen, Desmond and Parker the pup.
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SOPHIA ENGLESBERG (Associate Producer, Molly VO) is an actor and producer based in New York City. She holds a BFA in acting from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and has trained at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her producing credits include: Invasive Species (Off-Broadway) by Maia Novi, REVOLUTION by Brett Neveu at The Flea, THE JAG by Robin Schavoir, A Doll House directed by John Gould Rubin, There are No Diving Pools in Hell by Aliza Jane Cosgrove, and ZOOMERS by Matthew Gasda at The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. She hosts a developmental reading series for new screenplays called ‘Flight Club’ monthly in New York City. @sophengles
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SPECIAL THANKS
The Flea Theater
New Georges
Materials For The Arts
Deb Hecht
Natalia Araujo