Presented in part by Linda & Chip Bubeck

Production Staff

Kat Sloan Garcia

Production Stage Manager
Kat Sloan Garcia (she/her) is a Chicana stage manager and playwright based in NYC. She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College where she received a BFA in Stage & Production Management and a BA in Playwriting. Recent stage management projects include Take Ten 2023 with Theatre Masters, the Broadway Celebrates Earth Day Concert with the Broadway Green Alliance, Clowntown by Isabella Fatigati, and Small Parties by Alexandra Rogers. @katsloangarcia

Paraic McLean

Lighting Designer

Páraic is a lighting designer and marketer from Ireland, currently based in New York City. His lighting design credits include "pool (no water)," "Castaway Stan," and "Romeo and Julie" (Samuel Beckett Theater, Dublin), "Big Shot" (Rave Theater Festival, NYC), and "Erastes" (All Out Arts' Fresh Fruit Festival, NYC). He previously served as an in-house designer at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center, where he designed weddings, fashion shows, and more.

Hannah Bird

Costume Designer
Hannah Bird (she/they) is a designer, crafts artisan, and director based in Brooklyn. She has worked on productions at Playwrights Horizons, WP Theatre, The Public Theater, The New School for Drama, PlayCo/Clubbed Thumb, Moliere in the Park, and A24. Favorite credits include THE WAKE OF UR PROBLEMATIC FAV PRTY GRL at IRT and Edinburgh Fringe, Happy Birthday Curiosity Rover at Cosmic Cherry Festival, and Motherf**king Girl Scouts at Fresh Fruit Festival.

Beth Golison

Intimacy Director
Beth Golison (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer/composer and Intimacy Director. As an Intimacy Director and Coordinator, her work intertwines collaborative artistic discovery with consent-forward practices to safely tell impactful stories. Writing projects include Lottie and the Deep Blue Sea (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest), here i fall up (New Ohio), (a new) blood wedding (Playwrights Downtown), In the Pool (The Bush Theatre, London), and Let’s Go Together (NFNV Film Festival). She holds IDC's Consent-Forward Artist Certification and a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch.

Karma Masselli

Set Designer
Karma Masselli is a theater and film maker in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent theater directing projects include Mikvah Girls (Art House Productions/New Jersey), Motherf**king Girl Scouts (Wild Project/All Out Art’s Fresh Fruit Festival), Happy Birthday, Curiosity Rover (Super Secret Arts/Cosmic Cherry Arts Festival). Her recent film directing projects include Gracie Green Is Getting Resurrected (Neighborhood Film Festival) and Burt's Electronics (HUDSY). BFA: NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theater School.

EMILY/BUBECK

Executive Producer, Props Designer, ASM
Emily/Bubeck (Either name works - She/Her) Is an Appalachian woman and a Brooklyn based theater, fiber & performance artist. She Stage Manages throughout the indie and downtown theater scene and serves as the Producing Artistic Director & Co-Founder of Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective. She is proud to support and champion generative theater artists in all the spaces she inhabits. Her goal is to facilitate the development and consumption of new work that allows us to expand our ideas on how we tell stories and who those stories serve.

Michelle Chan

Associate Producer
Michelle Chan (she/her) is a director, theatremaker, and arts facilitator from Hong Kong. Her work is committed to stories that have been historically marginalized or unauthentically portrayed. She is a resident artist at Breaking & Entering, a member of the Fled Collective, the 2023 Moxie Arts Incubator, and the Drama League’s 2023-2024 Director’s Project cohort. Currently, Michelle is assisting May Adrales on Qui Nguyen’s POOR YELLA REDNECKS at MTC. michchan.com @michellechaann

Declan Zhang

Associate Producer, Playwright & Director
Declan Zhang is a percussionist, playwright, and professional chef based in New York. They hold a Bachelors of Music in Percussion Performance from New York University, and they are the Beverage Director at Dinner Party in Fort Greene. Their work deals with intimacy, socialism, and the overwhelming absurdity of life in the digital age. @dclnzhang on all platforms.

Michael Ortiz

Associate Producer, Marketing & Fundraising
Michael Ortiz (he/him) is a proud New York-based Puerto Rican producer, actor, and director. He is a co-founding member of The Fled Collective and an inaugural member of The Line-Up with Breaking & Entering. He currently produces and hosts SERIALS, an ongoing late-night short play competition series in TriBeCa. Michael is passionate about the cultivation of new work and creating opportunities for underrepresented artists. He is an avid gamer, a home cook, and lover of all things spooky! Follow @mctease on Instagram or check out michael-ortiz.com for inquiries and updates regarding upcoming projects.

MOLLY VAN DER MOLEN

Associate Director of Artistic Programming, Marketing & Fundraising
Molly Van Der Molen (she/her) is an emerging playwright, director and creative producer based in New York City and the Bay Area. She’s a resident director and Associate Director of Artistic Programming with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, the development associate at Shotgun Players, an ad-hoc employee with New Dramatists and is currently collaborating on a lyrical performance piece titled My Body is Falling Apart by Bubeck. Recent collaborations include Um…, co-written with Alexandra Fortin, which virtually premiered at the Greenwich Odeum and GIRLHOOD with The Tank, NYC. Molly is most thrilled to facilitate big ensemble pieces that paint honest portrayals of women, explore queerness and unearth the ever-evolving definitions of family. She’s a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and a die hard lover of ice cream.

E.B. Hinnant

Fundraising Event Manager
E.B. Hinnant is an actor and songwriter from the Deep South. As an actor he loves working with things like humor, biographical research, and queer rage. As a songwriter he loves working with things like synthesizers, woodwinds, and having a body. His last meal would be a watermelon.

PEA Fest is an Actors Equity Approved Showcase

Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors
and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster
the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages
and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension
plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international
organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.
www.actorsequity.org

All actors in AEA will have a * next to their name on the program.

THE VENUE

Special Thanks to The Chain!

This event wouldn’t have been possible without the team at The Chain and our team of volunteers.
THANK YOU!!!!

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