Breaking & Entering is a community based indie theatre ensemble dedicated to making space for new stories and new people in the theatre industry.
in 2025, the collective is comprised of 24 artists.
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Our ‘LINE UP’
Kamila Boga
Kamila Boga (she/her) is a director, actor, and playwright from Los Angeles. Fueled by the belief that creatives are second responders, she develops and directs expressive, ensemble-driven work that turns tension into art. Currently, Kamila attends Columbia University, where she studies Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre Arts. Her plays have been developed by The Road Theatre Company, Boise Contemporary Theater, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, Horizon Theatre Company, and Dartmouth College. Kamila is thrilled to join the B & E community and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on new works.
Nikki Cannon
Nikki Cannon is an actor, singer, and dancer from Gainesville, Florida. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with her BFA in Acting and moved to Manhattan after graduation. Favorite roles include The Seagull (Nina), The Magnificent Revengers (Dorothy Kelly), and Puffs (Leanne/others). She has performed at 54 Below, The Green Room 42, The Players Theatre, and in Serials by The Fled Collective. She is a lover and avid collector of vintage clothing and antiques. Additional interests include reading, coffee shops, and dog spotting.
Alyssa Haddad-Chin
Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a Lebanese-American, playwright, educator and arts facilitator. She is the 2024 Playwright-in-Residence at SPARC New Voices, a 2024-’25 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow, and a 2024-’25 Keen Teens commissioned playwright. Her play, The Newlywed Game, won B Street Theatre’s 2023 New Comedies Festival and received its World Premiere in June 2024. Other plays include The Ancestry Dot Com Play (Developed at The Playwrights Realm, Premiere Stages at Kean, Art House Productions. Finalist: Leah Ryan Award, American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award, Semifinalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Rattlestick Theater Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference) Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play (Developed at NYTW, Backstitch Story Arts. Finalist: Amphibian SparkFest, The Playwright’s Realm, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. Semifinalist: Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award, Princess Grace Award, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival), and others. She is the Company and Community Manager at Target Margin Theater. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. alyssahaddad.com
Karen Marulanda
Karen Marulanda (she/her/ella) is a proud Colombian/Nicaraguan actor, writer and director currently based in NYC. She most recently directed STOCKED for The Chain Theatre's Winter One Act Festival. Recent acting credits include: Fucked Up Play Fest (Caveat), Luchadora! (Orlando Repertory Theatre) and SWAY (The Fled Collective). Karen was a Semifinalist actor in NBC’s Nosotros Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam 2022. Connect with her on Instagram: @karenmarulanda.
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Sara Rahman
Sara Rahman is a Brooklyn-based actor best known for her work in developmental theatre, voice-over, and film/tv. As a third culture kid and Malaysian expat with a wild complex with identity, Sara is devoted to work that opens us up and turns us inside out -- she took to acting through the grieving who she could've been and playing with who she could be. Her favorite movie is Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Recent work: Chinatown Burlesque (Yangtze Rep), As I Was, Not As I Am (WP Theater), No One Plays Badminton in America (Playwrights Realm), Fish Meat (SheNYC), Sinister Sisters (Breaking & Entering Rooftop Series), Return of a High School Gangster (English dub), Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (VO), Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (VO), Maggie (film), Party Favor (film). Other fun credits include: Off-B’way directing debut with First Sight: A Queer Indonesian Love Story at SheNYC and directed and wrote Sleepover Club (a post-apocalyptic girl band play with music) for The Tank’s TrashFest/DarkFest. When she is not on stage or in a booth, she's cuddling her cats Cup & Boop, drinking a liter of seltzer water, or watching reruns (or all three).
Molly Van Der Molen
Co-Artistic Director
Molly Van Der Molen (she/her) is a playwright, director and creative producer based in New York City and the SF Bay Area. She’s a resident artist and proud Co-Artistic Director of Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective and the Company Associate at Shotgun Players in Berkeley, California. Recent collaborations include the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep; Um…, co-written with Alexandra Fortin, which virtually premiered at the Greenwich Odeum and GIRLHOOD with B&E and The Tank, NYC. Molly facilitates 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. Catch her next directing Jan Rosenberg’s ‘Pluck’ at Shotgun Players!
Xander Browne
Xander Browne (he/they) is a queer Black comedic playwright/director/composer based in Brooklyn with a degree in Directing from Columbia University. His work explores the various intersections of religion, sexuality, race, technology, and conservation. This past year he has provided musical direction for workshops at The Public, The Flea, and the 5th Climate Change Theatre Action Festival. He also directed Alex Beige’s Blackpilled: A Blueprint at the International Human Rights Arts Festival. His musical W a t c h M e, a gay ASMR fantasia, has been workshopped with the New York Theater Workshop, at Adelphi University, and with Roundabout Director’s Group. His musical The Last Vampyre, a lesbian vampire farce set in Winnipeg, Canada, was a finalist for Live & In Color’s Bingham Camp Musical Retreat and a semi-finalist for the Pipeline Arts Foundation Award. His frequent collaborations with Patrick B. Phillips have culminated in the musical MIXED, a meditation on being biracial that has been featured in 54 Below’s “Let Them Hear You” concert series. Xander’s play Take Me Home, a dark racialized take on The Wizard of Oz, was a finalist for the Dr. Floyd Gaffney Playwriting Prize. Recently, his music has been featured at The Brick’s New Work Festival and in Torn Out Theater’s Antigonick. You can also hear his music in Ars Nova’s ANTfest play The Apostle Peter and His Lover John, Also an Apostle available for streaming, and his work has been performed regularly as part of 54 Below’s Black Writers Showcase. Xander is a featured line-up artist with the Breaking and Entering Theater Collective and has worked extensively with the artist residency program SPACE on Ryder Farm.
Michelle Chan
Michelle Chan (she/her) is a director, theatremaker, and arts producer from Hong Kong. She is a first-gen Taiwanese-American whose work is committed to stories that have been historically marginalized or unauthentically portrayed in attempts to redefine the roles that fabricate the American culture. Michelle is currently a member of The Drama League’s 2023-2024 Director’s Project, a resident artist at Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, and teaching assistant to Suzan-Lori Parks at NYU/Tisch’s Graduate Department of Dramatic Writing. Her work has been seen at WP Theater, The Flea, Theatre Row, Keen Company, Dixon Place, Hudson Guild Theater, A.R.T/New York Theatres, The Maker’s Space, Lime Arts Productions, The Fled Collective, Moxie Arts NY and Atlantic Acting School. She has also assisted illustrious directors at Manhattan Theatre Club and Keen Company, including May Adrales, Mark Cirnigliano, Portia Krieger, and Lou Moreno. Michelle is also the first female college graduate in her family lineage, holding a degree in Directing from Pace University’s International Performance Ensemble. michchan.com @michellechaann
Melissa Ingle
Melissa Ingle – (she/her/hers) is a Brooklyn-based director and co-founder of Devon Loves ME! Productions [@devonlovesMEproductions]. Currently, she is devising a one-man clown show "It Was Really Good to Know You". Theater Credits: "Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works" (Edinburgh Fringe, Caveat, Down to Clown Festival) "CJ & Cat" (The Chain Summer Festival), "Ranked Choice Dating" (?!: Festival), "Offloading" (NOW Festival), "According to This...” (DLM!P), and "Shakespeare Translate: Romeo & Juliet" (Doghouse Ensemble Theatre). Film: "Fantasy" (Spiral Productions - upcoming) "A Place For Ashes" (Spiral Productions). She also produces a monthly Brooklyn-born variety show, Basement Bumz [@Basement_Bumz], fostering an environment of creativity and risk-taking.
Maggie Metnick
Maggie Metnick is an actor, writer, producer, educator and certified human emotional support dog. She is the co creator and host of the news satire show Man Up at Caveat in which she plays Chip Johnson, male conservative pundit and self proclaimed expert on women's issues (@manupladies). She has produced and performed two solo shows; The first is a clown show about her real struggles with social anxiety entitled I Want To Be Your Friend, Please. The second is a reflection on stand up comedy and mental illness entitled 12 Year Old Boys and Other Things That Make Me Nervous which debuted during B&E’s PEA Fest in 2019. One of her passions is coaching artists on creating the solo shows of their dreams from the ground up. Maggie is also a practicing witch and is currently writing a narrative erotica/fan fiction about an anime series she’s obsessed with.
Other theatre credits; Diaspora (Off Broadway), And You Shall Be a Blessing (The Dramatists Guild, *Reading), Pulp Verite (The Workshop Theatre, *Reading), A Roller Rink Temptation (WOW Cafe). Film credits; Blue Hour (Slamdance Screenplay Finalist), The Meditater. Commercial credits; Oreo, Embrace Home Loans.
Emani B. Simpson
Emani Brielle Simpson is an actor, director, producer and stage manager. She is the founder of the production company, The Real Artists (TRA), whose mission is to create an inspirational environment where artists can hone their crafts, thrive and network to build a career out of their passions. Emani is passionate about bringing artists together and collaborating on new works. She is an associate producer for and a proud member of Breaking & Entering Theater Collective.
Emani is one of the producers of SERIALS and currently, co-producing Dust of Egypt with the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture. She is also stage managing Pecong at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Emani is also the house manager at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center in New Jersey.
William Vonada
William Vonada (he/him) is a NY based theatre actor, director, and administrator who has primarily worked with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective and The Fled Collective. He enjoys pursuing developmental work and helping “dumb” projects get traction. In addition to theatre, William also works as a Beverage Director in Uptown Manhattan and Brooklyn.
emily/BUBECK
Co-Artistic Director
emily/BUBECK is a Queer, Catholic, Appalachian theatre practitioner and multi-disciplinary artists working out of Brooklyn. emily specializes in facilitating the development and consumption of new works by traditionally underrepresented artists, and she drawn especially to projects that allow us to expand our ideas on how we tell stories and who those stories serve. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, and serves as the Development Associate at New Dramatists. emilybubeck.com
Alex Church-Gonzales
Alex Church-Gonzales (she/they) is a director, designer, and stage manager. As a director of plays that don’t exist yet, they specialize in both devising new ensemble works and co-incubation with playwrights. Recently, they have been workshopping WE ARE NOT THE GUERRILLA GIRLS with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, featuring a punk-rock femme ensemble playing over 25 roles. Other credits include All At Once [40th Anniversary Remaster] (The Tank), Buck Stars (Keen Company), Artemisia’s Intent (The Anthropologists), The Mannequin Play (The Tank), Everyone Hated Us (Dixon Place), A Play About Lucas Hnath… (NYC Winterfest), this world is for the frat bros (Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective). alexchurchgonzales.com @alexncg
Henry Lombino
Henry Lombino is a producer, choreographer, and writer hailing from Western Massachusetts. A graduate of Wesleyan University and a wearer of many hats, Henry has been active in the theatre and dance world for the past five years, making new creative ventures possible through his artistic and managerial experience. Past organizations he’s worked with include Jacob’s Pillow, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Keen Company, Page 73, Dance/USA, American Ballet Theatre, and 24 Hour Plays. Currently he is the Events and Operations Manager at the Mark Morris Dance Group. Henry strongly believes in promoting accessibility in the performing arts and in breaking down barriers of entry for both artists and audiences. When he’s not producing, dancing, or making spreadsheets, Henry can be found making new flavors of homemade ice cream.
Michael Ortiz
Co-Artistic Director
Michael Ortiz (he/him) is an multi-hyphenate theater artist hailing from the state of Florida. He has been a resident with Breaking & Entering since the collective's inception, and he now serves as Co-Artstic Director alongside Emily Bubeck and Molly van der Molen. He is a co-founder of The Fled Collective and he currently produces and hosts SERIALS, an episodic late-night short play competition series. Michael is a firm believer in community building over networking and is passionate about the cultivation of new work and creating opportunities for underrepresented artists, particularly queer artists and artists of color. He is an avid gamer, a home cook, and lover of all things spooky. Hit him up if you ever want to talk D&D or learn to play the spoons!
Mehrnaz Tiv
Mehrnaz makes character-driven, liberationist, and theatrically bold comedies fueled by experimentation and collaboration centering queer people of color. Recently, her play Squishy Emotional Insides was a 2024 Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference finalist. Their work has been developed with City Theatre, Asia Society, Noor Theatre, the Tank, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, and more. She is currently a member of the SWANA Writer’s Co-op at New York Theatre Workshop and TAG at the Tank. They believe in the magic of genderless sisterhood in all its pains, joys, and messes. She uses humor and complicated characters as her tools to dissect chaos, feelings, and the politics of existence. Her practice includes playwriting with her and her notebooks in her PIttsburgh apartment, or devising with co-creators to dig into really juicy non-narrative storytelling. Please visit bdsmovement.net/pacbi to learn more about the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and learn more about the BDS movement.
SMJ
SMJ (they/them) is a mixed-Latiné, non-binary, and NYC-based playwright, theatermaker, and educator originally from Mount Vernon, OH. They were a 2022-2023 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow. They are the Co-Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton, NH. Their work has been seen in various forms with Ars Nova, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New York Stage and Film, National Queer Theater, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Latiné Musical Theatre Lab, The Orchard Project, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, Wright State University, Otterbein University, and Art House Productions. SMJ has been a finalist for the 2024-25 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting at New Dramatists, 2024-25 Ars Nova Vision Residency, 2024 June Bingham New Playwright Commission, 2024 Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative at Illinois State University, and 2023 Parity Development Award. They were a Top 30 semifinalist for the 2024 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. SMJ has been a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference (three times), the 2025 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference, the 2023-24 Van Lier Fellowship at Rattlestick Theater, and the 2022-23 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting at New Dramatists. They are a member of the Dramatists Guild and Ring of Keys. www.smjwrites.com
Our ‘Suspects’
E.B. Hinnant
Potential Suspect
E.B. Hinnant is an actor, songwriter, and filmmaker from the deep South. He enjoys developing new works and has been a friend and fan of Breaking & Entering since its inception. Talk to him about fried okra, Dolly Parton, or any big hikes you’ve taken recently.EPA
Andres Osorio
Andres Osorio is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been seen at the Wild Project, Cherry Lane Theatre, Dixon Place, Loading Dock Theatre, The Tank, the People’s Improv Theater, and NYU. He received his BFA from NYU Tisch and the Chair's Award in Dramatic Writing. His plays are littered with miscommunications, preoccupied with family and friendship, and characterized by dark and physical comedy. When he’s not creating theatre, he’s experimenting with makeup, climbing boulders, and seeing amateur bands perform around Brooklyn.
Tori Lassman
Tori Lassman was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is an alumnus of Young Playwrights Inc. and a graduate of SUNY Purchase college, where she studied playwriting. Her plays are inspired by power and class dynamics, smut, and the magical and theatrical possibilities of the human body and mind. Tori’s oeuvre is centered around making lowbrow signifiers beautiful, emotional and humanistic. Past plays have been seen and workshopped with Young Playwrights Inc., Breaking and Entering Theater, The Playwright's Loft II, The Dionysian Magazine, the Casa Na Ilha residency in São Paulo, Brazil and New Georges.
Josh Reiter
Josh Reiter is a New York based actor, producer, writer, and director. As an actor, Josh has worked in television, voice-over, and in regional theatre. Josh is thrilled to be a part of Breaking & Entering, an organization that gives resources to new voices and is bold enough to develop groundbreaking original material. Josh's goal as a collaborator is to find what makes a piece unique and structure, highlight, and expand it to its greatest potential. Joshreiter.com
Sophie McIntosh
Sophie McIntosh (she/her) is a New York–based playwright and theatermaker. Her writing gives voice to women and queer folks, offers empathetic insight into living with mental illness, and explores how our interactions with animals and the natural world reflect on our own humanity.
Sophie is the co-founder of Good Apples Collective, a developmental orchard for new theatrical works that she co-leads with her frequent collaborator Nina Goodheart.
She is a proud recipient of a BA in drama from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and is currently working toward an MFA in playwriting at Columbia University (class of 2025).
Declan Zhang
Declan Zhang is a writer, director, and producer. They hold a Bachelors of Music in Percussion Performance from New York University. Their work deals with intimacy and the overwhelming absurdity of life in the digital age. Recent credits: bb brecht at Under the Radar 2023. They are the host and showrunner of Survivor Bushwick. @dclnzhang on all platforms.