War and Peace. Places of War.

Hao Bai (Production Design) is a multidisciplinary designer in lighting, sound, video projection, and world-building (environment) for live and virtual performances. Recent: Virtual: Final Boarding Call (Ma-Yi Theater + WP Theater), Nocturne in 1200s (Ping Chong). Lighting: Waterboy and the Mighty World (Bushwick Starr & The Public Theatre), Lazarus (Ping Chong). Projection: Electronic City (NYIT Awards), My Home on the Moon (SF Playhouse–SFBATCC Awards), Twelfth Night (Folger, DC), The Table (Pink Fang). Sound: Walden (TheatreWorks–CT Critics Circle Award), True West (People’s Light), Jesa (Ma-Yi & Public). Lighting & Sound: 7Mins (HERE). Lighting & Projection: Priestess of Twerk (HERE + Irondale). Lighting/Sound/Projection: Arden (The Flea). Production Design: and the grass grows (Harvard University); Where We Belong (National Tours: The Public, Goodman Theatre, OSF etc.).

Alexandra Brokowski is an actor based in NYC. Notable credits include Woman #2 in Fragments (with F. Murray Abraham), #25 in The Wolves, Violet Balfour in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew at Columbia University, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale with Elsewhere Shakespeare, and most recently Princess in Princess Fantasy at the inaugural Manifestival in NYC. She also produces TV with Learning Curve Productions. Follow her on Instagram for updates: @ssnalexnadra. She is extra excited to be collaborating with this ensemble!

Charlie Chauca is an experimental storytelling artist from Queens, NY. An alumnus of the 2021/22 Playwrights Horizons Fellowship, 2022 Westport Country Playhouse Directing Fellowship, and IRT Theater’s 3B Residency; their work has been seen at INTAR Theatre, The Brick Theater, and Life World. Currently, he’s the artistic producer of Devise/Experiment, an experimental artistic community. IG:@charliechauca W:deviseexperiment.com

Jing Dong is a theatre maker. As a generative artist, she directs, writes, and facilitates devising processes. She makes performances that create space for people to gather, connect, and reflect on life experiences and the world’s current issues. Her theatre projects take various forms such as devised theatre, ethnotheatre, play, participatory performance, audio theatre, and object theatre, and have been supported by Mercury Store, LMCC, NYSCA, Puffin Foundation, Performance Project, Korean Art Forum, Yangtze Rep, the Laundromat Project. She is a member of the 2026-28 WP Theater Lab.

Carrie Heitman is a multi-disciplinary theater artist. She has appeared Off-Broadway, regionally, and in the UK, Poland, Russia, Singapore and Malaysia. NYC: The Cherry Lane, The Pearl, The Women’s Project, DTW, The New Ohio, The Abingdon, Mark Morris, Dixon Place and many others. Film: A Piece of Cake, The Patriot, Everything’s Gonna Be Pink, What About Us? (w/ Jasmine Guy). She is a co-founder and artistic director of Hook & Eye Theater, steering a devising ensemble that crafts absurdist new plays inspired by themes of history and science. Supported by A.R.T./NY, NYSCA, DCLA, Howard Gilman, Yip Harburg, Puffin, Brooklyn Arts Council. Nominated for Outstanding Ensemble performances by the Innovative Theatre Awards. Semi-finalist for the National Theater Project Creation and Touring Grant. Selected for Show Your Work: Brooklyn Public Library. MFA: UNC/Chapel Hill; Louise Lamont Award for Excellence. BA Philosophy: Kalamazoo College; Nelda K Balch Award. 2025-2026 Lead artist and current ensemble member at The Mercury Store. hookandeyetheater.com; @hookandeyetheater

Simon Henriques is an actor, writer, and co-artistic director of the theatre company Nightdrive. November 13-22 he is performing in DUMMY with New Relic Theatre. Other performance credits include OUT OF ORDER (East Village Basement, NYT Best of 2025), ON A STRING (Tribeca Festival), ANTIGONE IN ANALYSIS (La MaMa), NEIGHBOR PLAY (Stage Time), and THE GROWN-UPS (his backyard, Time Out NY Best of 2021). simonhenriques.com

Petra Hinds is a Brooklyn based actress and singer. She received a BA in Theater and Political Science at Williams College; while there, she studied physical theater, voice, devising, directing, design, and dramaturgy. She also completed the Atlantic Acting School’s Evening Conservatory. Recent credits include Sam Melton’s Bury Your Gays at the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival, an understudy track in Mile Square Theater’s production of The Mountaintop, and a role in Live Animals Onstage!’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, entitled Decapitatrix.

Maddie Hopfield is a New York City-based performer, choreographer, and taiko drummer. She has shown work at Brick Aux, Kestrels, LifeWorld, the MAAS building, Urban Movement Arts, and Vox Populi. She collaborates with Marin Day under the name PEPTALK. She has performed in the work of LOU TIDES, The Lactopod Players, Jo Warren, Matthew Antoci, Tau Lewis, Barnett Cohen, Christina Reaves (The Creature), Amelia Heintzelman, Paris Cullen & Sarah Zucchero, Lindsey Jennings, Maya Lee-Parritz, Amalia Colón-Nava, Leah Stein Dance Company, Philly Kerplop (Vince Johnson), Jillian Jeatton, Chelsea Murphy, Amalia Raye Wiatr Lewis, Lily Kind, Lillian Ransijn, and Cricket (James Colter). She performs taiko with Casual Fifth (Philadelphia) and Taikoza (NYC). maddiehopfield.com

Jesai Jayhmes is an actor and director trained at London’s Webber Douglas Academy. He was co-director and lead actor with Theater Research Group KISS in Holland, playing the role of Agamemnon. He taught for Yale University Theater Studies and the Banff Centre for the Arts. As Artistic Director of Teatro de la Tierra in Costa Rica, he created a bilingual adaptation of King Lear and a youth theater group Hijos de la Tierra (teatrodelatierra.com). He also appeared as Charlie Chaplin in Dos Fridas, by Ishtar Yasin. Interests include classic texts, devised ensemble creations, and site specific immersive experiences.

Kristina Varshavskaya (Production Stage Manager) was born in Russia, raised in Ukraine, and grew up in New York City, where her international background shaped her creative and collaborative spirit. She is the co-founder of Revelations Production, a multimedia company dedicated to promoting inclusivity, diversity, justice, and creative freedom through global artistic partnerships (revelationsproduction.com).

Kristina’s recent work includes the new musical ONE WAY, After the Revolution at NYU Tisch, and VELOCITY, a new play by Stephen Laughton with Voyager Theater Company at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium. Her film and theater collaborations include Ping Chong + Company’s Chinoiserie: Redux and Nocturne in 1200 Seconds, NYU Tisch, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, La MaMa, Lincoln Center, and Voyager Theater Company. She is grateful to work with Jing and Hao on this wonderful project.

Pau Zabaleta Llauger is a Catalan theater maker, performer, director, and educator based in New York. Trained at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and DAMU in Prague, he performed across Europe and Moscow with the Czech-Finnish ensemble KREPSKO from 2007 to 2019. He continued his independent practice in Oaxaca, Mexico, before moving to New York in 2023. He recently completed his MFA in Contemporary Theater and Performance at The New School, where he received the Judith Malina Award for Artistic Distinction.

Working across movement, devised theater, and object theater, Pau blends visual poetry with dark humor to create delicate yet unsettling stage worlds where the fragile, playful, and melancholic coexist. His collaborative practice explores queerness, memory, identity, nostalgia, and immigrant experiences.

Lucie Tassel is a trilingual musical theater performer. She studied musical theater at the ECM de Paris, then at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York.

Being French, she obviously made her debut in Paris, where she is originally from, performing in acting as well as in musical theatre, in roles such as Helen Sinclair in Bullets Over Broadway, Poncia in The House of Bernarda Alba and in the ensembles of On The Town and Godspell.

Since 2024 she is the producer and artistic director of Broadway Abroad: shows she created specifically to blend musical theatre with cultural exchange.