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Chloe Dittloff (she/her) has a BFA in Lighting Design from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Design credits include: Rutgers’s Men on Boats, R & J, and Orlando, Columbia University’s The Winter’s Tale, BAKKHAI, and Is God Is, Barnard College’s Octagonal Amusement Park. Associate credits include: Waterbury Symphony’s Broadway Scores!, Lucky Man: A Warrior’s Journey, and the New American Ensemble’s The Brothers Karamazov. Recent assistant credits include: DOLLY: A True Original Musical. More at chloedittloffdesign.com.

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Evan Dominguez is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, actor and film editor, whose passion for film and theater was first ignited while studying drama at New York City’s most prestigious public arts school, LaGuardia High School. Upon graduating, he was generously granted the Joanne Woodward First Year Scholarship at the Neighborhood Playhouse and spent a year studying the Meisner technique, assembling among his classmates the cast and crew of his off-broadway directorial debut, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at Theatre at St. John’s. Dominguez then earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Ancient Greek and Latin at Brooklyn College, working simultaneously as a documentary film editor. While writing screenplays, directing shorts, working as a freelance film editor, and acting both on stage and screen, he has had the privilege of collaborating with a diverse array of esteemed artists, including film icons Kate Winslet, Chloe Sevigny and Eric Roberts. Dominguez’s short film THE SUPERINTENDENT, has screened as close to home as the Prospect Park Nitehawk Cinema, and as far as Beijing, China.

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Terah is an educator, writer, and organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been with LAO since their NYC debut <3

Featured in Our Town / Romeo & Juliet / The Seagull

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Caroline Fairweather is a theatre-maker based in Queens. Caroline is an Associate Director on Maybe Happy Ending and recently served as the Assistant Director on The Lost Boys and The Queen of Versailles. Other directing: Carmilla, Red Giant. Performance: Parade (B’way, NYCC, Nat’l Tour), The 2024 Met Gala, and at Barrington Stage, Shakespeare & Co., and Williamstown Theatre Festival. With Live Animals Onstage: Midsummer, Romeo & Juliet.

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Melia Hagino (she/they) is a queer, Asian-American comedian, writer, and actor based in Brooklyn, NY. After producing audiobooks for their day job, Melia can be found performing improv, sketch, and stand-up at UCB, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and any other venue that will have them. Recent theater credits include: CRINGE (Edinburgh Fringe), ROMEO AND JULIET (Live Animals Onstage), MY POOLBOY (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and CARMILLA (Garden Variety Theater Co). Melia's comedic writing can be found at McSweeney's, The Belladonna, and PointsInCase.com.

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Jared Harbour is co-founder and Lead Producer of Earthbound Studio, a New York production company working across film, documentary, and live performance, with clients including Alice + Olivia, the Museum of the City of New York, DraftKings, and more. He's currently a JD/MFA candidate at Columbia Law School and Columbia's School of the Arts, and he's also a writer, covering theater and film economics on his Substack. He wrote and produced No Dancing Allowed, a documentary rooted in New York's House and Lindy Hop dance communities, tracing how the Cabaret Law shaped and restricted their practice for decades — now moving through the festival circuit. His work treats art as a way to name and needle systemic inequality. Jared believes that traditional paths to artmaking are antiquated and is in search of making art that "impacts culture" (yes, he's aware that's the artistic equivalent of saying you want to "make a difference," and he's working on a better answer).

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Brandon Hilfer (he/him) is a New York based composer and sound designer. Brandon's work has been heard at a variety of venues across NYC, including Under St. Marks, The Tank, Scholes Street Studio, Provincetown Playhouse, and University Settlement. Recent theater projects include Silverback Mountain (Off-Broadway/AMT Theater), Carmilla (Garden Variety Theater), Balloon Animals (CityGarage), and Michael! (Garden Variety Theater). Brandon holds an M.M. from NYU Steinhardt and a B.A. from Williams College.

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Petra Hinds is a Brooklyn based actress and singer, and she can’t wait to serve this piece to you on a silver platter. 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 (Ensemble), and Mile Square Theater’s production of The Mountaintop (u/s Camae).

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Sebastian Blue Hochman is a composer, sound designer, and theatermaker whose work spans theater, film, immersive performance, and live improvisation. He is getting his masters’ in Music at Stanford, with a focus on music for theater and immersive media. He has credits at The Public Theater, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, and DR2. Whether writing musical theater or sound designing, his practice blends bold musical storytelling, rhythmic play, and textured sonic worlds.

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My name is Tennant Maxey. I like to party and have a good time. I can do any accent. I swear! Try me. All jokes aside, I will bring the energy and a dedication to the craft of acting that is unmatched. I promise. Hit me up anytime, I will have an answer for whatever qualms you have. God speed. Love wins. And I hope to see you in the future or on the other side.

Featured in Our Town / Romeo & Juliet

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Alina Muha was born in Russia where she studied movement and theater. She’s now based in New York where she continues studying acting. Alina is also a director and writer and has a great interest in bringing classical literature to a modern stage.

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Obi Nwako graduated from Williams College with a bachelor of arts in theater. Born and raised in New York, Obi works with American Immersion Theater and has enjoyed performing and teaching improv throughout New York. Some of Obi’s performances include “The Best Brother,” “A House Full Of Flies,” “Our Town,” and “Carmilla”. He’s super excited to be back with Live Animals Onstage!

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Stella Oh is a Korean American-Canadian NYC-based actor, writer, singer-musician, and occasional sound designer who’s delighted to be making her debut with Live Animals Onstage! She’s greatly interested in an holistic artistic practice that investigates text and movement through interdisciplinary playmaking and physical theater. Past credits include her solo show Even Monkeys Fall From Trees (Mabou Mines & 3AM Theatre, ChuanFest), Molly-Kate in CRINGE (Edinburgh Fringe & 59E59 Theaters, Fishmarket Theatre Co.), Before it Hurts (The Tank & Mabou Mines & 3AM Theatre, in-version ensemble), and Mom in The Firebird (The Rat NYC, Foul Fiend Theatre Troupe). Many thanks to her 엄마, Grace, friends, and mentors for their loving support!

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Caroline Payton Parker is thrilled to be returning to Live Animals Onstage and joining the Decapitatrix team. A queer, award-winning fight and intimacy director, she is passionate about creating collaborative, consent-forward processes that support bold storytelling. A mentee of Broadway Fight Director and former SAFD President David J. Brimmer, her recent credits include Just Juliet (Off-Broadway), Carmilla (Off-Off Broadway), Alone, Alone, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, a short film whose award-winning festival run qualified it for Academy Award consideration, and more Shakespeare than she could ever hope to count. Upcoming work includes Fire Girls (feature film). Endless love to her family, friends, and partner for their unwavering support.

Featured in Decapitatrix / Our Town / Romeo & Juliet / Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Saidie Stone is a New York based actor originally from Santa Cruz, California. She has performed at The Tank, New World Stages, Columbia MFA, Dixon Place, and has appeared in multiple shorts and feature-length film projects. Selected credits include EURYDICE (Eurydice), THREE SISTERS (Masha), OUR TOWN (Mrs. Webb), and FEMM (Zee). BA: Northwestern University.

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Brooklyn-based straight cis-male stereotype (tech worker, avid climber, tattooed, wine-certified cook) Alex is endlessly grateful that his much cooler and more talented friends keep inviting him onto the stage for productions including The Seagull, The Bacchae, and Romeo and Juliet. Alex’s unexpected acting journey began at Williams College (’21), where he met John and Fiona and briefly studied under Omar Sangare. He has appeared in Our Time and memorably played a security guard in John’s senior thesis.

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Alice is an actress, producer/director, and teaching artist, passionate about all things weird, wonderful, and female-centered. ACTING CREDITS: Law and Order (NBC), Liberation (Boulder Ensemble Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Penn Shakes/Helena), The Producers (Pennsylvania Shakespeare/Shirley Markowitz), Coriolanus (Penn Shakes), Cringe (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Clue (Scarlett/West Virginia Public), Parade (Lincoln Center), These and Those (Ayala/New York Theatre Festival), Enemies to Lovers (BCC, Young Ethels). LAO CREDITS: WHO’S AFRAID (Martha), Two: Sam Shepard (Rehearsal). PRODUCTION CREDITS: Going Away Party (Alab Theatre Festival), An American (not) in Paris (59e59/Edinburgh Fringe), Insertion (Fishmarket Theater/Connelly), The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Danny Feldman), Cringe (59e59/Edinburgh Fringe), Trying for Hedda (LaMama), ABCD (Anvita Gattani).

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