IPHIS - Iphis and Ianthe at the Courthouse

is thrilled to make his New Ambassadors debut! NYC: “Click Chamber” (Producer’s Club); Upstate: “Number the Stars” (Theatre of Youth), “The Lonesome West” (Irish Classical Theatre). Film: Trew Calling, Hope for Christmas, Malicious Compliance; Streaming: Diary of a Lunatic; Internet: Failed First Dates.

Bryan writes, directs, produces & performs in an annual stunt show for the Buffalo Bisons baseball team's Star Wars Night, which has raises money for local charity Compass House, a shelter for at-risk youth.

Graduate, University at Buffalo. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Love to Chelsea, Mom, Mark, Shawn, Ben, Courtney & Terry! @BPStoyle

IANTHE - Iphis and Ianthe at the Courthouse

RILEY -Ava Hearts Riley

is thankful to New Ambassadors for having her back, after Heartbroke 2022. She is a playwright, actor, and educator from the DC area. She enjoys heirloom tomatoes, fiction by female authors, and making demented tiktoks with her best friend Tristan. She's looking for a job, are you hiring? You can read her work on New Play Exchange! https://newplayexchange.org/users/30210/ruthie-rado

PROMETHEUS - Prometheus Found

OFF STAGE VOICE - Iphis and Ianthe at the Courthouse

is a founding member of New Ambassador's Theater Company. Recently seen in David Gill's Irregulars at the Cherry Lane, playing Roger. as director, To Mr. Cuddles in the Heartbroke series. Past roles; off Broadway, alongside Tony-Nominated Lou Liberatore in "Gay. Porn. Mafia", the Audience Award Winner at the 2018 Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Governor Bullard in My Deah, co-starring Tony Award nominee Nancy Opel. He has also performed in Funeral Games at the Public Theater. Film roles include: Jimmy in Broker, on Television Mr. Butera can be seen in Alien Dawn as Dr. Luther, on All My Children and other Prime Time shows.

JEREMY - Sons and Fathers

is happy to be returning to New Ambassadors after appearing in Marvelous in last summer's Blurring Boundaries. He directed the play Papercut as part of the HeartBROKE series. He wrote and directed Letters for The Corona Chronicles webseries and performed in The Great Escapism and Experimenting with Katz. Paul is a graduate of Point Park University with a BFA in Theatre.

DAN - Sons and Fathers

toured Europe in Sam Graber’s "Shooter" (dir. Katrin Hilbe), returning to Frank Ceruzzi’s "Round Went the Wheel" (dir. Janet Bentley), Morgan Dean’s “Thick Blood, This Water”, and “Dark Planet”. Zoom: Scott Sickles’s "Marianas Trench" (Portland Stage, dir. Kevin R. Free). NYC favorites: Eddie Antar’s Drama Desk–nominated "The Navigator" (dir. Leslie Kincaid Burby); Evan Smith’s "The Savannah Disputation" (dir. Hilbe); "Twelfth Night" (Malvolio; dir. Kathy Curtiss); and Mike Folie’s "Slave Shack" (dir. Deb Whitfield). Features: “The Subject”, “Off Jackson Avenue”, “Bobby G Can’t Swim”. Web: ONN’s “News from the Year 2137”.

JACOB - Prometheus Found

TED - Redhead Only Orgy

is an NYC based actor. Past favorite theatre credits include Ian in "Deathbed" (Theatre Row), Cousin Julio in "The Motherfu**er with the Hat" (Cabrini Rep. Theater) & Don Felix in "La Fuerza de la Costumbre" (Spanish Rep Theatre).

MOM - Prometheus Found

RACHAEL - Shakespeare Recalibrated

She’s appeared at NYMF’s Bisland & Bly at Playwright’s Horizon, Inside at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Legends of Texas at the Billie Holiday Theater and has done almost 100 staged readings throughout New York City. She is a founding member of New Ambassador’s Theatre Company and Co -Produced it’s first full length play Experimenting With Katz with Artistic Director David Adam Gill. For New Ambassador’s Julia has previously appeared as Mona in Guns & Ammunition, Mortal in Cold Dead Heart, and Lila in the virtual production of Evelyn in Purgatory.

YOUNG KAYLA - Building Blocks

is an Actor/Singer/screenwriter producer and sometimes stage manager. She hopes that everyone enjoys the shows and is delighted to be making her New Ambassadors Debut! S/O to Arielle for following her on insta Betsy would like LITERALLY not be here playing “young Kayla” if it weren’t for her. Betsy would also like to thank her familia and friends for supporting her and loving her unconditionally even if she’s annoying sometimes.

KAYLA - Building Blocks

is a comedian/actress/Victorian ghost hailing from upstate South Carolina and she can be seen performing with the Armory's Improv House Team - Shadow Work this season alongside some of the cities best improvisers. She has been entrenched in the NYC comedy scene since 2012 and has spotted regularly on house team, indie shows and sitting in your spooky attic window. She's delighted to be taking corporeal form yet again for Blurring Boundaries and hopes you say hello when she floats by at whatever theatre she haunts next.

HANNAH - Shakespeare Recalibrated

New Ambassadors debut! Hailing from Norfolk, VA, Arielle (She/Her/They) moved to Harlem in 2017 and quickly became involved in the Naked Angels Theater Company. She recently had the privilege of participating in the 3T Film and Theater Workshop, getting to act alongside a fellow Naked Angels member. Currently, she is in the midst of filming the webseries "Marauders Saga: Order Rising", which will be completed later this year. Arielle's other stage credits include Yiddish King Lear, Full Circle, and Noises Off. Thanks to Jenn and the New Ambassadors team, as well as my partner (and line reader!) Jonny.

AVA - Ava Hearts Riley

You might have seen Kendra Augustin performing around the city at one of these shows over the last several years: Barbara Kahn’s THE THREE-MILE LIMIT as Florence Mills (Theatre for the New City), Kat Mustatea’s THE ONE AND ONLY AMANDA PALMER as Amanda Palmer 1 (Medicine Show Theatre), Michael Sadler’s CODE PANTERA as Jeremy (AMiOS’ Buffy the Vampire Shotz), Liz Amadio’s IN THE ATTIC as Mona (Dream Up Festival), FREE SHIPPING EVERY DAY as Donna (Axial Theatre) Peculiar Works Project’s ANDROBOROS as Solemn (Fraunces Tavern Museum), or in various UCB 301 sketch class shows (mostly Madalyn Baldanzi's) before the shutdown. kendraaugustin.com

KELLY - Redhead Only Orgy

is an actor, dancer, and musician based in New York City. She is a proud graduate of the Columbia University/Barnard College Theatre Department. Some of her favorite New York stage credits include Of Government at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks, What Ships Are Built For and Love Game 5 with The Haven Project, and You’re A Weirdo, Annie Best at the 2022 Fresh Fruit Festival. She recently took part in First Kiss Theatre’s “Play in a Day” 24 hour play project, performing in Too Much Ketchup by Max Berry.

DIRECTOR - Iphis and Ianthe at the Courthouse

is a NYC based actor, writer and director with a Degree in Directing from Le Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais in Paris, France and a BFA in Performance from George Mason University. He just recently directed "Highlighter Girl" by Amy Pan for NuWorks Play Festival with Pan Asian Rep at Theatre Row and is honored and excited to be directing once more!

DIRECTOR - Sons and Fathers

is the Artistic Director of the AUDELCO award winning Morningside Players and also directed at WorkShop Theater Co. Atlantic Theater Co. Conservatory and various. As an actor: Broadway in The Nerd and Stepping Out, off Bway -Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons/ Drama League, and Metropolitan Playhouse. Regional – Marvin’s Room, The Glass Menagerie, A Doll's House, Dinner With Friends, 5th of July. My Fair Lady, Miss Ellen Terry and Humana Festival.. Film –Lust Life (opp. Bill Irwin) City On A Hill, (Showtime) The OA (Netflix) Law and Orders. www.susannafrazer.com AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC, MFA Theater.

DIRECTOR - Prometheus Found

is thrilled to be performing and directing in his second festival for NATC. This past spring he made his NATC debut in Heartbroke- directing Ranch Country and starring in Standing Up and Sense. Prior to Heartbroke, Perryn collaborated with NATC to produce the Zoom production of his hilarious web series This Encounter May Now Begin, based on his experience working as a Standardized Patient. The series is still available to view on Perryn's YouTube Channel. Simply go to www.perrynpomatto.com and click the YouTube link. Thank you to NATC for the opportunity, and to my husband, Michael DeRosa, without whom none of this would be possible.

DIRECTOR - Building Blocks

(AEA/SAG-Aftra) is a writer, actor, and producer based in NYC. She is the Associate Artistic Director of New Ambassadors Theatre Co. Her full-length play Tight Five was presented at Cherry Lane Theatre this summer. She has been previously featured as a writer at NATC with her short plays The Devil You Know and Scan Incomplete. She produced and wrote for the anthology fiction podcast The Great Escapism with New Ambassadors, which is available on all major podcast platforms. Jennifer is a graduate of the William Esper Studio. For links to Jennifer’s body of work, please refer to www.jenniferdownes.com

DIRECTOR - Shakespeare Recalibrated

is a NYC-based writer/director/producer. She adapted the young adult novel THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE QUEST with producer James Hornbeak. She’s a director for the The New Ambassadors Theatre Company and a member of the The Playground Experiment. She produced Cannes-winning short film HAPPY NOW (First Place, Cinéfondation) and the AMPAS-winning short THE WORMHOLE (Narrative, First Place, Student Oscars). As a journalist, she garnered Virginia Press Association awards for both writing and photography. Previously, she served as a VP in Finance. She holds a NYU Master’s degree in producing and screenwriting.

DIRECTOR - Ava Hearts Riley

is a director, actor, and producer working in NYC. After graduating NYU Tisch, Syona founded Imaginarium Theatre Co., a nonprofit theatre company dedicated to making diverse, inclusive, and expressive new works while maintaining social and environmentally ethical practices. Since then Syona has produced over 40 plays, short plays, reading series, and festivals featuring new artists while raising money and awareness of a variety of causes and organizations. After Blurring Boundaries Syona will continue to direct and produce new voices in and around the NYC area.

DIRECTOR - Redhead Only Orgy

is a founding member of New Ambassador's Theater Company. Recently seen in David Gill's Irregulars at the Cherry Lane, playing Roger. as director, To Mr. Cuddles in the Heartbroke series. Past roles; off Broadway, alongside Tony-Nominated Lou Liberatore in "Gay. Porn. Mafia", the Audience Award Winner at the 2018 Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Governor Bullard in My Deah, co-starring Tony Award nominee Nancy Opel. He has also performed in Funeral Games at the Public Theater. Film roles include: Jimmy in Broker, on Television Mr. Butera can be seen in Alien Dawn as Dr. Luther, on All My Children and other Prime Time shows.

PLAYWRIGHT - Iphis and Ianthe at the Courthouse

is a playwright, performer, and teaching artist from Long Island, New York. Her award-winning, internationally produced work focuses on women’s stories, with a touch of magic, science, history, and/or the uncanny. She is a Creative Associate with EastLine Theatre and a recipient of a 2022 Long Island Arts Grant for Playwriting. Her new, explicitly queer adaptation of The Great Gatsby, These Gilded Souls: A Jazz Age Ghost Story, will be premiering this December in Westbury, NY. She is excited to be working with New Ambassadors for the second time after a wonderful experience during HEARTbroke 2022!

PLAYWRIGHT - Sons and Fathers

came to New York from neighboring Philadelphia where he was an early member of the Philadelphia Theater Company. He studied acting with Wynn Handman, Michael Howard, Tim Phillips; and acted in a variety of Off-Broadway productions. Mark has performed regionally throughout the US in theatres such as: • Pittsburgh Public – The Cocktail Hour (with Kim Hunter) • Cleveland Playhouse – The Philadelphia Story (with Stephanie Zimbalist). Mark had a long stint on the soap opera “Loving”; and leading roles in network television dramas such as “Law and Order” and “Monsters”.

PLAYWRIGHT - Prometheus Found

is a Los Angeles-based New Yorker whose work has been presented by the HOT! Festival of Queer Culture at Dixon Place, the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective, and the Los Angeles Collegiate Playwrights' Festival—the latter publishing his one-act, BUD, WISER, in their first volume. Beyond theatre, Michael writes overly personal essays you can find in Out, The Advocate, Narratively, and other magazines and anthologies. He earned his BFA from NYU and his MFA from Stony Brook University. He dedicates this play to his 4th grade teacher, Dr. Haupt (his Ancient Greece guru). www.michaelnarkunski.com

PLAYWRIGHT - Building Blocks

(she/her) is a Queer, Jewish writer and actor from NYC. Produced Plays: My Shiksa Boyfriend (New Yiddish Rep 2018. Kervigo Ensemble Theater 2021, United Solo Festival 2022); Heard (New Ambassadors Theater 2022). Film work: The Red Shoes (semifinalist in the Big Apple Film Festival's Screenwriting competition); Tired Mind (FlickFair Official Selection, Indie Movie Spark “Best Micro-short” award, LA Underground Film Forum honorable mention & others). As an actor, Arielle’s worked off-broadway, regionally. For more about her acting work please visit ArielleBethKlein.com or follow @arielle_beth on Instagram.

PLAYWRIGHT - Shakespeare Recalibrated

is a Jamaican Novelist, Copywriter, Ghostwriter and Playwright. Four of her fictional novels have appeared on Amazon’s Best-Seller list since 2011. In 2017, Amanda began ghostwriting memoirs for private clients. Two of these memoirs were published this year and have already garnered rave literary reviews. In February 2020, Amanda’s first one-act, “20/40” appeared as part of New Ambassador’s “Heartbroke Festival” at The Producer’s Club in New York City. That production rekindled Amanda’s love for Theatre, her major in college. “Shakespeare Recalibrated” is her third play to be produced by New Ambassadors Theatre.

PLAYWRIGHT - Ava Hearts Riley

work has garnered him recognition from The Negro Ensemble Company, Kairos Italy Theater, Austin Film Festival, Barrington Stage Company, and TEDxBroadway. His work has been performed Off-Broadway, as well as in London, Canada and Ireland. He is developing new work with Derby City Playwrights and Et Alia Theater Company and is currently under commission by Rattlestick Theater, American Stage and La Lengua Teatro en Español/AlterTheater Ensemble. He continues to strive to create work that reflects the world that we live in, with all of its different and diverse colors, creeds and cultures.

PLAYWRIGHT - Redhead Only Orgy

is a playwright and actor originally from the DC area. She enjoys heirloom tomatoes, fiction by female authors, and making demented tiktoks with her best friend, Tristan. She is thrilled to be working with New Ambassadors again, after acting in HEARTbroke earlier this year. You can read her work on New Play Exchange.

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

is extremely proud to have worked with New Ambassadors on these ncredible new plays. She has previously worked with Shetler Studios, The Secret Theater, The Tank, Geva Theater, and Cherry Lane. Special thanks to David, Jenny, and Johnny for their art and camaraderie.

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