The Farm Theater's Bullpen Sessions

Dipti Bramhandkar is a Mumbai-born playwright, filmmaker, LAByrinth Theater Company member. She was commissioned by Juggerknot Theatre Company in Miami for Conjuring the King, a fully immersive show about an Elvis fan, which is currently running (2024.) The Farm Theater has awarded her their 2023-24 College Collaboration Project Fellowship. Bramhandkar will be in residence at multiple universities...

Eden Marryshow is an award-winning Director/Writer/Actor from Flatbush, Brooklyn. For over a decade, Eden served NYC’s Department of Education as a Paraprofessional where he taught some of city’s most marginalized youth. Latina "Peanut" Bilbro, one of his most beloved students, would always tell him that she believed in him, she knew he was going to be on stage and make movies someday. On June 22n...

Jake Brasch (he/they) is a writer + actor + composer + clown and a graduating second-year playwright in the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Jake is a member of the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group and a 2023-2024 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist. His play The Reservoir was commissioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Science & Technology Project and was...

Tricia Alexandro is an actor, writer and native New Yorker. She has studied acting with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock at The Barrow Group, Bob Krakower at Manhattan Film Institute and attended Playhouse West in LA where she studied the Meisner Technique. She is an alumni of The Labyrinth Theater Company’s Master Class. Her latest credits include the Off-Broadway play Seven Deadly Sins, written and di...

Ajay Naidu  On screen, Naidu starred in the cult film  Office Space , as well as appearing in films such as  K-Pax ,  Subway Stories ,  π ,  Requiem for a Dream ,  Bad Santa ,  The War Within ,  The Guru ,  Waterborne , and  Loins of Punjab Presents . He co-starred as a series regular in the sitcom  LateLine  and had guest starring roles on the television dramas  The Sopranos , The West Wing  and ...

JESSI D. HILL (she/her) is a NYC-based director, theatre-maker, teacher and runner (8 Marathons and counting!) whose play development projects have included work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater/Joe’s Pub, Playwrights Horizons, The Playwrights’ Center, Primary Stages, Labyrinth, Keen Company, The Women’s Project, 59E59, The New Group, Rattlestick, HERE Arts Center, Ensemble Studio...

Lori Vega is a New York-based stage and screen actor whose most recent TV credits include work on Pretty Little Liars, And Just Like That (HBO), Bull (CBS) and FBI (CBS) and El Deafo (Apple TV+). Coming from world class training at LAMDA and Cornell University, her on stage credits include both classical and contemporary plays with Off-Broadway theaters such as Playwrights Horizons, Target Margin...

ERIN MALLON is a USA Today Bestselling Author, playwright, producer of audio plays and narrator of 600 audiobooks. She is a six-time Earphones Award Winner and a five-time Audie Award Nominee. Her audio play These Walls Can Talk is a 2021 Independent Audiobook Award Winner for Humor. The Natural History Series is Erin’s debut trio of romantic comedy novels including Flirtasaurus, Lovebug and Shark...

Katie Mack (she/her) is a queer sober scrappy nomadic creative who loves other creatives. Her most recent curiosity is the intersection of technology and live theater, to be explored in future production #uglycry: grief hits different coming this fall. She is the founder and producer of multi-award winning podcast “fcking sober: the first 90 days”, has helped create over 40 original song works as...

Awoye Timpo: is a New York-based director. Off- Broadway directing credits include Elyria (Atlantic Theater Company) In Old Age (New York Theatre Workshop), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwrights Realm), and The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company). Regionally she has directed Pipeline (Studio Theatre), Everybody Black (Actors Theatre of L...

Suzy DeVore is a professor of theatre, actor and director.  She holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School, New School University in New York City and a BA in Dance from Point Park College, Pittsburgh, PA. She is currently the Program Manager for the Hillsborough Community College Theatre Program, Ybor Campus in Tampa, FL. She has directed over 25 productions for the college.  She is also th...

Dr. Indira Etwaroo (she/her) (award-winning producer, director, scholar, and arts and culture executive) has worked across the world to develop multiplatform venues and content that represents the diversity of the globe and explores the complex intersections between stories-that-matter and the topics-of-our- time. She currently serves as the first-ever Director of the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple i...

Skylar Fox (he/him) is a director, playwright and creator of magic and illusions for theatre. He cares about making wildly theatrical plays and musicals that push the boundaries of what theatre can do to tell demandingly vulnerable stories powerfully. As a magic designer, Skylar is the illusions and magic associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway and around the world, and has cre...

Stacey Raymond is a critically-acclaimed stage and screen actor who resides in New York City. They played Paramedic Kerry Whitaker on NBC's hit series New Amsterdam for entire five seasons, Stacey has appeared in dozens of performances, workshops and readings with such theaters as New York Theatre Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theater, Page 73, LA...

Neptune: (HE/THEY) After a stint at home in Los Angeles with the ELIZA company, ‘Tune has been a member to all national companies of Hamilton but currently stands by for Aaron Burr, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, & King George III. Select credits: OFF BWAY: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG  BWAY: HAMILTON, BEAUTIFUL, MOTOWN. T.V.: SVU, GOD FRIENDED ME, STEPHEN COLBERT, FILM: (in post) QUEEN OF KNIVES

Scott Illingworth is a professor in the  Graduate Acting Program  at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, a freelance director, co-founder of  SOCIETY , and author of  Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning . He’s taught, lectured, and directed at universities and schools across the United States and internationally. His directing credits include new play collaborat...

ROBERT KAPLOWITZ is most interested in the stories told by deliberately curated sound and music, and how those stories interact with society.  He has spent the last 27 years creating work as a sound designer and composer for theater, opera and art installations, and has been honored with a Tony Award for Fela! and an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design, among other flattering celeb...

Maggie Bofill: Actor/Playwright. Founding member of LAByrinth Theater Company, member Ensemble Studio Theater (EST) WAW, WomanArtistWriters. WRITER/FILM: Wrote and featured in Cuban American Gothic, nationally televised PBS short, Pata de Perros Productions, PLAY PRODUCTIONS: Devil of Choice, LAByrinth Theater Co. NYC, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Drawn and Quartered, INTAR (NYTimes critic’s pick),...

Douglas Taurel recently played Joe Petito in the upcoming Lifetime Movie, The Gabby Petito Story. He worked opposite Thora Birch, who also directed the film. He was cast as a voice in the popular video game Red Redemption and has appeared in numerous television shows and independent films. Including The Cobbler (starring Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman) and The Kindergarten Teacher (starring Maggi...

Andrea Ciannavei is a writer, actor, teacher, producer, and political activist. TV: Pink Marine (Netflix), Mayans MC (FX Networks), The Path (Hulu), Last Men Out (National Geographic);  American Odyssey (NBC Universal), Copper (BBC America), Borgia (Canal Plus). She has optioned her pilot Late Bloomers with Universal TV with Jessica Goldberg as showrunner in summer 2021. Plays: The Winstons, one-a...

Pooya Mohseni is a New York based award winning actor, writer, and transgender activist, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She has appeared on stage in New York and regional theaters, including Hamlet and Comedy of Errors at the Play On Shakespeare Festival, One Woman with United Solo Festival, Galatea with the WP Project, The Good Muslim at EST, White Snake at Baltimore Center Stage, Death of the...

James LeBrecht has over 40 years of experience as a film and theater sound designer and mixer, filmmaker, author and disability rights activist. LeBrecht co-directed and co-produced, with Nicole Newnham, the 2021 Oscar nominated feature length documentary, Crip Camp. Crip Camp received the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for feature length documentary, the 2021 Independent Spirit award...

Sally Cade Holmes is a two time Tony Award-winning producer and thought leader committed to making challenging and innovative entertainment with broad appeal. She believes that brave, accessible, social justice-minded storytelling will make the world a better place. Her Broadway producing credits include Hadestown (Tony Award), The Inheritance (Tony Award / GLAAD Media Award), Terrence McNally’s F...

Narelle Sissons (she/her) is an award winning scene and costume designer whose designs have appeared on Broadway and at major theatres and opera companies across the U.S. and internationally. She has been nominated for Drama Desk, American Theatre Wing, Helen Hayes and Kevin Kline Awards and is a winner of a Back Stage West Award and a Leon Rabin Award. Her design work includes Mabou Mines Dollhou...

Rowen Haigh (she/they) is a freelance director, deviser, producer, and educator as well as an activist and organizer for gender parity in the theatre. She serves as the Director of Education & Outreach with Women’s Theatre Festival, as chair of the Women in Theatre Committee for the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), and as a board member for the Kentucky Theatre Association.  Rowen’s areas o...