Cast

Cast Bios

Moe Angelos: (Cast and Collaborator) Since 1988, Moe Angelos has written six plays, a humor book and many site-specific works with her collaborative theatre company The Five Lesbian Brothers, who have been published and won some awards. She has also collaborated with The Builders Association as a performer since 1999, spanning two centuries, four+ productions and many a hotel room mini-bar. She has also appeared in the work of many downtown NYC luminaries including Brooke O’Harra, Carmelita Tropicana, Anne Bogart, Holly Hughes, Lois Weaver, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company and she is currently appearing with The Builders in “Jet Lag”. Moe has been a member of the WOW Café since its inception in 1981and she’s a scenic painter in the film and TV business to pay the bills. Moe was trained at NYU’s undergraduate drama program where she studied in the Stella Adler Studio and in the Experimental Theatre Wing.

Megan Carney: (Director and Collaborator) Megan Carney is a Chicago-based director, playwright and educator.  She was the founding director of About Face Youth Theatre, in Chicago’s celebrated queer theatre company, where she created nine years of award-winning programming and plays produced at The Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens and the Theatre Building and other Chicago venues as well as national touring.  Megan is currently directing a workshop of TINY ROOMS by Carson Kreitzer for the AFT XYZ Festival.  She is also a regular contributor with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble where she directed THE WALLS by Lisa Dillman at Steppenwolf Garage.  Her recent oral history based projects include PITTSBURGH PROJECT REMIX, exploring the legacy of the steel industry staged in the Pump House of the razed Homestead Mill, and OPEN SYSTEMS commemorating five years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall, commissioned by Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.  Megan has been awarded multiple After Dark Awards a Bard College Voices and Visions Residency, TCG Observership Grant, the GLSEN Pathfinder Award, an APA Presidential Citation, and induction in Chicago’s Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.  She teaches in multiple settings and her writing on devising theatre, community-based art practice, and using theatre to combat racism and build community is published online and in print.  Megan has an MFA in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech with a focus on Directing and Public Dialogue.

Holly Hughes: (Cast and Collaborator) Holly Hughes has received international recognition for her performances.  She is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, the recipient of 2 Village Voice Obie Awards, a Lambda Book Award and numerous grants from the NEA, while in another part of the forest, she has been denounced on the floor of the US Senate, and singled by the late Jesse Helms as an example of everything that is wrong with this country.    She is the author of three books: Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler,   O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance  (with Dr. David Roman), and the forthcoming: Memories of the Revolution (with Alina Troyano).   She is an Associate Professor in Performance at the University of Michigan. www.hollyhughesperformance.com

Micia Mosely: (Cast) Micia Mosely loves to make people laugh, think and transform their lives. She is currently performing standup comedy and her award-nominated one woman show Where My Girls At? all over the planet. Since earning her Ph.D. in education from U.C. Berkeley, Micia has shared her comedic performance in cities all over the United States including, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C. and Honolulu. In 2009, her one woman show “Where My Girls At?” was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for best solo performance. newyorktheatre.com called the show “smart, timely and also downright hilarious” and dctheatrescene.com says “(Mosely shows) her true talent for improv and comedic timing”.  She is also a founding artist with Nursha Project a group committed to supporting artists and projects rooted in socio-political offerings (www.nurshaproject.com). You can catch season one of her webseries “The Progress Report” at www.youtube.com/user/ProgressReport2010.  Check out all of her activities at www.miciamosely.com

Lea Robinson: (Cast) Lea Robinson is a multi-talented butch.  You may recognize her from Dixon Place’s HOT! Festival Butch Burlesque event or as the emcee for Boxers Off! An Evening of Butch Burlesque—a benefit for the upcoming New York Butch Voices conference (www.butchvoices.com).   You may also have seen her as “Officer Ruffins” in the lesbian serial ROOM FOR CREAM at La MaMa, as “Alma” in BUTCH MAMAS at WOW Cafe, in the Bulldyke Chronicles at Dixon Place, or in The Femme Show (www.thefemmeshow.com) at Re/Dress.  She recently shared a bill with Elizabeth Whitney in the HOT! Festival at Dixon Place in SYRUP IN OUR SHORTS, AND OTHER SOUTHERN PLEASANTRIES, and she is currently working on a new solo show, YOU AIN’T SPECIAL, which chronicles her adventures as a genderqueer actor in New York City.  She was featured in GO Magazine’s 2009 Edition of 100 Women We Love.  In her former life, she was a baller and played in a final four, which has led to her ongoing work with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and It Takes a Team! on homophobia and transphobia in athletics.  By day, she is a gay for pay. Lea is thrilled to be a part of this project and looks forward to eating cake!  www.learobinsonactor.com.

Alina Troyano: (Cast) Alina Troyano aka Carmelita Tropicana is a performance artist, playwright and actor. Troyano burst on New York’s downtown performing arts scene in the eighties with her alter egothe spitfire Carmelita Tropicana and the irresistible archetypal Latin macho, Pingalito Betancourt. This was followed by performances as Hernando Cortez’s horse and La Cucaracha Martina, based on Tropicana’s childhood fairytales in Cuba. In Tropicana’s work, humor and fantasy become subversive tools to rewrite history. Her performances, plays and videos have been presented at such venues as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea in Barcelona, the Berlin International Film Festival, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Dance Theater Workshop, the Mark Taper Forum’s Kirk Douglas Theater, Performance Space 122 and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Tropicana has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. In 1999, she received an Obie for sustained excellence in performance.

Elizabeth Whitney: (cast) Elizabeth Whitney is an actor, singer, and writer/performer who tours original performance work.  This summer she played “Patty” in TOSOS’ production of THE SECRETARIES in the NYC Fringe & Encore Series (Best Ensemble).  Dramatists Guild member.  www.elizabethwhitney.com. Elizabeth Whitney is thrilled to be onstage with some of her greatest queer performance role models!  Recent NYC credits include THE SECRETARIES (TOSOS/NYC Fringe 2010 Best Ensemble), ROOM FOR CREAM (Two-Headed Calf/La Mama ETC.), FINE AND DANDY/The Kay Swift Project, AND SOPHIE COMES TOO (TOSOS/NYC FRINGE 2009), WONDER WOMAN! A CABARET OF EPIC PROPORTIONS! (Emerging Artists Theatre), and appearances in SHOWGASM (Ars Nova), The Bulldyke Chronicles (Dixon Place), Drunken Careening Writers, the Famous Lesbian Comedy Road Show, and The Femme Show.   She has toured solo performance work to ABSOLUT Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, Mickee Faust Co. (Tallahassee, FL), The Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre/Hysteria Festival (Toronto), Mae West Fest (Seattle), Bailiwick Repertory (Chicago), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Living Art Space (Tulsa), Athica Art Space (Athens, GA), DramaRama, and Saints & Sinners (New Orleans). Awards include: GO Magazine’s “Dyke Drama” and “100 Women We Love”; nomination for Best Actress at the 2009 ABSOLUT Dublin Gay Theatre Festival; featured artist in Bitch Magazine; Lesbian Theatre Award from Curve Magazine; “Best Performance” at the New York City Fresh Fruit Festival;  “Best Solo Performance” at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival.   She collaborates regularly with her partner, Lea Robinson, on The Miscegenations Project (www.miscegenations.org), and as part of the campy hooping duo “Bitches With Barrettes” in The Femme Show (www.thefemmeshow.com).  Elizabeth and Lea are developing a new show with Melissa Li about being a queer, interracial couple that was featured in Dixon Place’s 2010 July HOT! Festival.  She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Fund For Women Artists, and International Centre for Women Playwrights.   www.elizabethwhitney.com.

Laura Mroczkowski: (Set Design) Laura’s Recent Design Credits include:  I Write the Songs: Art by Suzanne Bocanegra (Tang Museum NY); 5 Songs: an exhibit by artist Martin Kersels (Whitney Biennial 2010 NY), AH! Opera No-Opera: an interactive, Multi-media performance (REDCAT LA), Rememberer: All the Threads (Experimental Art, Music, Performance @ Judson Church NY), The Dig; an archeological exhibit (Governors Island NY), Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD NY), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Ohio Theater, NY), LaSanta (The Ontological Hysteric Theater with Sintroca NY), Coffee Will Make You Black (The Celebration Theater LA), Dirty Mean Tricks (Unknown Theater LA), The Miracle Worker (New School of Drama NY), Ovation Award Winning Abandon (La Mama Etc. NY). Laura is currently the Associate Lighting Designer for The Builder’s Association and Deborah Hay Dance Company, and is the Co-Artistic Director and Founding Member of Blank-the-Dog productions.

Parker Pracjek: (Stage Manager) Parker Pracjek is a college writing professor who also works in the areas of children’s literature, dance theatre, stage and production management. Pracjek holds a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU and has trained with various butoh masters. Pracjek’s own work has been seen in community arts festivals, multiple venues in New York City and a limited edition artist’s book, Slurring at Bottom: A Printer’s Book of Errors by publisher Robin Price.

Lori E. Seid: (Production Manger) Lori has worked in theater as a stage manager, technical director, & lighting designer. She is the recipient of an OBIE, the Bessie, & the International Theatre Craft Award all for sustained overall achievements in theatre. Seid produces work too, such as; Theater (Taboo on Broadway), Film (High Art), TV (Rosie O’Donnell Talk Show which Seid won several EMMYs for) as well as her own photographs: http://lorieseid.wordpress.com.  Though not the marrying type, she is committed to her dog, Squid E. Seid, & the belief that gay or straight– marriage is marriage and it is a civil right for those crazy enough to want it.