written by Sophie McIntosh
directed by Nina Goodheart
produced by Good Apples Collective & ryan duncan-ayala

an Equity Approved Showcase

August 15-September 6, 2025
Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th Street
New York, NY

rOAD KILLS

What happens to the stains you can’t get out?

Owen is a roadkill collector. Jaki was busted for drunk driving. And for the next six Saturdays, they’re stuck with each other.

As they traverse the highways of Wisconsin, they connect over their common ground as outsiders, challenge each other on issues of faith and family, and careen towards a collision that threatens to shatter them both.

Road Kills forces us to confront the long-lasting repercussions of abuse — and urges us not to look away.

Content warnings can be found here.

cast

  • Honored to have grown up surrounded by a supportive and collaborative artistic community since her professional debut at age 6. Broadway/Tour: Appropriate (Tony Award), Grey House, Matilda, Les Misérables, Mary Page Marlowe. Other notable credits include “Arcane” (Emmy Award), “Fancy Nancy” (Emmy nomination), “Orange Is the New Black," “Raven’s Home," “Blue Bloods,” "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry," "Letters From Camp.” Endless thanks to Good Apples Collective, The Katz Company, Holden Heads, family, and every person reading this who values live theatre. @MiaSinclairJenness

  • D.B. Milliken just graduated from Columbia’s MFA Acting program and is over the moon to be back with GAC for another show, trading lawnmowers for wheelbarrows (#Greg). Recent theatre credits include cunnicularii (Good Apples Collective), Twelfth Night (Kane Repertory Theatre), Passion Play, Phaedra’s Love, Fifth of July, and Othello (at Columbia). He can be seen on film in the upcoming An Act of Penance, based on The Scarlet Letter, and as a suspiciously smiley nurse in the psychological thriller Dr. Malig’s Running Late. He’s glad you’re here, and hopes you leave thinking or feeling something new. dbmilliken.com | @dbmilliken

  • Thrilled to be a part of this incredible project. Broadway: Sing Street (OBC). Off-Broadway: The Seat of Our Pants (Public Theater). Regional: Sunny Afternoon (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, American Premiere), Origin Story (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, World Premiere), Rent (Theatre Aspen), Hair (Short North Stage). TV: FBI: Most Wanted (CBS). Thanks to Sophie and Nina for their kindness and genius, and for the thrill of getting to work on truly challenging and smart new indie theatre in NYC. For Enzo. @itsmichael.lepore

  • Anna Aubry is a member of the NPDF acting company at Clubbed Thumb and in fall 2023, her solo show Doom Tank sold out its run at the Under St. Marks Theater. She is a house team improviser on Harold Night at Upright Citizens Brigade, What Makes [You] Laugh? at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and co-hosts the two-prov show Are Jon and Anna Better as Friends? around NYC. Recently: Radio Man (Soho Playhouse), Liars (Clubbed Thumb), Lobster (Prelude Festival), My Titties Are Where I Keep the Horrors (24 Hour Plays: Nationals). Oberlin College, Moscow Art Theatre School. annaaubry.com, IG: @anna_aubry

  • Nicholas Louis Turturro is an Artist and producer based in Brooklyn. He works throughout New York's theatrical landscape, frequently on new works, and has been seen at Classic Stage Company, Soho Playhouse, The Tank, Lenfest Center for the Arts, and The Flea Theater. He is an experienced film and commercial actor, having worked on festival-screened shorts and commercially with brands like Simplisafe, Bumble, and Yahoo. He paints in his own time, creating works ranging from large cosmic surrealist pieces to smaller contemporary figure studies and cityscapes. He self-produces live painting performances focused around his visual art practice.

* Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

PRODUCTION TEAM

  • Sophie McIntosh (she/her) is a New York–based playwright and theatermaker. Her writing gives voice to women and queer folks, examines life in the small-town Midwest, and explores how our interactions with animals reflect back our own humanity.

    Sophie is the co-founder of Good Apples Collective, which she co-leads with Nina Goodheart. Recent productions of Sophie’s work include the world premiere of macbitches (New York Times Critic’s Pick), the premieres of cunnicularii and cityscrape with Good Apples Collective, and Eleven Weeks of Nuclear Summerat Notre Dame University and the University of Michigan

    She is a proud recipient of a BA in drama from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and recently graduated with an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. 

  • Nina Goodheart (she/her) Director, producer, co-founder of Good Apples Collective. Selected directing: cunnicularii (NYMag recommended) and cityscrape by Sophie McIntosh, Wakeman by Jenn Grinels (TBD Theatricals reading), before the flood by Emily Bice. Selected associate directing: Gabriel Byrne’s Walking with Ghosts (resident director, Broadway), Harawi / The Book of Sounds (Lincoln Center), Fiddler on the Roof starring Jason Alexander (La Mirada). She has worked with directors such as Diane Paulus (Jagged Little Pill, Broadway), Lila Neugebauer, Lonny Price, Whitney White, Zack Winokur, Mary Birnbaum, and Andrew Neisler. Up next: private study in opera directing at Juilliard. BA Yale. ninagoodheart.com

  • ryan duncan-ayala is a Latine Producer and theatre maker born and raised in South Texas and currently working in both the Bay Area and NYC. Currently: Company Manager at Berkeley Rep. Previously: Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Syracuse Stage, NAMT, The 24 Hour Plays, the RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour, AZUL The Musical, the New York Theatre Workshop production of Merrily We Roll Along (CM), Million Dollar Quartet Christmas National Tour (CM), and Chautauqua Theater Company (CM). Ryan made his Off-Broadway producing debut with ¡Americano! (HOLA Award Winner; Outstanding Production) and made their Broadway debut with How To Dance In Ohio (GLAAD Nominated). @ryanduncanayala

  • Sarah Jones is a producer, stage manager, and excel aficionado! She has produced with/at The Bushwick Starr, The Public Theater [DTWG], The Brick, The Hearth, One Whale's Tale, and the 24 Hour Plays (Nationals '23). Elated to be working with Good Apples on Road Kills. They are a proud CUNY Baccalaureate graduate via Hunter College and strong believer in the importance of radical art-making.

  • Damayanti Wallace is a director and stage manager based in New York City, originally from Chicago. She creates work that centers love, tenderness, and the emotional landscapes of intersectional identity. She has stage managed for The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals and on Broadway, and for ENRON and The Moors at The Atlantic Acting School. Her directing credits include original projects at The Tank and New York Theatre Workshop. Damayanti is committed to building collaborative, emotionally honest work that makes space for underrepresented voices in both theater and film.

  • Willow Funkhouser is a Brooklyn-based director and intimacy/fight choreographer. She is thrilled to be on her third season working with Good Apples Collective! Willow has been a part of works developed and performed at New World Stages, MCC Theater, The Flea, Keen Company, Soho Playhouse, The Brick, Delaware Rep, and Syracuse Stage. Willow holds a degree from Syracuse University where she developed a course of study in intimacy practice alongside directing and has served as the intimacy coordinator for dozens of short and feature films. She is also a script reader for Primary Stages and a Corps member of Good Apples Collective. www.willowfunkhouser.com

  • Jenna Rowell is a stage manager and dramaturg from Arlington, Texas. Recent SM credits include The Thanksgiving Play (OKC Rep); Shakespeare in Love, Romeo and Juliet, Born With Teeth and Hamlet (Okla. Shakespeare); and Shrek The Musical (Craft Productions of Okla.). Her recent ASM & PA credits include Rusalka (Manhattan School of Music), Vietgone, The Antelope Party, The Brothers Size, Superstitions, and The Great Leap (OKC Rep); Man of La Mancha (Asolo Repertory Theatre); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Okla. Shakespeare). She holds a BFA in Dramaturgy and Stage Management and a BA in Journalism from The University of Oklahoma.

  • Mia Fowler is a New York based actor, writer, and director passionate about new work that allows folks to bring their full divinity to the room. Recent credits: cityscrape (Good Apples Collective), You Are What You Eat (Westerly Theatre Group), Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Philosophy of Dress (forthcoming, Fair Form), Dumb Money (Sony Pictures). She also maintains a Substack on books and theater.

  • SCENIC DESIGNER!!!!

  • Paige Seber is a New York City based lighting designer for live performance. Credits include Titanique (Off-Broadway, West End, Australia, Canada, Paris), All Shook Up (Goodspeed Musicals), Dilaria (DR2), Evita (The MUNY), Jersey Boys (Paper Mill Playhouse), Fowl Play (AMT Theater), Is Anyone Alive Out There? (Minetta Lane), Blackbirding (WP Theater), Ready. Set. Play! (Virgin Voyages), cityscrape & cunnicularii (Good Apples Collective), Inspired by True Events (OOTB Theatrics), The Slow Dance (59E59). Paige is a Corps member of the Good Apples Collective & a proud member of United Scenic Artists 829. For more about her work, visit seberlighting.com.

  • Saawan Tiwari is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan. Beyond designing, they are a Corps member of the Good Apples Collective and teach through Roundabout Theatre Company. Credits: Off-Broadway – The Gospel According to Heather (Theatre 555). Additional credits – The Seven (Juilliard School), Sex and the Abbey (Wiley Water Productions), cunnicularii, cityscrape (Good Apples Collective), Picher Project (Dixon Place), Sitayana (Waves of Love), Hip Hop Cinderella (New Victory Theatre), Bruise and Thorn (Pipeline Theatre Company). Saawan is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ and AAPI communities. saawandesigns.com

  • Max Van is in the pursuit of being a jack-of-all trades, master of theater. He has worked on more than 40 productions and concerts, serving various key roles as projection and scenic designer, sound and production designer, technicians, and more. Max’s photography has been recognized with prestigious honors, including a Gold Key Portfolio Award, and Silver Medal with Distinction by the Scholastics Art and Writing Awards (2020). For more, find him on instagram @max.van_ or on his website. https://maxvandsgn.myportfolio.com/

  • Sean is a Brooklyn-based props designer. His recent Props Design/Supervision credits include Beau the Musical, Inspired by True Events (Out of the Box Theatrics), Teeth (New World Stages). Assistant Properties credits include: Prince Faggot, The Antiquities, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Stereophonic, Wet Brain, Teeth, Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons). BFA Emerson College.

  • Sean is a Brooklyn-based props designer. His recent Props Design/Supervision credits include Beau the Musical, Inspired by True Events (Out of the Box Theatrics), Teeth (New World Stages). Assistant Properties credits include: Prince Faggot, The Antiquities, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Stereophonic, Wet Brain, Teeth, Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons). BFA Emerson College.

VoiceOVER Actors

  • Natalie Leek is a Resident Physician at NYP-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, training in Emergency Medicine. She has been involved in theatre her entire life and has a Threatre Performance minor from UW–La Crosse. Of note, she appeared in the original Zoom reading of Road Kills and is honored to be a part of this production. She would like to thank the endlessly talented Sophie McIntosh for sharing her wild and poignant art with us all.

  • Charlotte Polk (she/they) is a writer and performer from St. Louis, Missouri. You can see them as Ibbi in 500 Rats: A Love Story at HERE Arts Center from September 12-14. She loves citrus and lying down. You can find her online at ischarlottepolkstillalive.com.

  • Marie-Josée "Josie" Bourelly is a Brooklyn based actor and graduate of Columbia University. Past credits include Richard III & Comedy of Errors at Interlochen Shakespeare Festival, Castle on the Hill at Hangar Theatre, and Brighton Beach Memoirs at Theatre J. She is a proud YoungArts Winner in Theater, Key Artist at The Elif Collective, and professional animal handler for film & T.V. | IG: @josiebourelly

  • Remy Laifer is an actor and musician based in New York City. TV: New Amsterdam (NBC), The Food That Built America (Hulu). Film: Escape from Myrtle Broadway, 3 Worlds, 1 Modern Romance. National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof. Off Broadway: Hazing U (AMT). Regional: Summer Theatre of New Canaan, La Mirada Theatre (opposite Jason Alexander). Listen to his electronic music on all platforms under REMY QUINN. Proud Northwestern graduate. www.remylaifer.com || @remylaifer 

  • Michael Ortiz (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate theater artist hailing from the state of Florida. He is one of the Co-Artistic Directors of the Brooklyn-based Breaking & Entering Theater Collective and a co-founder of the former Fled Collective. Michael currently produces and hosts SERIALS, a late-night competition series at The Tank. He is an avid gamer, a lover of all things spooky, and possibly the missing link (to what? we don’t know). Various acting credits include Henry Hicks, Attorney at Cowboy Law (New York Fringe), Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic (New World Stages), Stocked (The Chain Theater Festival), Fucked Up Play Fest (Caveat), Drunk Shakespeare: Othello (Williamstown Theater Festival), The Fez (The Flea Theater), Rule of 7x7 (The Tank), Gator Tales (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Sidewalk Eggs (Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O'Neill Center).

    https://www.michael-ortiz.com/

  • Olivia is a dynamic actress from Cincinnati, OH. Her love for performance began at a young age creating, directing, and starring in one-woman shows (maybe co-starring her little sister to bring in a prop or two and sing backup vocals). Since then her love of performing and producing art has only grown.

    Olivia is committed to furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in her field and is a strong believer in art as an agent for change. She gravitates toward thought-provoking or political work that thinks outside of the “traditional theater” box; her favorite works include Hamilton, Mlima’s Tale, A Strange Loop, and Angels in America.

  • Jake Regensburg is an NYC-based actor/musician. Recent acting: The Shark is Broken (Playhouse on Park), Word Play (New Victory), Past Talk (The Tank) Annie Brown (Soho Playhouse), Buddy (Argyle). Workshops: Clubbed Thumb, NYSAF, Bridge Theater. BFA: NYU. @jake.regensburg. 

  • Natasha Partnoy is an actor and educator from sunny San Diego, California, now based in Brooklyn. She has worked as theatre teacher for San Diego Junior Theatre, ArtsBridge Summer programs, and through Yale Dramatic Association’s high school training initiative. She has also taught improv and singing workshops at schools across the country through her improv team Just Add Water and her a cappella group Whim ’n Rhythm. Natasha has a BA in Humanities from Yale University, where her thesis focused on developing performance pedagogies to be more environmentally and socially conscious. Beyond teaching, Natasha has worked extensively on stage and screen, performing at The Old Globe, The Muny, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and as a company actor in the Treasure Trunk Theatre for Young Audiences program. For more information on Natasha’s work as an actor, visit www.natashapartnoy.com.

  • Dr. Edgar McIntosh serves as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Co-Director of the Center for Innovation, and Treasurer of The Global Learning Alliance within Scarsdale Public Schools.

    Before joining Scarsdale in July 2018, he was Director of Instruction and Human Resources for the Briarcliff Manor School District, Principal of Ardsley Middle School, and an Assistant Principal at the elementary and middle school levels in Mamaroneck.

    Edgar began his career in education as an elementary teacher in Wilton, Connecticut and in New York City. While teaching in NYC, he worked as an instructional coach, co-authored the book Multisensory Strategies (Scholastic 2005), and contributed to multiple educational publications.

    Edgar completed his doctorate in Educational Leadership at Fordham University with a focus on Middle School Literacy.  

  • Amy is an actor, educator, and writer based in NYC and the Hudson Valley. She is a current member of the acting pool at Brooklyn's Mercury Store, a lab space dedicated to creating new work. A cofounder of JACK Arts in Brooklyn, Amy has worked for many years with Alec Duffy and Hoi Polloi on experimental and devised work, often with Arthur Aulisi as a collaborator. She has worked with Dave Malloy, Pascal Rambert, Mabou Mines, Joe Chaikin, Romulus Linney, and the Collapsable Giraffe. She is writing her first play.

SPECIAL THANKS

We would like to extend our gratitude toward the following individuals for their help in making this production possible:

A(U)NTS! Production

Jonny Adler

August Apostolakis-Beaty

Tessa Bagby

Nick Baum

Lacqui Byrne

Peter Charney

Kenneth Duncan

Naomi Goodheart

Isobel Grogan

Sarah Groustra

Gwen and Michael McIntosh

Lizzie Milanovich

Mackenzie Moyer

Aiko Miyamoto

Michela Murray

Anita Parrot

Leah Plante-Wiener

Jeff Puig

Suni Romain

India Shea

Kite Shepherd

Amanda Spencer

The Evolution Store

The Drama Book Shop

Dale Villaruel

Elka Wade

Matt Walting

Leo Zhang

PR for Road Kills is provided by Emily Owens PR.

Good Apples Collective is a grateful recipient of Materials for the Arts and a proud member of Broadway Green Alliance.

Road Kills benefited from production support rendered by Roundabout Theatre Company’s Theatrical Workforce Development Program.