DIGITAL PROGRAM

12PM

THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE

by Gina Femia
directed by Ash(er) Lloyd Ehrenberg

Lily: Erin Markey*

Terri: Jacqueline Sydney*

Tess: Sophie Hoyt

Ruth: Constance Shulman*

Stage Directions: Brittany Halls*

4PM

the labyrinth

by Mo Holmes
directed by Kanika Asavari Vaish

Ariadne / Theo: Mia Fowler*

Fay / Osai / Dionne: Shirine Babb*

Elias / Minus / Bone-Man: Eric Berryman*

Dallas / Millard: Basil Rodericks*

Stage Directions: Devon Savage

7:30PM

TOP

by A.A. Brenner
directed by Mary McGowan

Jess: b*

Val: Shelby Acosta*

Tash: Kathryn Gallagher*

Stage Directions / Associate Director: Imani Russell*

* designates a member of Actors’ Equity Association

artist bios

Gina Femia (Playwright, THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE) is an award-winning playwright and performer whose work has been seen/developed at The Goodman Theater, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Page 73, New Georges, The Playwrights Center, Theater of NOTE, Rivendell Theater, Cape Cod Theater Project, among others. Select honors include The Kilroys List, Leah Ryan Prize, Doric Wilson Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award and the Neukom Award in Playwriting.  Gina is the current recipient of The Farm Theater's College Collaboration Commission and is an alum of The Playwrights’ Center’s Core Writer’s Program, & Page73 Writer’s Group.  They’ve also written several novels.  Find out more at www.femiagina.com.

Ash(er) Lloyd Ehrenberg (Director, THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE) is a trans/nonbinary director and poet with a focus in new theatrical work. They have directed and developed work with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Breaking the Binary Theatre, The Samuel French OOB Festival, regional and international symphonies, and others. She is currently the associate director for the Broadway production of Marjorie Prime and has been the associate of directors such as Billy Porter, Laurie Woolery, Rebecca Taichman, Tyne Rafaeli, and Anne Kauffman. In 2019, Ash was named the inaugural Directing Apprentice at New York City Center for their Encores! Off- Center season. She is the associate creative producer for Anne Kauffman & Jeanine Tesori’s Cast Album Project and a former Brooklyn Poets Fellow.

Erin Markey (Lily, THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE) Brooklyn-based actor and writer/creator/composer. Their TV credits include FANTASMAS with Julio Torres (HBO), GIRLS 5 EVA (Peacock), HIGH MAINTENANCE (HBO), At Home with Amy Sedaris Season 2 (TruTV). They starred in Abe Koogler’s STAFF MEAL at Playwrights Horizons and were recently featured in Charles Ludlam’s GALAS at Little Island with Anthony Roth Costanzo. They are the recipient of the 2025 Vivace Award.

Jacqueline Sydney (Terri, THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE) Off Broadway: Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit…, directed by Trip Cullman (MCC). Award-winning NY theatre: Dear Harvey (NY Fringe – Best Ensemble Winner), The Kitchen Table (NYIT Award Best Supporting Actress Nominee), and work with Abingdon Theatre, TOSOS, APAC, NY Fringe, Planet Connections, Target Margin, YIVO, the Gitis Theatre in Russia, among years of others. Film: Our Lady of Queens (Best Actress Nominee), PAMELA (Best Actress Nominee). Other recent film and TV: First of Seven, Eleanor, Filmic Achievement, Finding Distance, “The President Show” (Comedy Central), “Seven Seconds” (Netflix) www.jacquelinesydney.com

Sophie Hoyt (Tess, THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE) is an NYC-based artist. Most recently, she has been seen on stage at NYTF, the Soho Playhouse Lighthouse Series, and the Samuel French Short Play Festival. In Chicago, she has worked with Redtwist Theatre, Jackalope Groundworks, Facility Theatre, the Bechdel Fest, and ATC Core. She has been featured on TV shows including Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Med, and Soundtrack, as well as in independent films such as Come As You Are and East of Middle West.

Constance Shulman (Ruth, THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE) spent this summer at Brooklyn's Irondale Center in Bubba Weiler's "Well, I'll Let You Go." Prior: "Dirty Laundry," Women's Project; "The Best We Could," Manhattan Theater Club; "Bobbie Clearly," The Roundabout Underground (Drama Desk nomination); "The Rose Tattoo," Broadway/Williamstown; "Shhhh," Atlantic Theater; "Barbecue," Public Theater; Clubbed Thumb's, Winterfest/Summerfest. TV: The Curse (Showtime), Orange is the New Black (three time SAG award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy). Film: From Fried Green Tomatoes to Strawberry Mansion. Voice of Patti Mayonnaise in Nickelodeon/Disney animated series DOUG.

Mo Holmes (Playwright, THE LABYRINTH) is a black queer Southern playwright, librettist and dramaturg, born in San Antonio and raised on the long stretch of road from Texas to Alabama. She is a winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize and Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award, and a Jane Chambers finalist. Her work has been developed and/or presented by Playwrights’ Center, Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, Vertigo Theatre, DePaul University’s Climate Action New Play Collective, and more. As a dramaturg, she supported GAC’s production of cunnicularii and is excited for continued new play collaboration. Current MFA candidate: Playwriting, Columbia.

Kanika Asavari Vaish (Director, THE LABYRINTH) is an NYC-based director, playwright, and producer who spent her middle and high school years in Mumbai. Her work focuses on hope, community, and transformation. Credits include: MEMNON (Assistant Director, Classical Theatre of Harlem); Eight Ways to Plead with a God (Playwright, Playhouse in the Square; Valdez Theatre Conference; Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist); Three Sisters, Four Women (Director, SoHo Shakespeare Company); The XIXth (Assistant Director, The Old Globe); Jyoti’s Bridge (Playwright, Eugene O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist; Seattle Public Theater New Works Festival Finalist); Guards at the Taj (Director, SoHo Shakespeare Company). MFA: Columbia University. 

Mia Fowler (Ariadne / Theo, THE LABYRINTH) is a New York based actor and writer passionate about new work that allows folks to bring their full divinity to the room. Recent credits: The Angel That Troubled... (Eno River Players), cityscrape (Good Apples Collective), You Are What You Eat (Westerly Theatre Group), Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Dumb Money (Sony Pictures), Philosophy of Dress (forthcoming, starring Sydney Lemmon, Fair Form LLC). She also maintains a Substack on books and theater.

Shirine Babb (Fay / Osai / Dionne, THE LABYRINTH) BROADWAY: The Piano Lesson w/ Samuel Jackson, A Beautiful Noise:The Neil Diamond Musical, Harry Potter; Cursed Child (OBC), Macbeth w/ Ethan Hawke (Lincoln Center). OFF-BROADWAY (selected): TFANA, Roundabout, Bedlam, Red Bull. REGIONAL (selected): Shakespeare Theatre Co. Folger Theatre, Kennedy Center: Measure + Dido w/ Derek Jacobi, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis: Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre Circle Award nomination) | Disgraced (Critics Circle Award nomination) INTERNATIONAL: Royal Lyceum (Scotland), Arcola Theatre (London) TV: “Extrapolations,” “Iron Fist,” “Blue Bloods,” “Madam Secretary.” EDUCATION: East 15 Acting Conservatory UK: MA, USD/Old Globe: MFA.

Eric Berryman (Elias / Minus / Bone-Man, THE LABYRINTH) is happy to be here and a part of work that he thinks his great grandmother would dig.

Basil Rodericks (Dallas / Millard, THE LABYRINTH) trained with John Basil at the American Globe Conservatory Theatre. Company associations include AGT, unShout the Noise under Ron Canada and Tricia Mancuso Parks, Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre Company, and SoHo Shakes. Favorite roles: Othello, Iago, Claudius, the Ghost, Lord Capulet, Oberon, and the King of France. Recent contemporary work: Langston Hughes in Harlem to Moscow: A Soviet Film on Negro Life as Told by Langston Hughes, Bill in PINK (both by Alle Mims under David Henry Hwang), and Klaude in 2nd Murderer by Kanika Vaish. Directing: Pecking Order (59E59). Basil has served as a play evaluator for “Expand the Canon,” for American Bard’s Cornerstone Reading Series, and as a Drama League Awards nominator.

Devon Savage (Stage Directions, THE LABYRINTH) Favorite credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Titus Andronicus (Aaron), Coriolanus (Menenius), Romeo & Juliet (Lord Capulet), Macbeth, Lilies, and Camp Morning Wood. @DevonSavage_

A.A. Brenner (Playwright, TOP, he/they) is a playwright, dramaturg, screenwriter, and producer based in New York and London. Brenner’s work blends naturalistic dialogue with heightened realism to explore queer, trans, and Disabled experiences. Brenner’s plays have been presented at La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center, Breaking the Binary Theatre, National Disability Theatre, Brooklyn Rep U.K., Queens Theatre, and more. They’ve been in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, New York Stage & Film, Peacedale Global Arts, and The Lark. Artistic Director of The Siq Collective (@siqcollective). MFA Playwriting: Columbia University School of the Arts. @a.a.brenner/aabrenner.com.

Mary Cynthia McGowan (Director, TOP, she/her) is a director and producer based in Brooklyn. Directing: Oy Band (Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals), Paper Valley (NYFA), American Patriots (Salina Symphony), Her Sound (Joe’s Pub), Mean Girls Jr. (The Wharton Center). Associate Directing: Bat Boy (New York City Center), Broadway: All Out: Comedy About Ambition, All In: Comedy About Love, How To Dance in Ohio, The Ghost of John McCain (Soho Playhouse). Select additional credits: CO_LAB Theater Group, The Tony Awards, The American Repertory Theater, Perelman Arts Center (PAC NYC), YouTube Brandcast, American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), NYPopsUp. BFA: Syracuse University. @marycynthiamcg / marycynthiamcgowan.com.

b (Jess, TOP, they/them) is a California kid living and working in NYC. Theater: Twelfth Night (Public Theatre), Toros (Second Stage; HOLA Award), American (tele)visions (NYTW), Bodies They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb), Seven Deadly Sins (Tectonic Theater Project). TV: “You” (Netflix), “The Terror” (AMC), "Elsbeth" (CBS), “WeCrashed” (Apple TV+), “Let the Right One In” (Showtime), “Station 19” (ABC). b also co-executive produced and starred in the narrative podcast Birds of Empire (QCODE). Training: The Juilliard School

Shelby Acosta (Val, TOP, she/her) is hyped to be working with Good Apples Collective and with this team on TOP. She’s been in a couple of Broadway shows but her biggest achievement is swiping on Elliot Page on Raya. All stipend(s) given to her for this project will be donated to TransLifeline which is an organization that is one of the only crisis lines for trans people. They also help provide name + ID changes and HRT grants. www.translifeline.org

Kathryn Gallagher (Tash, TOP) Broadway: Deaf West Spring Awakening, Jagged Little Pill (Tony Nomination and Grammy Award) Television: YOU, HBOMax’s Gossip Girl, Modern Love Film: Woman of the Hour, Pavements.

Imani Russell (Stage Directions / Associate Director, TOP) is a proud Brooklyn-born artist. Trained in classical music, musical theatre and acting, Imani made their Broadway principal debut in the groundbreaking new musical How to Dance in Ohio, and has performed on various off-Broadway stages. As a writer, Imani was selected for Breaking the Binary’s 3rd annual festival of new work, and their commissioned scene was published alongside their fellow TNB2S+ writers this year by Broadway Licensing. Imani is grateful to Mary McGowan for having them along for their first Associate Director position. Siempre pa'lante; nunca pa’trás! | www.imanirussell.com

Brittany Halls (Stage Directions, THAT TIME TERRI AND LILY TOOK A ROAD TRIP TO SEE THE LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOUSE) is an actor, playwright, and improviser based in Brooklyn. Recent theater: Lifetime Presents: I'll Be There For You — The Courteney Cox Story (The Pit Loft), Brittany Loves Lucy (Cotuit Center for the Arts). Web series: The Thing With Jed. BFA from Emerson College. brittanyhalls.com

content warnings

  • Misgendering and illness.

  • References to abduction, domestic abuse, stalking, suicide, and murder.

  • Self-harm, cancer, transphobia, and body dysmorphia.

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