TENT PLAY

Rocky Anicette is a New York–based actor and graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts’s New Studio on Broadway. Her credits include the Off-Broadway musical White Girl in Danger by Tony Award winner Michael R. Jackson, as well as her upcoming feature film debut in Don’t Say Good Luck, produced by Happy Madison Productions for Netflix. Her voiceover work spans television and digital media, including two audiobooks for Penguin Random House, with collaborations across major networks and brands such as Disney, HBO Max, and Nickelodeon. Rocky is deeply grateful to her family, teachers, and friends for their continued support and is excited for what lies ahead.

Marina Celander is a performing artist born in Sweden and has called NYC home for more than 30 years. She has performed extensively in the downtown theatre scene, as well as nationally and internationally. Marina received the Lila Kan award from Pan Asian Rep for contributions to Asian American theatre. She was nominated for Innovation in Performance award at the Stockholm Fringe for her solo show Mermaid’s Howl which then ran at the Tony award winning LaMama ETC. Most recently she was in MEATSUIT or the Shitshow of Motherhood at Second Stage.

Mia Goldammer, your Southern Carrie Bradshaw, is an actor, singer, dancer, and lover of making people laugh. Throughout her time in NSB, she has been honored to play Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime, Stepmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and Norma in Carrie. This past semester she was a part of the Physical Acting Intensive and has studied TV/Film acting at Stonestreet Studios, as well as Commedia dell’Arte through the NYU Florence study abroad program. She hopes to make and share art that inspires humans to live fearlessly through love and empathy. @miagoldammer!

Elena Hurst is a bilingual actor, voice over artist, and mother of two in NYC. Off-Broadway: Torera, Women’s Project Theater; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Lucille Lortel Best Revival), Signature Theater; Summer and Smoke, Transport Theater Group; A Grave is Given Supper, New Ohio Theater. Regional: Billie Jean, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Becoming a Man, American Rep Theater; Love All, La Jolla Playhouse; Tina Modotti, Teatro Dallas; Andale Raul… (International Tour); TV/Film: The Changeling, Home, Homeland, Elementary, Tales from the City, Blue Bloods, Gossip Girl. Elena voiced Belisa Crepusculario in the upcoming animated film, Dos Palabras by Isabel Allende and is the Live Announcer for the Sports, News, and Documentary Emmys Awards. Education: Bachelor of Science Radio, TV, Film, University of Texas at Austin.

Char Jones (she/her) is ecstatic to play in the tent! Select theatre credits include The Script in the Closet (La MaMa), Twelfth Night (Prague Shakespeare Company), An Enemy of the People (Theater for the New City), As Youse Like It (dir. Tucker Tab DeGregory), and Steel Magnolias (dir. Julia Proctor). TV/Film credits include “SNL” (NBC), “FBI” (CBS), and “Gone Girls” (Netflix). Upcoming: Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help at the Depot Theatre this summer and A24’s Peaked (dir. Molly Gordon). Training: Northwestern University, Juilliard Extension, and Katie Cappiello. Outside the tent, she can be found Citi Biking, playing Catan, and laughing with her people. Insta: @charnot

Hailing from Orange County, California, Cece Labowe is a Jewish NY/LA based actress and singer! She is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Drama’s New Studio on Broadway! In her time at NSB, she was a part of Titanic (Captain Edward J. Smith), The Table (Daria and Others), Ragtime (Immigrant) and The Comedy of Errors (Angelo). She is honored to be a part of this process for “Tent Play” and is so grateful to Julia Proctor, her friends and her family for their endless support in her career and life!

Julia Proctor (she/her) is a theatre maker, educator, community builder, mother, and a widely respected Theatrical Clown specialist who has taught, devised, performed, directed, produced, coached, and mentored in the field. She is the Founding Director of Clown Gym and a Co-Founding Producer of PhysFestNYC. With the Clown Gym Ensemble she has devised three original plays and directed two. Her training includes Middlebury College (BA), Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy (MFA), Ecole Philippe Gaulier, The PIT, and a pedagogical apprenticeship with Christopher Bayes. Julia is a member of Actors Equity and has performed at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Synetic Theatre, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, among others. Julia is on faculty at NYU Tisch Drama and Collaborative Arts specializing in Games, Clown, Shakespeare, and Devising. She was Beanie Feldstein’s personal Clown Coach for the Broadway revival of Funny Girl. Learn more at juliaproctor.com.

Justine Williams (she/they) is an actor-creator, theater & filmmaker, and celebrated teacher of play, clown, ensemble-based and devised performance. In the US, she has developed new work and appeared on stages at Ars Nova, NYTW, The Public Theater, Dixon Place, Abrons Arts, Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Yale Rep and Berkeley Rep, among others. Film work has premiered at Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors/New Films and the Maryland Film Festival, and she was an artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she created a media and performance-based work for the museum in collaboration with elder artists from the historic Westbeth Home to the Arts. Internationally, Justine has presented new work at the Sibiu International Theater Festival, the National Arts Festival in South Africa, and has collaborated with companies and community-based arts organizations in France, Poland, Israel, Macedonia, Brazil and South Africa. She has completed residencies and fellowships with Queer|Art, New Georges, Lighthouse Film Festival, Orchard Project and NY Women in Film & Television. She has been at the Yale School of Drama (DGSD) since 2013 teaching Acting as Play, Collaboration, and advising & facilitating new play development, and founded The Play Society, a nomadic creative lab and training center for performance. MFA: CUNY/Performance and Media.

Liz Wisan is an actor, teacher, and mother based in Brooklyn. NYC credits include Meat Suit, or the sh*tshow of motherhood (2nd Stage); Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre and PBS “Great Performances”); Other Desert Cities (Broadway/LCT); These Paper Bullets (Atlantic); #DateMe (Westside); TFANA: The Winter’s Tale, and Chris Bayes’ Servant of Two Masters (also Yale Rep, Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Seattle Rep). Regional: Old Globe, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Two River Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Jungle Theater. TV/Film: Emily Roebling in HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” “New Amsterdam,” “Elementary,” The Assistant, and the horror short 3 Days. Liz has a background in improv and frequently performs in Gravid Water at UCB. She currently teaches junior year acting at Pace, and has previously taught at NYU, Yale, AMDA, and City College. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Rosemary Quinn most recently performed in Jordan Baum’s 21st Century Princess at the Collapsable Hole in NYC this May. She has taught at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing for over 25 years. She is dedicated to supporting new theater artists and their work in whatever ways she can.