THE TRAGEDY OF
CORIOLANUS
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
CAST
GRACE ADAMS WARD (Volumnia) is incredibly excited to be representing boymoms everywhere in her role as Volumnia! Some recent credits include Penelope, Dance Nation, Alice in Wonderland, Destroyed by Horses, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is a recent graduate of Vassar College and loves sketch comedy and longwinded novels. She wants to thank her mother, family, and the GPA Angel Women. Most of all, she wants you to remember Mommy loves you! ig: gracieaw_
BRYCE ANTONIO (Menenius) is an actor, singer and director writer based in Long Island New York. He is a senior at NYU Tisch Drama where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and the Experimental Theater Wing. He’s recently been in Body of Faith and Spider Stories. Bryce would like to thank Nocturne Theater for the opportunity and his family and close friends for always supporting his artistic endeavors.
VEER ARYA (Lieutenant) is an Actor from Mumbai, India, based in New York City. He graduated from NYU Tisch after training at the Stella Adler Studio and the Stonestreet Studio Screen Acting Residency. He was part of Labyrinth Theater Company's Intensive Ensemble 23. Select recent theater credits include: Sanjay in Doomers (Brooklyn Center for Theater Research), Reis in Velvet Rage (The Tank), Malcolm/Hecate in Macbeth (Warp & Weft Co). IG @puppypanda
BALFOUR CLARK (Coriolanus, Fight/Intimacy Choreography) is an actor, writer, and improvisor based in New York City. As a founding member of Nocturne Theater he is thrilled to be alongside such incredible artists in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Since graduating from Vassar College with a double major in Drama and Philosophy, Balfour has performed on stages all across the United States, in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in the Czech Republic. You can also see Balfour perform improvised comedy at stages like the Upright Citizens Brigade and Brooklyn Comedy Collective with his teams God's Website and Doppelgängers. balfourclark.com
MADS DAILY (Brutus) is a little freak hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They studied acting at the Stella Adler Studio, HB Studio, and clown at the Pandemonium Studio. They have also been a member of Clubbed Thumb’s New Play Directing Fellowship Acting Cohort for the last two years. Recent theater credits include: Daughters of the Ruling Class (Aidan La Poche/Silencio), Romeo+Juliet (Sketchbook Theater), RENT (Tisch Drama Stage), Richard II (SITS NYU), As it is in Heaven (Stella Adler Studio), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stella Adler Studio). Mads also co-produced and DP’ed fellow cast-mate Veer Arya’s upcoming webseries, “Tomorrow, Day After.” Big love to my people & to Nocturne! BFA: NYU Tisch IG:@madsdailydotcom
CHRIS ERDMAN (Lartius) is an NYC-based actor dedicated to authentically exploring the human condition through diverse roles in film, TV, and theater. Chris recently earned his BFA in Dramatic Arts at The New School of Drama. He's performed at/with Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Tank, The Brick, NY Theatre Festival, SOOP Theatre, and more.
CLAE ROUNTREE (Aufidius) is an actor, poet, and experimental theater maker from the southern plains of Colorado, based in New York City. Raised by his Italian-American side, he is a proudly queer artist from the Cicero family. Clae recently received his BA in Drama from Vassar College. He has trained in classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and classical Greek theater with One Year Lease Theater Company. Through his body and the body of his work, Clae seeks to bridge the voice and the heart, nudging our alchemy of grief. He is so grateful for this play and for what comes next. www.claerountree.com
ELLIS RUBIN (Sicinius) is a junior drama major at Vassar College, where he was originally part of Coriolanus his freshman year. There, he has done several other Shakespeare shows, including Macbeth (Macbeth) and Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry), as well as The Christians (Pastor Paul), Three Sisters (Tuzenbach), and Skin (Navy Man). Film/TV credits: The Greatest Showman (Young Barnum), Ode to Joy (Victor), The Last O.G. (Aaron), and Linda from H.R. (Howie Plugh). He is incredibly grateful to the cast and crew and excited to return to this production!
KRISTIN KP SGARRO (Cominius, Fight Captain) (they/them) is a New York City actor, musician, and emcee. NYC Theater (selected): Love's Labor's Lost, Richard II (Smith Street Stage); Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Othello, As You Like It, Macbeth (Match: Lit); Little Egg, Big World and The Catamite (BBTF at Theatre Row); Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (Mile Square Theater); haircut play :€, Storm Still, Romeo & Juliet (No Exit Theater Collective); Circus Trick, Holy Ghost People, Dangerous Games (The Brick); Under Woodside (original cast). KP is a performer with Serials NYC, and is also a musician/composer (most recently Richard II with Smith Street Stage) and an emcee (Green Room 42, QED Astoria). "The best time to do it was yesterday; the second best time is now." www.kristinsgarro.com
CREATIVES
LOUIS BLACHMAN (Director) is a director/writer from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His direction credits include Streetcar/Coriolanus, Mosquitoes, Plano, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, and The Aliens. As an assistant director, he has worked with James Macdonald (Glass. Kill. What If IF Only. Imp.), Danya Taymor (Spite House, workshop), Trip Cullman (Cult of Love), Michael Mayer (Galileo), and Nicole A. Watson (Bulrusher). His plays include D.F.J. (Jewish Plays Project 2025 Finalist; O’Neill NPC 2024 Finalist) and Four Seasons Total Landscaping (Marilyn Swartz Seven Award). He received the Bret C. Harte Artistic Fellowship at Berkeley Rep for their 2023/2024 season. He is a founding member of Nocturne Theater. SDC associate member. BA: Vassar College.
SANDRO LORENZO (Producer) is a producer, director, and performer based in New York City. He recently graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor's degree in Media Studies and a correlate in film. Recent credits include Coriolanus, Here Lies Love, Request sa Radyo, The Last 5 Years and Rodeo and Juliet.
ANICA ACUÑA (Stage Manager) is a current 2027 MFA Stage Management candidate at Columbia University. Originally from California, she moved to South Carolina at age 13, so she has put down roots in both coasts. Anica is also a recent graduate of Vassar College with a B.A. in Drama and Biochemistry. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Arts Council (IAC) at Columbia and is a Broadway Green Alliance Student Representative. Previous credits include Julius Caesar (ASM), The Colored Museum (ASM), the resident ASM for Quisisana Resort 2024 Summer Season, Hurricane Diane (PSM and Sound Design), Forever & Sometimes: A New Work (PSM), The Trail to Oregon (PSM), and The Diary of Anne Frank (PSM). @anicaacuna
SEAN LILLIS (Scenic Designer) is a New York based scenic designer from Poughkeepsie, NY. He graduated from the Conservatory of Theater Arts at Purchase College. His designs include Take Me To Dollywood (The Fool Volk), Inspector Pulse: Takes His Pulse (Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center), and Titus Andronicus (Purchase College).
MAKENZIE MARTIN (Costume Designer) is a multidisciplinary artist based in East Harlem. After years of styling and film-based costume design, she is so excited to make her theatrical costume designer debut with Nocturne Theater’s Coriolanus. Last fall, she attended New York Fashion Week as a personal stylist for a prominent LGBTQ influencer. In addition to her design work, Makenzie is also a performer and dancer. You can connect with Makenzie for personal styling and consulting on IG @makenziemartinn_.
Enjoy the show!
SOPHIE LYND (Lighting Designer) is excited to be making her New York debut with The Tragedy of Coriolanus at Dixon Place! She recently moved to New York from California, and just finished Assistant Designing Swamp Dwellers at Theatre for a New Audience in Downtown Brooklyn. Sophie is a UC Santa Barbara alumna and recipient of the 2023-2024 Lighting and Electrics Fellowship at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In her free time, she enjoys walks outside, museums and cute coffee shops!
ZOE STANTON-SAVITZ (Sound Designer) is a multi-hyphenate artist and a freelance sound designer based in NYC. Recent design credits include: Selkie Woman, The Seagull, Butterflies, Three Sisters, Rachel Berry Saved my Life, and Scrubland (Columbia), Recruiting Tomorrow's Army Today! (The Tank) Spew’s Little Baby (Dyke Theatre/Limefest at The Tank), The Munchies (Darkfest at The Tank), and Con (Spin Cycle/JCS). Zoe has also worked at Gloucester Stage Company, Tribeca Festival, La Mama Umbria, and American Academy of Dramatic Arts and she is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University.. https://www.zoestanton-savitz.com/
KENDALL WIENECKE (Dramaturg, Associate Production Designer) is a theatre-designer, director, drag king, and (now) dramaturg hailing from the humid heart of Washington, D.C. Kendall recently graduated with a BA from Vassar College, served as an apprentice in Greece with One Year Lease’s International Residency, and has since studied classical movement + voice in reception with the British American Drama Academy at the Oxford University Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Recent credits include Hurricane Diane, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Sasha Velour’s The Big Reveal U.S. Tour (Poughkeepsie Leg) as his drag persona, Fat Chance! To my loved ones, the butter to my bread, the breath to my life. Xx. @ken.wien / @kingfatchance / kmwienecke.com
GRACE AND SANDRO (Marketing/Meme Curation) are no novices to Shakespeare. Their background in college sketch comedy set the scene not only for their historic partnership but also for their aim to change the face of theater as we know it. These multi-hyphenates know no bounds. They are directors-actors-writers-producers-meme curators-social media managers-podcasters (watch this space)-and tastemakers who keep their ears on the cultural ground. Their drag-drunk-three hour-controvercial-rocky horror and early 2000’s-inspired production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set the stage for their drag-drunk-three hour-controvercial-rocky horror and cowboy-inspired production of Romeo and Juliet. They also dabble in drama, directing The Last 5 Years together. They ran the marketing campaigns for all of these shows. Now to the point, we’re addicted to social media and it’s a problem. This qualifies us to run the instagram of this show. We think we did a good job. @coriolanus.ny (watch this space). Most recently, they have been living together for the past three weeks. Over this time, they learned to cook a mean salmon. Thank you Molly.
COVER ART PHOTOGRAPHY MARA ROTHMAN HMUA LINNEA SUMNER STYLING MAKENZIE MARTIN CREATIVE DIRECTION SANDRO LORENZO
