fall of the house of sunshine

season 3

cast and crew

Matthew Roi Berger

is a New York City-based songwriter and the composer for films and stage works, including New York Musical Theatre Festival's Best of Fest Award-winning FAT CAMP, the indie cult fav SPIDERMUSICAL, and New York Neo-Classical Ensemble's TWELFTH NIGHT. Matt has written music for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Old Vic's Arden Project and UC Santa Barbara, among others. Matt is the guitarist and songwriter for Teen Girl Scientist Monthly, and a graduate of NYU Tisch's Experimental Theater Wing.

Jonathan A. Goldberg

is an internationally produced playwright with work seen across the country. Some works include: The Jew and the Demon (Rita and Burton Goldberg Prize), How to Shoot a Bull Moose (Israel Baron Award), Real Dead Ghosts (Jeffrey Mackey Award finalist), Sousepaw (Best of SF Fringe). He won the L Magazine Pocket Fiction Contest and has far too many cats. MFA Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. He and Matt also wrote a musical about Warren G. Harding fighting a walrus.

**Audio Engineer / Mixer / Sound Designer**

martin D. fowler

is a composer & multi-instrumentalist who composes and produces music for film, advertisements, & podcasts, records as Martin D. Fowler & WNNR, and writes, produces, & performs with many NYC-based artists.

alanna Saunders

Alanna currently lives in Manhattan pursuing a career in acting, most recently making her Broadway debut in the original Broadway cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. When not onstage, she works pursuing her other passion of fitness, as a fitness instructor, helping others to obtain goals of becoming their best self. If not onstage singing and/or pretending to be someone else? OR working out? Probably doing a puzzle. Maybe reading a romance novel. As a last resort: lying on the floor listening to music with her headphones on. Lover of all things soft.

EMMA GALVIN

has been acting professionally for two years, and non-professionally her whole life. She has been a part of community and regional theatre since the age of eight. She has had featured roles in the full length films My Suicidal Sweetheart, A Perfect Fit, and The Big Bad Swim. She has also starred in the NYU Graduate short film Twitch. She was also featured of IFC's miniseries Film School.

Haley Bowery

is the songwriter and frontwoman of NYC rock and roll band The Manimals.

rebecca soler

is an NYC based actress whose voice currently can be heard on PBS's Pinkalicious & Peteriffic. Other notable animation work includes TMNT (April O’Neal) Viva Piñata (Ella and Simone), Huntik (Sophie) The Winx Club (Techna) and Chaotic (Sarah). She is a multiple Odyssey & AudioFile Award winner for her work in narration. She’s also received an IRNE nomination for her work in Becoming Cuba at The Huntington Theatre. Rebecca is the Executive Producer of the web series With Friends Like These www.wfltseries.com. Education: BFA Carnegie Mellon University. She loves books, football, fashion and cheese. Follow her on twitter @rsolervo

Hannah Fairchild

is a writer and performer based in New York City. If you want to learn about her vengeful punk music, go to www.hannahvsthemany.com. If you want to learn about her upcoming forays into musical theater composition, go to www.hannahfairchild.com. If you want to learn her opinions on online dating, pop music, and Moon Pie, follow her on Twitter @hannahvsthemany.

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NATHANIEL KENT

is a Brooklyn-based actor originally from the Bay Area. Film: Shrapnel; The World Doesn't Wait; Basic Witch (web series); Seeking Sublet (web series). Voice Over: Limetown (podcast); Buick City 1AM (podcast, forthcoming); and Motherland Departed. Theatre:We Are Proud to Present... (Playmakers Rep); Mother of the Maid (Shakespeare & Co); Trevor (Lesser America); Ten Ways On A Gun (Squeaky Bicycle); Four. Five. One. (Access Theatre); Real Dead Ghosts, Font of Knowledge, The Land Whale Murders, and Fallsway (all with Shelby Company, for which he is a co-founder). He was featured on Rover.com's 2018 "Puppy Bowl Sunday" commercial. BFA: NYU Tisch.

JARED LOFTIN

New York credits include: GIGANTIC (Vineyard), SATURDAY NIGHT (York Theatre), GARY GOLDFARB: MASTER ESCAPIST (NYMF, Outstanding Individual Performance Award), THE VELVETEEN RABBIT (DR2 Theatre). Regional credits include: PETER PAN (Smee), ALL SHOOK UP (Dennis), FAME (Joe), and JOSEPH... (Issachar/Baker) at Artpark. Television: RED OAKS (Amazon). BFA in Music Theatre from Elon University.

Christina pumariega

Broadway: Seminar. Off Broadway: The Comedy of Errors(Public Theater + Mobile Shakespeare Unit), Coriolanus, Volpone, The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull), Uncle Vanya(u/s, Soho Rep), Catch-22 (Lucille Lortel), All Eyes and Ears(INTAR), Enfrascada (ClubbedThumb), Sousepaw (FringeNYC), AliceGraceAnon (New Georges). Regional Theater: Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Hartford Stage, Barrington Stage, Merrimack Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Television/Film: “Bloodline," “The Family,” “Elementary,” "Nunsense," "With Friends Like These," “Maggie Black,” “Notes on Being Young,” “Just Cause 3.” CCC award, NYIT and IRNE nominations. Education: MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program.

emily xu hall

Emily is a composer-lyricist, and a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, and a member of the Musical Theatre Factory Writers Group. Studio Tisch held a reading of her original musical Untitled Cherry Orchard Musical at Studio Tisch, and a workshop presentation of her new Cymbeline musical. She also made her debut as a composer at MuseMatch X at 54 Below last July, and performed her own songs at Rattlestick Playwrights' Theatre New Songs Now! where she was selected as a featured singer-songwriter.

MELISSA LUSK

Brooklyn-based composer, mother, legal secretary, and member of the band Teen Girl Scientist Monthly. Creator performer in Baby No More Times. Favorite writing credits include ...things i found on craigslist (music and selected lyrics) and l(y)re (music and lyrics).

lauren lim jackson

Lauren Lim Jackson has been professionally performing with a career that spans Broadway, Television, Film, and Stage. Originally from Orange County California, she graduated from the Orange County School of the Arts where she was the Academic Valedictorian as well as Valedictorian of her Commercial Dance Department. She later attended Harvard University where she received her B. A. in Sociology with a Secondary in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. HerFilm/TV credits include The Post (dir Steven Spielberg), The Blacklist, When We Grow Up, Shades of Blue, AKA Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Deadbeat, Bikini Moon, Strange Past, Smash, The Smurfs, Mrs. Santa Claus and Kidsongs. Broadway credits include Motown, Memphis, Wonderland, and Finian’s Rainbow. Off Bway/Regional/Tour include The Wiz (Encores), Chicago (Velma Kelly), Big Fish (Josephine), Ring of Fire (Alpine Theater Project), Rocky Horror Show (Old Globe), and West Side Story (Anita). Choreography Credits include the Off-Broadway smash hit Sistas (AUDELCO nominee),The Salts (Art.Party.Theater.Company), and The Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Upcoming Project: PRETTY WOMAN on Broadway. Ms. Jackson is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA.

RACHEL FLYNN

studied directing at Harvard/A.R.T. under Robert Woodruff and Marcus Stern. She is the artistic director of At the Table, a play reading podcast available on iTunes and Stitcher. She directed the Boston debut of Martin Sherman's Bent starring TV's Jack Cutmore‐Scott, Heathers the Musical in concert, (54 Below) and is developing Dust and Shadow, a new musical, for fall 2018 production. She won best new director at MITF for her direction of Dayle Ann Hunt's Either/Or. As an actress, she originated the role of Stoner Chick in Heathers, the Musical (New World Stages), once vomited fake blood onto the guitars of the Yeah YeahYeah's (Stop the Virgins, St. Ann's Warehouse) and championed feminism through the art of glitter and hair jewels (Baby No More Times, Ars Nova, The Lark). Proud AEA and Harvard grad.

Eryck Tait

is a New York based artist and musician.

carl howell

is a New York Actor who has appeared in National Tours, Off-Broadway, and regionally. He earned his BFA at NYU Tisch, primarily the Atlantic Acting School, where he now serves on faculty. Carl loves beaches, waterfalls, and rescue dogs, and he's a passionate fan of Bruce Springsteen and Dawes. He's at home in guitar shops, onstage and in rehearsal halls, and he's happily married to actress Angela Janas.

JAMES B. KENNEDY

Recent selected NYC credits include Shelby Company's Ephemerama, Dogs Of Oklahoma by Eric John Meyer; His Beauty by Ashley Jacobsen;  New Beulah by Dan Moyer; and Couples Counseling by Carey Lovelace.  He also has been at the Minnesota Fringe the past three years in Fallsway, Font of Knowledge, and Sousepaw in which he originated the role of Rube Waddell.

trent saunders

Broadway: Aladdin. London: Evita (Che). National Tours: American Idiot. Regional: Evita (Bay Street), Aida (Village Theatre), Smokey Joe's Cafe and Forever 54 (Jerry Herman Ring Theatre). Graduate of UMiami '12

heath saunders

These days, Heath basically spends his time perfecting the art of rejecting labels. An actor-singer-writer-composer-director-multi-instrumentalist-theater-artist-and-not-necessarily-in-that-order type. You’d probably recognize him most from purely musical theater performance. But, honestly, Heath never really meant to perform professionally, at least until someone (probably his mom) very wisely mentioned that actually, the idea that you had to pick one thing to do with your entire life was wholly illusory, and, indeed, every job that he could possibly do would only augment and enrich all the other careers. The point is, the story of Heath is many stories, and always has been, but...it begins and ends with this collective. His family: his best friends and his support system. He still dreams of one day designing a perfect steel giga-coaster for Six Flags Magic Mountain. And they’ll all be there opening day to ride it.

Ike Ufomadu

is a Drama Desk Award-winning actor, writer and comic entertainer. Time Out New York named him 1 of 5 “Comics to Watch in 2018”, and he’s an inaugural recipient of the 2019-2020 Jerome Foundation Artist Fellowship. He is creator and host to a number of original, live shows including: the talk show Ike at Night (Public Theater, Bushwick Starr, JACK); the comedy and music variety hour Nightcap | by Ike (Joe’s Pub at The Public); the one-man variety show Ike Night (Ars Nova, San Francisco Sketchfest, Good Good Comedy Theatre); the Christmas special Ike for the Holidays (Joe’s Pub at The Public); the game show Ike by Chance (Ars Nova, Union Hall); the murder mystery Inspector Ike (Comedy Central Corporate Retreat); and more. His short-form series Words with Ike has aired on VICE and IFC. He’s written for the TruTV series Paid Off w/ Michael Torpey, and has made appearances on Netflix and Adult Swim. Ikechukwu has collaborated with several OBIE-winning theatre companies and artists including: Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Clare Baron, 600 Highwaymen and Hoi Polloi. He was in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Dance Nation at Playwrights Horizons. He trained at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts; the International Theatre Workshop in The Netherlands; and Studio Five's theatre and dance programs in Indonesia. Ikechukwu has also been an artist-in-residence at Joe’s Pub at The Public, SPACE on Ryder Farm and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. He’s been featured in the New York Times, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, Playboy and more.

kerry ipema

is an actor, improviser, writer, and producer based in New York City. She co-created and stars in the hit solo show One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody on Love, Friendships and Shoes. She's toured with PostSecret: the Show in two national tours and performed her solo show Sex Ed in the US and Canada. In New York, Kerry performs weekly in the acclaimed show Accomplice. She's been on a house team at the People’s Improv Theatre, performed with Woodshed Collective, and was a company member at The Flea. She is also the creator of Lady Bits, a bi-annual fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. Kerry received her improv training from UCB and her Musical Theatre degree from Indiana University. She is originally from the suburbs of Chicago.

graham rowat

is a New York based actor working in film, television, and stage, most recently appearing in the Broadway production of Steve Martin’s, “Meteor Shower”. He’s an award winning audiobook narrator and a regular guest on such podcast audio dramas as NoSleep, The Grey Rooms, Copperheart, Among the Stars and Bones, and The SCP Archives. While in high school, Graham was briefly suspended from performing the morning announcements because of “inappropriate sounds”.

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megan dorn

is an actor/singer/stunt artist based in NYC. Recent voice work: documentary Fathers of Football (2018 release), and At The Table Podcast (S1, Ep. 10). Megan plays the leader of a team of vampire slayers in the first two seasons of the critically acclaimed action-packed musical webseries, The Hunted: Encore. Selected theatre credits: The Sisters Rosensweig (Portland Stage Company), Panic! The Musical, Skippyjon Jones. You can often find Megan playing her guitar or ukulele, and writing songs with her amazing husband, Marcus Bagala. If not there, look for her somewhere there are puppies. BFA The Boston Conservatory

jenni putney

has taught acting and public speaking at UC San Diego and has been the assistant director of a children’s musical theatre program for the past 8 years in Palo Alto California. Regional acting credits include: Fox in the Fairway (northern stage) Venus in Fur (Philadelphia Theater Company/George Street Playhouse), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Portland Center Stage) Fallsway, Winnemucca (Shelby Company), Our Town, A Dram of Drummhicit, (La Jolla Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing, The Mock Tempest (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), The Tempest (Shakespeare Orange County). At UC San Diego: June Moon, The Dybbuk, and others. MFA: University of California, San Diego; BFA: Chapman University.

caroline strang

is an Alaskan-born actress/ singer working in New York City. She recently closed "Tiny Beautiful Things" at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Massachusettes (Jen Wineman, Dir.) and is excited to announce her Off-Broadway debut as Grace Harkaway in "London Assurance". The show is currently running at The Irish Repertory Theatre, tickets can be purchased HERE. Caroline likes to bake, read, grow tropical plants from seeds, and (most recently) skateboard. She's rotating musically between alternative R&B, Bluegrass, and Musicals. She also, apparently, enjoys speaking in the third person. Follow Caroline on Instagram for updates on her shenanigans, perhaps you'll catch one of her notorious Instagram Takeovers! @CarolineStrange

happy anderson

Television credits include:

Snowpiercer, Mindhunter, Reprisal, The Deuce, The Blacklist, The Tick, The Knick, Quarry, Prodigal Son, Gotham, Claws, Banshee, Elementary, BrainDead, Turn: Washington's Spies, Unforgettable, Deadbeat, Blue Bloods, White Collar, Boardwalk Empire, Forever, The Carrie Diaries, Smash, Eden (pilot), Army Wives, Bar Karma (pilot), Onion Sportsdome, Onion News Network, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI, Law & Order, Book of Daniel, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and All My Children. He has also voiced many characters for the video games Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3.

Film credits include:

Bad Boys for Life (with Will Smith, Martin Lawrence), Bird Box (with Sandra Bullock, directed by Susanne Bier), X-Men: The New Mutants (with Maisie Williams, directed by Josh Boone), The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, Bright (directed by David Ayer, with Will Smith), The Comedian (with Robert DeNiro, directed by Taylor Hackford), Cold In July (with Sam Shepard), Blue Caprice, Going The Distance (with Drew Barrymore), Duplicity (with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, written and directed by Tony Gilroy), Redacted (written and directed by Brian DePalma), Hit Men, Addiction: A 60's Love Story, Brutal Massacre: A Comedy, Winter and the short film Postures.

Theatre credits include:

Merchant of Venice on Broadway, The Public Theater, The Old Globe, New York Shakespeare Festival (Delacorte Theatre), Shakespeare Theatre of D.C., Classical Theatre of Harlem, Texas Shakespeare Festival, New York's Promenade Theatre, Bristol Valley Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Brown County Playhouse, Creede Repertory Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, and Shadowland Theatre Company.

GRACE MCLEAN

Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Kazino; Brooklynite,Vineyard Theatre; Bedbugs!!!, Arclight; The World Is Round, BAM; Sleep No More, The McKittrick Hotel; Twelve Ophelias, Woodshed Collective. Regional: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, A.R.T.; Pump Boys and Dinettes, Weston Playhouse; La MaMa Cantata, Spoleto, Italy; Zagreb, Croatia; Belgrade, Serbia; From The Fire (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011, MTM Best New Musical); The Last Goodbye, Williamstown Theater Festival. Grace McLean & Them Apples performed in both the 2015 and 2016 Lincoln Center American Songbook seasons and in April 2015 traveled to Pakistan on a US State Department sponsored tour. Original music available on iTunes.

amy lynn sheehan

graduated from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, where she trained with Atlantic Theater Company and Stonestreet Studios for Film & Television. While living in New York, she’s been lucky enough to continue telling stories through theater, tv and commercial work. Most recently, Amy had the pleasure of playing opposite Emmy award winner Aaron Paul on the Hulu series The Path. When not acting, she’s making visual things as a graphic designer, and making music with her soul-rock band, The LoveHowl.

Season 3 Cast and Crew