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Learn more about the artists of RAIN FALLS SPECIAL ON ME
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Learn more about the artists of OLE WHITE SUGAH DADDY
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Learn more about the artists of MODEL MINORITY
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Learn more about the artists of Salt Pepper Ketchup
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Learn more about the artists of ​THE WOODS.
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The H8 Squad

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Diana Oh {{{Venmo}}} @OhyeahDiana
Nessa Norich {{Venmo}} @UntilFreedom {{Ca$hApp}} $UntilFreedom
TL Thompson {{Venmo}} @Tanisha-Thompson
David Zheng
Ryan Haddad
Michael Puzzo {{Venmo}} @Michael-Puzzo
Matt Park {{Venmo}} @afqphotography
Diana Oh (they/she/punk goddex) is a multi-genre artist: creator of performance, installations, concerts, rituals, and parties, director of their own work, performer, actor, singer, songwriter, musician, a feeder of the soul, and an open channel to the art that feels good to their body. Learn More
Ryan J. Haddad is an actor, playwright, and autobiographical performer based in New York. His acclaimed solo play Hi, Are You Single? was presented in The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival and continues to tour the country. Learn More  
Tim Hall is a musician and performance poet from Detroit, MI, now residing in Boston. His poetry draws inspiration from his lived experiences - charting the nuances of blackness, masculinity, and the beauties of life. He’s an Assistant Professor in the Professional Music Department at Berklee College of Music. Learn More​
Kevin Hourigan is a white performer and director, who has supported and benefitted from white fragility and supremacy in U.S. Theater. Usually, this "bio" would list the opportunities that I have gained, both directly and indirectly, as a result of my white privilege. Please direct your attention to the other BIPOC artists on the team, and listen to them. 
Nessa Norich is a writer, director and performer living in Brooklyn. Recent: TV: High Maintenance (HBO); Theater: The Infinite Love Party (by Diana Oh/Bushwick Starr), Clairvoyance (by Diana Oh/A.R.T), Elektra (by Ann Liv Young/NY Live Arts). Nessa has produced original work at Joe’s Pub, New Orleans Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Showbox Festival (Oslo), British Film Institute, Ars Nova and as an ensemble member of the NY Neo-Futurists. Learn More 
Matt Park Love to Diana, T, Nessa, Alysia, Tim, Ryan, David, Kevin, Michael, Josh, Maria-Christina, Sarah Shin, Cristina, Erica, Francesca, Mirirai, Annie, Sarah Hanlon, Kent, Jesse, and Ralph Pena.
Michael Puzzo is a playwright, actor, producer and proud member of LAByrinth Theater Company since 1997. As an actor, he most recently appeared in LAByrinth Theater Company's Installation on America. Learn More
​Alysia Reiner: Recent TV: “FIG” in ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (SAG award),  “Sunny” in FX’s BETTER THINGS, “Kiki” in HBO’s THE DEUCE . Learn More
TL Thompson credits include: Broadway: Straight White Men(Person In Charge u/s),Second Stage Theater. Theater: Is This A Room?(Agent Taylor), Vineyard Theater. Waafrika 123(Aweeno), Criminal Queerness Festival.  Learn More 
David Zheng is a first-generation Chinese American playwright and visual artist from The Bronx. He is currently a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow and a resident playwright for the 2020 Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference. Learn More

Joshua Young was a proud member of The Public Theater's 2018-2019 EWG along with Diana, David, Ryan, and other exceptional humans.  His plays include Lime-A-Rita Racist (The Public’s 2019 Spotlight Reading Series, it's a play about whether it's right or wrong to punch a nazi), Red Room on a Dark Web (Primary Stages Drills 2019 Reading Series), Appalachian Pachinko! and My Guggenheim Play, a true story about unreported corporate corruption.  He’s a founding member of The Playwriting Collective, a playwright driven initiative focused on economic justice.  He’s been a laborer most of his career and sometime public speaker. Learn More 

Previously, AYE DEFY founder Mirirai Sithole Co-Founded and co-produced under the Play-PerView banner and helped build their brand. Before leaving the company they raised over $30,000 for various organizations by producing 10+ one-night only readings. 

THE OTHER PLACE
​by Sharr White 
​Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
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CADILLAC CREW​
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by Tori Sampson
Directed by Chalia La Tour
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RINSE REPEAT
​by Domenica Feraud
​Directed by Kate Hopkins
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FAMILY FRIDAY
​An Original Program 
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CRYING ON TELEVISION
​by R. Eric Thomas
Directed by Kevin R. Free
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|UNSTUCK| 
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A One Woman Show About Growing Up With OCD by Olivia Levine 
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Olivia Levine uses stand-up, movement work, and more to explore the intersections of her OCD with her queerness; focusing on how it engages with her familial, platonic, and romantic relationships. 
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|GROUP THERAPY|
​A new musical by Janelle Lawrence at Dixon Place and WOW Cafe Theatre. 

​"Group Therapy" is a semi-immersive safe space where witnesses, participants, and actors came together to listen and reassure each other that they shouldn't feel isolated by their mental conditions. While Mental Health is beginning to enter into our dialogue, it is still very uncommon to feel comfortable talking about it and this musical aims to provide everyone that enters this space with tools for how better to cope with varying mental health conditions. 

|HER FIRST KILL|
Executive Produced Her First Kill written, directed, produced, and starring Níke Uche Kadri. This film (fully funded through Seed&Spark) was an official selection of the 2019 Twin Cities Black Film Festival and won a Best Director award in 2019 iHolly Film Festival. Come back soon for a release of the full film!
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