TICKETS
--Radio Bemba; a night of one-act plays by Latinx playwrights--
Friday, February 26th
8pm EST
Via The Tank/Cybertank’s Youtube channel
LA PRINCESITA
Written by Chase Doggett
Directed by Morgan Rielly
Featuring Makasha Copeland and Chase Doggett
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS IN THE WAITING ROOM
Written by Irisdelia Garcia
Directed by Irisdelia Garcia
Featuring Sabine Jacques, Amber-Nicole Rodriguez, Jordan Reed, Sandra Seoane-Seri, and Emily Tanch
CLICKBAIT
Written by Makasha Copeland
Directed by Jeremy Pesigan
Featuring Gabrielle Silva
AFTER SITTING [ZOOM] SHIVA FOR ZEV
Written by Isaiah Stavchansky
Directed by Michael Herwitz
Featuring Amara Leonard, Jarrett Jung, and Lilla Brody
Chase Doggett is a Tejano writer, comedian, and full-time protagonist from Austin, TX. He is the creator of the running comedy-variety show Kid Biologist through the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. He is a CAMP at Ars Nova resident, working on a televisual comedic show titled Madre Mia/ Nossa Mãe. He is currently in production on his comedic podcast series You’re Gonna Remember Me.
Makasha Copeland is a playwright, actor, and comedian. Their plays Extreme Home Makeover and Fabuloso! have been developed and produced with San Diego REP, Vertigo Productions, the Agnes Nixon Festival, Sideshow Theatre (upcoming), and Teatro Espejo (upcoming). They are a 2021 Ars Nova CAMP resident, the inaugural year of the comedy residency where they are co-writing a cult-meets-mami-issues play with Chase Doggett and Gabrielle Silva. They are a member of sketch comedy group Resting Witch Face at iO and Second City. They graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Theatre and Latine Studies, where they performed, wrote and improvised with The Titanic Players, Griffin’s Tale, Mee-Ow and Out Da Box.
Irisdelia Garcia (she/they) is a Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist, writer and director from The Bronx, NY. She became an inaugural Generation NYZ Creative Fellow at Ping Chong and Company from September 2019 to February 2020 and now has become a collaborative artist and teacher for the theater. Her work includes La Ira and Other Ghosts first presented during the EMERGENYC Residency at the Hemispheric Institute and qué bien te ves, developed through Ping Chong and Company‘s Nocturne anthology. La Ira will be published in the upcoming Public Art Dialogue installment. Garcia has also been director and writer for digital plays like call me when you get this (November 2020) and her upcoming one-act Christopher Columbus Is In The Waiting Room (February 2020) at The Tank. Her most recent piece i had swallowed mirrors for you (December 2020) is part of Ping Chong and Company's "A Universal History of Infamy" series. She is a member of Queer and Now‘s Digital Cabarets series, an acting member of IRL Humanities Lab, and a troupe member of La Pocha Nostra. Garcia holds a BA in English with a concentration in Digital Humanities from Amherst College and a Multicultural Theater Practice Certificate from the Five College Consortium.
Isaiah Stavchansky is a Mexican-Jewish writer and actor from Amherst, MA. His plays have been developed at Kenyon College, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Atlantic Acting School, as well as with the Blue Bird Theatre Company. He graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in English and Philosophy and then the Atlantic Acting School Conservatory.
Sabine Jacques is a theater practitioner, actress, and Fulbright Scholar. She holds a BA in African-American studies, a Multicultural Certificate in Theater, and is currently working on her Masters in International Education with a certificate in Social Justice Education frome the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sabine’s work focuses on Black diasporic art and theater practises as sights for healing, truth-telling, and transformation. She proudly identifies as a Black Feminist and Arts Activist, and has dedicated herself to art that heals and reimagines a world where love, joy, compassion, and care prevails. When Sabine isn’t performing or studying, she is finding ways to experience Life and Love more fully.
Jordan Elizabeth Reed is an Afro-Indigenous-Boricua theater and performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Since childhood, she has been a lover of art, singing, and performing. Originally from Western Mass, she is a 2017 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BA in Theater, a Minor in Political Science and a Certificate in Multicultural Theater. Currently, she does work acting, singing, devising, producing, curating, dramaturging, costume designing, and writing. Reed enjoys creating work that creates spaces of healing and community exploring movement, ancestry, gender, ensemble, horror, comedy, sensuality, ritual, body positivity, and glamour.
Michael Herwitz is a director (among other things) who is grateful for the opportunity to make plays alongside great artists and friends.
Sandra Seoane Seri is an actress proudly born and based in Boston. She received her BA in Theatre at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. During her time there, she discovered the importance of collaboration, discipline and humility. The stage starts from the ground up, therefore you must remain grounded. Sandra wants to be a part of stories that are often overlooked. Ones that challenge stereotypes and spark conversation. To Sandra, theatre is how she understands and grapples with humanity. Throughout her time in Amherst, Sandra discovered her second passion for the camera. Earning her UMass Film Studies Certification in one year, she captures moments through her self-portrait photography and cinematography. Just as comfortable being behind the camera as she is in front. During her time working at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Sandra learned the business of filmmaking through recording and editing events, panels and Hollywood figures such as Willem Dafoe, John Carpenter etc. She is excited to work with more artists, theatre folk and filmmakers.