Cast & Creative
Dante Fuoco (writer, performer)
is a queer educator, performer, and writer based in Brooklyn. A recent Edward F. Albee Foundation fellow, Dante has staged theater work at Dixon Place, Under St. Marks Theater, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Moss Arts Center, Brick Aux, and elsewhere. As a poet, Dante also has writing published in several places, most notably Split Lip Magazine, DIAGRAM, Poets.org, and The Offing. His vast education work includes working as an elementary special education teacher in New Orleans and a restorative justice practitioner in New York City public schools. An avid swimmer, Dante teaches swim lessons to adults in the city.
Clara Wiest (director)
(she/they) is a director, movement director, intimacy coordinator and conceptual artist based in Brooklyn. Their work is experiential, experimental, and collaborative, exploring presence, process, and the dynamic relationship between performer and audience. Clara’s practice is driven by a deep curiosity about human expression and connection. Their work has been shown at: Denver Fringe, The Brick, Five Myles Gallery, Dixon Place, Mitu580, IATI Theater, Tribeca Film Festival (God’s Lonely Magician, dir. Walker Higgins) and elsewhere.
Xander De Luca (producer)
Xander De Luca (he/him) is the founder of XDL Studios, an audience development firm specializing in arts and entertainment. He previously served on the audiences team at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, where he worked to connect new audiences with world-class theatre.
Cat Ashley (sound designer)
Catherine Ashley (she/her) is a Brooklyn based multimedia designer and performance artist working across sound, installation, performance, and moving image. With a background in film, projection, theatre, and object-making, she creates layered environments that explore gesture, memory, and systems of transformation, emphasized by auditory and visual experiences. Ashley holds an MFA in Digital + Media from RISD. catherinenoa.com
Sasha Finley (lighting designer)
Sasha Finley (she/her) is a New York based lighting designer. Her design credits include [ ] (ODC Dance), Legally Blonde (Pascack Valley High School), She Kills Monsters (Weehawken High School), Cabaret (Northern Stage) and In the Throes of Death (Curiosity Cabinet). She was the Lighting Design Intern at San Francisco Opera in the Fall of 2023 and was a 2021 participant in the ETC Fred Foster Mentorship. She holds a BA in English and Theatre from Smith College and an MFA in Lighting Design from Carnegie Mellon University. Follow her work at sashafinley.com.
Hahnji Jang 장한지 (costume designer)
Hahnji Jang (they/them/형) is an activist, costume designer, and stylist. As a trans and AAPI individual they focus on crafting to empower people of the global majority. Hahnji also offers affordable styling outside the limiting gender and size binaries by upcycling and re-imagining used & unwanted materials. They are on a continual journey to rematriate the closets of the individuals and institutions around them. Hahnji is also available for intersectional & sustainable costuming consultations. They have collaborated with Broadway Green Alliance & consulted for institutions such as the National Theatre UK, Women’s Project Theater, the Dalton School, and the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy. Their current focus is the Transcendent Punk Costume Closet, a sustainability experiment started at Soho Repertory Theatre reallocating theatre costumes to the queer BIPOC community in an effort to make performance costuming and gender-affirming dressing more accessible to Trans and Gender non-conforming artists. Learn more @transpunkcloset on Instagram or at Hahnji.com