cityscrape

written by Sophie McIntosh
directed by Nina Goodheart
produced by Good Apples Collective & Gillian Fu

an Equity Approved Showcase

May 18-28, 2023
Arts on Site, 12. St. Mark’s Place
New York, NY

Provocative, hilarious, and unexpectedly tender, cityscrape is a new play that dares to ask: does sharing a vibrator collection make you officially co-dependent? Trapped inside the ticking time bomb of their twenties, roommates Kitt and Kat are willing to do almost anything for their art, even if it means destroying the friendship that keeps them afloat. cityscrape is a razor-sharp excavation of what it means to truly be “seen” by another person — and what happens if the version of ourselves that’s reflected back is an egocentric monster.

cast

  • Mia Fowler (she/her) is a New York based actor, writer, and producer. She is thrilled to join this team and exorcise some friendship demons. Regional: before the flood (The Chain Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), The Wolves (Colorado Springs FAC), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in the Litchfield Hills). Upcoming films: Dumb Money (Sony Pictures), Parts (Baby Steps Productions).

  • Born and raised in New York City, Marianna Gailus (she/her) received her M.F.A. from the Juilliard School Drama Division (Group 51) and a B.A. in History from Yale. Additional training: British American Drama Academy, Chautauqua Theater Company's Summer Conservatory, and ESPA at Primary Stages. Theater: Period Sisters at HERE Arts Center. Juilliard credits include: Halina in Indecent, Ren in The Extenders (film), Masha in Three Sisters, Parolles in All’s Well That Ends Well, The Moon in References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, and Portia in Julius Caesar. Official tour guide at the American Museum of Natural History (seriously).

  • Simone Policano (she/her) can't wait to use this play to work through friendship trauma so her therapist finally gets a break. Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong (New World Stages), Father Kennedy (New York International Fringe Festival), Non-Laughter Anonymous (24 Hour Plays: Nationals), and the first-ever production of Ruby Spiegel's award-winning play Dry Land (Yale University). TV: Blue Bloods (recurring), New Amsterdam. Film: Auggie, This is Our Home, Extra Innings (all streaming on Amazon Prime). Comedy: Comedy Central, IFC, The New Yorker. Yale '16.

PRODUCTION TEAM

  • Sophie McIntosh (she/her) is a New York–based playwright and theatermaker. Her writing gives voice to women and queer folks, offers empathetic insight into living with mental illness, and lovingly riffs on the cynical sincerity of young adults. Sophie is also the co-founder of Good Apples Collective, a developmental orchard for new theatrical works that she co-leads with her collaborator Nina Goodheart. Recent productions of Sophie’s work include the world premiere of macbitches (New York Times Critic’s Pick) at the Chain Theatre, the college premiere of Eleven Months of Nuclear Summer at Notre Dame University, and Ipswich in the Boston Theater Marathon. Sophie’s plays have also been developed by Pioneer Theatre Company, the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, the Bechdel Group, and Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective. Sophie is a proud recipient of a BA in drama from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and is currently working toward an MFA in playwriting at Columbia University.

  • Nina Goodheart (she/her) is a director and producer based in New York. She is passionate about creating theater that builds community, centers people of marginalized genders, and demands an emotional response. Most recently, she served as the Resident Director of Gabriel Byrne’s Walking with Ghosts on Broadway. She is the proud Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Good Apples Collective with her collaborator Sophie McIntosh. Recent directing credits include before the flood (world premiere at the Chain Theatre), The Wolves, and Man of La Mancha, among others. While at Yale, she directed the first all-undergraduate production of Fun Home. She has had the pleasure of working with directors such as Diane Paulus (Jagged Little Pill, original Broadway production), Lila Neugebauer (Mary Page Marlowe, Second Stage Theater), and Lonny Price (Scotland, PA, Roundabout Theatre Company), as well as organizations including the American Repertory Theater, NYMF, New York Stage & Film, and Climan Producing. She currently serves as Creative Associate to director Whitney White.

  • Gillian Fu (she/her) is a New York-based theater producer. She is currently working towards her MFA in Theatre Management and Producing at Columbia University. She graduated from Yale University with a BA in English Literature. At Yale, she produced eight plays, including The Effect by Lucy Prebble, Girlish by Alexa Derman and the first student production of John by Annie Baker. She has completed internships at The Tank, NYC, The Coronet Theatre, London, and Wild Rice, Singapore. Gillian believes storytelling can be the common language that connects people across cultures, languages and borders, and aims to be a producer that creates thought-provoking and fresh work by new and diverse voices.

  • RED (he/they) (Scenic Design) is a trans theater maker, designer, puppeteer. Education: BM, NYU Steinhardt School of Music, MFA in Theatre at Sarah Lawrence. Design Credits: Willa’s Authentic Self (Lisa Clair, Theater Mitu), Rabbits Rabbits (Cam Cooper, SLC), Spout (Jeremy Kadetsky, SLC), and Wake Up (Kenneth Keng, SLC), Scenic Assistant Scenic for Urinetown. Recent Performances: The Vicksburg Project (Harlem Stages & Mabou Mines), The Beautiful Lady (La MaMa, Dir. Anne Bogart). RED is a New York Musical Festival award winner, and presented at the 2022 CUNY Graduate Conference: Theater in Rupture.

  • Paige Seber (she/her) is a New York City based lighting designer for Theatre, Dance, Opera, and Music. Recent credits include Titanique (The Daryl Roth & Asylum NYC), La liberazione di Ruggiero (Manhattan School of Music), Is Anyone Alive Out There? (Audible Live, Minetta Lane), Powerline Road (Theatre Now), The Consul (SFCM). Paige is a member of United Scenic Artists 829 and Song Sessions Collective, which consists of four improvisers using acoustic and electronic instruments, and an LED Light installation to perform an ever-changing work based on the structure of whale songs. For more about her work, visit seberlighting.com.

  • Saawan Tiwari is a Manhattan-based costume designer and graduate of the University of Michigan. Beyond designing, they teach through Roundabout Theatre Company and Big Green Theater. Selected credits: Hip Hop Cinderella (New Victory Theatre), Sound of Music (Bayview Music Festival) Footloose (American Stage), Bruise and Thorn (Pipeline Theatre Compnay), Far From Canterbury (Barnstormers Theatre), Prospect Hill (Piper Theatre), and Yerma (University of Michigan). Saawan is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ and AAPI communities. saawandesigns.com

  • Cora Cicala (she/her) is a California-born, Brooklyn-based sound designer and audio engineer who is thrilled to be working on cityscrape! A recent graduate of Kenyon College, she is passionate about creating exciting, innovative designs for all genres of theater. Some of her favorite credits include Dance Nation, Fun Home (Kenyon College), and The Laundry Play (The Chain One Act Fest). Check out her work at coracicala.com.

  • C.Lee (they/them/any) is a New Jersey-based Stage Manager, theater technician, and artist. They have had the pleasure of working in a variety of conventional and unconventional spaces for theater, events, and educational environments. Some favorite Stage Management credits include Anon(ymous) (RCNJ), She Kills Monsters (RCNJ), before the flood (Chain Theatre), and serving as Head of Stage Management (Ghostlight Theater Camp) C.Lee would like to thank Nina for bringing them onto this project, and everyone who’s supported them along the way.

  • Willow Funkhouser (she/her) is a Brooklyn based director and intimacy choreographer. Select NYC theatre credits include The Song of Bernadette workshop (Lea Salonga, Alice Ripley, dir. Christopher Gatelli), ¡Americano! (New World Stages), and works developed and performed at The Tank, 938 Collective, and New Relic Theatre. She has served as the intimacy coordinator for dozens of short films. She is a member of the literary management team at Primary Stages. Willow holds a degree in Drama from Syracuse University where she developed a course of study in intimacy choreography alongside directing.

  • Lauren Kiele DeLeon (she/her) an American-Uruguayan intimacy director/coordinator from Miami, FL. Lauren holds a Master’s degree from NYU with a thesis on “Decolonizing Touch through Intimacy Choreography,” is a professor of “Intimacy in Performance” at Sarah Lawrence College, and is a teaching artist and the Director of Community Education & Engagement at Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. Credits include, Off Broadway: Eva Luna (Repertorio Espanol), La Conducta de la Via (Repertorio Espanol), Bloom Bloom Pow (Gural Theatre ARTNY). Regional: Hair (Weston Playhouse), Sleeper (BRIC), Fire This Time Festival (The Kraine), Blooms (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Mountaintop (Weston Playhouse), and multiple university productions.

  • Sydney Raine Garick (she/they) is entering her final year at the David Geffen School of Drama as a Technical Direction & Production student with a focus on production management. Their passions as a production manager lie in caring for show teams, ensuring that everyone is seen and supported while maintaining a high standard of execution and artistry. Recent credits include: Ghosts (dir. Jacob Basri), Clue (dir. Adam Fleming), The Wolves (dir. Nina Goodheart), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (dir. Chris Murrah), Fun Home (dir. Nina Goodheart), Eurydice (dir. Monica Flory). sydneyrainegarick.com

  • Ruth (she/her) graduated from Rollins College with a BA in Theatre Arts and Communications Studies in 2022. Before becoming a Stage Manager, she was an actor (The Wolves, Jesus Christ Superstar, Annie, and Aladdin among others). She started Stage Managing during her undergrad, working on both plays and musicals (Cry it Out, Lost in Yonkers, Next to Normal, and Luna Gale, among others). Currently she is enrolled in the Stage Management Master’s program at Columbia University. She is excited to start working professionally in the city. cityscrape is one of her first gigs!

  • Liv Rhodes (she/her) is a producer, writer, artist, and branding/marketing consultant based in Brooklyn, NY. Most recently, Liv produced the sold-out Dear Mom, Sorry for Being a Bitch at Soho Playhouse. Liv was also the Producing Associate for the original Broadway productions of Pass Over, Is This a Room, and Dana H. As a writer, Liv has worked with the writing teams of Scotland, PA (by Adam Gwon & Michael Mitnick, dir. Lonny Price, Roundabout Theatre Company); and many projects in Film/TV including: The Light of Days (Amblin), Untitled Audrey Hepburn Project (dir. Luca Guadagnino, Rooney Mara), Muppet Man (Disney), and more.