oh, Honey PR Kit
Ugly Face Theatre Presents
Setting: A diner. 2017.
This play is loosely based on this NY Times article. 

Content warning: mentions of SA, mentions of addiction
An hour and forty minute run time without an intermission.
For performances 9.30 & 10.1, *Gibson Frazier will be playing the role of Diner Guy/ Anthony
*Carmen Berkeley (Mari) 
Carmen Berkeley (she/her/hers) is originally from Washington Heights and currently based in Brooklyn. Off Broadway credits include: The Night of the Iguana (La Femme Theatre Productions), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater/Second Stage). Regional: Wintertime (Berkeley Rep), Our Town (Barnstormers Theatre). She has also worked with New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, ArsNova, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Page 73, Normal Ave, The Playwrights Realm, The Players Theatre and others. Film/TV: Step Back, Doors Closing; Law and Order: SVU. BFA: Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
*Katherine Renee Cortez (Lu) 
Katherine Renee Cortez is thrilled to be returning to the stage in Oh, Honey after taking an extended hiatus from acting to raise her three children. Stage performances include The A-Train (Re) Plays at Playwrights Horizons, Alphabet City at Metropolitan Playhouse, and The Laramie Project at Gallery Players, where she portrayed multiple roles. Katherine recently filmed a supporting role in the feature film “Trouble-in-Law,” as well as a co-star role on a really fun, really big TV show she can’t tell you about yet (or she’d get in trouble). Thank you to Jeana Scotti and Ugly Face for this wonderful play and this wonderful opportunity, and gratitude, always, to my family.
*Gibson Frazier  (Diner Guy/ Anthony 9.30 & 10.1 Performances)
Off-Broadway: Regretfully So The Birds Are, Mr. Burns (Playwrights Horizons); Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb); Small Mouth Sounds (Signature); Telephone (Cherry Lane); God’s Ear (Vineyard, New Georges); The Internationalist (Vineyard, 13p). Film: Unsane; Frances Ha; Illusion (w/ Kirk Douglas); Man of the Century (also co-writer/producer); Almost Love; Doppelbanger. Television: The Other Two; Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Girls5Eva; Damn Michael Che; Bull; Madam Secretary; The Knick; Blue Bloods; The Path; The Good Wife; Hunters;. Writer/Director of No Longer, Not Yet currently in post-production.
*Maia Karo (Vicki)
Maia Karo (she/her) Co-founder/Co-Artistic Director, Ugly Face Theatre and NYC based actor who also writes, directs, and sings. Past collaborations include: Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick, Bushwick Starr, The Brick, New Ohio Theatre, Target Margin, HERE, 3LD, Dixon Place, Fresh Ground Pepper, O’Neill Theater Center, LARK, Incubator Arts Project, Edinburgh Fringe. TV/Film: Blacklist (NBC), NewYork (YES./Dori Media) Training: Yale University BA, Rutgers University MFA, Moscow Art Theater (Russia), Shakespeare's Globe (London). Learn more at maiakaro.com.
*Jesse Pennington (Diner Guy/ Anthony)
BIO: Off-Broadway: Uncle Vanya (Hunter Theater Project), A Raisin in the Sun; The Winter’s Tale (Public Theater), Bootycandy, Rodney’s Wife, Franny’s Way (Playwrights Horizons) , The Mountains Look Different (Mint),  A General from America (TFANA), The False Servant (CSC), A Place at the Table (MCC). European Tour: Richard Nelson's The Apple Family Plays (Berlin, Brighton, Vienna). Regional: Old Globe, Guthrie, Huntington, A.C.T., Alley, Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown, New York Stage and Film, Actors Theater of Louisville, People's Light. Film: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, American Gun. TV: Uncle Vanya. Awards: Obie, Lucille Lortel (nomination). Training: NYU Grad. Acting.
*Jamie Ragusa (Bianca) 
Jamie is thrilled to be part of “Oh Honey.” She is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA and works across Theater, TV and Film. Jamie graduated from Maggie Flanigan’s acting conservatory program under Charlie Sandlan. She has also studied with The Barrow Group under Lee Brock and Seth Barrish, and at The Lee Strasberg Institute. She holds a BA and MA from Point Park University.
Recent credits include: NYC Theater- “HORSESHOE EMPIRE” written by Margo Hammond /directed by Scott Alan Evans; “FOREVER?" by Michael and Linda Teverbaugh, and “NOWHERE TO GO NIGHTS” by Christian Missonak. TV- FBI (CBS), BULL (CBS) FILM- Most notable: Alvara in indie short “Double Zero,” Sara in indie short “The Rest Of My Life” for which she earned various acting accolades for these performances. When not acting, she’s a busy mom to two, and an Aussiedoodle. She is repped by ATN Entertainment. More information at: jamieragusa.com
*Mara Stephens (Sarah)
Mara Stephens’ acting career spans over 25 years. Mara has a background in Broadway (Original Titanic cast), off Broadway working with companies (Clubbed Thumb, American Place Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Civilians, Soho Rep and NY Theater Workshop), Regional (Denver Center, Cleveland Playhouse, George Street Playhouse) and TV/Film (Law & Order, High Maintenance- HBO, Everything’s Trash- HULU, King of the Corner). Mara originated the one person show traveling nationally for two years based on Lois Lowry’s book, “The Giver” portraying 12 roles. Mara has also performed in London & Amsterdam with Charlotte: Life or Theater based on the life of Charlotta Salomon. Mara was in a play 24 years ago which changed her life providing her with the privilege to embrace ASL and the Deaf community. She is a mom to her two children (favorite and most challenging role to date), a daily yoga practitioner (500 hours certified) and a sign language interpreter.
Samantha Clarke  (Stage Manager)
Samantha Clarke (She/Her) is a recent graduate of Columbia University, where she earned her MFA in Stage Management. She also holds degrees in Theatre and Psychology from Rollins College. Specializing in stage managing new work, plays, and improvised pieces, Sam has recently worked on: Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty Sided Tavern, Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis, Meg, Unseen, and Inferna. She is so thrilled to contribute to bringing oh, Honey to life! For RC, JC and MLZ
Nic Coccaro (Fight Choreographer)
Nic Coccaro is a fight choreographer and stunt performer based in Brooklyn, NY. You may have seen him (but hopefully not noticed him) on projects like The Equalizer, The Blacklist, The Calling, The Instigators, and other titles that start with 'The.' He's thrilled to have been a part of Ugly Face Theatre's production oh, Honey and to have helped bring this wild and incredible concept to life.
Joy Donze (Swing)
Joy Donze is an award winning Actor/Director. Recent Directing credits include: In Search for Elaina(Players theatre) Rocky Horror (Pendragon- BroadwayWorld nom for Best Direction of a Musical) Parentheses (Frigid festival- Winner of the 2023 Queerly award & Best 2 Hander) Handmaids Tale: The Musical Parody (The Kennedy Center and The Cutting Room) Recent Acting credits: POTUS (Geffen Playhouse), THE CAKE at Crescent city stage, According to the Chorus, & Shedding Load (59e59) Funny, like an Abortion (Miles Square Theatre) LGBT proud. www.joydonze.com
Ruth Gershberg (Production Stage Manager)
Ruth Gershberg (she/her) is a Stage Manager from Mexico City. She graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida with a BA in Theatre Arts and Communications Studies. Before becoming a Stage Manager, she was an Actor (The Wolves, Jesus Christ Super Star, Annie The Musical, Aladdin among others). She started Stage Managing both plays and musicals during her undergraduate studies (Cry it Out, Lost in Yonkers, Next to Normal, Luna Gale among others). Currently she is enrolled in the MFA program in Stage Management at Columbia University. Ruth is excited to continue her journey as Stage Manager in NYC working on diverse industries including theater, circus, corporate events, and entertainment.
Carsen Joenk (Director)
Carsen Joenk is a director // designer interested in the weird, wild, and unfamiliar. She is the co-artistic director of Rat Queen Theatre Company, a 23’/24’ Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and a founding member of the interactive media company, Sour Milk. Carsen is an alumna of the Roundabout Directors Group, Mercury Store Directing Lab, Wingspace Directing Mentorship, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Directing Assistantship, and National Alliance of Musical Theatre Directing Observership. She is also the co-creator of Miss Atomic Power (Yale Drama Series Prize runner-up and NPC finalist). She has developed and presented work with Colt Coeur, Rattlestick, Exponential Festival, Fresh Ground Pepper, EST, Gingold Theatrical Group, Ice Factory/New Ohio, La MaMa, Seattle University, Hunter College, and more. Her sound designs have been heard across theatre, film, and podcasts. www.carsen-joenk.com
Zoe Kim (Press Agent/ Associate Artist)
Zoë Kim (she/her) is a storyteller who is passionate about creating art that encourages humanity, compassion, and kindness. She is a classically trained Actor and the Founder of Seoulful Productions (seoulfulproductions.org), a Korean-American women-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose primary mission is to create artistic experiences that celebrate the culture, artistry, and voices of the Korean Diaspora. 
Her acting credits include The Heart Sellers, Pride and Prejudice, Eureka Day, Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe in London), 4000 Miles, and The King’s Language (world premiere). She wrote Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?) and screenplays for Phone Call, Meet Me at a Funeral (MMF), Say, Do You Wanna Be White?, and multiple episodes of Blue Match Comedy. MMF and Phone Call became official selections at various film festivals and have won her numerous awards including EMERGING FILMMAKER, BEST COMEDY, and BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE. 
Her solo show, Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?), is slated for a world premiere production in the fall of 2024 at CHUANG Stage in Boston.
www.thezoekim.com 
@thezoekim 
Amelie Lyons (Associate Artistic Director/ Producer)
Amelie (she/ her) is a life-long member of the theatre community (no literally, lived above a theatre and would do homework/fold programs/etc in said theatre) from New York City. In her youth she acted in various shows at the Ohio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, The Public, and was part of a playwriting program at New York Theatre Workshop. More recently Amelie has been finding her way back to theater, recently performing at The Brick, and serving as Associate Producer on Ultra Left Violence in New Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory. She is excited to use her nepo-baby status for good and leap into more theatre-creation with Ugly Face
Iliana Paris (Costume Designer)
Iliana Paris is a theatre artist and musician from Brooklyn, NY. She thanks Ugly Face Theatre  for having her apart of the design team and letting her play with costumes again. 
Attilio Rigotti (Lighting and Sound Design)
Attilio Rigotti is a Chilean performer, director, technology artist, and videogame designer. He was an Associate Artist with Theater Mitu, performing on the international tour of Juárez, and their sold-out run of Death of a Salesman at BAM. Attilio co-founded the company GLITCH, focused on new forms of storytelling that seamlessly combine digital and physical mediums. The company’s designs have been featured in productions such as Macbeth (Broadway, 2022) and White Girl in Danger (Off-Broadway), earning nominations for Outstanding Projection Design at the Drama Desk and Helen Hayes Awards. Attilio has directed for City Lyric Opera, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, theatreC, LGPAC, NYU Tisch, Long Island University, Toronto Fringe, and Gamiotics Studios, and has been recognized by the New York Times, Vulture, and American Theatre Magazine. He was a NYTW 2050 Artist Fellow for 2022-2023 and has been awarded the NY City Artists Corps Grant, the Wasserman Scholar Award, and the CYSTEM Award.
Carson Robles (Assistant Stage Manager)
Carson Robles (they/she) is a stage manager and writer based in Brooklyn. They are thrilled to be working alongside Ugly Face for this production of Oh, Honey! Carson has worked in various capacities at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Powerhouse Theatre, Urbane Arts Club, The Tank, T.V. Eye, Playwrights Downtown, and NYU Tisch, where she recently graduated with a degree in Drama. 

Jeana Scotti (Playwright)
Jeana Scotti is a playwright, educator, and producer originally from Staten Island and currently living in Brooklyn. Her work has been developed with Clubbed Thumb, Dixon Place, The Tank, Fresh Ground Pepper, New Perspectives, The Bechdel Group, Access Theatre, Rutgers University, Fringe and Fur, The Brick Aux, and Theater for a New City. She is an alumna of Clubbed Thumb's 2021/2022 Early Career Writers' Group. Other works include The Possessed Girls of St. Mary’s (NPC semi-finalist). Upcoming: A Necessary Killing in Clubbed Thumb’s 2025 Winterworks.  She is a co-founder of Ugly Face Theatre. She currently lectures at Purchase College and the Maggie Flanigan Studio, and teaches devising to youth theatre. MFA Playwriting, Rutgers Mason Gross. jeanascotti.com
Sebastian Pray (Assistant Stage Manager)
 (he/they) is a director and theatre maker from Upstate New York currently residing in Queens, NY.
Performance credits include Cute Activist (New Saloon, The Bushwick Starr). Directing credits include Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (Purchase College, SUNY Mainstage,) JFK Was Killed by the Russians (Rat Queen Theatre Collective), GREEDPLAY (After School Special), Gravity of Me Gone (ANT Fest, Ars Nova), The Yellow Wallpaper (Purchase College, SUNY). Assistant Directing credits include Promenade (dir. Morgan Green, Mabou Mines,) The Things That Were There(dir. Lee Sunday Evans, The Bushwick Starr,) Haruki Murakami’s SLEEP (dir. Rachel Dickstein, Ripe Time/BAM’s Next Wave Festival), Three Sisters and Machinal (dir. Rachel Dickstein, Purchase College, SUNY.) Sebastian has shown work at Ars Nova, The Tank, Access Theatre, Mount Tremper Arts, and Barton Booth Make Room. BA, Theatre & Performance, Purchase College, SUNY.
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Poster and logo art created by Shany Erkin & Evelyn Wang.
oh, Honey is produced under an Equity Showcase Code.
Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors
and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster
the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages
and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension
plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international
organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.
www.actorsequity.org

Ugly Face Theatre celebrates flaws and seeks to reclaim what was once shameful. Creating new plays that center stories by women and non-binary voices in sometimes unconventional types of space that allow for the meeting of different communities. 

This program has been made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field.
Special Thanks:
Little Egg
Evan Hanzcor
Nora Kaye
Zoe Kim
The Maggie Flannigan Studio
Shany Erkin
Evelyn Wang
Matthew Garaufis
Daniel Meron
Morgan Green
Susan Bernfield
Kathleen Tolan
Clubbed Thumb (for support with the early development of this play in the EC Writer's Group)

This production would not have been possible without the support from our donors:
Abby Rivoir
Allison Pierce
Amina Khelif
Andrew Butler
andrew nguyen
Ashley Williams
Bailey Bennett
Bailey Williams
Barbara Dowd
Betsy Seidman and Nicholas Garaufis
Brenda Olivas
Caitlin Ryan O'Connell
Cammy Seefried
Charlar Acar
Charles Seeling
Christian Tiben
Claire McClain
Cora Cadman
Dale Karo
Daniel Nenart
Danielle Ranno
Danny Licker
Dariya S
David Herskovits
David Jean-Louis
Elias Behar
Ellen Carmonsino
Eric Tornaquindici
Faith Wilansky
Gemma Paley
Gloria Espinoza and Jeremy Murn
Hannah Mercuris
Ines Del Castillo
Jadel Myra
Jamie Canton
Jennifer Pierce
Jesse Hoffman
Koann Ryan
Jordan Schildcrout
Joshua Kaye
Judi Swartz
Kai Medina
Katelynn Sepulveda
Cornelia Mills 
Kiki Sedaris
Kip Fagan
Larry Scotti
Lauren Oberwager
Lawrence Scotti
Lenora Champagne
Leta Tremblay
Lilli Fowler
Lisa Sweat
Luisa I Del Castillo
Mali Waugh
Maria Mulligan
María Richardson González Aréchiga
Marielle Young
Marissa Katz
Martha Garbarini
Mary McGee and JR Howe
Matthew Garaufis
Matthew Pertrucelli
Maya Shifman
Megan Tong and Nick Johnson
Merritt Duffy
Nana Mensah
Natalie Kaye
Nicholas Scotti
Nicole Maus
Noelle Shrock
Nora Kaye
Omalolu Fiki
Owen Potter
Paul Kim
Rachel Dickstein
Renae Jarrett
Rita Goldberg
Roxanna Cheng
Sarah Kohl
Sebastian Pray
Shany Erkin
Shayna Lopez
Spencer Seligman
Stacey Hull
Steven Grabrowski
Strongman
Tareeq Katib
Teresa Langford
Tome Karo
Tshiwela Mangani
Amrita Ramanan 
Victoria Mustacchio
Viviana Scotti
Zoe Kim
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