artists
playwright
Christina Masciotti is an American playwright and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her plays have been performed to critical acclaim all over the world. Her productions, No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh (2023) and Raw Bacon from Poland (2017) were New York Times Critic’s Picks and her most recent Canadian premiere was described as “a left-field, deeply human acknowledgement of half-forgotten outsiders punted to the margins of society” (Times Colonist, 2024). Her earlier work, Social Security (2015) and Vision Disturbance (2010) were Time Out New York Critic’s Picks and named Top 10 Shows of their respective years. Her scripts have been selected for preservation in the Permanent Archives of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and her monologues have been anthologized by Smith and Kraus' and Applause Theatre and Cinema’s Best Contemporary Monologues series.
DIRECTOR / DESIGNER
T. Ryder Smith is primarily known as an actor, based in NYC, who has appeared on Broadway (Oslo, War Horse, Equus), and Off-Broadway (world premieres by Richard Foreman, Sarah Ruhl, David Greenspan, Christina Masciotti), in regional theatre, on film and tv, and as a narrator of numerous audiobooks, winning a Drama Desk, an Obie, and an Audie award. He was a guest director for the Conservatory Company at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, directing and designing a dozen productions, including Pains of Youth, Pterodactyls, Fefu and Her Friends, and Shaw’s Quality Street, assistant directed at the Dorset Theatre Festival and the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, co-directed Living in Exile at the New York Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival and directed Cheri Magid’s The Gaba Girl at University of the South, Beckett’s Krapps Last Tape at MCLA, and his own play Measure Back: a rehearsal for the end of war at Dixon Place, NYC.
https://trydersmith.org/
Music
Chai Tamayo has been a recording engineer and sound designer for Bamboo, Lea Salonga, FILharmoniKA, San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra, San Miguel Master Chorale, Sony-BMG, PolyEast Records, Lakeshore Entertainment, and Soundstream Records.
He has directed, engineered, and edited numerous audiobooks for Recorded Books, Brick Shop and VoiceWorks.
He is the lead muscian for the improvisational band an_outskirt.
https://www.an-outskirt.com
