PROGRAM

Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble, in partnership with EAG's Open Stage Grant, presents

16 WINTERS, or THE BEAR’S TALE

Workshop Presentation

Written by Mary Hamilton, Directed by Kea Trevett

CAST

Blair Baker (they/them) is an actor, director, and writer. Theatre: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Center Theatre Group), The Play That Goes Wrong (First National Tour, Off-Broadway), Smart (W.H.A.T.), The Slow Dance (59e59), The Humans (Broadway, Roundabout Theatre Company), Goldie, Max & Milk (59e59), Oleanna (Broadway, Mark Taper Forum, Bristol Riverside Theater), title role in Hvmlet (SheNYC). TV/Film: The Perfect Couple, Before, Bull, Ghosts of Christmas Always (Hallmark) Billions, Blue Bloods, Harlem. www.blairbaker.info

Francesca Fernandez Off-Broadway: Smart (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Jonah, ...what the end will be (Roundabout Theatre u/s), Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre), House of Telescopes (Pipeline Theatre Company), Kenny's Tavern (59E59), Regional: The Heart Sellers (Studio Theatre), Bald Sisters (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (SF Playhouse), Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt 4B (Dorset Theatre Festival), Twelfth Night (Kansas City Rep), Good Person of Szechwan (CalShakes), Lily's Revenge (Southern Rep), Sheddin' (Horizon Theatre), Hotel Plays (Provincetown Players). Just returned from performing in Olympic Hopefuls at the Edinburgh Fringe! TV/Film: Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods. Yale MFA Acting. Francescafm.com @chesfernandez.

Jamie Sanders is an NYC based actor most recently seen in Initiative (The Public/Drama Desk Winner). Other credits include Henry IV/Richard II (TFANA), The Curious Incident... (KC Rep, Portland CS), Rancich (Storyhorse Theater), Misalliance (Stars in the House).

Jason Liebman has worked on stage with companies like Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Atlantic, Ars Nova, Women’s Project, The Lark, Cherry Lane, New Dramatists and Vampire Cowboys. His TV credits include Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Plot Against America, Gossip Girl and others. He has done sketches on Jimmy Kimmel, The Daily Show, Mostly 4 Millennials, Conan and Letterman. Films include Divine Twilights, Third Space, Bi-Parenting, Arranged, Iris and more. Jason has also done voice work on dozens of titles. He earned his Master’s degree from NYU, honors degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario and a health sciences degree from Marianopolis College back home in Montreal.

Tsilala Brock Broadway: Suffs. National Tour: Book of Mormon. Select Regional Theater: Rosalind in As You Like It (Folger Theater, Dir. Timothy Douglas), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Barrington Stage), RENT (Cape Playhouse), Parable of the Sower (SIFA, NYUAD), Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Twelfth Night (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse). TV: "Mysteries of Laura", "Happyish", "Broad City". Carnegie Mellon University Alum. Her first ever musical, Junebug, was commissioned by the Brennan Center for Justice in their inaugural 2025 Democracy Theater Lab. A proud Bermudian-American storyteller. Repped by Saks& and Nicolosi. Find more at www.tsilala.com

Zo Tipp has appeared on Only Murders in the Building, American Horror Story, and Dickinson. Theater: INTAR, Red Bull, Playwrights Horizons, Pan Asian Rep, Cherry Lane, CSC/OSF Play On!, Rattlestick, Breaking the Binary. Workshops: Roundabout, NYTW, Playwrights Realm, Pride Plays... Film screenings at Newfest, Outfest. www.zotipp.com

CREATIVE TEAM

Kea Trevett (Director)(she/her) is a theater artist, filmmaker, and educator. As an actor, her NY stage credits include Roundabout, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Sheen Center, New Georges, The Lark, Page 73, and Cherry Lane. Regional credits include Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival and Hamptons Shakespeare Festival. Kea is an Outfest Screenwriting Fellow, a NYSCA Support for Artists grantee, and a NYFA NYC Women’s Fund recipient. Her film collaborations have screened at Outfest, Newfest, Frameline, the Nevada Women’s Film Festival in Las Vegas, and Atlanta Film Festival. Kea teaches playwriting and Shakespeare for Theatre For A New Audience and Lincoln Center, and Theater & Screenwriting for Sarah Lawrence. She is a founding member of Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble, for whom she directed their mini series adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and their 2025 school tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, produced in collaboration with Red Bull theater. MFA: Columbia University.  www.keatrevett.com

Mariah Hamburg (Stage Manager) is an Oregon native who is thrilled to be working on 16 Winters! She is currently a student at Circle in the Square Theater School in the Professional Musical Theater Workshop. NYC: Little Women (ASM/Beth Cover), Twelfth Night (Puck/Sebastian Cover) Select Regional: A Chorus Line (Swing - Maggie/Judy), The Robber Bridegroom (Airie/Ensemble) at Beck Center for the Arts, Peter/Wendy (Swing - Peter/Wendy) at Dobama Theater, Pippin (Leading Player), Cabaret (Lulu/Asst. Choreographer), and Almost, Maine (Sandrine/Deena). Proud CWRU alumni and IG: @m.ariah.hamburg

Avi Amon (Music Director) is an award-winning, Turkish-American composer and sound artist based in Brooklyn whose work examines themes of collective memory, grief, and being “in-between.” Theater work includes music, songs, & sound design for projects with: Arena Stage, Ars Nova, The Kennedy Center, New York Theater Workshop, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, PAC NYC, Signature Theater, and The Public. Avi’s film music has been featured at Cannes, DOCNYC, HBO, Hulu, SWSX, Tribeca, and the Venice Film Festival. Scores for the documentary film, EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IS YOURS, and the NYTimes Critics’ Pick, WELL, I’LL LET YOU GO, are streaming everywhere. A MacDowell Fellow, Avi has received support from NYSCA, The Shed, the Jonathan Larson Grant, Berkeley Rep, Dramatists Guild, New Music USA, The O’Neill, and The Playwright’s Center, among others. Avi’s newest piece, MOTHER/ROAD, will premiere at The Shed in NYC. Avi is the music director at the 52nd Street Project, and teaches at NYU Tisch.

The Episcopal Actors' Guild (EAG) (est. 1923) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization providing emergency aid, food assistance, and career support to New York City’s professional performers of all faiths, and none, when they are experiencing a crisis. EAG is also dedicated to helping emerging artists advance their careers through scholarships, awards, and performance opportunities.

To qualified performers, EAG can offer assistance for rent, utility, and medical bills; an onsite food pantry; free headshots; a free support group; and EAG’s program aimed at supporting New York City’s theatre companies, the Open Stage space grant.

EAG's Open Stage space grant program is supported by the Teri Black Performance Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS

AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS

SAG-AFTRA

 through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.

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