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LENA BARSKY is a Brooklyn-based writer, clarinetist, and lapsed Classicist who loves feminist rants, round challot, fanfiction, therapy, and sea otters. As a writer, her work consists mainly of cultural commentary, political explainers, and personal essays in a monthly TinyLetter, CAPS LOCK; as a clarinetist, she performs with Brooklyn’s Grand Street Community Band and was taught by Dr. Brian Jones in Arlington, VA and Karen Heninger M.Mus. in Providence, RI. She took a masterclass with Anat Cohen once and almost died of enthusiasm. Lena is a graduate of Brown University and her work can be found at www.lenabarsky.com.
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JORDI COATS is a New York based producer and director. Most recently, she acted as the technical director for The Performing Arts Project. Other credits include: Producer of "EverScape" FringeNYC 2015, Associate Producer of the award-winning "Mother Jones and the Children's Crusade" NYMF 2014, Asst. Directed and Associate Produced "Volleygirls" at NYMF in 2013 (Best of Fest), IAMA Theatre Co's "Shiner" (asst. director) and has been collaborating on many film projects in the city. Previously she has worked with Binder Casting, Tara Rubin Casting, and Telsey + Company casting. She is a graduate of the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While in NC, she founded The Talent Company, a theatre company for middle and high school students in the Uwharrie region that is currently in its 10th season.
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EMMA LOU DELANEY is a California-born, New York-based, artist of many forms. As an actor, her favorite credits are Nickel Mines at the New York Musical Festival, and Me+You Productions’ politically re-imagined Spring Awakening (Ilse) in Hollywood, for which all proceeds benefited Everytown For Gun Safety. As a creative, she has worked as assistant/associate director/choreographer from Carnegie Hall to Key West, Florida for artists like Andrew Palermo, Ted Sperling, Travis Kendrick and Brian Blythe. As a visual artist, she has no formal training, but has always found solace in pen, paper and paintbrush, often sketching on physics homework, rehearsal notes, and dinner napkins, and she is very excited (well, excited and scared) to share some of her work with you! Emma earned a BFA in Music Theatre with a minor in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2016. Follow her @emma_lou_delaney or @emmalouarts on instagram!
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ASHLEY GUNSTEENS is a Brooklyn-based designer and theater director with a penchant for movement and ensemble-based work. She focuses on culturally relevant new works with an appeal to magical realism within minimalist spaces, and feels strongly about creating pieces that are accessible to all audiences, specifically traditional ‘non-theater-goers.’ Recent dir. credits: A Charlie Brown Christmas (Secret Theatre), Pussyfest (Caps Lock Theater/Red Caravan Reading Series), EverScape (NY Fringe/World Premiere), Romantic Fools (AlphaNYC), What Every Girl Should Know (NY Fringe), How I Learned to Drive (Lab! Theater). Ashley is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and by day works as a calligrapher, designer and event coordinator. ashleygunsteens.com
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TIM HELLER is a man who wears many hats in New York City. His favorite is that which makes him look like an actor. Tim has performed at Texas Shakespeare Festival, NYCFringe, Red Mountain Theatre Company, and spent 7 months touring South Korea in Jekyll and Hyde. Most recently he has taken a foray into the magical world of voice acting and has done voice work for TV, radio, educational videos, business demos, audio books, and video games. Tim loves beer, cheese, and his ginger wife. BFA Musical Theatre Texas State University.
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NATALIE LEVY is primarily a lover and patron of the arts. The photographs displayed here are from a film photography class taken at the University of Chicago, which involved capturing motion through long exposures (see black frame) and a final project that rejected the university's emphasis on theory* by creating an inscrutable, abstract aesthetic (see silver frame). Natalie has also worked with oils, charcoal, and a variety of other traditional media.
*One of the school's informal slogans, aside from the cheery, "Where fun comes to die" and "Hell does freeze over," was, "That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?" |
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MEGHAN MODAFERRI is a DC-based writer, multimedia producer, and instructional designer. She likes to do things that scare her, so In 2017 she set a goal to perform stand-up comedy for the first time. In 2018, the goal leveled up to once per month. Lately, she's been performing every week. She's truly hopeless at doing anything halfway. Meghan's other work has been published with National Geographic, Slate, North Carolina Public Radio, and in various literary magazines. She loves facilitating writing workshops and retreats, and is currently at work on her first novel.
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PAJAMA TAMMY (Christine Barringer) is grateful to be included in this final installment of the Salon. A seamstress and costume technician from North Carolina, she has been working in NYC in various theaters since Jan 2017. An adoration of all things vintage and burlesque, she is excited to have a space to discover and explore some of those passions. ig:@pajamatammy
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ZACK ZAROMATIDIS was born and raised on Long Island, New York. He grew up with a family full of music lovers, and he started singing when he was 4, with hopes that he would become the next Backstreet Boy. He got the theater bug years later, when he played Tevye in his middle school production of Fiddler on The Roof at the age of 11. After years of playing old men in school plays, Zack decided to move to New York City and pursue a B.F.A. in Musical Theater at Pace University, where he recently graduated. Some of Zack’s favorite hobbies include playing guitar in his band (or at home, where he frustrates himself learning every Stevie Ray Vaughan song), writing music, exercising, reading comics or binging his favorite TV show, Game of Thrones (House Stark, incase you’re curious)
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