Yuchen Zhou is a performer from Beijing, China who is fluent in both English and Mandarin. His recent credits at Vassar's Drama Department include "Skin", "Fury", "Mad Forest" and "Mosquitoes". Classically trained, he is also seen as Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" and Malcolm in "Macbeth" at the Prague Shakespeare Company. Most importantly, he loves acting!

Majoring Drama at Vassar College with Asian studies and Economics correlate. Primarily stage manager and director with an interest in sound design. Based in China and the United States. Always excited to meet new people and wants to participate in everything!

Alexandra is a drama major at Vassar College. Previous theater credits include Skin (Vassar College) and Antigone (One Year Lease). Previous film credits include White Noise (2022) and In Passing (2021).

Emily graduated from SUNY Orange in 2010 and Cedarville University in 2012, studying English and Theater. She co-founded Dykeman Donovan Theater Lab in 2015, producing and acting in “Requiem,” which earned a grant from the Orange County Arts Council in 2016, and “The Bear,” which was featured in the Newburgh Illuminated Festival in 2017. She has worked with Hudson Valley Performing Arts Laboratory since 2018--wearing many hats, including performer, lighting designer, and script writer.

Kate grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, but has called the Hudson Valley home for many years. She wants to spend her life putting more beauty and more silliness out into the world, and she loves that Performing Art does both. When she’s not doing devised theater (which is actually most of the time), Kate works in a kitchen, helps run the Peace Education Center of the Hudson Valley, and goes dancing with her friends as often as she can.

Lex is a Queer theater-maker and interdisciplinary artist working in the realms of music, film, comedy, and live performance. Their work has been performed at the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, Spring/Break Art Show, Provincetown Playhouse, Dixon Place, BAX Arts Exchange, Salvage Vanguard Theater, and more. Powell aims to make work that is multidisciplinary, accessible, inclusive, and relevant to current social issues through arts-based research methods and embodied ensemble devisement.

Penny is a young theatre artist from the Hudson Valley area. She joined this project as a means of returning to performing and creating new works. They graduated in 2022 from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in Theatre Arts, focus in Performance, as well as a Creative Writing minor. They have dabbled in many aspects of production from painting/building shows like "She Kills Monsters" in the New Paltz shop, or wearing many creative hats such as in the New Pages Showcase; which they were featured separately as both a writer and director. She has previously performed as a competitive dancer trained in a variety of styles. They thrive on the collaborative process that comes from this type of performance and cherish the opportunity to work on this project.

Stefanie Ibáñez was a Technical Associate at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre in Los Angeles for over a decade, producing Gene Casey's THEATERSONGS and the world premieres of Phil Olson's A DON'T HUG ME CHRISTMAS CAROL and A DON'T HUG ME COUNTY FAIR. She originated the roles of X in Flint Esquerra's XOXO, Stacy in Kit Paraventi's WHITE TAILS, and Sally in Duke Howard's ORANGES & MARMALADE. This is Stefanie's second acting collaboration with HVPAL, her first being. "Diplomat" Medea in MEDEA 2019. 

William is an interdisciplinary artist from scenic Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. He has a film CTE diploma from the High School of Art and Design and is currently a senior at SUNY New Paltz majoring in Theatre Arts and minoring in Creative Writing (Class of 2024). In 2018, he was a playwright in residence at Roundabout Theatre Company's Youth Ensemble and a first-place recipient of ABC/Disney's Get Reel With Your Dreams PSA film competition award. His plays include: Smaller This Year, Nihilist Walks Into A Multinational Retail Corporation, Paralysis in Perpetuum, and Giant Hat.
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Alina is a performer and writer who is currently studying Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz. She is a Performance Concentration and recently performed in the campus’ production of Hooded. Her end goal is to devise theatre and perform at a professional level.

Emma Hannah Myers is a graduate of McGill University and Brooklyn College’s MFA in acting program. Emma has taught at AMDA, CUNY, Marist and with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She has appeared in Pericles (New York Shakespeare Exchange), This (Proprietors Theater Company), Geppetto Complex (Impossible Bottle Theater Company), The Beacon Fairy Walk and Our Town, Rip Van Winkle and Cyrano (u/s, Roxanne) with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She is thrilled to be performing with HVPAL again after having appeared in Living Closely, Medea and Performing Art 2022.