Meet the I'm So Hot Team
Catherine Weingarten
Creator & Writer
Catherine is a friendly Jewish chick from an obscure area of Pennsylvania! Honors Include: the Scott McPherson Award and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She has previously developed her “girly, trashy” work with Dixon Place, The Tank, Less Than Rent, Sam French OOB Short Play Festival, Last Frontier Theater Conference and has been awarded residencies through Bethany Arts Community and Monson Arts. Catherine has participated in Art House Production’s INKubator Writer’s Group, New Perspective’s Writer’s Group and The Shelter’s Virtual King Lear project. BA: Bennington College MFA: Ohio University
William Steinberger
Creator, Director, Producer, Editor
William is a director and producer. He has directed and developed new plays with Hartford Stage, New York Stage and Film, the Drama League, Berkshire Theatre Group, New Light Theatre Project, the Wilma, InterAct, Theatre Horizon, the American Playwriting Foundation, Passage Theatre, 59E59, The Jewish Plays Project, All For One Theater, and several universities. Will’s recent credits include Joanna Castle Miller’s Inferna (New York Stage and Film), Gina Femia’s meet you at the Galaxy Diner. (New Light & The Tank), Charles Gershman’s Oedipus 2.0.2.0 (All For One f/ Eddie Cooper; 2021 Drama League Award nomination), Gina Stevensen’s Disavowal (New Light), Johnny G. Lloyd’s Or, an Astronaut Play (The Tank & InVersion Theatre, of which Will is a co-founder), and Zizi Majid’s Return to Fall (Columbia University). Will is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and was a finalist for the 2020 National Directors Fellowship. As a producer, he has worked with the Jimmy Awards, The Play Company, Andy Bragen Theatre Projects, and the Jewish Plays Project. WSteinberger.com.
Vivian Belosky
UX Designer, Engineer
Vivian is an actor and user experience designer who's incredibly proud to marry the two disciplines in I'm So Hot. Having trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK, performed on the Globe Stage, and originated roles in several Off West-End musicals, Vivian turned to design as a natural extension of the empathetic practice involved in theatre-making upon returning to the U.S. She graduated from Designlab in 2021 and emphasizes storytelling in her design and acting work alike. You can find her on stage at The Tank in The Great Hunger in September, and her design work online at www.vivianbelosky.design .
Daricel Calcano
Costume Designer
Daricel, AEA, is a native of New York City. She’s an actor, a stage manager, educator and a costume designer. She holds a BA from CUNY/The City College of New York, and an MFA from CUNY/Brooklyn College. Recent theater credits include: That Pretty Pretty, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Crucible, Sweat, The Great Novel, Less Than 50%, Pass Over and Small Mouth Sounds. Love to my family, friends and my pup son, Bennett. @daricellla / daricel.com
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Hunter Canning
Prince
Hunter is a New York based actor, puppeteer, producer and photographer. Select credits include War Horse (Lincoln Center), New Amsterdam (NBC), The Baker & The Beauty (ABC) and Ray Donovan (Showtime). Socials: @huntercanning
Tabatha Gayle
Adine
Tabatha is a black multi-disciplinary creator and performer. As a director, actor, writer, and poet, she has worked with companies and off-broadway theaters such as HERE Arts Center, Musical Theater Factory, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Poetic Theater Productions, Ars Nova (ANT Fest), Prelude Festival, Out of Chaos (UK), The Tank, New York Musical Festival, The Bushwick Starr, New York Theater Workshop, The Resident Acting Company of New York, and Virginia Stage Company. She is a Resident Artist with NLTP.
Alyssa May Gold
Producer, Egle
Alyssa is the founder of Pocket Universe. She was most recently seen in WP Theater/2nd Stage's acclaimed world premiere of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord and will appear in the Broadway premiere of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive at MTC in spring 2022. Her other credits include: Broadway: Arcadia; NY Theater: Juliet + Romeo, Julius Caesar, The Maid’s Tragedy (Pocket Universe), Middle of the Night, Lemon Sky (Keen Company), Brilliant Traces (Art of Warr); Film/TV: Rebel in the Rye, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Taking Woodstock, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and “Law & Order: SVU.” BA: NYU Gallatin. MA: LAMDA. Proud Member: Team SMASHY. @heylyssamay // @universepocket
Carsen Joenk
Sound Designer
Carsen is a director, designer, and Brooklyn-based Chicagoan. She is the co-artistic director of Rat Queen Theatre Company, a resident artist with New Light Theater Project, and a 2020-2022 Roundabout Emerging Directors Group member. Carsen was the 19/20 Wingspace Theatrical Design Directing Mentee, a NAMT 2018 Directing Observer, and a 2018-2019 resident artist at Access Theatre. Select Sound: In the Kitchen (Experiment Bitch Prod.), rail. (Philadelphia Fringe), The Great Novel (NLTP + The Flea), "DADDY" (asst. The New Group), A Bright Room Called Day (assoc. Juilliard), Something for the Fish (CPR), Fiction. (600 Highwaymen). www.carsen-joenk.com
Ricki Lynée
Hermaine
Ricki is an award-winning New York City-born & based actress, writer, and producer. She is the co-owner and Head of Development at Nuanse Entertainment, member of New Light Theater Project and a recipient of the 2021 All Stars Project/Castillo Theater Fellowship for Young Artists of Color. Ricki is a graduate of CUNY Brooklyn College where she received a BA in Theatre. As an advocate for diversity in film, theatre, and media, Ricki seeks to inspire younger artists; trailblazing by creating stories and embodying characters that challenge social norms. She is committed to authoring a body of work that prioritizes inclusivity, bold choices, and craftsmanship. rickilynee.com.
Will Sarratt
Azor
Will is a New York based actor and resident artist with New Light Theater Project. Recent credits include: "Everything is Super Great”, “Omega Kids” (New Light Theater Project); "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Tempest" (Smith Street Stage); "Jessica" (Sanguine Theater Company); "Twelfth Night" (Shakespeare in the Burg); "When I Started Dating Men" (Dixon Place); "The Notebook of Trigorin" (Attic Theater Company/The Flea Theater); and various workshops and readings with The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, The Tank, Loading Dock, Joust, and the 24 Hour Play Company. TV credits: "American Genius", "Jessica Jones". BFA Drama from NYU/Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Schuyler Van Amson
Mesrin
Schuyler Van Amson is a New York born and base actor and graduate of Columbia University where he majored in Theatre with a concentration in Acting. He has been featured in Pocket Universe's workshop and Off-Broadway production of Juliet + Romeo as well as other productions such as Steeplechase at the NY Theatre Festival Summerfest, Tumbleweed at Dixon Place, Blood Orange at the Fresh Fruit Festival and the Downtown Urban Arts festival. Email: schuylervanamson@gmail.com
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Pocket Universe
Co-Producer
Pocket Universe is a New York City based theater and film production company dedicated to reconsidering and reimagining classic stories and conventions founded in 2017 by Alyssa May Gold. Its inaugural production of Julius Caesar set in an all-girls high school was hailed by the NY Times as a “radical take on the tragedy… with the capacity to take women seriously at heart.” Julius Caesar was followed by Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy set in just pre-#metoo Hollywood, a new spin on Romeo & Juliet retitled Juliet + Romeo and focused on a modern teenager reading the play for the first time, and an original rom-com-with-a-twist web series, “You Made it Worse.” In immediate response to the pandemic, Pocket Universe introduced Pocket Universe Survival Club, a Zoom support group of people around the world who have gathered once a week since April 2020 to read, explore, and share stories of survival, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit in the face of disaster. Pocket Universe is a 2021 grantee of the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program).
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@universepocket // pocket-universe.com
The Tank NYC
Co-Producer
Founded in 2003, The Tank is an Obie Award-winning, multi-disciplinary non-profit arts presenter and producer, which provides a home to emerging artists working across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, puppetry, and storytelling. Led by Artistic Director Meghan Finn, Managing Producer Danielle Monica Long King and Director of Artistic Development Johnny G. Lloyd, The Tank champions emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. In doing so the company removes the economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. From the company’s home with two theaters on 36th Street, The Tank serves over 2,500 artists every year, presents over 1,000 performances, and welcomes 36,000 audience members annually. The company fully produces a curated season of 13-18 theatrical World or New York premieres each season. During the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, The Tank has launched CyberTank, a virtual gathering space and programming platform for artists to share work. With weekly themed variety shows, ongoing series and evening-length shows made for the virtual frame, CyberTank has already presented the work of over 4,000 artists in over 500 performances to 20,000 audience members across the country and the world since March 17, 2020.
Recent Tank-produced work includes The New York Times Critics' Picks Taxilandia by Flako Jimenez (2021), OPEN by Crystal Skillman, directed by Jessi D. Hill (2019); Red Emma & The Mad Monk by Alexis Roblan, directed by Katie Lindsay (2018); and The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman, directed by Meghan Finn (2016), as well as Drama Desk Award-nominated productions The Hunger Artist (2018), The Paper Hat Game (2017), the ephemera trilogy (2017), Ada/Ava (2016) and youarenowhere (2016).
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