Laura Bernas is a 25-year-old actor & director. An intellectually curious, creative goofball, Laura is a renaissance woman working in multiple creative fields. Seeking out collaborators with a focus on developing devised/physical theater, Laura brings with her a belief that as artists, we posses the ability to access unlimited creative resources within ourselves and our work with others, in order to expand the narratives told on stage and the devices used in their creation. Laura works to delve deeper into the collective imagination.

Sarah Edkins is a dual-national from the UK. She received a degree in Fine Art from Falmouth School of Art (Cornwall) and received her M.F.A degree in Theater Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. A recipient of the NEA Designers Fellowship, she has primarily worked with experimental theater companies in venues such as The Ohio Theater, The Kitchen, La Mama and Here. Her design work has also taken her to London, Greece and San Francisco. She’s the in-house designer for The Children’s Chinese Book Garden. With The Anthropologists: MAHALLA.

Mariah Freda holds an M.F.A. from the New School for Drama. Selected credits: Atalanta K.O. (Atalanta), The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man- in-the-Moon Marigolds (Nanny), Henry VI (Bolingbrooke), and Uncle Vanya (Yelena). She most recently performed with Target Margin Theater in The Stein Lab. Her play Little Piece of You premiered at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival; her solo show, Jesus H: a solo show for the zealot in all of us, appeared in the 2014 Hollywood Fringe. A Resident Actor with The Anthropologists, she’s appeared in MAHALLA, The Blackout & The Lecture.

Jean Goto is a half Japanese, half Caucasian native New Yorker who is passionate about yoga, the planet, and most of all, acting. A trained fencer, Jean is a skilled physical storyteller. She is also a founding artist of The Anthropologists. Acting highlights include Half Moon Bay (Nylon Fusion/New OHIO Theater), Give Us Bread (The Anthropologists), Another Place (The Anthropologists) & The House of Fitzcaralldo (Buran Theater Company). TV/Film: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Ghost Source Zero (Planet Nerd Rage Productions), Hittin’ Thirty (Lighthearted Films), Night Shift (KOTA Productions), The Cabin (Zeitgerber Productions) & Sunday Dinner (NYU).

Roy Koshy is an actor, comedian, writer, and teaching artist based in New York City. Currently, Roy is an actor and teaching artist with Story Pirates and the New York City Children’s Theater. He has studied and performed improvisation at both the Magnet Theater and the People’s Improv Theater in New York and the Annoyance Theater in Chicago. Roy is also a graduate of the M.A. Applied Theater Program at CUNY SPS, and currently works as a teaching artist with Opening Act. Most recently, Roy has acted in web videos for adultswim.com, and Fast Company.

Malini Singh McDonald is a native New Yorker who has been involved in the arts for her entire life. She received her BA in Theatre Arts and English Literature from Baruch College and her MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School. As a producer in the independent theatre scene, Malini mastered the skills of marketing and producing her work in an ever-growing and ever-changing theatre scene. Favorite projects include Torch Song Trilogy, Moose Murders, Twelfth Night, Pieces, Down the Road, Naught Prep School Stories (FringeNYC), Shakespeare on Wine (Hamptons) and the Broadway revival of Godspell.

Melissa Moschitto is the Founding Artistic Director of The Anthropologists. Directing highlights include MAHALLA (Jewish Plays Project, 2013 Berkshire Fringe), Another Place (HERE), For the Love Of… (The Flamboyan/CSV), Give Us Bread (Milagro Theatre/CSV), Falling (4th Street Theatre/Flux Theatre Ensemble) and The Columbus Project (KNF/Directors Company). Additional directing credits include Daddy’s Black & Jewish by performance artist Lian Amaris (Nuyorican Poets Cafe), The Developer (Brooklyn Playwrights Collective) and Lola Got Bite (Gene Frankel). She holds a B.A. in Theater from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a mom to two dramatic little girls.

Lynde Rosario is an accomplished Dramaturg and Literary Associate with national and international theatre experience working with a range of production companies from up-and-coming troupes to established theatre organizations. She is currently working as Dramaturg with Letter of Marque

Theater Company and is the Co-Producer / Literary Manager of Lady Plays Podcast. She received her M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

Justin Stasiw Previously with The Anthropologists: Another Place (HERE Arts Center). Off-Broadway: Songbird (59e59). Regional: Josephine (Asolo), How to Succeed in Business… (5th Av.), Paint Your Wagon (5th Av.), Jasper in Deadland (5th Av.), A Christmas Story (5th Av.), Ghost (Atlantis Manila), Sweeney Todd (Casa Mañana). Broadway (As Associate): Something Rotten, Side Show (Drama Desk Nom.), It’s Only a Play. Broadway (As Assistant): Casa Valentina, Outside Mullingar. Broadway (As Engineer): Jekyll and Hyde, Hedwig and the Angry Itch (Sub.)

Carl Vorwerk has trained in theatre both in the US (Douglas Anderson School of the Arts) and the UK (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts). He’s currently the Managing Director of Sell A Door Theatre Company’s US office and works as a freelance lighting designer, company manager, and movement director. Notable credits include Spring Awakening (First UK Tour), A Taste of Honey, Dracula (UK Tour), The Philanderer, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Blue/Orange, By Order of Ignorance, Proof (Greenwich Playhouse), Six Ways, Falsettoland, The Railway Children (Edinburgh Fringe), Gorey (4th Street Theatre) & Venus In Fur (Players by the Sea).

Sam T. West is an Actor and Teaching Artist in Brooklyn, NY. Sam has performed in a number of productions with the award winning Bushwick Starr Theater including: Rocky Philly, Gunga Din, Target Margin’s Futurist Lab Festival (Karma Karms) and the Big Green Theater Festival (partnered with Superhero Clubhouse). He also had the pleasure of working with Target Margin’s David Herskovitz on the The Inn, a classic Yiddish drama. Sam teaches puppetry in NY public schools to approximately 491 students (last time he counted). He lives in the BK with his wife Dr. West and their son Luke.