Madeline Sayet is the Resident Director at Amerinda (American Indian Artists) Inc., where she founded the first Native Shakespeare Ensemble. She is a 2016 TED Fellow, a recipient of The White House Champion of Change Award, a Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theatre & a National Arts Strategies’ Creative Community Fellow. Recent directing credits include: The Magic Flute (Glimmerglass), Macbeth (NYC Parks), Daughters of Leda (IRT/Dixon Place), Sliver of a Full Moon (Joe’s Pub/Capitol Building/United Nations/Yale Law),Powwow Highway (HERE), Miss Lead (59e59), The Tempest (Brooklyn Lyceum), Uncommon Women and Others (Connelly Theater). BFA Theater, MA Arts Politics NYU. Currently, Madeline is pursuing her PHD in Shakespeare & Creativity at The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK.

Claire Burke is a Casting Assistant at Tara Rubin Casting where her recent credits include School of Rock on Broadway, A Bronx Tale at the Paper Mill Playhouse & Cymbeline at Yale Repertory Theatre.  Before working in casting, Claire ran front-of-house at Brooklyn Bowl & was a house manager at the Irish Arts Center.  She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2011 & has been working with Maddy on various projects ever since.

Lauren Anunziata’s recent credits include Hotel California (NYNWTF) & I’m Pretty F***ed Up (Clubbed Thumb). Upcoming: Seen by/Everyone (HERE Arts Center). In addition to her work as an actor, Lauren is a Teaching Artist, the Education Assistant at MCC Theater & a company member of The Middle Voice Theater Company. BFA, NYU/Tisch.

Sara Group has been narrowly avoiding existential crises since she graduated from NYU/Tisch in 2014. Post-college credits include: Beware the Ides of Monday at The Cell; all three parts of Henry VI & Richard III with Hamlet Isn’t Dead; My Life Among the Serial Killers & Kerrigan & Lowdermilk’s The Bad Years with The Viewpoints Collective. This past summer, she romped around with MaineStage Shakespeare doing Twelfth Night & Julius Caesar in rep & teaching kids about the Bard. She recognizes the pitfalls of run-on sentences.

Joanne Henry has this year become Mountain Lion & Corn Mother for CRANE: On Earth, In Sky & inhabited the great Lady of Amerinda’s Macbeth Off-Off Broadway and been featured performing native traditional songs at The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice. Joanne’s favorite credits include the National Tour of Camelot with Richard Harris, the West Side Story 30th Anniversary Company, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas (really) & Lions Gate’s Blood Red Earth. Musically, she has been privileged to collaborate & appear with jazz legends Jack DeJohnette, Pete Seeger, Paul Winter, Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble (MCORE) & her amazing jazz-and-journey sextet Spirited, who releases their album Uprising this month.

Marlena Holman is very excited to be working with Madeline again after workshopping Daughters of Leda last year. Some other favorite roles include Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona with the Lake George Theatre Lab &Danni in the Off-Broadway five play cycle, Death and Straight Boys. Marlena has also appeared in numerous web series & short films, most recently Macy’s Butterfly. When she is not acting, she is busy traveling the world, filming for her web series Top Knot Travel. NYU Tisch 2011.

Michael Hinton is happy to be working with Madeline again after playing Ferdinand in her production of The Tempest. Theatrical roles include title roles in Macbeth & Romeo and Juliet; John in Dark of the Moon (Flock Theatre); Edgar in King Lear (Artfarm); & Sir Lucius O’Trigger in The Rivals (Tobacco Factory Theatre, UK). He has appeared in short films & recorded dozens of audiobooks with Tantor Media. He received his MA in Professional Acting from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, UK. He has also trained with Shakespeare and Company & The Upright Citizens Brigade.

Megan Lee is a NYC based actor/producer/Jill of most theatrical trades with a passion for sci-fi & Shakespeare (basically, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars is her dream play). Megan most recently studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, served as the Assistant Artistic Director for the inaugural season of EndTimes Bunker & premiered the role of Kira in Untouched as a part of the first annual Wyoming Theater Festival. Megan was recently seen as Persephone & Clytemnestra in Daughters of Leda (Mad & Merry Theatre) & as Wilma in Waste of Space (EndTimes Productions). In May, she will once again return to Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival to bring young playwrights’ (ages 6-18) visions to life. She is thrilled to be one of the Co-Founders of No-Win Productions (Woyzeck, FJF – part of the New Ohio’s 2014/2015 season).

CJ Leede is excited to return to the stage after taking a year to write her first novel, hike 1,000 miles, & travel around the country. She now lives in Brooklyn with a bearded man & a chihuahua named Chupacabra. Having co-founded a theatre company with Madeline Sayet, appeared in numerous shows with her & under her direction, CJ is thrilled to be able to collaborate again with someone who is so passionate & knowledgeable about her heritage & people & who fully shares CJ’s affinity for (obsession with) Shakespeare.

Rachel Sayet holds a B.S. from Cornell University & an MA in anthropology from Harvard University. Her master’s thesis focused on traditional stories of the Mohegan & Wampanoag tribes. Rachel currently works for the Mohegan Library, organizing events with Native authors, running a weekly story time & promoting indigenous food. She also gives lectures on the culture & history of Native peoples in New England. She is excited to be a part of this production which links theater & Mohegan storytelling.