MEET OUR ARTISTS
Amelia Fowler
Amelia (she/her) is a native of Brooklyn, New York and proud to have been performed on “Law & Order: SVU”, "POSE", “The Many Saints of Newark”, GLAAD award winning play “She Like Girls”, “The Danger: Homage to Strange Fruit” and her one woman show “Flozetta” performed at HERE as part of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival. Amelia has also been seen in commercial spots for ecoATM, Cablevision, the History Channel, as well as comedy venues throughout the U.S. with her fellow cast mates of the improv troupes “Comedy Sportz-New York,” and “Eight is Never Enough.”
Ashley Everhart
Ashley Everhart (she/her) is a comedian, musician, and actor based in NYC. Ashley is on a Betty (formerly Characters Welcome) UCB house team. She performs sketch and character comedy regularly at comedy venues across the city, including Union Hall, Asylum NYC, Gotham Comedy Club, the PIT, the Magnet, Under St. Mark’s, the Tank, and Caveat. Solo hours: ‘Only Time’ (2019), ‘I Will Be Playing All the Parts’ (2023). Ashley is also a cast member on the sketch team Big Apartment, now in its second season. Select festivals: New York Comedy Festival, Coachella Comedy Festival (Finalist), Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, Seattle SketchFest, New York SketchFest, ReelAbilities Festival.
Clara Francesca
Clara (she/they) is an award-winning artist, director, and speech coach hailing from Melbourne and Sicily and proud to have performed on “FBI”, “New Amsterdam” and “Pokémon”. Their work includes avant-garde live immersive productions to commercial video game and voiceovers. She originated the role of Jenny in Manifesting Mrs Marx (Edinburgh Fringe and Global Tour). Clara is a member of NYC’s SITI Company’s Inaugural Conservatory Alumni, co-founder of The Extended Reality Ensemble (XRE) and is a co-creator of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s immersive staging of Kafka’s Metamorphosis 2024.
Siddharth Raj
Siddharth (he/him) is an actor, comedian, and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. He had crazy ambitions of playing professional soccer until an ACL tear at 18 brought him back to earth. Forced to become realistic, he now pursues a career in the performing arts instead. He has studied improv and sketch comedy at schools including UCB and The Groundlings, and is the author of numerous spec scripts for TV and film. His sketch writing made him a semi-finalist at Lit Laughs International Comedy festival. He is also the co-creator of Total Party House, an indie variety show in Brooklyn.
Leo Lion (Host & Game Designer)
Leo (any pronouns) is a theatremaker, teaching artist, and creative producer from Brooklyn, and the founding Artistic Director of The Firebird Project, a multidisciplinary production & arts education company. They also serve as the Associate Artistic Director of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble and head their PlayCoop New Works Incubator, a home for new storytelling forms like ARG and RPG. As a teaching artist, Leo leads workshops in improv, playwriting, and RPG storytelling. Leo’s work is driven by a love of surprise and seeking moments of discovery, both for artists and audiences.
Kathleen (Kit) Dionne
(Stage Manager and Rumor Tech)
Kathleen (she/they) is a theater artist currently residing in Queens and is thrilled to be working with Phoenix Theatre Ensemble in this fantastic production. Kit has also stage managed for the New York Theater Festival (For Theo, 2023). An alumna of NYU Tisch (BFA Dramatic Writing, 2020), Kit is a passionate storyteller, theatermaker, and educator working in the greater New York area.
Thomas Manfred Pflanz
(Co-Designer & Originating Rumor Tech)
Thomas (they/he) is an avid player and facilitator of TTRPGs and a recent graduate of Rutgers University - New Brunswick, where he double majored in Religious Studies and Theater Arts and minored in Archaeology. His prior experience has included work with the following companies: The Firebird Project (Resident Technical Director, Resident Production Stage Manager), Theater of the Apes (Lighting Technician, Stage Manager), and Rutgers's Cabaret Theatre (Producer, Lighting Coordinator). Many thanks to my family, friends, and to my mentor Joanna Lodin. Find me at thomasmp.com or follow me in Instagram @thomasmpflanz