Julia Carrigan is a filmmaker and mathematician who really loves God. She spends her time asking honest questions, staring at google calendar, and trying her best to follow the example of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.
Lily Abha Cratsley is ... a playwright now! She has been performing since she was born and is passionate about art, activism, and art as activism. Her identity as a second-generation Indian American is near and dear to heart, which she explores in her play ABCD.
Jaiyenan English '24 is a Music major from Illinois. Drown With Me, their first play, celebrates water, love, and generational mistakes.
Sophie Steinberg is a junior from Brooklyn, New York. She is a writer, sometimes journalist, sometimes bike mechanic and sometimes Economics major. This is her first play and it is dedicated to all of her best friends, her hometown of NYC, and all of the bakeries in Carroll Gardens.
Mint Zekoll is a senior Theater and Cognitive Science double major, Neuroscience minor from all over the world, but mostly Germany. They are an actor, writer, dancer, and a triple water sign, so naturally, expect some exhaustingly intense emotional material!
This is Braedon's second year producing the New Play Festival! Braedon Hatt is a Senior from Worcester, MA, majoring in English with a minor in Theater. Braedon is excited about joining the creative and technical elements of new play development. He can't wait for members of the Occidental community and beyond to enjoy the pieces from our student playwrights this year.
Stephi Howard (she/they) is a Senior Critical Theory major, Theater minor hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. Most recently, she helped assistant directed the Occidental College Theater department devised Zoom show, Trope: Fear is the Villain. She is very excited to help produce the New Play Festival this semester!
Support for the New Works Festival provided in part by Omar's Cookie Jar.