TEAM
Lauren O’Brien
(Writer/Performer)
(Writer/Performer) has performed regionally in To Kill a Mockingbird (Mayella), Angels in America (Harper), A Wrinkle in Time (Mrs. Whatsit), and The Odyssey (Athena), among others. She was also a founding member of director Polina Klimovitskaya’s avant-garde theatre troupe, Terra Incognita, where she co-developed the original work Ophelia Tapestry. Lauren credits Ms. Klimovitskaya for teaching her a “psycho-physical” approach to creativity. Lauren began her foray into music as a lyricist for producer Marc Godwin and singer Janice Robinson. She later recorded her own rock/poetry albums, Inconsequential Dream and Panic, as well as a punk-cabaret album, The Devil’s Girlfriend (which she expanded into a theatrical show and toured throughout Germany). Lauren has toured extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe, and has performed as part of CMJ, Howl Fest, MEANY Fest, and more. She is a two-time recipient of New Century Music Awards. Her first solo show, Jaxx & Lolo, won the Audience Choice Award and the Excellence in Multi-Media Award at the New York City Frigid Festival in 2020. Her solo show, Lolo’s Boyfriend Show, won the Audience Choice Award at the New York City Fringe Festival in 2024.
Christine Bokhour
(Director/Development)
(Director/Development) After a successful career as a singer/dancer/actress on Broadway (Chicago, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), national tours (Cats, Chicago, Sunset Boulevard) and as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, Christine has moved on to choreograph and direct over 25 plays and musicals in the past decade. She won Best Director in Aerie Theatre’s 2019 One Act Play Festival, and directed Lolo’s Boyfriend Show which garnered the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival’s Audience Choice Award for Best Show. At the Philipstown Depot Theatre she has directed Tony nominee Sally Mayes in The Cake, Guiding Light’s Liz Keifer in Nunsense and Broadway’s Randy Donaldson in The Full Monty. She is currently developing and directing The Scream, a new musical comedy fantasy by an award-winning BMI team, with recent readings at MTC and Westport Country Playhouse. Christine has appeared in numerous regional productions across the country and has herself worked as an actress on two one-woman pieces: Penelope at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival 2023, and Beckett’s Happy Days at the Philipstown Depot Theatre. Christine is a licensed acupuncturist practicing in the Hudson Valley.
Matt Hoverman
(Development)
is a TV writer and playwright whose groundbreaking work in kid’s animation (Arthur, Curious George, Fancy Nancy, Sofia the First, Firebuds) has been recognized with an Emmy, the Humanitas Prize, the Sentinel Award and more. His farcical comedies for the theatre (Puck’d: A Middle-Aged Summer Night’s Dream, The Glint, Who You See Here, Thrillsville, In Transit and Christmas Shorts) have been produced by the La Jolla Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, and others, and have been nominated for a Drama Desk Award and won the FringeNYC Best Playwriting Award and the Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival. As a teacher, Matt has midwived hundreds of solo shows in his popular GO-SOLO workshops – including winners of five FringeNYC Best Solo Show Awards, a United Solo Best Autobiographical Script Award, a Midtown Int’l Theatre Festival Best Solo Show Award. GO-SOLO.org.
Lianne Arnold
(Projection Designer/Set Designer)
is a video & scenic designer and inter-disciplinary artist working in performance, film & installation. Lianne previously designed projections with Lauren O’Brien on Jaxx & Lolo, just before the world shut down. Other recent work: Closing Ceremonies [installation | Chapel St. Catherine, Auvillar, France], Día Y Noche [Labyrinth Theater], Houses of Zodiac [The Broad Museum], Fidelio [Austin Opera], Lil Buck & Jon Boogz’ Love Heals All Wounds [featured in Netflix’s MOVE], The Lady and the Dale [HBO], The Hello Girls [Prospect Theater], Let Me Die [Opera Philadelphia], Train With No Midnight [Prototype Festival]. Lianne teaches Creative Technologies at The New School and is a member of Wingspace Design Collective. MFA – CalArts. www.liannearnold.com
Cam Dasher
(Sound Design)
is 23 year old Producer, Vocalist, Sound Designer, Composer, and Engineer based in Brooklyn, New York. Cam has worked on many projects in many different forms such as executive production on “variations in green” by Mars Storm Rucker, personal projects such as their debut album “ОНИ – M0RPH” and their musical duo Undrfloor. Cam has also sound designed Off-Broadway and composed for both theatrical and filmic productions. They are deeply interested in exploring the intersection between the experimental and the accessible and meshing the history of electronic music with its present and future.