FAUSTINE

Written, Composed, and Performed by

Lydia Brinkmann and Sarah Norcross

Directed by Michael Ortiz

Produced by Josh Reiter

FAUSTINE

(6/12 7pm, 6/13 9:30pm)

Lydia Brinkmann (writer/performer) (she/her) is a performer, producer, and lighting designer from Cincinnati, OH. She is a resident lighting technician for Frigid Theater New York, Shades Dance Theater, and the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. As a producer and a dramaturg, Lydia specializes in new work development, was the co-founder of the Brooklyn-based producing company The Spade Collective, and is currently developing a New Works Festival with Arthous2B that will premiere . Previous credits include Mixtapes (Shades Dance Theater), St. Lucy, a Musical (Arthouse2B), The Jeweler’s Shop (Arthouse 2B), Homunculous (IRT), SODA (Farmhand Productions), Dealer’s Choice (The Spade), Arranged (Theater 71), and Doom Tank (Under St. Marks). Her work is known for “Disrupting norms…with raw, unbridled passion” (Evil Thespian).

FAUSTINE

(6/13 7pm, 6/14 7pm)

Sarah Norcross is a New York-based composer, performer, and sound designer. She’s known for her work at The Center at West Park (Ulysses Missa), the Polyphone Festival for New Musicals (Lilith and Her Demons), the National Gallery of the Arts (The Girl from Montana), the Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Since They Left), Columbia University (Julius Caesar), Carnegie Mellon University (Caucasian Chalk Circle), Spark Festival (Untitled Mermaid Project), and others. Her work has been called “particularly resonant for these times” (The Broad Street Review), “beautifully eclectic” (Chris Jesu Lee), and “tonally cohesive and very refined” (The Philadelphia Inquirerer).

DIRECTOR

Michael Ortiz (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate theater artist hailing from the state of Florida. He is one of the Co-Artistic Directors of the Brooklyn-based Breaking & Entering Theater Collective and a co-founder of the former Fled Collective. He currently hosts and produces SERIALS, a late-night competition series at The Tank. He is an avid gamer, a lover of all things spooky, and possibly the missing link. To what? We don’t know.

PRODUCER

Josh is a New York-based actor, producer, and director, bringing a multifaceted approach to storytelling. He is a proud graduate of CCM Acting. His performance credits span regional theaters like Saratoga Shakespeare Company, West Coast Jewish Theatre, and the Know Theatre of Cincinnati, as well as on-screen appearances in Peacock’s Saved By The Bell, Nickelodeon’s Warped!, BET’s The Michael Blackson Show, and the upcoming feature Concessions (Mas Bodi).

Driven by a passion for new works development, Josh is actively expanding his producing portfolio. Most recently, Josh produced Ze Follies Doree: ON (Off) BROADWAY at AMT Theater and Blanche in the Asylum featured in Time Out New York. He served as Associate Producer for A Light in Dark Places (LA & Dallas) and Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective (NYC) since 2021, and recently established The Reiter Group LLC, his own producing company. Website: TheReiterGroupNY.com

Special Thanks:

Skip, Karrington, and whole team at the Wave Pool Gallery and Swell Art Cafe for hosting us!

Karen Maruanda, Dalton Deschain, the fantastic Brinkmann family and the wonderful Hough family.

PRESS

  • “A vicious little comedy that will give you whiplash and clap its hands gleefully as it does so”

    Sophia Kressierer

  • "Searing, athletic, darkly personal arias contained within a show about, of all things, the ravages of grad school. "

    Calvin Kasulke

  • "The best new work I saw in 2024"

    Dan Victor