Creative Team
KIRSTEN SWEENEY
Director
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Kirsten is thrilled to be returning to the sea after directing a developmental presentation of this play at Dixon Place in September 2018. She has previously directed Fiona's play Our House at NYU Gallatin and is so excited to bring her creative dream team back together. Kirsten's other directing credits include Kept in the Dark at The Players Theater, Pippin and Spring Awakening at Pied Piper Youth Theater, and the upcoming 2040 Broadway revival of "Fun Home" (unconfirmed, but she hopes that if she says it enough times someone's gonna have to let her do it).
FIONA GORRY-HINES​
Playwright
Fiona Gorry-Hines is a playwright and theatre artist. She is the author of several full-length and short plays including Of the Sea (Access Theatre, Dixon Place), Our House (Gallatin Theatre Troupe), Helena's Bird (Acorn Theatre, Emerging Artists Theatre), and Bruised (Midtown International Theatre Festival. She is an alumnus of NYU's Gallatin School for Individualized Study (BA '18) and of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. She will begin her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University this fall. For more information on her plays, poetry, projects, and more check out fionagorryhines.com. For pictures of her cats follow @cries_at_parties on Instagram.
ALEX CADENA
Producer
Alexandra Cadena is a graduate of Yale University and has worked extensively as a producer/manager in the theatre with the Yale School of Drama's Cabaret Theatre. Her work as a theatre producer includes the New York International Fringe Festival, Corkscrew Theatre Festival, The 24 Hour Plays, #HealMeToo Festival and more. She has vast experience in film and her production company, AC Pictures, has several awarded winning shorts that have premiered at the Next International Film Festival, Worldfest-Houston, and SENE film festivals. Upcoming producer work: White Flags (film), Sirenas (film), Byzantine Choral Project (Archive Residency), Anna May Wong, The Actress Who Died a Thousand Deaths (SUITE/SPACE-Mabou Mines), A Dolls’ House: A New Opera in NYC in 2019.
LEAH MILLER
Stage Manager
Léah (pronounced like Princess General Organa) is over the moon to be creating theatre magic with Kirsten and Fiona again. Léah is a technical collaborator with the New York Neo-Futurists. They runlights and sound for the Neo-Futurist's downtown experimental abstract show, The Infinite Wrench at the Kraine Theatre. They recently graduated from NYU Gallatin in May 2018 with a concentration in queer theory and language. When they’re not climbing into a lighting booth, you can find them hosting a podcast about queer aesthetics called Looking/Feeling/Queering, stage managing productions in NY and LA, at venues like Dixon Place and Target Margin Theater, and mentoring teens
at a summer camp in TN.
KERRY CANDELORO
Dialect Coach
Kerry Candeloro is a graduate of NYU Gallatin, where she developed the concentration “Vocal Transformations: Speech as Identity in Theatre and Society.” She attended the VASTA Conference in Singapore as the Early Career Voice Practitioner Scholarship Recipient. Currently, Kerry is a freelance dialect/voice coach working around the city. Credits include Of the Sea (Dixon Place), The Hello Girls (Prospect Theater Company), and various MFA Dramaturgy showcases at Columbia University. She is also professionally affiliated with New York Theatre Workshop and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Sometimes, Kerry even sleeps.
ABBY AUSTIN
Costume & Props Designer
Abby is a designer based in Brooklyn and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has production and costume designed numerous films and commercials as well as produced and directed her own stop motion shorts. She is excited to costume life-sized, living people instead of the puppets she usually works with. When she isn’t working, Abby can be found playing bass with her band Human People or re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her interests include puzzles, the ocean, and peanut butter.
ANDREW GOEHRING
Composer
Andrew Goehring is an actor and composer who recently graduated from Gallatin at NYU. He has written incidental music for The Brides of Atreus, an experimental workshop of two ancient Greek tragedies (Gallatin Arts Festival), and Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark (Sacred Heart University). He has provided musical scores for short films A Ray of Sunshine (directed by Camille Aubriot), Wool (directed by Kathleen Gleeson), Fan (directed by Helen Rumei Li), and Wilted (directed by Lotty Vigue), and served as the music director for Gallatin's fall 2018 production of Mr. Burns (by Anne Washburn and Michael Friedman). He eats meat pies, noodles on the piano, and plays too much D&D.
ANTHONY DEAN
Lighting Designer
Anthony Dean is a theater designer and sound artist based in New York. His work takes a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to performance, hoping to create a more detailed and inclusive art. Anthony’s sound work can be heard in theater, film, radio/podcasts, art installations, and music ensembles. Anthony is the technical director for The New York Neo-Futurists and the technical manager for The Tank. Anthony is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he now works as a visiting sound designer. For more on Anthony, visit anthonydean.org
CAROLINE ENG
Sound Designer
Caroline is a New York-based theatrical sound designer and engineer, originally from Winchester, MA. She is primarily a designer and assistant designer for plays on off- and off-off-Broadway, with the occasional musical or dance show. Caroline graduated from Fordham College at Lincoln Center with a BA in English and Theatre.​ Caroline is the proud mother of a black cat named Nosferatu and a lover of doodling.