Ludic Proxy

Aya Ogawa (Writer, Performer, Director, Translator) is Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based. Thier work centers women/non-binary perspectives and utilizes the stage as a space for exploring cultural identity and the immigrant experience. They wrote, directed, and performed in The Nosebleed that was at Japan Society (with The Chocolate Factory Theater) in 2021, Lincoln Center Theater in 2022, and upcoming at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 2023. Resident playwright, New Dramatists; President’s Award in Performing Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Chris Henry Off Broadway Servant of Two Masters (Yale Rep), Summer: Bloo The Blue Room (Williamstown); TV: "All My Children Christmas (NYTW); Regional: Romeo and Juliet, Andrew Jackson, On the Razzle, Paradise Now, : Carnegie Mellon, MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator based between Oslo, Norway and New York City.She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree from the Norwegian Theatre Academy (Spring 2022) Her current research has been based in applied permaculture studies, regenerative community/ecosystem formation and adaptation, event curation, and how these can be explored through performance, or how they can inform performance methodologies.

She and her collaborators, Justin Hicks and David Sainte, recently presented the work Shasta Geaux Pop: Blended Therapy, November 2020,as part of The Shed’s Up Close and as a commissioned artist for their Open Call. Shasta Geaux Pop has been presented on The High Line (NYC) with collaborator Charlotte Brathwaite . Shasta Geaux Popwas also presented at Under the Radar Festival 2018, Right About Now Festival in Amsterdam, NL, and in Orange County, CA for the Off Center Festival at the Segerstrom Arts Center. In 2017 we were also at the La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls (WOW) Festival, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Under the Radar Festival (Jan 2017) and at The Bushwick Starr (Sept 2016). 

Some of her acting credits include the Broadway production of Eclipsed at The John Golden Theatre and returned to her role of "The Girl" at The Curran in San Francisco, March 2017. Jordan also performed in both Failure Sandwich and Ludic Proxy, by Aya Ogawa, Home by Geoff Sobelle, This is now, and now, and now, Stairway to Stardom and Harold I Hate You, by cakeface (HERE, Ars Nova & Triskelion), and Platonov: Or the Disinherited by Jay Scheib (The Kitchen). In 2015 she created Come See My Double D's at JACK (NY). She has performed abroad in Amsterdam, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Taiwan, Australia, and Japan. Other projects created and developed by Ayesha include Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Inter 1-to-1, and video project Living Room Dance Breaks.

Jackie Katzman is an actress and writer, known for THE STRANGENESS YOU FEEL (2017), ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD AND FAMILY TREE (2003). She has been married to Bernard White since November 2012.

Yuki Kawahisa is a native of Japan, now based in New York, works internationally as a performing artist. New York Times called her star performance in Andrew Ondrejcak's FEAST (Public Theatre) "dynamite", Temporary Distortion's Amerikana Kamikaze (PS122. Creteil Maison des Arts, Paris, VIA Festival International, Maubeuge, Brisbane Power House.) "simple and brutal as a knife to the throat." Other credits include Robert Wilson's KOOL Dancing in my Mind (Guggenheim Museum, Baryshnikov Ants Center Akademie der Kunste, Berlin), Richard Foreman's Bridge Project.

Megan Stern (Actor) is an actor, creator, and big fan of PlayCo. Her work has been seen at The Public Theater, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, Walkerspace, BAX, and HERE Arts Center, as well as the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, and the Kennedy Center. Her award-winning solo show “Upline: It’s Not a Show, It’s an Opportunity” will have its New York debut in 2023.

Saori Tsukada is a performance artist whose collaborators includes composer/theatre artist John Moran, choreographer Yoshiko Chuma, Catherine Galasso, video artist Katja Loher, playwright/director Aya Ogawa, theater company Hoi Polloi, Witness Relocation, composer Joe Diebes. Aside from her favorite NY downtown venues, she's toured London, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Düsseldorf, Warsaw, Skopje, Bucharest, Istanbul and more. Tsukada was nominated for Best Actress at Dublin Fringe Festival. She is currently developing a silent film performance work called Club Diamond, with filmmaker/theater artist Nikki Appino.

Jian Jung (Set and Costume Designer) is a New York-based set designer from Korea.

Selected theater credits include THE NOSEBLEED at Lincoln Center Claire Tow Theater and Woolly Mammoth Theater (DC), OCEAN FILIBUSTER at A.R.T. (Boston), KISS at Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), BODIES THEY RITUAL at Wild Project, THE DAY YOU BEGIN at Kennedy Center (DC), SUICIDE FOREST at Bushwick Starr and ART/NY, and LUDIC PROXY at Soho Rep and Japan Society. Opera and musical credits include DIE FREISCHUTZ at Wolf Trap Opera (VA), PROMENADE at Fisher Center in Bard, LUCIO SILLA and EZIO at Huntington Theater (Boston), LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at Juilliard, MOSKVA, CHEREOMUSHKI at Long Beach Opera (CA).

Currently, Jung is working on a national tour of THE NOSEBLEED written and directed by Aya Ogawa, continuing their long collaboration from LUDIC PROXY and SUICIDE FOREST.

Other upcoming projects include set design for STAFF MEAL directed by Morgan Green at Playwrights Horizons, set and costume design for THE FOLLOWING EVENING by 600 Highwaymen at PAC NYC’s inaugural season, and costume design for GOOD DAY TO ME NOT TO YOU directed by Lee Sunday Evans.

With a long-standing relationship with Latinx theater, Jung designed set and costumes for Spanish, English, and dual language productions in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, as well as many Latinx theaters in NYC, including the upcoming dual language production ZOETROPE written and directed by Javier Antonio Gonzalez at Abrons Arts Center and University of Puerto Rico.

Jung received an MFA in Theater Design from New York University and an MFA in Environmental Design from Ewha Women’s University in Korea. She teaches at NYU Tisch Design and Sarah Lawrence College. www.jianjung.com

Loren Shaw is a two time Drama Desk Nominated Costume Designer, based in New York City. She is one of the founding members and resident costume designer for Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a socially immersive New York theater collective. Loren's background in fine art and dance has inspired her work, which is known for being bold, imaginative and sometimes truly outrageous. Her primary focus is on new plays and musicals for off-Broadway and regional theaters across the country; however, her career has recently expanded to the world of dance and opera.

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew (Lighting Designer) is an award-winning theatrical designer in lighting and projection for theatre, dance, opera, musicals, music performances, installation, immersive experiences and digital productions. Her designs have been seen across US cities and internationally. As a designer, Jeanette aims to create a visual environment that is organically integrated into the landscape and language of the production. NY Times described her designs as “clever” and “inventive”. With PlayCo, Jeanette designed for Aya Ogawa’s Ludic Proxy.

Michael Kiley is a sound designer, composer, performer and educator working in theatre and dance. He has recently collaborated with Faye Driscoll Group, luciana achugar, The Acting Company, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, Lars Jan, Magda and Chelsea, and Dan Rothenberg. He makes his own work under The Mural and The Mint, which of late has manifested in compositions as iPhone apps that use GPS to trigger sound based on your location.

Anne Erbe is an independent producer and dramaturg based in Brooklyn and New Haven. She is a former Artistic Producer at The Foundry Theatre, where she currently sits on the Board of Directors. With The Foundry, she collaborated on the development and/or production of new works by Carl Hancock Rux, Alice Tuan, Kirk Lynn, Annie Dorsen, Aaron Landsman, and Tarell McCraney, among others. As a dramaturg, she maintains long-term collaborations with director Lear deBessonet, director Charlotte Brathwaite, and playwright/director Aya Ogawa. Anne graduated from David Geffen School of Drama with an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism.