Clae Rountree

Clae Rountree is an actor, poet, and experimental theater maker based in New York City. Raised by his Italian-American side, he is a proudly queer artist from the southern plains of Colorado. Clae has trained in classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and classical Greek theater with One Year Lease Theater Company. He recently received his BA in Drama from Vassar College. Recent performance art credits include (waves) by Audra Wolowiec and AIR by Audra Wolowiec. www.claerountree.com

Covenant Babatunde

Covenant Babatunde (she/her) is a DMV choreographer, dancer, and actor who has presented work at several venues in the East Coast. She’s recently presented work in shows hosted by Glade Dance Collective, Light Switch Dance Theater, Platforms Black Dance Festival, and acted in productions with Synetic Theater, Arts on the Horizons, and Theatre Prometheus. Covenant has a BA in Creative Writing and a minor in Musical Theatre.

Emma Hannah Myers

Emma Hannah Myers is a graduate of McGill University and Brooklyn College’s MFA in acting program. Emma has taught at AMDA, CUNY, Marist and with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She has appeared in Pericles (New York Shakespeare Exchange), This (Proprietors Theater Company), Geppetto Complex (Impossible Bottle Theater Company), The Beacon Fairy Walk and Our Town, Rip Van Winkle and Cyrano (u/s, Roxanne) with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She is thrilled to be performing with HVPAL again after having appeared in Living Closely, Medea and Performing Art 2022 and 2023.

Florence Babatunde

Florence Babatunde is a multifaceted theatre collaborator and an experienced actor, musician, and arts advocate who hails from the Washington, DC area. Florence is delighted to work with Liz & the Hudson Valley community once more. She's been thrilled to reconnect with devising, experimental theater and movement for this project. When not onstage: Florence can found musicking as a multi-instrumentalist/songwriter, being a world-traveler and learning different languages (currently German). Viel Spaß www.florencebabatunde.com

Julia Jean

Julia Jean is a University of Vermont and Atlantic Acting School Alum. Julia’s favorite acting roles include Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Elinor in “Sense and Sensibility”, and the Vermont premiere of “Wharton Between the Sheets” as Posy. Directing credits include “Thank You for Knowing Me”, “A Year with Frog and Toad”, and “Romeo and Juliet” this July. She looks forward to sharing this ensemble's work and would like to thank all involved.

Kate Budney

Kate Budney is an actor and multi hyphenate theater maker based in Brooklyn. Recent credits include We Do The Same Thing Every Week and Katie Laid an Eggy (Attractive Nuisance Theater), The Play That Goes Wrong (Northern Stage), Interstellar Cinderella and Frederick (Long Island Children’s Museum), and One Night (Target Margin Theater). She is also a teaching artist (currently working with Dancing Classrooms NYC), an avid baker, and a cat fosterer. katebudney.com

Katelyn Landis

Katelyn Rose Landis is an event and stills photographer based in Queens, NY. She picked up a camera with serious artistic intent at 14 and it’s been a beautiful constant in her life ever since. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Katelyn began honing her skills capturing live events at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Today, she continues to craft compelling visual stories through her lens, driven by a deep love for documenting authentic moments.

Kiana Duggan-Haas

Kiana is a director, actor, & creative originally from Western NY currently based in New Paltz. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts & Linguistics from SUNY New Paltz. She is a Co-Founder of Ribbit Theatre Company with whom she recently directed The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Some favorite past productions include: As You Like It (Phoebe), Smaller This Year (Director), Pages From a Love Manifesto (Costume Designer), & Sive (Sive). She is delighted to join Liz and this wonderful team for her fourth (?!) Performing Art!

Liz Dahmen

Liz Dahmen is the founding artistic director of the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Laboratory and creator of the Performing Art process. Her book Performing Art: A Guide to Devising in Museums will be released in 2026 and outlines her process for making theater in museums and using visual art to catalyze performance. elizabethdahmen.com

Miller Dauk

Miller is a trans artist exploring the intersections of identity, place, clothing, and movement. Through sculpture and performance, his work challenges gender norms and invites reflection on how we inhabit our bodies and environments. Blending material experimentation with embodied practice, he creates work that questions cultural assumptions and reimagines both self-expression and how we move through social and physical spaces. Miller is based in the Hudson Valley, New York.

Miranda Fishkin

Miranda is an actor, writer, and comedian from NC. She is a rising junior at Vassar College, majoring in film and drama, where she is a member of Big K!dz sketch and Nitrous Oxide improv/stand-up comedy troupes as well as Woodshed Theater Ensemble. Last summer, she studied acting and soundpainting with the Powerhouse Theater Training Company. Recent credits: The Nose Play, Barbecue, The Flick, The Taming of the Shrew, Hurricane Diane.

Nina Sandman

Nina Sandman is a rising senior at Vassar College majoring in Religion. Her Vassar credits include The Last Five Years (Jamie), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Helene), and the Music Department’s Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife). She is also the Music Director for Home Brewed A Capella. Currently, you can probably find Nina somewhere with her friends on Vassar Campus, urging anyone she can to watch ABC’s Lost.

Penny DiLorio

Penny is a local theater artist from the Hudson Valley area. A gradute of SUNY New Paltz with a BA in Theatre Arts, they love any opportunity to create art especially in a collaborative setting. They enjoy performing and pursue local opportunities whilst working in elementary special education. They also enjoy directing and scenic work, world building has always been a joy to them. Their current personal endeavor is an ever evolving play in progress revolving around a family. She is very excited to continue working with Liz through this next performing art!

Roddison

I’m a visual learner who loves to write be it essays poems or stories of my imagination positive ones. Funny things I’m not a lover of reading. I employ my entire imagination when writing therefore I’ve learned to break the rules of writing regarding uppercase and lower-case placement through out my stories. I love television therefore most of what I write I’ve already seen the series in my mind. I also prefer tv series to movies especially for the stories sake.

Stella Lee

Stella Lee is an artist who finds inspiration in food, the body, and everyday rituals. Currently pursuing her MFA in Metal at SUNY New Paltz, she loves slow craft, fast laughs, and discovering beauty in the odd and ordinary.

Uma Incrocci

Uma is an actress and writer. Some of her favorite credits include roles on “Modern Family,” "How To Get Away With Murder,” “Jane The Virgin,” seven seasons at Connecticut Free Shakespeare, and writing the Hallmark Channel movie “Romance with a Twist.” She was born in India, grew up in Italy, and is a graduate of Pomona College.