THE TEAM
Romy Nordlinger (Actor/Playwright)
Romy is an NYC based Actor/Playwright and Audiobook Narrator
As an actor some TV roles include Guest and Costarring roles on Bull, Manifest, FBI, Law & Order (Officer Talbor) and numerous independent films including the soon to be released feature The Good Egg as Agent Farrow. Her acclaimed solo show PLACES (now Garden Of Alla) based on the life of trailblazing Broadway and Silent Film star Alla Nazimova, recently played at The Kennedy Center as well as 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, Jerry Orbach Theatre Center, HERE Theater, The Jewish Museum, The Players Club, Dixon Place. Some Off-Broadway credits include Ginger in Lancelot by Steven Fechter (The Woodsman) at Judson Gym, Shakespeare's Slave at the Clurman and Caligula at The Kirk Theatre Row. Regionally she's performed at Actors Theatre Of Lousiville, Wilma, & Shubert amongst many others. Amongst other plays by Romy: The Feeling Part (Jimmy’s No.43/Playwrighting Collective, and live streamed internationally by LoNyLa), Sex & Sealing Wax (Estrogenious Festival, MITF), Broadville (Source Theatre, Clurman Theatre), Lipshtick (New York International Fringe Festival/Dixon Place). She livestreamed her newest work Amazing Grace and NYSeeing2020 at Nuyorican Poets Café. As an award winning bestselling Audiobook Narrator Romy has recorded over 350 titles and going strong. As a theatre teaching artist she has used theatre as a learning tool to teach literacy and self-awareness to underserved communities in every borough of Manhattan for the past 15 years. Member of the Dramatists Guild, League Of Professional Theatre Women, NY Madness, Resonance Theatre Ensemble, Flux and The Playwrights Gallery.
Lorca Peress (Director)
Lorca Peress is a director, writer, and Founding Artistic Director of MultiStages, a multidisciplinary, multicultural theatre company that discovers, develops, and produces socially impactful new works that embrace a fusion of art forms, races and cultures. Upcoming: SPEAKOUT: Protest Plays and More, a MultiStages festival she created premiering online late Spring. Selected Credits: Black Girl You’ve Been Gentrified (one-woman show at Joe’s Pub/Public Theatre); 24-hour play festivals at the Public, Lucille Lortel, and Signature Theatres; Off Broadway: director, producer and co-book writer for the Puerto Rican/Taino musical Temple of the Souls (2017 NYMF Next Link Project/Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row; NYIT Nominations; HOLA Zaldivar Award for outstanding production); numerous Off-Off Broadway premieres with multimedia, and several opera premieres. Other Awards: La Mama Inky Award, Institute of Puerto Rico Extraordinary Award, Taino Areito Award in Drama; LMCC/DCA Creative Engagement Grants and Manhattan Community Arts Funds, National Opera Assoc. Directing Prizes, et al. A founding member of the Creative Network for the NY Regional Office of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, and AEA, SDC; NTC, LPTW (former co-president), and SAG-AFTRA member. She is also a performer, visual artist (scenic/mask design), and graduate of Bennington College (BA in Drama), NTI, and the Strasberg Institute. Faculty: NYU Tisch Strasberg Studio; Strasberg.
Nick T Moore (Composer, Sound Designer & Pianist)
Nick is a 7 time award nominated theatre and film composer and sound designer, with almost 20 years experience creating magic for audiences in NYC. Nick’s work includes, Off-Broadway: The Drawer (IT nominee, best sound) - SoHo Playhouse/Oberon Theater Ensemble; Expatriate - Culture Project; Summer Shorts 14’/15/16’’ - 59E59 & Throughline Artists; Crazy For The Dog - Jean Cocteau Rep., Defenses Of Prague - La Mama; Embraceable Me - (NY) Rachel Reiner Productions/(NC) Blumenthal PAC, Broke Wide Open - Samah Productions, Off-off-b-way: 18 Resonance Ensemble productions, including 23 Knives (IT nominee, best sound/music); 7 Oberon Theater Ensemble productions including Keep On Truckin' It's War (MITF nominee outstanding sound), The Woodsman & Christopher Boal’s Pimm's Mission; Peace (IT nominee, best Musical) - MCTC; Monster Literature Epsiodes 1-5 – Brooklyn Lyceum, Summoner's Tale - Hook and Eye Theater Company; Film includes: Being Reel, (Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Contest winner), The Ticket Seller, Writer/Director Laura Archer - NewFilmakers New York/ DAMNFest/ WAMMFest/ Powfest; Dance: Illuminate– Equilateral Theater Company, Oit Of Water – The Turner Project; Member: Dramatists Guild; Resonance Ensemble; Roundabout.
Adam Jesse Burns (Video & Graphic Design)
Adam’s artwork, films, screenplays and theater video designs have been shown internationally, including the Big Apple Film Festival, the New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, The Brain (now defunct, West End, London) and Tribeca Cinemas. Shows include Lipshtick, Broadville, Sex & Sealing Wax, and now Garden of Alla. Adam brings a lifelong fascination with the 1920’s to the show’s visuals. Besides working as a designer and animator, Adam is also a novelist. He lived on Greyhound buses for a year writing his first novel In Like Flynn, and adapted his second, The House Made of Wheels to a feature screenplay. Adam just finished writing his third novel, The Last Underground, a dystopian sci-fi about empathy, and humanity’s urgent need to evolve. Nonbinary, (he/him).
David Wayne Fox (Photographer)
In addition to photography, David wears many other hats, including that of optician (“helping people see things my way”). He is the composer for the 2010 off-off-Broadway production of Rhoda Heartbreak starring “Drag Race” alum Mimi Imfurst. In the acting world, he played a snarky blogger in the indie feature Invisible Ink (2015) and can be seen in numerous other movies and TV shows. He also paints in acrylics, specializing in portraits, pet portraits and landscapes. Many thanks to Romy and Adam for the opportunity of helping to tell Nazzy's amazing tale!