Chava

TOMMY DORFMAN (Chava) is an accomplished actress, writer, director, and producer whose work spans film, television, and theater. Best known for her breakout role in the hit Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” Dorfman has since gone on to build a dynamic career, while consistently shining a light on her experiences as a trans woman in Hollywood. 

Most recently, Dorfman made her Broadway debut in Sam Gold’s adaptation of Romeo + Juliet, starring alongside Kit Conner and Rachel Zegler. Opening on October 24 for a 20-week run, this production marks Dorfman’s return to the New York stage and her first acting role since publicly coming out as transgender. In this fresh take on the classic, Dorfman takes on dual roles as the “Nurse” and “Tybalt.” 

Dorfman directed her first feature film, I Wish You All the Best, starring Corey Fogelmanis, Alexandra Daddario, Cole Sprouse, and Lena Dunham. The highly anticipated debut feature premiered at SXSW in March 2024 to positive reviews.  

Up next, Dorfman’s memoir Maybe This Will Save Me will be published by HarperCollins on May 27, 2025.

Mami

JUDY KUHN is a multiple Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in Fun Home (Tony & Drama League Award Nominations); the Roundabout’s 1993 revival of She Loves Me (Tony Nomination); Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors (Lincoln Center Theatre); Chess (Tony & Drama Desk Nominations);  Les Miserables (Tony & Drama Desk Nominations); Rags (Drama Desk Nomination); Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (OBC).  

Select Off-Bway &  Regional theatre includes: Unknow Soldier (Arena Stage); I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Outer Critics Circle Award) and Assassins (Drama Desk Nomination) both at CSC; Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortell Award); Titanic and The Cradle Will Rock (City Center); Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine’s Passion at CSC (Drama League Award Nomination); the U.S. premiere of Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles) Three Sisters (Intiman Theatre), Eli’s Comin’ (Vineyard Theater/Obie Award).  

In London’s West End Judy starred in Trevor Nunn’s 2019 critically acclaimed revival of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for ( Laurence Olivier Award Nomination) as well as the musical adaptation of Metropolis (Olivier Award Nomination). 

          Judy sang the title role in Disney’s Pocahontas. Other film and television appearances include:  tick, tick…boom (Netflix); Dear Edward (Apple TV); Enchanted (Disney); Elementary (CBS); Hope & Faith (ABC); Law & Order (NBC); My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (PBS), The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS); The Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert (PBS). 

Judy has performed on concert stages around the world including appearances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall,, The Hollywood Bowl, and the The Royal Albert Hall. She can be heard on numerous original cast recordings as well as her four solo CD’s.

Fraidy

Tedra was most recently seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Tony and Olivier Award-winning play Leopoldstadt, directed by Patrick Marber. She is currently recurring on the John Wells / Max series “The Pitt,” and in Zach Wood’s upcoming feature “The Accompanist.” She previously starred in Present Laughter on Broadway opposite Kevin Kline, and in The Wolves with Playwrights Realm and Lincoln Center, for which she received Drama Desk and Obie Awards. Additional theatre credits include: Power of Sail at The Geffen Playhouse opposite Bryan Cranston and Amy Brenneman, Jesse Eisenberg’s Happy Talk for The New Group opposite Susan Sarandon, Simon Stephen’s Olivier Award-winning On the Shore of the Wide World with Atlantic Theatre Company, and Annie Baker’s The Flick at Barrow Street Theatre. In film, Tedra starred in the Sundance and SXSW short “Daddy’s Girl” opposite Peter Friedman, “Modern Persuasion” (Tangerine Entertainment), led a horror movie called “Ghosts of the Void” (Speakeasy Productions), and the short “We Can Voyage There” which Tedra directed. Previous television credits include: FX’s “Fosse/Verdon,” Amazon’s “A League of their Own”, CW’s “Katy Keene,” ABC’s “Almost Family” and Netflix’s “Tales of the City.“ Tedra holds an MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA and BFA from University of Michigan. 

Chesky

Rad Pereira (they/them) is an (im)migrant cultural worker building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures. Their cultural work has been experienced on stages, screens, stoops, swamps and sidewalks all over Turtle Island. They are co-founder/ artistic director of Haudenosaunee rematriation project, Iron Path Farm & Arts. Their book Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, By Those Who Lived It is available through New Village Press. They are Director of Engagement & Impact at NY Stage & Film; proud board member of Superhero Clubhouse; Co-founder of You Are Here, a healing & arts organism for QTBIPOC; on the co-leadership team bringing solidarity economy to Network of Ensemble Theaters. They were 2017 NYC Public Artist in Residence with Department of Cultural Affairs and Children’s Services working with LGBQTIA foster youth; created The (Im)Migrant Hustle and produced Bang Bang Gun Amok I + II at Abrons Art Center, created Media Tools for Liberation with JackNY, facilitated Decolonization Rave and Cosmic Commons with You Are Here and created Breaking Broadway with Chris Myers and art.coop. As a director/ actor, Rad has contributed to stories at 20th Century Studios, AMC, HBO, CBS, NBC, MTV, Shudder, Signature Theater, MITU350, The Public Theater, La Mama etc., Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Target Margin, Breaking the Binary Theater Festival, Poetic Theater, Ars Nova, Noor Theater, Sesame Street, Theatre 167 and various online media platforms. Rad has spoken, consulted and facilitated at the Art.coop, New Inc at New Museum, Queens Museum, Rio de Janeiro Museum, Instituto Republica, PSU Art + Social Practice, SITI Company Thought Center, United Nations, A Blade of Grass, Superblue, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Disney, The 8th Floor, Working Woman of Color Conference, Dance/NYC Symposium, New Inc at New Museum, and Culture/Shift. They are a proud alumnus of EmergeNYC & Interlochen. Grateful to their supportive team at Nicolosi & Co.

Puppeteer

Justin Otaki Perkins is a puppeteer and designer. Recent work includes See What I Wanna See (Out of the Box Theatrics, puppeteer/puppetry director), Madama Butterfly and Florencia en el Amazonas (Met Opera, cover), Hansel and Gretel (Michigan Opera Theater, principal puppeteer), Alaxsxa|Alaska (Ping Chong + Co, NYC/tour), Shank’s Mare (Tom Lee & Koryu Nishikawa, NYC/tour), And Here We Are (Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, National Sawdust), The Eye Which We Do Not Have (Kate Brehm, HERE). Justin’s puppetry work has been supported by Jim Henson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Puppet Lab, Catwalk, Center at West Park, Dixon Place, and more. He’s a founder and curator at Object Movement Puppetry Festival at Center at West Park, a year-long development residency program for puppet artists with new works in development, currently in its eighth season. New Hampshire-born, MFA Sarah Lawrence College, lives in beautiful Brooklyn. IG @jstnprkns

Tati

Jonah

Puppeteer

Emma Wiseman is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in puppetry and object theater. As a performer, puppet designer, and/or puppetry director, she has collaborated with renowned artists and organizations including Signature Theatre, Dan Hurlin, Jeanette Yew, Robin Frohardt, Sachiyo Takahashi, Nick Lehane, Derek Fourdjour, Emily Zemba, Josh Rice, Alex Da Corte, Swoon, CO/LAB Theater Group, Geva Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Emma has toured nationally and internationally with The Pigeoning (dir. Robin Frohardt) and Chimpanzee (dir. Nick Lehane) and premiered the live version of Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store in NYC, which has since been presented around the world as a hybrid film/installation. She also served as lead puppeteer for Animated Life, an Emmy-nominated New York Times Op-Doc series. As a creator, Emma’s work explores human relationships with spaces and objects, often finding wonder in the mundane. She adapted (with playwright Emily Zemba) their office supply puppet piece Out of Office into a short film, an official selection of the Chattanooga Film Festival. Follow her documentation of melancholic greenery in the built environment on Instagram (@sad._.plants) 

emmawiseman.me.