Meet the Cast & Team for: The Lucky Chance

Jasmine Batchelor

Jasmine Batchelor’s breakthrough performance as “Jess” in Jeremy Hersh’s independent film, The Surrogate, brought her numerous accolades, including an IFP Gotham Award nomination for Breakthrough Actor. NY: Measure for Measure (The Public Theater), Continuity (Manhattan Theater Club), Mothers (Playwrights Realm). Training: The Juilliard School.

Noah Brody

Noah Brody is an actor, director, teacher and writer. He is a founder co-artistic director of Fiasco Theater. And he spends lots of time with Excel spreadsheets. Directing for Fiasco: Merrily We Roll Along and co-director of The Imaginary Invalid, Twelfth Night, Into the Woods, Measure for Measureand Cymbeline. Acting for Fiasco: The Imaginary Invalid, Mr. Diafoirus; Twelfth Night, Orsino; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus; Into the Woods, Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf/ Lucinda; Cymbeline, Posthumous. Broadway: nope. Off-Broadway: As You Like It, Classic Stage Company. Regional: Bay Street Theater, Old Globe, Folger Theater, McCarter Theater, Trinity Repertory Company. As a director: Actors Theater of Louisville, Wolfe Street Playhouse and the national tour of Fiasco’s Into the Woods. TV/Film: You know those credits that are so old you stop wanting to list them? That’s about the size of it. Nothing in life brings as much joy as being married to Jessie and being dad to Asher and Tabitha. 

Tina Chilip

Off-Broadway: Mothers (Playwrights Realm); Fiasco’s Twelfth Night (Classic Stage Company); Golden Child (Signature Theater); House Rules, Flipzoids (Ma-Yi); A Dream Play (NAATCO). Regional: Old Globe, Huntington, Guthrie, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Trinity Rep, and others. TV: guest appearances in L&O: SVU, FBI: Most Wanted, Elementary; recurring roles in Marvel's Jessica Jones and It’s Bruno (both NETFLIX); The Good Fight, Elementary, Deception, Madam Secretary, Royal Pains. Training: MFA, Brown/Trinity Rep. Member, The Actors Center.

Paul L. Coffey

Paul L. Coffey is an actor, musician and Fiasco Company Member. For Fiasco: Pisano/Philario//Guiderius/Caius Lucius, Cymbeline, Malvolio, Twelfth Night, Angelo/Elbow, Measure for Measure, Speed/Thurio, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Mysterious Man, Into the Woods, Thomas Diafoirus/Beralde/Bonnefoi, The Imaginary Invalid, Joe Josephson, Merrily We Roll Along. Off-Broadway: The Taming of the Shrew. Regional: The Old Globe, McCarter Theater, Folger Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, PIg Iron Theatre Co., Berkshire Theatre Group, Vineyard Playhouse, Company of Fools, The Theater at Monmouth, Peterborough Players. TV/Film: Blue Bloods, Late Night, The Jew of Malta. Paul is husband to frequent Fiasco collaborator Liz Hayes and father to Sean Frank Coffey who made his Broadway debut at six months old in The Ferryman.

Crystal Finn

Crystal Finn was last seen in the re-mounted production of Plano, by Will Arbery, directed by Taylor Reynolds for Clubbed Thumb. Also recently for Clubbed Thumb: King Phillips Head is Still On that Pike Just Down the Road.  Other NY credits include Bobbie Cleary, Kingdom Come (Roundabout), Pocatello, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons), Villa (The Play Company), Five Genocides, La Brea, 16 Words or Less (Clubbed Thumb) Washed up on the Potomac (The Pool) Bird in the Hand, (Fulcrum). TV/Film: 16 Words or Less, The Tick (Amazon/Sony). UC Berkeley, Brown/Trinity. 

Andy Grotelueschen

Andy Grotelueschen:  Fiasco Theater's Into the Woods, Cymbeline, Imaginary Invalid, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, and Twelfth Night. Broadway: Tootsie (Tony Nomination), Cyrano de Bergerac. NY/Regional: Public/Delacorte, TFANA, Clubbed Thumb, 13P, Ars Nova, The Glass Contraption, New Vic, McCarter, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie, Old Globe, Trinity Rep, Yale Rep, the Acting Company. Film: Here Today, Coin Heist, Ordinary World, Still on the Road, Tumorhead. TV: "Lincoln Rhyme," “Elementary," "The Good Wife," "The Good Cop," "The Knick." MFA Brown/Trinity, Fiasco Theater core company.

Carole Denise Jones

Carole Denise Jones is very excited to be making her Fiasco Theater debut. Broadway: The Book of Mormon. National Tours: The Book of Mormon, Mamma Mia, Whistle Down the Wind. Film/TV: New Amsterdam, The Equalizer, Blacklist, Power Book II: Ghost, and Clifford the Big Red Dog (being released this fall). She lives here in NYC with her husband and cute 10lb shih tzu Gretta.

Ben Steinfeld

Ben Steinfeld is an actor, director, teacher, writer, and musician. He is one of Fiasco Theater’s Co-Artistic Directors and founders. For Fiasco: Iachimo/Arviragus/Co-director, Cymbeline; Baker/Co-director, Into the Woods; Lucio/Froth/Co-director, Measure for Measure; Co-director, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Composer and Music Director, Imaginary Invalid: Feste/Co-director, Twelfth Night; Frank, Merrily We Roll Along. Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Cyrano de Bergerac. Off-Broadway: One Thousand Nights and One Day, Bloody Bloody... Regional: Westport, Williamstown, Trinity Rep, McCarter, Old Globe, CTG. As a director: Into the Woods national tour, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Folger Theatre. TV/Film: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, The Deuce, The Good Wife, Law & Order: Crimimal Intent. Adjunct professor and Artistic Associate at NYU's Gallatin School (recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award). Ben lives near a lovely canal in New Jersey with his wife, Kate, and son, Leo.

Paco Tolson

Paco Tolson: Off-Broadway: Vietgone (MTC, Lortel nom.), Twelfth Night (Fiasco/CSC), The Unwritten Song (EST), Slavery (Clubbed Thumb), The Children of Vonderly and Rescue Me (Ma-Yi Theater), Soul Samurai (Ma-Yi/Vampire Cowboys). Regional: Measure for Measure (Fiasco/Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Winter’s Tale and Vietgone (OSF), Peter and the Starcatcher, Vietgone, and Poor Yella Rednecks (South Coast Rep). Film/TV: “Billions,” “Prodigal Son,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Fight,” “Happy!,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “The Code,” “Search Party,” and 7 Day Gig. Paco is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. Upcoming: to the yellow house (La Jolla Playhouse) @pacotolson

Emily Young

Emily Young is an actor, musician, writer, director and educator. She is one of Fiasco Theater’s original company members. For Fiasco:Queen/Belaria, Cymbeline, Little Red Riding Hood/Rapunzel, Into the Woods, Isabella/Mistress Overdone, Measure for Measure, Sylvia/Lucetta, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Toinette, Imaginary Invalid, Viola, Twelfth Night, Gussie, Merrily We Roll Along; Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Off-Broadway: The Servant of Two Masters, Romeo and Juliet, Colorado Regional: Trinity Repertory Company, Folger Theater, McCarter Theater, Old Globe, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival. As a director: Ohio Northern University. As a writer/actor/producer: The Porch Song Project. As a musician: lead singer of the band, Sweet Nothing. TV/Film: Living With Yourself, The Knick, God of Love.

Stage Management: Chandalae Nyswonger

Broadway: Anastasia. Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Twelfth Night (Classic Stage Company) Jesus Hopped the “A” Train (Signature Theatre), Somebody’s Daughter (Second Stage). Regional: Cry It Out, Hamlet, Reverberations, Rear Window (Hartford Stage); Private Lives (Dorset Theatre Festival); Hair, At Home at the Zoo, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Oklahoma! (Berkshire Theatre Group); A Civil War Christmas, Wild With Happy, dance of the holy ghosts (Center Stage).

COVID Compliance Officer: Kendall Cafaro

Kendall Cafaro (she/her/hers) is an actor, singer, and maker based in New York City. Originally from West Bloomfield, Michigan, Kendall moved to New York City to attend Fordham University's Theatre Program where she received a BA in Acting. She has had the pleasure of performing at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Metropolitan Opera House, Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Conference, Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Fresh Fruit Festival, and Feast Under St. Marks. Kendall is also an alum of Fiasco’s 6 Week Conservatory! www.kendallcafaro.com@kendall.cafaro

Graphic Design: Jules Talbot

The Actors and Stage Managers in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.