Meet the Cast & Team for: Imogen Says Nothing
Noah Brody (John/Ned Whiting)
Noah Brody (he/him/his) 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.
Paul L. Coffey (Richard/Harry Hunks)
Paul L. Coffey (he/him/his) 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.
Zack Fine (William/Crier)
Zack Fine (he/him/his) is an actor, director, playwright and teacher.
Notable credits as an actor; Broadway: China Doll with Al Pacino, Off-Broadway: The Acting Company, Mint Theater Company, Fiasco, Red Bull, TFANA, Pearl, Bedlam. Select Regional: Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre, Folger (Helen Hayes Award Two Gentlemen of Verona), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Playmakers Repertory Company. Directing credits include: World Premier of El Bien Del Pais (Helenico, Mexico City), So Please You and Sea Maid’s Music (HVSF), Bewilderness (Playmakers Repertory Company). Writing developed with The Lark, The Public, Primary Stages, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and many more. His original plays include Walled In, Manifest Destiny, Bewilderness, Cooking With Kathryn, Dignity, Always Dignity and Dennis currently in development with the world-renowned comedy troupe Spymonkey. He is on faculty at NYU and Fiasco Conservatory as a teacher of clown and games. He’s also been on TV a few times.
Devin E. Haqq (Henry)
Devin E. Haqq (he/him/his) is a Brooklyn based theatre artist, arts educator, and award-winning filmmaker. He has performed both Off-Broadway and regionally and his films have screened at numerous film festivals around the world. Regional Theatre: Fiasco Theater's Measure for Measure at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, As You Like It at Arden Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: The Winning Side (World Premiere), Richard III and Macbeth at Epic Theatre Ensemble; Knives in Hens at 59E59 Theaters (NYT Critic's Pick); Much Ado About Nothing at NYSX; All God's Chillun' Got Wings at JACK. Directing Credits: Shakespeare: Call & Response at The Public Theatre (assistant director), Pass Over at Luna Stage Company, The Mark (Best Narrative Feature 2021 Atlanta Shortsfest, Nominated for Best Horror at 2020 LA Shorts International Film Festival), Ambition’s Debt (Best Narrative Feature at 2017 American Black Film Festival),The Assassin. Additional Credits: M.F.A. from University of Alabama. Haqq is a recipient of the Paul Robeson Award-Honorable Mention at the 2018 Newark Black Film Festival. He was nominated for Best Director at the 2017 American Black Film Festival and the 2018 Winter Film Awards.
Gabriel Neumann (Nicholas/Fluffy 2)
Gabriel Neumann (he/him/his) is an actor and producer based in NYC. A Stella Adler Alumnus, he has worked in several Theater, Film and TV productions in the U.S. and in Brazil, where he is originally from. His commitment to a life and career in the arts has made him choose this country as home and given him the opportunity to collaborate with outstanding talent in the acting world.
Gabriel can be reached on Instagram: @ogabrielneumann
Ben Steinfeld (Alexander/Warden)
Ben Steinfeld (he/him/his) 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.
Natalie Woolams-Torres (Imogen)
Natalie (she/her/hers) is a Dominican American born, bred, and raised New Yorker. Her theater credits include Novenas for a Lost Hospital at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. She was in the original cast of Tiny Beauty Things directed by Tommy Kail at The Public Theater and Pasadena Playhouse. Other NY Public Theater Credits: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Comedy of Errors, Taming of The Shrew, Julius Caesar, and Richard II radio-play in partnership with WNYC. She’s been in a variety of independent feature films. TV credits include Difficult People (Hulu). Room 104 (HBO), HIGH MAINTENANCE, (HBO), Chicago MED, (NBC). She attended SUNY Purchase Theater Arts and Film.
Emily Young (Bear on Ice/Fluffy 2/Anna Roos)
Emily Young (she/her/hers) 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, readings for Fiasco, The Lucky Chance and Sight Unseen. 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.
Jessie Austrian (Director)
Jessie Austrian (she/her/hers) is a theater-maker, educator, activist and parent. She is one of Fiasco Theater’s Co-Artistic Directors and founders. For Fiasco: Imogen, Cymbeline, Baker’s Wife, Into the Woods, Escalus/Marianna, Measure for Measure, Julia/co-director, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Balene/co-director, Imaginary Invalid, Olivia, Twelfth Night, Mary, Merrily We Roll Along; Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lend Me a Tenor; Off-Broadway: The Marriage of Bette and Boo; Regional: The Guthrie, Actors Theater of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, Virginia Stage Company, Folger Theater, McCarter Theater, Old Globe. As a director: NYU and Playmaker’s Rep. TV/Film: Mistress America, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Made in Jersey. Adjunct faculty at NYU Gallatin School. Favorite roles: partner to Noah and mom to Asher and Tabitha.
Costume Design: Asa Benally
Lighting Design: Amith Chandrashaker
Props and Scenic Design: Samantha Shoffner
Production Manager: Chris Luner
COVID Compliance Officer: Aubrey Elenz
Stage Manager: Anne McPherson
Fiasco: Cymbeline, Measure for Measure. Broadway: My Fair Lady, Once on this Island, The Iceman Cometh, M. Butterfly, Holiday Inn, Chicago, The King and I, Wicked, Les Misérables, Pippin, Motown, Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera, The Coast of Utopia, Doubt, Absurd Person Singular. Also: three National Tours, many Off-Broadway shows and special presentations. Head of Stage Management at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University).
Assistant Stage Manager: Angela F. Kiessel
Broadway: Frozen, Once on This Island, The Humans, Tuck Everlasting, Honeymoon in Vegas. Selected Off-Broadway: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (The Public Theater), The Laramie Project Cycle (BAM), Carrie (MCC). University of Michigan '09. Love & thanks to Mike, Judy, Anne, Justin, Nancy, & my family.
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