Paulie
A matriarch who pieced together her own family. Knows love is simple even if the world isn't.

Amy R. Surratt (she/they) is a queer writer/performer primarily creating new and collaborative performance works, often with their partner, Tosha R. Taylor: THE DESIRED AFFECT (2018), AmySurrattPLAYSMarySurratt (2019), and Amy Surratt’s FIRST and LAST (show) (2017). Amy’s last collaboration with Jo in FIRST and LAST (show) was received as “a dizzy colorful jamboree of mythic proportions,” (NYTR) a “gorgeous take-no-prisoners mess” (The Reviews Hub), and a “hard-hitting phenomenon of a production” (Culturebot). COVID-19 knocked the wind out of Amy’s performance sails, but maybe Hearthbound will right the vessel… | @gloriousmistakes

Theo
Better with her hands than she is with people. Blunt words but also blunted edges.

Leana Gardella (she/her) is a New York City-based actor, fight director and intimacy director. Most recently she starred in the short film The Bargain and appeared in Season 5 of Inside Amy Schumer, now streaming on Paramount+. She did the Intimacy Direction for the World Premiere of The Devil Wears Prada the Musical at the Nederlander in Chicago, the Fight Direction for macbitches at the Chain Theatre, and the Fight and Intimacy Direction for Marie It’s Time at HERE Arts Center and Belfast Girls at Irish Repertory Theatre. Her last time on stage was at the In Scena! Festival in When Men Were Men. | @leannnnnnnnnna / leanagardella.com

Uri
A lover of life and of people. A man who found sweetness after years of sorrow.

Fresh off his Off-Broadway debut with the Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of Twelfth Night the summer of 2023, where he played Valentine in an Afro-futuristic rendition of the Shakespeare classic, Othello Pratt Jr. (he/him) is excited to be a part of the Hearthbound team. He thanks God for this opportunity, and shoutout to his Momma, and the whole Pratt Clan. Regional: The Spot; Lyric Repertory Company. Utah State/Columbia graduate. 2 Corinthians 4:18. | @yesmynameisreallyothello / othelloprattjr.com

Hank/Man on Tape
A man of few words.

Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Columbia University, Francisco Alvidrez (he/him) is the executive administrator to David Rockwell at Rockwell Group, volunteer captain for the Special Olympics, and Executive Board Member and Assistant Director of the Harlem-based non-profit Creative Stage Collective, a multi-generational theater troupe. With over 15 years of performing arts experience, he is an accomplished filmmaker, actor, and director. | @fran_alvidrez7

Tig
Baby they were born to run (away from healthy coping mechanisms).

Blair Medina Baldwin (any pronouns) is a multi-racial, Tejano artist/activist, writer, musician, and multidisciplinary performer living in NYC. Blair’s most recent works are: Liberty in Dael Orlandersmith’s NEW AGE (World Premier), ROUGH TRADE with music by Carole Pope (World Premier). | @Iamblair___ / officialblair.com

Cal
A loyal, brash, but furiously lonely stray. Wears her heart on her fist.

Despite her efforts, Brooklyn-based artist Manani Maxted (she/they) has yet to shed their embarrassing Midwestern sensibilities. Their work involves themes of love, blended cultural and ethnic identities (she herself is biracial) as well as the occasional foray into the macabre, which aligns with her interest in graphic medicine. In addition to her visual creative practice, they have enjoyed performing since they were young. Recent credits include 300 el x 50 el x 30 el (BAM). | @manaminani / manamimaxted.com

Medea
Deadpan and dry. Takes the hospitable out of hospitality.

Liba Vaynberg (she/her) is a first-generation American actor and playwright. Bilingual in English and Russian, Liba studied Molecular Biology & International Studies at Yale before getting her MFA at Columbia. New York theater credits include The Gett (Rattlestick, also playwright), Round Table (59E59, also playwright), Black Milk (CSC), Oregon Trail (Women's Project), The Golem of Havana (La Mama). Her performance as Annie Blumberg opposite Ed Asner and Tovah Feldshuh in The Soap Myth was televised for PBS. Other credits include 4 seasons of NEW AMSTERDAM (NBC, recurring), Madam Secretary (CBS, recurring), and The Deuce (HBO). | @libavaynberg / libavaynberg.com

Circe
Her house, her rules. Don't cause any trouble and you'll get along just fine.

Arielle Yoder (she/her) is thrilled to be a part of this epic "untelling!" Previous credits include most recently the World Premiere of Bloom Bloom Pow at A.R.T./NY Theaters and Birthday Candles with Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway. Other selected credits: The Humans First National Tour. Off-Broadway: Persuasion, The Price of Thomas Scott, soot and spit. Assorted Regional: The Guthrie: Concrete Orange: An American Fable. PlayMakers Repertory Company: Three Sisters, Peter & the Starcatcher, 4,000 Miles, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Love Alone, Metamorphoses. TV/Film: FBI: Most Wanted and Law & Order: SVU. Arielle serves as an Associate Director at DreamStreet NYC, a non-profit for adult performers with developmental disabilities. @dreamstreetnyc | arielleyoder.com

Antony
Vagabond and smug about it. Thinks it lends him an air of danger but it just lends him an air.

Joey Odom (he/him) is thrilled to be a part of Hearthbound! TV: Dickinson (Apple TV), Lisey's Story (Apple TV). Theater credits: Pinocchio, The Butterfly Who Became a Cocoon, Dreamland. MFA: Columbia University. For Mitchell, Babushka, and my mom. | @joey.odom / joeyodom.com

Cassandra
Revels in the fact that nobody takes them seriously. Means they can get away with anything.

Niki Afsar (she/they) is a nonbinary/femme, iranian-american writer and interdisclipinary artist who has lived and worked in New York City, Tehran, the Washington DC area, and Western Massachusetts. Their work involves devised movement and performance, poetry and text, and more recently, mirror work. | @neekeejoon / nikiafsar.com

Disc Jockey
Keeper of tea and gleeful distributor of on-air beef. She'll always have your back, but she'll talk behind it too.

Lillian Meredith (she/her) is a theater artist from New York City primarily interested in developing new and site-responsive work. Recent credits include productions at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Public, Theatre for a New Audience, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, among others. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Motor Company, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and the inaugural Clubbed Thumb Director's Fellowship. Proud alumna: Vassar College (BA), Brooklyn College (MFA), National Theater Institute. | lillianmeredith.com

Penelope
The faithful wife. The loving wife. Also the impatient wife, the determined wife, the wife in shining armor.

Born and raised in the Bronx, New York and the proud daughter of Dominican immigrants, Keren Abreu (she/her) is a singer-songwriter whose music is as multidimensional as she is. Keren’s musical journey has taken her from the pulpit of her childhood church to the classrooms and stages of her alma maters, and most recently to sold-out venues across New York City. Keren’s music is a multilingual blend of folk lyricism, pop melodies, and powerhouse vocals. In July of 2020, she released ÉXITO, her first EP, a 5-song exploration and celebration of queerness, afro-latinidad, spirituality, and the people and places she calls home. | @kerenabreumusic / kerenabreu.com

Manny
A good husband, but a bad friend. A kind man, but a poor leader. Is doing his best, but his best is honestly kind of disappointing.

Pete Winfrey (he/him) is an actor and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from St. Louis, MO, he was been working on stage, on screen, and in the VO world for over 10 years. Recently, he has been popping up around 1880’s New York in HBO’s The Gilded Age, making his feature film debut in All Gone Wrong, and working on stage readings with Round the Bend Theatre in upstate NY. He’s thrilled to be joining the Hearthbound team in this exploration/untelling of one of the classics, which happens to be the first book he read in high school English class. Thanks to his support system and community! | @pwinning91 / petewinfrey.com

Really wants things to go well. Really worried that it won't.

Schuyler Van Amson (he/him) is a New York-born-and-based actor and graduate of Columbia University where he majored in Theatre with a concentration in Acting. He has been featured in Pocket Universe's workshop and Off-Broadway production of Juliet + Romeo, as well as other productions such as Steeplechase at the NY Theatre Festival Summerfest, Tumbleweed at Dixon Place, Blood Orange at the Fresh Fruit Festival and the Downtown Urban Arts festival. | @schuylervanderwoodsen / schuylervanamson@gmail.com

Helen
Too magnetic for her own good. Incapable of saying anything plainly.

Tosha Rach (she/her) is a writer and academic researcher who specializes in the horror genre and comics. Originally hailing from the Appalachian region of Virginia, she currently lives in New York. Her fiction and poetry used to appear in a number of now-defunct literary journals and her nonfiction has recently appeared in Gayly Dreadful, Electric Literature, and It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. | @tosha_rach