Let’s Summon a Demon at Debbie’s was recently published by 1319 Press and is available at 1319press.com. Other plays include amethyst. (written as an Artist in Residence for EveryLibrary), Echo & Narcissus Blast Third Eye Blind Outside a Diner in New Jersey at 2am, Quiche, Of Coffee & Fish or The Very Final First Date of Ethan Splunk and Zombie Cheerleaders, A Teenage Witch & The Demonic Voice on the Other End of the Phone. He has spent time workshopping plays at the Sewanee Writers Conference, Valdez Theater Conference, Luna Stage’s New Moon series and The Tank. This is his fourth play he has worked on with Chris Woodworth in Geneva and is thrilled to be back in this beautiful and creatively nurturing place. He wrote and appeared in the feature length film Happy Yummy Chicken. His creative work is dedicated to Suzzanne Douglas.

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (they/she) is a theatermaker, playwright, and educator. Directing work includes Brandon Monokian’s Echo & Narcissus… & Let’s Summon a Demon at Debbie’s (The Tank), as well as Corners Grove (Cornish College of the Arts), High School Coven (Indiana University), & 等一下 / děng yīxià (The Brick). Kaela's plays include Ping Pong Play (2024 Leah Ryan Fund Prize Winner, 2025 New Harmony Semifinalist & O’Neill Finalist, GTG Speakers Corner), Tiger Beat (2024 2ST Reading, 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2021 Seven Devils finalist), High School Coven (2023 Strand Theatre Baltimore production, 2017 Corkscrew Festival), Call Out Culture (2022 O'Neill Finalist, 2019 Ars Nova’s ANTFest), Harpers Ferry 2019 (2022 Know Theatre Cincinnati production, 2021 Kendeda finalist), & Corners Grove (published & licensed by DPS.) Kaela has received six Kennedy Center awards and has developed work with Ma-Yi, Breaking the Binary, the Alliance Theater, Gingold Theatrical Group, Exquisite Corpse Company, the Coop’s Clusterf*ck, and Pipeline Theater Company’s Playlab. Commissions include work with Yangtze Rep, EST/Sloan, Montana Repertory Theater, and College of the Holy Cross. Garvin is a board member at the Playwrights Foundation, the Tank’s 2022-2024 Pridefest curator, and a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based new work incubator. Kaela has taught playwriting and more at Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Theatre, and Indiana University. They are currently the Assistant Professor of Playwriting at Salem State University. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com

Trish Annese was most recently seen in the The Sunday Stages production of All in the Timing where she played various roles. Past performances include Huldegarde in the Out of Pocket production of The Moors. Previous roles and projects have included Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with Rochester Shakespeare Players; The Triangle Factory Fire Project and Stories from the Fringe with JCC Theater, and Pink Ribbons, written by Brad Craddock. Later this summer, Trish will also be playing Pamela in Mercury with Crow City Theater at the MuCCC in Rochester.

Jasmin Singer was most recently seen as Phyllis in Body Awareness with Out of Pocket Productions. Past roles include Bernadette in POTUS and Miranda in NSFW (Blackfriars), All in the Timing (Sunday Stages), and performances with The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. Before moving to Rochester, she worked extensively in NYC and LA, appearing in national commercials, award-winning indie films (The Bra Mitzvah), and stage productions such as Exhibit This! (Midtown International Theatre Festival), Sex, Relationships, and Sometimes Love (Michael Chekhov Theatre), and Mary Stuart as Queen Elizabeth (Pace Downtown Theater). Jasmin holds a BFA in Acting from Pace University, is the author of two books, and hosts Weekend Edition and Environmental Connections on WXXI, Rochester’s NPR and PBS member station.

Chris Woodworth last appeared onstage at Blackfriars Theatre in Rochester as Stephanie in POTUS. She previously appeared in the Blackfriars production of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Chris has performed on area stages as large as the Smith Opera House in Geneva (Elizabeth Bishop in the Missing Marquee production of Dear Elizabeth) and as small as the front seat of her car (four years of Dashboard Dramas at the Rochester Fringe Festival). Off stage, Chris is a director and playwright. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. By night she trains at Roc City Circus as an aerialist (silks and lyra) and by day she is Professor of Theatre at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she has directed over a dozen HWS Theatre productions. Chris directed a developmental production of Brandon Monokian’s Zombie Cheerleaders, A Teenage Witch & The Demonic Voice on the Other End of the Phone for HWS Theatre last season. She previously directed a staged reading of Zombie Cheerleaders as well as two of his other plays: Quiche, Echo and Narcissus Blast Third Eye Blind Outside A Diner in New Jersey at 2AM. www.thisworldofyes.com.

Kiefer Schenk is pleased to again be a part of showcasing Brandon Monokian’s writing. He has previously appeared in staged readings of Brandon’s work including January 2024’s reading of Echo and Narcissus Blast Third Eye Blind Outside A Diner in New Jersey at 2AM at HWS where he read for Echo. They are a Rochester-based actor who has actively performed in and around the area for over a decade. Recent credits include Christopher in Blackfriars Theatre’s The Mousetrap, Alex in DVC’s The Alamo’s Last Stand, Barbra in Crow City Theatre’s Night of the Living Dead Live, Angel in Nickel Flour’s And the Four Last Things, and Hades in Infinite Spark Theater Company’s The Flower Debt. They are also a voice actor and a featured voice talent on writecreative.net. They would like to extend thanks to everyone who supports projects like this both inside and outside of their own communities.

Derrielle Faulkner is originally from Long Island, New York. They recently graduated from HWS with a major in Theatre and a minor in Writing Colleagues. They most recently appeared as Cannibal Queen in the HWS Theatre production of Airness. They stage managed the HWS Theatre productions of Witch, Icarus and Amelia Earhart Had Tea This Morning, Zombie Cheerleaders, a Teenage Witch, & the Demonic Voice on the Other End of the Phone, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, and Marisol. While studying abroad in Perth, Australia, they worked as the Stage Manager for the Hayman Awards, an end of the year celebration for the Hayman Theatre. Other HWS Theatre credits include Accessibility Design Coordinator and Program Design for Memories of Overdevelopment and Tour Guide-Lyric for From Beyond: Geneva’s Unheard Voices (co-produced with Historic Geneva). They also worked as Assistant Stage Manager for the Phoenix Players Production of Leveling Up. Derrielle is excited to continue their theatre studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) for Project and Production Management this fall!