PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT




Photos by Maria Baranova
The Exponential Festival presents
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT with Little Lord
Conceived and Facilitated: Michael Levinton and Little Lord
Produced: Little Lord and Lucy Powis
With: Moe Angelos*, Joshua William Gelb, RN Healey, Michael Levinton*, Meg MacCary*,
Daniel Allen Nelson*, Morgan Lindsey Tachco, Laura von Holt, Kate Weber*
Stage Managed: Dominique Nadeau* and Orla Patterson
*member AEA
Press: Everyman Agency
Assistant Producer: Daniel Wilde
Production Coordinator: John Murphy
Social Media: Kate Purdum
Additional Collaborators: Kaaron Briscoe, David Commander, Tim Cusack, Sauda Jackson, Polly Lee, Labhoise Magee, James Wyrwicz
Developed through residencies with The Mercury Store, LMCC, Coffey Street Studio, and Aunt Karen's Farm. Additional support has been provided from Clubbed Thumb, made possible by Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.
Special Thanks: Kate Marvin, Mark McKay

Moe Angelos is a theatre artist and writer. She's one of the OBIE-Award winning Five Lesbian Brothers and is a member of the Wow Café Theatre. She's part of The Builders Association, making media-infused performances and she has been a mentor in Queer/Art/Mentorship several times. The latest Builders' piece Atlas Drugged is about AI's insidious influence on the democratic process (which is a lot more fun than it sounds) and is available for touring. Now she's working on a theatrical version of her walking tour called This Used To Be Gay. Moe is not on the socials so don't try to click and subscribe but if you're curious ask ChatGPT about her.
Joshua William Gelb is a director, performer, and creative technologist known for founding Theater in Quarantine (TiQ), the Obie and Drama League Award-winning digital performance lab that streamed dozens of original works from a closet in the East Village. Recent projects include Phantom of the Opera (NYU Skirball), The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (Under the Radar / NYTW / Lortel), Nosferatu: A 3D Symphony of Horror (NYU Skirball), and Untitled Miniature (HERE Arts Center) As a performer, Gelb has appeared in Little Lord’s Pocahontas and/or AMERICA, BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS, The Peanut Butter Show, and SKINNAMARINK.
RN Healey is a writer and performer. Her work is spare, but her feelings are moderate to light deep. In recent years she has collaborated with and at the Bushwick Starr, New Georges, Dixon place, St. Louis Actor’s Theater and sitting-alone-in-living-room-headphones-all-the-way-up.
Michael Levinton is a writer, director, performer, and creator of original work for the theater. As Founder and Artistic Director of Little Lord, he develops and produces “junk spectaculars,” premiering work at venues throughout NYC. His work has been seen or developed at Abrons Arts Center, Next Door @ NYTW, Bushwick Starr, the Brick, Chocolate Factory, HERE Arts Center, Mercury Store, Coffey Street Studios, LMCC, Incubator Arts Project, OHIO Theatre’s Ice Factory, Judson Church, Dixon Place, Target Margin Theater, Drop Forge & Tool, and UNDER St. Marks. Bridging mainstream, narrative-driven theater and formally challenging performance art, Levinton’s work with Little Lord has been praised as “eerie and dangerous,” “a beautiful, uncomfortable, hallucinogenic ride,” and “a fever dream that straddles the line between ecstatic and tragic.”
Meg MacCary is an Obie award winning actor, producer, and director. Most recently she played a cult leader in Whispers of the Wind on the Fringe Festival circuit and a woman shocked and dismayed by Kareem Rahma in his new feature Or Something. This past fall she directed GirlPox’s inaugural show Fyre Fest was So Fun!!! by Catherine Weingarten. She’s works regularly with Matt Gasda at BCTR. She podcasts about New York City in the ‘80s with her highschool BFF Jessica Jones on Desperately Seeking the ‘80s. www.megmaccary.com
John Murphy is a theater artist and technician from Pasadena, CA. He has worked as an actor, director, technical director, stagehand, carpenter, lighting and video technician, and board operator in Off-Broadway and events venues around New York City, including Stereophonic, Bowl EP, and The Whole of Time. He is the co-founder of Live Animals Onstage!, a Brooklyn based theater company.
Dominique Nadeau is a New York-based dramaturg, equity stage manager, and passionate theater educator. She founded and created the Lisle Park District Theater and Arts Program. Dominique currently works as the Education Associate for Red Bull Theater. Her current research focuses on drama, social-emotional learning, and gun violence, reflecting her commitment to using theater for social-emotional change in education. Recent Stage Management credits include: The Blacks (New York Theater Workshop), SHIZ (New York Comedy Festival), Menopause the Musical (National Tour), Shucked (National Tour), and Wicked (Broadway).
Daniel Allen Nelson is a writer, performer, & producer. Original works include: Microcosmitor, Give Back My Beast, Spoleum, Don’t Peek, Hearts & Tongues, & The Vanishing Play. He has performed at venues including: HERE, PS122, Public Theater, LaMama, The Doxsee, Ontological-Hysteric, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, Mabou Mines, The Tank, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Invisible Dog, Roulette, Issue Project Room; and in many projects by Object Collection, John Jesurun, Richard Foreman, and Normandy Sherwood. Regional Theater/Touring: Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theater, LaJolla Playhouse, Center Stage, Ensemble Theater, Theatre Jeune Lune, Jungle Theater, Red Eye, Ko Festival, Cafe Oto (London), Birmingham Rep (UK), Echochance Festival (Amsterdam) & Borealis Festival (Norway). BFA: UCSB; MFA: Towson University.
Orla Patterson is a stage manager, designer, and theatre artist whose recent stage management and props design credits include: Broken Images (Paradise Factory Theater), Bobbie Clearly (Flamboyán at The Clemente), Adjuncts (the cell), Worms (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Ghost of Bob Dylan Shows One of Us Greatness (Soho Playhouse), Episodic Theatre Project: Season 2 (Under St. Marks), and Into the Woods (The Flea). She is very excited to be a part of Little Lord’s PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT!
Lucy Powis is a producer, dramaturg, and arts administrator. She has held positions in the artistic/literary departments at Michael Moore Agency, A3 Artists Agency, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Producing and dramaturgy credits include work at Bushwick Starr, New Georges, The Public's Under the Radar Festival, Next Door @ NYTW, Ars Nova's ANT Fest, Rattlestick, PRELUDE Festival, HERE, and the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Lucy hails from Toronto and holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University.
Morgan Lindsey Tachco is a producer, performer, and consultant who has championed the work of thousands of artists throughout her multifaceted career of over 20 years. Recent work with Little Lord includes the New York Times Critic's Pick SKINNAMARINK / The Peanut Butter Show (2018: Target Margin Theater's The Doxsee; 2019: Next Door at NYTW) and NOW IS THE TIME... (Abrons Arts Center, 2016, three NYITA nominations). Their performance work has been called "playful, nuanced," and "pretty, although quite chubby." Morgan has served as Interim Director of Mabou Mines, Managing Producer of The Builders Association, and Director of Grants and Services at Brooklyn Arts Council. As a consultant, Morgan works both independently and with A.D. Hamingson and Associates. Current clients include The Flea Theater, En Garde Arts, Two River Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Rock Rising, Staten Island Museum, The Builders Association, and the american vicarious. Morgan holds a B.A. from Goddard College in Individualized Studies with a concentration in Performance and Arts Management and is an inaugural New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow. Her most recent creative project is becoming the proud Mother of Zeke. morganlindseytachco.com
Laura von Holt is a triple threat: a critically-acclaimed writer and performer, and a certified mermaid. Laura is a co-founder of Little Lord and has collaborated on twelve original pieces for the theater. She also writes award-winning romance under her pen name, Laura Lovely, and has published six books, two of which were commissioned as Audible Originals. She thrives on feeling joyfully humiliated while in a rehearsal room or staring at a blank word document, and is happiest ping-ponging between the island of Manhattan, where she lives, and Hawai’i Island, where she was born. Lauravonholt.com
Kate Weber has been seen at Joe's Pub, Target Margin, NYTW Next Door, Abrons Art Center, 3LD, Ars Nova, The ATA, The Tank, The Brick, Sid Gold’s, UCB and the PIT. Web video credits include Amazon Reviews Set To Music, WarnerBrothers2.0 Studios, Ariandemma.com and Mock Your World. She would love to do your reading.
Daniel Wilde is a Buffalo-born and Brooklyn-based producer and theatremaker. His recent work highlights include Production Assistant on André De Shields is Tartuffe, Production Assistant for ArtLab Productions’ workshops of The King’s Critique and Silk, and Marketing and Producing Assistant for Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College. Daniel has also worked at 54 Below, Chautauqua Theater Company, and Syracuse Stage. B.S. and M.A. from Syracuse University.
Little Lord is an ensemble-based company that aggressively reinterprets classic, found, and neglected texts to create new experimental performance works. Holding a funhouse mirror up to our shared cultural memories, Little Lord subverts conventional storytelling, uproots the familiar, and questions assumptions about the world in which we live. Founded in 2007, Little Lord’s work has been praised as “fearless in its weirdness” and boasts a “zany over-muchness that experimental theater needs like oxygen.” Recently: SKINNAMARINK (Next Door @ NYTW – NYTimes Critic’s Pick / Time Out Critic’s Pick), The Peanut Butter Show (Target Margin), NOW IS THE TIME (Abrons Arts Center), BAMBIF*CKER / KAFFEEHAUS (Brick – NYTimes Critic’s Pick), Pocahontas and/or AMERICA (Bushwick Starr), and more. www.littlelord.org
Exponential Festival is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. Led by Nic Adams, Nurit Chinn, and Bailey Williams, Exponential 2026 will be our 11th year. www.theexponentialfestival.org
Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
