Cassie M. Seinuk is a Jewish Cuban playwright, stage manager, and educator in Boston, MA. Her play From the Deep has won multiple awards including The Pestalozzi New Play Prize, the Latinx Playwrights Award at the Kennedy Center, and was a recipient of the Boston University Jewish Culture Endowment, and it appeared on the 2015 Kilroys’ Honorable Mention Li st. The premiere production of From the Deep received IRNE Award Nominations, and was a box office favorite at the 2016 FringeNYC Festival. Her play Eyes Shut. Door Open. (ESDO) was a recipient of a grant from the Bob Jolly Charitable Fund. In addition ESDO won the 2016 OnStage Critics Award for an Outstanding New Work. Full-length play Dream House was developed at New Repertory Theatre as part of Next Voices Fellows and was a Semi-Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill, received further development at The Nora Theatre Company in 2018, and was a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow Finalist 2017. Her newest play Una Me Da Leche was also a Semi-Finalist for the NPC at The O’Neill, and received Honorable Mention for the Granite State Playwright’s Workshop. Seinuk won the 2015 National Ten Minute Play Award at the Kennedy Center in 2015 for her play Occupy Hallmark; it has now been produced in cities and colleges internationally. Seinuk is a member of The Dramatist Guild and Actors’ Equity Association. Seinuk teaches theatre for elementary and middle school children, and serves on the faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music. Seinuk received a BA in Theatre Arts and Creative Writing at Brandeis University, an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen at Lesley University, and recently completed the Gary Garrison Kennedy Center Summer Playwright’s Intensive.

Saraswathi Jones is a composer, musician and community organizer currently based in Tempe, Arizona. She has played and toured with Boston area bands for nearly a decade and volunteers with the international Girls Rock Camp movement. In 2017, Jones was commissioned to compose original music for the Huntington Theater Company’s production of Ayad Akhtar’s “The Who & The What,” which began her work in the world of theater. She was a 2019 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation artist-in-residence in Taos, New Mexico and is currently part of the Tempe Creatives Cohort for 2019-2020. Whenever possible, she performs solo and with her South Asian punk band Awaaz Do. More at: www.saraswathijones.com

Jason Slavick is the Artistic Director of Liars & Believers. For the LAB, he conceived and directed A Story Beyond, Who Would Be King, Yellow Bird Chase (commissioned by Outside the Box 2015), and ICARUS (honorable mention for book and design, NYMF 2013). He wrote and directed Le Cabaret Grimm: a punk cabaret fairy tale {sans fairies} (best featured performer, best design, honorable mention for choreography NYMF 2012) and Song of Songs: a LoveRomp. Jason directed 28 Seeds, a collaboration with the steampunk band, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, and he directed the LAB’s experimental projects, Talk to Strangers  and IRRESISTIBLE. With the LAB, Jason has toured throughout the Northeast. Jason was commissioned to write and direct Heaven & Hell: The Fantastical Temptation of the 7 Deadly Sins, at The Boston Conservatory in 2007. With Foreign Landscape Productions and Faye Dupras, Jason directed Cozy Corner, Mama Light Fisher, I Spy Butterfly, and The Great Red Ball Rescue. As a company member of Boston Theatre Works, Jason directed Othello (Elliot Norton Award nominated for Best Production and Best Actor), The Tempest, Antony & Cleopatra, and Macbeth. He developed and directed Emily Mann’s critically acclaimed Meshugah, Olga Humphrey’s Veronika Vavoom Volcanologist, and his own play J: a one-act improvised tragi-comedy. He also directed numerous developmental workshops and readings including Joyce Carol Oates’ The Tattooed Girl. Jason has directed throughout New England, in Tel Aviv, and in Philadelphia. Jason has also written and directed The Golem, Icaphish, and Alice: a Grotesque Turn in Twelve Scenes. Jason earned his MFA in directing from The Trinity Repertory Conservatory. He also studied at the Dell Arte International School of Physical Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute, and the Warsaw Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Poland.

Ben Lieberson is excited to be working with Liars & Believers once again, after constructing scenery for Who Would Be King. Set design credits include This Place/Displaced (Artists’ Theater of Boston); The Taming, True West, and The Good Body (Hub Theatre Company); Crossing Flight (TC2 Theatre Co.); Really (Company One Theatre); Brilliant Traces, The Taming of the Shrew, and Echoes (Brown Box Theatre Project); Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo (Flat Earth Theatre), and It’s Not About My Mother (Fresh Ink Theatre). As a technical director and builder, he has recently worked with Central Square Theatre, Israeli Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bad Habit Productions, and Open Theatre Project. Ben also supervises the scene shop for Wellesley College’s Theater Studies program.

For Liars & Believers, Kendra Bell has designed costumes for Yellow Bird Chase, Who Would Be King, Icarus, 28 Seeds, Song of Songs, and Le Cabaret Grimm. Kendra spends her daytime making beautiful things and teaching Costume Production and technology at Tufts University. Before settling at Tufts, she has worked for Costume Works Inc., Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Glimmerglass Opera, and Hubbard Street Dance. Some of her other design work includes The Kiss, Cabaret, and Alice in Wonderland for Berklee College of Music, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Company One), and Peter (Braintree Films). She is honored to have received an Elliot Norton Award for the Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a Best Design Award for Le Cabaret Grimm from the New York Musical Theatre Festival and an KCACTF Excellence in Costume Construction. In 2017, she participated in an Artist Residency Program in Korpo Finland. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Millikin University and a MFA in Theatrical Design from Rutgers University.

PJ Strachman – (Lighting Designer) Recent designs include L.A.B.’s A Story Beyond and Yellow Bird Chase, Flat Earth’s King of Shadows, Delicate Particle Logic, Antigone, A Bright Room Called Day, Silent Sky and Fat Pig, Blue Spruce’s The OK Diaries,  Gloucester Stage’s My Station in Life, Every Christmas Story Ever Told and Dueling Divas, Boston Public Works’ Los Meadows, Bad Habit’s The Real Inspector Hound, How Soft the Lining, A Man of No Importance, Speech and Debate, Six Degrees of Separation, The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia, Orlando, Translations, and Top Girls, Wax Wings’ The Man from Willow’s Brook, Kevin Cirone’s Creative License, and many other area shows. She is the regular designer for Gann Academy and coproducer at Blue Spruce Theatre. Photos of her work can be seen at www.pjelex.com. Upcoming works:  En la ardiente oscuridad at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Pandora (as lyricist, Blue Spruce Theatre in residence at Apollinaire).

Alex Leondedis is so excited to be working on his first production with Liars and Believers! Alex is currently a sophomore at Boston Conservatory at Berklee studying for his B.F.A in Contemporary Theater. It has been an amazing experience learning from the folks at here about their model of creating theater, and working with this entire ensemble of incredibly talented artists. He hopes you enjoy the show! 

Rachel Wiese is an actor, devisor, director, dancer, and puppeteer. Her work as a LAB Artistic Associate includes A Story Beyond – A Musical Fable, Yellow Bird Chase, Irresistible, Beowulf (In collaboration with Poets’ Theatre), and Who Would Be King. Her newly formed for-Worcester theatre company, Heart Forward, launched in 2019 with Rachel’s one woman performance in Walking Toward America. Her independent project, Be Clean, is still touring after a 2018 launch and tour through Quebec. Select Austin, TX Acting credits include Metamorphoses, and Wildflowers (Zach Theatre), Lifelines and Hometeam (Vetworks), Sacred Space Redux, Circle the Wagons, and A Streetcar Straight to Hell (The Exchange Artists), Frankenstein, The Jungle, and The Head (Trouble Puppet Theatre), Marvelous Things, and People Will Talk About You Sometimes (Poison Apple Initiative), Oceana (The Vortex). Rachel teaches in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Worcester State University and directs a bilingual theatre program for Texas A&M University in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy.

Rebecca Lehrhoff is a visual, performing, and teaching artist whose work ranges from acting, devising and dance to scenic design, art installation and mural painting. Rebecca was part of the original devising cast of A Story Beyond, but stepped out of the cast to have ababy! A LAB artistic associate, Rebecca’s company credits include: Who Would Be King, Yellow Bird Chase, Irresistible, and Interference. Other performance credit include: The Weird (Off The Grid Theater Company), Winter Panto 2018: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Winter Panto 2017: The Princess & The Pea (Imaginary Beasts), Beowulf, King Arthur (Poets’ Theatre), Sacred Spaces Redux (Exchange Artists), Enigma Variations (Flat Earth Theater), Beck: Song Reader (Chimera Lab Dance Theater). Select scenic design credits include: Winter Panto 2018: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Imaginary Beasts), How Soft the Lining (Bad Habit Productions), The Farnsworth Invention (Flat Earth Theater- IRNE Award- Best Fringe Show), Penny Penniworth: A Tale Of Great Good Fortune, Polish Joke (Titanic Theater Company), From the Sea to Somewhere Else (Flotsam Productions), Chalk (Fresh Ink Theater). Rebecca holds a MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University and a BS in theater from Skidmore College. 

Meredith Saran grew up in the suburbs of Boston, MA. Her first role as the star of her father’s home videos launched a lifelong love of performing. Memorable Boston credits include: ART’s The Donkey Show (Tytania/Sander, Dimitri/Vinnie), Company One’s She Kills Monsters (Lillith/Lily), Titanic Theatre Company’s Wonder of The World (Cass), Flat Earth Theatre’s What Once We Felt (Laura), and Apollinaire Theatre Company’s Hamlet (Rosencrantz). Regional credits include: Waiting for Lefty (Florence), An Absolute Turkey (Armandine), The Laramie Project (Romaine Patterson), and Sense and Sensibility (Fanny Dashwood) at Connecticut Repertory Theatre. You can see her in the locally produced web series, The Pineapple Diaries on YouTube. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of Connecticut. Meredith is thrilled to be making her LAB debut! Instagram: @dithraine.

Lindsay Eagle is an Elliot Norton Award-winning actor, director, producer, theatre artist and educator with a passion for justice-driven theatre and body image activism. Lindsay earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of Helen in Fat Pig by Neil LaBute (Flat Earth Theatre) and has acted and directed for many Boston companies, most frequently at Flat Earth, where she has been a Company Member and artistic leader since 2013. Additional acting credits include A Bright Room Called Day (Agnes; Flat Earth Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Alf, Boy’s Mother, et al; Hub Theatre Company), Move Your Face (Boston Theatre Company), and The Wizard of Oz (The Cowardly Lion; Create. Inspire. Change.). By day, Lindsay facilitates interactive educational programming at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, with a focus on civic engagement, and Deana’s Educational Theater, with a focus on intimate partner violence, bullying, and healthy relationships. www.lindsayeagle.com

Leilani Roser is a musician based in the greater Boston area. She made her singing debut as in 2006 as an alto in Divi Zheni, Boston’s only Bulgarian Women’s Chorus. Since then, she has performed on lead vocals, guitar, bass, and drums in a variety of Boston-area rock bands. Offstage, she is a Maker education coach, training K-12 teachers to use tools that unleash their students’ creativity. She is also a volunteer instructor at Girls Rock Campaign Boston, where she teaches drums and electronics to future gear heads. 

Amy Galaviz is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who is currently based in the Boston area.  She got her start in the local music scene in 2014 through her participation with Girls Rock Campaign Boston, a non-profit organization which empowers women, girls, and non-binary folks through music.  Since then, she has been performing with various Boston bands as a keyboardist, singer, and bassist, including Madam Bruja, Big Giant, Crow Follow, and Open Access.  As a theater novice, she looks forward to making her musical theatrical debut as Persephony the bassist in LAB’s upcoming Red Elektra.  When she is not playing music or performing, she is an avid gamer, and enjoys video and board games of all types.

Slamber Slusser is a musician and songwriter based in Boston, Massachusetts. A multi-instrumentalist, Slamber has always had a passion for music and plays a variety of instruments including guitar, bass, baritone guitar, vocals, and drums. Throughout the years, Slamber has performed in numerous bands and musical projects. Slamber also has a BA in theatre. 

 Much of the time, Slamber can be found palling around with canines and other creatures. In addition to making music and performing, Slamber thrives on attending arts events, being outdoors, and volunteering with Girls Rock Campaign Boston.

Betsy Pierce is a freelance stage manager, carpenter, and electrician. Stage management: The Lyons (SM, Titanic Theatre Co.), Nomad Americana (ASM, FreshInk), Hold These Truths (ASM, Lyric Stage Co.), Murder for Two (ASM, Lyric Stage Co.), A Fierce Kind of Love (SM). Technical Director: Weston Drama Workshop, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, FreshInk Theatre Co.. Carpenter/Electrician: Central Square Theater, Lyric Stage Co., BeNT Productions, Huntington Theatre Co., Lantern Theatre Co., FringeArts, People’s Light Theatre Co.. Betsy holds a B.S. in Theatre Arts from Skidmore College.