Cabaret of Dreams Cast

“Part celestial creature, part sophisticated human” is how Charlotte Lily Gaspard has been described by Faerie Magazine when contemplating the ethereal artist and her work in one of their features. Shadow puppet artist, educator and entertainer, Charlotte’s mission is to activate imaginations and celebrate playfulness wherever she goes. A “multi-faceted enchantress… the fanciful mastermind behind Midnight Radio Show” {Broadway World}, Charlotte is the founder and artistic director of Midnight Radio Show, a shadow puppet sci-fi fairytale theater company based in Brooklyn. Charlotte and her collective are known for devising innovative avant-garde enchantments, infused with puppets, poetry, music and dance, for the stage and beyond.

Rina Dutta is a performance artist from NYC! She is a resident actor at The Mercury Store, and is an adjunct faculty member at NYU undergrad. She holds her MFA from NYU Tisch and BA from Queens College. This is her first performance with Midnight Radio Show and she is so excited to join the experience! @rinadutta_official

Malik Work, the NYC based actor-teacher-playwright-poet is a founding member of the groundbreaking jazz/hip hop conglomerate: The Real Live Show. Malik is accomplished in diverse facets of writing and performance. He has written and starred in a one man show entitled Verses At Work, for which he was nominated for Best Solo Performance at the AUDELCO Awards. The show was recently featured on tour with the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit. He also wrote, starred in, and executive produced a film version of Verses @ Work that won the International Spotlight Award at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival. His recent television credits include Broad City on Comedy Central and Blacklist: Redemption on NBC. He has provided award-winning voice-over for HBO, Fiber One, scripted television, radio, and internet. Malik is also the voice of Planet Word, an immersive museum of the English language in Washington DC, the world’s first voice-activated museum. He’s composed and performed poetry for Webby Award winning project People Not Property, an historic preservation and educational website for Historic Hudson Valley. He teaches acting, Shakespeare, theater arts, creative writing, hip hop and hip hop theater, locally and internationally. He is a faculty member and alumnus of the National Theater Institute, and a teaching artist for the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Follow him: @malikwork on IG, and @malikworks on Twitter, www.malikwork.com, and www.versesatwork.net.

Ash Winkfield (xe/xem/xyr/they) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in theater and the puppetry arts. They began their journey into professional performance while studying at UNC-Chapel Hill where they were introduced to puppetry while workshopping Basil Twist's Rite of Spring in 2013. Over the last decade, they have performed puppetry, theater, and vocal performance all over the world. Winkfield specializes in new and devised work presented in New York City, and has toured domestically and internationally with Basil Twist (Rite of Spring, Sister’s Follies, Book of Mountains and Seas), Torry Bend (The Paper Hat Game, Dreaming), The Walk with Little Amal (NYC, Toronto, Ireland, US Tour), Mabou Mines (Animal Magnetism), Shake on the Lake (The Othello Project, Songs & Sweet Airs, Mxbeth, Henry V), and Eat, Drink, Tell Your Friends (Lectures). They have had the great pleasure to perform in several projects that have been developed as part of La Mama’s Jumpstart, St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Puppet Lab, The Floating Tower, and the Object Movement Puppetry Festival. @ashleyk.music

L.A. Rucker, AKA Doc Frost has had a varied career in the industry as a writer, composer/ musician, producer. Over the years L.A. has been a key figure in both pre and post production for the New York New Media Association, Third World Newsreel, Brixton House, INIVA, Penup! Writers Collective and the Jack Straw Cultural Center. Most recently L.A. has launched his label "Glass Magnet" to showcase his fusion and electronica soundscapes. L.A. has dedicated his life to creativity, growth, and discovery. L.A. believes "An exploration of art should be as limitless as the depths of your imagination". L.A. has a reputation for breaking barriers and working with the brightest talent from the vanguard to the darkest corners of the underground.

Noah LaPook (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in NYC. As an actor, he recently appeared in ABC’s The Facts of Life. As a dancer, he recently performed with Third Rail Projects in their immersive dance-theatre show, True Love Forever. As a musician, his debut album, Intrusive Thoughts, is now streaming on all platforms. Follow along @lapookaracha

Heather Mo’Witz is an actor, poet, and multidisciplinary performance artist whose work winks and nudges at the conventions of polite society. A true “Character Chameleon,” Heather channels spirits from outside her species, gender, and paradigm. You can find her performing with the clown troupe Fou York, Guerilla Theater Collective, Nancy Manchurian’s the cell theatre, or with the Poetry Brothel (as Eileen Fountainbleau). This is Heather’s first time collaborating with Midnight Radio Show.

Trinity Starlight is a native New Yorker, acting alumni from LaGuardia Arts High School, and received a BA in Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College. Trinity has performed in the past as Disney “Princess Tiana” from the movie “Princess & the Frog”, for special events here in NYC. She’s in the February 2021 issue of Hustler Magazine and also has a song called “Olivia” streaming available on Spotify/Apple Music. Currently Trinity can be found up on the bar gogo dancing to live disco music almost every weekend at Ethyl’s Bar & Restaurant on the Upper East Side.

Noah Rafael Seltzer is a clown, actor, poet, and Pisces based in Brooklyn, NY. Noah has performed at The Idiot's Hour, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Brooklyn Arthaus, and other venues around the city. They are currently working on a solo show.

Ze Motion is one of the best kept secret artists outta NYC. Dj and versatile dancer, he has been teaching and performing nationally and internationally for over 2 decades. His charismatic and energetic style is contagious!

Reg is a literary, performing, and teaching artist- though not necessarily in that order. They are a graduate of the University of Illinois, and a current graduate student at New York University- where they are studying English/Theatre Education. At U of I, they have appeared in the Spring ’23 production of On The Verge, and are proud to have worked on The Performing Arts Center’s production of The Niceties. In New York, they are proud to have been a part of a thriving indie theatre community. Their work has been published in national and local publications such as U of I Springfield's Violet Margin, and The Aura Review. Here’s to live theatre, and here’s to local, independent theatre communities!