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. Along with puppets, Charlotte also creates costumes for theatre & film projects. She has lead puppetry & theatre workshops all over NYC and beyond. More at www.MidnightRadioShow.org

Cleopatra Boudreau is a performer, storyteller and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She enjoys engaging is stories that exist outside of the realm of the mundane. She has been working with MRS for the past 3 years, and adores collaborating with their eclectic band of dreamers.

Ash Winkfield (xe/xem/xyr/they) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in theater and the puppetry arts. Winkfield specializes in new and devised work presented in New York City, and has toured domestically and internationally with Basil Twist (Rite of Spring, Book of Mountains and Seas), The Walk with Little Amal, Shake on the Lake (Mxbeth, Henry V), and Josh Rice Productions (Kayfabe). Most recently, Winkfield was a featured vocalist in Yaa Samar Dance Theater’s French tour of Gathering in 2025. Their directorial debut, The Harlem Doll Palace, is included as part of the Chicago International Puppetry Theater Festival. Ash is currently based in New York City. Visit ashleywinkfield.com or check out their Instagram @ashleyk.music.

Malik Work, the NYC based actor-playwright-director-professor-poet is a founding member and emcee of the groundbreaking jazz/hip hop conglomerate: The Real Live Show. . His one man show entitled Verses @ Work, was nominated for Best Solo Performance at the AUDELCO Awards and featured on tour with the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit. He also wrote, starred in, and executive produced an award-winning film version of Verses @ Work. His television credits include Broad City on Comedy Central and Blacklist: Redemption on NBC. He has provided award-winning voice-over for HBO and Fiber One. Malik is the voice of Planet Word, an immersive museum of the English language in Washington DC. He’s composed and performed poetry for Webby Award winning project People Not Property, an historic preservation and educational website for Historic Hudson Valley, with whom he curates Pinkster, a yearly cultural festival. As a playwright he has had works produced by 651 Arts, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Imagination Stage. He teaches acting, Black Theatre, Shakespeare, 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, CUNY Creative Arts Team, and Playwrights Horizons. Follow him: @malikwork on IG, www.malikwork.com

Doc Frost aka Leigh-Antony Rucker Floyd, better known as L.A. has had a varied career in the industry as a writer, actor, composer, and musician. 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, BRIC arts, INIVA, and Penup! Writers Collective. 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.

Jake Caceres (Stage Manager) Jim Wise Theatre: Amelie: The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher. A recent graduate with a master's degree from NJIT. Much love to Mom, Dad, my sister Hanna, and the dogs.

Andrew Robinson is a New York based scenic designer and is excited to be working on M.I.A. Last year, he started his MFA in Scenic Design at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked at multiple professional theaters, including Urban Stages, Lantern Theater, Center Theater, Act Two Playhouse, Azuka Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, and InterAct. Andrew's portfolio can be viewed at www.andrewrobinsondesigns.com, or follow him at ar_scenicdesigns.

Sophie Yuqing Nie is a sound designer, sound artist, and audio engineer whose work spans theatre, dance, concerts, and installations. Her work focuses on uplifting the voices of women, ethnic minorities, and underrepresented communities through music and sound. Blending aesthetic sensitivity with technical expertise, she crafts sonic experiences that resonate deeply and invite emotional engagement and reflection. Selected credits include SpaceBridge (En Garde Arts / La MaMa / Visual Echo), Todas las mariposas negras mueren en el mar (IATI), Destination Undefined (Cellunova), Existentialism (Anne Bogart / Talking Band), Metamorphoses, and Big Trip (Krymov Lab NYC).

Allison Costa (she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist, dancer and creative technologist from New York City. She graduated with honors from Barnard College with a double major in dance and computer science. Her work, in both solo and collaborative contexts spanning performance, lighting/projection design and creative technology, has been presented at venues including Jacob’s Pillow, Symphony Space, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Fabrica Research Center, MoMA, Center for Performance Research, and the Barnard Movement Lab.

Deeply rooted in purpose, Jessie “DJ Nebraska” Davis is an artist, educator, and cultural ambassador dedicated to using art as a tool for community building and sustainable development. Davis shares her message via her genre bending original music, elevating vibrations on dancefloors, and inter-continental artistic exchange.

Emily is one half of the dance duo, The Dysfunctional Swingers, and has been working with MRS for many years. The Dysfunctional Swingers bring their own special brand of humor and tricks to the MRS productions. Emily has also been known to occasionally wield a sword.