Sacco & Vanzetti Are Dead! Cast

Joey DeFilippis is an actor, director, and writer from NJ based in New York City. His most recent play was performed at Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe in 2022 in which he starred. Joey has produced and worked on a multitude of short and feature-length projects, collaborating with brands such as New Era, Kodak, Fendi, Hermes, 300 Ent, and with talents such as Alan Cumming, Jordan Roth, Courtney Love, and Matthew Lawrence. He is a BFA Film and Creative Writing graduate from Marymount Manhattan College.

Matt Ferrara is an actor, filmmaker, and playwright from NJ based in New York’s East Village. He has performed in a wide variety of theatrical productions as well as produced and starred in many of his own film and theater projects. His most recent play was performed in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Festival Fringe 2022 in which he starred. Matt recently worked with John Patrick Shanley, starring in a workshop for his new play The Lost Years. He studied acting at the Esper Studio in Manhattan and is a BFA Film graduate from Montclair State University.

Ilana Schimmel is an NJ/NYC based artist. She graduated from Montclair State University with a B.A in Theater Studies. Recently, she has been a resident actor and production designer at a non-profit theater in NJ which has been an incubator for new and underproduced works by world renowned playwrights. Highlighted credits: Fragments (Woman 1) performed alongside F.Murray Abraham. Sam Shepard’s The Unseen Hand (Wille), Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby (GIRL), Beth Henley’s EXPOSED (Reb World Premier), Fat Men in Skirts (Pam/Popo Martin), The Pillowman (Ariel), The Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolyn). www.IlanaSchimmel.com

Danielle MacMath is a NJ/NYC based actor, educator, and designer. Recently, she appeared on stage with F. Murray Abraham in a reading of Albee's Fragments. NYC: Off-Broadway Premiere of Eric Bogosian's 1+1 (Brianne u/s) at SoHo Playhouse, Othello (Emilia) and Romeo & Juliet (Benvolio) at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, ...Rise of the Goatman at Theater for the New City. Select NJ credits: Macbeth (Witch/Lady MacDuff) and Romeo & Juliet (Lady Capulet) with Pax Amicus Castle Shakespeare Repertory; Spring Awakening (Wendla), Significant Other (Laura), Hair (Jeanie), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Honey), Premiere Production of Exposed by Beth Henley (Jane), and U.S. Premiere of Sam Shepard’s unpublished Little Ocean at BBPAC; an educational tour of HERstory (Louisa May Alcott); and most recently Mrs. Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at The Growing Stage. Her promotional art and theatre marketing materials (for over 20 productions) have been seen in NJ & NYC, and shared by award-winning playwrights and other esteemed artists. BA in Theatre & Literature, MA in Teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson University. www.DanielleMacMath.com IG: @DanielleMacMath

Michael Gardiner is an NYC/NJ-based actor, director, and writer. This year, he appeared with F. Murray Abraham in Edward Albee’s Fragments. He has also just returned from a rave performance as Panch in …Spelling Bee at Vermont’s Grange Theatre. During his tenure as Managing Director of The Black Box, he developed & performed in new plays by many esteemed/award-winning writers including Eric Bogosian, John Patrick Shanley, “Lemony Snicket”, Paul Schrader, Beth Henley, Neil Labute and others. Select Black Box credits: The Play About the Baby; Sam Shepard’s The Unseen Hand, Action, and the unpublished Little Ocean; the premiere workshop of J.P. Shanley’s The Lost Years (Director); Fat Men in Skirts; The Pillowman; Hamlet; Othello (Iago); …Cuckoo’s Nest (RP McMurphy); Woyzeck (Director/Woyzeck), Romeo & Juliet (Director)--BWW Award Winner Best Touring Production. NYC: Eric Bogosian’s new play 1+1 (SoHo Playhouse, The Chain),…Rise of the Goatman (TNC), Pygmalion (Higgins) at Nuyorican Poets Cafe. www.michael-gardiner.com IG: @gardinlord1

Francesco Baldino is a first-time actor. A friend of the show, the writers based the character of Mario Boda on Francesco’s personality. When it came time to cast the role, nobody fit the part like Fran. He’s excited to be a part of the production and looks forward to making his acting debut.

Daniel Yaiullo is an actor, writer, and director living in NYC. Last year, he appeared in the off-Broadway premiere of Eric Bogosian's play 1+1 at SoHo Playhouse and acted in the feature film "Gothic Slayers," which just had a sneak preview screening at the McHenry Outdoor Theater in Illinois. He stars in the series "Events at Hemlock Manor" and co-wrote and stars in "Nightfish," a comedy pilot which will be making its NYC premiere this December with the acclaimed festival Dances With Films. In June of next year he will act in The Moby Dick Blues at La MaMa after appearing in its 2023 iteration at the Colonial Theater in Augusta, Maine. Other highlights include Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory, Dress of Fire with Austin Pendleton, and Fourteen Little Red Huts, which performed in Voronezh, Russia.

Bret Raybould is a New York City comedian and writer with an ever-expanding BCU (Bret Cinematic Universe). In 2023, he wrote and starred in the hit off-Broadway show called "Race: The Movie: The Play," for which he was named Best Actor and won Best Script at the NY Theater Festival. Critics called it “Mel Brooks for the modern era.” He is the co-host of Better Halves, a new show on SiriusXM Raw Comedy, along with adult film legend Lisa Ann. He's released a one-hour special entitled “Bret Raybould Retires from Comedy,” which garnered tens of millions of views across social media and debuted at #1 on the comedy charts. He’s also launched his own cryptocurrency BretCoin, making him the World's First Publicly-Traded Comedian. Learn more at BretRaybould.com

Ryan O’Toole is an actor & stand-up comedian from Boston, Mass. He’s been seen in multiple plays in New York & Massachusetts, as well Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.