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Cadence Lamb |
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| This dissection of the classic Iphigenia at Aulis takes place in a technofeudal, post-apocalyptic ice age. There, amidst the unfamiliar rubble of her life, a nameless girl searches for her identity and freedom from her father's war machine. After the traditions of Magda Romanska and Heiner Müller, THE IPHIGENIAMACHINE dismantles the original mythology to expose a perilous underbelly of atrocity, complacency, and glorified masculinity. | ||
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This workshop is made possible by Pratt Institute's Graduate Student Engagement Fund.
Content Indicators: depictions of blood, violence, sexual acts, partial nudity, strobing lights
No AI was used in the making of this production.
Cast
Creative Team
Mackenzie Robin Krestul
Harrison Campbell
Kim Bramwell
Kat Quiñones
J. D. Goodman
Tori Bogacki
Alice Camarota
Alex Kopnick
Annie McGowan
Meet the Company
Quinn Andrews
Quinn is an actor and poet hailing from the Hudson Valley, NY and recent graduate from Hofstra University. She is passionate about breathing depth and humanity into “odd-ball” characters, as well as the enduring relevance of classical works and making them more accessible to modern audiences. Recent credits include: Nothing Like Here (Valeria), Lady Macbeth is a Freshman in the Ensemble… (Thea), and Trojan Women (Cassandra).
Travis Bergmann
Travis Bergmann has appeared in several recent Off- and Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Lewis and Clark: The Story of York, Angel in the Heat, Seven Against Thebes, Resurrection, King Lear, Nero, and Traitors, earning a 2025 Hell’s Kitchen Award for Best Actor for Traitors. He has also appeared in television and short film projects such as Talk Show (viewable at the Whitney Museum), Echoes of Justice, Evil Lives Here, Lacrimosa, Toyota’s “Lifting Up the Community,” and Savior of the Universe. Instagram: @travbergs | Email: twbergmann63@gmail.com
Kaitlyn Rose Rabocse
Kaitlyn Rose RaBocse is thrilled to be working on another project by the wonderful Mackenzie Robin Krestul! A few years ago, Kaitlyn was in Mackenzie's play "Goblin Woman" and she is so happy to be back collaborating on a new work with such a wonderful group of artists. Kaitlyn has her BFA in Performance from Hofstra University, has studied at Stella Adler, and is a member of On the Road Rep. Recent projects include the horror film "Killer of the Haunt" and the web-series "Mask Girls". www.kaitlynroserabocse.com
Sam Hardy
Sam is a Brooklyn-based actor, orator, and aspiring voiceover artist. He boasts numerous classical and contemporary credits with The American Theatre of Actors and Stag & Lion Theatre Co. samhardyspeaks.com is currently under construction, but soon you should be able to keep up with him there. Sam holds a B.A. in Theatre from The University of Alabama.
Cadence Lamb
Cadence Lamb is an actor, dancer, and musician with lots of other hyphens she's dipped her toes into over the years. Some favorite credits include: Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest, Completes Works Abridged, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival); King John, Love's Labours Lost (Texas Shakespeare Festival); The Producers, White Christmas, Peter Pan, La Cage Aux Folles (Barter Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Rapunzel (Lexington Children's Theatre). NY credits: The devil smokes..., Polar Express, Teach Me How to Die. Last winter she co-wrote, produced, and starred in a silly short film titled Drunk Girl, and an EP of her original music that she self-produced is dropping this month!
Emily McManus
Emily McManus is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the worlds of dance, acting, and puppetry. With a BFA in Dance and Choreography, she brings a unique movement-driven approach to puppetry, combining technical expertise with an innate understanding of physical expression. Drawing from years of training and performance in dance, Emily specializes in creating dynamic, emotionally resonant puppet performances that emphasize the power of movement and storytelling.
Mackenzie Robin Krestul
Mackenzie Robin Krestul is a genderqueer actor, writer, and sound designer with a passion for experimental work. Recent credits include Traitors, Come Flower, Come Flame, and When We Dead Awaken, as well as productions of their original works: The Goblin Woman and Endless Space. Mackenzie is also the founder of the nonprofit Code Read, an initiative for children’s literacy and book access (@mycoderead). They received their BFA in Performance from Hofstra University with additional training at The Barrow Group, and they graduate next week with their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. mackenzierobinkrestul.com | @m.r.krestul
Mackenzie Robin Krestul
Mackenzie Robin Krestul is an actor, writer, and sound designer with a passion for experimental work. Recent credits include Traitors, Come Flower, Come Flame, and When We Dead Awaken, as well as productions of their original works: The Goblin Woman and Endless Space. Mackenzie is also the founder of the nonprofit Code Read, an initiative for children’s literacy and book access (@mycoderead). They received their BFA in Performance from Hofstra University with additional training at The Barrow Group, and they graduate next week with their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. mackenzierobinkrestul.com | @m.r.krestul
Harrison Campbell
Harrison Campbell is an Appalachian-born, Brooklyn-based writer and director originally from Acworth, GA. Some credits include Home Movies (Studio Seaview), Breaking the Chain (Chain Theater), Endless Space (Chain Theater), The Apple and the Earth (The Tank), and Nighthawks Into Light (Headwall Theatre Co.). He dedicates his life and his work to his family and partner. He holds a BFA in Theater Arts from Hofstra University and is a proud member of the Dramatists’ Guild. Instagram: @_harrisonjc
Kim Bramwell
Kim Bramwell is an NYC based story-teller, whose background as an actor has now expanded into directing and stage-management. Recent credits include Postcards from Paris (Director; Queens Short Play Festival Semi-Finalist), Come Flower, Come Flame (Stage Manager; Reverie Arts Collective), and A Christmas Carol (Christmas Past; dir. Tori Bogacki, ad. Jess Reed) She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University and plans to pursue a Masters in Directing - location pending. kimbramwell.com | IG @kim.bramwell
Kat Quiñones
Kat Quiñones is a Puerto Rican Actor/ Designer/Artist who loves creating beautiful stories. Previous credits include The Goo (New Relic Theatre), Steps (Epheverie Theatre Co), Romeo and Juliet (938 Collective), A Midsummer Night Dream (Starling Shakespeare), and The Artist With Virgin Voyages' Happenings Cast. They have done costume design for Reverie Arts Collective’s production of The Goblin Woman, PopUp! Productions’ Cuckoo, and the Operas Clemenza de Tito and The Medium with the Hofstra Opera Program. Kat is forever grateful for their friends and family that put up with their cheesy jokes! Check out KatQuinones.com to keep up with them! @Kat.Quinones
J. D. Goodman
J.D. Goodman is a Boston based composer, sound designer, and arranger. Recent sound design credits include: Come Flower, Come Flame (Reverie Arts Collective), Two Noble Kinsmen (Hofstra University), The Goblin Woman (Reverie Arts Collective), and One Little Room (Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto). He is one of the co-founders for Reverie Arts Collective (@reverieartscollective) alongside Mackenzie Robin Krestul and Tori Bogacki. He currently writes all the original music for the Dungeons and Dragons actual play podcast "Tea & D" which can be found anywhere you listen to podcasts. In his free time, you can find him singing with his a cappella group, The Contemporaries, in the Boston area. IG @jdgoodmanmusic | @teaanddpodcast | @thecontemporaries.acappella
Tori Bogacki
Tori Bogacki is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist with a passion for innovative, imaginative storytelling. Recent credits include her playwriting debut in the Queens' Short Play Festival with "Postcards from Paris," which she likewise performed in, and Directing/Co-Producing Jess Reed's adaptation of "A Christmas Carol." She is the proud Co-Founder of Reverie Arts Collective alongside playwright Mackenzie Krestul and Sound Designer J.D. Goodman. @tori_bogacki on Instagram. Let's connect!
Alice Camarota
Alice Camarota is a New York City based stage Director, Producer, and Intimacy Coordinator. She was resident director of The AlphaNYC for 13 years where she directed over 100 full length productions including Lysistrata, The Laramie Project, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, And Then There Were None, and The F#cked Up Fairy Tales which she also wrote. Recently she produced and directed Let’s Summon a Demon at Debbie’s, and No Exit, which she took to The Philadelphia Fringe Festival. As an Intimacy coordinator, she has done the choreography for Ty and Ava, Cherry Jam, She Said She Said, Some Girls, The Goblin Woman, and the short film Perfect Love. She has completed the 1 year directing program at The Barrow Group, and has a BFA in Theater from LIU Post. She is an associate member of SDC. www.AliceCamarota.com
Alex Kopnick
Annie McGowan
Articles
THE IPHIGENIAMACHINE to Make New York Premiere at American Theatre of Actors
"THE IPHIGENIAMACHINE," a postmodern play by Mackenzie Robin Krestul, will have its New York debut on May 12th, supported by the Graduate Student Engagement Fund of Pratt Institute. Performances will be at the Beckmann Theatre, American Theatre of Actors, on Tuesday May 12th through Sunday May 17th at 7:30pm, with an additional matinee on Sunday at 3:00pm. Ticket prices are tiered.
This dissection of the classic Iphigenia at Aulis takes place in a technofeudal, post-apocalyptic ice age. There, amidst the unfamiliar rubble of her life, a nameless girl searches for her identity and freedom from her father's war machine. After the traditions of Magda Romanska and Heiner Müller, The Iphigeniamachine dismantles the original mythology to expose a perilous underbelly of atrocity, complacency, and glorified masculinity. Director Harrison Campbell speaks to the nature of this work:
"When considering how to approach the mythos of the ancient Greek playwrights like Euripides or Aeschylus, it's impossible not to butt up against the innovative but restrained rhetoric about the stories of Greek women. Iphigenia is just one example of many, a story where the tragic events of Iphigenia's demise are treated as an unwavering duty to the state or, worse, a contrived form of gratitude from the voice of a daughter soon to be destroyed. To produce the work as set down by Greek tradition is to ignore the piece in conversation with our current reality: that our American mythos is hardly a far cry from that of Aulis."
The cast features Quinn Andrews, Travis Bergmann, Sam Hardy, Mackenzie Robin Krestul, Cadence Lamb, Emily McManus, and Kaitlyn Rose RaBocse. On the design team is director Harrison Campbell, stage manager Kim Bramwell, sound designer and composer J. D. Goodman, lighting designer Tori Bogacki, puppet designer Annie McGowan, Costume Designer Kat Quiñones, fight director Alex Kopnick, intimacy coordinator Alice Camarota, and dramaturg Charlotte Edsall.
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