ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Alexandria Thomas is a Miami grown & Brooklyn based Performing Artist with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently an Elementary Performing Arts Teacher at UBSE. Throughout NYC & FL, she professionally performs & creates with her talents of singing, acting, writing, managing and directing. Alexandria’s credits include Rusty Charlie-Guys & Dolls (MNM Theatre), Kiki-Tommy on Top (The Foundry), Lady Arlin-Brokeneck Girls: A Murder Ballad Musical, Aude-Excavating: The Rising Star, and so much more! Alexandria became involved with IVP in 2020, crewing Nellie Bly & The Women of Blackwell, post graduating and continues to contribute through acting, developing, stage managing and directing. She believes that art and creation is the backbone of connection and she hopes you will feel connected to the stories IVP brings you.

ANN KELSEY | PRODUCER

Amanda Corbett is a Brooklyn based actor and director thrilled and grateful to make her debut with Infinite Variety Productions. She has performed regionally in both classical and contemporary works, including Sense and Sensibility, Cabaret, Into the Woods, and Easy Virtue, and has helped workshop and develop new plays with Florida’s Theatre Lab. Her screen work includes Netflix’s Diedra and Laney Rob a Train. She holds an MFA from Florida Atlantic University and a BFA from Westminster College. Amanda is deeply honored to help share this story. Love to Grant! 

PLAYWRIGHT | DIRECTOR | PRODUCER

Ash Singer is a director and playwright working throughout the United States and abroad, creating historically grounded productions that combine rigorous research with bold visual storytelling and deep text analysis.

At Sedona Arts Academy in Arizona, she directed productions ranging from True Nature of All Beings, based on the Minamata disease crisis, to an immersive Great Gatsby, developed in non-traditional performance environments.

Her original piece In Their Footsteps, drawn from oral histories of women who served in the Vietnam War, has been produced Off-Broadway, internationally, and as an NPR radio play, earning the 2025 Women in Media Gracie Award. Most recently, she directed Grease at Stevens Institute of Technology, reimagining the musical through a contemporary lens focused on identity and performance.

Ash is the founder of Infinite Variety Productions, a non-profit dedicated to bringing women’s untold histories to life in non-traditional spaces. Their upcoming production, premiering this June, explores Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theatre Project.

In her spare time, she studies martial arts and holds a fourth-degree black belt. To learn more: ashsinger.com or follow her on IG at ashsinger07

JEANNE “SAM” CHRISTIE | PRODUCER

Originally from Santa Fe, NM, Becca has been performing in New York for just over a year. She is excited to work with IVP on her second production with them, having appeared in Excavating the Rising Star last year! Other recent credits include Left Behind (Marjorie/Laurie), Legally Blonde (Chutney/Ensemble), The Wolves (#00), Antigonick (Nick), & Luchadora! (Vanessa, u/s). She thanks everyone involved for their incredible work and all veterans for their bravery and service.

DORIS “LUCKI” ALLEN

Esther Ayomide Akinsanya, New York City based, an award-winning actor, for Best Actress at the Strawberry One-Act Festival for Jibola in No Fall My Hand. 

A graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, majored in dramatic arts with extensive training in both Shakespearean and contemporary theater.

Her stage credits recently include IVP’s, Excavating the Rising Star as Keneiloe Malopyane and Emerson Theater Collaborative’s House With No Walls as Oney Judge. Additional stage credits include original, classic and contemporary works such as Jazmine in Verse Diverse; Macduff/Duncan/Witch in Macbeth; Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; God in the award-nominated The Hunting Season; Celia in As You Like It; Tommy in Wine in the Wilderness; and Amanda in Lady Congo.

On screen, Esther has appeared in Tales From the Narrow Bridge: The Wormwood Devil, Orange Is the New Black, The Breaks and Mr. Robot. 

Voiceover work includes Whilemina in Sugar Maple.

Stay connected with Esther on Instagram: @mis_ayo.

LILY ADAMS

Eunji Lim is an international Korean actor based in New York City and the founder of DREAMA(@dreamaco). Born in Seoul, she has worked as an actor and artist both in Korea and the U.S. She has since appeared in projects at New York Theatre Workshop, HERE Arts Center, the Whitney Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, and more. Selected credits include; TV: Beef Season 2(Netflix), Theatre: The Maids, Wild Goose Dreams, Dimes Square, Doña Mañana and Specially Processed American Me. For The Maids, she received the Best Performance Award from the Asian Arts Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Lim is passionate about broadening cultural and artistic circles on the international stage. MFA in Acting, Actors Studio Drama School. www.eunjilim.com

SOUND DESIGNER

Hadley Todoran is a Bronx based stage manager and technician originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana. They have been the technical coordinator of Frigid New York for the past three years, lending their expertise to plays, musicals, standup comedy, burlesque, and everything in between. They have worked with a multitude of companies in NYC over their 10-year career, including Infinite Variety Productions, the New York Neo-Futurists, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. You can find Hadley every Tuesday night running tech for The Open Mic Downstairs at Under St. Marks or walking dogs around the city. For Carter and Robby.

PRODUCER

Kate Szekely is a versatile actor and producer based in Orlando, FL. A classically trained performer with a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch, she has over a decade of experience spanning theater, film, and new media. Kate's acting credits include Jagged Mind (Hulu), The Child They Hid (Lifetime), and festival performances at Edinburgh Fringe and Italy's OnStage! Festival. As an independent producer, she has produced four short films, produced a radio program for NPR that won a 2025 Gracie Award, and has raised over $100K in funding for independent projects. She owns Epiphany Junkie, her film production company and consultancy in Orlando, FL. kateszekely.com

JUDY JENKINS GAUDINO

Kelly Teaford is a producer, stage manager, and actor. Recent producing credits: In Their Footsteps, Etchings, and The Faces Behind the Photos with Infinite Variety Productions, Veteran Voices: Reckoning, Veteran Voices: Transformation, and Veteran Voices: Rites of Passage with Poetic Theater Productions. Recent stage managing or assistant stage managing credits: In Blue at The Tank, Silent Movie Dreams at the Hudson Arts Festival, A Simple Treasure at the Chain Theatre, and Stan the Man at Guild Hall. https://www.kellyteaford.com/

After consistently working with Ash Singer in Sedona, Arizona, Malena is always grateful and enthusiastic to share stories that create conversations that wouldn’t happen otherwise. Going from a resident Stage Manager to Assistant Director through multiple productions such as “Raging Skillet” and “Permanent Collection”, she is excited to expand her knowledge and experience in theatre thanks to opportunities provided by the wonderful people at IVP. In her free time you can find her traveling or reading her new favorite fantasy book. Thank you to our cast and crew for providing an unparalleled outlet for creativity and learning, and to her friends and family for supporting her through all the projects she finds herself in.