The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse

Patrick Nathan Falk (he/him) is thrilled to be making his off-Broadway debut in The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse! Previous regional and educational credits include Big Fish (Amos), Putting It Together (Younger Man), Rock of Ages (Lonny), and Seussical (Cat). Pace MT 2024. Tremendous thanks to Ann Steele Agency, all of his friends and family, and his sweet little dog. To his trans siblings–it is all for you. @patricknfalk patrickfalk.com

Broadway: SIX (Jane Seymour), Waitress (Jenna u/s), jagged little pill; Tour: Cats (Grizabella); TV: Law & Order: SVU (Snowflake). Regional: The King’s Wife (Anne Boleyn), [title of show] (Heidi); Murder Ballad (Sara), Dogfight (Rose), Les Miserable (Eponine), Lizzie Borden (Lizzie), A Chorus Line (Maggie), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Rachel), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), The Winter’s Tale (Perdita). Workshops: THE LAST BIMBO OF THE APOCALYPSE-The New Group, GATSBY- Florence+The Machine, Not Ready for Prime Time (Laraine Newman), and Living Quarters- Irish Repertory Theatre (Anna). Keri releases her own music as DITTA, found on all streaming platforms.

Sara Gettelfinger most recently starred as “Barbara” in the Tony Award winning Water for Elephants. Other Broadway/National Tours: The Addams Family (Morticia), A Free Man of Color (Dona Athene) , The 101 Dalmatians Musical (Cruella de Vil), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene Oakes), Nine (Carla), The Boys from Syracuse, Seussical, Fosse. Other NYC/Regional: The Cher Show, Carnival!, Tenderloin, Chicago, Grey Gardens, Anything Goes, Catch Me If You Can, Pippin. TV/Film: Guiding Light, Ed, Without a Trace, Georgetown, The Big C, Forbidden Love, Sex and the City: The Movie and coming up: The Man With The Bag.

Luke Islam first gained national attention on Season 14 of America's Got Talent, earning a Golden Buzzer from Julianne Hough for his performance of "She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress. Following AGT, he starred as Koob on Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers and as Carlos in Netflix’s 13: The Musical. Recently, Luke performed two sold-out solo concerts at 54 Below and The Cutting Room. He was also featured as Christopher L in the feature film Theater Camp, which premiered in theaters and is now available for streaming on demand. @thelukeislam

Milly Shapiro earned a Tony Award and Grammy nomination for her role as Matilda in Broadway's Matilda the Musical. She starred in A24’s Hereditary, a cultural phenomenon following its Sundance 2018 premiere, and played Sally in York Theatre Company's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She can currently be seen in Peacock’s Hysteria! and is represented by Artists and Representatives and Thruline Entertainment.

Natalie Walker is a performer and writer. Stage: The Big Gay Jamboree (Orpheum), White Girl in Danger (Second Stage), Alice By Heart (MCC), Dogfight concert (Second Stage), Cabaret (Secret), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Hangar). Screen: Search Party, BoJack Horseman, The Other Two, The Hamlet Factory. Writing featured in Bookforum and New York Magazine. 

Michael Breslin is a writer and director of plays, musicals, and movies. As a creative director of Fake Friends, with Foley: Circle Jerk (Pulitzer finalist, Obie Award) and This American Wife (NYTW, “Best Theater 2021” LA Times and New Yorker). As a director: Invasive Species, Jonathan Larson Lyrics and Lyricists. Forthcoming: The Wives (with Foley, starring Jennifer Lawrence, for Apple/A24), Bikini (writer/director, starring Cat Rodríguez). Doctorate and MFA, Yale. BA, Hamilton College.

Patrick is an Obie-winning actor and writer who was last seen in The New Group's world premier of Thomas Bradshaw's The Seagull / Woodstock, NY.  He is a creative director of the theater company Fake Friends with Michael Breslin. The duo wrote and produced Circle Jerk (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Obie Award Winner) and This American Wife (The New Yorker's "Best Performances of 2021.") They also co-wrote and produced Ratatouille: The Tik Tok Musical. Patrick is developing TV and film projects with Netflix, Apple, A24, Lionsgate and more. BA, NYU Tisch. MFA, Yale School of Drama. 

Dan Schlosberg’s work has been praised as “flat-out brilliant” (New York Times). Recent projects: Marriage of Figaro (Little Island); Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin/NYU Skirball); The Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera); Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond’s Only an Octave Apart; Jeremy O. Harris’s A Boy’s Company Presents; Patrick Wang’s film A. Rimbaud. In addition to performances with Angel Blue, Ariana DeBose, Tony Kushner, and Ben Stiller, Dan was the pianist for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and a featured soloist in Only an Octave Apart with the New York Philharmonic and on NPR’s Tiny Desk. Awards: Charles Ives Scholarship (American Academy of Arts and Letters), 2 ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, Drama Desk nomination (Montag, Soho Rep). www.danschlosberg.com

Jack Ferver is a writer, choreographer, and performer. Their genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), explore psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of queerness, gender, and power struggles. Their work has been presented in New York City at New York Live Arts; New Museum; The Kitchen; Crossing the Line; Abrons Arts Center; Gibney Dance; Performance Space 122; Performa 11; Danspace Project; and Dixon Place. Domestically and internationally at Mass MoCA (MA); the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (NY); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (OR); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (ME); the Institute of Contemporary Art (MA): Fusebox Festival (TX); Diverse Works (TX); Temperance Hall (Australia); and Théâtre de Vanves (France). They have collaborated with their partner, the visual artist and filmmaker, Jeremy Jacob on performances and short films which draw from both artist’s research of cinema, memory, and AIDS. Their current performance work, My Town, a queering of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, will be at NYU Skirball in Fall of 2025. Ferver teaches at Bard College. jackferver.com

Rory Pelsue is an Obie-winning director of new and classic plays, operas, musicals, and live-stream performances. He is the Resident Director of Fake Friends, where he has helmed This American Wife and Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Drama League Nominee Circle Jerk. His work has also been seen at The New Group, Heartbeat Opera, Primary Stages, Ars Nova, The Mercury Store, CultureHub, Southcoast Repertory Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Portland Stage, Boise Contemporary Theater, Northwestern University, Quinnipiac University, Queens College, and the Yale School of Drama, among other venues. rorypelsue.com

Stephanie Osin Cohen Theater: Circle Jerk (Connelly Theatre); Tambo and Bones (Playwrights Horizons); Ni Mi Madre (Rattlestick Theatre); Dream Hou$e (Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage); Bakkhai (Baltimore Center Stage); Hurricane Diane (Huntington Theatre Company); Tambo and Bones (Center Theatre Group); Men on Boats (Baltimore Center Stage); Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (Baltimore Center Stage); This American Wife (Next Door @ NYTW); 39 Steps (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); It’s a Wonderful Life (Hartford Stage); Good Faith (Yale Repertory Theater). Film: Familiar Touch (Venice Film Festival), Chaperone (Sundance); Drills (NYFF); Home Exercise (MoMA). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Website: www.stephanieosincohen.com 

Cole McCarty is a costume designer based in NYC and Texas. He works closely with the theatre company Fake Friends having collaborated on all their workshops and productions including Pulitzer Prize-nominated Circle Jerk. His film work has been seen at various festivals including The Sundance Film Festival, New Director/New Works, the Switzerland International Film Festival, and the Amsterdam International Film Festival. Selected venues: Two River Theater, Portland Stage Company, The Vineyard Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dallas Theater Center and Yale Repertory Theater. Faculty: Meadows School of the Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology MFA: Yale School of Drama 

Amith Chandrashaker is a Tony Nominated Lighting Designer who works in Theater, Opera, and Dance. His credits include Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Tony Nom.) and Merrily We Roll Along. Off Broadway: The Public, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, The Atlantic, and The Signature. Regional Theaters: Second Stage, Manhattan Theater Club, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, The Geffen, and The Huntington. Opera: The Glimmerglass Festival, Houston Grand Opera, and Washington National Opera. Dance: Staatstheater Nuremberg, The Lyon Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet of New Zealand, The Joyce, and The National Dance Company of Wales.  He is the recipient of The Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards; Union Trustee for United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE; MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and faculty at The University of Maryland’s School for Theatre Dance and Performance Studies.

NYC/Off-Broadway: Titanic, Jelly's Last Jam, The Light in the Piazza, The Life (Encores! at NYCC), Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, The Public Theater, Minetta Lane, Keen Company/Theater Row, Target Margin/NYU Skirball, NAATCO, New Victory, Little Island, Rattlestick, NYTW Gala. Regional: Cambodian Rock Band (tour), Paper Mill, Alley, Alliance, Arena Stage, DCPA, Geva, Two River, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Studio Theatre, Everyman, Woolly Mammoth, CTG, Cincinnati Playhouse, ZACH, KC Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe, East West Players, Chautauqua Theater Company, Dorset Theater Festival, Skylight Music Theatre, Theater Aspen, and more. megumikatayama.com   

Ben Truppin-Brown is a Brooklyn-based sound designer, audio engineer, and audiovisual design consultant. His work has been heard on and off-Broadway, at regional theaters and music venues throughout the country, and internationally. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association.

Broadway: Redwood, A Wonderful World, Mother Play, Paradise Square (Drama Desk Nominee), Birthday Candles, Flying Over Sunset, Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Sound Inside. Off-Broadway: The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT), Dear World (NYCC Encores!), Suffs (The Public), The Visitor (The Public), Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Othello (NYSF). National Tour: Jitney. Regional: 3 Summers of Lincoln (La Jolla), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre), Gatsby: An American Myth (A.R.T.), The Far Country (Yale Rep), A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), Ava: The Secret Conversations (Geffen Playhouse), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Yale Rep), Bliss! (The 5th Avenue), Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep.). Television: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Emmy Nominee).

Jackson Berkley is a freelance props designer and artisan. He has designed and fabricated props for theatrical productions including Ghost of John McCain, Titanique, Strategic Love Play, The Seven Year Disappear, All of Me, Babe, Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern, and Hip Hop Nutcracker, and has constructed sets for clients including LinkedIn, Bravo TV, Adidas, Barstool Sports, MSG Networks, Fiverr, and others.

Ariel Sibert (she/her) is a dramaturg, critic, and founding member of Fake Friends (Pulitzer Prize finalists, 2021; Obie Award, 2023). Her work as a dramaturg and producer of theater and video with Fake Friends and other artists, including Hito Steyerl, Sara Cwynar, Savaş Boyraz, and Shadi Ghaheri, has been presented at the Park Avenue Armory, the Performa Biennial, New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Jan Van Eyck Academie, among other venues. She teaches Dramaturgy at Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught theater studies as an Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University and as a Teaching Fellow at the Yale School of Drama and Yale University. She also served as the Associate Editor of the journal Theater (Duke UP) and a visiting critic of performance at the Yale School of Art. Her writing has been published in TDR, Theater, American Theater, 3Views, Text and Presentation, and Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance (Routledge, 2024). arielsibert.com 

Cat Rodríguez (she/ella) is a multihyphenate performance maker, scholar-artist, and founding member of Fake Friends. Cat works across media with a creative practice that spans directing, performing, dramaturging, and translating (Spanish/English). A "people person" with a politic and a love for the Ridiculous, she’s all about bringing critical rigor, playfulness, specificity, and laughter to process. With Michael Breslin, Cat is co-author of a chapter on Fornés and feminism in the forthcoming Fornés in Context (Cambridge University Press); the pair is currently developing their tragicomic and postmodern adaptation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, set in the queer world of female bikini bodybuilding competitions. As an educator, she has taught courses on contemporary playwriting, performance theory, dramaturgy, and the theatrical legacies of María Irene Fornés to undergraduate and graduate students at Sarah Lawrence College, Carnegie Mellon University, and Catholic University of America. Co-foundress, Fake Friends (Circle Jerk: Obie Award, 2022; Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 2021). 2022 Latine Fellow, Sundance Institute. 2021-22 Art of Practice Fellow + Community Leader, Sundance Interdisciplinary Program. www.catlikemeow.com

Stage manager, director, performer and self-proclaimed renaissance woman, Clarissa makes art because she knows it can change the world. Past works: Queen of Versailles (Colonial Theatre) The Heart of Rock & Roll (James Earl Jones Theatre), Titanique (Daryl Roth), Is This A Room / Dana H. (Lyceum Theatre), Fortuity (The Public Theater), White Girl in Danger (Second Stage)

Five OHM is a New York City-based production company specializing in live event management, audio/visual solutions, design, and skilled labor for Off-Broadway theater, corporate events, and immersive installations. We're thrilled to be back working with The New Group as they kick off their 30th anniversary season!  As the Production Supervisor for Curse of the Starving Class, Five OHM collaborated closely with The New Group to ensure seamless production logistics and technical execution. Please visit us at www.fiveohm.com for more! Congratulations, New Group, on 30 years!

Judy Henderson has been honored as one of the top 20 US Film Casting Directors. Highlights: Emmy Award, 6 Artios Awards. 9 Artios nominations. Select Film credits: L.I.E. (6 Spirit Award Nominations), Before Sunrise. Select TV credits: Homeland (Emmy Award and 2 Artios Awards), City On A Hill. Broadway: Barefoot In The Park, Anna Karenina (4 Tony Nominations). Off-Broadway: Forever Plaid (MAC Award for best cast album), Invasion (Obie Award), Lie of the Mind, The Kid (5 Drama Desk Nominations), Hurlyburly and "Daddy". Member of CSA and the Teamsters Theatrical Union. New Group CD since the beginning.