Producers
Damon Krometis
Damon Krometis
Damon Krometis
Damon is the Executive Producer of Sticking Points. He is a director, writer, and scholar based in Washington DC. Fascinated by the potential for theatre to spark conversation and change, he looks to incorporate audience participation into various theatrical forms. He has directed work in New York, London, DC, Chicago, Boston, and Baltim
Damon is the Executive Producer of Sticking Points. He is a director, writer, and scholar based in Washington DC. Fascinated by the potential for theatre to spark conversation and change, he looks to incorporate audience participation into various theatrical forms. He has directed work in New York, London, DC, Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore, and his plays have been produced from off-Broadway to regional colleges. He’s conceived and directed audio dramas for The Radiograph. MFA, Directing, Northwestern.
Jenni Lamb
Damon Krometis
Damon Krometis
Jenni is the founder of Second Site, who produces Sticking Points. is a veteran performer, writer, teacher, and theater maker in Chicago. She is a former resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and the Goodman Playwrights Unit. Her plays have had readings and workshops with companies in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Jenni is a re
Jenni is the founder of Second Site, who produces Sticking Points. is a veteran performer, writer, teacher, and theater maker in Chicago. She is a former resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and the Goodman Playwrights Unit. Her plays have had readings and workshops with companies in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Jenni is a recipient of the 3Arts Make-A-Wave and Crowdfunding Grants, and she holds an MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage from Northwestern University. Jenni is a former member of the Living Room Playmakers.
Chad Eschman
Amy Thorstenson
Amy Thorstenson
Chad heads up audio engineering and helped conceive of Sticking Points. He loves immersive stories that explore strange worlds. A graduate of Northwestern's MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage, he currently works as a content creator and audio producer in LA. His latest project is The Radiograph, a pirate radio station from another dimension. See what he's up to at chadeschman.com.
Amy Thorstenson
Amy Thorstenson
Amy Thorstenson
Amy is part of the audio engineering team for Sticking Points. She is a writer, producer, and creative tinkerer of many stripes (although personally, she’s always preferred polka dots). Between immersive theater, novels, and screenplays, she always has a few irons in the fire, but if you forced her to choose a favorite medium she would a
Amy is part of the audio engineering team for Sticking Points. She is a writer, producer, and creative tinkerer of many stripes (although personally, she’s always preferred polka dots). Between immersive theater, novels, and screenplays, she always has a few irons in the fire, but if you forced her to choose a favorite medium she would absolutely choose audio. She’s created several podcasts of her own, including Cosmic Love and Dear Earth, I'm Really Sorry, and she currently works for the political nonprofit Red Wine & Blue producing their podcast The Suburban Women Problem. When she's not writing or producing, you can find her in a yurt on her homestead in California.
Our Writers
Nathaniel Andrew
Nathaniel Andrew
Nathaniel Andrew
Nathaniel was born and raised in Markham, IL. His most recent theatre credits include The October Storm (Raven Theatre), Marie Antionette and the Magical Negroes (The Story Theatre), Back in the Day (Urban Theater). Recent TV/Film credits include Chicago Fire (NBC), Nerds Incognito (Junior Giant Productions) and Embers (Chaotic Good). H
Nathaniel was born and raised in Markham, IL. His most recent theatre credits include The October Storm (Raven Theatre), Marie Antionette and the Magical Negroes (The Story Theatre), Back in the Day (Urban Theater). Recent TV/Film credits include Chicago Fire (NBC), Nerds Incognito (Junior Giant Productions) and Embers (Chaotic Good). He looks forward to continuing to establish himself in the Chicago theatre community, and exploring more television and film projects.
Nayna Agrawal
Nathaniel Andrew
Nathaniel Andrew
Featured in Variety's "100 Writers to Watch" (2015), Nayna is a former NYC analyst, a former DC policy writer, a former international aid director, and a former touring dancer. Her plays have been staged and produced in numerous cities including: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago. She is the recipient of an East West Players pl
Featured in Variety's "100 Writers to Watch" (2015), Nayna is a former NYC analyst, a former DC policy writer, a former international aid director, and a former touring dancer. Her plays have been staged and produced in numerous cities including: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago. She is the recipient of an East West Players playwright scholarship, a Moving Arts Theater playwright fellowship and Hawaii’s Kuma Kahua Theatre’s playwright award. In 2023, her plays will be presented at the Signature Theater in DC, StudioTenn in Nashville, and The Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha.
Julianne Jigour
Nathaniel Andrew
Julianne Jigour
Julie’s plays have been produced by or developed with PlayGround, Theater Masters, Santa Clara University, Bombay Theatre Company, and the HBMG Playwrights Retreat. She has received two commissions from Planet Earth Arts, one of which—BRIGHT SHINING SEA—received its premiere production with PlayGround in San Francisco, where it was a TB
Julie’s plays have been produced by or developed with PlayGround, Theater Masters, Santa Clara University, Bombay Theatre Company, and the HBMG Playwrights Retreat. She has received two commissions from Planet Earth Arts, one of which—BRIGHT SHINING SEA—received its premiere production with PlayGround in San Francisco, where it was a TBA Awards Recommended Production. She has twice been a finalist in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival and has twice received grants from the Sloan Foundation for science-themed TV pilots. She resides in Los Angeles, where she’s a member of the Playwrights’ Union and the Playwrights Think Tank. MFA, Carnegie Mellon University.
Janki Mody
Milta Ortiz
Julianne Jigour
Janki (JAHN-kee) is a writer, performer, producer and parent, wow there’s so much parenting. She has written and performed two solo shows, The MTHFR Gene: Evidence of a Uterus in Crisis and This is All Fine. Much of her work has focused on pregnancy loss, reproductive rights advocacy, and the children of immigrants experience. She ha
Janki (JAHN-kee) is a writer, performer, producer and parent, wow there’s so much parenting. She has written and performed two solo shows, The MTHFR Gene: Evidence of a Uterus in Crisis and This is All Fine. Much of her work has focused on pregnancy loss, reproductive rights advocacy, and the children of immigrants experience. She has performed in Chicago’s storytelling community with 80 Minutes Around the World at Steppenwolf, Talk Stories, Erasing the Distance, Fillet of Solo, This One Woman, and more. Janki was a 2022 AGE in the Arts Legacy Playwright Grant finalist. She has manifested herself into a job at the library where she gets to read and talk to people about graphic novels every day.
Milta Ortiz
Milta Ortiz
Milta Ortiz
Milta is a Salvadoran-American playwright, who moonlights as poet, performer, and writer. Originally from the Bay Area, she now calls Tucson home. Currently, she is a Projecting All Voices Mellon fellow at Arizona State University. Her most recent plays are Pilar and Paloma and Cycles, a commission from StoryWorks Theater and the Arizon
Milta is a Salvadoran-American playwright, who moonlights as poet, performer, and writer. Originally from the Bay Area, she now calls Tucson home. Currently, she is a Projecting All Voices Mellon fellow at Arizona State University. Her most recent plays are Pilar and Paloma and Cycles, a commission from StoryWorks Theater and the Arizona Daily Star, which received a virtual world premiere in August 2020. Her play Judge Torres, commissioned by Milagro Theatre Group toured nationally to colleges and universities in the 2019/2020 season.
Erica Reid
Milta Ortiz
Milta Ortiz
Erica is a writer, director, dancer, choreographer, comedian, and producer in Chicago. She’s also the DJ for She’s Crafty, Chicago’s all-female Beastie Boys tribute. In her non-creative life, Erica is a wedding officiant as well as an End-of-Life and Transition Doula, helping people prepare for death and creating rituals and memorials fo
Erica is a writer, director, dancer, choreographer, comedian, and producer in Chicago. She’s also the DJ for She’s Crafty, Chicago’s all-female Beastie Boys tribute. In her non-creative life, Erica is a wedding officiant as well as an End-of-Life and Transition Doula, helping people prepare for death and creating rituals and memorials for loss, transition, and grief.
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Jessy Lauren Smith
Jessy Lauren Smith
Jessy Lauren Smith
Jessy is a writer from a lot of places who now mostly lives in LA. She specializes in screenplays, scripted podcasts, site-based theatre, and multiple-choice storytelling. Jessy is a founding member of Living Room Playmakers and a co-creator of The Advent Project. She holds an MFA from Northwestern University, in the palm of her hand, for an hour each day.
Performers
Kimberly Alexander
Kimberly Alexander
Kimberly Alexander
Kimberly’s most recent film credits include sharing the screen with Michael Madsen in ‘Waking Karma’, and ‘Seeing Diane Arbus’, in which she played the famed photographer. She is also known for her work in Los Angeles theater and has performed on stage with the likes of Playwright’s Arena, The Triptych Group, The Road Theatre, The Victor
Kimberly’s most recent film credits include sharing the screen with Michael Madsen in ‘Waking Karma’, and ‘Seeing Diane Arbus’, in which she played the famed photographer. She is also known for her work in Los Angeles theater and has performed on stage with the likes of Playwright’s Arena, The Triptych Group, The Road Theatre, The Victory Theatre, and Circle X. She has received Stage Raw and Robby Award wins and nominations for her LA Times Critics Choice stage work. Chances are, Kimberly is on your TV right now in a commercial. Perhaps it’s for Hyundai, Toyota, Verizon, 3M, Sleep Number, Hidden Valley, TJ Maxx or Spectrum. If Kimberly’s not pursuing creative work, she’s probably meditating or petting her dog.
Tara Cariaso
Kimberly Alexander
Kimberly Alexander
Tara is a Filipina-American, Baltimore-based educator of physical theatre, archetypes, somatic acting, mask performance, and is founder/designer for Waxing Moon Masks Company. Tara received her MFA from Dell’Arte Int'l School of Physical Theatre, and has been adjunct faculty/ guest artist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (
Tara is a Filipina-American, Baltimore-based educator of physical theatre, archetypes, somatic acting, mask performance, and is founder/designer for Waxing Moon Masks Company. Tara received her MFA from Dell’Arte Int'l School of Physical Theatre, and has been adjunct faculty/ guest artist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), CCBC, and the Pig Iron school. Invested in research, she uses somatic practices and theatrical masks for social justice play-making. Style consultant / resident mask maker at Faction of Fools Theatre Company, Tara's “Embodying Archetypes,” and "Reimagining Commedia" pedagogies propose liberated character creation processes for comic actors.
Dahjn Maria Gomez
Kimberly Alexander
Dahjn Maria Gomez
Dahjn (pronounced DON) is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity. She has professional credits in TV/Film, such as, “For My Man”, on TV One and the pilot, “Zodiac”, directed by Jack Skyler, starring Corbin Bernsen. Her Theatre and Voiceover credits include, “The Suicide Journals”, written by Veronique LaShell MacRae and she loaned her
Dahjn (pronounced DON) is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity. She has professional credits in TV/Film, such as, “For My Man”, on TV One and the pilot, “Zodiac”, directed by Jack Skyler, starring Corbin Bernsen. Her Theatre and Voiceover credits include, “The Suicide Journals”, written by Veronique LaShell MacRae and she loaned her voice as “The Oracle” on the PC video game, SunAge by Moby Games.
Lina Patel
Shakiara Saunders
Dahjn Maria Gomez
Lina is a performer, playwright, and television writer. Her work investigates the environment, politics, and relationships in a precarious world. She is a PlayGround-LA writer, member of The Writer’s Odyssey at the Odyssey Theatre, and in Ammunition Theatre Company’s 2023 Playwrights Lab. In 2023-24 Lina is working with BET+ on her origi
Lina is a performer, playwright, and television writer. Her work investigates the environment, politics, and relationships in a precarious world. She is a PlayGround-LA writer, member of The Writer’s Odyssey at the Odyssey Theatre, and in Ammunition Theatre Company’s 2023 Playwrights Lab. In 2023-24 Lina is working with BET+ on her original series about the razor’s edge where law enforcement meets mental health. She is also developing an original hybrid-animation YA fantasy series about a female rocket prodigy with Trioscope Studios.
Luke Rampersad
Shakiara Saunders
Shakiara Saunders
Luke is a Trinidadian-American actor based in Los Angeles with roots in the Bay. His film credits include Solace, State Zero, In the Stream, and Knife Fight. He's worked with numerous LA theatres, including Trap Street and Bombay Theater Company. Trained in London at LAMDA (BA).
Shakiara Saunders
Shakiara Saunders
Shakiara Saunders
Shakiara is a graduate of the Community College of Baltimore County. This year she appeared in The Variations on the End with Rapid Lemon Productions and The Lady was a Gentleman (Swing) for the Strand Theater. At CCBC, she starred in Fabulation, The Underpants, and the Spring Arts Festival 2021. On the production side, she has worked on
Shakiara is a graduate of the Community College of Baltimore County. This year she appeared in The Variations on the End with Rapid Lemon Productions and The Lady was a Gentleman (Swing) for the Strand Theater. At CCBC, she starred in Fabulation, The Underpants, and the Spring Arts Festival 2021. On the production side, she has worked on Little Shop of Horrors (SM), We Are Proud to Present . . . (SM), Speech and Debate (ASM, and He Has Risen (Makeup/FX Artist). She hopes to create and act in her own shows in the future.