This Month's Team:

Showrunner: Fennell Harris

Assistant Showrunner: Colin Jackson

Jury Foreperson: Louis Gaudio

Social Media Lead: Mahnaz Damania

EmBattz aka Battles* - An Actor / Personal Trainer Battles’ favorite roles include Helina (Windfall a Rogue Dialogue audiodrama), Mattie Earp (I Married Wyatt Earp), and Jenny (Significant Loss, best in show Offline Film Festival). During lockdown, she founded the WineBox Players, a collective that meets monthly to read fresh, new works from up-and-coming playwrights. She is currently working on a webseries with fellow Barbarian KL Thomas as well as an album. @embattz

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Alyssa Beatty: Alyssa mostly writes speculative short fiction, and her work has appeared in several anthologies. She often kills her characters, but she tries not to do that for Our Bar. Someday she’ll write a novel and then she’ll never shut up about it. 

Emily Cordes*:  Emily Cordes is an NYC-based stage, film, and new media actress. A founding member of the feminist theatre group Tapestry Collective, in 2022 she co-created, performed in, and produced “#SoSadSoSexy,” a devised play about the fetishization of mentally ill women. Recent roles include Faye in “TomToms” (The Theater Project); Quince/Starveling (u/s) in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Tier5 Theatre Company), & Debby in “Trauma, Bonding” (Hudson Guild Theater). She is also a published poet, and performs spoken word live in NYC and on Zoom screens across the country and globe. Proud Member of Actors Equity Association. IG: @postmodern.psyche; http://bit.ly/EmilyCordes .

Mahnaz Damania*: Mahnaz is a South Asian actor and writer of Zoroastrian descent based out of New York. She has helped develop new work in India and in USA for over a decade. From Bollywood to indie films, TV to stage - she continues her search for stories that are a testament to the human condition. Theatre: (U.S.A) Life Of Pi on Broadway & at the ART. (India) Shikhandi - The Story of the Inbetweens (Nom.Best Actor | Win.Best Ensemble META 2018), 07/07/07 (Win.Best Ensemble META 2016), Naqqaash, Sundays With Chitra and Chaitali, Three Women. TV: New Amsterdam, Inside Edge. Film: The Wandering Earth II, Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Tu Hai Mera Sunday. Thank you OurBar for keeping our creative juices flowing!

Louis M. Gaudio: Lou has been part of Our Bar since 2011 as a writer, performer, and occasional show-runner. He recently appeared in the films Sky Hoshi: Anime Girl and Face the Music Greyson Grey (both available on Amazon Prime). He is a featured comedy writer for Good Night Tonight and Good Magical Morning. Lou is a professional Karaoke DJ, so he would love to hear you sing sometime. He would also love for you to hear his sci-fi podcast: Robot vs Dinosaurs.

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Victoria L. Gomez: Victoria is based in NYC and couldn’t be happier working with OurBar- shoutout to ANDREW! Theatre credits include: anything that Andrew writes. Thanks for coming! Actual theatre credits include: FIT’s production of Polaroid Stories, the Millennial  Plays 1-3, Queens College productions of the Cherry Orchard, Middletown, Machinal & more. 

Fennell Harris: Originally from Winston-Salem, NC, Fennell studied acting at Greensboro college and is now making New York his home. NYC credits: The Legend of Eustis Ray Jackson (Project: Theater), The Imaginary Life of Millo St. John (Snapdragon Theatre Works), American Tall Tales (The Compass Players), and various plays with the Negro Ensemble Company Children’t touring company. 

Shora Hassan is a writer and humorist from Fort Worth, Texas. She is an alum of NYU’s Dramatic Writing program. Her entertainment career started in production for The Daily Show and The Nightly Show. She has since worked at many media companies but now works at a nonprofit. She is so thrilled to be a part of Our Bar. When she's not scheming on her dreams, she's hanging out with her dog Ozzy.

Colin Jackson moved to NYC two years ago from Chicago. While in Chicago, he was an Ensemble Member and the Company Manager for Organic Theater Company. Colin received his BFA from Northern Illinois University, and also studied at Interlochen Arts Academy and the Moscow Art Theatre School.

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Jo Jude is a Brooklyn-based writer with a deep love for history and storytelling. When she isn't deep inside a Wikipedia hole, Jo enjoys watching esoteric, foreign costume dramas. She is eternally thankful to her friends and her partner, Alex, for pushing her to finally do something with her writing.

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Jess Levinson: Jess Levinson is a NYC-based nerd who occasionally performs in shows when the need arises. He’s done plays, musicals, staged readings, and comedic bits at parties that go on for way too long, but his breakout role was as “Background Character” in a crowd scene in the pilot of HBO’s “The Leftovers”. He was also in a student film called “Final Cut” back in 2014 which, inexplicably, can now be rented on Amazon Prime Video.

 Jess Levinson: Jess Levinson is a NYC-based nerd who occasionally performs in shows when the need arises. He’s done plays, musicals, staged readings, and comedic bits at parties that go on for way too long, but his breakout role was as “Background Character” in a crowd scene in the pilot of HBO’s “The Leftovers”. He was also in a student film called “Final Cut” back in 2014 which, inexplicably, can now be rented on Amazon Prime Video.

Jennifer Logue*: Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Phenomenal Speaking, and has been performing in NYC for several decades, from her stand-up career at Caroline' s on Broadway, Gotham, and Stand Up New York, to the Fringe Festival in Musical Chairs and Two Chairs and a Table. Regional: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. Blue Window, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Occupation. Jennifer has an MFA in Acting from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. She loves whiskey, diamonds and Shakespeare (not necessarily in that order).

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Kristen Macke: Meisner trained, Kristin has played roles from Shakespeare to Lanford Wilson in Regional and Off-Off Broadway productions. Film credits include Colorblind Color Corrector, The Night of the Harvest, Dark Frequency, and Becoming Clara Dogood (in post-production). BA: University of Westminster. Conservatory: Ted Bardy Studio. Kristin tried to think of a clever and quippy humanizing thing to say at the end of this bio but was unable to do so. IG: @kristin_arielle

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Michael Najman* is thrilled to be a part of Our Bar! Native to Queens, NY, he is a graduate of the University of Tennessee Knoxville's Master of Fine Arts in Acting program and Actors Equity member. His most recent roles include Chief Bryant in “In the Woods Somewhere”, Mickey Schwerner in a staged reading of “The Invaders”, and Hector MacQueen in “Murder on the Orient Express”. Voice coaching credits include “Cry it Out”, “A Christmas Carol”, “Hair”, and “She Kills Monsters”. He also played Aspen Kimura in “He Who Forsakes the Crown”, an audio drama podcast which recently released its final episode. Michael would like to thank you, the audience, for making theatre possible!

Rob Schray: Rob is so excited to be contributing to Our Bar! As a long time audience member, he’s honored to put his theatre and English degrees to use and get back to writing something other than corporate emails. Rob currently works for a retail company and he’s thankful to be stretching these creative muscles again.

Jeremy Nuñez: Jeremy Nuñez is an actor, musician and writer who hails from the Bronx, New York. A recent graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse, he has been performing at Our Bar on and off for the past four years and he is incredibly grateful to his fellow Barbarians for their commitment and welcoming air. His credits include "Henry IV Part I", "Stop Kiss" and "Translations.”

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JESSICA SHERR is an actress, writer and producer whose television credits include memorable roles on hit shows like Claws (TNT), Blue Bloods (CBS), Flight of the Conchords (HBO) and Cloak and Dagger (Freeform). Sherr also wrote, created, produced and stars in the acclaimed one-woman show Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies — a long-running play that's a love letter to the free-spirited Hollywood legend Bette Davis, which Sherr has performed in over 450 shows, across 30 states and 3 countries. Sherr is also currently developing Bette — a biopic about the life of Bette Davis — for the big screen!  www.JessicaSherr.com www. BetteDavisAintForSissies.com

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Andrew Tejada: Andrew Tejada is a NYC writer, actor, and nerd who's been working with "Our Bar" since "Dune" came out (The 2021 one, not the wild 1984 one). Outside of bars, Andrew co-hosts the Cap or Cape podcast and is available for birthday parties. His favorite NYC credits include "Con" in "Stupid F**king Bird", "Andrew" in "Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged" and "Showrunner" of "Our Bar" shows from time to time.

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KL Thomas: KL is best known from Hosting Sketch Block's monthly live show, and bio-weekly Podcast. She has also: Hosted WeMakeTheFunny's Podcast, has been a special guest Host on PITcast; covering The PIT Sketchfest, and has been guest on Robot Vs Dinosaurs Podcast. KL's other credits include: The Improviser short film, Clip Show sketch troupe, MITF Short Play Festival, Santa Isn’t Real music video, The Fridge’s Canucks Cabaret, Papaya Brother’s Comedy Enemy Party and Charlie’s on Parole short film. KL can also be seen on the web series, Charms 4 Less @charms4lessseries.

Erin Triplett is a writer/comedian living in Brooklyn. This is her third time as a Barbarian and she is pleased as punch to be a part of this incredible team. You can read her substack “But Have You Seen It High?” at buthaveyouseen.substack.com

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 Kellie Williams is a New York-based actor and singer. Her favorite credits include singing in many cabarets at Don’t Tell Mama, acting and writing on an all-women sketch comedy team called the Industry Plants, and playing "Zuzu" in Dance Nation at Sarah Lawrence College. You can find her on Instagram @k3llie_wil. 

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​Andrea Woodbridge is honored to be a new member of OurBar. As an actor, some of her favorite roles have been Charlotte and Colette in Dark Ladies, Henrietta in The Hollow, Enid in The Stranger, Anna Báthory in Blood Countess, and Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol the Musical (4 years and counting). As a playwright, she’s produced several short plays in The Players Theatre Short Play Festivals. She hopes you get a good chuckle at her satire! www.andreawoodbridge.com; @andrea_m_woodbridge

*denotes members of Actors' Equity