Welcome to Our Bar
"BELATED"! 

This Month's Team:

Showrunner: Fennell Harris

Assistant Showrunner: Matt Haws

Jury Foreperson: Andrew Tejada

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NJ Agwuna: NJ Agwuna is a freelance theater and film director, hailing from the ‘burb’s of central Maryland. She spends her days coaching audition techniques, devises new pieces, performing musical Improv, and assists with casting shows. She is thrilled to be acting with the amazingly talented folks at Our Bar. www.njagwuna.com

 

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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Tara Bopp: Tara started with our bar in 2023, and has studied Shakespeare at RADA and Theatre/Film at AMDA. Her most recent films have garnered some wins in the festival circuits including SXSW with “Never Fuggedaboutit” hitting “best of” in 2023. She recently can be seen in the newest season of Law and Order. TaraBopp.com

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Victoria Gomez 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, an Octoroon, Middletown, Machinal & more. 

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Sally Ann Hall: Sally Ann is a standup comedian and writer in New York who: was recently named a Caroline’s Breakout Artist, won the 2018 Laughing Devil Festival, and won the all female She Devil Festival in 2017. She runs the celebrated comedy/drag/variety show Left Breast Comedy Hour! (Recommended by New York Times and TimeOut) at the Knitting Factory on the first Monday of every month and is excited to make her Our Bar writing debut! @funnysallyann

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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. 

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Shora Hassan is a writer and humorist originally from Fort Worth, Texas. She is an alum of NYU’s Dramatic Writing program. Her entertainment career started in late night production at numerous Comedy Central shows, but she has ended up on the business and legal affairs side of it in hopes of becoming an executive. She is so thrilled to channel more of her creativity again by getting to be a part of Our Bar. When she's not scheming on her dreams, she's hanging out with her dog Ozzy or pulling tarot cards for people.”

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Matthew Haws: Matt is a big fan of theater in a bar and is happy to have a home at OUR BAR. He spends his days building websites and teaching people to build websites. He spends his evenings playing video games and staring out the window wistfully. He likes whiskey, corgis, and Eurovision, and he thinks you are really cute.

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Colin Jackson recently moved to New York 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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Ellen Ko is an award winning New York City based actor and writer. She gravitates towards comedy and is deeply influenced by physical theater such as clown, mask, and mime. Favorite theatre credits include Hestia in zounds! (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Dotty Otley in Noises Off (In Vino Theater), and Timothy E. Lifentimer in Song (Cakewood Creative Arts). Ellen has performed with NYC sketch comedy groups MommyDaddyBaby, Wilburn, and Easy Tiger (Boogie Manja); Silent But Deadly (Sour Grapes), and Model Majority. Beyond performing, Ellen is the Artistic Director of Floor Five Theatre Company (@floorfivetheatre) and an Adjunct Professor of Drama at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Visit EllenKo.com for more info! @EllenKoGram

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Violet Lynn, the Sassy Siren of the Upper East Side, is an actor and drag/burlesque performer within NYC nightlife. She is a graduate of Brown University’s Theatre Program and lives to create art that is both thought provoking and titillating. Previous roles include Stella (A Streetcar Named Desire), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Ophelia (Hamlet), Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd), Kathy (The Last Five Years) and more. She is passionate about shining light on performers of all shapes and sizes; She is thrilled to represent curvy girls onstage! Violet thrives being center stage so being “Professionally Naked” allows her to feel her sexiest! As a performer her work is about fierce joy and ownership over her body and encouraging others to do the same. Shame has no place in Violet’s world!

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Erin McMahon: Erin is very excited to be performing in an Irish bar! She’s technically only half Irish but fits many Irish stereotypes. Her first name means Ireland and her last name starts with a “Mc,” she has 9 siblings, randomly finds 4 leaf clovers on a regular basis, and she really really loves potatoes.

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Jeremy Nuñez: is an actor, writer and musician based in New York City. He hopes to entertain and get paid doing so. Hugs and kisses!

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Clare Parme: Clare has been a frequent flyer on Our Bar Airlines since 2015. Her background is in classical theater (you know that old Shakespeare stuff) and has worked in regional theater from California to Idaho to Minnesota, to the Hudson Valley. While the classics will always have a place in her heart, Clare loves writing and acting in pieces for HERE and NOW. She's thrilled to be a part of this company who has been a source of support and creative inspiration through all the ups, downs, twists, and turns that life has to offer! 

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Vin Scialla: Vin has traveled the world performing shows and creating tv/film soundtracks. NYC performances include musician/actor in off-broadway musicals, TV/Film roles on HBO, Netflix, CBS, Amazon, NBC. Vin is the creator of music mockumentary, We are the Prototypes. Vin studied at HB Studios, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Hartt School, Brooklyn College, and Boston University. He is thrilled to be part of the BARbarians! www.imdb.me/vin

 

Andrew Tejada: Andrew is an NYC Based writer and actor that accidentally stumbled into Our Bar Meeting. Instead of awkwardly leaving, he fully committed to writing a scene and acting too. Andrew dedicates this performance to his bodega guy for making delicious sandwiches and for never judging his choices.

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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. Currently, you can see KL on the new web series, Charms 4 Less @charms4lessseries.

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Erin Triplett is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and a Master of Public Health from Indiana University, and was maybe too much of an overachiever as a kid.  She has worked on films for Troma, Annum Films, and several friends low budget projects. She developed an interactive play series that ran from 2014-2017. She loves film and TV and theater and sharing stories. Follow her on IG @erinlove317 and subscribe to her substack “But Have You Seen it High” to read her high thoughts on various films. She is super excited to be participating in her first Our Bar production! 

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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. She is so excited to make her Our Bar debut tonight! You can find her on Instagram @k3llie_wil.

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*denotes members of Actors' Equity