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"SKIBIDI"!

This Month's Team:

Showrunner: Amanda Nicastro

Assistant Showrunner: Lexie Showalter

Jury Foreperson: Louis Gaudio

Creative Consultant: Colin Jackson​

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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 recently completed a webseries with fellow Barbarian KL Thomas as well as an album. @embattz

 

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.

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Louis M. Gaudio: Lou has been part of Our Bar since 2011 as a writer, performer, and occasional show-runner. He is a featured comedy writer for Good Night Tonight and Good Magical Morning. Lou is an official 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.

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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Sarah Harris: Actor, writer, teacher, wife, mom.  Is so overjoyed to still be kickin' it in these OurBar streets celebrating 15 whole years! Previous OB roles include: Middle European Lady, and Friend who knows ASL, and Mom of Baby competing in March HookUp Madness. Special thanks and love to her forever bae Fennell 🤟🏼

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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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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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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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Kristin Macke is excited to be making her Our Bar debut. 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. As an actor, his most recent roles include Mickey Schwerner in a staged reading of The Invaders, Hector MacQueen in Murder on the Orient Express, and Margaret Mead in Hair. 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!

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Amanda Nicastro: Amanda is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian from New York City who has entertained sold out crowds at the International Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at theaters and comedy clubs across the United States. She is thrilled to also be a part of the behind the scenes magic as a member of the Our Bar Operations Team. She wouldn't be able to juggle all that she accomplishes without the love and support of her family & her husband, Tom. @TheLastAmanda

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Vin Scalia: 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

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Lexie Showalter is originally from Seattle and loves being able to call New York home. She's had the privilege of working off-broadway and regionally at theaters such as The Players Theater, Gallery Players, Shakespeare in the Woods (VT), Circle Theater (TX), Renton Civic Theater (WA) and Lyric Stage (TX). Our Bar has been a huge blessing in her journey as an actor and writer and she looks forward to many years to come. BFA MT from TCU. lexieshowalter.com

 

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: Resistance".

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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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*denotes members of Actors' Equity