The Lucky Ones at TheaterLab

Lia Romeo

Lia Romeo is a recent graduate of the Juilliard playwriting program. In 2025, she was nominated for the Outer Critics’ Circle award for Best New American Play. Her plays have been developed at the O’Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, the Lark, and elsewhere, and produced at Colt Coeur, Dorset Theatre Festival, NJ Rep, Mile Square Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, and many others. Her plays are published by DPS, TRW, and Broadway Play Publishing. She is the associate artistic director of Project Y Theatre and the co-founder of the Parent-Caregiver Playwrights Group. She is also the author of two books, Dating the Devil (BelleBooks) and 11,002 Things to Be Miserable About (Abrams Image), and her essays have been published in The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other national publications. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Katie Birenboim

Katie is a NYC-based director. Boomerang debut. She recently directed (and produced) the critically acclaimed world premiere of Forrest Malloy's Nina (also at Theaterlab) and the regional premiere of Mario Correa's N/A at Barrington Stage; also The Secret Garden in concert (Berkshire Theatre Group) and the Festival of New Jewish Plays. As an associate director: Annie at Madison Square Garden (featuring Whoopi Goldberg), Gypsy (Goodspeed Opera House), Chains (Mint Theater Company), The New Yorkers (City Center Encores!). Princeton University A.B. & New York University M.A. For Mom. katiebirenboim.com.

Ant Ma

Yi-Hsuan (Ant) Ma is a New York & DC-based scenic and production designer. Her theatrical installation artwork "Samuel" has been nominated as NOTABLE EFFECTS SHOW in the 2021 Hewes Design Awards.​ Worked for Boomerang's previous production, The Great Divide. Selected design works: The Secret Sharer (ART Emerson); The Royale & The Wolves (Playmaker Rep); Cymbeline (NAATCO, CSC); Good Penny (Fisher Center); Usus (Clubbed Thumb); Blood Work (National Black Theater); Smart (Ensemble Studio Theater); Bloom Bloom Pow (ART/NY) A member of Local USA829, IASTE. Visit her website: https://www.ant-setdesign.com/

Brandon Bulls

Boomerang Debut. Sound Designer based in Brooklyn. Off-Off Broadway: Well, I’ll Let You Go (Irondale), NINA (TheaterLab), On Set With Theda Bara (The Brick), Scouts (The Players Theater), Phantasmagoria (The Tank), Torito (Gene Frankel Theater); Regional: N/A (Barrington Stage Company), Singing In The Rain (Playhouse On Park), Cul-De-Sac (Pace University), The Pittsburgh Free Press (LSTFI), Hedda Gabler (Atlantic Theater Acting Studio), Der Ring Gott Farblonjet (Columbia University), Tempo (Williamstown Theater Festival); BA in Theater Arts, BM in Music Composition at University of the Incarnate Word. Brandon is a member of USA 829, & TSDCA. www.brandon-bulls.com

Stefanie Genda

Boomerang: Richard II, Romeo & Juliet, The Karpovsky Variations, Twelfth Night, NYC Theatre: Don’t Do This to Us! (The Tank); Marrow (59E59); Complete Works of William Shakespeare…Abridged (Mile Square Theatre); Satellites, Linger [Best Costume Design Broadway World] (Premiere Stages). Regional Theater: 42nd Street, Lost in Yonkers (Riverside Theatre); Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Tuacahn Amphitheatre); Lucky Stiff, Million Dollar Quartet, Cabaret, Twelve Angry Men (Florida Repertory Theatre); Crossing Swords, tick, tick… BOOM! (American Theatre Group); Othello (American Shakespeare Center). Assistant Costume Design: Company Broadway/First National Tour and Ain’t No Mo’. Stefanie is a proud member of USA 829. www.stefaniegenda.com.

Jeff Croiter

Broadway: Guttenberg! The Musical!, Cost of Living, Freestyle Love Supreme, Bandstand, Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten!, Penn & Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Disaster!, Jekyll and Hyde, Next Fall, among others. Off-Broadway: Over 150 productions including: Kowalski, Curse of the Starving Class, Sabbath's Theatre, Night of the Iguana, Only Gold, Black No More, Beyond Babel, Smokey Joe’s Café, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Tiny Beautiful Things. Received Tony, Hewes, Bass awards and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, NAACP, Ovation, IRNE and AUDELCO nominations. Recently designed Hercules on the West End and Limitless in Las Vegas.

Riva Fairhall

Jack Breene

Jack is delighted to be making his theater debut after a decade working in the New York film/tv scene. After getting his start as a set dresser and prop assistant on network television shows like Daredevil and The Equalizer, Jack has been working as a Property Master on tier union features, including The Home (2025) and Back to Black (2024). He earned a BFA in Film/Television from NYU with a concentration in Production Design.

Ogemdi Ude

Ogemdi is a dance and theater artist based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at Kampnagel, The Kitchen, Gibney, Harlem Stage, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, Recess Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Center for Performance Research, and for BAM's DanceAfrica festival. She is a 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Choreography, 2025 Princess Grace Honoraria in Choreography, 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, 2024 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant recipient, and a Live Feed Residency Artist at New York Live Arts. In January 2022 she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue.

Grace Deschenes

Boomerang debut; Off-Broadway: Still (DR2, Sheen Center, Assistant Stage Manager); Regional: No Singing in the Navy, How to Draw a Triangle, Dirty Laundry (Cape Cod Theatre Project, Stage Manager); BFA Marymount Manhattan College

Elena Genao

Elena is an early-career stage manager based on Long Island. Boomerang: Richard II. Other stage management credits include PIETAMIMA (Latinx Playwrights Circle), Eboné (New York Theater Festival), Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, and Is Cry You Cry’n (Brown University). She recently graduated from Brown with a BA in Literary Arts and Modern Culture & Media.

Taylor Jo Poer

Happy to be making their Boomerang debut; Off-Broadway: The Imaginary Invalid, The Importance of Being Earnest, Tartuffe, Scraps, I Carry Your Heart; Education: Ball State University

Jackson Berkley

Jackson Berkley is a freelance production carpenter and props artisan. He has designed and fabricated props for theatrical productions, including Becoming Eve, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, The Great Privation, Strategic Love Play, Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, and Titanique, and has constructed sets for clients including LinkedIn, Bravo TV, Adidas, Barstool Sports, MSG Networks, Fiverr, and others.

Katie Rosin / Kampfire PR

A full service Marketing and Public Relations agency founded by Katie Rosin, offering exceptional and custom campaigns for each client’s unique needs and projects. Rosin was instrumental in the launch of the Broadway musical Brooklyn and the National Tour of Mother Load. She worked on the publicity team for the comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, and his movie Comedian. Some of Kampfire past and present clients include: The Actor's Temple, ArtsRock, Astoria Performing Arts Center, The Bossy Frog Band, Boomerang Theatre Company, The Chain Theater, the cell theatre, Tony Award Winning Double Play Connections, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The League of Professional Theater Women, New York Innovative Theatre Awards, New York Neo-Futurists, Nicu's Spoon, The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, Queens Theatre, R.Evolución Latina, Singers Forum, TADA! Youth Theater and terraNOVA Collective.

Tim Errickson

Tim founded Boomerang Theatre Company in 1999 with the mission of revolutionizing the theatre producing models of off-off-Broadway. In his 26 years leading the company, he has produced over 60 plays and musicals, as well as readings of over 100 works in development. Tim's focus now is on fundraising, audience development, marketing and artist support. In addition to Boomerang, Tim has been on staff at Lincoln Center Theater and New Dramatists. BA, New College at Hofstra Univ; MFA, Writing for Stage and Screen, Point Park University.

Amy Lau Croyle

Boomerang: Richard II, Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves, Romeo and Juliet. Public Theater: Elevator Repair Service’s Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, Richard III, Suffs, Ma-Yi Theater Company’s The Chinese Lady, NAATCO’s Out of Time, cullud wattah, Merry Wives, 600 Highwaymen’s A Thousand Ways (Part II): An Encounter, Mobile Unit's Measure for Measure, Public Works' Hercules, #BARS Workshop Volume 5.

Kerri Boccard

Boomerang Theatre Company

The Boomerang Theatre Company has been successfully delivering critically acclaimed work in New York City for over two decades. Boomerang is a strategic leader in the field of Indie Theater, bringing together creative artists and audiences to tell compelling stories and take artistic risks. We take pride in creating world-class work that reflects the concerns, hopes and dreams of the community. Boomerang is committed to putting bold new work on stage, using a combination of dynamic new voices and re-examined classics. Our seasons have included rotating repertory, world premiere plays, new musicals, play readings and music/theater mash-up events. The company’s goal is to give the spotlight to a diverse group of creators. Seasons are artist-centric, reflecting the passions of the creative contributor as well as the always-changing cultural moment. Boomerang occupies a unique space in the theatrical ecosystem of New York City. We are a creative home, allowing collaborators to take risks and make satisfying work. To accomplish this, Boomerang has become an Institutional Off-Off Broadway company, producing multiple ongoing projects such as Free Shakespeare outdoors, The First Flight New Play Festival, Rock-n-Roles, and our artist driven reading series, The Baton Project. These projects perform in intimate spaces, and cultivate audiences that yearn for performance that is dynamic and bold. Fiercely independent and fueled by our sustained excellence, Boomerang is one of the standard bearers for the Indie Theatre community.

Actors Equity Association

Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

Project Y / Women in Theatre Festival

Susan Tenney

Susan is an award-winning director and choreographer whose work spans decades in the arenas of theater, dance-theater, cabaret, concert-dance, and film. She is thrilled to be developing and directing McCourt!, adapted from Frank McCourt’s bestselling memoirs ‘Tis and Teacher Man, sequels to Pulitzer Prize winner Angela’s Ashes. These timeless tales touch all that have tried to find their voice in the world. Susan is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Hal Diamond

Hal was a Co-Producer for Lia Romeo’s 2025 award winning Off-Broadway production of Still with Melissa Gilbert and Mark Moses at The Sheen Center. Hal is a Master Class Graduate of the Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU) Producer Development & Mentorship Program (PDMP) and an active participant in the Commercial Theater Institute (CTI) seminar program, a joint program of The Broadway League and the Theatre Development Fund (TDF). Hal is thrilled to be the Lead Creative Producer of McCourt!