birthday birthday birthday
by Johnny G Lloyd
directed by Will Steinberger
March 27, 2025- April 19, 2025
CREATIVE TEAM
JOHNNY G. LLOYD is an “entertainingly cerebral” (New Yorker) Brooklyn-based writer and producer. Off Broadway: Patience (Second Stage Theatre). Off-Off Broadway: Or, An Astronaut Play (The Tank). Johnny was the winner of the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (The Problem With Magic, Is:) and has a Drama Desk Award for his affiliation with Theater In Quarantine (created by Joshua William Gelb and KatieRose McLaughlin). He has been commissioned by Clubbed Thumb, Second Stage Theater, and Westport Country Playhouse. Johnny has been in residence at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, The Lark, Liberation Theatre Company, and more. He is the Director of Artistic Development at The Tank and co-founder of InVersion Theatre. MFA: Columbia University. jglloyd.com
WILL STEINBERGER is a Drama League Award nominated director and producer. He has directed and developed new plays at New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, Hartford Stage, the Drama League, Berkshire Theatre Group, Powerhouse Theater, Valdez Theater Conference, The Brick, the Wilma, and InterAct. He recently directed Andrea Stolowitz’s The Berlin Diaries at 59E59 featuring David Greenspan, produced in association with The New Group. Other productions include Han Van Sciver’s Happy Birthday, Han (JACK), Gina Femia’s meet you at the Galaxy Diner. (The Tank and New Light Theatre Project), Charles Gershman’s Oedipus 2.0.2.0 (All For One f/ Eddie Cooper; Drama League nom), and Johnny G. Lloyd’s Or, an Astronaut Play (The Tank and InVersion Theatre, of which he is a proud co-founder) and birthday birthday birthday (Columbia University). Will is a former artist in residence at New York Stage and Film and has been a guest speaker or artist at the Yale School of Drama, Brown University, Syracuse University, UT–Austin, Vassar College, Neumann University, and Hunter College. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Theatre Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Forward, WHYY, Philadelphia Weekly, and Philadelphia Magazine. Member, LCT Directors Lab. Finalist, National Directors Fellowship. WSteinberger.com.
JUSTIN AHDOOT. NYC: Off-Broadway: Sleep No More (Punch Drunk); Off-Off Broadway: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and The Mysteries (The Flea Theater), Regional: ABCD (Barrington Stage), Disgraced (Pittsburgh Public), Cymbeline (Richmond Shakespeare); performed his solo show Justin versus at Richmond Triangle Players, and Uncle Tom: Deconstructed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. TV: “Fleishman Is In Trouble” (FX), “Little America” (Apple TV+), “The Good Cop” (Netflix), “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Americans,” “Blue Bloods.” BFA Virginia Commonwealth University. www.justinahdoot.com
DANA BERGER is a New York based actor. She is best known for playing inmate Crystal Tawney on “Orange Is The New Black,” and starring in indie horror hit Brightwood, described as "a masterclass" by The Guardian. Other TV credits include “FBI: Most Wanted” and “Elementary.” Theater companies she has worked with include The Playwrights Realm, Ars Nova, Second Stage, Clubbed Thumb, The Vineyard, Target Margin, The Kitchen Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival and others. She is a born and bred New Yorker and trained at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. @dana.meryl.berger | www.DanaBerger.com
ANITA CASTILLO-HALVORSSEN (she/her) is a Venezuelan-Norwegian actor, singer, and educator from Boulder, Colorado. She is a co-founder of Taproot Creatives, for which she has produced, directed, or performed in seven projects since its first in 2021. Anita is an ensemble member of and artistic advisor for Notch Theatre Company and a proud member of the Ring of Keys coalition of queer women, trans, and nonbinary artists in musical theatre. Television: “FBI” (CBS), “Harlem” (Amazon Prime), “Law & Order” (NBC), “The Good Fight” (CBS). New York Theater: Red Bull Theater, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, New Ohio Theatre, Irondale, The Chain, The Tank, Theater for the New City, and Theatre Row. Training: Brown/Trinity MFA Acting, British American Drama Academy, Swarthmore College BA Film & Theater. anitacastillohalvorssen.com @anita_c7h @taproot_official
OMARI CHANCELLOR received their MFA from NYU Tisch's Graduate Acting Program. He was most recently seen as Davion in Amani at Rattlestick Theater. They were also featured in Peter Farrelly’s film, The Greatest Beer Run Ever on Apple+, which had its world premiere at TIFF. Other credits include “Elsbeth” (CBS), “Why Women Kill” (Paramount+), and soft (The Williamstown Theater Festival). Omari is a member of Gyaldem.us. A Brooklyn-based art collective.
REMY GERMINARIO is a NYC based actor, comedian, singer, writer and teaching artist and is thrilled to be returning to The Tank. New York Theatre: Rough Trade (The Tank) More Than All The World (Theatre For The New City), Boys Who Tricked Me (Musical Theatre Factory), Bradley Cole (FringeNYC Award Winner), When I Started Dating Men (Dixon Place), The Paige Turner Holiday Shows (Laurie Beechman Theatre) and The Vanity (Theatre Row). Regional: Buyer and Cellar (Florida Studio Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Cardinal Stage Company), America’s Sexiest Couple (Cape May Stage), Caveman Play (ArtHouse). Film/TV: The Feast of Stephen (dir James Franco), Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Synonymous With, An Actor Unprepared and Livin’ the Dream. Voiceover: Peter in the hit musical video game Peter Panic (Adult Swim Games), Radio Play Revival and The World To Come musical podcast (dir. Rachel Klein). Remy is also a sketch comedian (currently performing with his team,11:11, on Maude Night at UCB) and stand-up comedian and can be seen at comedy clubs all over the city. He is also known on TikTok and Instagram for his impressions of Food Network Chefs and other viral comedic content! Remy is also a teaching artist at NYU/The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute/ BFA NYU (CAP21/Strasberg Studios) @RemyGerminario - www.remygerminario.com
PORTLAND THOMAS is thrilled to return to this company as Marissa in birthday birthday birthday! Off-Broadway: The Cotillion (The Movement and New Georges) Shedding Load (59E59 Theaters), Seize the King, Fit for a Queen (Classical Theatre of Harlem). NY Theater: Anna Karenina (The Flea) Sources of Light (HERE Arts Center). Regional: Teenage Dick (Woolly Mammoth, The Huntington, Pasadena Playhouse) Hamlet & St. Joan (BEDLAM/ The McCarter Theatre), The Wolves (Marin Theatre Company), The Syringa Tree (Creede Repertory Theatre) TV: “Mott & Spy” Film: Fernanda (Screened at OUTFEST 2022 and LALIFF). BFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Matthew 7:7 IG: @portyspicee
ESTI BERNSTEIN (Production Stage Manager) is a Brooklyn-based theatermaker and ice cream eater. Credits include Sam Kissajukian: 300 Paintings and Is This A Room Vineyard Theatre, Travels (Ars Nova), The Good John Proctor (Bedlam), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb), the bandaged place (Roundabout Theatre Company), Watch Night (PAC NYC), Indra's Net (Park Avenue Armory). Five seasons at Hudson Valley Shakespeare. Proud Resident Stage Manager for Broken Box Mime Theater. Love and thanks to friends and family, ACL, BBB, GVB, BNB, and FFB.
SKYLER PURVIS (Assistant Stage Manager) is a NYC-based stage manager and dramaturg. Off-Off-Broadway: Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie (The Tank, PSM). Recent regional credits include Twelfth Night (ASM) at Kane Repertory Theatre and Into The Woods (ASM) at Marquee Youth Stage. Much love to her family and friends for always supporting her! www.skylerpurvis.com.
CARLTON V. BELL II “CJ” (they/them) is a Black queer artist & cultural organizer from Birmingham, Alabama. As a new-New-Yorker / Producing Fellow at The Tank, they are making their NY off-off Broadway debut as a producer! In 2023, Carlton was selected as a finalist for the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society’s Barbara Whitman Award. They were also featured in the CNN Documentary "Blind Angels" highlighting their organizing work in the South. As the founding Artistic Director of Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Collective, and as the current Director of Development of Donja R. Love’s Write It Out! Carlton works to create & support spaces led by folx living within the margins of the margins. Website: carltonvbell.com | Instagram: @itscjbel
Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday. Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday party. And Marissa and Clark plan on doing anything in their power to share that birthday party for the rest of their lives - and then some. A multi-decade romp through race, class, and time, birthday birthday birthday is about who we choose, how we change, and what it takes to remember it all.