Knotted

Reading Sept 28, 2024 ·
Los Angeles, CA

BIOS

Joanna Garner / Playwright
Joanna Garner, award-winning playwright and immersive experience designer, is known for stories that delve into sexuality, wildness, and transformation. Former Senior Story Creative Director at Meow Wolf, she spearheaded story development for projects like Omega Mart and Convergence Station. Currently, she's crafting experiences for Jon Favreau’s company Fairview Portals and world building for Chloe Zhao’s new film adaptation of Dracula. Her work has been commissioned by Seattle Repertory Theatre and Chance Theater, won the Keene Prize for Literature, and developed nationally and internationally, including at the Banff Centre, the Finnish National Opera, On the Boards, and many others. MFA in Playwriting from UT-Austin, training in sexual shamanism with the International School of Temple Arts.

Prince Kelly / Director
Prince is a classically trained, gender fluid, director, writer and performer focused on exploring queer perspectives in immersive and genre storytelling. They are a RADA and LMU graduate with Groundlings training. They directed a workshop performance of Joanna Garner’s 100 Heartbreaks at Chance Theater, devised Hall & Mirrors critically acclaimed bespoke immersive show YOU, cowrote and directed Unmarked Door’s sprawling immersive musical, Crimson Cabaret, created the Secret Space in residency at Think Tank Gallery/Santa Monica Pier and lead shows at R.E.D.C.A.T, the Chance, South Coast Rep, A.T.A. NY, and Circle X.

Alexandra Renzo / Abby
Alexandra Renzo is a theater and film maker, most often known as ‘Renzo’. First performing professionally at the age of 15, Renzo has willfully and stubbornly been immersed in the world of story for all of her life. Half Italian, half Ukrainian hailing from the midwest, now part city, part desert dweller. Feature film producing credits include: Meow Wolf: Origin Story (SXSW), Selah and the Spades (Sundance), and Soulmate(s). As an actress, recent film credits include the feature Queen of Knives opposite Mel Harris (Amazon, AppleTV); a short film by Alec Brown, LIZ (Hollyshorts 2023); and The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep by Mykel Salazaar, currently making its festival rounds. Stage appearances most recently include Claire in The Baby Monitor opposite Laura Gomez (OITNB). She has been seen on stage in NYC at The Atlantic, BAM, Cherry Lane, amongst others. She worked as a Creative Director at Meow Wolf for over eight years, championing and designing weird theatrical adventures. She has produced a slew of short films—believing strongly in de-centralized storytelling—that have been seen at an array of festivals such as DeadCenter, LAShorts, Bend, OakCliff, SFIFF amongst others. She graduated from the New School: Eugene Lang College where she studied performance used as a form of resistance.

Rachael Hip-Flores / Cheryl
Selected film/TV: AfrAId, Traded, Not If But When, Liberty Falls, Gossip Girl, Lucrecia (HBO NY Latino Film Festival, San Diego Latino Film Festival), The Sonnet Project: #112 (New York Shakespeare Exchange/Shakespeare’s Globe). Selected streaming series: Anyone But Me (70million+ views, Winner: Best Lead Actress: IAWTV, Streamy, Indie Soap Awards), Producing Juliet (Nominated: Best Lead/Supporting Actress – Rome Web Awards, Indie Series Awards, Best Ensemble – Indie Series Awards).  Selected LA Theater Credits: World Builders (Flux Theatre Ensemble, LA Premiere), Creation, Pretty, Heretics (all with Bespoke Plays), Chutzpah and Salsa, Past and Present, Exile (all with the Braid). Rachael is a proud Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble Audible: Skybound, Data Mine, both by Lou Iovino, The Gathering of the Three by A. K. Lang.

Jason Paul Field / Male Voices
A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Jason Paul Field has worked as an actor performing in live theater, television and films in NYC & LA for nearly 30 years. He is comfortable in both Dom and Sub roles ;) Represented by Carrie Macy Talent Agency. For credits search IMDB “Jason Paul Field.”

Matthew Kwatinetz / Lead Producer (Q Theatricals)

Matt Kwatinetz is founder of Q Theatricals and recently helped produce Moulin Rouge’s Australian tour. He is currently co-producing Fellow Human, the quest for mass human flourishing. Q produced Tony-award winning playwright Joe DiPietro’s Ernest Shackleton Loves Me in NYC and prior, winning Best New Musical Off-Broadway 2017 (Off Broadway Alliance). In NYC, Matt has developed shows such as Bastard Jones, Witnessed, A Happy End, and Masked. While at the NYCEDC, Matt led the Mayor’s Affordable Real Estate for Artist program and worked with MOME to transform the Power Station recording studio into the permanent home of Berklee School of Music. In Seattle, Matt spent 6 seasons as Producing Artistic Director of Capitol Hill Arts Center where he developed over 20 new works. Former advisor for Big Apple Circus, Burning Man Project Board member, and named a Seattle City Artist for theater.

Yashih Wu / Associate Producer & Stage Directions (Q Theatricals)

Yashih Wu is an avid arts lover and performer, as well as Producer for the Off-Broadway fantasy pop opera Grace Falls in the New York International Fringe Festival. A tech executive, wife, and mother of two kids, her commitment to theater extends beyond the stage, advocating for the arts and ensuring that stories from diverse voices are brought into the limelight so that people can be celebrated for their differences but also connected by their shared humanity. BA from Princeton University and MBA from Harvard Business School.