Flo

presented by Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director

written by Toby Armour, directed by Joan Kane

An Equity Showcase Code production with performances April 9 to 26, 2026.

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 3:00 pm

at Theater for the New City 155 First Ave, NYC 10003

description

Flo Weinberg is tired of her life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She makes a bargain with her old friend, Max, which sends her on adventures through time and space. But when the time comes to pay up, Flo has other ideas.

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the cast

photo credit Jonanthan Slaff

The cast of Flo features back row John Cencio Burgos*, Darrel Blackburn*, and JC Augustin. front row Jenny Taher*, Juli Harkins, Anthony Cedeño, Mikayala Petrilla*, and Rachel Black Spaulding*,

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

the crew

• director Joan Kane†
• casting director Robin Carus
• music composer Peter Dizzoza
• choreographer Tatanya Kot
• set designers Mark Marcante & Lytza Colon
• costume designer Billy Little
• lighting designer Bruce A! Kraemer
• sound designers Joy Linscheid & Alison Nolan
• projection designer Roy T. Chang
• prop designer Max Kilsheimer
• stage manager Dana Robbins
• audition readers Hayley Zale & Kendall Lee
• box office manager Bill Bradford
• house manager Dan Kelley
• scenic crew Lola Sáenz
• electrician tbd
• press agent Jonathan Slaff

†member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers

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bios

Juli Harkins (Vera, Saleswoman, Ensemble) is a New York City based actor.  After a 30-year stint in corporate healthcare, she is thrilled to return to acting, her first love. Previous credits include A Raisin in the Sun as Lena Younger, A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Egeus/Philostrate, The Prize as Ruby, A.I. Killed R. Kelly as Ma, Why We Write as Teacher), and The Wiz as Dorothy.  Juli thanks her family and friends for their love and support.

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John Cencio Burgos* (Max) Rrecent Off-Broadway credits include the Talia and HOLA Award–winning production of The Red Rose by Rosalba Rolón at Pregones/PRTT as Mr. Arens and Torched as Burt. His New York stage work also includes Booked by Carlos Jerome as Tito and Ed Randolph, directed by Ivette Dumeng; Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen as George Tesman, directed by Robert Greer; Aunt Susan and Her Tennessee Waltz by Toby Armour as Harry Burn, directed by Joan Kane. He appeared in the world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Candlelight as Paulie/Mirror, directed by Lori Key, and played Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, directed by Greta Lambert. John is the Best Supporting Actor Award winner at the Planet Connections Theatre Festival for The 11th Dimension as Rosalindo, written and directed by Roi Escudero. 🎭

Rachel Black Spaulding* (Old Flo, Ensemble) can be seen in film and television on NBC, CBS, Miramax, Amazon Prime, Discovery Channel, and she’s performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. She’s taken the helm as director Off Broadway at 59E59, in regional theaters such as Emelin Theater, and as a guest director in higher education theater programs, including NYU Tisch. Her short film, Her Turn, which she wrote, produced, and starred in, recently concluded a successful festival run as an official selection at fifteen festivals nationwide, collecting numerous awards and nominations, including Best Short, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Ensemble Cast. Member: Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab. SAG-AFTRA|AEA. Instagram @rachelblackspaulding Website: www.rachelblackspaulding.com

Jenny Taher* (Daniela, Desert Woman, Ensemble) is a New York based actor, writer, and producer. She has performed at PS122, the Ontological, Brooklyn Academy of Music, HERE Arts, EST, American Rep Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, and internationally at the Bonn Biennale, Dublin International Theater Festival, Festival de Bobigny in Paris, and The Edinburgh Festival Fringe twice. Her short films have been shown at The Atlanta Underground Film Fest, Mammoth Film Fest, The Manhattan Short where it was a Bronze Winner, New York International Short Film Festival, Williamsburg International Short Film Festival, The Ohio Indie/Theater Film Festival, Half-The-Sky Festival, and in Palm Springs. She recently completed acting work in three feature films: Recurring Gig by Adam Hutchinson, Timeshares by Evan Richter, and I Think I’m Sick by Danny Gervirtz.

Mikayala Petrilla* (Young Flo) is an NYC-based performer, creator, and producer. Currently: Saturday Night Live and The Second City Mainstage. Credits: Saturday Night Live seasons 47 to 51, Sleep No More, Joe’s Pub, Lincoln Center, Jon Batiste’s Big Money tour, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Gossip Girl. Regional: Legally Blonde as Margot and Elle u/s), Annie as Lily St. Regis, A Christmas Story as Miss Shields, Into the Woods as Rapunzel, Gypsy as Lisa Lampanelli’s BFF. An emerging force in parody and new musicals with a large online following, she frequently produces NYC cabarets. Her Broadway Podcast Network show, Tea Time With Mikayla, launches this spring. Thanks to her team Bobby, Annie, Jim, and to the Flo team! Follow her work @mikaylapetrilla.

Anthony Cedeño (Sam/Furtive Mann/Young Cleric/Ensemble) is excited to perform at Theater for the New City again! He was last seen there in the debut of the musical, The Boy Who Listened to Paintings. Anthony has also performed at Pregones/ PRTT’s and Harlem9’s 48 Hours in El Bronx. Credits include Netflix‘s show, Kaleidoscope, and the film, A Good Person. He expresses gratitude to his Manager, CBU Management, and his Agent, JC William Agency.

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Darrel Blackburn* (Old Cleric, Ensemble) has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe. Most recently seen as Daddy Warbucks in the RB production of Annie. Noregian Cruise Line productions include Gyp De Carlo in Jersey Boys on the Bliss, Mr. Price in Kinky Boots on the Encore, and Bob in Priscilla Queen of The Desert on the Epic. Broadway tours: The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Who’s Tommy, 25th Anniversary West End, The Rocky Horror Show as Eddie/Dr. Scott, Cinderella with Phyllis Diller. Favorite roles: Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance at American Stage, Uncle Fester in Addams Family, Moonface Martin in Anything Goes for Mac Haydn, and The King in Big River for Stages St. Louis. TV: Horatio Gates in Patriot Wars on Fox Nation. Resident actor Casa Manana in Ft. Worth. Darrel is a graduate of Southern Methodist University.

JC Augustin (President, Policeman, Ensemble) is a playwright, performer and director of Tortas Y Tacones. His latest play, Detonation Rat Cabaret, had an encore extended run in January. He was featured as a rat, a French perfumer, and a fashion influencer. Other recent performances include Jackie Curtis in Camera Ready, and ICE Agent in Crystal Field’s 2025 Summer Street Theater, Home Sweet Home. His play, Whiskey River, was named Best Play at El Barrio’s Frenzy Theater Festival. Tortas Y Tacones started on the streets of Miami, where JC grew up. He is excited to make his debut with Ego Actus in Flo.

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Toby Armour (playwright) is a national award-winning playwright, including the Lewis Prize. Her plays have been presented in the U.S. from Florida to Alaska, including NYC, LA, Boston, Atlanta, Denver, Key West, and Valdez, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Ireland, and Cairo. She has worked as stagehand, dancer, choreographer, and company director and in Mississippi as a civil rights worker, and in Sri Lanka as human rights and election observer. Toby wishes to thank Joan Kane, her cast and crew, Crystal, and Theater for the New City for this opportunity and for their courageous and wonderful work in our difficult times.

Joan Kane SDC (director) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus. She performed her one-woman play, Almost 13, in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, getting a five-star review. Joan has directed Sycorax at HERE, Play Nice! at 59e59 theaters, I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row, Six Characters in Search of an Author in Oslo, Norway, and Kafka’s Belinda in Prague. She also directed both Safe and what do you mean at 59e59 theaters and in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, getting four-star reviews for each. Joan was awarded Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival. She was named one of the 2011 People of the Year in honor of her contributions to the New York theatre scene and inducted into the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame by nytheatre.com. Joan has also directed plays and readings at the Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages, Workshop Theater, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Actors Studio, the Broadway Bound festival, and many others. She graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, studied acting at the  Neighborhood Playhouse, and has an MFA in Directing from The New School and an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street College. Joan is a member of the playwright/directors unit of the Actors Studio, the Episcopal Actors Guild, the League of Independent Theatre, the Dramatists Guild, New York Women In Film and Television, and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers. Please see JoanKane.us

Robin Carus (casting director) Select Regional & Off-Broadway: Richard III for The Curtain, Songs of Light & Joy for Provincetown Playhouse, Beau for Theatre 154, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men for Theatre at St. Clement’s, Pay the Writer for Signature Theatre, and The Remarkable Mister Holmes for North Coast Rep. Select Film: Elijah Able, Urban Ed, Green Flake. Webby, Hermes, Davey and Telly Award winner for Project Sing Out! For almost 10 years she was the Casting Director for TheatreworksUSA, where she cast over 200 national tours and countless works in development, as well as their Off-Broadway series at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, including the revival of Seussical. This is her fifth Ego Actus production. Casting Society of America. Instagram: @robincarus

Tatyana Kot (choreographer) grew up in the Soviet Union, where she studied ballet and dreamed of NYC stages. After getting a Master’s degree in Teaching History and Archaeology, she moved to New York. Tatyana has continued her movement artist training with Kay Nishikawa of the Nishikawa Collective and Jessica Burr with Blessed Unrest theater company, while teaching theater and dance to kids and adults with disabilities. Tatyana has choreographed nine world premieres of plays, including Don Nigro’s The Chaplin Plays and John Patrick Shanley’s Candlelight with Nylon Fusion theater company. She won Best Actress in the Planet Connections theater festivity, the Midtown international theater festival and First prize at Secondo Theater festival in Zurich, Switzerland.

Peter Dizzoza (music director) is composer and arranger for three productions of Crystal Field’s ever-topical Summer Street Theater plays. His work with Toby Armour and Joan Kane include scores for Aunt Susan and Her Tennessee Waltz and Meltdown.  He is music director for The Art of Comedy Workshop, a weekly TNC class directed by Mark Marcante and produced by The Yip Harburg Lyrics Foundation.   His project in development is Mushroom Head, a sequel to the City Artist Corp nature musical, Tunnel, featuring the Ergot fungus as refined by the pharmaceutical family of Swiss surrealist writer Maurice Sandoz.

Mark Marcante (set design) has been the Production Manager of TNC since 1984 and was responsible for organizing the relocation of TNC in 1986. He designed the lighting, scene shop, and storage facility for the new building and is currently responsible for maintaining the facility and assisting in the technical realization of TNC’s 30 to 40 new plays per year, including the installation of scenic elements and lights for all of TNC’s Community Festivals. He is also an instructor for TNC’s Arts-in-Eduction Program. Prior to TNC, Mark was the theatrical and technical consultant for the Arts Connection, visiting New York City high schools to advise on the upgrading of school theater facilities.

Lytza Colon (set design) was born and raised in the South Bronx and is a passionate, multi-talented visual artist, youth advocate, community leader, and activist. She was introduced to the live theatre in 2008 and got hooked. In that same year she was invited by Crystal Field, Executive Director of Theater for the New City, to do their award-winning Street Theater Summer Program as special props master. Lytza’s work has been featured in many theaters throughout New York City and the New York City Fringe Festival.

Roy T. Chang (projection designer) has done many shows at Theater for the New City, the Swedish Marionette Cottage, Abrons Arts Center, and others. For Ego Actus he designed the projections for The Tragedy of Dandelion and the sound for Diva Therapy.

Billy Little (costume design) has been a celebrity male & female Impersonator for 40 years. Currently he is the Resident Costume Designer for Theater for the New CIty, including Dragita, Dance of The Death, Holiday in Heaven, Aunt Susan and Her Tennessee Waltz, Occasionally Nothing, Teacher! Teacher!, Hedda Gabler, Bliss Street, Time Traveler’s Club, Joshua & Marsha, Love And Pre-menopause: A Love Story, The Boy Who Listened to Paintings, Freedom Summer, Life On The 3rd Rail, Bliss Street, Orson’s Shadow and Orson’s Shadow Reprised, Remembrance, The Road Ahead, Fair Winds And Winds of War, Socialization of a Social Worker, Diva Therapy, Miss Julie, Home Sweet Home, First Warning, The Popes of Farragut Street and SIMA. Billy was nominated for Best Costume Design by BroadwayWorld.com. He is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the High School of Art & Design and Fashion Institute of Technology. Email: BLNYC@Earthlink.net YouTube page: @BillyLittlestripsasprince. Facebook page: Billy Little.

Bruce A! Kraemer (producer and lighting designer) has done lighting design for Soho Rep, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ensemble Studio Theatre, 59e59 Theaters, the NYC Fringe, Theatre Row, the Snarks. and many others. Bruce also does TV and event lighting, audio, technical direction, stage management, production intercom, and RF coordination. He has done one or another of those for the Summer and Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, the World Cup, two Papal visits, three Superbowls, six Tony Awards, ten Christmas Tree Lightings at Rockefeller Center, on Broadway, off Broadway, off off Broadway, for dance, fashion shows, art installations, and hundreds of corporate events.

Joy Linscheid (sound design) has been involved with productions at Theater for The New City since 1994. TNC provided her early training in a number of different disciplines. She learned sound design as she worked with the renowned sound designer, Paul Garrity, on several Street Theater productions. She eventually started to design for Street Theater and other productions on her own. Joy enjoys working at TNC and is very happy to be “back-at-it” after Covid! Joy thanks the entire TNC community for their ongoing support and commitment to emerging works and emerging artists.

Alison Nolan (sound design) (she/they) is a sound designer and audio engineer with a BFA in theatrical production and design from SUNY Fredonia. She is so excited to be working on her first theatrical production since moving back home to New York after a year in California. Recent primary and assistant design credits include Waitress, Much Ado About Nothing, and Beauty & The Beast for Pacific Conservatory Theatre and Fair Winds and Freedom Summer at Theater for the New City.

Max Kilsheimer (prop deign) is excited to be working with Ego Actus again. They have been doing theater in some shape or form since a very young age and are amazed that they can do theater in NYC. Max worked on Ego Actus productions Time Stands Still and Rememberance, both at Theater for the New City. They have also done lighting electrics for industrial events for Caffeine Media. Much love to my mother, who introduced them to the love of theatre and encouraged them to move to NYC. It wouldn’t be possible to live here and do this without the love and support of my wife, Dana.

Dana Robbins (stage manager) is excited to return to Ego Actus for whom she was stage manager for Shelter in Place at the Sgouros Theater, One Woman in the United Solo Theatre Festival and Time Stands Still at Theater for the New City. She has been a stage manager in NYC and Orlando for many years. Dana was also the house manager at the Davenport Theatre. Some of her favorite shows include Me The People, Cabaret, Bent, Into the Woods, Jesus Hopped the A Train, and The Samuel Beckett Festival. She would like to thank her parents for believing in her and Max for being there always and forever.

Jonathan Slaff and Associates (press representatives) has been an independent press agent since 1988. Clients have included Theater for the New City, La MaMa, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, New Federal Theatre, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, Negro Ensemble Company,  The Drilling Company, Workshop Theatre Company, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The American Place Theatre, The Glines, Ubu Rep, and various independent filmmakers. His clients have received 17 Obies, three Bessies, Lucille Lortel, Theater World, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Success stories include, while press agent of La MaMa, the launch of Blue Man Group. Please see www.jsnyc.com

photo credit Joan Kane

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