CAST

Julius………………………………………………….…..………David Shih Elena………………………………………..…………..…………Jen Anaya Max…………………………………………………………..Shabazz Green Nik…………………………………………………………..……Alan Ariano Sal………………………………………………………………..Jim Nugent Teresa……………………………………..…………………….Shetal Shah Lawyer, Harry……………………………….………………….Greg Horton

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

Playwright…………………………………………………Mrinalini Kamath Director………………………………………………………..Dev Bondarin Sound Design………………………….………………..…….Caroline Eng Engineering………………………………………………..….……Jim Petty Graphic Design……………………………………………..Sheila McArdle CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Jen Anaya (they/them) (Elena) is a theater/music/art/ritual space maker, doula, and energy healer born and raised in the desert of Yavapaiv Apache, Cocopah and O'odham land. A proud jack of all trades, they have performed in rock bands, web series, art installations, plays, operas, films, solo shows, healing rituals and musicals everywhere from La Mama to The Kitchen, Harvard Art Lab to Radio City Music Hall, the mountains of Greece to Harpa in Iceland. Jen is a founding member of Constellation Chor, occasional contributor to You Are Here Creations, and a current FORGE fellow. More at jenanaya.com

Alan Ariano (Nik) Thank you APAC and Dev Bondarin for inviting me to be part of Stuff. Broadway: The King And I (Lincoln Center revival), M. Butterfly, Jerome Robbin’ Broadway, Shogun: The Musical, Miss Saigon (original company to closing company, 10 years to the day). National tour: Flower Drum Song. Off Broadway: Ma-Yi Theater’s Felix Starro (title role), Urban Stages’ A Deal and Shanghai Moon (opposite Charles Bush). World premieres: The Geffen Playhouse’s Extraordinary Chambers, Portland Center Stage’s Snow Falling on Cedars, Prospect Theater’s Honor. Regional theaters: The Kennedy Center, The MUNY, Dallas Summer Musicals, Walnut Street Theatre, Pioneer Theater, The Fifth Ave, Music Theatre of Wichita, Weston Playhouse, California Music Circus, Lyric Opera of Chicago. Favorite roles: The King (The King and I), Bishop and Grantaire (Les Miserables), Ito (Mame).TV: "Law & Order: SVU” (recurring Judge), “FBI: Most Wanted,” “The Path,” “Harry’s Law,” “Leverage,” “Law & Order,” “As The World Turns,” “One Life to Live,” “Saturday Night Live,” HBO’s “Treme” (guest star opposite Isabella Rossellini).

Shabazz Green (Max) New York credits: Bars and Measures (Urban Stages), Philosophy for Gangsters (Beckett Theatre), Intruder: The Musical (Hudson Guild), Raisin (Astoria Performing Arts Center). Regional credits: Oklahoma! (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Topdog/Underdog, Sister Act: The Musical (Lake Dillon Theatre Company), Hands on a Hardbody (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), To Kill a Mockingbird (Greenbrier Valley Theatre), The Ballad of Trayvon Martin (New Freedom Theatre), Little Rock (Passage Theatre), Humbug (Premiere Stages). Film: Romance in the Digital Age. @shabazzgreen www.shabazzgreen.com FEAR NOT!

Greg Horton (Lawyer, Harry) is happy to be returning to APAC and delighted to be doing anything right now. He last appeared at APAC as Grandpa Gellman in Caroline, or Change. Other favorite roles at APAC include Buddy in Follies (nominated for a 2018 NYIT Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role), Joe Josephson in Merrily We Roll Along, and Luigi Gaudi in Lucky Stiff. He most recently appeared as Mr. Laurence in Gallery Players’ Little Women. Off-Broadway: With Glee, Adult Male, Prospect Theater. Other New York: Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing; Mr. Carney, A Man of No Importance, (2012 NYIT Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role), Ko-Ko, The Singapore Mikado, (2006 NYIT Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role) Regional: John Adams, 1776, Cortland Repertory Theatre. As always, for Roxann.

Jim Nugent (Sal) A native New Yorker, Jim’s work includes 40+ years of Broadway, Off/Off-Off, regional theater, TV, film, web Series--and now podcasts--both in the U.S. and Japan. Some of his favorite roles include Roy Hubley, the father of the bride, in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite for Snarks, Uncle Thor in Morning’s at Seven for OOTB, Prospero in The Tempest for Titan Theatre Company, Sidney, the closet case, in Street Theater for TOSOS, the Driller in Moonlight On The Bayou by Lindsey Ferrentino at Hunter College’s Loewe Theatre under the auspices of Tina Howe, and Vanya in Uncle Vanya, Eilert Lovborg in Hedda Gabler, and Gower in Pericles, these last three as an original company member of The Pearl Theatre Company for seven years (17 productions). He continues to be a proud member of ARTC, OOTB, Titan, and TOSOS, and is honored and grateful to be working once again with Dev Bondarin directing this extraordinary cast of actors for APAC, in Mrinalini Kamath’s brilliant, important, and timely story, Stuff. AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Shetal Shah (Teresa) is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker, actor and performance poet. Trained at the Maggie Flanigan Studios, she is a proud alum of the LAByrinth Theatre Master Class and has performed in films, TV, and theater. Favorite theater credits: Acquittal (Pan Asian Rep), Truth Be Told (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and select readings with Second Stage Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, and Pulse Ensemble Theatre. Favorite film and TV credits include: Arya (for which she won the 2005 SAMA Best Actress Award), Loins of Punjab Presents, “The Daily Show,” VH1 Denmark, and In-Scene host and co- producer for ARY TV. As a poet, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Bowery Poetry Club, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and as an original member of the only poetry and activism group in America, Poetic People Power, for the last 17 years. Her short film, Off Duty, about a surprising case of mistaken identity, can be seen on Tasveer TV and iWoman TV as well as in-flight on Alaska Airlines. www.shetalshah.com

David Shih (Julius) is a NY-based actor and audiobook narrator. His theater credits include The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep), Henry VI: Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts (Drama Desk Nomination: Best Revival) Awake and Sing! (NAATCO), KPOP (Ars Nova, Lortel Award: Outstanding Musical), Somebody's Daughter (Second Stage), Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse), Crane Story (Playwrights Realm). On screen, he has appeared on the TV series “Hunters,” “Billions,” “City on a Hill,” “Iron Fist,” “The Path,” “Blindspot,” “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Blacklist,” and “Law & Order: SVU” and in the films Mr. Sushi, Eighth Grade, All the Little Things We Kill, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Saving Face. His acclaimed audiobook work includes AudioFile Earphones Award winners 47 Ronin and Ghosts of Gold Mountain. He is the voice of Eddie Toh in the hit video game Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Games). Other voiceover credits: narrator of the History Channel documentary “China's First Emperor” and the Discovery Networks series “Royal Inquest.” He also works with Only Make Believe performing interactive children’s theater in hospitals, care facilities, and special education centers.

Mrinalini Kamath (Playwright) is a Queens-based playwright who attended Johns Hopkins University and the New School for Drama. She was a 2019 recipient of a Queens Council on the Arts New Works Grant for her play Term Limits and was a 2018 Ma-Yi/UWashington Mellon Creative Initiative fellow. Many of her short plays are included in Smith and Kraus anthologies, and she is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and the PlayGround Experiment, and is an alumna of EST’s Youngblood and the Mission to (dit)Mars Propulsion Lab. Many thanks to APAC and Dev for her interest in the play and her excellent direction, and to the cast for their talent and enthusiasm in difficult circumstances. For more info about Mrinalini: mkwriter.com

Dev Bondarin (Director) is the Artistic Director of Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) where her directing credits include the NY premiere of Marguerite by Anton Dudley & Michael Cooper starring Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman (cast album available from Broadway Records), Caroline, or Change (Winner, AUDELCO Viv Award - Outstanding Musical Revival), Follies (Winner, New York Innovative Theater Award - Outstanding Ensemble, Raisin (Winner, NYIT Award - Outstanding Musical), and Merrily We Roll Along (Winner, NYIT Award - Outstanding Musical). Dev is also the Associate Artistic Director of Prospect Theater Company where she produces and directs an annual musical theater lab. In the last year has directed two short musical films for Across a Crowded Room at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, the inaugural StatueFest - Put a Woman on a Pedestal, and will direct a virtual reading of Marcus Scott’s Joy Comes in the Morning with The Center at West Park on June 5th. devbondarin.com @devbondarin

Caroline Eng (Sound Designer) is a New York based sound designer and audio engineer. Recent design work includes endogamy and Signaling (The Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood Monday Lunch Podcast Series), Where Are You (Digital) (SUITE/Space, Mabou Mines), Rarámuri Dreams, Taxi Radio, and May 35th (The Columbia University International Play Reading Festival 2020 Podcast Series), Julius Caesar and Macbeth (American Academy for the Dramatic Arts). Find Caroline's online portfolio at carolineengdesign.com.

Jim Petty (Engineering) is a sound designer and engineer with Five OHM Productions. Past productions include The 8th (Secret Theater), How To Load a Musket (59e59 Theaters), She Persisted (Atlantic Theater Company), 12th Night (Shakespeare on the Sound), Folk Wandering (ART/NY), Playing Hot (Ars Nova), The Elementary Spacetime Show (Playwrights Downtown), Noise (Playwrights Downtown), 1969: The Second Man (NYTW), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Sound), One Night Only (McGinn Cazelle), Forbidden Colors (La Mama). Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is an award-winning non-profit theater company dedicated to engaging the residents of Astoria, Long Island City, and greater Queens in contemporary social and cultural issues through live performance and arts education. Established in 2001, APAC has produced a diverse mix of new plays and reimagined musicals and developed dozens of new works. APAC also provides a robust array of community and arts education programs that offer writing and performing opportunities to students, seniors, and residents of all ages with and without disabilities. Recent productions include the New York premieres of Marguerite by Michael Cooper and Anton Dudley featuring Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman and Jump by Charly Evon Simpson directed by Arpita Mukherjee, the AUDELCO Award-winning revival of Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner and Jeanne Jeanine Tesori, directed by Dev Bondarin, and the New York Innovative Theater Award-winning New York premiere of Queen by Madhuri Shekar. For more information, please visit www.apacny.org

APAC Board Shelly Felder, President Mackenzi Farquer, Treasurer Rich Mintz, Secretary Nur-ul-Haq, Members George Mihaltses, Members Jonna Stark, Members

APAC Staff Jeff Griffin, Executive Director Dev Bondarin, Artistic Director

This episode of Stuff is sponsored by Lockwood. lockwoodshop.com

Please join us for episode two on Tuesday May 18th

SPECIAL THANKS Graham Johnson, Scott James & FiveOhm Productions, Jason Pintar, Lockwood, We Heart Astoria

Thanks to Ma-Yi Writers Lab and Mission to (dit)Mars Propulsion Lab for helping to develop the play.

Thank you for joining us! If you would like to make a donation to Astoria Performing Arts Center, please visit us at www.apacny.org THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

Government New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York City Department for the Aging New York City Department of Youth & Community Development Former Council Member Costa Constantinides Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer

Foundations Tides Foundation Goode Family Foundation The Congregation de Notre Dame New York Community Trust The Alliance of Resident Theatres / New York Indie Theatre Fund / Indie Space

The First 50 Harvey & Kathleen Guion Nur-ul-Haq Miriam & Tom Herin Danny & Audrey Meyer George & Haeda Milhalses Rich Mintz The Riopel Family Jonna Stark Carole Tosiello

Individuals Andrea Alton, Billy Anderson, Merih Anil, Avital Asuleen, Jennifer Ayres, Patricia Bagby, Daniel Barry, A. Bartek, Gogo Bell, Teresa Bocalan, Mary Kate Boughton, Amy Bourne, Joe Bowen, Jillian Carucci, Patrick Carter, Dave Carver, Michael Cassara, Pia Catton, Kathryn Chamberlain, Cathy Chimenti, Seth Christenfeld, Gina Cimmelli, Angela Clark, Shawn Clark, Barbara Cohen, Emily Cohn, Michael Cooper, Terri Coppersmith, Tom Cork, Elissa Curtis, Cody Daigle-Orians, Cheryl L. Davis, Michael & Alison Deleget, Judy Densky, Alex de Suze, Kathleen Dorman, Teresa Dorman, Alexandra Miller Doucette, Mackenzi Farquer & Laura Kellner, Louis Farucci, Sharyn Felder, Shelly Felder, Kate Forrestall, Susan Glattstein, Chad Gneiting, Eleanor Goldhar & John Vollmer, Eric Grunin Evie Hantzopoulos, Deb Marsh Harbison, Jeanne Harbison, Mary Harbison, Nicholas Harbison, Jenny Hartley, Jennifer Fell Hayes, Drew Hendrickson, Wilbur Henry, Dev Bondarin & John Herin, Danah Heye, Benjamin Hodges, Danny Holton, Melissa Huber, Erin Hume, John C. Hume, Brittany Janis, Ellin Jarmel, Steve Kaliski, Joanna Khoury, Dain Landon, Sheila & Sheldon Lewis, Mildred Liff, Lynn & Mark Lobell, Adriana Lopez, Vincent Marano, Jesse Marchese, David McCarthy, Lauren McCormack & Jaimie March, JoJo McDonald, Paul McGinley, Tim McMath, Monica Moore, Emmanuelle Morgen, Christian Narro, Kim Spence Nelson, Nancy Nicolelis & Jim Litsas, Montsine Nshom, Heidi M. Patalana, David Parkes, Jane Paznik-Bondarin & Andrew Karlin, Robert O’Dowd, Liz Perez, David Pollack, Jasmine & Joe Poso, Shakira Provasoli, Sheilah Rae & Elliot Gross, Cara Reichel & Peter Mills, Nilsa Reyna, Sara Rhodehouse, Michael Rose, Sully Rios, Deborah Rubin & Richard Marx, Ellen Rudley, Taryn & Domenico Sacramone, Nahma Sandrow & Bill Meyers, Anand Sarwate, Ben Schnickel, Ross Schwartz, Marsha & Jay Seeman, Heather Shields, Scott Sickles, Arline Smith, Jen Soloway, Tina Stafford, Gordon M. Stanley, Jan Tactical, Alden Terry, Eileen Riley Thatcher, Mele Tong, Judy Tonick, Phyllis Tsagdis, Judith Tumin, Steven Turacek, Shira & Ramon Turner, Kimberly Tyer, George Watchel, Kathleen Warnock & Donna Bungo, Clarissa Weiss, Matt Welsh & James Higgins, Patrick Wilcox, Flavia Williams, Jamie Williams, Susan Willerman, Theresa Wong, Nici Wooding, Ellen Zaltzberg, Alan Zucker