WORLD PREMIERE

THURSDAY, JULY 30th @ 7:30 PM

FRIDAY, JULY 31st @ 7:30 PM

saturday, august 1ST @ 2:30 pM

saturday, august 1ST @ 7:30 pM

sUNday, august 2ND @ 2:30 pM

FRIDAY, August 7th @ 7:30 PM

saturday, august 8th @ 7:30 pM

Live Animals Onstage! is a Brooklyn-based DIY experimental immersive theater company. Our practice is rooted in deconstructing text, community building and spectacle. Our characteristic style includes a party environment, participatory, site specific elements and poor theatre technology

This summer, Live Animals Onstage! goes WILDE! In a not-so-distant future, a crime lord and his stepdaughter have a domestic dispute over possession of a cult leader they've been keeping locked in their basement. Sound complicated enough? Equal parts biblical fever dream, family drama, warehouse rave, and ritual sacrifice, DECAPITATRIX is a decadent new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salomé set in the seedy techno club of your nightmares. Drawing on Wilde's scandalous exploration of eroticism, religious ecstasy, and transgressive desire, Live Animals Onstage! stages a perverse ritual communion with the divine in a sterile industrial world oscillating between stoicism and decadence. Dark, mystical, funny, and unapologetically excessive, DECAPITATRIX asks whether sensuality is a road to damnation -- or whether desire itself might be revolutionary.

CAST

SAIDIE STONE (Salome) is a New York based actor originally from Santa Cruz, California. She has performed at The Tank, New World Stages, Columbia MFA, Dixon Place, and has appeared in multiple shorts and feature-length film projects. Selected credits include EURYDICE (Eurydice), THREE SISTERS (Masha), OUR TOWN (Mrs. Webb), and FEMM (Zee). BA: Northwestern University.

OBI NWAKO (Tigellinus) graduated from Williams College with a bachelor of arts in theater. Born and raised in New York, Obi works with American Immersion Theater and has enjoyed performing and teaching improv throughout New York. Some of Obi’s performances include “The Best Brother,” “A House Full Of Flies,” “Our Town,” and “Carmilla”. He’s super excited to be back with Live Animals Onstage!

JOHN MURPHY* (Yokanaan) is an actor and producer based in Brooklyn. He is a co-founder of Live Animals Onstage!, through which he starred as George Gibbs in Our Town and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Additional credits include Edmund in King Lear-Khuy, Pasha in The Barista (Alien Theatre Collective), Jim in Red Cross (Garden Variety). He is working on a new play in development at Coffey Street Studios set to premiere later this year.

PETRA HINDS (Narraboth) is a Brooklyn based actress and singer, and she can’t wait to serve this piece to you on a silver platter. She received a BA in Theater and Political Science at Williams College; while there, she studied physical theater, voice, devising, directing, design, and dramaturgy. She also completed the Atlantic Acting School’s Evening Conservatory. Recent credits include Sam Melton’s Bury Your Gays at the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival (Ensemble), and Mile Square Theater’s production of The Mountaintop (u/s Camae).

CAROLINE FAIRWEATHER* (Herodias) is a theatre-maker based in Queens. Caroline is an Associate Director on Maybe Happy Ending and recently served as the Assistant Director on The Lost Boys and The Queen of Versailles. Other directing: Carmilla, Red Giant. Performance: Parade (B’way, NYCC, Nat’l Tour), The 2024 Met Gala, and at Barrington Stage, Shakespeare & Co., and Williamstown Theatre Festival. With Live Animals Onstage: Midsummer, Romeo & Juliet. carolinefairweather.com

STELLA OH (The Cappadocian) is a Korean American-Canadian NYC-based actor, writer, singer-musician, and occasional sound designer who’s delighted to be making her debut with Live Animals Onstage! She’s greatly interested in an holistic artistic practice that investigates text and movement through interdisciplinary playmaking and physical theater. Past credits include her solo show Even Monkeys Fall From Trees (Mabou Mines & 3AM Theatre, ChuanFest), Molly-Kate in CRINGE (Edinburgh Fringe & 59E59 Theaters, Fishmarket Theatre Co.), Before it Hurts (The Tank & Mabou Mines & 3AM Theatre, in-version ensemble), and Mom in The Firebird (The Rat NYC, Foul Fiend Theatre Troupe). Many thanks to her 엄마, Grace, friends, and mentors for their loving support!

EVAN DOMINGUEZ (Herod) is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, actor and film editor, whose passion for film and theater was first ignited while studying drama at New York City’s most prestigious public arts school, LaGuardia High School. Upon graduating, he was generously granted the Joanne Woodward First Year Scholarship at the Neighborhood Playhouse and spent a year studying the Meisner technique, assembling among his classmates the cast and crew of his off-broadway directorial debut, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at Theatre at St. John’s.Dominguez then earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Ancient Greek and Latin at Brooklyn College, working simultaneously as a documentary film editor. While writing screenplays, directing shorts, working as a freelance film editor, and acting both on stage and screen, he has had the privilege of collaborating with a diverse array of esteemed artists, including film icons Kate Winslet, Chloe Sevigny and Eric Roberts. Dominguez’s short film THE SUPERINTENDENT, has screened as close to home as the Prospect Park Nitehawk Cinema, and as far as Beijing, China.

ALINA MUHA (Page) was born in Russia where she studied movement and theater. She’s now based in New york where she continues studying acting. Alina is also a director and writer and has a great interest in bringing classical literature on a modern stage

CREATIVES

FIONA SELMI (Director) is a director and dramaturg based between Brooklyn and the Bay Area. She is the co-artistic director of Live Animals Onstage! and is currently pursuing a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. Her artistic work and research explore contemporary theater, DIY aesthetics, alternative theater scenes, and the resurgence of theater companies and collectives. Recent directing credits include Our Town, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dance Nation, and the world premiere of Spitfire: A Space Femme Fantasia. Upcoming: Our Town (again) and Cowboy Mouth, both at Stanford.

VICTORIA A PYSHER* (Production Stage Manager) is a born-and-raised New Yorker and proud alumna of LaGuardia High School and Williams College. She has stage managed on and off Broadway for over a decade. Her shows include Gutenberg! The Musical!, Death Becomes Her, Only Gold, American Music, Planet Funk, Parallel Lines, A Doll’s House, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Hair 50th Anniversary Gala, The Tangibles, and more. After stage managing Live Animals Onstage’s 2025 production of Our Town, she is thrilled to return this year to support LAO’s inspiring mission of creating art centered around community and connection. Love you, mom! vpysher.wixsite.com/home

SEBASTIAN BLUE HOCHMAN (Sound Design and Origional Music) is a composer, sound designer, and theatermaker whose work spans theater, film, immersive performance, and live improvisation. He is getting his masters’ in Music at Stanford, with a focus on music for theater and immersive media. He has credits at The Public Theater, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, and DR2. Whether writing musical theater or sound designing, his practice blends bold musical storytelling, rhythmic play, and textured sonic worlds.

JARED HARBOUR (Choregrapher) is co-founder and Lead Producer of Earthbound Studio, a New York production company working across film, documentary, and live performance, with clients including Alice + Olivia, the Museum of the City of New York, DraftKings, and more. He's currently a JD/MFA candidate at Columbia Law School and Columbia's School of the Arts, and he's also a writer, covering theater and film economics on his Substack. He wrote and produced No Dancing Allowed, a documentary rooted in New York's House and Lindy Hop dance communities, tracing how the Cabaret Law shaped and restricted their practice for decades — now moving through the festival circuit. His work treats art as a way to name and needle systemic inequality. Jared believes that traditional paths to artmaking are antiquated and is in search of making art that "impacts culture" (yes, he's aware that's the artistic equivalent of saying you want to "make a difference," and he's working on a better answer).

CHLOE DITTLOFF (Lighting Design) has a BFA in Lighting Design from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Design credits include: Rutgers’s Men on Boats, R & J, and Orlando,

Columbia University’s The Winter’s Tale, BAKKHAI, and Is God Is, Barnard College’’s Octagonal

Amusement Park. Associate credits include: Waterbury Symphony’s Broadway Scores!, Lucky

Man: A Warrior’s Journey, and the New American Ensemble’s The Brothers Karamazov. Recent

assistant credits include: DOLLY: A True Original Musical. chloedittloffdesign.com

CAROLINE PAYTON PARKER (Fight & Intimacy Choregraphy) is thrilled to be returning to Live Animals Onstage and joining the Decapitatrix team. A queer, award-winning fight and intimacy director, she is passionate about creating collaborative, consent-forward processes that support bold storytelling. A mentee of Broadway Fight Director and former SAFD President David J. Brimmer, her recent credits include Just Juliet (Off-Broadway), Carmilla (Off-Off Broadway), Alone, Alone, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, a short film whose award-winning festival run qualified it for Academy Award consideration, and more Shakespeare than she could ever hope to count. Upcoming work includes Fire Girls (feature film). Endless love to her family, friends, and partner for their unwavering support.

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors' Equity Association without the benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway Production

more about live animals onstage!

THE TEAM @ green lung studio

Jessica Mitchell, Steven Carmona, Amanda Carmona, Maggie Beutner Cheung, Tim Cheung

About Green Lung Studio

Green Lung Studio was built by two artists who wanted a place to try things—loudly, quietly, imperfectly. Not a venue. Not a theater. A playground. A lab. A home. We know what it’s like to scrape by in a city that forgets its artists. So we made the kind of space we always needed—a place to test ideas. Today Green Lung Studio is ran by a group of close friends and volunteers looking to protect independent New York art spirit and culture.

Green Lung Studio has year round dance, music, cinema and more. Stay up to date at greenlungstudio.com or @greenlungstudio on Instagram.