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Kimiye Corwin

Kimiye is an actor/dancer/choreographer who lives in Brooklyn. Originally a trained dancer (Juilliard, BFA in Dance), Kimiye moved into acting after dancing professionally for five years with the Jose Limon Dance Company. She studied at The Actors Center and at Brown/Trinity (MFA in Acting). Kimiye has had the pleasure of performing regionally (Syracuse Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Studio Theatre, Hartford Stage, TheatreWorks Palo Alto, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Guthrie, McCarter). Kimiye's film and tv credits include One Life to Live, Blacklist, The Family, The Michael J. Fox Show, Five Dances (feature length film directed by Alan Brown). She has done movement consulting and choreography for theater (Dallas Theater Center, Guthrie, OSF), as well taught acting for dancers at NYU Tisch, and directed and choreographed for Stella Adler NYU program.


Kimiye Corwin

Julia Crockett

Julia Crockett is an actress with a rich background in physical and movement based work. She has extensive training and experience in the Williamson Technique, Viewpoints, Laban, Contact Improvisation, and studied under choreographic mentors Nathan Flower (Tisch, NYU) and Danielle Liccardo (Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers). She is a graduate of New York University and studied the Meisner Technique under Maggie Flanigan. She is also a choreographer and founder of the movement based company Julia Crockett & Group.

Julia Crockett

Sarah Baskin

Originally from Montreal, Sarah Baskin is an actor based in New York, with an affinity for developing new work and the collaborative process of making things. Sarah has worked Off Broadway, including productions at the Roundabout, 59E59, and with several downtown theatre companies. Regionally, she has performed at Portland Center Stage, American Repertory Theatre, The Theatre Center in Toronto, among others. Her film and television work includes "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", "Divorce," "Blindspot,", Thanks for Sharing, and Malaisia. Additionally, she is the head teacher of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop in NY, as well as an acting coach with The Actors Greenroom. Sarah is a company member at The Actors Center and holds an MFA in Acting from American Repertory Theater at Harvard University.


Sarah Baskin

Niki Morrissette

After receiving her BFA in Acting form Shenandoah Conservatory, magna cum laude, Niki began acting, singing and seeking. As the lead singer of the band Great Caesar, she's shared the stage with Allen Stone, the Indigo Girls, and Eric Hutchinson. Currently, Niki appears in the upcoming short film "Hewlogram" with David Hewlett, and is a proud member of Virago Theater Company. Niki resides in New York City where she is an integral part of her home studio, Kula Yoga Project.

Niki Morrissette

Marianna McClellan

Marianna McClellan is a performer, born and raised in New York City's East Village and currently living in Brooklyn. She has collaborated with The Clockwork Theatre Company, Woodshed Collective and the Living Room. Most recently she performed in the New York City Premier of Stupid Fu**ing Bird at the Pearl Theatre. Marianna has Performed regionally at The Humana Festival, The Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, among others. TV and Film Credits include High Maintenance (HBO); The Blacklist (NBC); L for Leisure; Pre; How to Score Your Lifeand the upcoming Western Comedy Two Plains and a Fancy.


Marianna McClellan

Nicole Calabrese

Originally from Rochester, NY, Nicole is a dancer/choreographer/fitness professional based in Brooklyn.  Regionally, she has performed at Lewiston Artpark and Theatre by the Sea.  She has choreographed for film, music video, and stage, and her performance credits range from "Show in the Sky", Las Vegas, to self-choreographed solo work with BalaSole Dance Company at the Ailey Citigroup Theater.  Constantly chasing her passion for moving the body through space, she trains personal clients in Pilates, teaches Xtend Barre, a ballet/Pilates based fitness class, and continues to perform as a project based contemporary and tap artist.  She holds a B.F.A. in Dance from SUNY University at Buffalo.  Nicole is honored to share the stage with the incredibly talented and powerful women of Virago Theater.


Nicole Calabrese

Brenna Palughi

Brenna Palughi is an actor, director, choreographer based in Brooklyn.  She has appeared as an actor on and off Broadway, in downtown and regional theater, on HBO, ABC, NBC, USA, Amazon, and in various films.  Brenna  has choreographed for film, music video, both straight plays and movement-based plays as well as devised pieces with the dance companies RUAH, INC. and Body Collider.  She directed and conceived the physical theater piece,Muse, and has directed web-series episodes and short films.  She is currently in post production for a short which she wrote and directed called, Close. She has been a professor of Acting, Scene Study and Movement at the Yale School of Drama Summer Conservatory, Stella Adler Studios and Pace University.  She trained to be a teacher of Allan Wayne Work under Brendan McCall in Norway and of Lucid Body under Fay Simpson.   Brenna is a proud company member of both Impact Theatre and The Actor's Center. She has an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.

Brenna Palughi

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