A New Play by Alex Riad
Two women, sick of working at male-dominated tech companies decide to start their own app together, but the collaboration exposes the cracks in their friendship and threatens to turn their venture into one of the soulless start-ups they’re rebelling against.
The Team
Monica is a director, writer and dramaturg with a Masters in Theatremaking in Madrid (2022) and completed the Filmmaking Certificate from National Film and Television School (2022). Selected credits include Thanks For Having Me at Riverside Studios and Kings Head Theatre (2025), Feburary Face at Kings Head Theatre and Old Red Lion (2024), Ripped at the Seams, at the Bush Studio as part of FesTeLon Festival (2023) after jury selected it as winner for FesTeLoff at The Courtyard Theatre (2022) and Declare as part of SPRINT at Camden People’s Theatre (2023).
Alex is an Egyptian-American playwright based in New York City. He has been a part of The Lark’s Middle Eastern Writers Lab, a Literary Fellow at The Farm Theater, a member of The Actor’s Studio Playwright Unit, a three year Lila Acheson Wallace American playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School, and is a Judith Champion Launch Commission recipient at the Atlantic Theater Company. NY Theatre Credits: The Wild Parrots of Campbell (Cherry Lane Theater), The Floor is Lava (LaMama Experimental Theatre, 2017 Planet Connections Festival Best Play), If You Ever Come by Here (The Tank), and When You Go (The Tank). His plays have also been workshopped at Atlantic Theater Company, Signature Theater, Labyrinth Theater Company, Durango Playfest, and the Juilliard School.
Imogen is an award winning English/New Zealand actress and trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York and the Cours Florent, Paris. Theatre: The Off Broadway Alliance award winning Woman In Black (The Mckittrick Hotel, McCarter Princeton, Charleston Theater), Murder In the First (Soho Playhouse), The Groundling (Sonyo Theatre), The Art of Killin It (Future Proof), Gothic Nightmare (Teatro SEA), John Wick 3 The Continental Experience (One Hanson), Which Way to the Ivy Covered Well (Rochester Fringe Festival), Tamerlane (Poe Fest International), The Tempest (NZ/UK Tour) and many others. Film: The Reunion, Not That Bad, James Marriott’s latest music videos, Caprices (Evening Crane), As They Run (music video), Quit Your Day Job just to name a few including numerous commercials. She is represented by Shack Artists. Awards: Best Actor (Lovesick Film Festival) and Best Duo (Indie Short Fest). https://app.spotlight.com/6296-7832-4257
Siobhan is an Irish American actor. Her on screen credits include: Amazon Prime’s Mr + Mrs. Smith, Paramount’s FBI’s Most Wanted, and Black Oak TV’s Ms/Manage. On stage credits include: As You Like it, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and Blue Kettle and Here We Go with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, The Thin Place with Gloucester Stage, It’s A Free Country (SheNYC - best supporting actress), etc. Upcoming: A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep). siobhancarroll.com @siobhan_carroll siobhancarroll16@gmail.com
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