Lea McKenna-Garcia is an NYC-based theatre artist. Previous credits include seasons with the Alabama and Texas Shakespeare Festivals, and work with the NYC-based companies New Light Theatre Project and Wide Eyed Productions. She is an active member of the Fail Better Reading Series. Many thanks to Rebecca, Callie, Cary, Chris, Esther, Jayson, and all her compatriots in the cast. MA: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

PACO LOZANO was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Southern California. He has his MFA from FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Recent credits include a co-star in the upcoming feature film Bushwick with Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow, and a co-star in this past season’s premiere episode of “Madam Secretary,” directed by Morgan Freeman. You can find him every Sunday night at his artistic lifeline: Shelter Sundays (www.theshelternyc.org). Big love to Callie and company and tons of gratitude for this opportunity.

Michael Lloret is a native of Pennsylvania. He is a recent graduate of the East Stroudsburg University (2015) Theatre Program. His latest credits include Caught in The Middle (Hip Hop Album), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Seussical, and The Wizard of Oz. This is his NY Theatre debut. Check out his website at www.michael-lloret.com

Robin is an actress, dancer, and comedian. She studied at NYU Tisch, is a company member at PopUp Theatrics and Blue Muse Dance Co, and regularly works with Barefoot Shakespeare Co. You can check her out in Occupy Verona's Shakespeare Brawl Crawl this July, and in Ralph Puma's film Solace screening at NY Comic Con and other venues this fall. Check our her website for updates, web content and more info:robinjohnsonactress.net

Katie Sexton is so happy to be apart of Sunnyside Mixtape! Recent credits include South Pacific (Nellie), Oklahoma! (Laurie) and Marvelous Wonderettes (Suzie) at Allenberry Playhouse, Evil Dead the Musical ( Linda) with Wolfbane Productions, and Company (Susan) here in NYC with BOMP. BFA PointPark University. www.KatieNSexton.com

Originally from Hawaii, Viet has been living in NYC for 9 years and has so far not caused any riots. In that time he has been fortunate and grateful to have worked with many talented people (Including this cast). Theater: Fishing for Wives, Carousel, Attack of the Elvis Impersonators, Seeking Sondheim, Gilgamesh: An Epic Rock Musical. TV/Film: LOST, The Blacklist, Conan O'Brien. Huge thanks to Callie, Esther, Christopher and Cary. To the Cast and Crew-Much Mahalo and Aloha.

Callie is a NYC based theatre director, but will be moving to London in the fall to pursue a MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Favorite past directing projects include, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Miss Julie, Machinal, Traveling Twelfth, Meat Market, and The Bedroom for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Young Playwrights Festival. She has studied with Complicite, The Wooster Group and The Debate Society, and is an alumnus of NTI Advanced Directing, BA Furman University. Upcoming: Yellow-Bellied, Lilly-Livered, Chicken Shit: Or the Coward with the devised theatre collective HiveMind.

Cary Gitter is a writer in New York and a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Obie Award-winning Youngblood playwrights’ group. His plays include Youth Group (reading, Ensemble Studio Theatre), Did You Do It With Ms. Newman? (reading, The Factory NYC), The Smelly Girl (winner, Chameleon Theatre Circle New Play Contest; reading, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), I Fought New Jersey (NYU’s John Golden Playwriting Prize), and Herschel in History (semifinalist, O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference; honorable mention, Kennedy Center’s Rosa Parks Playwriting Award). His one-acts have been presented around the city and include Molly Finn R.I.P. We Love You (finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival). His dramatic work has been published in interJACtions: Monologues from the Heart of Human Nature, Volume III (JAC Publishing), and his fiction in JewishFiction.net, Newtown Literary and the Jewish Literary Journal. He holds a BFA in dramatic writing and an MA in English and American literature from NYU.

Christopher Torres is a Queens-bred, Ecuadorian-American storyteller. He studied creative writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice while pretending to study for his forensic psychology degree. He is currently an MFA candidate at City College. He is also an editorial assistant for the literary magazine J Journal: New Writing on Justice and the co-creator of the Fail Better Reading Series, a weekly reading series for writers and actors. He frequently performs at storytelling open mics throughout NYC. In February, his short play, We Come Here, was featured in Astoria Stories, produced by the Astoria Performing Arts Center. In April, he collaborated and performed in The Debates (Theater in Asylum). His next project is a site-specific music-theater piece, A Sunnyside Mixtape (WT Theatre), with Sunnyside Shines next week.

Esther Yumi Ko majored in English/Creative Writing at Hunter College, where she discovered TV writing and theatre in her senior year. Since then she’s dived into New York theatre, especially experimental, site-specific, interactive, and devised works.
She co-wrote her first full-length play, Clickbait: A High-Tech, Low-Tech Love Story About Sex, Suicide, and Cell Phones which won the Andrew and Eleanor McGlinchee Prize in Playwriting and was produced at The Access Theater. It asked audience members to keep their cell phones on and interact with the characters’ feeds, pics, and tweets throughout the show. Her short works have been seen in AA Runs on Shorts; Our Bar; the Canton One-Act Festival; and A Sunnyside Mixtape. She is the co-founder of the Fail Better Reading Series, a weekly reading series for writers and actors.

Rebecca Crigler is a producer, performer and writer based in New York City. Producing credits include: The Surgeon and Her Daughters, The Convent of Pleasure, and Pass Over (associate producer, Cherry Lane Theatre); A Sunnyside Mixtape (executive producer); Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes (associate producer/company manager, Lynn Redgrave Theater). New York acting credits include: Devin in Placebos Dress for Comfort (Manhattan Rep.); Madame Rosepettle in Oh Dad, Poor Dad… (Gruber Space); and Ned Blunt in The Rover (Loewe Theatre). Rebecca’s play Motel 60 received a production in May 2016.