the cast
Emily Anne Davis
Emily Anne Davis is a multi-faceted dancer, actor, choreographer and Pilates instructor originally from the L.A. area. She was last seen in The Void as part of the 2024 DreamUp Festival at Theater for the New City. Her talent has been featured in cabarets featuring the music of Thomas Hodge and has been a regular performer with the Women on Fire series, with whom she has also served as choreographer. She has worked with the Royal Family Productions on the shows Anne of Green Gables, The Ugly Duckling, and COVID Sux: A Musical Parody. A graduate of UC Irvine, she is also a certified pyro technician, working annually for the Macy's 4th of July fireworks show.
Robert-Louis Maisonett
Robert Maisonett holds a B.A. in Theatre and is thrilled to be returning to the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City. He is especially grateful to be working once again with Jonathan Galvez, Emily Anne Davis and Kristen Keim. Robert has appeared in numerous stage productions and films and is the recipient of a 2017 BRIO Award in Media Arts (Narrative Film & Video) for Latin Lives, a play he developed and created that was later adapted into a web series. He is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
Em Mathews
Em Mathews (they/them) is an Atlanta-born, Brooklyn-based performer and artist. They’re thrilled to be rejoining this wacky team after appearing as “Axiom” in The Void. Recent NYC credits include designing puppets and props for The Thousand and One Nights at The Club @ La Mama, which will receive its off-Broadway world premiere at the Ellen Hayes Theatre in spring 2027. Much love to the Center for Puppetry Arts in ATL!
Logan MCCOY
Logan McCoy is thrilled to make a return to the stage for the first time since the pre-Covid days of yore. Favorite credits include Bitten (EgoActus Productions), and Coriolanus (Combative Theatre
Co). Love to his family and friends, and thanks to the cast, crew, Jon, and Kristen for taking him on this wild ride.
THE CREATIVES
Playwright-
Jonathan G Galvez
A playwright and performer from the NJ/NY area, he is a co-founder and Artist-in-Residence of Theatrical Gems, a non-profit theater company and a graduate of the Playwrights Lab at Hollins University. He was recently published in The PlayGround Experiment Faces of America Monologue Festival #7 Anthology and will be included in The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2026. He was last presented at Theater for the New City with his play The Void. His work has been presented multiple times in the prestigious New York International Fringe Festival.His work has also been presented in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, the Strawberry One-Act Festival, the Red-Eye International Play festival, and at the Manhattan Repertory Theater.His award-winning play, The Alice of Ward 13, received its world premiere at William Paterson University
director-
KRISTEN KEIM
Kristen Keim is grateful to be back at Theater for the New City after directing Jon Galvez’s The Void for the Dream Up Festival in 2024. Other directing credits include Forever Plaid (Depot Theater), Modern Prophet ( Between Us Productions/staged reading), Lenny Bruce Is Not Afraid (Frigid Festival 2018), Stories From September (SoloCon 2017/Pit Loft), Waiting... (PCTF 2017/Winner Congeniality award, Directing Nominee), A Life: TBD (NYC Int'l Fringe 2015), Skylar (NYC Int'l Fringe 2018), A Hand Across the Bridge (PCTF 2018) Return of the Christmas Stars (Rogue Theater Festival) and the international hit solo show Blockbuster Guy. She dedicates this show to the memory of her father.
GRAEME COHEN (PRODUCER)
Graeme Cohen (Graeme/They/Them) is an agender producer from Manhattan. Graeme has over 10 years experience working and managing various aspects of theatre and entertainment. Select projects include Producing: Lizzie Borden: Life After Death; Box Office Management: Titus Andronicus (Red Bull Theatre); House Management: Vanya (Lucille Lortel Theatre), Oh, Mary (Lucille Lortel Theatre), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Lucille Lortel Theatre); Run Crew: One Night (Target Margin Theatre)