Phoenix Festival Playbill 2025 (1) - Flipbook - Page 18
ANUJ PARIKH (Samuel Parris)
Anuj Parikh is a happy guy originally from Vancouver. He likes solving
puzzles: favorite roles include Titus Andronicus (noted in the New York
Times); Edgar (King Lear, Barefoot Shakespeare); Rev. Duckworth
(premiere of Alice Again, by The Lifespan of a Fact's G. Farrell);
Badger (Wind in the Willows, Phoenix Ensemble Theatre). Anuj has a
PhD in experimental nuclear astrophysics from Yale and was a
professor in Barcelona and expert on thermonuclear stellar explosions. He is particularly
interested in developing theatre that explores the interface between physics and poetry.
See anujparikh.com for more.
ZOE SENESE-GROSSBERG (Co-Director)
Zoe Senese-Grossberg is a New York based writer and director, the
Associate Artistic Director of The Firebird Project, and a Playwriting
MFA Candidate at University of Iowa. Recent work includes: BOY MY
GREATNESS (world premiere March 2024, regional tour September
2024), if i live until i be a man (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2024),
Bedfellows (Finalist for the Rootstock Reading Series), and
Frankenstein (world premiere March 2025). Her play Lay The Bent To The Bonny Broom is
a current 昀椀nalist for the National Jewish Play Project. Her playwriting has received
recognition from organizations such as the Eugene O’Neill Center, Penguin Random House,
Good Apples Collective, WP Theater, and YoungArts. She is also a proud member of the
Dramatists Guild. For more info, see zoesenesegrossberg.com
CHRISTIEN SETIADI (Betty Parris)
Christien Setiadi is thrilled to be a part of The Crucible! She has
appeared in The Snow Queen (Gerda and others), The War of the
Worlds (Ogilvy and others) and in improv shows like RUFF DRAFT:
Improvised Shakespeare with Firebird Youth Theater. She has trained
with Firebird, Different Directions, YADA, Bay Street Theater, Ross
Summer, ACANY, and The Barrow Group. When not acting, she
enjoys singing, playing guitar, making art, spending time with friends, and obsessing over
media masterpieces. Thank you to Leo and Zoe for this opportunity!
MEG SEWELL (Rebecca Nurse)
Meg Sewell has a BFA in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
and studied acting with Uta Hagen. She has performed with playwright
and director Ain Gordon (SoHo rep, New York Live Arts, PS 122). She
has also performed in regional theaters (Boston, Baltimore, Washington
DC, Durham), and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Meg acted with the
Strange Bedfellows (King Lear, Comedy of Errors, Measure for
Measure), the Depot Theater (The Shrine), the Westchester Sandbox Theater (Love, Loss
