Phoenix Festival Playbill 2025 (1) - Flipbook - Page 36
LAUREN LOUD (Collaborator)
Lauren Loud is a writer, director, and actor originally from rural
Tennessee, now based in New York City. She has a BFA in Film &
Television from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
(2021). Lauren’s stage credits include Rosie in Motherf**king Girl
Scouts at The Wild Project as part of The Fresh Fruit Festival (2022),
Abby in Glowworms as part of The Chain Theater’s One Act Festival
(2023), and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Herbert Von King
Amphitheater (2025). She also performs as a part of Brooklyn-based drag collective
Mother Necesstitty. Lauren’s written work has been published in Waif Magazine (2023)
and The Inflated Graveworm (coming Fall 2025), and her latest short screenplay Liz was
the winner of Midwest Weirdfest’s Short Screenplay competition (2025). Her upcoming
昀椀lm Wild Like Me, in which she writes, directs, and stars, will premiere at the
Neighborhood Film Festival in 2026, of which she is also a member.
KARMA MASSELLI (Collaborator, Director)
Karma Masselli is a director and entrepreneur, creating new work
and community spaces in Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder of Shorts
Movie Theater, the 昀椀rst-ever cinema for short 昀椀lms, opening in
Brooklyn early 2026. She produces a free Shakespeare program in
Herbert Von King Park with 昀椀scal sponsorship from the New York
Foundation for the Arts. She is a founding member of Neighborhood
Film Festival. Her new play development has been seen at The Tank, The Brick, Wild
Project, and other NYC venues. Karmamasselli.com & @karmammm on instagram.
JESSICA BURR (Artistic Director, Blessed Unrest)
Jessica Burr is the founding Artistic Director of Blessed Unrest.
Burr has directed and choreographed over 40 productions for the
company, including 24 world premieres, including Doruntine, Body:
Anatomies of Being, Lying, and Eurydice’s Dream. She is the
associate director of “The Untitled Othello Project” in collaboration
with Project Untitled, a company devoted to socially just processes
of analysis & inquiry at the intersection of humanities education and theater-making,
currently in residence at Sacred Heart University. Burr has recently been spotted
“Untitling” Twelfth Night at the American Shakespeare Center (VA) and the Shakespeare
Association of America’s annual conference in Boston. Awards: Kennedy Center ACTF
Commendation for Distinguished Leadership (2019), First Prize Switzerland Secondo
Festival (2016), LPTW Lucille Lortel Award (2011) and multiple NY Innovative Theatre
Awards. JessicaBurr.net
