The Ensemble
Tucker Aust
Tucker Aust (he/him) is a New York based actor and creator. Recent credits include You Can Tell From the Twisted Juniper with Chautauqua Theatre Company, Vatican Falls, Moonchildren, and Can't You Tell! (Queerly Frigid Fest Audience Choice Award). He has appeared in several short films, most recently Frank Avella’s Fig Jam. Tucker is also a co-founder of the The Queer Ensemble, a collective of LGBTQ+ performers and artists dedicated to enhancing queer voices in the American Theatre. A graduate of the BFA Acting Program from the University of Southern California. @tuckeraust
Annika Chavez
Annika Chavez (she/her) is an award winning filmmaker based in between LA and NY. Her films have screened at Palm Springs International Shortfest (best US Short nominee), Annual Copenhagen FF (Best Short nominee), IFF Boston, Film Shortage, among others. As a writer, she was semifinalist for the NBC Nosotros Monologue Slam and works as a script consultant. Clients include: Flaunt Magazine, Molly Baz, MCM, Dior, Fossil, and Vice.
Coby Getzug
Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, The Shark is Broken, The Book of Mormon, Brighton Beach Memoirs. National Tour: The Band’s Visit, Spring Awakening. Regional: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, David Cromer’s Our Town, The Black Suits. TV: The Deuce, God Friended Me, Encore.
Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins (he/him) is a Brooklyn based actor. His work has been seen on stage at Northern Stage, The Oklahoma Shakes. Festival, The New London Barn Playhouse, JAG and more. His work on screen includes collaborations with The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and internationally with The Goldfish Company, a creative offshoot of L’École de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He trained at Ithaca College but encourages young Queer actors to forgo drama school. @imjackhiggins
Ashton Muñiz
Ashton (they/he) is an actor, performance artist, activist and emerging producer based in New York. Ashton’s artistic goal is to instill joy into the world by embracing the realities of the present.
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy is a writer, actor, and comedian living in Brooklyn, NY. Chris is currently a staff writer at Vanity Fair, covering entertainment and popular culture. As an actor, Chris has performed at Atlantic Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Flea Theater, 54 Below, New York City Children’s Theater, and Theater Row. As a comedian, he’s performed all over New York at Ars Nova, Club Cumming, Union Hall, The Bell House, the Netflix Is A Joke Festival in Hollywood, and on The Real Housewives of New York. You can follow him on Twitter/Instagram @christress.
Larry Owens
Award winning multi-hyphenate artist across medium of theatre, television, film, music and comedy. Theatre: A Strange Loop (Actor, Playwrights Horizons. Awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie), Larry Owens’ Sondheimia (Creator/Director. Carnegie Hall, Cafe Carlyle, Pasadena Playhouse) Selected Onscreen: Abbott Elementary, High Maintenance, Search Party, A24’s Problemista, Sony’s Dumb Money, and more. Comedy: Larry Owens Live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (NextUp Comedy Award Nominee) Writing: Musical comedy scripts developed at FX, Netflix, and Paramount. WGA Award Winner. Owens is the author of three full length musicals and one play: The American Football Musical a satire of The Blind Side-esque sports/white savior films; The Talk Show, about an evil female talk show host (directorial debut, Tribeca Film Festival, under title “The Gag”, starring Sherie Rene Scott); unannounced jukebox musical for Primary Wave records; and Five Sisters, a play about gendered succession written in iambic pentameter and AAVE.
Patrick Reilly
Patrick (he/they) is a multidisciplinary Artist, identifying as limitless and beyond gender. Film and Television credits include THE OTHER TWO (HBOMax), DATING MY MOTHER (Peacock), You Can Stay Over if you want and The D*ck Appointment (Outfest), and Indiewire’s acclaimed web series Danny the Manny. As a writer, his Feature Film KILLJOY received a 9 on the Blacklist and is currently in development with Casting Director Henry Russell Bergstein attached to the team. Patrick comes from the Theatre world where he starred in Off-Broadways AFTERGLOW which ran for a year, bolstered by the Queer community. A gift he will never forget. He is the Co-Creator of The Queer Ensemble: New York City’s latest theatrical collective that exists to bring queerness into the zeitgeist more radically. Outside of Art, Patrick is a healer- he teaches people how to help themselves, learn from themselves, and guide themselves into their highest good. Patrick desires to create industry relationships that foster a queer way of looking at entertainment with courage, risk, and trust in order to get Patrick, and his community to a wider audience.
Zach Siegel
Zach Siegel (he/they) is an award-winning gay writer, director, and editor. He’s directed shorts that have played at film festivals internationally, including You Can Stay Over (If You Want), which was awarded Best of Outfest (Awards Daily) and Wanna Go Camping?, which also had a residency at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle for several months. He’s directed live plays including the musical comedy More Guns!, which ran at Second City for two years, and for which he won Stage Scene LA’s Best Director. He’s edited on Mean Girls (2024), Yo! MTV Raps, and music videos for artists like PHINNEAS, Andrew Bird, Iron & Wine, and Lindsey Stirling. His NSFW poetry book While I Shit Out Your Cum & Other Gay Poems is available at select bookstores. He’s also a proud graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, and still resides in Los Angeles.
Michael Sturgis
Michael received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his work in Poor Clare at Echo Theater Company. On television, he starred with Mark Duplass in Room 104 on HBO, and with Mayim Bialik in Call Me Kat on FOX. His short film Every Other Week is a Staff Pick on Vimeo.
Jose Useche
Jose Useche is an actor and writer from Queens, NY. His series 30 DAYS IN BAYSIDE was featured on the 2022 GLAAD x Black List, a selection of Hollywood’s most promising unmade LGBTQ scripts. It is now currently in development with Elliott Page’s Page Boy Productions and Tanya Saracho’s Ojalá Productions. Jose was on Broadway for a short amount of time and on TV for an even shorter amount of time. He writes to make people laugh, and hopefully to make them understand themselves and each other better. Jose is queer, Latino, and a bunch of other things. His web series pilot, SLUT, which he also co-produced and starred in, was programmed at Official Latino Film Festival, Web Series Festival Global, Baltimore Next Media Web Fest, Chicago Pride Film Festival, and more. Jose lives in Brooklyn now, with his boyfriend and dog, both of whom will remain nameless. He plays Settler of Catan (well) and the guitar (poorly). He speaks Spanish but needs to practice.
Brittany Zeinstra
Brittany Zeinstra is an actor and dancer based in New York City. Theatre includes Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Prom (OBC). National Tour: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (San Francisco), The Little Mermaid. Regional: Mamma, Mia! (The MUNY), How to Succeed… (TUTS).