Cabaret of Dreams Creative

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Playwright, Director, Producer
Charlotte Lily Gaspard
“Part celestial creature, part sophisticated human” is how Charlotte Lily Gaspard has been described by Faerie Magazine when contemplating the ethereal artist and her work in one of their features. Shadow puppet artist, educator and entertainer, Charlotte’s mission is to activate imaginations and celebrate playfulness wherever she goes. A “multi-faceted enchantress… the fanciful mastermind behind Midnight Radio Show” {Broadway World}, Charlotte is the founder and artistic director of Midnight Radio Show, a shadow puppet sci-fi fairytale theater company based in Brooklyn. Charlotte and her collective are known for devising innovative avant-garde enchantments, infused with puppets, poetry, music and dance, for the stage and beyond.
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Composer / Songwriter
Nebraska (FKA Jessie Davis)
Deeply rooted in purpose, Jessie “DJ Nebraska” Davis is an artist, educator, and cultural ambassador dedicated to using art as a tool for community building and sustainable development. Davis shares her message via her genre bending original music, elevating vibrations on dancefloors, and inter-continental artistic exchange. @djnebraska
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Composer
Doc Frost
L.A. Rucker, AKA Doc Frost has had a varied career in the industry as a writer, composer/ musician, producer. Over the years L.A. has been a key figure in both pre and post production for the New York New Media Association, Third World Newsreel, Brixton House, INIVA, Penup! Writers Collective and the Jack Straw Cultural Center. Most recently L.A. has launched his label "Glass Magnet" to showcase his fusion and electronica soundscapes. L.A. has dedicated his life to creativity, growth, and discovery. L.A. believes "An exploration of art should be as limitless as the depths of your imagination". L.A. has a reputation for breaking barriers and working with the brightest talent from the vanguard to the darkest corners of the underground.
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Composer / Songwriter
Sabrina Chap
SABRINA CHAP is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, composer, and performer. She’s got classical piano skills, the ballad lyrics of Tom Waits, the onstage antics of Phyllis Diller, and the voice of a whiskey angel. Described as ‘Rousing!’ by the New Yorker, her sets are a ragtime stompin’ good time, full of laughs, heartbreaks, and just plain good songwriting. ​ Noted for her live shows, where she mixes high theatricality with gut punches of truth, Chap has graced some of the biggest stages and the smallest barrooms a broad could find, including THE LOWRY (Manchester), CAFÉ DE PARIS (London), THEATRE BIZARRE (Detroit), SPIEGELTENT and more. ​ An accomplished songwriter, Chap has become NY's go-to person for novelty songs, musical theatre numbers, and visceral scores. Commissions include the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Midnight Radio Show, Pinch & Squeal, and more. She’s the composer/lyricist/co-book-writer of ‘Fashion Academy: The Musical’ (licensed by Concord Theatricals). ​ Chap is also the editor of the Lambda-nominated anthology, Live Through This: On Creativity and Self Destruction (Seven Stories Press). She's lectured widely on the book, presenting at the Brooklyn Museum, colleges nationally and abroad, and featuring on KEXP. Other activist work includes Cliterature, Letters to the Revolution, and Audio Protest. As a speaker, she is represented by Soapbox Inc.
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Producer
Ash Winkfield
Ash Winkfield (xe/xem/xyr/they) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in theater and the puppetry arts. They began their journey into professional performance while studying at UNC-Chapel Hill where they were introduced to puppetry while workshopping Basil Twist's Rite of Spring in 2013. Over the last decade, they have performed puppetry, theater, and vocal performance all over the world. Winkfield specializes in new and devised work presented in New York City, and has toured domestically and internationally with Basil Twist (Rite of Spring, Sister’s Follies, Book of Mountains and Seas), Torry Bend (The Paper Hat Game, Dreaming), The Walk with Little Amal (NYC, Toronto, Ireland, US Tour), Mabou Mines (Animal Magnetism), Shake on the Lake (The Othello Project, Songs & Sweet Airs, Mxbeth, Henry V), and Eat, Drink, Tell Your Friends (Lectures). They have had the great pleasure to perform in several projects that have been developed as part of La Mama’s Jumpstart, St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Puppet Lab, The Floating Tower, and the Object Movement Puppetry Festival.
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Puppet Builder
Lana Tleimat
Lana Tleimat is a NYC-based theater maker, whose work ranges from puppet design to writing and direction to improv performance. She is recent graduate of Stanford University, where she studied creative writing. Her writing twice recieved the Bocock Guerard Fiction Prize. lanatleimat.com
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Composer / Musician
Noah LaPook
Noah LaPook (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in NYC. As an actor, he recently appeared in ABC’s The Facts of Life. As a dancer, he recently performed with Third Rail Projects in their immersive dance-theatre show, True Love Forever. As a musician, his debut album, Intrusive Thoughts, is now streaming on all platforms. Follow along @lapookaracha
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Puppet and Costume Designer
Charlotte Lily Gaspard
Charlotte is the founder and artistic director of Midnight Radio Show, a shadow puppet sci-fi fairytale theater collective based in Brooklyn, NYC. She designs puppets for theater, film, and music videos, including award-winning feature film “Verses at Work” and theatrical adaptation “A Snowy Day & Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats.” Mommy Poppins declares, “The incredible shadow puppets will amaze the audience.” Along with puppets and performance, Charlotte also creates costumes for theatre & film projects. She holds credits for her costume & wardrobe work from the Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Signature Theater, Roundabout Theater, and many others.

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