SPOILED: The Film Project
Written by Elizabeth Hess
Co-directors: Cherrye J. Davis and Elizabeth Hess
Starring: Cherrye J. Davis, Rebeca Miller, and Ninoshka De Leon Gill
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ARTISTS BIOS
Cherrye J. Davis is an actor, vocalist, playwright, and filmmaker. Education: NYU-Tisch-UG Playwrights Horizons. NY Theater: HOW TO MOURN AN AMERICAN, (Rough Draft Festival), THE LOOPHOLE (The Public Theater), THE SPORTING LIFE OF ICARUS JONES (Drama League), AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS (TMTC), AND THEN I WOKE, (Downtown Arts), TROJAN WOMEN (Oppressed in Heels), HOPE SPEAKS (La Mama), IMMORTAL: THE GILGAMESH VARIATIONS (The Forge), BINTOU (TMTC), HAMLET (Classical Theater of Harlem). TV/Film: Scavenger (The Public Theater), For Flow (2011 HBO Black Film Fest. Finalist), Scribbles: The Webseries (NYC Indie Film Fest). Commercial/Ads: Cherrye has appeared in commercial advertisements for clients such as Sling, SAP, Google, and Triscuit. Most recently, her self- directed short film Covered (A Certain Something Productions) is scheduled to screen at both the Toronto Black Film Festival 2021 and Dumbo Film Festival 2021. A teaching artist in history and spoken word performance, Cherrye has performed and taught at institutions such as at The Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, BedStuy Alive!, Harlem School of the Arts, New Museum, and Urban Word NYC. She can be found performing with blues experiment The Nervous, or fronting the live hip hop band Deathrow Tull. Follow her moves at www.CherryeJDavis.com
Selected credits include: NYC: Meshahnye (Theatre for a New City), Dracula (Morris-Jumel Mansion), Cabaret (The Secret Theatre), The Wishing Tree (Signature Theatre). Regional: Sleepy Hollow Meets the Headless Horseman (Pancake Productions), The Music Man (Sharon Playhouse). NYC Labs: The Wave (Ars Nova), Counting Sheep (3LD Art and Technology Center), Amelie (Lyric Theatre). Film/TV: Foreign Nationals (Foreign Entertainment, LLC), Love My Roomie (YháWright Productions). Ithaca College: B.S.
Rebeca has worked regionally in theatre at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Florida Studio Theatre, and toured nationally with Theatreworks USA. In New York she has been privileged to work with: Classic Stage Company, On The Rocks Theatre Company, New York Shakespeare Exchange, Shakespeare in the Square, and the NYC Fringe Festival. She has worked with playwrights developing new work at: The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, and New Georges. TV/ New Media Credits Include: The Perfect Murder and Diabolical (Investigation Discovery), The Preppie Murder (AMC Sundance) and The Chanticleer (YouTube). Rebeca also works as a Costumed Interpreter at The Lower East Side Tenement Museum. NYU: BFA. www.RebecaMiller.com.
Artistic Director: Elizabeth Hess
Playwright: Elizabeth Hess
Co-directors: Cherrye J. Davis & Elizabeth Hess
Director of Photography & Editor: Catalin Stelian
Production Assistant: Nilan
Dramaturg: Gina Stevensen
Managing Director: Victoria McNaughton
Marketing Director: Kelly Kirby
Marketing Intern: Bella Maxwell
Moderator: Elizabeth Scott Osborne with Eric McGriff
CO-PRODUCTION WITH LA MAMA ETC
MARCH 2021
CREATIVE TEAM
Artistic Director: Elizabeth Hess
Playwright: Elizabeth Hess
Co-directors: Cherrye J. Davis & Elizabeth Hess
Director of Photography & Editor: Catalin Stelian
Production Assistant: Shea Grant and Bella Maxwell
Dramaturg: Gina Stevensen
Managing Director: Kelly Kirby
Marketing Intern: Bella Maxwell
Moderator: Shonna Trinch
Panelists: Achiro Olwoch & Ruchira Gupta