Dance Nation - May 10 - May 11, 2024
Parent Theatre Company
Who's Who
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Lola Arenas
as ASHLEE,Director/Producer
Actress, writer, and model, Lola Arenas is gullibly green, stepping into her directorial debut. Lola majored in Drama at NYU Tisch and received classical training at LAMDA. She made her on-screen debut as Annie Lazar in ‘Who Invited Charlie?’ Her poetry has been published in ‘The Underground’ and ‘Croton Review’. Now, she's thrilled to take on the director's chair.
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Jadene Meyer
as VANESSA/CRUMPLED SAILOR/THE MOMS,Producer
Jadene Meyer is a multi-disciplinary bicoastal artist. She works as a photographer, actress, playwright, and apparently a web-designer, (cue parentheatre.com). She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch Drama where she minored in Business & Producing at Stern. She's honored to break a leg alongside such a profoundly talented cast. Totus mundus agit histrionem, all the world's a stage.
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Esther Kohl
as MAEVE,AD/Producer
Esther Kohl is a Brooklyn-based artist with a BFA in Drama from NYU. She is thrilled to be Assistant Directing this production of Dance Nation. Past directing credits include: Dirt by JoHannah James (Dir.), Gondal by Kimberly Belflower (AD), and Requiem in the Olive Garden by Shea Grant (AD).
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Merlinda Akindele
as AMINA
Merlinda Akindele (Amina) is an actress, model, and writer from Chicago. She is known for understudying ‘JADA’ in the play ZOOMERS by Matthew Gasda at the BCTR. She studied at NYU Tisch and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where she played ‘Lady Macbeth’ in Macbeth and Prospero in 'The Tempest.' She will be premiering as ‘ZOE’ in Matthew Gasda’s play Morning Journals.
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