ROOTS: Realizations on & off the stage

Emma Alteri is an actor / singer / dancer based in New York City. She graduated from Wagner College in 2021 with degrees in Theatre Performance & Arts Administration.  She has been seen at several regional theatres around the country, including at Playhouse Stage Company as Margo in Bright Star and at Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts in Colorado. She made her principal understudy debut as Stephanie Mangano in Saturday Night Fever in Lancaster, PA and most recently spent a summer at The Little Theatre On The Square performing in The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Pickles) and Escape to Margaritaville.

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Emma is currently on the road with the 1st National Tour of The Cher Show understudying Babe, and playing the featured role of Bridget.

Broadway: She Loves Me (Theatre World Award; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Mystery of Edwin Drood, West Side Story. Off-Broadway/NY: Irish Rep’s The Butcher Boy (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel nominations), Big River (City Center Encores!), Anna Nicole: The Opera (BAM/New York City Opera). 1st National Tour: Hadestown. Regional: Delaware Theatre Company, The Ahmanson Theatre, The National Theatre. TV/Film: Julian Blossom on “Riverdale” (CW), “Bull” (CBS), “How to Make it In America” (HBO), “The Backyardigans” (Nickelodeon), Low Tide (A24), She Loves Me (Great Performances on PBS). 

Hannah Corneau made her Broadway debut as Elphaba in Wicked. She recently starred as Edna St. Vincent Millay in the critically-acclaimed Transport Group production of Renascence. Previously, she traveled around the country as Yitzhak in the First National tour of Hedwig and The Angry Inch. Her Off-Broadway and regional credits include Daddy Long Legs, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Harmony (Ovation nomination), Les Miserables (Joseph Jefferson Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and A Little Night Music. She is also a founding member of RANGE a cappella.

Hannah is a voracious learner with an unquenchable desire to push the boundaries within herself and continually challenge the techniques she's mastered with experimental work. With a strong foundational background in Shakespeare and classical theatre, Hannah trained in Meisner Technique at Baron Brown Studios before becoming a student with Oscar-winner Tim Robbins' theatre company The Actors' Gang, where she explored Commedia Dell'arte, Viewpoints, and "the style". She is now a proud company member with The Actors' Gang after participating in several company workshops, a live ensemble production and a film project directed by Tim Robbins.

D’Nasya Jordan is a native of Brooklyn, NY and has dreamed of being a performer since childhood. A singer and actor known for her versatility, D’Nasya has won several classical as well as musical theater competitions. Her training began at LaGuardia High School of the Arts in New York City, where she began private lessons after school and was featured in her first operetta. She attended the Crane School of Music where her love for opera and classical music grew and landed her multiple lead roles in the opera program. D’Nasya made her professional debut as a backup singer for Natalie Weiss at several venues in NYC. Shortly after, she landed her first role in Sister Act the Musical which toured throughout Asia for a year. In 2018, she took her talents to the high seas and played Little Inez in Hairspray on Royal Caribbean’s largest ship in the world. During the height of the pandemic, D’Nasya met and sang alongside Kristin Chenoweth. Last year, she debuted as Duckling Donna in the Tony nominated life story of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical on Norwegian’s newest ship Prima. When she isn’t traveling internationally, D’Nasya can be seen in NYC performing with Broadway Sings alongside some of Broadway’s stars of today. @dnasya

AshleySimone Kirchner is a professional director and choreographer based in New York’s Capital Region. She hails from Central Pennsylvania, where she trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Pennsylvania Regional Ballet under Marcia Dale Weary and Sandra Carlino, respectively. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance with a concentration in Ballet from Marymount Manhattan College, where she performed restaged and new works from choreographers including Lar Lubovitch, Merce Cunningham, Benoit Swan Pouffer and Christopher d’Amboise. She began her work in the region in 2010 with Playhouse Stage Company (formerly Park Playhouse) as Dance Captain in Annie Get Your Gun, and has since performed in many acclaimed productions with PSC including Cabaret, Spamalot & Avenue Q. She now serves as the Associate Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer, and Director of Education at Playhouse Stage Company. You've seen her work in most productions since 2015 including Head Over Heels, Newsies, In the Heights, Something Rotten, Singin' in the Rain, and Spring Awakening. She is also on the faculty at the University at Albany in the Department of Music & Theatre and is a guest Director/Choreographer at Siena College. Ashley was formerly the Lead Dance Instructor and Choreographer for the Musical Theatre Department at Regional Center for the Arts in Trumbull, CT, and Director of Education at the Palace Theatre in Albany. Her work stretches beyond the region as she continues to teach Master Classes and choreograph at theaters and dance studios across the country. She is a proud member of SDC, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. She is thrilled to join the Carpe Diem team this summer for ROOTS!

Chloe is a Brooklyn native actor, singer, dancer, songwriter and all-around creative human. Her career has consisted of lots of theatre in and around New York City. She’s passionate about new musicals, originating new roles and making the arts a more equitable and inclusive space for all. Off the stage she hikes and travels a whole lot, teaches yoga and is in a folk Americana band called the Oshy Anna’s. Chloe is so excited to be back working with Carpe Diem! 

Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour are brothers and collaborators of Lebanese descent. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the MacDowell Colony, and most recently, collaborated with playwright Ismail Khalidi and Noor Theatre on a developmental production of Dead Are My People. Their new musical about the first chemotherapy trials in the 1950s and 60s was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Daniel and Patrick were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. They were artists-in- residence at the American University in Cairo.

Nick Ong is an NYC-based actor, originally from the Bay Area. He is beyond grateful to be back working with Carpe Diem this summer! Some favorite theatre credits include: Lysander/Flute in Midsummer (Tiltyard), a radical Shakespearean remix that performed in NYC and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Fedotik/Ferapont in Madeleine George's world-premiere translation of Three Sisters (Two River Theater); Actor 1 in Lauren Yee's King of the Yees (Profile Theatre); and Henry in Another Revolution (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Nick received his B.A. in Theatre from The George Washington University. He is also a hat wearer. A ramen enthusiast. A believer in the top button. A theater aisle sitter. And an amateur lyricist. nickong.com