Pandora’s Box of Donuts

Aly Kantor, Writer

Aly Kantor is a playwright, performer, and teaching artist from Long Island, New York. Her award-winning, internationally-produced work is pleasantly quirky, femme-focused, often queer, and full of speculation and subversion. She is a Creative Associate with EastLine Theatre, where her new adaptation of The Great Gatsby, These Gilded Souls, premiered in Westbury, NY, in December. Aly’s other full-length work has been developed across the country with organizations including Vivid Stage, Theatre Off-Kilter, Playhouse on Park, Music Theatre of Connecticut, The Bechdel Group, Mirrorbox Theatre, and New Normal Rep.

This year, Aly is developing two new full-length plays with EastLine Theatre: blowhole (a nautical, radical, turn-of-the-century adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata) and The Care and Feeding of Restless Spirits (an original drama about a ladies' supernatural club set in 1920s New York). Additionally, Aly is actively developing and workshopping her full-length play Murdering Medea, which addresses feminine monstrosity in Post-Roe Ohio. Upcoming workshops will be at Kent State Trumbull and The Tank NYC in collaboration with The Bechdel Group.vTo learn more about Aly’s work, visit www.alykantor.com, or find her on NPX.

Scott Golden, Director

Scott Golden is a writer/director/actor based in Los Angeles. His recent acting credits include Dinner with Friends and Life x 3 (Coachella Valley Rep), Masao and the Bronze Nightingale and Favorite Cousins (Casa0101), Rio Hondo (Theatre of NOTE) and as Matt in Mr. Burns; a post-electric play (Sacred Fools) in which he was nominated for an Ovation Award. Directing and producing credits include Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, Easy Targets (Burglars of Hamm), Di Lady Di (Porters of Hellsgate) and Too Heavy for Your Pocket for Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles where he is a former Artistic Director. Scott studied theatre at Florida State University.

Meet the Cast

Ale Fips, Cal

Ale is an actress and singer from Guadalajara, Mexico. She began her career at a very young age, by the age of 15 she starred in many musicals including, El Principe Rana, Peter Pan, and the Mexican version of Disney’s High School Musical. She has ben part of many successful Spanish Tv Shows such as Codigo Paranormal (LATV) La Rosa de Guadalupe, Como dice el dicho (Univision) and in film; El Buchon (Hulu). In the states she had the opportunity of training in the Stella Adler Academy of Acting LA, and her credits include “Judgment on a Grey beach” , “Seucy and Boto”, “Undefined fraction” at La Mama ETC in NYC."There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it." -Amanda Gorman.

Christina Marie Leonard, Em

Christina Marie Leonard is an actress, writer, and comedian originally from Omaha, Nebraska. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating with a BA Degree in Theatre Performance from The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.  Within a few months she was cast in the hit web series “Riley Rewind”, which inspired her to start creating her own content. A few months later she wrote and produced her first short film “Misandry: A Valentines Day Story”, a satire inspired by “A Christmas Carol”, and then began work on “Loch Ness: the Web Series”, a comedy about a high school folk metal band. She continues to study acting, perform stand up, and act, write, and produce her own content including her most recent award winning dark comedy short film “Waiting for the Punchline.”