Director, Co-adapter and founding collaborator

Shira Milikowsky is a director and producer specializing in original collaborations and innovative imaginings of musicals and classic texts. In 2017 she co-founded a performance and production company, The Neon Coven. The Coven’s flagship production, OSCAR at The Crown, had successful runs in New York, Edinburgh, and London, and was hailed by the New York Times as “a party-inducing Rocky Horror transplanted to a 1990s Madonna video.”

Milikowsky spent six years as the artistic associate at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where, among other projects, she directed Taylor Mac’s five-hour epic, The Lily’s Revenge. Recent favorite projects include A Guide for The Homesick by Ken Urban (New York’s DR2 Theatre); Distant Star by Javierantonio González, adapted from the novel by Roberto Bolaño (Abrons Arts Center); and co-producing Broadway’s Liberation by Bess Wohl (Tony Award, best play). Milikowsky holds an M.F.A. in directing from Columbia and a B.A. in theater studies from Yale University. 

Website: therevolutionwillnotbeboring.com and theneoncoven.com
Social: Facebook | Instagram | SoundCloud | YouTube

Set and Costume Designer, Co-adapter, and founding collaborator

Originally from Minneapolis, Sara Brown is a Boston-based set designer for theater, opera, and dance. She is an associate professor in Music and Theater Arts at MIT. Through her teaching, she encourages students to see stage environments as a means to shape action and provide visual context for performance. Her recent work includes Carousel at the Boston Lyric Opera, Common Ground Revisited at the Huntington Theater Company, and Aristotle Thinks Again at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York City. 

www.sarabrown.design

Dramaturg and founding collaborator

Lauren K. Wolfe is a Brooklyn-based translator, editor, and educator. She teaches courses in literature and cultural history with Brooklyn Institute for Social Research; she is a founding editor of Barricade—A Journal of Antifascism and Translation, publishing political literature from around the world; and her translations have been published or are forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press, University of Minnesota Press, MIT Press, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Grey Room, Asymptote, Hard Pack, and elsewhere. 

Wolfe holds a Ph.D. from New York University, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.A. from Grinnell College. Her scholarly interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Austrian and German literature and the practice and theory of translation.

Biography: The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Lighting Designer

Abigail Hoke-Brady is a Brooklyn based lighting designer whose work centers primarily in opera and new work. Work in New York City includes : ‘Oklahoma!’ (Orchestra of St. Luke’s / Carnegie Hall); ‘Tiergarten’ (Death of Classical / Prototype); ’Nothing Follows’ (Catapult Opera); ’All the Beauty in the World’ (DR-2); ’A Guide for the Homesick’ (LDK Productions, DR-2); ‘The White Chip’ (MCC Theater); ’The Night Falls’ (Peak Performances/BalletCollective); ’BUST’ (Soho Repertory Theater) *scenic and lighting design*; ‘Portrait and a Dream’ (Contemporaneous); ’Bound’ (Fresh Squeezed Opera); ‘The Little Death vol 1’ (Prototype Festival); ‘MukhAgni’ (Under the Radar/The Public Theater); and ‘Silent Voices : Lovestate’ (New Victory Theater / Brooklyn Youth Chorus). Regional work includes : ‘The Woodcutters’ (MIT); ’A Doll’s House’ (Two River Theater); ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Little Miss Perfect’ (The Olney Theater Center); ‘Intelligence’ (Virginia Opera); ‘Trouble in Mind’ (Pittsburgh Public Theater); ’Tosca’ (Pittsburgh Opera): ‘Pagliacci’ (Seattle Opera); ’Rigoletto’ (Holy City Arts and Lyric Opera); ‘Don Pasquale’ (Opera Omaha); ‘Sir John in Love’ (Bard Music Festival); Resident Lighting Designer, 2023-2026 Seasons (Central City Opera); ’Ulysses’ and ’Requiem’ (INSeries Opera); ’Those With 2 Clocks’ (co-design with Amith Chandrashaker, The Wilma); ‘The Wolves’ and ’How I Learned What I Learned’ (Playmakers Repertory Company); ‘La Traviata’ and ‘Cosi fan Tutte’ (San Diego Opera); ’The Last American Hammer’ and

‘FLORIDA’ (UrbanArias); ‘Glory Denied' and ‘Three Decembers’ (Tri Cities Opera); ‘Mad Forest’ (Bard College/Theatre for a New Audience). She is the resident designer at DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the head lighting designer for TimeSpans Festival and frequently works with Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Member USA 829.

hokebradydesigns.com | @hokebradydesigns

Sound and Video Designer

Bozzy has been in the performing arts, in one way or another, since 1991, starting in Istanbul, where he was born and raised. He worked as production manager, technical director, instructor, and designer at numerous institutions, including Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, the Wooster Group, MIT Music and Theater Arts, and the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, among other individual theater and dance companies, festivals, visual artists, and musicians both in United States and in Europe. 

Karasu lived in Istanbul, New York, Cambridge, and Los Angeles before moving to North Adams in 2025 to join MASS MoCA as associate director of programs and production in the museum’s Performing Arts and Film department. When not designing and producing for performing arts, he obsessively reads, travels and cooks…

Social: Instagram | Threads | Discogs |  Bluesky

Stage Manager

Lily Barnes is a Boston based stage manager and theatre maker with a love for new works. Lily is passionate about working in spaces that are rooted in joy.

Some previous stage management credits include A New Era (Company One Theatre), Schreibstück (MIT Theatre Arts), You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! (Company One Theatre), Not Sightly (MIT Theatre Arts), Antigonick (MIT Theatre Arts), Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Penguin Rep Theatre). Lily holds a BFA from Salem State University and has a love for cooking and the ocean.