Meet our creative team.
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Rayne is from Southwest Philadelphia, and is a director, producer, playwright, performer, and founder of the Barrymore Award–winning Upstream Performance Collaborative. As a director, their practice spans new, classical, and established works, devised theatre, immersive performance, and community-driven plays, curating deeply collaborative rehearsal rooms that hold rigor, humor, and care.
Directing credits include Water by the Spoonful at
The Eagle Theatre, The Tamer, Tamed with Shakespeare
in Clark Park, and Judy's Life's Work with Naptown African American Theatre Collective, as well as original works including WHISPER, The Medusa Play, The White Feather Project, and Every Everyman. They have also worked with Theatre Exile as an assistant director on Wolf Play and
The Ever Present.
A lover of vampire lore, vintage jeans, and geraniums,
Rayne is also known as Angela Bey and uses all pronouns. @tallblackcreative www.angelabey.com
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Juliette Nero Eddings is psyched to be on the team of My Carmilla! They are a multidisciplinary actor, dramaturg, and producer currently working in Philadelphia. Juliette has most recently co-produced and acted in a staged reading of Punch Back (Philly Theatre Week 2026); and served as the Wilma Theatre's Artistic Department Intern for the 2025-2026 season.
They are particularly passionate about new play development, making classics accessible, and bringing queer & trans bodies and voices to the stage, so are very proud to be a part of the life (or un-death) of this production!
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K.O. (she/they) is a bicoastal stage and screen artist. Proud union member AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Recently featured as Lorraine with Inis Nua Theatre Company’s U.S. premiere of Same Team by Robbi Jack Nurse.
Research and studies include: Consent-forward spaces for stage and screen, physical training for the actor, and the Russian language. Certified yoga instructor (ashtanga-based vinyasa). Director of Programming for LA/Philly nonprofit Dancing With The Students.
Gratitude to the entire production team and cast.
Éire go brách, for Dad. Слава Українi, for Mom.
MA (Villanova), MFA (Temple).
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Quinton J. Alexander is a Philadelphia based fight director and actor. They have studied and earned certifications with The Society of American Fight Directors, Fight Directors Canada and The British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat. Notable fight director credits include Class C (Azuka Simpatico Theatre) Fire!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists (Quintessence Theatre Group), In The Blood (Ursinus College Theater), and Witch (Swarthmore Players Club).
Quinton enjoys working with theaters and creatives that uplift the stories of marginalized people. Black, brown, and LGBTQIA+ people deserve to have their stories told and they deserve to have skillfully crafted theatrical violence that protects the well-being of the actors while telling compelling stories on stage and screen.
Quinton is a lover of vampires, pirates, history, philosophy, and video essays.
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Bless is a queer east coast based designer who aims to use light as a malleable ethereal material in order to explore the visual nuances of memory and time. Bless wishes to pursue the more primal aspects of being human, and highlights light's influence on our more subconscious and even spiritual experiences.
Bless’s current lighting based projects include the upcoming world premier of Teen Dad (Passage Theatre Co.), as well as Associate designing Priority Hoarding (The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Co.).For a deeper look at his artistic journey visit http://bless-your-retinas.squarespace.com .
To those who have loved me this past year, I owe you my life. To Jonathen, my love; hayati, 'ashkuruk ealaa 'iimsakik biadi wa'ana 'atajawal fi alzalami.
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Bio coming soon.