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CLARA STRAUCH (creator/composer) plays ANNA, and is a Swedish/American actor and singer-songwriter. Her debut solo album Persephone was released in 2018, and her second album Jupiter in 2020. Both included a few songs from Wayward Home, and she has received favourable media comparisons to Regina Spektor, Tori Amos, and First Aid Kit. Strauch has a role in Mia Hansen-Love's film Bergman Island. She has acted and composed at Swedish theatres such as Romateatern, Västmanlands Teater, and was nominated for Outstanding Original Music at The 2017 New York Innovative Theatre Awards for her score for The Tempest (Smith Street Stage). She has a BFA in acting with scholarship from NYU Tisch Drama. clarastrauch.com

MAIZY BRODERICK SCARPA (creator/playwright) played IRIS in the Northeast Tour 2018 and NOAH at The Stonington Opera House 2017 and Hubbard Hall 2015. Her plays Cirque du Dismay: A Fairly Short Play (WAM Theatre) and Pandora Shakes Things Up (Shakespeare&Co. Fringe) were Berkshire Playwrights Lab Radius New Play Festival finalists. Other plays include Adults (Women's Shorts); Strange New Planet: A Live Book-on-Tape (NYU/Tisch/ETW), and A Play Where Nothing Happens (Shakespeare&Co. Fringe). An NYU/Tisch graduate with degrees in drama and creative writing, Maizy trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Experimental Theatre Wing. A passionate Education Artist, Maizy has directed in Shakespeare & Company's Fall Festival of Shakespeare and Dorset Theatre Festival's Young Playwrights Program. She is co-founder of the theatre company Emergent Ensemble. maizyscarpa.com

FROM THE 2019 CAST
VILHELM BLOMGREN as NOAH & VERA KEBBE as IRIS.

THE 2015 CAST
MAIZY SCARPA, CLARA STRAUCH, ABIGAIL WAHL