ET ALIA - Key Persons

Angel is an actor, singer, musician, and activist. Her most recent TV and film work includes "Blue Bloods", For Life", "NCIS: NOLA", "City on a Hill", "Bull", klutz., The Oh-Gees, and Lady Apsara (also co-producer). Broadway: "Company" (2006). Off-Broadway: MTC, NYTW, CSC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public/NYSF, Women's Project, Ma-Yi, MCC. Regional credits include: Yale Repertory, George St. Playhouse,The Old Globe, McCarter Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Playmakers Repertory, Cleveland Playhouse, Sundance Theater Festival, NY Stage and Film, O'Neill Theater Center, and the Cape Cod Theater Project. You can hear her as the voice of First Minister Jinn in "Gears of War" 4 and 5. She has an MFA in Acting from NYU. For more info, go to www.angeldesai.com

Annabel is a development professional in New York City, with a focus on theatre and fundraising operations. While obtaining her undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, Annabel developed a passion for the international arts community. As President of her university's performing arts fund, she granted over $29,000 in production funds to international students, enabling them to perform on university stages and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Annabel returned to the States in 2018 to receive her Masters in Performing Arts Administration at NYU, alongside gaining valuable practical experience in global arts engagement, institutional giving, and professional development. She is very excited to be joining Et Alia Theater as a member of its Board of Advisors and looks forward to getting back to live theatre as soon as possible.

Asiimwe Deborah Kawe was born in Kiruhura, in South Western Uganda. She is an award-winning playwright, producer and performer. Currently, the Producing Artistic Director of Tebere Arts Foundation and co-Artistic Director of the Kampala International Theatre Festival. Asiimwe has worked with the Sundance Institute Theatre Program; dividing her time between New York City and East Africa, she led the East Africa initiative, a program that covered the countries of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda for six years. Ms. Kawe received a Diploma in Music, Dance and Drama, and a B. A. in Theatre and Performing Arts from Makerere University in Kampala-Uganda, and an M.F.A. in Writing for Performance from the California Institute of the Arts. Ms. Asiimwe's recent plays include Red Hills, Forgotten World, Cooking Oil, Appointment with gOD, Un-entitled, Do they Know it's Khristmas? to mention but a few. Her radio play, Will Smith Look Alike won an award with the BBC World Service African Performance playwriting competition. Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, who was the judge of the competition had this to say about the play; "I thought the writing was very good and I became really caught up with the play wondering what the final denouement would be." Asiimwe has been a writing fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, a guest Artist at Pomona College in California, USA and at the New York University in Abu Dhabi. For more about Asiimwe's work, visit the following websites:

JP Pacca, Francesca Cossa, Gustavo Freitas, Paolo Cossa, Joe Holt, Cecilia Maria Pontes Santana, Michele Marchiori, Debora York, Marco Zanotti, Gary O. Bennett, Sleevehead, Kutay Biberoglu, Matthew Fifer, Mikaela Clark, Kayla Zanakis, Zohra Feroz, Carla Portioli, The Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet India, Rohan Gurbaxani, Maria Alessandra Reichlin, Silvia Anna Cernea, Guilherme Mercadante, Victor Feffer, John Blair, Pietro Valenti, Attilio Rigotti, Luiza & Florin Müller, Sandra Martins, Andrei Gheorghe, Gaurav Kamath.