Nicole Ansari is an International Multidisciplinary artist and Climate change activist working as an actor/director/writer and producer in Theatre, Film, TV and Performance Art. Beyond her extensive Film and Television career, Nicole was a member of the famed Theatre du Soleil under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine in Paris and on tour and performed classical Repertory, as well as in the West End to Broadway, Off Broadway, and in regional Theatre. She recently won best director at the British Web Awards for the upcoming show “Messy,” and has produced three feature films. Nicole is interested in the elevation and healing of human Consciousness and in rewriting history with a focus on the female narrative. Full Bio on IMDB or www.nicoleansari.com or

Kate Siahaan-Rigg is an actor, who upon graduation from Juilliard immediately hit the comedy clubs, poetry spaces, and downtown haunts for multi-hyphenate performers with restless hearts. She is an award-winning artist activist who writes, performs, and produces work for television, film, stage, and dive bars around the world. NY theater credits include the world premieres of Dogeaters at the Public Theater, BFE at Playwrights Horizons, and the original production of the Vagina Monologues. She has been invited twice to perform solo works at the Smithsonian Institute and was an artist at MTC, The Mark Taper Forum and the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference.

Michelle Joyner is an actor for stage and screen, a screenwriter, director, storyteller, and recent empty nester. She leads The Long Table, a woman’s writing group, and has recently fulfilled a lifelong dream of moving back to the Berkshires after being away for 40 years. She and her husband are developing RAMSDELL, an artist retreat to open later this year. They have four sons in various stages of launching, and a brand-new grand baby – finally a GIRL!

Liza Li Loube has been involved in performance for as long as she can remember. She began playing violin at age 6, studying first with her mother Yibin Li, and began her theater experience at Lee Strasberg Institute when she was 8. Her work continues with recitals, chamber music festivals in Italy & France, and ongoing immersion in acting at LaGuardia High School for the Arts, Bedlam, Elevator Repair Service, and NYSSSA. She maintains a lifelong interest in feminism, cats, and banana pudding.

Yibin Li was born near the Gobi Desert in Western China, and made her way via Shanghai to New York, where she enjoys a career as an international violinist and educator. She is passionate about performing and storytelling, and created a nonprofit organization called OneMusic Project to help more people fall in love with the intimate experience of live chamber music. This is her second theatrical performance.

Melis Aker is a writer, actor, and musician from Turkey who finds herself writing about memory, the “in-between space,” exile, and intergenerational/ancestral female relationships as a bilingual immigrant. Her scripts have been commissioned by and developed at institutions including the Atlantic Theatre, NYTW, Roundabout, Ars Nova, Cannes Film Festival, Playing On Air, the O’Neill, IFP, Finborough Theatre, and Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment. She has also had the pleasure of acting in “The Equalizer” (CBS), “The Blacklist: Redemption” (NBC), “Seneca” (HBO Max), Love in Afghanistan (Arena Stage), and under her grandmother’s dining room table. She also sings when she feels tickled to do so…

Antoinette Cooper is a poet, Priestess, rainmaker, and TEDx speaker committed to the liberation of Black bodies through the arts, ancestral healing, social justice, and medical humanities. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, and sits on the board of Narrative Medicine at CUNY School of Medicine. She understands that there is no separation between all the realms of the body, the earth, and the arts, so her work explores the intersections of these multiple dimensions. She is currently at work publishing a multi-genre collection that documents the historical and present-day violence on the Black female body.

Nova Scott-James is a filmmaker, innovation doula, and community organizer from Harlem, NYC. Her childhood experiences of being flooded with the sounds and culture of jazz has impacted her creative aesthetic greatly as her work honors improvisation, altered states of consciousness, ritual, and collaboration. Nova is also a reiki practitioner and dedicated intuitive worker – she uses these abilities to serve people as a director and creative coach by guiding them in honoring their creative genius.

Assistant Director Tracy Russell hails from Norwich, New York and is a writer for stage, film, and television with an unyielding inclination to tell women’s stories, particularly those of the search for home, ancestral connection, and belonging in the natural world. As an actor, she was last seen in the award-winning short film Dirty Girl and at the Philly Fringe Festival in the play My Name is Dara. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.F.A. in Stage and Screen Writing from Lesley University. She is currently developing several female-driven projects, including a full-length play, TV pilot and a short film.

Gesture Choreographer Jennifer Aks-Neuman received an AD from Dean Jr. College and a BFA from The Music and Performing Arts Professions at New York University with a dance major and education minor. Years of studying and performing dance led to fourteen years as Teaching Artist and Choreographer at National Dance Institute. She discovered her mission along the way: to assist Womxn in finding creative ways to honor their personal stories. Today, she works with Womxn to help them tell their stories with movement, utilizing her professional video, editing and photography skills to create video movement diaries that document what could not be heard by the spoken or written word.

As an energy healer and teacher, spiritual mentor and sound practicioner, Glendy Yeung helps people connect to themselves and bring healing to modern day challenges using vibrational medicine including sound, multi-dimensional energy healing, sacred geometry, flower essences, dowsing and more.

Creator and Director Nicole Ansari
Co-Producers Lawryn LaCroix of Pinkhouse Productions and Nicole Ansari
Producing Assistant Aransas Haley
Monologues written by each performer Antoinette Cooper, Kate Rigg, Liza Li Loube, Melis Aker, Nicole Ansari, Nova Scott-James, Michelle Joyner, Yibin Li,
Gesture Choreography Jennifer Aks-Neuman
Music Yibin Li, Melis Aker, Kate Rigg, Glendy Yeung, and Nova Scott-James
Assistant Director Tracy Russell

Produced by Nicole Ansari & Pinkhouse Productions