RELUME Ensemble 2026
Desdemona
By Toni Morrison
EMILY CARVEY
Desdemona
Emily Carvey is a actor, stage combat teacher, and fight choreographer in Albuquerque.
She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with honors with a BA in Theatre Acting, studied at Improv Olympic, and trained with Howard Fine. She has been a member of The Society of American Fight Directors since 2002 and was the first American to receive a Pass with Distinction in three weapons from Stage Combat Deutschland. Her favorite roles include Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Musical Theatre Southwest), Nan in Exit, Pursued by a Bear (ALT Pocket Theatre), Maid Marion (Bristol Renaissance Faire), Christine in A Doll’s House (The Vortex), Sarah in Company (Musical Theatre Southwest), Martha in White Christmas (Albuquerque Little Theatre), Molly Sweeney in Molly Sweeney (The Vortex), Eva in Absurd Person Singular (The Vortex), and Agnes in Bug (The Vortex). As her “day job” she gives Ghost Tours with AbqTours in Old Town Albuquerque.
BRESHAUN-BIRENE JOYNER
Othello
ISC Associate Artist. Previous ISC Santa Fe credits: Othello (Montano, Bianca); Believe None of Us staged reading (Gertrude); Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet); The Taming of the Shrew (Grumia, Hostess); The Winter’s Tale (Antigona, Time); Pericles (Cerimon, Bawd, Diana); Coriolanus (Virgilia, Citizen, Roman Soldier); Julius Caesar (Casca, Plebian); Measure for Measure (Provost); Henry IV, Part I (Lady Percy). Other previous credits:
Or, (Aphra Behn) at Santa Fe Playhouse. Breshaun currently teaches eighth grade English and the occasional Shakespeare honors course at Santa Fe Preparatory School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds a MA in Children’s Literature and is pursuing a doctorate in Shakespeare pedagogy, specifically designing curriculum applying Shakespeare in interdisciplinary contexts. As an educator, Breshaun has taught for over twenty years in traditional and non-traditional learning environments from Shakespeare performance summer camps for kindergarten students (yes, kindergarten) to teacher education college classrooms. She was also the Education Director for several years at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, a non-profit performing arts theater dedicated to the production and development of new plays in Bloomington, Indiana.
TALIA PURA
Madam Brabantio/Emilia
Talia Pura is delighted to be performing with ISC. She has worked with most theatre companies in Santa Fe, as an actor, director or costume designer. Most recently she was part of the cast of the Santa Fe Playhouse’s Melodrama, and costumed The Half-Life of Marie Curie for the New Mexico Actors Lab. She can next be seen in her one-woman show at Teatro Paraguas: La Femme Shakespeare, playing January 21 to 25.
DANIELLE REDDICK
Soun/Sa'ran
Danielle is an actor, immersive theater performer, teaching artist, and puppeteer. Some of her most recent stage performances are: “Cynthia” in SWEAT at the Santa Fe Playhouse, “Female Greek Chorus” in How I Learned to Drive at the New Mexico Actor’s Lab, and in the production of 2 Artists in Prison with Theater Grottesco. Danielle’s original work, The SoHyp Experience, premiered at Meow Wolf Santa Fe. Through a residency with Vital Spaces New Mexico, Danielle performed a 10-day video installation with performances at sunset in the window of an empty store. She is a member of SAG/AFTRA and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. Dani studies Fine Woodworking and serves as a board member.
KIM DELFINA GLEASON (Diné)
Director & Cellist
Kim is a Diné (Navajo) Director, Dramaturg, Actor and Educator for stage and film. She’s been active in the local theater and performing arts community for over 25 years advocating and promoting Native theater in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. She studied music and theatre professionally at the University of New Mexico and graduated with her MBA from Anderson’s School of Management in 2022. She currently serves as Chair for The City of Albuquerque’s Commission on American Indian and Alaska Native Affairs and is an adjunct faculty instructor for UNM’s Theatre department and IAIA ’s performance art program. She is dedicated to pursuing her goal to open up the first Native American performing arts center in Albuquerque along with her company “Dancing With Fire Productions” and continue Annual Native Theater and Performing Arts Festivals throughout New Mexico. Thank you for sharing space with us this evening. Ahéhee'
American Moor
By Keith Hamilton Cobb
DARRYL DELOACH
An Actor
Darryl DeLoach has been searching for “himself” on stage since childhood. He recently played Othello for the second time last summer during the NM Shakespeare Festival. And Turnbo in August Wilson’s Jitney before that. While he continues to maintain a SAG-Aftra card in Albuquerque, appearing in various film and television. Most recently Poker Face, The Cleaning Lady & Better Call Saul.
JAY HOBSON
A Director
Jay is an actor and educator, based in Albuquerque. He is proud to be back with ISC after appearing in last year’s Piglet Festival reading of “Wittenberg”. Other New Mexico credits include: “Dracula AFRF,R!” at Santa Fe Playhouse, "Gloria" and "Copenhagen" at Actors Studio 66, "King James" at The Vortex Theatre, and "The Tempest" with New Mexico Shakespeare Festival. Before moving to Albuquerque Jay appeared on stage in Chicago, where he is an ensemble member with Bramble Theatre Co. Jay is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf Theatre and the Bruce E. Coyle Acting Internship at The Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park. His camera work includes the feature film "Provo", directed by Emma Thatcher. Jay has also appeared in commercial campaigns for Andersen Windows, ANGI and Winstar World Casinos. He is represented by Bankston Talent Agency.
ZOE BURKE
Director
ISC Associate Artistic Director, Coordinator of ISC’s BAR(d) program. Zoe (she|they) is an actor, director, intimacy professional, and licensed K-12 theatre educator. She has been the Associate Artistic Director of ISC Santa Fe since 2024. Zoe holds a B.S. in Education with a Speech/Theatre endorsement from Newman University and is pursuing a M.Ed in Theatre Pedagogy from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. In Santa Fe and her hometown of Wichita, KS, Zoe has directed, acted in, and intimacy directed dozens of productions in community theatre, professional, and educational settings. Zoe coordinates ISC Santa Fe’s BAR(d) program and is passionate about developing responsive, equitable, and accessible Shakespearean programming and curriculum.
Zoe served as a Teaching Artist for SAG-AFTRA accredited intimacy design training company Intimacy Director and Coordinators during their Consent Forward Artist program, where she taught foundations of consent based practice and intimacy design to hundreds of students across the globe; she also developed and taught curriculum for IDC centered around inclusive and culturally sensitive practices for working with Indigenous actors. She serves as resident intimacy professional for several Santa Fe area theatre companies and regularly teaches workshops on intimacy, consent, and boundaries for schools and companies throughout New Mexico and Kansas.
Red Velvet
By Lolita Chakrabarti
NICEE BROWN
Connie/Ellen Tree
VEE COUNCIL
Ira Aldridge (1/24)
Vee Council graduated with a BFA in Theatre from ACU in 2023 and is currently the Facilities Custodian of Albuquerque Little Theater. He recently performed ALT's "A Streetcar Named Desire", the Vortex Theatre's "The Complete History of America (Abridged)", and the NM Shakespeare Festival's "Coriolanus". This July he co-wrote and directed a play called "First" for the SheDFW Theater Festival, and he plans to keep writing, directing, and performing forever.
NICHOLAS GOODMAN
Ira Aldridge (1/16)
Nick Goodwin is excited to experience this beautiful play. He is a NM local and performs across many theaters in the state. Last seen as Kristoff (frozen, MTS), other roles include Matt (Bare, MTS), Lucas Beineke (Addams Family, Landmark), Mr.Black (The Wild Party, MTS), Young Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein, SCT), and Bert (Mary Poppins, SCT), By day, he is a rocket scientist but, by passion, he loves theater, film, singing, and dancing. He would like to thank his family and friends for supporting his passions.
MARIA LATIOLAIS
Betty Lovell/Margaret Aldridge
OWEN DANAN MARTIN
Casimir/Henry Forester
PARKER OWEN
Pierra Laporte
Parker Owen holds a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College and an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. His work includes national touring productions, Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and regional theatre across the country. New Mexico credits include Dennis in The Play That Goes Wrong (ALT), for which he received the 2023 Albuquerque BroadwayWorld Award for Best Performer in a Play; Monsieur Bouc in Murder on the Orient Express (ALT); Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing (NM Shakespeare Festival); and Johnny in Home, I’m Darling (West End Productions). He was also named one of the Top 5 Best Local Actors in Albuquerque the Magazine’s Best of the City for both 2024 and 2025.
PHILIP J. SHORTELL
Bernard Walde/Terence
Phil has done over 50 roles in ABQ since 2012, (6 here with West End) with this turn as both Terrance and Bernard. His other roles here were as Jimmy Jack in (Translations), Da in (Da), Captain Cat (Under Milkwood), Gloucester (The Dresser) and The Insurance Salesman (Lazybed). And this is his second time with Levi at the helm. Other favorite roles elsewhere in ABQ, Henry Drummond (Inherit the Wind), John Hemminges (The Book of Will), Joe Keller (All My Sons), Cosme McMoon (Souvenir) Claudius (Hamlet), Seth Lord (The Philadelphia Story), Putti Van Daan (The Diary of Anne Frank), Hickey (The Iceman Cometh), Potter (It’s a Wonderful Life), : President Hockstader in (The Best Man).
Phil is a SAG/AFTRA member and has appeared as a principal on TV in, Better Call Saul (twice), Preacher, and Killer Women, and in the films Will Gardner, Cowboy Drifter, and Dirty Weekend, all shot in NM.
DAVID YAKUBIK
Charles Kean
David received his BA in English and Theatre at Marietta College in Ohio. He subsequently worked with some of the most acclaimed companies in Austin, Texas, including ZACH Theatre, Hyde Park Theatre (of which he is a core company member), and Street Corner Arts. Since moving to Albuquerque in 2024, he has worked with New Mexico Shakespeare Festival and West End Productions.
ALEXANDRA AVILA
Director
Alexandra Avila is the resident dramaturg for the New Mexico Shakespeare Festival, playwright and aspiring director. This past summer her show ‘The Mrs Rochesters’ had its worldwide premiere at the Santa Fe Playhouse. This is her first directorial collaboration with ISC Santa Fe.
Nine Moons
A New Play by Keith Hamilton Cobb
KEITH HAMILTON COBB
Playwright and ot’ Teo
Keith Hamilton Cobb has been drawn mostly to the stage in his working life, but has also been recognized for several unique character portrayals he has created for television. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His play, American Moor (published by Methuen Drama), ran off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre in the fall of 2019, and is part of the permanent collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Keith is an Artist-in-Residence at Sacred Heart University (CT), and is the director of Project Untitled, a company evolving socially just processes of analysis and inquiry at the intersection of humanities education and theater-making. The company’s seminal work is The Untitled Othello Project, evolved in collaboration with Sacred Heart University and Blessed Unrest Theatre Company, which operates as an extended “interrogation and rehearsal with artists and educators” of Shakespeare’s play, Othello, disrupting antiquated ideas of its purpose and value. The play, Nine Moons, grows from the work of The Untitled Othello Project and its collaborators.
TERRANCE MACNAMARA
Brabantio Sforza
Santa Fe actor Terrance MacNamara apperared on Broadway with Steppenwolf Theatre in it's Tony award production of The Grapes of Wrath. He was recently seen as Brabantio in the Santa Fe ISC productions of Othello and Nine Moons. Terry was a regular on the Chicago stage before moving to Santa Fe to pursue both acting and his work as a bronze sculptor. I am excited to find work on stage and film in the rapidly expanding Santa Fe scene.
Contact: terrymac@earthlink.net
KOPPANY PUSZTAI
Michael Cassio
Koppány Pusztai is a Hungarian-born actor working across stage and screen. A recipient of the Robert Redford Scholarship, he earned his BFA at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Since joining Theater Grottesco in 2018, he has contributed to seven original devised works. Recent stage appearances include Eden Prairie, 1971 at the New Mexico Actors Lab, and A Year with Frog and Toad, Everybody, and Fun Home at the Santa Fe Playhouse. On screen, Koppány recently made his Hallmark Channel debut in the feature film Love in the Clouds as Carlos, and has appeared in television series including the CW’s Roswell, New Mexico and Netflix’s Obliterated. Koppány is represented by the O’Agency and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Love to Mariah. @koppany_pusztai
EMILY RANKIN
Desdemona Sforza
ISC Associate Artist. Emily Rankin is an actor, director, and artist who has been an active theatre maker for over twenty years. Since relocating to New Mexico in 2018, she’s been a regular fixture in Santa Fe’s theatre scene, working with companies like the Santa Fe Playhouse, Santa Fe Classic Theater, New Mexico Actors Lab, and of course, ISC. Most recently, she appeared in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Santa Fe Classic Theater, Grace: Stories with Ironweed Productions, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with ISC. In 2025, she began serving as the Artistic Director of the New Mexico Actors Lab.
ARIANA KARP
Director
ISC Artistic Director. Ariana is an actor, director, educator, and cellist. She has been the Artistic Director of Incite Shakespeare Company Santa Fe since 2018. She is an alumna of London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) with a Master’s degree in Classical Acting for the Professional Theatre, and a Bachelor’s degree in Literature-Theatre from Reed College. Ariana has made theatre in New York, London, and across the United States and Japan. She has taught university courses on acting, Shakespeare, voice, and movement, and completed teaching residencies and workshops for actors and students of all ages throughout the US. In the fall of 2025 she began work as a teaching artist with Marin Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare for Social Justice program in various prisons throughout California's Central Valley.