ACTOR / PLAYWRIGHT

JOE RIVERA is a multi-disciplinary actor from the San Francisco Bay Area, and a graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker Studio. Theatre: SPNTD (the cell); SOUR MILK's DIRT (The Tank, Loading Dock); The Trouble with Paradise (Columbia University); SOUR MILK's TRAFFIC (Exponential Festival, The Brick); The Happy Garden of Life (The New Ohio); A Modest Proposal (The Cherry Lane); Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (San Francisco Playhouse); In the Heights (NYU, Dir. Catie Davis). Film: Misha's Victory (Samuel Golland), On the Fire's Sacred Scream I Write Your Name (Arctal Ructive Films), and Strictly Liminal (M. Wild).

@joeporterrivera

DIRECTOR

JESSE ITSKOWITZ is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist based in NYC. Recent credits include: Carmen (Opera Theater Rutgers, video design); BIRTHDAY (Sour Milk, food design); Vile Isle (The Tank NYC, video design); DIRT (Sour Milk, video design). In his spare time he manages a concert hall.

ACTOR

HEATHER HOLMES is a performer and writer from east TX, currently based in Brooklyn. Projects include: Covenant, NYTW (workshop); Dreamscapes, LPAC Rough Draft Festival & NYTW (workshop); Flight, Dixon Place; A Modest Proposal, Cherry Lane Theater; The Cake, Shaker Bridge Theatre; The Magic Bullet, LubDub Theatre Co./Noor Theatre (workshop); The Promised Land, Amsterdam Over Het Ij Festival (Netherlands); Hemispheric Institute's EmergeNYC; Naked Angels Theater Company's Issues Project Lab. Heather has been co-developing a strange and beautiful performance project about dreams and the way home.  Gentle encouragement for all us good people out there... keep dancing like it's bringing the rain, and it will. MFA, The New School for Drama.

ACTOR

BRIAN JOÉL SANCHEZ is a New York native and graduate of Purchase College with a BFA in Acting. He was last seen in Apple TV+’s The Changeling and short film Tomás is Not a Clown. On stage he was previously seen in The Happy Garden of Life at New Ohio Theatre and The Skin of Our Teeth at Theatre For a New Audience. Next up for him is the short film No Glory Just Guts.

@bjsanz_

CINEMATOGRAPHER

SAMUEL GOLLAND is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in NY. Cinematography credits include Runaway Train and SPNTD. Directing credits include The Frenchman and Misha’s Victory.

@lnzflx

COMPOSER

JOONAS LEMETYINEN is a composer and trombonist based out of NYC. He has an eclectic style of writing that spans multiple genres, and stems from whatever is going on in his head that day. Originally from Finland, he has spent the last 12 years in NYC pursuing his passion of music and film. He is a part of several original bands including, Civilians, Flowmigos, and his solo projects YAWU and MAR$HMANGO. Check him out busking in Washington Square Park when the weather’s nice or performing with his various acts around the city.

@_marshmango_

STAGE MANAGER

ANNAPORVA GREEN is an Indian-born, Florida-raised, New York–based theater artist. She is the company tour manager for Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group and stage managed their most recent show, The Reclamation, at NYU Skirball. She has directed Kenneth Keng’s AMA (Target Margin Theater), Brought Up (University Settlement), and Wake Up (Sarah Lawrence College). Annaporva served as Associate Director on Terror Is the Order of the Day by Ben Heineman Jr. (The Flea Theater) and DIRT by Sour Milk (The Tank).  She performed in Arshia Iqbal’s If I Stayed (Hudson Guild Theater) and Isabella Basile’s Everything I Do, I Do for Taylor Swift (The Rat). Annaporva is an assistant teacher of Intimacy in Performance at NYU Tisch and Stage Combat at the Atlantic Theater School. www.annaporvagreen.com

@annaporvagreen

PRODUCER

CONNOR SCULLY is the Marketing & Audience Engagement Manager at The Tank and the founder of Most Unwanted Productions, a company for adventurous new work, game-theatre, and performance that lives between comedy, theatre, and experiment. Most Unwanted’s productions have appeared at The Tank, The Brick, Loading Dock, The Exponential Festival, East Village Basement, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Atlanta Fringe Festival, and more, and have received praise from The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, American Theatre, among others.
BA: VCU 2015
MFA: Columbia 2025

@sculliosis
@mostunwantedproductions

LIGHTING DESIGNER

CHRISTINA TANG is a theater maker, lighting designer, and creative technologist based in Queens, NY. Recent design: Meat Suit (Second Stage), The Mutables (Kat Mustatea), Good Penny (Bard College), Psychic Self Defense (Normandy Sherwood), City of Wom_n (Catherine Galasso). With her company SOUR MILK, she makes experiments at the intersection of theater, games, and food. She is the recipient of the Exponential Festival’s first artist commission for BIRTHDAY (Upcoming, 2027) and is currently a research resident at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she holds her MPS.

christinaftang.com // sourmilk.xyz
@sourmilk.xyz