Sideshow by the Seashore
Written and directed by Sebastian Bader
Bios
Sebastian Bader - Writer/Director
Sebastian Bader is a writer, director, and Sound Designer from Los Angeles, California, who has made his home in New York. He’s had multiple plays performed around New York City and Los Angeles. Some include Vincent Almost in King John, The Thaumatrope Game, A Bar in Damascus, and The Night Watch Before Christmas. Four of his plays have been performed on Columbia’s campus as mainstage theatrical productions. Outside of the terrifying world of Columbia theater, The Chain Theater put up his one act The Dol-Men and his other one-act, Sideshow by the Seashore. In addition to his theatrical work, his radio play, The Guano Memories, starring Laraine Newman (Saturday Night Live), Thomas Lennon (Reno 911), Jeff Bennet (Johnny Bravo), and Swampy Marsh (Phineas and Ferb), was aired on Sirius XM Radio Classics with Greg Bell. Of course, when he’s not writing plays, he’s working on comics. In fact, on November 26th, he made his official writing debut with DC Comics, penning the script for “I Saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus,” the DC Comics Holiday Special for this year.
Shea Rathburn - Producer
Shea Rathburn is a New York-based writer and producer, whose partnership with Sebastian Bader for multiple theatrical projects has manifested in their production company “A Film by Vannis M. Vannis.” After producing The Dol-Men for The Chain’s 2026 Winter One-Act Festival, she is proud to bring another original work by Sebastian Bader, Sideshow by the Seashore, to The Chain’s 2026 Summer One-Act Festival. A recent Columbia University graduate, her additional previous producing credits include original works such as Brooks Gillespie’s Baby’s first Crazy kiss Story, Jack Rado’s One-Armed Bandit, as well as mainstage productions such as Disney’s Newsies, and various smaller film and theatrical projects, including Episode One of Sebastian Bader’s radio play, The Mysteries of Los Angeles. She is so excited for everyone to join the strange world of Imperial Beach in the show.
Keala Henry - Stage Manager
Keala is so excited to be a part of the Sideshow by the Seashore team! She is a recent graduate from Barnard College and this past spring made her Off-Broadway debut as a Deck Hand on Cable Street the musical at 59e59 Theatres. Stage Management credits include: Fefu and Her Friends (Barnard College), Hellcats (University of Galway), Fox Toss (Barnard College), The Frat Boy Play (The Tank Moonlight Series), The Great Christmas Cookie Bake-Off (KOTA Productions), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Columbia University), and Much Ado About Nothing (Columbia University). When she is not backstage, Keala runs Stagedoor Stationery, her small business selling theatre inspired stationery items (which can be found at stagedoorstationery.com!)
The Last Light of Day
By Ryan Tramont
Bios
RYAN TRAMONT (WRITER/PERFORMER) is an NYC based actor. Recent credits include THE SLIDE IS THE NEGATIVE at The Chain and the acclaimed Off Broadway revival of Austin Pendelton’s ORSON’S SHADOW at Theater for the New City. Previous credits include HURLYBURLY, HAMLET, CRAZY FOR THE DOG, 23 KNIVES, and many more. He will next be seen in PART OF THE NOISE portraying Franz Kline at Theater for the New City in October. Thank you to Eric and Rachel for making this happen.
ERIC PARNESS (DIRECTOR) is Artistic Director of Resonance Ensemble, where he has directed plays inspired by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Karel Čapek, Samuel Beckett, among others. Other favorite New York City directing credits include Going Once! Laughing Twice!! at St. Luke’s Theater, Jean Cocteau’s Crazy for the Dog, Rachel Reiner Productions’ Embraceable Me, Oberon Theatre’s Measure for Measure, ATA’s North to Maine, IATI Theatre's Three on a Match, Rising Sun’s Proud, Hypothetical Theatre’s Kryptonite City, and Boomerang’s Blood Wedding. He has also directed numerous plays and musicals at Westfield State University, where he serves as an Associate Professor of Acting and Directing.
DANIELLE NAHIL MULLEN (STAGE MANAGER) has the pleasure of working between New York (Paradise Factory, Chain, TNC, Theatre Row) and LEBANON (Beirut and South, Habibati al Muzhila). As a devotee of off-off-Broadway, Danielle is delighted to be working with this team at Teatro Latea.
Two A’s In Louisiana
Written by Nick DeSimone
Directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan
Synopsis
In 1982, while on location in Louisiana for a film shoot, New York actor and recovering alcoholic Arthur Barrett attends an AA meeting that’s not what he expected
PLACE: A Motel Room in Rural Louisiana
TIME: Late January 1982
Bios
Nick DeSimone(PLAYWRIGHT & ARTHUR) is an award-winning writer /actor/ filmmaker with credits spanning theatre, film & TV, including HBO’s Crashing. His films, Two Boroughs and Full Throttle Paradise (Robert Funaro /The Sopranos and Karen Giordano /Nonnas) made their mark in festivals, while his last short Cut Wish (w/ Daniel H. Simon) begins its festival run, and the brand-new Beach Haven recently premiered at New Plaza Cinema. Dual Citizen of U.S./Italy. Thank you, Julie, Aaron and Kathy for your magnificent work. Instagram: @click.with.nick www.NickDeSimone.com
Julie Hays (KITTY) is a NYC actress and voiceover artist with credits spanning film, television, theater. She won Best Actress in the 2025 Aery One-Act Festival performing in another Nick DeSimone heartfelt play, FRANK CARUSO USED TO SING. TV/Film: Godfather of Harlem, White House Plumbers, New Amsterdam, FBI, Motherless Brooklyn. AEA SAG/AFTRA. Instagram @the_real_jumeh
Aaron Smallwood, Jr. (KEN MILLS) is a Philadelphia, PA native, New York–based actor and Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio. A graduate of Hampton University with a BFA in Theatre, his television credits include NBC’s The Hunting Party and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, MGM+‘s Godfather of Harlem, HBO Max’s That Damn Michael Che and more. Aaron is grateful to be sharing this work and thanks you for supporting live theatre.
Kathy Gail MacGowan (DIRECTOR) is a New York-based director and dramaturg specializing in new work. Kathy has directed NYC premieres, many developmental workshops, and productions at venues like 59E59, The Flea, Workshop Theater, HERE Arts, The Sheen Center, La Mama, Symphony Space, ATG, EST and others. She is a frequent guest director at The Stella Adler Studio/NYU Tisch. UPCOMING: "Up the Down Hill" a new episodic series shot in NYC! SDC, AEA, MFA.