Wilemina Olivia-Garcia
Actor, writer, director based in New York City. Since 1992 Wilhelmina has been a member of LAByrinth Theatre company, and in 2022 joined AnomalousCo theatre collective. Stage: (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling; AnomalousCo, directors Kathryn Syssoyeva, Diana Zhdanova, Jeremy Goren. HALFWAY BITCHES GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN (Atlantic Theater/LAByrinth Theater Co.2019); The Distance Of Mars, (Actors Studio 2019 Dir. Myla Pitt), QUOTIDIAN - Writer Primitives Grace Theater Co. 2018, NYC). Film: SHELL SHOCKED, director, Paula Cajiao, ROSA; director Suha Araj ( Rosemary-Winner Blackstar Jury Award, BURRIED IN MICHIGAN, LLC Best Short 2020). Directing: Take A Pause, (The Metamorphoses Project, LAByrinth Theater Co. 2020), Word Around The Block Playwright Series (Around The Block Productions, NYC 2021), Life Of A Painter-Short Film (Teatro La Sea, Frida Kahlo Playwright Series Award 2021).
Monica Blaze Leavitt
Monica is a proud Artistic Founding Member of the award winning theatre company, Transport Group. She has been seen Off Broadway in Transport Group’s productions of All the Way Home, Requiem for William, The Audience, cul-de-sac and Our Town. She has been studying the art of acting since the age of 11 and has created original roles for over 50 new plays in NYC. She has been seen in the Cherry Lane Theatre’s production of Maggie’s Porch, the McCarter’s Cymbeline directed by Mark Lamos, Safe – by and with Richard Vitere and over 100 other productions around NYC. She can been see on Netflix in Remedy and The Pandora Machine as well as other numerous Independent Films and short films. TV credits include Law and Order, Sex in the City and The Guiding Light. Online – Preggers, Hot Mess and Chroniclers of Darkness by Uncle Yo. Monica is also a voice over artist, fight director, movement specialist and voice and diction teacher. www.monicablazeleavitt.com
Claudia Godi
Born in Florence - Italy and living in NYC, her recent work includes: "Miracle of the Danube" by M. Anderson , Dir. Jason Beckmann produced by Putnam theater Alliance. "Love Letters " by A. R. Gurney opposite Richard Fiske (ink &Steel, 9 Freedoms Production at The Players Club in NYC and at JCTC - NJ."Trojan Women" by Euripides, Dir. and artistic Dir. Olga Levina, at (JCTC). Theatre performances also include: “Felony Friday” with John Amos (Good Times- Roots) and “Prey” with Sean Patrick Reilly (Billion- Sleeper -Bull) and "Loves of Picasso" written and Dir. by Terry D'Alfonso and produced by Pat Flicker Addis and Georganne Aldrich. Ms. Godi co-produced "Always Never There" by Jason Beckmann at the Players Club in NYC, and Co- wrote, with Scott Decker, the bilingual romantic comedy play "The Business of Love-Affare d'Amore". Claudia studied acting with her mentor and teacher Mr. Robert X. Modica at Carnegie Hall Studios- Studio 809. AEA member
Lesya Verba
Singer, artist-designer, songwriter, bandura player, actress, muralist from Odesa, Ukraine - easily changes images and plunges into the atmosphere from the music of the Art Deco era, progressive nude urban jazz and a feminine mixture of cultures in the spirit of the Berry Sisters. Ms. Verba performs songs in Ukrainian, Russian, English, Italian and Yiddish. In New York Lesya Verba has performed as a traditional singer in Yara Art Group’s in "A Thousand Suns", at La-MaMa theater, and in Yara Arts Group’s play “Radio-477”, both under the direction of Virlana Tkacz. In March 2022, she joined AnomalousCo as a musician and actress. A short documentary film directed by Sanjna Selva "Call me anytime, I'm not leaving the house" starring Lesya Verba has garnered multiple awards and festival presentations, including NY Shorts 2022, Indie Memphis 2022, Brukivka International Film Festival, and the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival. Among her many honors and recognitions, Lesya Verba is an academician of the International Academy for the Development of Literature and Art - MARLI.
Simona DeFeo
Simona DeFeo writes, produces, and performs in theater, film, and television. Based in New York, she has performed in New York, Cuba, Germany, and Italy. Since joining AnomalousCo in 2021, she has become a Co-Producing Artist, contributing her unique perspective to the company's projects. A member of Primitive Grace since 2017, which was founded by Paul Calderon and David Zayas, her play *The Skies Within* was staged as part of the 2018 Primitive Grace Duende Series. Simona's acting training is enriched by her intense study of Afro-Cuban folkloric dance in the USA and Cuba, as well as her work in classical music, where she has been the visionary behind many innovative projects. She strives to explore the human condition and create theatrical works that provoke profound self-confrontation for both audiences and performers by fusing music, text, and movement.
Alina Mihailevschi
Moldovan-born Alina Mihailevschi is a New York-based actor, and a graduate (2015) of the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chisinau, Moldova, Department of Acting for Theatre and Cinema. Alina worked as an actress at the National Theatre I.L. Caragiale, in Chisinau from 2015-2016. Alina emigrated to New York 6 years ago to join her family. In New York she obtained her American theatre training in the Two- Year Core Program of the William Esper Studio.
Ylfa Edelstein
Ylfa Edelstein was born and raised in Reykjavik, Iceland. Her grandparents fled Nazi Germany in 1938, settling in Iceland after her grandfather was offered a position as a cellist with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. From an early age, Ylfa showed a proclivity for performance, in ballet, theatre and music. She came to the United States to study theatre. Ylfa has guest starred in numerous TV shows, indie films and continues to cultivate her first love of theater. She is thrilled to be a part of Anomalous Co. More info is available on www.ylfaedelstein.com
Veronika Vozniak
A graduate of Acting Conservatory at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Since 2016 she has performed on numerous Off- and Off-Off-Broadway stages. Selected theatre: A Midsummer’s Night Dream (The Seeing Place), The Jewish Question (Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center), The Video Games (Off-Broadway, Elektra Theatre), Never Sleep Alone (Joe’s pub at The Public Theater), Vandals (The How Theatre), Detective Story (Heights Players), Spyglass Seven (International Edgar Allan Poe Festival, Rochester Fringe), Octopi Wall Street (Hollywood Fringe ‘19), Three Sisters (Columbia University), Kicking Down the Quilt/Skopując Kołderkę (Polish Cultural Institute NY/Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Cracow).www.veronikavozniak.com