by Dena Igusti
The Memory Brigade
Meet the Team
In a garden outside of time, the Archivists search for lost memories, painting a portrait of Woodside and its people through found objects and forgotten stories.
Susan Jaramillo - DIRECTOR
Susanna Jaramillo is a Queens-based director and stage manager hailing from Cranford, New Jersey. Artistically, Susanna believes in radical inclusion and the creation of space for typically under-represented stories, people, and experiences. She aims to create work that subverts our expectations of identity and uplifts voices that are left out of the theatrical canon. Her work lives in a world of sensorial extremes and seeks to investigate the ways that we do, or, more frequently, don’t engage with the intersectional nature of identity and what that means for each of us.
Recent credits include: the doctor will see you shortly (Keen Company), azn sad grl (Mercury Store) Myth of the Mountain (Open Jar), Jesus 2.0 (Workshop Theatre), Fucking A (PPAS), Best Life (JACK), Daddy (John Jay College). Assisting credits include: Yellow Face (Broadway, Roundabout) The Ants (Geffen Playhouse), Wolf Play (MCC), Dom Juan (Bard SummerScape) Wine in the Wilderness (Roundabout Theatre Co.), Bite Me (Roundabout Theatre Co.), African Caribbean MixFest (Atlantic Theatre Company). Select academic theatre direction includes: Yellow Face (Front Row Theatre Co.), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (iNtuitons Experimental Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Quadramics Theatre Co.), Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (iNtuitons Experimental Theatre). Susanna is an alum of the Roundabout Director's Group and the inaugural Drama League Directing Assistantship Program.
Breezy Leigh - CAST
Breezy Leigh is thrilled to be working with The Motor Company for the first time! New York: Push Party (world premiere, The Hearth); Where Women Go (world premiere, Tent Theater Company); Le Blanc (People’s Improv Theater); A Sketch of New York (The Producers’ Club Theater). Regional: Clyde’s (Portland Stage Company); Stew (regional premiere, Gloucester Stage Company); Joy & Pandemic (world premiere, Huntington Theatre Company); Superstitions (OKC Rep); Oedipus Rex/ Symphony of Psalms (SF Symphony); Animals Out Of Paper (Chautauqua Theater Company). Film: Step Into My Office (BRIC TV); Baby Mama Drama (Chela Films). Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; Honors BA, University of Virginia. www.breezyleigh.com | @itsbreezyleigh_
Danielle Koenig - CAST
Danielle Koenig has been lying to you. They go by Dani. And, yeah, maybe they should change their professional name to Dani Koenig, but that feels so casual. Life is hard.
As an actor, Dani (Danielle?) Koenig tends to perform in gay stuff because of the way they are - some include Maiden Voyage (New Works Provincetown), 504: A New Musical (Disabled Down Center), and Charlotte Lucas is 27 And Not Dead (Piper Theater).
As a writer, Danielle (Dani?) Koenig’s full-length work has been developed by Second Stage, Theatre NOW, Syracuse University, and more. Their standalone work has been seen at Joe’s Pub, Lincoln Center, Rattlestick Playwright's Theater, and more. They are a member of UNTITLED Musical Writers Group.
Miguel Sutedjo - CAST
Miguel Sutedjo is an actor, musical theater writer, music director, and educator. He aspires to tell international and interdisciplinary stories that make people feel seen. As an actor, his favorite credits include P.B. Jones in Illegal: A New Musical (YAYA Kids Theater) and Shrek in Shrek the Musical (Fordham). As a playwright, he premiered Mulan: A Children's Musical at the Flowers in Changhua Festival (Taiwan) and Fly Me Away at the Museum of Chinese in America (NYC). As a music director for The Prom at Mt. Tabor Arts Collaborative (New Jersey), he was nominated for the 2023 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Award for "Best Music Direction & Orchestra Performance." Last year, Miguel was awarded a Fulbright to Taiwan and taught English and Music at a junior high school. IG: miguel_sutedjo
