Meet the 2050 Fellows for the 2025/26 Season!

We can’t wait to introduce you to the newest cohort of 2050 Artistic and Administrative Fellows! These wonderful artists and administrators will spend the next year with us in community and we hope you’ll join us in welcoming them! The new Artistic Fellows are directors Miguel Bregante and Adam Coy; solo performer Rachel Lin; and playwrights Abigail C. Onwunali and Mary Treuhaft-Ali. The new Administrative Fellows are Chandler Gregoire (Development), Angela Guerra (Marketing), Kimmarie McCrann (Artist Workshop) and Julie Monteleone (Education & Engagement).

2050 ARTISTIC FELLOWS

Miguel Bregante (he/him) is a Spanish-Chilean director. Miguel grounds his craft in the pursuit of a bespoke language for each production, believing every story deserves its own unique form of expression. His journey ranges from delving into the words of Mathematics and Physics during his studies in Telecommunications Engineering across Spain, Austria, and France, to the completion of an MFA in Theater Directing at Columbia University in New York. This path includes directing the award-winning La Mona Ilustre Theater Company in Chile, renowned for its image-based, nearly wordless storytelling. Evolving from a Lecoq-based movement methodology to an in-depth script analysis, his work blends multilayered narratives and distortion of reality to explore the enigmatic inner landscapes of individuals. Fiercely advocating for tenderness, Miguel fosters a nurturing, diverse, and highly collaborative rehearsal space, where each voice holds the potential to unlock the key idea for a production’s success.

Adam Coy (he/him) is a Tejano-Ukranian director, actor, and curator of vibes based in New York City, originally from San Antonio. Directing: Holes in the Shape of My Father (Public Theater UTR, Powerhouse), What Else is True?, Crave, and Zabelle (Egg & Spoon). As a director he has developed work with Roundabout, The Civilians, Powerhouse Theater, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, Intar and others. Associate/Assisting: Broadway Doubt (Roundabout). Off-Broadway/Regional Spain (Second Stage), This Land was Made (Vineyard), The Coast Starlight (LCT), Tambo & Bones, Wish You Were Here, Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons), Mojada (The Public), The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkely Rep). Adam is the Associate Artistic Director and co-founder of The Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective, alumni of Roundabout Directors Group, the Playwrights Horizons Directing Fellowship, TCG Rising Leaders of Color, Theater Producers of Color: Producing 101, and the 2018-19 SDC Foundation Observership Class. As an actor Adam has worked with Sol Project, Intar, San Diego Rep, JACK, Working Theater, Northern Stages, Pipeline, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Chautauqua Theatre Company and others. BFA in Acting, Syracuse University.

Rachel Lin is an actor, writer, and filmmaker from the UK, raised in NYC’s Chinatown. Her solo show Dear John has received support and development from the Brooklyn Arts Council, All For One Theater, IRT Theatre, the Museum of Chinese in America, and CulturePass. Her short film Great Listener has screened at Brooklyn Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, and more. As an actor, world premieres include: Women by Chiara Atik, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, Ajax by A.R. Gurney, and others. She played Detective Victoria Cho on season 2 of Law & Order: Organized Crime. Other TV: Black Cake, Pose, and Bull. She is a lifetime member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre where she also produces and hosts the EST Re:Members Podcast. She teaches acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute for TV and Film.

Abigail C. Onwunali is a multi-faceted Nigerian American storyteller whose work has been workshopped by Red Bull Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Liberation Theater Company, Faultline Theatre and the Yale Cabaret. She is a 2025 New Harmony Project Annual Writers Residency fellow, a finalist for the Fire This Time Festival, the Irons in the Fire playwriting residency, and Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Work Incubator.She has also been a semi-finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship and La MaMa’s Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship. Currently, Abigail is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Obie Award-winning Youngblood program. She is a Princess Grace Award winner and winner of the Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival. Also an accomplished poet, Abigail’s slam poetry has reached audiences worldwide. She holds a degree in Acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and was an inaugural member of Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Program. Rooted in her Nigerian heritage, Abigail creates theater that centers her people and brings her ancestry alive on stage.

May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright and dramaturg from Queens, New York. Her play ABCD had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July 2022, and her play Escapegoat had a workshop production at Boston Court Pasadena later that year. She was the 22-23 Van Lier Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. She is currently a member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and has been in season-long writers’ groups at Page 73, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, and the Playwrights Realm. Her plays have been developed at New York Theatre Workshop, The Movement Theatre Company, MCC Theater, Irish Repertory Theatre, Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Jungle, and Westport Country Playhouse. She has received commissions from Cleveland Play House, South Coast Repertory, and Barrington Stage.

The 2050 Artistic Fellows program is supported in part by The New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship program.

2050 ADMINISTRATIVE FELLOWS

Chandler Gregoire (she/her) is a multiracial, NYC-based theater administrator and producer. After graduating from LaGuardia Arts HS and Yale University, she spent seven years working as a professional actress. During the actors’ strike Chandler realized she would be better positioned to create the long-term, meaningful change she hopes to see as a nonprofit arts leader. She is currently getting her MBA at Columbia Business School, focusing on arts strategy and leadership. Chandler’s goal is to elevate—and maintain the artistic integrity of—BIPOC stories, make theater more accessible to diverse audiences, and make art that changes how people view their world. Chandler joins us as our Development Fellow!

Angela Guerra (she/her) is a dedicated theatre artist, actress, and emerging arts administrator from El Paso, Texas. She recently earned her BFA in Performance from the University of Texas at El Paso, where she developed a strong foundation in acting, audience engagement, and theatre marketing. Angela is spending the summer as the Assistant Box Office Manager at Weston Theater Company, where she’s deepening her passion for connecting communities through live performance. With a commitment to uplifting underrepresented voices, she aims to build inclusive, story-driven spaces both onstage and off. Angela joins us as our Marketing Fellow!

Kimmarie “Kim” McCrann (she/her) is a theatre director and administrator originally from Long Island, New York. After earning her BFA from Adelphi University, Kim served as an Artist in Residence at Accademia dell’Arte in Italy. During this time, Kim developed a one-woman show inspired by the works of Sylvia Plath. Then, she worked as a Directing & Dramaturgy Apprenticeship at Portland Stage, and an Associate Producer with Portland Theater Festival. As a young Vietnamese-American woman, Kim is particularly excited by sharing stories of a mixed-race and feminist lens. Kim is thrilled to be returning to NY and joining the vibrant community at NYTW. Kim joins us as our Artistic Workshop Fellow!

Julie Monteleone (they/them) is a director, intimacy/fight choreographer, and educator focused on uplifting queer and trans voices, particularly through Shakespeare and classical adaptations. They spent the past year serving as National Queer Theater’s Education Coordinator and working as a freelance director with First Kiss Theater and The Makers’ Ensemble. Favorite directing credits include How to Defend Yourself, Macbeth, and Salwa Meghjee’s Word Play. Julie received a B.A. in Theater and Gender Studies from Northwestern University, and has taught for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Company, and Boston Public Schools. Julie joins us as our Education & Engagement Fellow!

The 2050 Administrative Fellows Program is partially supported with funds from the Axe-Houghton Foundation.

ABOUT THE 2050 FELLOWSHIP

The 2050 Fellowship is named in celebration of the U.S. Census Bureau’s projection that by the year 2050, there will be no single racial or ethnic majority in the United States. This projection provokes thoughts at New York Theatre Workshop about the transformations that will take place in the American landscape—demographically, technologically, environmentally and artistically—now and in the future. They’re a catalyst for broader questions about our ever-transforming field. How can theatre challenge our conceptions of storytelling? How can we push aesthetic boundaries in the 21st century? What’s the power of theater today?

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