Meet the 'Oh, Honey' Team
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JEANA SCOTTI
Playwright
Jeana (she/her) is a Brooklyn based playwright and producer. She is a 2025 New Georges Audrey Resident and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. She was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group and is a New Georges Affiliated artist. Recent plays include: A Necessary Killing (Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks, dir. Laura Dupper), and oh, Honey (dir. Carsen Joenk, site-specific production at the restaurant Little Egg in Brooklyn, Ugly Face Theatre). She is the co-founder of Ugly Face Theatre, where she makes site-specific and community-focused theatre. MFA Playwriting, Rutgers Mason Gross. jeanascotti.com​
CARSEN JOENK
Director
Carsen (she/her) is the co-founder of Rat Queen Theatre Company, a New Georges Jam Member, and a resident artist with New Light Theater Project. She is also a core member of interactive media company Sour Milk. Carsen is a former Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Roundabout Directors Group member, Mercury Store Directing Lab member, FAIR Assistant Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and a member of the 2019-2021 SDCF Observership Class. Carsen was the 19/20 Wingspace Theatrical Design Directing Mentee, a National Alliance of Musical Theatre 2018 Directing Observer, and a 2018-2019 resident artist at Access Theatre with Rat Queen. Her designs have been heard across theatre, film, and podcasts. Featuring work at Juilliard, The Mint, Shakespeare and Company, Irish Repertory Theatre, People's Light, Clubbed Thumb, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Weston Theater Company, New York University, Two River Theatre, JACK, MITU580, and more. She was a literary intern for the LARK Play Development Center and an education intern at New York Theatre Workshop.​​
MAIA KARO
Maia (she/they) is a NYC based actor who also writes, directs, and sings. Her work has been presented in collaborations with New Dramatists, Rattlestick, Bushwick Starr, The Brick, Clubbed Thumb, New Ohio Theatre, Target Margin, HERE, Dixon Place, O’Neill Theater Center, LARK, Incubator Arts Project, Edinburgh Fringe, Moscow Art Theater (Russia), and Shakespeare's Globe (London). TV/Film: Blacklist (NBC), NewYork (YES./Dori Media). They are an adjunct instructor at NYU Tisch. Training: Yale University, MFA Rutgers Mason Gross. maiakaro.com
AMELIE LYONS
Producer
Amelie (she/her) is a life-long member of the theatre community (no literally, lived above a theatre and would do homework/fold programs/etc in said theatre) from New York City. In her youth she acted in various shows at the Ohio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, The Public, and was part of a playwriting program at New York Theatre Workshop. More recently Amelie has been finding her way back to theater, recently performing at The Brick, and serving as Associate Producer on Ultra Left Violence in New Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory. She is excited to use her nepo-baby status for good and leap into more theatre-creation with Ugly Face.
THALIA SABLON
Producer
“Born in Haiti, raised in Queens. I have my mother’s tongue and a New York accent.” Thalia Sablon is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer, and artistic administrator with a love for collaborative and unconventional storytelling. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from Rutgers University in 2022 and holds a BA from SUNY Purchase. Her work explores themes of identity, anti-capitalism, Afro-surrealism, and intergenerational memory. Her work has been developed and presented with institutions such as The Tank, Conch Shell Productions, Third Culture Theatre, New Georges, and Rutgers University. Thalia’s recent plays include Dirty (I Am BOLD Women Festival), Racoon Princess (TrashFest), and How to Steal Time and Other Important Poor People Skills (Blue Light Series at Flushing Town Hall). Her short films Cry Wolf and Strung (co-writer/producer) expand her storytelling into screen media. As a producer and administrator, Thalia has supported early-career artists through festivals and readings, Prisoncore! (Exponential Festival) including Being Up In Here (Exponential Festival) and Crawl Space (The Flea). She served as an Artistic Administrative Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop (2022–23) and currently works as the Artistic Programs Assistant at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she facilitates programming for Youngblood and the EST/Sloan Project. Thalia is a Co-Facilitator of New Georges Jam!