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.​​
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!
CARMEN BERKELEY
Mari
Carmen (she/her) is thrilled to return to Little Egg to reprise her role in Oh, Honey. Select theatre credits include Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater/Second Stage), The Night of the Iguana (La Femme), Las Yumas (Players Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Hartford Stage), Wintertime (Berkeley Rep), and Our Town (Barnstormers Theatre). She has developed new work with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, ArsNova, and others. Film/TV credits include Law and Order: SVU; God Will Find Me (forthcoming); and Step Back, Doors Closing (Best Actress, Catalina Film Festival). BFA: Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
MAIA KARO
Vicki
Maia (she/they) is a co-founder of Ugly Face Theatre and is ecstatic to be back at Little Egg to share some soup with her incredible castmates, collaborators, and audiences. Past collaborations include: Rattlestick Theatre, Bushwick Starr, The Brick, Clubbed Thumb, New Ohio Theatre, Target Margin, HERE, Dixon Place, New Dramatists, O’Neill Theater Center, LARK, Incubator Arts Project, Edinburgh Fringe. TV/Film: Blacklist (NBC), NewYork (YES./Dori Media). Training: Rutgers University MFA, Yale University, Moscow Art Theater (Russia), Shakespeare's Globe (London). maiakaro.com
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DEE PELLETIER
Lu
Dee (she/her) Downtown: Not Not Jane’s (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks); A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr/New Georges); BUG (Barrow Street); Axis Theatre Co Uptown: The Minutes, August: Osage County (Broadway); Night of the Iguana (Signature/La Femme); Women Without Men (Mint Theater) Out of Town: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre); Cymbeline, Hamlet, Hedda Gabler (Shakespeare Theatre Co); Cyrano, (Opera House Arts).
JAMIE RAGUSA
Bianca
Jamie (she/her) is a TV/Film, and Stage actor based in NY. She has studied at Maggie Flanigan Studio, The Barrow Group, Lee Strasberg Institute, and is currently a working finalist at The Actor's Studio in NYC. She holds a BFA and MA from Point Park University. Jamie is thrilled to be reprising her role as Bianca in this production of ‘oH, Honey.’ Most recently, she was seen on Primetime CBS in FBI and Bull. She also has worked on several indie films in which she was awarded several acting accolades for her work. Jamie is a proud mom of two and an Aussiedoodle.
MARA STEPHENS
Sarah
Mara (she/her) has performed on Broadway (Titanic original cast), Off-Broadway (Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, American Place Theatre, Dance Theater Workshop, LCT, Playwrights Horizons, The Civilians, Soho Rep, NYTW), and in regional theaters including Denver Center, Cleveland Playhouse, NY Stage & Film, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Prince Music Theater, and George Street Playhouse. TV/film: The Plea (upcoming, 2026), Law & Order, High Maintenance (HBO), Everything’s Trash (Hulu), King of the Corner, and Slings & Arrow. She toured for two years nationally in a one-person adaptation of Lois Lowry’s The Giver, playing 12 roles. She performed in London, Amsterdam and Philadelphia in Charlotte: Life or Theater based on the life of Charlotte Salomon. A play 24 years ago led Mara to the lifelong privilege of working with ASL and the Deaf community. She is also a certified yoga teacher (500 hours), a sign language interpreter, and a proud mom of two.
BRIAN MCCARTHY
Diner Guy/Anthony
Brian (he/him) is a New York City actor, most recently appearing in the second season of “Poker Face.” Some of his other favorite roles have been Randy Chilton in "The Americans," Jimmy in Jim Jarmusch's "Paterson," and Agent Drummond in "StartUp.
EAN SHEEY
Diner Guy/Anthony
Ean (he/him) has appeared in many episodes of Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, and Law & Order Criminal Intent; as well as the HBO series John Adams. Also appears in the films Slow Machine and The Notorious Bettie Page. Theater: Red Eye To Havre De Grace at New York Theater Workshop and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Paramount Theater in Boston, Georgia Tech, Dartmouth College and many others, Inflatable Space at the Edenborough Fringe Festival as well as theaters in Denver, Cleveland and other locations. Also "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" (The Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati), "No Foreigners Beyond This Point" (Center Stage Baltimore) "Master and Margarita" (The Fisher Center) "The Making Of King Kong" (Target Margin) and "This Is The Color Described By The Time" (The Flea) , Shooter (European tour), Psychic Self Defense (HERE) and many more.