The Miser

MaYaa Boateng – MARIANNE
Alana Raquel Bowers – CLEANTE
Francesca Faridany – HARPAGON
Lisa Gorlitsky – MAITRE JACQUES
Lakisha May – FROSINE
Ismena Mendes – ELISE
Daniel Pearce – LAFLECHE

Director: Lucie Tiberghien

A Brooklynite since 2001, Lucie was raised in France and Switzerland. Specializing in new work, Lucie spent 15 years developing and directing new plays in New York City and all over the country. She directed World Premieres at La Jolla Playhouse, CATF, Second Stage, Rattlestick Theater, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Kansas City Rep, Manhattan Class Company and more. As a translator and adapter, Lucie’s work has been produced in Paris and in New York. She founded Molière in the Park in 2018 with the goal of bringing free high-quality theater to Brooklyn, thereby narrowing the access gap in the arts in New York City. She is MIP’s Artistic Director and has directed productions of The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The Miser. In 2021, she was awarded the prestigious designation of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by the French Government.

MaYaa Boateng starred in and originated her role in the Pulitzer Prize winning production, Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury (SoHo Rep), as well as her multiple characters in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives adapted by Jocelyn Bioh (Shakespeare in the Park, The Public). Other NYC theatre credits include The Miser, Molière in the Park, Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine (Signature Theatre);Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park, The Public); Exception to the Rule (Roundabout). MaYaa’s film and TV credits include Orange is the New Black (Netflix); City on a Hill (Showtime); High Maintenance (HBO); Chicago PD (NBC); The Blacklist (NBC); FBI (CBS); Reunion (Short, 2023 Best Actress Award winner, Bronzelens Film Festival). MaYaa is a company member and mentor at The Actors Center. She received her MFA from NYU Graduate Acting program.

Alana Raquel Bowers originated the role of “Simone” in the Broadway production of Chicken and Biscuits (Circle in the Square Theater). Off-Broadway credits include Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group and the National Black Theater at the Signature Theater), The Miser (Molière in the Park), What to Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T./New York Theater, the Public Theater, and BAM). Regional: The Comeuppance (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the Wilma Theater) What To Send Up When It Goes Down (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater). Off-off Broadway: Scraps (The Flea Theater). Film and TV credits include After Class, Fantasy Life, FBI: Most Wanted, and Dr. Death. Producing credits include: The Transatlantic Residency with Irish Repertory Theater and The Apollo, and Anansi Creative Studio’s Storytellers Spotlight Series. Raquel Bowers received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Francesca Faridany’s recent theatre highlights include: Erika Sheffer’s world premiere Vladimir (MTC), HARPAGON in The Miser (Molière in the Park), Tanika Gupta’s The Empress (RSC, UK), Marie Curie in The Half-life of Marie Curie (Audible), for which she received a Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination in 2020; Siobhan in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (2015 Best Play TONY); Nina Leeds in Strange Interlude, Shakespeare Theatre (Helen Hayes Award); Orlando in Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando (CSC), the title role in her own adaptation of Schnitzler’s Fräulein Else (Sundance, Long Wharf, McCarter, La Jolla, Berkeley) and the many productions with director Stephen Wadsworth. Faridany has appeared on screen in She Came to Me, The Girls on the Bus, Black Panther, Love After Love, Conceiving Ada, The Fourth Wall, Manifest, Blacklist, Hunters, Bull, Falling Water, The Menendez Murders, Homeland, Law & Order; SVU, E.R., and Deadline.

Lisa Gorlitsky began her professional acting career at the age of seven and has been seen in numerous primetime and daytime television series including recent appearances on all the Law & Order franchises, FBI, movies made for television such as the recent 12 Days of Christmas, feature films such as Rounders, and national advertising campaigns. She has also appeared in theater productions including those at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Atlantic Theater, Molière in the Park and Stars in the House. Lisa received her BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase.

Lakisha May (she/her) has worked in the following Broadway productions: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Skeleton Crew (Manhattan Theatre Club), and the following Off-Broadway productions: Everybody, In The Blood (Signature Theatre Company), Sojourners (NYTW, Playwright’s Realm), The Miser (Moliere in the Park), Dirty Laundry (WP Theater). May has been in the following Regional Theater productions: La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Alliance Theater, Arden Theatre, Marin Theater Company, and others. May has worked in the following Film & TV programs: Historias del Canal, City on a Hill, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, Forever, Blue Bloods and others. May received an MFA, from The American Conservatory Theater, and a BA, from Spelman College. May creates her own work and has produced projects with Nikyatu Jusu, Rashad Frett, Saheem Ali, Monkeypaw Productions, and others.

Mendes’s acting credits include The Miser (Molière in the Park) Mac Beth (RedBull/Hunter), Mary’s Seacole (LCT3), Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon (59E59), The Liar (CSC), Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado About Nothing (The Public – Delacorte), Grand Concourse, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra (Playwrights Horizons), The Wayside Motor Inn (The Signature Theater), Family Furniture (The Flea), and Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb). Mendes’s regional acting credits include Henry V (Two River Theater). Mendes’s TV and film credits include Little Voice, Orange is the New Black, High Maintenance, The Devil You Know (HBO pilot: Jenji Kohan/Gus Van Sant), Lost Holiday, Are You Happy Now, and Hayseed. Mendes studied at Juilliard.

Daniel Pearce’s Broadway credits include the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Machinal and the upcoming Othello with Denzel Washington in 2025. Pearce’s Off-Broadway credits include 12 productions with the Public Theater, most recently playing Polonius in Hamlet in Central Park directed by Kenny Leon, The Miser (Molière in the Park), Timon of Athens (TFANA), The Most Deserving (Women’s Project), Falling (Minetta Lane), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Irish Rep). Pearce’s film and TV credits include: The Last Thing Mary Saw, Salt, Invisible Sign, The Good Fight, Bull, Murder of a President, Law & Order, Chappelle’s Show, Queen’s Supreme, and Damages. As a guitarist, he composed and performed a live score for Michael Gaston’s play Low Expectations (Theater Aspen & Theatreworks Silicon Valley). Pearce received his MFA from NYU and was awarded the 2017 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship for excellence in acting.