The Miser

MaYaa Boateng – MARIANNE
Alana Raquel Bowers – CLEANTE
Francesca Faridany – HARPAGON
Keshav Moodliar – MAITRE JACQUES
Michelle Veintimilla – FROSINE
Shayvawn Webster – ELISE
Yonatan Gebeyehu – LAFLECHE
Damian Jermaine Thompson – VALERE

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.

Keshav Moodliar is a Brooklyn based actor. Born in Pune, raised in New Delhi, India. Off-Broadway: Queen, Long Wharf/NAATCO; Arms and the Man, Gingold Theatrical Group; Measure for Measure, The Acting Company. Regional: The Odyssey, American Rep Theatre; Henry 6, The Old Globe; The Scarlet Letter, Two River Theater; Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Theatre New Jersey. Film/TV: “Extrapolations,” Apple TV+; “Sink Sank Sunk;” In Defense of Civil Society; “Untitled Paul Simms Pilot,” FX. Education: MFA, Juilliard.

Michelle is a performing artist based in NYC. Her credits span Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and international theater, film, and television. On Broadway, she starred alongside Chita Rivera in the Tony-nominated musical The Visit. Her MIP credits include Tartuffe. Last summer, she starred in the Kennedy Center’s Helen Hayes nominated production of Nine.

Shayvawn Webster is a minister of Earthseed, a Dorothy Dandridge devotee, and RPG-obsessed (currently playing Bladur’s Gate 3). Shayvawn’s stage credits include The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre Company DC), Brutus / Cleopatra in Julius Caesar / Caesar & Cleopatra (Bedlam), For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Soho Rep.), and The Gods of Comedy (The McCarter Theatre Center & The Old Globe). Film/TV credits include Happiness For Beginners (Netflix), Flying Lessons (NYFA Women’s Fund Grant Recipient), and Jr. Detective Dani Vertiz on NBC’s reboot of Law & Order. Shayvawn is a proud alumnus of NYU’s Graduate Acting program.

Yonatan Gebeyehu is an accomplished actor with an extensive body of work spanning across Off-Broadway, regional theater, television, and digital platforms. Notable Off-Broadway credits include Usus at Clubbed Thumb, Bathhouse.pptx at The Flea, and several productions with TFANA, including The Merchant of Venice and Timon of Athens. Additionally, Yonatan Gebeyehu has performed in Tartuffe with Molière in the Park and Persuasion with Bedlam. They also appeared in I Thought I Would Die, But I Didn’t with New Georges/The Thank and understudied in Where the Mountain Meets the Sea at MTC. Internationally, he performed in The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh. His regional theater credits include work with the Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Portland Stage Company, and Montana Rep. In television, Yonatan Gebeyehu has appeared in Prodigal Son (FOX), Elementary, and Madame Secretary (CBS). On the digital front, they were part of Lessons in Survival at The Vineyard and 86’d at Bric Arts. He earned their MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego, and holds a B.A. in English from Columbia University.

Damian Jermaine Thompson is a classically trained stage, film, and television actor. Born in Kingston, Jamaica and partly raised in Miami, FL, he now resides in New York City. Mr. Thompson is a 2022 Connecticut Critics Choice award winner for outstanding lead actor in a play, a 2018 NAACP award winner for his performance in Fly (the story of the Tuskegee Airmen), and a 2012 leading actor Drammy Award winner for his performance in the Brother/Sister Plays at Portland Playhouse in Oregon. He has had the pleasure of performing for both the Obama’s and the Clinton’s at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC and Off-Broadway in New York City. His short film BLACK? (for which he wrote, produced, and co-starred in) won best film at the New York Premiere film festival, and was an official selection at numerous festivals including the International Black Film festival, the Orlando Film Festival, and the Albuquerque Film Festival. His work can currently be seen in the National Geographic special Clotilda: The Last Slave Ship and the Netflix feature Wedding Season. Facebook/Instagram: damianthompsonactor