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Ensemble Blog

Will Bowling

Shannon Flaherty

Will Bowling is a writer, performer and musician based in Laramie, Wyoming. He is Goat In The Road’s Co-Founding Artistic Director, and engaged ensemble member from afar. He has co-written and performed in GRP's Whatever Just Happened..., The Meese Papers, Our Man, and Instant Misunderstanding, performed in Foreign To Myself,  and has composed original scores for GRP's Calculus of Hope, Major Swelling's Salvation Salve Medicine Show, The Don Effect, and The Future is a Fancyland Place. Will moved to Wyoming in 2021 and is currently the Director of Education for the Laramie based theater company, Relative Theatrics, where he has adapted GRP’s flagship education program, Play/Write, for Wyoming public schools.

Ellen Bull

Shannon Flaherty

Ellen Bull works as a costume designer, scenic designer, fiber artist, and scenic painter in theatre and film. She is an avid seed collector and a strong enthusiast for the public library. She has worked with several theatre companies in New Orleans, including Goat in the Road, Le Petit, the NOLA Project, Southern Rep, Cripple Creek, Loyola University, and the University of New Orleans.

Todd d'Amour

Shannon Flaherty

Todd d'Amour grew up in New Orleans and graduated from DeLaSalle High School. After graduating with a degree in biopsychology from Syracuse University, Todd then received a degree from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Todd spent 12 years in New York City and returned to his hometown 3 years ago. Stage credits include Southern Rep's The Lily's Revenge (The Curtain) and Venus in Fur (Thomas), which toured to the GEVA Theatre Rochester and will be remounted in Lafayette in May 2015, as well as The American Theatre Project's A Member of the White Race (Davey Caron), Goat in the Road's This Sweaty City and Numb. His latest feature film, Wendell and the Lemon (Wendell) is now surfing the festival circuit.

Cassandra Erb

Shannon Flaherty

Cassandra Erb is an independent curator and designer who has been working in the museum field for over fifteen years. She holds a B.A. in painting, an M.F.A. in Exhibition Design, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change at Antioch University. In her work, she is committed to cocreation and the idea that the creative act is not performed by the artist alone. Erb lives and works in New Orleans, LA.

Owen Ever

Shannon Flaherty

Owen Ever (they/he) is a multidimensional artist committed to wonder, history and healthcare justice. GRP contributions include: The Family Line, Sick Notes, The Uninvited, The Stranger Disease, Roleplay, Foreign to Myself, Uncle Vanya, Haydn Seek and Numb. Additionally they have worked with The Radical Buffoons, Vagabond Inventions, LOUD, Last Call, The Nola Project, Skin Horse and New Noise. Ever is a medical clown with Prescription Joy with specialized training in end-of-life care and psychological first aid. Former curator and historian at the Pharmacy Museum; currently working in HIV research and prevention. They find queer joy in birdwatching.

Denise Frazier

Shannon Flaherty

Denise Frazier is an educator, musician, and interdisciplinary artist from Houston, who has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2002. She is the assistant director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, a place-based research Center that grants fellowships and organizes public programming, immersive experiences, and collective contemplation about the bio-region stretching from Texas to Florida and its connections with other regions around the world. Her research interests currently include the Gulf South and the Anthropocene, sound studies and the political, social, digital, natural, and built environments of the Gulf South and Circum-Caribbean.

She is also the manager, co-founder and violinist/vocalist/percussionist of Les Cenelles, a string and technological interfacing ensemble that performs African Diasporic music through a prismatic lens that honors African and Indigenous ancestors and chronicles ecological realities. As a company member of Goat in the Road Productions, Frazier has used her skills as an actor and as a musical composer in immersive performances and collaborations that tell lesser known stories surrounding sexuality, politics, liberation, and colonialism.

Frazier has participated in several boards that have supported the cultural and social ecosystem of New Orleans culture bearers. She has worked with the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans, Antenna Gallery, Make Music NOLA, Goat in the Road Productions, and, more recently, the NOUS Foundation and No Dream Deferred. She has also worked with College Track New Orleans, a national college completion and access program where she advised students attending Xavier University of Louisiana, Delgado Community College, Tulane University, and Southern University of New Orleans (2010-2014). She has taught a wide variety of courses at Tulane University (Geography of the Gulf South, AfroLatinx Studies, Spanish Language), Southern University of New Orleans (Spanish Language), and Xavier University of Louisiana (Medieval Spanish Literature, Spanish Language classes, Introduction to African American Studies). Frazier is tri-lingual in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. She completed an M.A. (2004) and PhD (2009) in the Latin American Studies Department at Tulane University, studying the political and social dimensions of hip hop music and performance in early 21st century Cuba and Brazil. She is the proud parent of one son.

Darci Fulcher

Shannon Flaherty

Darci Fulcher is an actor, deviser, movement coach, director and professor. 

GRP Credits: Haydn Seek, Uncle Vanya: Quarter Life Crisis, Foreign to Myself & Distance of Sound
BODYART Credit: Maison
Radical Buffoon(s) Credit: Balloonacy

Darci spent 2007-2011 working for Epic Theatre Ensemble, where she taught, performed, and produced theatre off-Broadway. Her original work has been accepted by the Madlab Series as part of the Mad River Festival in Blue Lake California, the Fury Factory Festival in San Francisco and the Fertile Ground Festival in Portland Oregon for her original play La Fenetre

​Darci teaches at Tulane University and New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts introducing students to clown, mask, devising, movement & physical theatre. MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre 2014, and a BA in Theatre and BS in Business Management from Fairfield University 07. 

Steve Gilliland

Shannon Flaherty

Steve Gilliland is a musician, sound designer, audio engineer and visual artist originally from Pennsylvania.  He is a member of the eclectic improvisational band New Thousand, creating instrumental hip hop and dance grooves fused with Balkan-inspired violin melodies from his bandmate.  He has worked with GRP in various sound and musical capacities since moving to New Orleans in 2019, and recently designed and composed/performed music for ArtSpot Productions' Road to Damascus.  He also makes weird art out of circuit boards and video game controllers and dolls and whatnot.

Jeremy Guyton

Shannon Flaherty

Jeremy Guyton is a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist currently pursuing his MFA in Dance at Florida State University. A Los Angeles native, he attended Georgetown University where he received a B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies in 2012. Prior to returning to graduate school, Jeremy served as the Youth Programs Director at Dancing Grounds. He has a third nipple.


Grace Harmon

Shannon Flaherty

Grace Harmon is an artist, writer, and historian from Gonzales, Louisiana. After graduating from Tulane in 2020, she has worked in the film and theatre industries as an assistant in various forms. She is especially interested in unearthing historically oppressed narratives and translating them into a medium to be shared with the public. Projects include Roleplay (Goat in the Road), Emancipation (Dir. Antoine Fuqua), The Family Line (Goat in the Road), and her very first short film, “Anointed,” completed at an artists’ residency in Normandy, France (Berridge Programs).

Ian Hoch

Shannon Flaherty

Ian Hoch has enjoyed playing a diverse range of characters since coming to New Orleans in 2002 to study drama at Loyola University. He is a six-time Big Easy Award nominee, and winner of "Best Supporting Actor in a Play." He has appeared in numerous films and television shows including "The Mayfair Witches," "Nashville," "The Thing About Pam," "Woke," and many more, but his real love is for the stage. Favorite roles with Goat in the Road include Dr Thomas Beddoes in Numb, Joseph Mathis in The Stranger Disease, and Bobby Jindal in Major Swelling's Medicine Salve Salvation Show.

 

 

Dylan Hunter

Shannon Flaherty

Dylan Hunter is a performer, deviser, composer, sound designer, left-handed person, and proud ensemble member of Goat in the Road since 2014. He has participated in numerous GRP productions, including but not limited to Numb, Foreign to Myself, Mister Bismuth, and The Family Line. He is known city-wide as "the blue guy in Creep Cuts", and also lives on the internet as Mister Bismuth in the super international hit video singles "Wash Your Hands" and "Distance Love". In 2014 he played Macbeth so he gets to say it, and as of 2022—according to the experts at Tulane University—he is a *master* of the art of music composition, so fugeddaboudit already geez.

 

Nicholas Javon

Shannon Flaherty

Nicholas Javon is an actor, director, and movement enthusiast currently based in NOLA. He graduated from Boston University with a degree in Theatre Arts. Today, he just wants to make all creative things possible in his work. If it's playful, intentional, energetic, and creatively motivated -- he's in! Nicholas has a deep love for curating and being a part of dynamic works of all kinds, with the truest desire to connect and cultivate conversations within his own personal work &beyond!

Grace Kennedy

Shannon Flaherty

Grace Kennedy is an actor, storyteller, musician and theater artist. GRP credits include Foreign to Myself (2018), The Uninvited (2020), and The Family Line (2023). If she was a tree, she would like to be a bald cypress.

Leslie Boles Kraus

Shannon Flaherty

Leslie Boles Kraus is a theater artist from Lancaster, PA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she trained in the Experimental Theatre Wing, Stella Adler Studio, and International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam. In 2020, she earned a Master of Arts Administration degree from Southern Utah University. She is a proud mama to Olive and Amos and loves everything about being a Goat.

April Louise

Shannon Flaherty

April Louise, a multi-hyphenate creative, currently serves as Arts Integration Coordinator with Young Audiences of Louisiana. She first worked with Goat in the Road (GRP) on The Stranger Disease. Recent credits include The Family Line with GRP and Go Swiftly Along - a film project with FosterBear Films. Her most humbling accomplishments include performing in the 24 Hour Musicals in New York, being crowned Stage Door Idol at the National World War II Museum, and celebrating the win of 4 Big Easy Theatre awards with the cast and crew of The Stranger Disease as well as 4 awards with the cast and crew of The Family Line.

Jessica Lozano

Shannon Flaherty

Jessica Lozano (she/her) is a performer, theatre-maker, educator, writer and director from San Antonio, Texas. She is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans and has performed in over 50 productions in the New Orleans Area. As a lead curriculum designer and a dedicated arts educator, she was awarded New Orleans Teacher of The Year in 2019 for her work with Exceptional Children’s Services at her beloved Mary McLeod Bethune by the Mayor and New Orleans City Council. She is propelled to plant seeds empowering young people to create, be heard and expose them to the breadth of possibilities that exist. Jessica is at heart a storyteller. Moved by the powerful city that surrounds her, she strives to create work for the community that fosters awareness of social injustices, awakens critical consciousness and engages community members to become active citizens in a multicultural world.  She is the local architect of the New Orleans Area Living Document which chronicles the extent of white supremacy in the local theatre industry. She is a facilitator for Equity and Justice for Institutional Change with No Dream Deferred, a trained healthcare clown with Prescription Joy, a member of Actor's Equity, and the Screen Actor’s Guild. She was bestowed a key to the city of New Orleans in 2023 as Queen of the Krewe of Freret XI.  When not creating, she loves to play chess and walk her dog Bottas.