MEAT SUIT

Marina Celander is a performing artist born in Sweden and has called NYC home for more than 30 years. She has performed extensively in the downtown experimental theatre scene, as well as nationally and internationally. Marina received the Lila Kan award from Pan Asian Rep for contributions to Asian American theatre. She was nominated for Innovation in Performance award at the Stockholm Fringe for her solo show Mermaid’s Howl which then ran at the Tony award winning LaMama ETC. 

Recent theatre: Laowang (Primary Stages), Bus Stop (CSC/Transport Group/NAATCO), The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard/Goodman), Coach Coach (Clubbed Thumb), Merry Me (NYTW), Catch As Catch Can, Log Cabin, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), Golden Shield (MTC). Select TV/Film: Dying For Sex, The Dinner Plan, The Sinner, The Flight Attendant, Awkwafina, Thirteen Reasons Why, Mistress America, Obvious Child, Children of Invention, Lady In The Water. Upcoming: American Classic, Weekend Warriors.  For my fellow parents.

Robyn Kerr is a Jamaican-Scottish actress now living and working in the US. Theater: The Great Society (Broadway), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway National Tour), Corruption (LCT), Knives in Hens (59E59), A Midsummer Night's Dream (CalShakes), The Heart of Robin Hood (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), Pride and Prejudice (Syracuse Stage), Dark Vanilla Jungle (HEREArts). TV: Murphy's Law (ITV), Casualty (BBC), MI5 (BBC). Film: Stud Life, Scoop, Hank and Asha. Big love to my little Bubamara and Bebo.

Maureen Sebastian's theatrical credits include The Best We Could (MTC, Lortel nomination), Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC), Vietgone (South Coast Repertory), Lonely, I’m Not (Second Stage), Soul Samurai (Vampire Cowboys/Ma-Yi). Television credits include the upcoming “The Terror: Devil in Silver” (AMC), “Y2K” (A24), “Love Life” (HBO). She’s the co-creator of “Gulp Podcast” & “A Guide to Freedom: A North Star Fund Podcast”.  She’s the recipient of White Bird’s Creative Artists Residency and a member of May-Yi’s Writer’s Lab.

Broadway/LCT: Other Desert Cities. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre and PBS “Great Performances”); These Paper Bullets (Atlantic); #DateMe (Westside); TFANA: The Winter’s Tale, and Chris Bayes’ Servant of Two Masters (also Yale Rep, Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Seattle Rep). Regional: Old Globe, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Berkeley Rep, Two River, Dorset, Jungle Theater. TV/Film: “The Gilded Age,” “New Amsterdam,” “Elementary,” The Assistant, 3 Days. Current/former faculty: Pace, NYU, Yale, AMDA. MFA: Yale School of Drama. For Momma and Bubba.

Aya Ogawa (Playwright and Director) (they/them) Meat Suit was developed in collaboration with bouffon artist Sophie Amieva, producing artistic director of notAmuse Theater. Aya is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based theater-maker. They have devised, written and directed many plays including oph3lia (HERE), Journey to the Ocean (Foundry Theatre) and Ludic Proxy (The Play Company). They received an Obie Award for The Nosebleed (Japan Society/Chocolate Factory Theater, Lincoln Center Theater) which subsequently ran at Woolly Mammoth Theatre (2023) and toured to Walker Art Center, REDCAT and Wexner Center for the Arts (2024). Recipient: Doris Duke Artist Award (2025), Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting (2023); Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023); The Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight Foundation National Residency & Commission (2023-24); Resident playwright, New Dramatists; MacDowell Fellow.

Choreography by Catherine Galasso
Scenic Design and Costume Design by Jian Jung
Lighting Design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew and Christina F. Tang
Sound Design by Megumi Katayama
Music and Lyrics by Leyna Marika Papach
Production Stage Manager: E Sara Barnes