Creator, Performer, & Lead Designer

Jared Mezzocchi is a two-time Obie Award-winning theater artist. Based out of New York, Mezzocchi’s work has appeared nationwide: Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theater, The Kennedy Center, Geffen Playhouse, Arena Stage, TheatreWorks Hartford, Woolly Mammoth, and beyond. In 2016, he received the Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Award for his work in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone at Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2020, the New York Times spotlighted Mezzocchi, alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paula Vogel, as an artistic hero of the pandemic. His work on Sarah Gancher’s digital production of Russian Troll Farm awarded him his second Obie for Directing. Most recently with En Garde Arts, Mezzocchi directed The Wind and The Rain: a Story about Sunny’s Bar which was performed on a barge in NYC and called “Highbrow Brilliant” by NY Magazine. Mezzocchi is a two-time MacDowell Fellow, a 2012 Princess Grace recipient, and has a BA in theater and film from Fairfield University, and an MFA in performance and interactive media arts from Brooklyn College.

DIRECTOR

Aya Ogawa (they/them) is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based theater-maker. 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 in 2024, and to On the Boards and the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2025. 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.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: SCENOGRAPHY LEAD & PRODUCTION MANAGER

Calvin Anderson is a designer and production manager located in Western Catskills, NY. They have a strong pull towards the devised, the radical, and the risky while leaning towards projects with heart and trust. Highlights include The Christine Jorgensen Show, Body As a Site of Faith and Protest, Blythely Ever After, Oscar at the Crown, Strings & Serpents (US Tour), and Piano Battle (US Tour). Calvin toured the world with Ailey II as Lighting Director, and worked with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret as Director of Production for eight years. Calvin is the Resident Designer and PM for FJK Dance and a proud member of USA829, Wingspace Design Collective, and a mentor with USITT’s Gateway Program. www.coandersondesign.com

Production Designer: Sound lead

Ryan Gamblin (they / them) is a sound designer, composer, and performance-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. Their practice centers found media, original composition, and the use of systems as instruments. Recent: Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard / The Civilians), Bowl EP (Vineyard / National Black Theatre), For All Your Life (Leslie Cuyjet / BAM), Manon (Heartbeat Opera), Weathering (Faye Driscoll / New York Live Arts), Time Signatures (Exponential Festival), Godbird (Exponential Festival), The March (Big Dance Theater / PACNY), The Following Evening (600 Highwaymen / PACNY), Cold Water (Little Engine Theater). Recent solo work: SPLICE (Reforesters Laboratory). Ryan is currently a fellow at the Target Margin Theater Institute.

Production Designer: Lights & Video lead

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew is an award-winning designer for theatre, dance, opera, musicals, music performances and large-scale immersive installation. NY Times described her designs as “clever” and “inventive.” As a designer, Jeanette aims to create a visual environment that is organically integrated into the landscape and language of the production. Her designs have been seen national and internationally at Havana (Cuba), Prague (Czech Republic), Lima (Peru), Edinburgh (Scotland), Tokyo (Japan), Graz (Austria), Shanghai (China), and Bloemfontein (South Africa). Excited to be back to En Garde Arts since A Dozen Dreams. Arts Professor and Head of Lighting Design Training with NYU Tisch Drama. www.jeanetteyew.com

Production Designer: Technology Lead

Vinny Mraz is a multidisciplinary theater-maker based in NYC. His work has been seen at the The Vineyard Theater, Golden Thread Productions, HERE Arts, La Mama, New Ohio, Object Movement Festival, The Evolution Festival, The Tank, Dixon Place, Andy’s Summer Playhouse, Little Theater, and The Dallas Solo Festival. Recently Vinny worked with Jared Mezzochi and Sona Tatoyan on Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf) on its world premiere with Golden Thread Productions. The SF Chronicle called it “wondrous….with uproarious shadow puppetry”. He's excited to join Jared and the whole 73 Seconds team! MFA Sarah Lawrence College.

CO-PRODUCTION MANAGER

Carly Levin is a NYC based production manager & stage manager

Credits include Waiting for the Sibyl (William Kentridge, international tour), Aanika’s Elephants (New Victory & US tour), A Marvelous Order (Opera premier at PSU), Time:Spans (DiMenna Center), Bric Jazz Fest, The Good Swimmer (BAM), The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (Sinking Ship, NYTW, Lucille Lortel), Donwtown Stories (En Garde arts), 4:48 Psychosis (Prototype), Fellow Travelers (GWLT/Prototype), Anatomy Theater (Bric/BMP), Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday Wanda June (Wheelhouse), Please Continue (EST). Technical Supervisor at GWLT/John Jay ’19-’21, The American Tap Dance Foundation 2012-2020.

Thanks to Seth and the Osnow-Levin clan for the behind-the-scenes support and to Noah for the masterclass in multi-tasking

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR & STAGE MANAGER

Olivia R. Fletcher is a freelance Rehearsal and Production Coordinator based out of NYC. Selected theatrical credits include Bughouse (PSM); This Much I Know (PSM); AZAD: the rabbit and the wolf (PSM); The Wind and The Rain (PSM); Brits off Broadway 2025 (PSM). She has loved working with the entire creative team and En Garde Arts on this process. She hopes to continue working with them in the future.

EN GARDE ARTS FOUNDING EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Anne Hamburger (she/her) Founded En Garde Arts in 1985. As Executive Artistic Director, she is responsible for pioneering site-specific theatre in New York, using its streets and historic landmarks as her stage. Hamburger has produced the work of artists that are now internationally renowned: Anne Bogart, Charles L. Mee, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson and Reza Abdoh, with large-scale predominantly outdoor work. As its Executive Artistic Director, her leadership model is highly collaborative and anti-hierarchical while leading the creative and strategic vision of the company.

Anne is committed to nurturing a new generation of theatrical risk-takers, encouraging artists to explore and rigorously experiment with their creative practice. Her relationship with artists extends beyond the stage—offering mentorship, friendship, and a commitment to their creative and personal growth.  For her work, Hamburger has won 6 Obie Awards, 2 Drama Desk Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lee Reynolds Award and the Exceptional Merit in Media Award from The National Political Women’s Caucus. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama and is the proud mother of two children Hannah and Owen Jenney.

PRODUCER

Since 1985, En Garde Arts has turned unexpected places into unforgettable stages. New York City’s streets, piers, and hidden corners become sites where audience and architecture blur, and urgent, poetic, and political stories come alive. Born from the belief that art belongs everywhere and to everyone, En Garde launched the site-specific theater movement, redefining how audiences experience performance by collapsing the distance between space, story, and spectator.

Now, as we approach our 40th anniversary, En Garde Arts is more alive than ever. We’re investing in tomorrow’s voices; artists who demand change, invent new forms, and hold space for stories too often silenced. Through our signature programs like Uncommon Voices, The Joan D. Firestone Award, and Playdate / Playdate FEST, we incubate 5–7 bold new projects every year. Recent works by artists such as Samora la Perdida, Irina Kruzhilina, Sarah Gancher, Aya Ogawa, and Jared Mezzocchi push boundaries and reimagine how theater can heal, unsettle, and transform.

We believe in theater that is socially resonant, deeply rooted in a distinct place, and unafraid of the messiness of now. The city is our stage, and our craft is connection. Connection between artist and audience, site and story. As we step into the next decade, En Garde Arts remains dedicated to risk, reinvention, and making performance that speaks to the world as it is, and what it might become.