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Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble

An ensemble of multidisciplinary theater makers committed to shaping the future of classical theater.

04/23/2026

Celebrating the close of MACBETH! Thank you for joining us - we performed for nearly 20 schools and over 1500 students, providing many of them their first contact with live theater and challenging them to find connections between the work of William Shakespeare, their lived experience, and the world today.

We will be back for more! Like, follow, and join our mailing list to stay tuned about next season and consider making a donation to support next year's tour via our website, www.apocalypticartists.org. Congrats to all and to all who joined us for a performance: welcome to the ensemble.

Photos: Jesse Massari

04/19/2026

Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble is honored to be a recipient of the FY26 NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program) ✨✨✨ Thank you to and for supporting our mission & our next creative endeavor, a workshop production of 16 Winters by Mary Hamilton, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Winters Tale, August 29th & 30th at

04/13/2026

Meet the ensemble! Introducing Sina Pooresmaeil. Sina plays Banquo in the production as well as a few others. Stay tuned for updates from our last week on tour!

📸: Jesse Massari

Sina Pooresmaeil: Theater: Awake and Sing (Sea Dog Theater), Iraq, But Funny (Lookingglass Theatre Company), When the Rain Stops Falling (Lenfest Center for the Arts). TV credits: High Maintenance. Developed work at NYTW, Irish Rep, Clubbed Thumb, Arena Stage, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Wrote and acted in short films, Auto Plus and Inkshop. Represented by Framework Entertainment. MFA Acting Columbia University. Love to G.

04/12/2026

Meet the ensemble! Introducing Diana Coates. Diana voices the Weird Sisters as well as playing Fleance, Lady Macduff, and a few others.

There are a handful of tickets left to our ONLY public performance tomorrow, Monday April 13th. Get yours at the link below, and stay tuned for updates from our last week on tour!

Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

📸: Jesse Massari

Diana Coates is thrilled to be telling this powerful story with Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble and Red Bull Theater. Theatre credits include The Acting Company (national tour), Goodman Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Court Theatre, Drury Lane, Victory Gardens Theater, and Great River Shakespeare Festival. Favorite roles include Isabella in Measure for Measure, Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, and Henry in Henry V. Television credits include Emperor of Ocean Park (MGM+), Deli Boys (Hulu), Chicago Med, and Chicago Fire (NBC). Diana also works as a teaching artist, bringing classical text into classrooms nationwide and sharing her love of bold, curious storytelling with the next generation of artists. Always for mom.

04/05/2026

A few student and teacher reviews from our tour of New York. What a joy it is to share our work with the next generation of audiences and artists.

We have released one final block of tickets for our public performance on April 13th at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. These tickets will sell out! Reserve yours: https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

📷️: Jesse Massari

04/03/2026

Meet ! Our wonderful puppets and masks for MACBETH were created sustainably using recycled materials by designer duo Alex Church-Gonzales and Chance Kester. Magic onstage can be created from resources anyone has access to. Thanks to the Broadway Green Alliance for supporting green initiatives like ours in the industry!

See our puppets in action at our public performance on April 13th. Tickets at https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

ALEX CHURCH-GONZALES is an interdisciplinary theatremaker, who gravitates towards the surreal, silly, and spectacular. A Swiss Army knife of the downtown theatre scene, Alex has collaborated on projects at La Mama ETC, Apocalyptic Artists, Keen Company, LIU Post, Flamboyán Theater, The 14th St Y, Classic Stage Company, The Anthropologists, CO_LAB Theater Group, The Old Stone House, Dixon Place, and more. They are a resident artist with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, frequent director for Serials, and one-half of Monster Of The Weak Puppetry: a sustainable studio that transforms pollution into puppets and theatrical magic. alexchurchgonzales.com@alexncg

CHANCE KESTER is a puppet creator and performer with a focus on sustainable theatre. As co-founder of Monster of the Weak Puppetry, he creates art about environmental issues and works towards wildlife conservation efforts, having designed, built, and operated puppets made of recycled and waste materials for multiple productions throughout New York City. These include puppets for various projects with companies including the Wildlife Conservation Society, The Old Stone House, SheNYC, Forest for Trees Collective, No Kings NYC, The Tank, and more. You can catch him at the Bronx Zoo, operating as a puppeteer on the Wildlife Theatre team.

04/02/2026

Meet the ensemble of MACBETH! Introducing Chad Pierre Vann who stars as Macduff and others. Stay tuned for more cast intros and book your tickets now for our public performance on Monday April 13th : https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

🎥: Jesse Massari

CHAD PIERRE VANN is a NY based artist. TV: Let The Right One In (Showtime). Theater: Modern Swimwear (The Tank), Antony And Cleopatra, The Cherry Orchard, In The Blood, Too Heavy for Your Pocket (The Juilliard School). Education: The Juilliard School. Instagram:

03/26/2026

Meet the ensemble! Introducing Kaileela Hobby who stars as the Thane of Ross and a Witch. Stay tuned for more cast intros and book your tickets now for our public performance on Monday April 13th! 🎥: Jesse Massari Photography

Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

KAILEELA HOBBY (Ross and others)(she/they) Kaileela has performed Off-Broadway with The Pearl Theatre and regionally with Shakespeare & Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New Jersey Repertory Company, and Adirondack Shakespeare Company. As both an actor and educator, Kaileela has toured Shakespeare productions to high schools up and down the Northeast and Northwest coasts. She loves her time at the 52nd Street Project in New York City, where she has the joy of acting in and directing student-written plays, helping bring young artists’ beautiful work to life. Kaileela holds an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

03/23/2026

Thanks Jesse Massari Photography for these snaps of our invited dress, and thank you to our first audiences for launching our tour with such a warm reception. Check out these photos of the show featuring costumes by Dina El-Aziz and puppets & masks by Monster of the Weak. Macbeth is performing for 20 schools over the next month. We share it with the public at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center on April 13th! Stay tuned for more cast interviews & creative team features, and book you tickets today.

https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

03/21/2026

So long rehearsal room, hello tour ✨
This ensemble had a blast playing together in the rehearsal room this month, this show is ready for the road! On Friday we launched our tour at Central Islip High School in a 300 seat house, on Monday we're visiting Wagner Middle School in Manhattan, where we'll tell the story of Macbeth in a 33 seat classroom. Stay tuned for updates from our second week of performances, and don't forget to buy your tickets to our **one night only** performance for the public on April 13th-- this show will sell out, so snag your seat today!

Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

03/17/2026

Meet the ensemble! Introducing Blaize Adler-Ivanbrook who plays Malcolm (and a few others!)

Blaize Adler-Ivanbrook is thrilled to work with Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble and Red Bull Theatre to bring this production to young audiences across NYC. Most recently he performed with Hudson Valley Shakespeare, playing Ambrose Kemper in The Matchmaker and Cassius in Julius Caesar, Other credits include: Milo in A Eulogy for Roman (SpinCycleNYC), Horatio in Hamlet (Utah Shakespeare Festival) Speed in Two Gentleman of Verona (American Theatre of Actors), Charlie Sub in Bliss Street (Theater for a New City), Astrov in Uncle Vanya (Columbia). He trained at Stella Adler Studio of Acting and received a BA in theatre and geology from Colorado College.

Stay tuned for more cast intros later this month and book your tickets now for our public performance on Monday April 13th-- link in bio!

🎥: .massari.photography

03/16/2026

Latergram from our Friday the 13th rehearsal 👻 We're days away from our first school stop, and a month away from our public show! Stay tuned for updates from our tour, and get your tickets now for our April 13th performance, 6:30PM at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/2722/production/1266347?performanceId=11769142

📸: Jesse Massari

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