23-meet – Fresh Fruit Festival

Meet You Downstairs

by Katy Copeland

directed by Louis Sallan

Meet You Downstairs is a one act play divided into four scenes that follows Kit; our young, queer, flailing heroine as she navigates three very different yet crucial relationships over the course of ten years. Ferociously trying to come up with any label that appropriately defines her sexuality, Kit stumbles through her 20s attempting to unpack the integral complexities of love, sex, relationships, infidelity, gender and what it means to be queer in a heteronormative world. -note: Partial Nudity

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Katy Copeland (she/her/KIT/Playwright) is an actor, choreographer and writer living in New York City. She has a BA in Theatre & Dance from Western Michigan University. Credits include: Fleishman Is In Trouble, Evil Lives Here (SOD), Drag His Ass, Britannicus (Theatre for the New City), For: Maggie (The Tank). Katy recently completed a guest in residency at WMU’s Department of Theatre & Dance (alma mater) to choreograph the 2023 BFA graduating presentation. Meet You Downstairs first appeared at the Voices of Women Theatre Festival as a developmental workshop and virtual staged reading in October 2021. Instagram: @katycopes

Louis Sallan (he/him/Director) is an Iraqi American actor, dialect/language/acting coach and this beautiful play will be his directorial debut. He has his BA from Western Michigan University and an MFA from NYU Graduate Acting. Some recent credits include: Emma at The Guthrie; Mr. Elton, Layalina at The Goodman; Yassir/Mazin, Romeo and Juliet at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Tybalt, Oslo at Northern Stage; Hassan, The Invisible Hand at Cleveland Playhouse; Bashir, The Mecca Tales at The Sheen Center; Reza, The Strangest at New York Theatre Workshop; Nounu. TV/Film Credits: Blue Bloods,The Blacklist, The Blacklist: Redemption and Madame Secretary.

Sarah Biery (she/her/Stage Manager) is a NYC based stage manager from Staatsburg, NY. Her previous Stage Management credits include Bloom Bloom Pow with Dead Horse Productions, the Federal Theatre Project Cabaret and Workshop with Theatre in Asylum, tango of a crumbling wall as part of NY Theater Festival. Upcoming credits include L’incoronazione de Poppea at Manhattan School of Music. Additional credits include Harmony: A New Musical at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (Video Production Assistant) and Playbill’s Curtain Up! in Times Square (Production Assistant). Many thanks to her family, friends, and Matt for their constant love and support!

Joey D’Amore (he/him/BEN) is so excited to share the stage with these talented artists to bring this new play to life here at the Fresh Fruit Festival! Joey has recently been featured at the Chain Theatre, Musical Theatre Writers Collective, short films and music videos. Thanks to my friends and family for their unwavering support. Find Joey on Instagram @joey_damore for updates.

Dani Foster (he/she/they/MAX) is a NYC-based Tisch and National Theater Institute graduate. Dani has appeared on Law & Order: SVU, the feature Rocky’s Deli, and Off-Broadway shows working with artists such as Lucy Thurber, Jenna Worsham and Ren Dara Santiago. Dani loves fashion, painting and going on nature walks with his roommate.