Thursday, November 20, 2025 @ 7pm
Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn
Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn
Pride. Greed. Wrath. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Sloth. These seven impulses have endured in the human imagination for thousands of years. What do they mean now? Are they sins? Are deadly? Are they escapable?
Featuring new work by Theater in Asylum, Ms. Zilbert, Parnia "Nyx” Ayari, Jayda Jones, Gil Verrelli, and Joshua Garcia
With music by Ali Dineen, Rashad Brown, and Chris Schroth
Lighting design by Dan Stearns
Stage managed by Cody Hom
Photography by Abby Burris
With music by Ali Dineen, Rashad Brown, and Chris Schroth
Lighting design by Dan Stearns
Stage managed by Cody Hom
Photography by Abby Burris
Photos by Abby Burris
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Faust Meets the 7 Deadly Sins
an excerpt from Theater in Asylum's upcoming Faust Syndrome Created by Theater in Asylum Directed by Katie Palmer & Paul Bedard Performed by Rachel Casparian, Jesse B. Koehler, Adin Lenahan, Francine Pinheiro, and Arisael Rivera Puppets by Sean Devare John has just had the first truly good night of sleep in his life. What more could want? Power, of course. Mephistopheles takes this latest Faust to meet the big man, Lucifer, and his many ghouls in hell. Power, John learns, takes many sinful forms. |
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Theater in Asylum is a New York-based theater company at makes rigorously-researched, ensemble-driven theater to challenge and empower. We prize the theater as a space — as an asylum — where we can process and question, where reality is temporarily suspended, and where we can create with joy. Since 2010, Theater in Asylum has brought artists and not-yet-artists together to read, research, devise, and perform politically charged, of-the-moment new plays.
Jesse B. Koehler
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Adin Lenahan
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Francine Pinheiro
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Arisael Rivera
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Sean Devare
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Love For Sale
A Ms. Zilbert creation What’s love got to do with it? Nothing, darling. We’re talking about LUST and how she’s my favorite sin! Singing the songs of yesterlust that apply to forever. Ms. Zilbert, aka Gilbert D. Sanchez, is a gender-queer cabaret starlette and actress, mostly known for their many self produced cabaret shows. She played Angel in Rent this summer in Philly and it was everything she could have ever wanted. She’s done 5 TV shows and one movie that hasn’t come out yet. @gilbertwithaz to keep up with her. |
Ms. Zilbert
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Cans
By Parnia "Nyx" Ayari In collaboration with NSangou Njikam Mel, once considered one of the "8 evil thoughts," has gotten over not being assigned as a sin, and is collecting cans that have been thrown out by The People. Ven has been discreetly hard at work fighting the unjust delineations between "sin" and "virtue," advocating against being the most villainized sin. Together, the Human Aspects plot against unchecked Pride and Greed. Kwabena Ampofo is a Ghanaian American actor based in New York City. Raised in Brownsville, East New York, he’s proud to bring his culture and life experiences to the stage and screen. His television credits include Fleishman Is in Trouble (FX/Hulu), Wu-Tang: An American Saga (Hulu), and The Looming Tower (Hulu). Kwabena is naturally curious and inquisitive and that fuels his discipline as an artist. He’s thrilled to continue creating work that celebrates truth, humor, and humanity. Terra Chaney is based in NYC. She was born and raised in Indiana. Her credits include- NYC: Women on Fire (Royal Family Productions); Othello (The Secret Theater). REGIONAL: Merry Wives of Windsor, Comedy of Errors (Elm Shakespeare Company); Riverside (Indy Shakes Co); Sense & Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream LIVE!, Macbeth LIVE! (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Education: American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She would like to thank her family, especially her mother, and close friends for all their love and support. Website: www.terrachaney.com Parnia "Nyx" Ayari is a member of Hook & Eye Theater devising company and an IC with Intimacy Coordinators of Color with a BA in Musical Theater from UCLA and MS in Traditional Chinese Medicine. While being a singer, dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and comedic content creator, Parnia spends most of her time educating on polyamory and non-monogamy, movement building for Black liberation, and committing to a general practice of Love through travel and friendship. "the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love" - Che Guevara |
Kwabena Ampofo
Terra Chaney
Parnia "Nyx" Ayari
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Beheaded Sonnets
By Joshua Garcia From a manuscript-in-progress, these 12-line poems (the sonnet’s consummate couplet symbolically missing) play with the form’s traditional themes while navigating a contemporary landscape of sex, intimacy, and lust. Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press 2024), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University and an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. |
Joshua Garcia
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CREATOR
Written and directed by Jayda Jones Performed by Jalissa Fulton Under the holy glow of a ring light, two Black women — one a viral influencer, one a disillusioned playwright — battle over what it means to create, to survive, and to be seen. As they spiral through the seven deadly sins of the internet age, their faith in art, God, and each other is tested. CREATOR is a darkly funny, poetic reflection on ambition, authenticity, and the cost of turning your life into content. Jayda Jones (she/her) is a Black, femme, queer, New York City–based director and producer who has led over 22 theatrical and multimedia productions across the city, known for making bold art with brave people and building spaces that heal while disrupting the norm. Homegrown in the projects of southwestern Pennsylvania, Jayda brings a people-first, identity-driven approach to every room she enters. Her creative ethos is rooted in empathy, equity, and experimentation—centering community care, deep listening, and a commitment to subverting monolithic portrayals of Black and Brown lives. Jayda’s work spans new plays, devised pieces, reimagined classics, and hybrid performance formats. Her projects have been presented at The Tank, Theater in Asylum, Fordham University, and in festivals across NYC and New Jersey. Jalissa Fulton is a NYC based actress and Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio. She received her MFA at The Actors Studio Drama School, where she studied the Stanislavsky Method. Jalissa’s diverse artistic background and training has given her a firm artistic foundation and an ability to approach work with a unique perspective. One of her favorite voice over productions was in A Christmas Carol for Standby for Places Podcast, voicing characters: Belle, Broker #2, & more. Some of her all-time favorite theatre credits include Shylock in Merchant of Venice, Catherine in Proof, and as 'GOD’ when she performed at The Tank in God And All Her Children. |
Jayda Jones
Jalissa Fulton
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Punch
By Gil Verrelli Gil continues the Punch & Judy tradition he learned from Amy Trompetter of Redwing Blackbird Theater. Punch, driven entirely by his id, indulges in all 7 of the deadly sins in this skirt-as-stage revolution. Gil Verrelli is a puppeteer and jack of all trades. They work with Redwing Blackbird Theater, Bread & Puppet Theater, and others. They live in Rosendale, NY. They are interested in the role of theater as a tool for social change and healing. |
Gil Verrelli
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The Piano Party Band
Performed by Ali Dineen, Rashad Brown, and Chris Schroth Ali, Chris and Rashad have been playing the people's favorite hits from the 60s to the 00s at parties and dive bars around NYC for the last 5 years. They recently performed together as the house band for Dimension Zero, an anticapitalist space rock puppet opera from the Boxcutter Collective. Ali Dineen is a multidisciplinary artist from Jackson Heights, Queens. She performs her original music and songs from the American folk tradition regularly in New York City and across the so-called United States. Her lyrics are poetic and deeply personal, and highlight the intersections between personal experience, larger histories, and systems of power. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the Savannah Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival. She teaches voice and harmony at the Jalopy Theater and School of Music, and assistant directs the Jalopy Chorus with Eva Salina. She also works with various other projects including The Boxcutter Collective, Bread and Puppet Theater, and a folk-duo collaboration with Feral Foster. She released her third album, "Hold On" , on February 8th 2020.Email [email protected] for booking or other requests. alidineen.com Rashad Brown is a multi-instrumentalist based in the city who performs around Brooklyn and can be seen at the Jalopy Theater, Sunny's Bar and Jan Bell's Brooklyn Americana Fest. |
Ali, Chris, and Rashad
Ali Dineen
Rashad Brown
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We’d like to thank The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.
The 7 Deadly Sins Cabaret is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.
The 7 Deadly Sins Cabaret is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.
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