Meet the voices of Coney Island Avenue
Maryam Mustafa
Maryam Mustafa (voice of Ayesha) is an artist and community organizer. She studied Women's and Gender Studies with a focus on race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. She works mainly in visual art such as film photography and drawing, and she even sometimes writes deep poems. Maryam is regularly involved in Fresh Lime Soda Productions. She looks forward to transforming as an artist and actor in her future. You can support Maryam here.
Peregrine Teng Heard
Peregrine Teng Heard (voice of Ginny) is the artistic director of The Associates Theater Ensemble, with whom she has devised and performed Sheila, Freesome, and Black Protagonist. Other New York credits: Sehnsucht (JACK), Chuck Mee’s soot & spit (New Ohio), Power Couple (ANTFest), and Call Out Culture, or The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (ANTFest). Voiceover work includes Cadillac, Sonos, and Roomba. Peregrine earned her BA in East Asian Studies from Yale. Learn more at peregrineheard.com.
John Maddaloni
John Maddaloni (voice of Jake, Radio Man, Donald) is an actor, voice-over artist, and singer/songwriter based out of New York City. He is currently in grad school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts training for his MFA in Acting. NYU productions include: Dance Nation (Dance Teacher Pat), Gloria (Dean/Devin), An Upset (1), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), The Cherry Orchard (Petya/Vagrant). Last year John released his first album, The Son & The Moon, which can be found on iTunes and Spotify.
Page Ridgeway
Page Ridgeway (voice of Kerry) lives in Los Angeles and works as an actor, voice actor, and studio assistant at a voice-over recording studio. She really really enjoys having green hair and reading the same few YA novels over and over. Page is active in local LA theater having assistant directed and stage managed Spring Awakening at the Cupcake Theater, as well as "blood wrangling" (aka mixing all the fx blood) for Sacred Fools Theater Company’s The Values of Moscow. Page is so honored to be a part of such a unique new project. You can support Page here.
Sabina Sethi Unni
Sabina Sethi Unni (voice of Tasneem, Sara, Joan) is an aspiring artist-scholar. She is the co-founder and artistic director of a contemporary South Asian theater ensemble, Fresh Lime Soda Productions. She is also an urbanist who is passionate about creating equitable and dynamic cities using participatory practices. She does not like the convention where short bios must contain a "lowbrow" cultural reference at the end to counterbalance the previous sentences of unabashed bragging and pretentiousness. She’s also addicted to string cheese.
Roohi Choudhry
Roohi Choudhry (author of The End of Coney Island Avenue) was born in Pakistan and grew up in southern Africa and the Middle East. Awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in fiction, her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Callaloo, Longreads and the Kenyon Review, among others. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan and teaches fiction and memoir in New York City as well as online. She’s working on a novel set in South Africa and a collection of short stories exploring women and the wild. Find out more at brooklynstani.com. You can support Roohi here.
Sona Koloyan
Sona Koloyan (original music) is an Armenian musician based in London. Her album, Pity Party, was released in 2019 and is a collection of 7 short songs exploring the everyday unsaid nuances of being an immigrant. While she used her own experiences as inspiration, she hopes that her music will be accessible to minorities of any kind. You can support Sona by purchasing her music sonakoloyan.bandcamp.com. Photo by Sopo Ramishwili-Schäfer.
Brad Ogden
Brad Ogden (director, producer, sound designer) is a theatre director based in Brooklyn, New York. He develops new work, reimagines time-tested stories, and makes ensemble-driven theatre from scratch. Learn more at brad-ogden.com.