The Atelier @ Theaterlab
The Mill Presents
The Sacco and Vanzetti Project
created by the ensemble
with text by Lauren Holmes
The infamous trial of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti happened nearly 100 years ago. Yet the Italian radical tradition they represented has been nearly forgotten by contemporary Italian Americans. How did the descendants of people who were once considered dangerous outsiders end up on the side of anti-immigration reactionaries? A group of third-generation Italian-Americans wonders what could be if that radical tradition were unearthed and celebrated. The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti is the starting point for this exploration of radical history, family history, and forgotten cultural song and dance.
Featuring Katie Broad, Paul Budraitis, Nadia Diamond, and Jonah O’Hara David
Dance Consultant – Anabella Lenzu
PERFORMANCES
Saturday, November 21st @ 2:00pm
Saturday, November 21st @ 7:00pm
Approximately 60 mins (no intermission)
TICKETS
General Admission: sliding scale, $0 – $50
Tickets are free, but you are welcome to pay something if you’d like to support the project.
MEET THE ARTISTS
JACLYN BISKUP (Director)
LAUREN HOLMES (Playwright)
She was a 2025/2026 Resident Artist at The Cell Theatre and a member of PlayPenn’s Playwright Entrepreneur Program. Her play, ZEUS 4, was nominated to the Venturous Play List 2025–2027 and long-listed for the Theater503 International Playwriting Award. Lauren was awarded a Woodward Residency in 2024. In 2023, Lauren adapted Olga Ravn’s award-winning sci-fi novel The Employees with Jaclyn Biskup for a production at Theaterlab. Her work has been supported or developed by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Ugly Face Theater Company, Nantucket Performing Arts Center, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, and The Brick.
JONAH O’HARA-DAVID (Ensemble)
KATIE BROAD (Ensemble)
Credits include: Tony-nominated An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square), The Wild Duck (Theater for a New Audience and Shakespeare Theater Company), Strategic Love Play (Audible Theater), Lucky Breaks (With Jaclyn Biskup at The Brick), Oblivion (Westport Country Playhouse), Karen O’s Stop the Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Sydney Opera House), Complicity (New Ohio Theater), Animals & Plants (NY Premiere). Proud alum of Circle in the Square Theatre School and repped by WEG Talent. www.katiebroad.com
NADIA DIAMOND (Ensemble)
Nadia Diamond is a San Francisco-raised, Brooklyn-based actor. A company member of Brave New World Repertory Theatre in Brooklyn, her other NYC collaborations include Oklahoma Samovar (La MaMa), As You Like It (The Brick), Women Screaming (The Tank), Faust Syndrome (Theater in Asylum), BREATHE (Blackberry Productions Theater Co. & New Professional Theatre), and Cassie Goes to Congress (New Perspectives Theatre). Gratitude to the cast & creative team, Theaterlab, e la mia famiglia Quatrano/DeSocio. BA in History, Princeton. MFA in Acting, University of Houston. www.nadiadiamond.com // @nadiadiamond_actor
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” – Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971
PAUL BUDRAITIS (Ensemble)
Paul is a director, performer, and generative artist based in Berlin. He creates intimate, thought-provoking performance experiences informed by an ongoing artistic inquiry into the mysterious nature of life, death, and human interdependence. Paul earned his master’s degree in theatre directing from the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy under the mentorship of visionary theater director Jonas Vaitkus and has directed productions in the United States and Europe, including at The State Youth Theater of Lithuania, OKT – Vilnius City Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre (Seattle), On the Boards (Seattle), and La MaMa E.T.C. (NYC). As a performer, he has appeared in productions at the Munich Biennale, the Vienna Festival, REDCAT Theatre (Los Angeles), and the Under the Radar Festival (NYC). He is an artist-in-residence at Acker Stadt Palast Theater (Berlin), where he premiered his solo performance I Love That For You, which was subsequently presented at La MaMa E.T.C. and On the Boards. His newest solo work, The Greatest Story Ever premiered at Acker Stadt Palast Theater in December 2025 and had its U.S. premiere at La MaMa E.T.C. in October 2026.
ANABELLA LENZU (Dance Consultant)
Anabella Lenzu, originally from Argentina, is a dancer, choreographer, scholar & educator with 35 years of experience working in Argentina, Chile, Italy, and the USA. Lenzu directs her own company, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama, which since 2006 has presented 400 performances, created 15 choreographic works and performed at 100 venues, presenting thought provoking and historically conscious dance-theater in NYC. As a choreographer, she has been commissioned all over the world for opera, TV programs, theatre productions, and by many dance companies. She has produced and directed several award-winning short dance films and screened her work in over 200 festivals both nationally and internationally.
In 2023, Anabella received the National Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Independent Sector by NDEO (National Dance Education Organization) and in 2022, the Innovative Dance Educator Award by NYSDEA (New York State Dance Education Association), acknowledging her work as a dance educator who develops innovative pedagogy in the dance field, groundbreaking teachings that have a significant impact on dance, as well as an established record of exemplary leadership on the state and national level in USA. Lenzu has written for various dance and arts magazines and published her first book in 2013, entitled “Unveiling Motion and Emotion” The book contains writings in Spanish and English on the importance of dance, community, choreography, and dance pedagogy. Her second book, Teaching Dance through Meaningful Gestures (2025), explores how technique is a philosophy and a theory, and how the body is an instrument for expression.
NORA MARLOW SMITH (Scenic and Costume Design)
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