The Queens
“ When the Rat Queens bring it, it’s really on.”
Co-Artistic Director:
Molly Bicks
Molly Bicks (they/them) is a writer and theatre-maker based in Brooklyn.
Their work has been presented at The New Ohio, New Light Theatre, The Tank, The Brick, The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, China Town Soup, Art House New Jersey, Dixon Place as well as at Portland Stages and WTF. Bicks most recently co-wrote new virtual musical, The Goddamn Tooney Lunes, which was developed in Fresh Group Pepper's playgroup and will be produced by Colt Couer in Spring 2022. Their play, Miss Atomic Power, was a runner-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize and a semi-finalist for The O’Neill Summer Conference. Their play, Lily, was a finalist for the Clauder Awards.
Co-Artistic Director:
Carsen Joenk
Carsen is a director, sound designer, and Brooklyn based Chicagoan. She primarily uses non-hierarchical methods of collaboration to create accessible, equitable, ensemble-driven, devised work that questions American history and morality. A staunch supporter of trash, glitter, and dance-pop, Carsen embraces stylized theatricality as a means of entertainment, conversation, and dissidence.
Carsen is a resident artist with New Light Theater Project, a 2020-2021 Roundabout Emerging Directors Group member, a 2020 FAIR Assistant Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and a member of the 2019-2021 SDCF Observership Class. Carsen was the 19/20 Wingspace Theatrical Design Directing Mentee, a National Alliance of Musical Theatre 2018 Directing Observer, and a 2018-2019 resident artist at Access Theatre with Rat Queen. As a sound designer, she has been an assistant/associate at Clubbed Thumb, The New Group, Long Wharf Theater, Juilliard, and others. She is a regular designer with New Light Theater Project, Hedgepig Ensemble, and Spicy Witch Productions. Carsen likes mashed potatoes, Halloween, rock candy, and fireworks.
Producing Director:
J. Mehr Kaur
J. Mehr Kaur is a director, producer and curator of live performance events. Recently, Mehr co-produced Riot Antigone by Seonjae Kim (La MaMa, Ars Nova) and her adaptation Kultar’s Mime is currently touring across the US, Canada, India, UK, and Malaysia. Mehr's directing work has been seen internationally at British and Scottish Houses of Parliament, Mumbai's National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Norman Rothstein Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dixon Place, Wild Project, Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre and Theatre 14.
Mehr has assisted directors such as Oliver Butler and James MacDonald and is a recent graduate of Smith College where she studied Political Science and Theatre. She is a Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow and the recipient of The Samuel A. Eliot, Jr./Julia Heflin Award for Distinguished Directing, the Bernhardt Brueger Prize and a Fulbright-Nehru Directing Grant.
Marketing Director:
Non Kuramoto
Non Kuramoto is an emerging icon. If you don’t know her yet, everyone who does is judging you. Jokes aside, a New York based stand up comedian, theatre artist and feminist-art-queer, Non sucks you into Non-world as soon as she starts talking. Her rainbow and glitter-filled pop aesthetic colors even the most dark and dirty jokes into a celebration of life.
Non has performed at NYC Sketchfest, Diverse AF Festival, SOLOCOM Festival, NC Comedy Fest, Nasty Women Unite Fest, NYC Asian Comedy Festival, Persisticon, and more!
IG: @nyanchatte TW: @NonOfYoBizness