Ilanna Saltzman (Media Associate) is an actor and director interested in breaking into theatre for social development. She recently graduated from Skidmore College, with a degree in theater and international affairs, where she directed productions including Nilo Cruz’s Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams and Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters. She also worked with Brian Mertes, Beau Willimon, and Alex Harvey on Balm in Gilead in an industrial warehouse in Brooklyn. She has taught drama to local camp kids. She’s currently developing a new work about travel and how it both distances us and brings us closer to ourselves. She has studied Commedia dell’Arte and physical theater at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy, as well as Shakespeare, mask, and clown at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She is also currently the administrative/artistic intern at the Incubator Arts Project.

Christina C. Pinnell (singer, actress, director, mask designer, Bond Street Development Associate)

Catherine McCarthy (storyteller)

Aya Tucker (actress, clown, devisor and Bond Street Acting Intern) is originally from Japan, but has trained mainly in Tennessee, New York, and London. Aya holds an MFA in Lecoq-Based Actor Created Theatre from Naropa University hosted at London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). Her clown act with Aram Aghazarian, Kiki and Ted, has been nominated for the New York Downtown Clown Golden Nose Award in the category of Audience Choice Best Clown Act in 2010. Other than being an actor and a clown, Aya has worked as an interpreter for acting workshops in NYC and Tokyo. Being an intern with Bond Street Theatre, now she can stilt-walk!

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