Catherine Bloom is an actor, playwright, and comedian. She has shown original work via Second City, The Fisher Center, Williamstown Theater Festival, and more if you can believe. She is also 1/2 of the comedy duo MA’AM (The PIT, NYC SketchFest, Frigid NYC, NYC SketchFest) that will be premiering a new play “Spirit of Life” at The Brick Theater in June 2023. Website: catherinebloom.org , Instagram: @yeast_queen

Sofia Dobrushin (she/they) is an actor, director, comedian, musician, and only child which is why she does all of these things. She has acted in TV shows like Apple TV’s WeCrashed and HBO’s High Maintenance. Her theatrical work includes: On the Rocks production of Edelweiss at Ars Nova and César Alvarez’ The Elementary Space Time Show. Some of their directing work has been official selections of Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, Austin Comedy Short Film Festival, New Filmmakers Festival, and Nobudge. To keep up with her projects and life you can find her on the app that runs our lives aka Instagram @_neonbabushka_ or her website sofiadobrushin.net

Federica Borlenghi (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary Italian artist from Milan based in Brooklyn. She is mostly known for curating highly sensorial productions. Federica focuses on stories that explore precarious intimacies, contemporary womanhood and multicultural/bilingual experiences. Selected staged directing credits include “Reminiscence” (Italytime Cultural Center commission), “The Odds” (Denver Fringe & Dixon Place), “On How To Be A Monster” (The Tank with Et Alia Theater) and “SYRMA” (Alchemical Studio). For the past few years, she has been working as Machel Ross’ Associate Director on “HOUND DOG” (Ars Nova), “A Song of Songs” (The Bushwick Starr), Ellen Winter’s Downtown Live Concert (En Garde & The Tank) and as her assistant on Annie Baker’s “The Antipodes” (Central Theater Group) & Jeremy O. Harris’ “Black Exhibition” (The Bushwick Starr). She is the Deck Manager at Company XIV and works as a freelance Creative Producer, Costumes & Props Designer. More info at federicaborlenghi.com

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For our 20th anniversary season, we’re throwing our doors wide open! For every show this year, YOU name your price. We’re serving up a multitude of innovative outside-the-box theater, and making it easier than ever for you to be a part of the action. So come hang with us – because what’s Ars is yours!

What’s Ars is Yours: Name Your Price is rooted in our mission to make the smart, surprising new work of New York City’s most promising emerging artists accessible to the next generation of theater-goers, and is an expansion of our long standing Ticket Subsidy Initiative.

Better yet, for this spring’s shows, all single ticket revenue is passed on directly to the show’s lead artists! You can learn more about What’s Ars Is Yours by visiting our How We Do It page.

The Comedy Artist Makers’ Program (CAMP) is back for its third season developing new work. CAMP is a residency program at Ars Nova that supports comedy-based writers/performers in generating and developing an original show. Over the course of a nine-month period, CAMP participants meet weekly for shares of work and peer feedback sessions facilitated by Co-Program Directors Mahayla Laurence and Matt Gehring.

CAMP residents join a cohort of peers in constructing a brand new show alongside each other, culminating in a full-length, live performance as part of the spring Bonfire Series at Ars Nova’s 99-seat theater on 54th Street. Rehearsal spaces, marketing materials, technicians, and a curated mentor/outside eye are provided by Ars Nova for each resident’s Bonfire show.