NATE PRESENTS
Delaney Bantillo
Estelle
A Bay Area-born multidisciplinary and mixed-medium artist, scientist, educator, and experimental ethnographer driven by themes of identity, culture, belonging, access, and home. Delaney’s work as a storymaker, bridge builder, and paradigm shifter leading, learning, acting, writing, facilitating, directing, designing, innovating, activating, energizing, equipping, nourishing, and co-cultivating connects people to each other, to resources, and to improved understandings of themselves and the worlds around them. Delighted to be creating with the incredibly talented and thoughtful castmates and team bringing this production to life, Delaney extends gratitude to Ipsheeta, Kenneth, Natalie, Karen, Nate, AE of Berkeley, everyone in the audience, and all who could not be, whose contributions make these opportunities possible.
Ipsheeta Furtado
The Valet,
Production Understudy
By day, Ipsheeta is an entrepreneur and, by night, a writer and theater artist. She weaves the supernatural, counter-culture female characters, generational paradigms, and the tech economy into her work. Influenced by the Central Works Method, she serves on the Boards of Shotgun Players and 3Girls Theatre Company. An alumna of VONA and SF Writers Grotto residencies, she co-founded The Network Effects Theater (incubated by PlaygroundSF). Ipsheeta is Meisner-trained and performs in musical theatre and improv. Her published poetry, sewing, and dance classes are on Instagram @_ipsheeta. She holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley and prefers tea over coffee.
Kenneth Matis
Kenneth Matis is excited to play Cradeau in No Exit for Nate Presents, after recently playing Cloten in Actor Ensemble of Berkeley's production of Cymbeline and performing in "Life Among the Aryans" for Black Repertory Group. He's enjoyed the chance to play many roles in the Bay Area but especially Charles Condomine in "Blithe Spirit" and Oswald in "King Lear". When he's not on stage, you can find him wrangling data for Kaiser or trying to run around Lake Merritt.
Cradeau
Natalie Ticheno
Inez
Natalie Ticheno: Natalie teaches high school in Richmond as an Education Specialist and is also currently attending school to become a Speech and Language Pathologist. Past favorite shows include: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Spring Awakening (Ilse), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Germaine), D.I.E. (Mallory), 12 Angry Jurors (Juror #8), and Clybourne Park (Betsy/Lindsay). When not performing, Natalie enjoys hiking and reading. As always, she thanks her friends and family, her partner Jamari, and her very important cats, Eurydice and Ari, for all their love and support.
Mary Tran
Stage Manager
Mary Tran (Stage Manager) is a retired epidemiologist and longtime resident of the East Bay. She has served as stage manager for several plays with AE and Masquers and feels privileged to be part of the team for this production of No Exit.