Alisha Espi

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To everyone in the creative community, friends, and family of our beloved colleague Nilan, The Drama League’s longtime Associate Artistic Director: we hope you’ll join us for NILAN: A CELEBRATION, on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 3:30PM at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South. This memorial event will feature words, music, dance, and readings of scenes and monologues from Nilan’s plays. RSVP is required. To RSVP, please visit /Nilan or visit the link in our bio. NILAN: A CELEBRATION is presented by Cherrye J. Davis, Alisha Espinosa, Ricardo Guevara, Brandon Meeks, Bevin Ross, Catalin Stelian, Jack Utrata, and by Gabriel Stelian-Shanks and Nathaniel P. Claridad, who serve as the event’s co-directors. Stage Management is provided by Patrick Anthony Surillo and Karen ‘Curly’ Schleifer. Special thanks for their participation in NILAN: A CELEBRATION include Theatre Leadership Project (Founders Travis LeMont Ballenger, Barbara Broccoli, Patrick Daly, Alecia Parker, and Lia Vollack); The Drama League of New York’s Staff, Artists, and Board Of Directors; Melanie and Malease Johnson; Peculiar Works Project (Catherine Porter, Barry Rowell, Ralph Lewis); Daralyn Jay; Kemar Jewel; Judson Memorial Church; CatalinMedia; Empire Events; Vivacity Media Group; Astor Wine and Spirits; and RockBar. Floral arrangements are gratefully provided by Starbright Floral Design. Nilan (he/him+) was an award-winning writer, director, actor, producer, educator, and arts leader whose work centered on intersectionality, queer life, and the multiplicity of human experience. He was the Associate Artistic Director of The Drama League of New York and was the co-founder of the acclaimed producing company A Certain Something. #Nilan

Love keeps us looking forward despite this cruel world. 📸: @morn.den

I love you, Nilan. You hated the woods but you still agreed to marry us there. And you’re the only bitch I’d let wear a pink suit to my wedding because you looked so fucking fly in it. The world is so much colder now and you hated the fucking cold. Photo @morn.den @nilangrams

#FlashbackFriday for this photo that somehow never made it to the grid—in honor of the Stranger Things premiere this week. @ouroboreal let’s do more cosplay please!! Photo: @laurenalexandra.photography #strangerthings

Big thanks to the @dramaleague for inviting me to celebrate their incredible mission and dance my butt off. Drama at the Disco = no notes.

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POV: You thought you rescued one cat, not one and four unbaked ones. #fyp #igcats #kittens #holyairball

🎙️ MEET THE CAST 🎙️
Behind the Parsnip Ship presents AND THE ANSWER IS...
By Gina Femia | Directed by Estefanía Fadul FEATURING: ✨ Alisha Espinosa – Afro-Boricua actor-playwright and Producing Artistic Director of Latinx Playwrights Circle. Acting credits include WP Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, EST, and more. @la.espi | alishaespinosa.com ✨ Akyiaa Wilson – Brooklyn native, Ensemble Studio Theatre member, and former Bat at The Flea. Credits include These Seven Sicknesses, Wrecks, and the RSC’s Julius Caesar at BAM. BFA, Syracuse. akyiaa-wilson.com ✨ Jacqueline Guillén – Born and raised on the border (Matamoros & Brownsville), seen on Orange Is the New Black, Search Party, and HBOMax’s Crabs in a Barrel. Stage credits: 72 Miles to Go…, Mancave, Then They Forgot About the Rest. ✨ Reynaldo Piniella – Broadway: Thoughts of a Colored Man, Trouble in Mind. Off-Broadway at Signature, TFANA, Rattlestick, The Public, and more. Creator of Black and Blue. @ReynaldoRey | reynaldopiniella.com 🎵 Featuring Original music by Henry Ryeder – Brooklyn-based actor and musician. From Sao Paulo to Prague, he’s toured globally as a songwriter. Co-wrote/starred in a musical for Ars Nova’s ANT Fest (2022) and recently appeared in Sober Songs at Theatre Row. New EP faded through thanksgiving out now. @henryryeder 📻 In AND THE ANSWER IS..., Alex and Julie are best friends making a podcast (before podcasts were cool), answering their college’s weirdest questions—while navigating love, identity, and what they really mean to each other. Chipotle dates, early Twitter, and everything in between. 🎧 A one-act queer dramedy. A Radio Roots Writers Group radio play commission. 
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On this venerably Black day, It is your pleasure to meet Miss Josephine Baker. Yes we are obsessed with her. No we will not be taking questions at this time. Happy Juneteenth. NYC, Remember to vote Zohran Mamdani #1 #Juneteenth #dontrankcuomo #vote #zohranmamdani #votenyc #BlackGirlMagic