Ayahuasca Inside Out at the 2025 NYC Fringe Festival
New York City, New York | Theatre
Comedy, Musical
Truly a soul-fueled project, this show speaks to our team's passion for the healing power of plant medicine. The cast and production team have experienced the miracle of plant medicine firsthand. This show promises to entertain, educate, connect, and enlighten through interative, comedic theater.
Ayahuasca Inside Out at the 2025 NYC Fringe Festival
New York City, New York | Theatre
Comedy, Musical
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Truly a soul-fueled project, this show speaks to our team's passion for the healing power of plant medicine. The cast and production team have experienced the miracle of plant medicine firsthand. This show promises to entertain, educate, connect, and enlighten through interative, comedic theater.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
“As someone newer to Ayahuasca culture, this was a heartfelt, hilarious, and embodied reflection of being inside an ayahuasca journey. The interactive audience component was everything—it brought the experience to life with laughter and layers of depth at every turn. For anyone curious or new to this path, this introduction is both profound and entertaining—you don’t want to miss it!” -M. Curious
Ayahasca Inside Out is a collaborative project born from the heart-visions of three storytellers Loren Crea Abbate, Kacey Cardin, and Anthony Hidalgo. This improv theatre project brings a reverential yet hilarious experience to its audiences. The story depicts the life journey of Joul Anthony, a character who is bonded with pure Joy in the celestial realms. Upon being born, Joul learns about what it means to be separated from his true essence. The audience is taken into the life and internal landscape of Joul Anthony as he lives through a profound healing transformation. A chance encounter with the Spirit of Ayahuasca turns his birthday celebration inside out for all to witness and experience alongside him! The project is outrageous and provocative, ethereal and absurd, profane and sacred - very much like the duality of stepping into an expansive experience with this famous mystical brew. Whether you have experienced Ayahuasca's teaching firsthand or you are curious about what becomes possible in the force of this powerful medicine, this show is bound to strike some emotional chords, ignite curiosity, and inspire wonder and joy!
Our creative team collectively has over 25 years of experience delving deep into personal transformation and working with the plants. Currently, there is a psychedelic renaissance happening in our society. This speaks to a return to a way of living that promotes wisdom over degrees, abundance over scarcity, and love over competition. Psychedelics has an incredible potential to generate new neural pathways, open the heart, and return to the body's inherent wisdom. The time is now to bring Ayahuasca to the stage! Ayahuasca is an indigenous plant-vine entheogen brew that induces states of awe, wonder, and deep introspection. Oftentimes, this mystical brew is known as a Grandmother Spirit: here to educate, teach, and humble humanity one ceremony at a time. Kacey, Crea, Anthony, and their cast advocate for safe and conscious use of sacred plant medicine to address our society's mental health crisis and develop a deeper embodied sense of love, compassion and connection.
Crea has been sitting with the inspiration to bring Ayahuasca to the stage for a complete decade. She is delighted to see her original idea come to life in a new, unexpected way with the trifecta collaboration of Kacey and Anthony. Their shared storytelling reveals the joy of true collaboration and creative community bonding. This project is meant for communities to gather, bringing all kinds of people together in the name of healing and recognizing our shared, collective human emotions.
Kacey Cardin's first NYC musical theater gig was at the Fringe Festival in 2009.....full circle moment. She believes that the lifelong calling she felt to move to NYC, while certainly driven by music and theater, was perhaps also a calling from the plants. Her first psychedelic experience and awakening over a decade ago was prompted by a role she was playing in an opera at the time - theater and plant medicine has been deeply intertwined for her.
One does not need to physically ingest the sacred brew of Ayahuasca to receive her healing powers. She is, after all, a Grandmother Spirit, here to share the essence of her wisdom and wonder with unconditional love, regardless of how her children might behave. The time is now to bring Ayahuasca on stage to share her ways, ancient teachings, her mystic visions, and collective healing for humanity. We feel that the climate is ready to receive more from her in novel spaces, and she is ready to come out and take the stage! Will you hear the call? Will you help support Grandmother in her mission to heal humanity through creativity and community?
We will be presenting a 5-show run at ChainMain Stage Theatre
(312 W 36th St. 4th floor, New York, NY):
April 14th at 7:40pm
April 16 at 9:20pm
April 18 at 6:00pm
April 19 at 10:20pm
April 20 at 7:00pm
Tickets Available Here
In our heart visions, Ayahuasca Inside Out becomes a fully immersive theater production, blurring the lines of ceremonial healing with shamanic theater. We are here to explore what collective human healing can look like, imagining ceremony and altered consciousness through presence, entertainment, humor, and a shared vulnerable experience of laughing, crying, and envisioning a new world together.
Cast:
Voted a Top 10 Asian-American Leading Man by Buzzfeed and one of “Hollywood’s 25 Hottest” by TV Guide, James is known for his role as Ando on NBC’s Heroes and currently recurs on Starz’s BMF. His screen credits include Yes Day, Lovecraft Country, Preacher, Elementary, Justified, and Werewolves with Frank Grillo. Onstage, he starred in Wild Goose Dreams at La Jolla Playhouse. He’s the founder of Music & Flow and Chromatic, a poet commissioned by LA County Arts, and an advocate for Mercy for Animals. A Bronx Science alum, athlete, and musician, James has performed at UNICEF’s Soccer Aid and the Hollywood Knights. He loves scuba diving, running, and playing piano and guitar.
Luis Villabon is a Latiné multilingual actor, singer, dancer, director, choreographer, and teaching artist. Regional: Destiny of Desire (u/s and performed Ernesto DelRio, The Old Globe, dir. Ruben Santiago-Hudson), On Your Feet (Jose Fajardo, Paper Mill Playhouse), The Rocky Horror Show (Dr. Frank N Furter), La Cage Aux Folles (Jacob). NYC: Peter Pan (w/ Cathy Rigby, Madison Square Garden), Reefer Madness (Assoc. Choreographer to Paula Abdul, Variety Arts), Naked Boys Singing! (The Actor’s Playhouse), More Than All The World (Theatre for the New City), Barcode (NY Int’l Fringe). First Nat’l Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar (w/ Carl Anderson), Seussical (w/ Cathy Rigby). Proud member of AEA & SAG-AFTRA. Graduate of William Esper Studio.
Kizzmett Pringle is an Afro-Indigenous actor, theater maker, and researcher. Known for her multidisciplinary practice, her work explores the intersection of performance, spirituality, and autistic gifts, creating sensory immersive transformative experiences for performers and audiences alike. With training that spans Balinese Taksu, Indigenous ritual, and The Method, she brings a deeply embodied, soulful approach to the stage. She is thrilled to perform in Ayahuasca Inside Out at the New York City Fringe Festival, continuing her mission to craft sacred, alchemical theater. www.kizzmettpringle.com @theshamanactress
James Eden's professional musical theater career started in summer stock (1980) at The Enchanted Hills Playhouse. Since then, he has portrayed leading roles in Broadway Tours of A Chorus Line, Romance Romance, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and My Fair Lady. European Tours of Hair (Claude), 42nd Street, The Sounds of Hope, and Internationally with Ken Hill’s Original London production of Phantom of The Opera (Phantom) and The American Family Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast (Bombay, India). Regionally: Oklahoma (Curly), 42nd Street (Julian Marsh), Gotham! at The Goodspeed Opera House, The Nutcracker with Connecticut Ballet Theater, Kings Island Live Shows, and several Cruise Ship productions. New York City: Equity Library Theater’s Funny Girl, EnGarde Art’s Marathon Dancing, The Robert Brewster Chorale, El Building at the Cherry Lane Theater, and Hooray For What! at The Medicine Show Theater. Studied Musical Theater at Ball State University, BA in Music at Hunter College.
Loren "Crea" Abbate is a visionary artist, experience catalyst, creativity doula and transformation guide. She is the original script writer of Ayahuasca the Musical and has held the vision of bringing this sacred brew, her origin story, and teachings to the stage for ten years. In Ayahuasca Inside Out, an adapted version, she will be playing the role of Creation, guiding the audience along the journey as the narrator and storyteller. Crea has been invited to be an artist-in-resident at numerous programs and institutions around the world. While Crea has experience as a set and prop designer for theatre productions, this will be her first experience producing and developing a story for the stage. For more information about Crea's art or her Wild Indigo Arts programming visit www.lorenabbate.com or www.wildindigoarts.org
Kacey Cardin is a versatile singer-actress-writer-producer, hailed as an artist of "…remarkable stage presence and unfettered emotional expression". She starred in the world’s first virtual reality opera: The Parksville Murders (Kamala Sankaram, distributed by SamsungVR), and originated roles in two world premiere opera electronicas by renowned librettist Royce Vavreck. She led an 8-year NYC run and European tour with the Hot Box Girls’ international sensation L’Opera Burlesque. 2014 Quarterfinalist and 2015 “Peaple’s Choice” Winner, American Traditions Competition. In 2015, Kacey played Violetta in Arbor Opera’s groundbreaking La Traviata, in conjunction with the National Network of Depression Centers and a PBS documentary about the production. Encore Michigan called the edgy production “a risk worth taking”, noting that “Ms. Cardin’s soprano vocals evoked just the right mix of moods and emotions…”. Off-Broadway and touring cast: Girls Night, 2010-2023. Center for Contemporary Opera, Syracuse Opera, Nashville Opera, America’s Got Talent, and onstage at the Grand Ol’ Opry. Favorite roles include Anne (A Little Night Music), Flora (The Turn of the Screw), and Despina (Cosi fan Tutte). She was briefly on Married at First Sight, and is now happily married to a man she did not meet on television. She is the founder of EnQ: Energetic Intelligence, a boutique leadership development firm that intersects coaching with psychedelics and plant medicine integration. www.kaceycardin.com & www.enqleadership.com
Anthony Hidalgo has been spreading light for more than 25 years. First as a telecommunications executive, enabling digital infrastructure on the physical plane increasing human connections through the use of fiber optics which uses light to send data signals, and more recently as an indigenously trained healer, bringing self love and light for the past 10 years. As co-founder of the Centered Medical Center, Anthony brings teachings from proven ancient practices, melding thousands of years of natural medicinal healings, with leading western medical practices. Dedicated to spiritual transformation, Anthony has extensive training with Peruvian and Brazilian indigenous lineages and has integrated multiple modalities into his practices. As head of strategic partnerships for the CMC, Anthony’s business and spiritual practices merge, creating and maintaining strategic partnerships that complement and grow the practice. Anthony’s shamanic training, insights to a multitude of indigenous healing practices, and commitment to helping others rooted in the bliss of ‘self-care’, brings deeper insights to clinicians and patients providing a holistic approach to behavioral health and wellness for the ultimate experience of self-love.
Ilissa is thrilled to return to the theatre. A trained opera singer, she studied at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, where she performed as the servant in The Servant of Two Masters. After graduating, she joined Dicapo Opera Theatre in New York City, appearing in multiple productions, including The Threepenny Opera, Madama Butterfly, The Marriage of Figaro, and Pagliacci, among others. After moving to Westchester, Ilissa continued performing in musical theatre, with roles in Annie and The Sound of Music, produced by Music in Chappaqua. Outside the theatre, Ilissa is a seasoned public relations executive and a strategic advisor in the digital infrastructure sector. While her most recent stage appearances have been at industry conferences and events, she is delighted to return to her first love, live performance.
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Please follow our journey & share!
Follow @ayainsideout on IG
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING OUR PLAY PROJECT :)
-Kacey, Crea, & Anthony
HAUX HAUX
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Lighting Deisgner
Costs $800
We need to hire a lighting designer to illuminate the actors and the story
Lodging and Travel Expenses
Costs $8,000
None of our team live in NYC. We need to ensure ease of travel and rest during rehearsal and the 5 productions in April.
Costumes/Props
Costs $1,000
We will need to invest in some costume and props materials as well as some staging to workshop our ideas
Rehearsals
Costs $1,250
Renting space for rehearsals including coordination of roles/dates and understudies
Food
Costs $1,300
This budget will allow us to feed our staff and provide nourishment for rehearsals and show times
Marketing/Press Kit
Costs $550
Playbill, Press kit production, posters and clear marketing strategy for all events
Projectionist Artist
Costs $2,500
The visionary worlds of our show will get projected as background for our scenes. This artist must create worlds for our characters.
7 Actors
Costs $3,600
Giving honorarium to each actor for the runs of the show
Stage Manager
Costs $500
Help to manage the staging and set up with tech (Artwork by Alexis Kandra)
Stage Hands
Costs $500
Additional hands to help seating and help to manage the theatre space
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
On the team are co-producers Kacey Cardin, Loren Crea Abbate and Anthony Hidalgo.
Loren *Crea* Abbate is a visionary artist, educator, Spirit guide and transformational workshop facilitator. She has been fueling her expressive arts fires since the very beginning. Growing up in North New Jersey, dance lessons began at 2 years old and the pile of crayons were an arm's length away. She studied Art and Psychology at Northeastern University and went on to get her master's degree in Art Education with a concentration in expressive healing arts at the School of Visual Arts. Crea has developed her own healing arts education program called Wild Indigo Arts where she curates unique creative group bonding experiences. Crea has been invited to be an artist-in-resident at numerous programs and institutions around the world. While Crea has experience as a set and prop designer for theatre productions, this will be her first experience producing and developing a story for the stage. The inspiration seed for this production came to her during an Ayahuasca ceremony in 2015 and she is beyond delighted to witness this show come alive from the inside out exactly a decade later. For more information about Crea's art or Wild Indigo Arts visit www.lorenabbate.com or www.wildindigoarts.org
Hailed as an artist of "…remarkable stage presence and unfettered emotional expression", Kacey Cardin has performed around the world as a versatile singer-actress, as well as an accomplished producer, writer, and director. An enthusiastic proponent of contemporary opera, Kacey starred in the world’s first virtual reality opera: The Parksville Murders (Kamala Sankaram, distributed by SamsungVR). She has originated roles in two world premiere opera electronicas by Kristin Hevner-Wyatt and renowned librettist Royce Vavreck. She premiered the finale of Daniel Felsenfeld's song cycle Raw Footage (recommended by The New Yorker). Since 2010, her alter ego, Magnolia DeLight, has performed all over NYC and Europe with the Hot Box Girls’ international sensation L’Opera Burlesque. Kacey wrote and co-produced Knockers: A Burlessical, an Off-Broadway musical that premiered at NYC’s Elektra Theater in 2016. She wrote, co-produced, and directed jazz musical Follies Noir at NYC’s The Cutting Room and on tour at Jones Hall in Houston, TX. Kacey was a Quarterfinalist in the 2014 and 2015 American Traditions Competition, and was the 2015 "People's Choice" Winner. In 2015, Kacey played Violetta in Arbor Opera’s groundbreaking La Traviata, sponsored by the National Network of Depression Centers. Encore Michigan called the edgy production “a risk worth taking”, noting that “Ms. Cardin’s soprano vocals evoked just the right mix of moods and emotions…”. In conjunction, Kacey participated in a PBS documentary and panel discussions around mental health awareness. She has sung with the Center for Contemporary Opera, Syracuse Opera, Nashville Opera, Pine Mountain Music Festival, on America’s Got Talent, and at the Grand Ol’ Opry. Though her heart forever resides in Brooklyn, she currently lives in Nashville, TN. Kacey is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, the University of Tennessee, and Accomplishment Coaching. She is certified in psychedelic-assisted therapy and is a certified executive coach who loves working with founders and creative multipreneurs. Visit www.kaceycardin.com or www.enqleadership.com for more.
Anthony Hidalgo has been spreading light for more than 25 years. First as a telecommunications executive, enabling digital infrastructure on the physical plane increasing human connections through the use of fiber optics which uses light to send data signals, and more recently as an indigenously trained healer, bringing self love and light for the past 10 years. As co-founder of the Centered Medical Center, Anthony brings teachings from proven ancient practices, melding thousands of years of natural medicinal healings, with leading western medical practices. Dedicated to spiritual transformation, Anthony has extensive training with Peruvian and Brazilian indigenous lineages and has integrated multiple modalities into his practices. As head of strategic partnerships for the CMC, Anthony’s business and spiritual practices merge, creating and maintaining strategic partnerships that complement and grow the practice. Anthony’s shamanic training, insights to a multitude of indigenous healing practices, and commitment to helping others rooted in the bliss of ‘self care’, brings deeper insights to clinicians and patients providing a holistic approach to behavioral health and wellness for the ultimate experience of self love.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
“As someone newer to Ayahuasca culture, this was a heartfelt, hilarious, and embodied reflection of being inside an ayahuasca journey. The interactive audience component was everything—it brought the experience to life with laughter and layers of depth at every turn. For anyone curious or new to this path, this introduction is both profound and entertaining—you don’t want to miss it!” -M. Curious
Ayahasca Inside Out is a collaborative project born from the heart-visions of three storytellers Loren Crea Abbate, Kacey Cardin, and Anthony Hidalgo. This improv theatre project brings a reverential yet hilarious experience to its audiences. The story depicts the life journey of Joul Anthony, a character who is bonded with pure Joy in the celestial realms. Upon being born, Joul learns about what it means to be separated from his true essence. The audience is taken into the life and internal landscape of Joul Anthony as he lives through a profound healing transformation. A chance encounter with the Spirit of Ayahuasca turns his birthday celebration inside out for all to witness and experience alongside him! The project is outrageous and provocative, ethereal and absurd, profane and sacred - very much like the duality of stepping into an expansive experience with this famous mystical brew. Whether you have experienced Ayahuasca's teaching firsthand or you are curious about what becomes possible in the force of this powerful medicine, this show is bound to strike some emotional chords, ignite curiosity, and inspire wonder and joy!
Our creative team collectively has over 25 years of experience delving deep into personal transformation and working with the plants. Currently, there is a psychedelic renaissance happening in our society. This speaks to a return to a way of living that promotes wisdom over degrees, abundance over scarcity, and love over competition. Psychedelics has an incredible potential to generate new neural pathways, open the heart, and return to the body's inherent wisdom. The time is now to bring Ayahuasca to the stage! Ayahuasca is an indigenous plant-vine entheogen brew that induces states of awe, wonder, and deep introspection. Oftentimes, this mystical brew is known as a Grandmother Spirit: here to educate, teach, and humble humanity one ceremony at a time. Kacey, Crea, Anthony, and their cast advocate for safe and conscious use of sacred plant medicine to address our society's mental health crisis and develop a deeper embodied sense of love, compassion and connection.
Crea has been sitting with the inspiration to bring Ayahuasca to the stage for a complete decade. She is delighted to see her original idea come to life in a new, unexpected way with the trifecta collaboration of Kacey and Anthony. Their shared storytelling reveals the joy of true collaboration and creative community bonding. This project is meant for communities to gather, bringing all kinds of people together in the name of healing and recognizing our shared, collective human emotions.
Kacey Cardin's first NYC musical theater gig was at the Fringe Festival in 2009.....full circle moment. She believes that the lifelong calling she felt to move to NYC, while certainly driven by music and theater, was perhaps also a calling from the plants. Her first psychedelic experience and awakening over a decade ago was prompted by a role she was playing in an opera at the time - theater and plant medicine has been deeply intertwined for her.
One does not need to physically ingest the sacred brew of Ayahuasca to receive her healing powers. She is, after all, a Grandmother Spirit, here to share the essence of her wisdom and wonder with unconditional love, regardless of how her children might behave. The time is now to bring Ayahuasca on stage to share her ways, ancient teachings, her mystic visions, and collective healing for humanity. We feel that the climate is ready to receive more from her in novel spaces, and she is ready to come out and take the stage! Will you hear the call? Will you help support Grandmother in her mission to heal humanity through creativity and community?
We will be presenting a 5-show run at ChainMain Stage Theatre
(312 W 36th St. 4th floor, New York, NY):
April 14th at 7:40pm
April 16 at 9:20pm
April 18 at 6:00pm
April 19 at 10:20pm
April 20 at 7:00pm
Tickets Available Here
In our heart visions, Ayahuasca Inside Out becomes a fully immersive theater production, blurring the lines of ceremonial healing with shamanic theater. We are here to explore what collective human healing can look like, imagining ceremony and altered consciousness through presence, entertainment, humor, and a shared vulnerable experience of laughing, crying, and envisioning a new world together.
Cast:
Voted a Top 10 Asian-American Leading Man by Buzzfeed and one of “Hollywood’s 25 Hottest” by TV Guide, James is known for his role as Ando on NBC’s Heroes and currently recurs on Starz’s BMF. His screen credits include Yes Day, Lovecraft Country, Preacher, Elementary, Justified, and Werewolves with Frank Grillo. Onstage, he starred in Wild Goose Dreams at La Jolla Playhouse. He’s the founder of Music & Flow and Chromatic, a poet commissioned by LA County Arts, and an advocate for Mercy for Animals. A Bronx Science alum, athlete, and musician, James has performed at UNICEF’s Soccer Aid and the Hollywood Knights. He loves scuba diving, running, and playing piano and guitar.
Luis Villabon is a Latiné multilingual actor, singer, dancer, director, choreographer, and teaching artist. Regional: Destiny of Desire (u/s and performed Ernesto DelRio, The Old Globe, dir. Ruben Santiago-Hudson), On Your Feet (Jose Fajardo, Paper Mill Playhouse), The Rocky Horror Show (Dr. Frank N Furter), La Cage Aux Folles (Jacob). NYC: Peter Pan (w/ Cathy Rigby, Madison Square Garden), Reefer Madness (Assoc. Choreographer to Paula Abdul, Variety Arts), Naked Boys Singing! (The Actor’s Playhouse), More Than All The World (Theatre for the New City), Barcode (NY Int’l Fringe). First Nat’l Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar (w/ Carl Anderson), Seussical (w/ Cathy Rigby). Proud member of AEA & SAG-AFTRA. Graduate of William Esper Studio.
Kizzmett Pringle is an Afro-Indigenous actor, theater maker, and researcher. Known for her multidisciplinary practice, her work explores the intersection of performance, spirituality, and autistic gifts, creating sensory immersive transformative experiences for performers and audiences alike. With training that spans Balinese Taksu, Indigenous ritual, and The Method, she brings a deeply embodied, soulful approach to the stage. She is thrilled to perform in Ayahuasca Inside Out at the New York City Fringe Festival, continuing her mission to craft sacred, alchemical theater. www.kizzmettpringle.com @theshamanactress
James Eden's professional musical theater career started in summer stock (1980) at The Enchanted Hills Playhouse. Since then, he has portrayed leading roles in Broadway Tours of A Chorus Line, Romance Romance, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and My Fair Lady. European Tours of Hair (Claude), 42nd Street, The Sounds of Hope, and Internationally with Ken Hill’s Original London production of Phantom of The Opera (Phantom) and The American Family Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast (Bombay, India). Regionally: Oklahoma (Curly), 42nd Street (Julian Marsh), Gotham! at The Goodspeed Opera House, The Nutcracker with Connecticut Ballet Theater, Kings Island Live Shows, and several Cruise Ship productions. New York City: Equity Library Theater’s Funny Girl, EnGarde Art’s Marathon Dancing, The Robert Brewster Chorale, El Building at the Cherry Lane Theater, and Hooray For What! at The Medicine Show Theater. Studied Musical Theater at Ball State University, BA in Music at Hunter College.
Loren "Crea" Abbate is a visionary artist, experience catalyst, creativity doula and transformation guide. She is the original script writer of Ayahuasca the Musical and has held the vision of bringing this sacred brew, her origin story, and teachings to the stage for ten years. In Ayahuasca Inside Out, an adapted version, she will be playing the role of Creation, guiding the audience along the journey as the narrator and storyteller. Crea has been invited to be an artist-in-resident at numerous programs and institutions around the world. While Crea has experience as a set and prop designer for theatre productions, this will be her first experience producing and developing a story for the stage. For more information about Crea's art or her Wild Indigo Arts programming visit www.lorenabbate.com or www.wildindigoarts.org
Kacey Cardin is a versatile singer-actress-writer-producer, hailed as an artist of "…remarkable stage presence and unfettered emotional expression". She starred in the world’s first virtual reality opera: The Parksville Murders (Kamala Sankaram, distributed by SamsungVR), and originated roles in two world premiere opera electronicas by renowned librettist Royce Vavreck. She led an 8-year NYC run and European tour with the Hot Box Girls’ international sensation L’Opera Burlesque. 2014 Quarterfinalist and 2015 “Peaple’s Choice” Winner, American Traditions Competition. In 2015, Kacey played Violetta in Arbor Opera’s groundbreaking La Traviata, in conjunction with the National Network of Depression Centers and a PBS documentary about the production. Encore Michigan called the edgy production “a risk worth taking”, noting that “Ms. Cardin’s soprano vocals evoked just the right mix of moods and emotions…”. Off-Broadway and touring cast: Girls Night, 2010-2023. Center for Contemporary Opera, Syracuse Opera, Nashville Opera, America’s Got Talent, and onstage at the Grand Ol’ Opry. Favorite roles include Anne (A Little Night Music), Flora (The Turn of the Screw), and Despina (Cosi fan Tutte). She was briefly on Married at First Sight, and is now happily married to a man she did not meet on television. She is the founder of EnQ: Energetic Intelligence, a boutique leadership development firm that intersects coaching with psychedelics and plant medicine integration. www.kaceycardin.com & www.enqleadership.com
Anthony Hidalgo has been spreading light for more than 25 years. First as a telecommunications executive, enabling digital infrastructure on the physical plane increasing human connections through the use of fiber optics which uses light to send data signals, and more recently as an indigenously trained healer, bringing self love and light for the past 10 years. As co-founder of the Centered Medical Center, Anthony brings teachings from proven ancient practices, melding thousands of years of natural medicinal healings, with leading western medical practices. Dedicated to spiritual transformation, Anthony has extensive training with Peruvian and Brazilian indigenous lineages and has integrated multiple modalities into his practices. As head of strategic partnerships for the CMC, Anthony’s business and spiritual practices merge, creating and maintaining strategic partnerships that complement and grow the practice. Anthony’s shamanic training, insights to a multitude of indigenous healing practices, and commitment to helping others rooted in the bliss of ‘self-care’, brings deeper insights to clinicians and patients providing a holistic approach to behavioral health and wellness for the ultimate experience of self-love.
Ilissa is thrilled to return to the theatre. A trained opera singer, she studied at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, where she performed as the servant in The Servant of Two Masters. After graduating, she joined Dicapo Opera Theatre in New York City, appearing in multiple productions, including The Threepenny Opera, Madama Butterfly, The Marriage of Figaro, and Pagliacci, among others. After moving to Westchester, Ilissa continued performing in musical theatre, with roles in Annie and The Sound of Music, produced by Music in Chappaqua. Outside the theatre, Ilissa is a seasoned public relations executive and a strategic advisor in the digital infrastructure sector. While her most recent stage appearances have been at industry conferences and events, she is delighted to return to her first love, live performance.
Please follow our journey & share!
Follow @ayainsideout on IG
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING OUR PLAY PROJECT :)
-Kacey, Crea, & Anthony
HAUX HAUX
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Lighting Deisgner
Costs $800
We need to hire a lighting designer to illuminate the actors and the story
Lodging and Travel Expenses
Costs $8,000
None of our team live in NYC. We need to ensure ease of travel and rest during rehearsal and the 5 productions in April.
Costumes/Props
Costs $1,000
We will need to invest in some costume and props materials as well as some staging to workshop our ideas
Rehearsals
Costs $1,250
Renting space for rehearsals including coordination of roles/dates and understudies
Food
Costs $1,300
This budget will allow us to feed our staff and provide nourishment for rehearsals and show times
Marketing/Press Kit
Costs $550
Playbill, Press kit production, posters and clear marketing strategy for all events
Projectionist Artist
Costs $2,500
The visionary worlds of our show will get projected as background for our scenes. This artist must create worlds for our characters.
7 Actors
Costs $3,600
Giving honorarium to each actor for the runs of the show
Stage Manager
Costs $500
Help to manage the staging and set up with tech (Artwork by Alexis Kandra)
Stage Hands
Costs $500
Additional hands to help seating and help to manage the theatre space
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
On the team are co-producers Kacey Cardin, Loren Crea Abbate and Anthony Hidalgo.
Loren *Crea* Abbate is a visionary artist, educator, Spirit guide and transformational workshop facilitator. She has been fueling her expressive arts fires since the very beginning. Growing up in North New Jersey, dance lessons began at 2 years old and the pile of crayons were an arm's length away. She studied Art and Psychology at Northeastern University and went on to get her master's degree in Art Education with a concentration in expressive healing arts at the School of Visual Arts. Crea has developed her own healing arts education program called Wild Indigo Arts where she curates unique creative group bonding experiences. Crea has been invited to be an artist-in-resident at numerous programs and institutions around the world. While Crea has experience as a set and prop designer for theatre productions, this will be her first experience producing and developing a story for the stage. The inspiration seed for this production came to her during an Ayahuasca ceremony in 2015 and she is beyond delighted to witness this show come alive from the inside out exactly a decade later. For more information about Crea's art or Wild Indigo Arts visit www.lorenabbate.com or www.wildindigoarts.org
Hailed as an artist of "…remarkable stage presence and unfettered emotional expression", Kacey Cardin has performed around the world as a versatile singer-actress, as well as an accomplished producer, writer, and director. An enthusiastic proponent of contemporary opera, Kacey starred in the world’s first virtual reality opera: The Parksville Murders (Kamala Sankaram, distributed by SamsungVR). She has originated roles in two world premiere opera electronicas by Kristin Hevner-Wyatt and renowned librettist Royce Vavreck. She premiered the finale of Daniel Felsenfeld's song cycle Raw Footage (recommended by The New Yorker). Since 2010, her alter ego, Magnolia DeLight, has performed all over NYC and Europe with the Hot Box Girls’ international sensation L’Opera Burlesque. Kacey wrote and co-produced Knockers: A Burlessical, an Off-Broadway musical that premiered at NYC’s Elektra Theater in 2016. She wrote, co-produced, and directed jazz musical Follies Noir at NYC’s The Cutting Room and on tour at Jones Hall in Houston, TX. Kacey was a Quarterfinalist in the 2014 and 2015 American Traditions Competition, and was the 2015 "People's Choice" Winner. In 2015, Kacey played Violetta in Arbor Opera’s groundbreaking La Traviata, sponsored by the National Network of Depression Centers. Encore Michigan called the edgy production “a risk worth taking”, noting that “Ms. Cardin’s soprano vocals evoked just the right mix of moods and emotions…”. In conjunction, Kacey participated in a PBS documentary and panel discussions around mental health awareness. She has sung with the Center for Contemporary Opera, Syracuse Opera, Nashville Opera, Pine Mountain Music Festival, on America’s Got Talent, and at the Grand Ol’ Opry. Though her heart forever resides in Brooklyn, she currently lives in Nashville, TN. Kacey is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, the University of Tennessee, and Accomplishment Coaching. She is certified in psychedelic-assisted therapy and is a certified executive coach who loves working with founders and creative multipreneurs. Visit www.kaceycardin.com or www.enqleadership.com for more.
Anthony Hidalgo has been spreading light for more than 25 years. First as a telecommunications executive, enabling digital infrastructure on the physical plane increasing human connections through the use of fiber optics which uses light to send data signals, and more recently as an indigenously trained healer, bringing self love and light for the past 10 years. As co-founder of the Centered Medical Center, Anthony brings teachings from proven ancient practices, melding thousands of years of natural medicinal healings, with leading western medical practices. Dedicated to spiritual transformation, Anthony has extensive training with Peruvian and Brazilian indigenous lineages and has integrated multiple modalities into his practices. As head of strategic partnerships for the CMC, Anthony’s business and spiritual practices merge, creating and maintaining strategic partnerships that complement and grow the practice. Anthony’s shamanic training, insights to a multitude of indigenous healing practices, and commitment to helping others rooted in the bliss of ‘self care’, brings deeper insights to clinicians and patients providing a holistic approach to behavioral health and wellness for the ultimate experience of self love.