producing artistic directors

Amy Shoshana Blumberg

AMY SHOSHANA BLUMBERG is a theater director, dramaturg, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Lead writing and directing credits for the after-image: Let's Exorcise! A Community Catharty Party, HOUSE OF AMERICAN ACTIVITIES, RE: SHE, and he called it cymbeline. She is associate director of PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells by Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (Lincoln Center world premiere, June 2023). She has dramaturged dance-theater works by Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach, GREYZONE, and MeenMoves, among others. A former professional modern dancer and anti-Zionist Jew, Amy is inspired by chance, old texts made new, and rituals of all kinds. She holds an MFA in Theater Directing from Temple University and a BA in Africana Studies and Dance from Barnard College. Gratitude to Kate and Zahydé, always.

Find out more about Amy & her work here.

Zahydé Pietri

ZAHYDÉ PIETRI (she/her/ella) is a born and raised Puerto Rican actress, artist, and teaching artist based in NYC. Most recently she has been onstage as a performer and devisor in the after-image ’s Let’s Exorcise! and House of American Activities, and as actor and puppeteer in Grand Pistachio ’s Layer the Walls I and II. As a VO artist she used to fight with herself weekly translating the women of WWE’s Female Division on RAW and SmackDown. She has a BA in Drama from the University of Puerto Rico and has trained and been onstage in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Perú and NYC. She’s a loving parent to Chaplin (her pup, not the acclaimed silent actor/filmmaker), and Greta Carbo (her sourdough starter, not to be confused with legendary silent era actress Greta Garbo). She finds joy in collaboration and is infinitely grateful to get to create art with Amy, Kate and the after-image community!

Kate St. John

KATE ST. JOHN (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based designer, writer, & producer. She isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty, but she is too old to build scenery in the kitchen of her third-floor walkup. Hailing from the South, Kate has a BA in Classics & Art History from UNC Chapel Hill & an MFA in Scenic Design at Temple University.

Favorite moments with the after-image include: designing narrative & visual tracks for he called it cymbeline, reimagining lost worlds in RE: SHE, theatricalizing the theatrics of the McCarthy hearings in HOUSE OF AMERICAN ACTIVITIES, getting physical (& emotional) for Let’s Exorcise!, & devising an immersive experience for Flow Up!

Apart from her work with the after-image, Kate enjoys throwing pots, baking pies, & talking to strangers. Find out more about Kate’s work here