Create a World! 

Rose Farrell (she/her) is a writer, director, producer, and general lover of tomfoolery. As a producer, she’s helping foster two new artists' collectives. The first, GamePlay Theatre Lab, focuses on creating queer led choose-your-own adventure theatrical experiences, with which she’s created two shows: Adam Sandler Jury Duty, and The Clownssacre. The other, My Mother Once Read, is a touring children’s entertainment company that aims to create contemporary art geared towards young people, and mobilize it to communities throughout the city. She’s a jack-of-all-trades theatre artist, and has worked with companies such as The Wilma Theater, Theatre Exile, Playpenn, and Quintessence Theatre Group in a variety of different roles and capacities.

Ava Kepple  (She/her) is a Philadelphia based director, producer, choreographer, and anything else  might need to get the job done!  With a B.F.A in Directing, Playwriting, and Production, her heart lies in theater for young audiences which prompted her creation of My Mother Once Read. Recent highlights in her diverse portfolio include "Hundred Acre Park" with Cannonball Festival, “Mamma Mia" at Haddonfield Memorial High School, and tour producer for the vibrant "Philly Baby Jam" by Ninth Planet.

This is Julian's second time making puppets for My Mother Once Read, the first being last year's Hundred Acre Park. He is a puppeteer, painter, sculptor, and just a general visual artist. He played a lot of video games with friends during the pandemic and has memories of begging his parents to download a number of games, such as the free beta version of Minecraft, onto their home computer as a kid.

Alex Werthauer is a songwriter, sometimes playwright, sometimes actor, and generally creative guy. You may know them as Kirby747, from their days moderating the Citi-Build Minecraft server. They're super pumped to be working on their first My Mother Once Read production! 

Kaitlyn Zion is so excited to be in Overworld! and to be working with the amazing My Mother Once Read team again! Kaitlyn is a Philadelphia based actor, theatre maker and graduate of the University of the Arts with a BFA in Musical Theater. Past credits include, Clippings (Theatre by Developmemt) The Holy Grail of Memphis (Arden Theatre Company) Othello vs The Military Industrial Complex (Cannonball) empty, fill and again (Theatre by Development) The Last Yiddish Speaker (InterAct Theater Company) Salsa Lessons (24hr Play festival) Adam Sandler Jury Duty (Fringe) We All Fall Down (Theatre Ariel) Into the Woods (Arden Theatre Company) Ronnie The Musical (Philadelphia Womans Festival) Plantation Black (Interact Theatre Company) and Bitch (Thursday Productions). Kaitlyn would like to thank all their amazing friends, family, Alex and April. <3 Enjoy the show! 

Charlie is super excited to work again with the  My Mother Once Read team! He has worked with multiple TYA companies for over two years and loves to perform for kids. They can be seen performing on stage all throughout the Philly and South Jersey areas. He would like to extend his love to his parents, Erin, Richard, Farina, and Suslow.

Gideon Caro McDonald is a Philly born and based actor who's thrilled to be working with MMOR again! Gideon just graduated from Temple University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. He portrayed Eeyore in the company's previous cannonball production "Hundred Acre Park," and is ready to make more children's theatre magic! Other recent credits include RENT (Arden Theatre Company) & Roll Play (SideQuest Theater). He'd like to thank every friend that stayed up way too late playing video games with him growing up for making this project so special.