FLOWER DANCE
A middle-age Floral shop owner learns to respect a homeless man.
Trigger warnings: death and houseless-ness
[ID: SPF poster for “Flower Dance” with dark text on a green brick-patterned background with orange and red flowers with green leaves framing the sides. A pair of blue silhouette footprints parallels a pair of orange-yellow footprints as they cross over in the middle of the bottom half. Larger text in center: Flower Dance, by Howie Seago.]
FLOWER DANCE TEAM
Headshot ID: Howie Seago, a white bearded male with a smile front of a green wall.
Howie Seago | Playwright
Howie’s career includes acting, writing, directing, producing, and teaching over 40 years. His film credits include BEYOND SILENCE (Oscar nom.), WONDERSTRUCK. His TV credits include: STAR TREK:THE NEXT GENERATION; HUNTER; THE EQUALIZER. Onstage, he worked with notable directors such as Peter Sellars, David Byrne, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bart Sher, and with The National Theatre of The Deaf. Most recently, Howie performed in fourteen plays over seven years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Headshot ID: Alexandria Wailes is a light skinned mixed race cisgender woman with dark hair and unique eyes front of a green wall.
Alexandria Wailes | Director & Choreographer
Alexandria Wailes (she/her) is an actor, director, dancer, choreographer, advisor, and director of artistic sign language. She has worked on numerous Broadway, off Broadway and regional theatres, television and film. Co-founder of BHo5.org.
Awards: 2022 Chita Rivera winner, recipient of 2022 Disability Futures Fellowship, 2020 Obie winner, 2020 Lucille Lortel nominee.
Headshot ID: Siena Rafter is a white, non binary person with shaved head in a dark top front of a green background.
Siena Rafter | Stage Manager
Siena is a proud graduate of LaGuardia High School’s Drama program and Brown University’s Theater Arts class of 2020. Broadway: Sam Gold's King Lear starring Glenda Jackson (ASL team), Children of a Lesser God (Assistant Director to Kenny Leon).
As an actor: Off-Broadway/ Lincoln Center: Liz Swados' Runaways (City Center's Encores, Off-Center), Deep Blue Sea (Bill T Jones at the Park Avenue Armory), American Song Book Series. The Public Theater/Delacorte: Twelfth Night (written by Shaina Taub), Runaways, For the Love of Vinyl (Joe's Pub), From Hair to Hamilton...Gala '17. TV/Webseries: HBO's Crashing, Don't Shoot the Messenger, and Scholastic's Dear America series.
Headshot ID: Harmony is a Deaf Flipino female with long dyed hair in a checkered shirt. front of a green background.
Harmony Baniaga | as Betsy
Harmony Baniaga, a Deaf Filipina born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She is a ASL music performer, dancer, and choreographer. Usually her art pieces expresses herself through music and dance incorporating ASL are seen on Instagram and Tiktok: @hbsigndance.
She wanted to make music accessible for the Deaf Community so they can enjoy it through their eyes.
Headshot ID: Irvine Stewart, a black male with eyeglasses, hat, scarf, and coat front of a green background.
Irvine Stewart | as Walker
Irvine Stewart was born to Helen and Jim Hayse Stewart in Joplin, Missouri. He was discovered to be deaf at the age of 3 years old due to unknown cause. Mr. Stewart found The Wilds Zappers in 1990 with support of Warren Snipe and Fred Beam. He was also actor from Bob Daniel’s “I Didn’t Hear That Color” in 1991. He is thrilled to return to performing arts this year. Mr. Stewart is currently working as therapist at ADWAS.