Sonny Marwah (playwright) is a multi-media writer drawn to live theatre in an age of digital mediation. Originally a fiction writer, his short story Unchecked Baggage was adapted into a short film—but hearing dialogue live between actors and audience revealed something film’s fixed frame could never capture. With Training Set, he dramatizes our contradictory responses to technology—fascination, fear, dependence, revulsion—as part of the world we already inhabit, not some distant AI dystopia. Bringing these themes to the stage felt essential: the immediacy of live performance mirrors the tension between spontaneity and algorithmic predictability at the heart of the play. Before returning to writing professionally, Sam led creative ventures across music, publishing, and healthcare—work that deepened his belief that stories shape empathy and move people to act.

IG: @sonnymarwah

Chelsea LeSage (Jerrica) is the co-founder of both Golden Grand Piano Productions and CL 2 Productions and was most recently seen in Women Who Cut at the AMT Theater, for which she won the Best Actor by the Circle Theater Festival. She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, where she earned a BFA in Acting. Select favorite theater credits: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) at Stag & Lion Theatre Company, Henry V (title role) at Rotations Theatre (Lennep, Germany), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) at Stag & Lion, Hamlet (title role) at MAC, Into The Woods (Witch) at Barrington Stage Company. Selected Film/Tv: Bishop’s Cove (Amazon Prime), 21st Century Demon Hunter (Amazon Prime), Macbeth: A Cursed Film (tubi), Zombie With A Shotgun (Amazon Prime). Upcoming Film/Tv: Devour, The Coohatch, Moving On, Follow Me, Shattered Mirror, Hangry Harpies, The Fairfield County Four.
IG: @chelsea.lesage
www.chelsealesage.com

Jenilyn N. Rodriguez (Madison) is an actress, singer, producer, writer and director based in (obsessed with) New York City. She is the founder of Jen X Productions LLC, co-founder of Meliora International Film Festival, and the host of The Ordinary Supernatural Podcast. She graduated with a BFA in music & theatre from SUNY Fredonia. Select stage credits include: Fine, Funny & Female (off-Broadway, lead + co-writer) Bleecker St. Theatre, The Big A** Russian Novel (Producers Club festival winner, Masha), The Odd Couple (Cecily Pigeon) at The Tralfamadore, Evita (The Mistress) Marvel Theatre, Angels in America I & II (Harper) Bartlett Theatre. Select TV/Film credits: In Fidelity (Amazon Prime), Appetite (AppleTV), Sarah Q (Amazon Prime), The Good Wife (CBS), Do Not Disturb (Investigation Discovery), On the Job (Funny or Die), Living in Exile (Launch Network). Upcoming TV/Film: Shattered Mirror, Moving On, Follow Me, Hangry Harpies, HOSPO, and Enchanté.
IG: @jenoele
www.jenilynrodriguez.com

Serena Norr is thrilled to be directing Training Set. She is a writer, director, playwright, and founder of Let’s Make a Play, a playwriting program for kids and adults. Her plays have been performed at the Omaha Fringe Festival, White Plains Performing Arts Center, the New Deal Creative Arts Center, Westchester Collaborative Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Players Theater with the Rogue Theater Festival and the NYC Short Play Festival, The Tank, The Flea, Bethany Arts Center, Rivers Edge Theater, the University of Alabama as well as various productions over Zoom. She is the director of the short movie “Bland” as well as “Mar and Debbie’s Very Haunted Situation,” “Inspired by True Events,” “Dream Catcher,” “Agency for the Lost,” “Do You Feel Anger,” and many others. Her plays have been published in the “Bittersweet Monologue Collection,” “ellipsis… literature & art Drama,” and the “Stonecoast Review.” She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Westchester Collaborative Theatre, participant in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (2021), the National Women’s Theatre Festival (WTF) Directing Program (2022) and Producing/Directing Program (2023), The Workshop Theater (2023), and Play Penn (2025/2026).
http://www.serenanorr.com/

IG: @mehdi.hadim

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Maddie Boudov (Celia) is an actor, director, dancer and costume designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She recently graduated from NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theater Wing with a BFA in Drama. She is passionate about bringing play, freedom and vigor into her work, especially in the creation of original work. Recent acting credits include The Adventures of Virginia and Orlando (Public Theatre), Love and Information (Brick Aux) and Haha…Not Funny (short film).
IG: @maddie.boudov
maddieboudov.com

Isaac Hirotsu Woofter (Kai) is an actor and award winning filmmaker. His work’s been in dozens of Festivals, received countless nominations, and won: Best Film, Best Ensemble, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Audience Choice. He wrote a Steven Seagal action movie and his latest film BOUND is on 14 streamers/DVD. THEATRE: Isaac played numerous lead and title roles all over the world, including the 6 time Tony award-winning Broadway show “War Horse.” Past favorites include: Scapin (Scapin – Classic Stage Company), Vladimir (Waiting for Godot – Eastern University), Tybalt (Romeo & Juliet – Guthrie Theater), Thomas Mendip (The Lady’s Not for Burning – Parenthesis Theater), Willi Kasda (Night Games – Marvel Rep). In 2008, he was nominated alongside Patrick Stewart, for Best Supporting Actor in a Shakespeare Play. TV: “Tommy,” “Poker Face,” “One Life to Live.” FILM Credits: “King of Staten Island,” “BOUND.” TRAINING: UCDavis (BA), Columbia University (MFA), and Jacob Krueger Studio (Writing).
IG: @isaacwoofter

Tommy Snow (US/Django/Kai) is a NYC Actor and Artist. After a few years at Marymount Manhattan College, Tommy Snow has branched out as a Director, Writer, and Stage Manager. He was last seen on stage in the New York Workshop of Matchstick Girl, on screen as Abraham in After Dark and is currently working as a writer for What Are We Waiting For? He is grateful to be working on Training Set. Credits include: Once – Guitarist/Ensemble, Metamorphoses – Phaeton, and Pride and Prejudice – Mr. Bingley. He thanks everyone here, and Judy Willman who started it all with a violin.
IG: @i.am.tommy.snow

Samantha Opitz (US/Celia/Madison/Jerrica) is thrilled to be returning to the stage in this fantastic production amongst so many friends and respected performers. She is best known for her film and television work as Helen, in Is It A Crime, Morgan in Welcome to NY, and Belle in Trash Talk Tonight, created by and starring training_set’s own Jenilyn Rodriguez! Samantha is a New York City based actress and when not on the stage or in front of the camera, her favorite role is the one she plays at home with her loving, supportive family: Sal, my love, Guy and Greg our boys, Mica, Mom and Xavier/Gatto!
IG: @kikidefleur