Sylvia Milo  (Project Creator, Producer, Writer, Original Actress)

An award-winning actress and playwright, based in NYC. Her self-produced play, The Other Mozart, (about the forgotten, genius sister of Amadeus) had a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run at HERE Arts Center (DRAMA DESK and OFF BROADWAY ALLIANCE nominations. 2 New York Innovative Theatre Awards and 8 nominations), in London at St. James Theatre, in Munich at the Pasinger Fabrik, and in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Cultural Center. It was presented in Vienna at the Mozarthaus Vienna (the “Figarohaus”, Wolfgang’s home on Domgasse) and in Salzburg at the invitation of the Mozarteum Foundation (inside the Mozarts’ Wohnhaus apartment). The play has had over 300 performances and continues touring in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. She received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in The Other Mozart, and Off Broadway Alliance Award nomination for Best Solo Performance. Sylvia played Bob Dylan in the OBIE Award-winning The West Village Fragments — by Peculiar Works; Ophelia in The Ophelia Landscape — at the Mark Morris Center; Hamlet in Hamlet — an all-female version of the play, which she adapted and directed herself; she has performed at La Mama, Cherry Lane, Ontological-Hysteric, Dixon Place and The Ohio Theatre. As a member of the Bats at the Flea Theater she co-wrote and starred in Seating Arrangements — directed by Eric Pold of Gob Squad. Sylvia is also a violinist (acoustic and electric violins – Irving Plaza, Knitting Factory, CBGB’s, Joe’s Pub) and has composed scores for dance and theater (Merce Cunningham Studio, La Mama). She is a graduate of New York University, with extensive training at the Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler Institutes, in Michael Chekhov technique, and at The Grotowski Institute in Poland. Her new play on Mary Magdalene has been workshopped in NYC at Theaterlab with support from All For One, and at the Baryshnikov Arts Center as part of Sylvia’s and composer Nathan Davis’ Baryshnikov Bogliasco Fellowship.

Daniela Galli  (Actress)

DANIELA GALLI is an accomplished actress with a diverse background in the arts. She began her artistic journey in her native Brazil as a dancer and musician, performing with modern and tap dance companies while playing the oboe with the Symphonic Orchestra of Campinas. She later graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning, and worked as a set designer off-Broadway and as an associate designer for Tony Walton on Broadway and at renowned venues such as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Kennedy Center, and The Royal Court Theatre. Transitioning to acting, she trained at HB Studio and established herself in Brazil’s theatre, film, and television industries.

Daniela’s recent credits include the HBO Max series Praia dos Ossos (in post-production), the Prime Video series The Corruption Game (Season 2), Passport to Freedom (Sony Pictures), and How To Be a Carioca (Disney+). Her film work includes My Hindu Friend, directed by Hector Babenco and starring Willem Dafoe, Netflix’s The Killer (for which she received a Best Actress nomination at the Gramado Film Festival), Those Hands That Lead Me by João Cortes, and The American Side by Jenna Ricker, starring Matthew Broderick.

On television, Daniela has appeared in acclaimed series such as Malhação (Globo Network), Obscure Power (which earned her a Contigo! Award nomination for Best Actress in a TV series), Mandrake (HBO), and various productions for TV Globo and Record. She has also made a mark on stage, with standout performances in The Other Mozart by Sylvia Milo (Off-Broadway, currently on a U.S. tour, and set to be performed at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Ciranda by Celia Forte, directed by José Possi Neto, Realism by Anthony Neilson, directed by Tato Consorti, and Play by Rodrigo Nogueira, directed by Ivan Sugahara.

Fluent in Portuguese and English, and proficient in Spanish, Italian and Dutch, Daniela is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.

Isaac Byrne  (Director)

Isaac is a playwright, director, and acting teacher. He has been awarded the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Direction twice and productions he has directed have been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, an Off Broadway Alliance award, 29 NYIT awards, and 6 Planet Connection Awards. NYC Directing Credits: Other Mozart (NYIT Outstanding Solo Performance), In Vestments (NYIT Outstanding Premier of a New Play), To Nineveh (NYIT Outstanding Production), Tar Baby (DR2, PS122), 52 Man Pick Up (Ars Nova, Edinburgh Fringe), AMP  (NYIT Nominated for Outstanding Performance Art), I Used to Write on Walls, and Rusalka. His work as a playwright has been produced in NYC, Alberquerque, and Phoenix, and he has been published in the Smith & Kraus collections of Best Men’s and Best Women’s Stage Monologue collections in 2024 and 2025.

Nathan Davis (Composer, Sound Designer)

Nathan Davis “writes music that deals deftly and poetically with timbre and sonority” (NYTimes). His ballet/opera Hagoromo premiered at BAM Next Wave Festival in a production from American Opera Projects, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) with dancers Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto. His works have also been premiered at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, PS122, the Park Avenue Armory, The Kitchen, and Roulette; as well as at festivals in Germany, Austria, Australia, Finland, Holland, Poland, and Cuba; and Portrait concerts at both the Mostly Mozart Festival and Spoleto Festival USA. Nathan has received commissions from ICE, Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, La Jolla Symphony Chorus, Steven Schick, Claire Chase, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Miller Theatre, and the Ojai Festival. An Aaron Copland Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation, he has received other awards from Meet the Composer, Fromm Foundation at Harvard, Copland Fund, Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, MATA, ASCAP, and a residency fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis (France). He and Phyllis Chen won an NY Innovative Theater Award for their score to Sylvia Milo’s play The Other Mozart, for which Davis also received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Sound Design. CDs include On the Nature of Thingness (winner of 2016 Independent Music Award for Best Contemporary Classical Album), The Other Mozart, Neutral Buoyant, and Earthworks (with Sylvia Milo). As a percussionist, Nathan is a member of ICE, and has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and the Nagoya Philharmonic. He holds degrees from Yale and Rice, and he teaches Composition and creative technologies at Mannes Conservatory/The New School College of Performing Arts (NYC).

Phyllis Chen (Composer)

Described by the NYTimes as “spellbinding”, Phyllis is a composer, keyboardist and toy pianist. 2019 Cage-Cunningham Fellow at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. She has created several original miniature theatre works (The Memoirist, The Slumber Thief and Down The Rabbit-Hole) in collaboration with video artist, Rob Dietz. Phyllis has received commissions by the International Contemporary Ensemble, A Far Cry, Claire Chase Density Project, Opera Cabal, Opera SHOP, Singapore International Festival of the Arts, Roulette-Jerome and others. She has received grants from New Music USA, Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, NYSCA (via Concert Artists Guild and Look & Listen Festival), Fromm Foundation and the Pew Heritage Trust. Her most recent collaboration with fellow The Other Mozart composer, Nathan Davis, is a large-scale site-specific work for the new Fisk 150 organ at the Christ Church of Philadelphia. The work, In Plain Air, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, featured an outdoor music box installation, including a 400-foot long music box strip. Phyllis was the solo on-stage musician for the Off-Broadway production of Coraline at the Lucille Lortel Theater. She is one of the founding members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and the founder of the UnCaged Toy Piano, a composition competition to further expand the repertoire for unusual instruments. Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory (BM), Northwestern University (MM) and Indiana University (DMA). Her piece Chimers, based on Papageno’s magic bells from Mozart’s Magic Flute, was premiered at the Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Her album, “On The Nature of Thingness” (Starkland), featuring the chamber works of Phyllis and Nathan Davis, was awarded the 2016 Independent Music Award for Best Contemporary Classical Music Album.

Janice Orlandi (Period Style Movement Director)

A movement specialist in period styles, historic dance, psychophysical techniques, character transformation and physical dramaturgy. Trained and co-taught with Loyd Williamson and Richard Schechner. Recent directing credits include: Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies (Five Stars at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, St. James Studio London; Theater Row, Laurie Beechman, 59E59), Garbo Dreams (Red Room NYC). Movement Director: The Contrast (Mirror Repertory Company St Clements), An Ideal Husband and Tartuffe (Sonnet Repertory NYC). A certified teacher of Michael Chekhov and Williamson Technique. Period style specialist of Elizabethan and Restoration, Baroque, Regency, Victorian, Edwardian, 1920’s-1970’s. Artistic director at Actors Movement Studio NYC, faculty at TISCH School of the Arts, Atlantic Theater Company, Tom Todoroff Conservatory, University of the Arts Philadelphia, Rutgers University, New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Teaches at LIU Brooklyn BFA, The New Group, and Lee Strasberg Institute (NYC). Her work as an educator, director, actress and movement coach has been seen at Williamstown Theater Festival, State Theater School Denmark, Lindenberg Center for Culture Netherlands, Princeton Repertory Shakespeare Festival, Classic Stage Company, Circle Rep Lab. Founding Member of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. Featured in BACKSTAGE and the AMERICAN THEATER MAGAZINE on current “Trends in Movement Training” in theater. Member of SAG/AFTRA, AEA, SSDC.

Magdalena Dąbrowska  (Costume Designer – the dress)  

Miodrag Guberinic (Costume Designer – pannier/corset sculpture)

Mio grew up in Serbia and graduated from the FPU in Belgrade with a BFA in costume design, then from Northwestern University in Chicago with an MFA in costume design. His designs have been worn by Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Scarlett Johansson, B Akerlund and Bianca Del Rio among others. His costume artisan work has been featured on numerous Broadway productions including ones currently on Broadway: Frozen, Head Over Heels, Mean Girls, Pretty Woman; TV shows: Mrs. Maisel, The Tick and last season of Gotham. He created accessories for fashion campaigns for Estee Lauder & Shiseido and small-scale costumes, crafts, and puppetry work for the iconic retailers’ windows of Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, Tiffany & Co., Macy’s, Lord & Taylor and Prada. Mio was also responsible for the creation of the iconic headpieces & armor for Madonna’s World Rebel Heart Tour and has collaborated with luminary  designers including Anne Roth, Gregg Barnes, Arianne Phillips, and Michael Wilkinson.Today, Mio resides in Brooklyn where he owns the design company Mio Design NYC focusing on the highly innovative design and artisan projects, using the newest cutting-edge materials and technology on a wide range of Costume and Wearable Art projects. Most recently he started sharing his experiences as a lecturer and guest designer with students of Carnegie Mellon University, Long Island University, Parsons School of Design and Princeton University.

Joshua Rose (Lighting Designer)

A graduate of the stage design program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Joshua resides in New York City and designs lighting for a variety of projects all over the world; from intimate solo shows to full operas, from architectural installations to modern dance.  Some designs of note include The Edge of Some World, choreographed by Jonathan Fredrickson and premiered in Beijing; The Blue Frog jazz club in Mumbai; A Celebration of Music and Dance with The Limon Dance Company and Simon Bolivar National Youth Choir of Venezuala at Lincoln Center.  Recent Designs include Tar Baby by Desiree Burch, La Boheme for The Bronx Opera and and Madame Butterfly for the Martina Arroyo Foundation.

Kodi Lynn Milburn (Stage Manager, hair and makeup)

Kodi Lynn Milburn, dubbed as the “Swiss Army Knife of Theater,” embodies a fusion of creativity and activism. As a mixed indigenous neurodivergent queer, Kodi’s artistry resonates with a commitment to justice, harmony with nature, amplifying lost voices, and reflecting contemporary issues, echoing the ethos of the Jester’s Privilege. Kodi’s work has been described as “inspired” (Alix Cohen, Women Around Town), “amazing” (Travelanche), “lush compositions and evocative soundscapes…a fantastic collaborator: creative, proactive, generous, organized, versatile, and indispensable” (Nathan Davis, Drama Desk Nominated Sound Designer)

Cross-discipline credits include: Sylvia Milo’s The Other Mozart (Hong Kong, Players Theatre NYC, U.S. Tour), Treaty (The Foundry), Funny Guy (59e59, London, Edinburgh Fringe), Talking With Angels (TheaterLab), Faust (Baruch Performing Arts), Salome (Irondale Theater), AMP (HERE), Tussaud/Antoinette (IRT), Big Wave (TaDa!), My Onliness (The New Ohio), Chess (American Theater for Actors), Uta Hagen Centennial Salon (Lincoln Center), Heart Strings (Atlantic Theater Co), 7 Magdalenes (Baryshnikov Arts Center, TheaterLab, HERE), Sparkle Spa (BMI), Ewalt & Walker (54 Below), Mary & Max (Bobby Cronin & Crystal Skillman), Voyage en Chanson (National Sawdust), L’autre Mozart (Fringe North, Halifax Fringe), Rhinoceros (Atlantic Acting School) and more. Kodi is a New York Foundation for the Arts Music Fellow. @heythereitskodi

Courtney Bednarowski  (Hairstylist)

An emerging hairstylist residing in Brooklyn. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she graduated from the Aveda Institute, completed an assistant program at Mizu Salon in NYC, and decided to expand her skillset into barbering at Freeman’s Barbershop. Courtney has styled for countless fashion events, film and theater, print and online publications, and is now working for DIOR as the lead wig stylist. (In The Other Mozart Courtney sculpts the actress’ hair – it is all and only the actress’ real hair!)