BOUNDS — DECEMBER 17-20, 2025

Protest-Performance
Written by award-winning Italian playwright, Tino Caspanello (New York Premiere)
Directed by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva

December 17-20, 2025 @ 7pm

AnomalousCo @ The American Theatre of Actors:
314 W 54th Street
New York, New York 10019

Tickets:
General Admission: $40 (includes admission to STIFFLER the same evening)

ABOUT

Five women stand at the shore of an unknown coast.... Two are migrants, two are guards, one is both. In liminal space, they wait. While waiting, they reenact familiar games of childhood - and the power games of adults. 

As the US slides further into the brutal migrant policies of the Trump administration, with kidnappings and rendition, a foreign concentration camp, militarization of cities, mass roundups and deportations, "Bounds" is a parable for our own present moment.

In the words of playwright Tino Caspanello, “Bounds is a story about cages, violence, dreams, a story that reflects the actual living time that flows under our skin, a time that stands apart from the rules, obligations and prejudices that keep us from looking in the eyes of our neighbors.” 

Lyrical, imagistic, Bounds speaks to the vulnerability of women migrants, reminding us that when one of us is taken, all of us are complicit — and asks: what does it take to stand up for the stranger among us?

Photo: James Lattanzio

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ENSEMBLE:

Wilemina Olivia-Garcia is a Cuban-born, New York–based actor and creator, and a member of AnomalousCo. She will be making her Broadway debut this spring as Lorna in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Dog Day Afternoon. With AnomalousCo, she has previously performed in (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling at the Center at West Park, HERE Arts, and the American Theatre of Actors (2022–2025). Her New York theater credits include Sonia in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater Company), The Distance of Mars (Actors Studio), Stephen Adly Guirgis’ workshop production of Untitled Ass Play (LAB Theater Company), Saint Lazarus in Prison (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre), Dutch Heart of Man (The Public Theater), Queen Latina at Cherry Lane Theatre, and Qoutidian with Primitive Grace Theatre Company. A long-time member of LAB Theater Company and an instructor in its Intensive Ensemble Workshop, she continues to champion new and socially resonant work. On screen, Wilemina guest-stars as Priscilla in The Equalizer (Season Five, 2024), and her film credits include Rosa (dir. Suha Araj; HBO Max, BlackStar Jury Award), Take a Pause (The Metamorphoses Project, LAB Theater Company), and the web series A Good Day, P.I.G. (Protect, Integrity and Guts). She is devoted to bold, truth-driven storytelling across both stage and screen.

Brooklyn-born and raised, Greta Rustani is an Albanian actor whose craft is shaped by her roots and her BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. Her greatest role outside of acting includes being the Creative Director of The F’Oda Collective, a nonprofit women’s organization with a mission to empower and gather the Albanian diaspora through collective action. Greta is led by a passion for travel, art, and collectivity, and she is proud to be a new member of AnomalousCo.

Tia Cassmira is a multi-hyphenate, Trinidadian-American artist born and raised in  Queens, New York. She graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts with her BFA in Acting. In addition to studying in London at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, she has also completed the British American Drama Academy's Midsummer in Oxford and Midsummer Conservatory Programs. When she's not acting or dancing, she can be found miming alongside Broken Box Mime and performing with the comedy troupe Recent Cutbacks, and amongst the research committee for Expand the Canon. Recent stage credits include Anomalous Co's (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling at the American Theatre of Actors and Sex & the Abbey by Diana Ly (Mathilda). More info: Tiacassmira.com

Simona DeFeo is an Italian actor, writer, and producer, raised between Italy and the US, whose multilingual performance work blends music, text, and movement to explore themes of memory, identity, and cultural reckoning. Her stage and independent screen projects span the U.S., Cuba, and Europe. Her training includes acting, dramaturgy, and Afro-Cuban folkloric dance in the US and Cuba. Collaborating with classical musicians, she founded the Concert Meister Series in New York and later co-produced a cultural diplomacy project in Havana, uniting U.S. and Cuban artists around Brahms’ First Piano Concerto and her own poetry. She is the author of The Skies Within (Duende Series, 2018). Since 2021 she has been an ensemble member of AnomalousCo, co-creating and performing in the Love and Information Project, and (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling at The Center at West Park, HERE Arts Center, and the American Theatre of Actors.

Diana Zhdanova graduated Summa Cum Laude from the renowned V. Filshtinsky Acting Studio of the Department of Acting and Directing in the St. Petersburg Institute of Performing Arts (Russia). As an actress, Zhdanova has performed in Russia, Latvia, Poland, and the US. In New York, she has performed in numerous Manhattan theaters, including 59E59 with Labyrinth Theatre; Culture Lab; and with AnomalousCo at Center at West Park, HERE Arts, American Theatre of Actors and others. Diana is a 2025 recipient of the Boris Sagan Directing Fellowship at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she will serve as Assistant Director on “Spirit of the People,” a new work by Tony-nominated playwright Jeremy O. Harris ("Slave Play"). Since 2020, she has served as Co- Artistic/Producing Director of AnomalousCo, New York’s queer-women led, immigrant, feminist theatre ensemble. For film and television, Diana is represented by the agency Hanns Wolter International Inc, NYC.