Reckless Theatrics

Meet two members of our crew, Carla and Alexa!

Carla Burbano (she/her) is a New York City–born and based Latinx stage and screen actress, voiceover artist, and emerging writer. She trained at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and is a semester away from graduating from The New School with a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts. Her credits include Broadway (Here Lies Love), immersive theater productions (Stranger Things: The Experience and Money Heist: The Experience), and most recently the short film Table for Three, in which she co-wrote, directed, and starred.
Just as her acting pulls on heartstrings, her writing aims to do the same. With a burning love for dramedies, she’s a sucker for a good cry-laugh. Follow her on Instagram for upcoming work and projects currently in the vault.


Alexa Jones (she/her) is a film student at The New School, where she is developing a multidisciplinary practice across directing, design, performance, and production. Her theater and film credits include Assistant Set Design for Table for Three, serving as Assistant Director for Hamlet at Jamestown Community College and acting in White Doves. She is currently helping to plan The New Screen Fest, an upcoming film festival at The New School, and is excited to contribute and support this production through marketing!


Join us on February 28 at 6pm at Court Square Theater or on Zoom. Ticket link in bio.

We’ve got a new show! Join us on Feb 28 ( ) from 6 PM to 8:30PM at Court Square Theater in LIC. We will also be live-streaming so the community can join from their bed.

This play is written and produced by our Co-Founder, Ali Hardy, and is inspired by her experience living with multiple rare diseases. It’s the full length version of the short virtual play we produced in 2021.

Tickets are pay what you can with suggested prices of $5, $17, or $30 so that cost isn’t a barrier for the community.

SYNOPSIS: Fail Risk is a bold, unflinching new play about love, chronic illness, and survival. Following Peyton and Alex through the first five years of their marriage and the onset of a mysterious illness, it confronts guilt, burnout, and medical trauma while rejecting the “love conquers all” cliché. Centering the messy realities of illness, the play highlights the importance of trauma-informed medical care and the vital role of those who truly “get it” in surviving chronic illness.

CW: Mature content, strong language, s*xual themes, s*xual trauma related to illness or disability, depictions of ma********on, depictions of s*xual situations when consent cannot be given or revoked due to medical incapacity, fatphobia in medicine, medical trauma, gaslighting, and suicidal ideation.

CAST: Ali Hardy, Fernando DeJesus, Samantha Marie Nieves, Ben Freeman, and Carla Burbano

CREW: Max Raymond, Emily Smith, Mattie Cameron Rosen, Dante Leach, Alexa Jones, and Stephanie Fuentes

This project is made possible, in part, with public funds from the Queens Art Fund, a re-grant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

Tickets:

Fail Risk Play Reading Be in community on Rare Disease Day and join us for a play reading about chronic illness and relationships.