Director A Soft Landing

Marisol Rosa-Shapiro (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based actor, director, teaching artist, community builder, and creator of original works of theater. Recent credits include Theatre Horizon's HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's AIRNESS, Shakespeare in Clark Park's EVERY EVERYMAN (co-creator/performer); Pace University's ALIVEAWAKEALIVEAWAKEALERT (director/co-creator); several episodes of Adventure Players Live (co-creator/writer/performer); and Theatre Horizon's Art House #4/The Peays (director/co-creator). Marisol particularly loves creating surprising, playful, sophisticated work for young audiences and families, and has had the opportunity to do so with Spellbound Theatre (WINK; SHAKESPEARE'S STARS), the Up Close Festival at the New Ohio Theatre in downtown Manhattan, and with her own SEVEN RAVENS PROJECT, developed in the LabWorks program at New Victory in NYC. She is a proud volunteer performer, educator, and board member of Clowns Without Borders USA, Director of Community Engagement for Shakespeare in Clark Park, Community Coordinator for Theatre Horizon's own OUR NORRISTOWN project, and a member of the teaching artist ensemble at the New Victory Theater. Marisol recently served as a member of the BIPOC in TYA Steering Committee for TYA/USA, the nation's foremost advocacy organization for artists and institutions creating theatre for young audiences.

Christina D. Eskridge, MPH (She/Her)

Christina is the Founder and Executive Director of Elevate Theatre Company LLC. She is a performing artist, teaching artist, director, playwright and public health professional, holding a Master’s Degree in Public Health from UC Berkeley. For the past decade, Christina has worked to fuse her two passions of health and theater through performance, her teaching artistry, and her extensive work in health care at Kaiser Permanente. Christina is also on the Board of Directors for the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH). From performances specifically for children with autism, to facilitating workshops using drama-based techniques in the corporate environment, Christina believes live theater is a healing tool, ripe with opportunity. This belief drove her to establish Elevate in 2020, during the historic COVID-19 pandemic, producing live, virtual theater about important health issues, for audiences across the country.

(BA in Theater/Dance, Rhode Island College, summa cum laude)

Stage Manager

A company member of Third Rail Projects since 2011, Mr. Denis has been an original collaborating cast member in several of the company’s preeminent works including their Bessie’s Awards winning “Then She Fell”. .Most recently he completed a 37 sold out run of “Confection” commissioned by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC in 2019. Throughout this time he has also supported his burgeoning career as international male burlesque sensation GoGo Gadget, with featured performances at almost 7 years of the New York Boylesk Festivals, featured in the 2012, 2013 & 2016 London Burlesque Festivals, performances in Boston, New York City, Denver, Toronto, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. Mr. Denis is a hyphenate and has served as Technical Director, Stage Manager, Producer, Sound Engineer, Theater Electrician, and Guest Professor within the Dance and Theater sectors for the past 20 years.