Spring Theater with The Braid

Jordan Bielsky is from Rockaway Beach, New York City. He cut his teeth working on Tennessee Williams and John Patrick Shanley plays. He has since been in numerous television shows and films, most recently as a Krav Maga Instructor in Get Shorty on EPIX, an ex-con on his way to a wedding in the film Moving Violation, and is in the new Apple+ series Sugar opposite Colin Farrel. Bielsky’s voice has also appeared in several Netflix projects, including Fauda and Money Heist.

Tali Green was in Michael Anthony Theatrics’ Lights, Camera, Broadway at Chelsea Table + Stage. Her upcoming shows include performances at 54 Below and On The Spot Comedy. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts.

Lisa Ann Grant is an Abby Freeman Artist-in-Residence with The Braid. Originally from New York City, Lisa appeared on Broadway as Eponine in Les Miserables, and in various roles in Leader of the Pack, DreamGirls, and Camelot. She appeared off-Broadway with Robert Downey Jr. and Jane Krakowski in American Passion, Radio City Music Hall as a soloist, and The Imaginary Invalid at the Laurie Beechman Theater. On television, she has appeared on Comedy Central, Disney Junior, Stacked, Charmed, ER, Family Matters, Family Law, and Crossing Jordan, as well as several commercials and voice-overs, including the animated feature Max and Me. Grant co-wrote a romantic musical comedy along that will premiere in NYC this fall.

Rosie Moss is an Abby Freeman Artist-in-Residence with The Braid and has performed in past salon shows including Star-Spangled Sabra, Guilty Parties, Family Secrets, and Jews in America. She starred in Epic Level Entertainment’s feature film Blood Born and Lifetime Network's digital series The Rookie. Her TV credits include appearances on ABC's The Conners and Freeform's Famous in Love. Moss originated the role of Ela in The Last Boy at New York City's Town Hall. Other theater credits include FUGU (WCJT), Macbethx5 (The Odyssey), and The Physicists (Sacred Fools). Film: To Be King, Strangers, One Halloween, and American Girl. She has also written, produced, and acted in two short films: The Pass and Enchanted, LLC.

Susan Morgenstern (Director/Producing Director) began directing musical-theatre concert readings in college while co-teaching American musical comedy with Tom Lehrer at UC Santa Cruz. She went on to teach and direct at the renowned Stage Door Manor performing-arts camp in Liberty, New York. Morgenstern has directed numerous Los Angeles plays and musicals at celebrated venues including Theatre West, The Garry Marshall Theatre, Whitefire Theatre, The Pico, Santa Monica Playhouse, and Cabrillo Music Theatre. She co-authored and directed 18 Minutes of Fame: A Musical Journey with Barbara Minkus in Los Angeles and NYC. Morgenstern has directed numerous shows with The Braid and is especially proud to be its producing director, working closely with a tremendous group of brilliant and passionately creative people.

Ronda Spinak is the founder and artistic director of The Braid, the largest independent Jewish theatre in the US. She created, curated, and produced 75 original shows in a new theatrical art form called Salon Theatre, at The Braid. Spinak developed and produced six one-person shows, including the LA Drama Critics Circle nominated, Not That Jewish, which ran for 16 months, and then moved to a successful run off-Broadway, Rain Pryor’s hit show Fried Chicken & Latkes, and Ovation-nominated Sacred Resistance. During Covid she produced on-film Stories from the Violins of Hope, which the United Nations Programme on the Holocaust shared in 30 countries. She developed a hybrid art show/theatre piece, “Holy Sparks,” which features the works of 24 Jewish women artists paired with the stories of 24 pioneering woman rabbis, that opened at the Heller Museum in New York City and is now touring in major cities throughout the U.S. Spinak’s play, Oscar Wilde’s Wife, was featured in the Ashland New Play Festival. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a graduate of Stanford University, and holds advanced degrees from UCLA and USC.