The CWP LAUNCHPAD READING series Presents
Losing faith
Presented as a part of the CWP Evolution Festival
Sunday, July 12, 2026 @ 7:00PM
The Parlor at St. Paul & St. Andrew
263 W 86th St., New York, NY 10024
Suggested for ages 13+
After the sudden death of her girlfriend, Faith’s house starts acting strangely. With the help of her ghost-hunting neighbors, Faith is determined to reconnect with Liv, even if it makes her question everything she believed about the afterlife and what it means to move on.
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When Faith’s girlfriend, Liv, dies in a mass shooting, she is more alone than she has ever been. Until her house starts acting strangely. With the help of her neighbors, Robert and Cody, Faith begins reaching out to Liv in hopes of reconnecting with her. With each attempt to make contact with the other side, Faith, Robert, and Cody all have to challenge their various beliefs about death, the afterlife, and what it means to move on.
Losing Faith is a play about grief, and the way the people we have lost still linger in our lives. Is being haunted always such a bad thing?
Cast & Crew
Director: Pine Ochoa
Playwright & SM: Cassidy Byron
Faith: Jamie Papa
Robert: Jacob Ready
Cody: Noah Pyzik
Liv & Sound Designer: Artemis Zara Gültekin
Narrator: Cat Rayhill
About the Lead Artist
Cassidy Byron is a graduate of NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing program. They write dramas primarily focusing on themes of grief, queerness, and spirituality, and strive to create representation for those who rarely see people like themselves on the stage. Backstage, Cassidy works as a stage manager, favorites including Bobbie Clearly (Flamboyan Theatre), Hamlet (Art House), Henry Hicks: Attorney at Cowboy Law (NYC Fringe), and House of Telescopes (A.R.T./NY). Thank you to Joe & Lychee for their love, encouragement, and indefatigable listening ears, to Adam, Gini, and Vighnesh for always having faith in this show through its many many drafts, and to Pine for all of the late-night brainstorming sessions and being such a wonderful friend and collaborator. cassidybyron.mystrikingly.com
ABOUT THE CAST & CREW
Cassidy Byron (Playwright and Stage Manager) is a graduate of NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing program. They write dramas primarily focusing on themes of grief, queerness, and spirituality, and strive to create representation for those who rarely see people like themselves on the stage. Backstage, Cassidy works as a stage manager, favorites including Bobbie Clearly (Flamboyan Theatre), Hamlet (Art House), Henry Hicks: Attorney at Cowboy Law (NYC Fringe), and House of Telescopes (A.R.T./NY). Thank you to Joe & Lychee for their love, encouragement, and indefatigable listening ears, to Adam, Gini, and Vighnesh for always having faith in this show through its many many drafts, and to Pine for all of the late-night brainstorming sessions and being such a wonderful friend and collaborator. cassidybyron.mystrikingly.com
Pine Ochoa (Director) is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist. They are a graduate of NYU’s Theatre Education program, Performance and Production Concentration, and Music program, Ethnomusicology and Composition Concentration. Pine is a LA and NYC based theatre maker and musician whose passion ignites through the art of storytelling. They are thrilled to be directing this project and bringing this story to life! Recent credits: Bobbie Clearly (Assistant Stage Manager), Everybody (Time), A Ketamine Induced Elizabeth Banks Hallucination (Stage Manager). Thank you for supporting queer art! @pinecone1117
Jamie Papa (Faith) is a Filipino artist. International: Miss Saigon (Guam), 2Bayani: A Rock Opera (Proshot), and Zsazsa Zaturnnah the Musical… ‘Yun Lang! (Philippines). Bing credits include: Yuridisi (thesis), Bull In A China Shop, Encounters, Pride and Prejudice, and Jasper In Deadland. Recent graduate of SUNY Binghamton’s MA Theatre program, Acting concentration. Jamie dedicates this to the loved ones we now, and are destined to, miss. Lalo na’t sa mga multo ng nakaraan at sa hinahangad nating bukas. See more about her at jamiepapa.com. IG: @jamieliana_
Artemis Zara Gültekin (Liv & Sound Designer) is a performer and sound designer and from Ankara, Türkiye. She is a resident artist at Turkish American Repertory Theater & Entertainment (TARTE), and an active member in the monthly radio play series Living Radio. In her free time, she likes getting lost in other fictional worlds, reading fanfiction on TikTok, and living shamelessly! Selected performance: Bald Boy: The Musical, Pera'da Zaman, Daughters of Anatolia (TARTE); Daniel Tiger’s Grr-ifically Wild Day (Fred Rogers Productions); The Healing Shipment (La MaMa); Only Place I Belong (The Tank). Selected sound: My Fair Lady, Our Town (American Theater Group); feejee mermaid, Lilith in Pisces (The Flea/Drops in the Vase), La Picadura Del Escorpión (coLab Arts), Richard II, The Winter's Tale, Butterfly Kiss, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stella Adler); pillow talk (The Tank/KSTC). NYU Tisch Drama BFA.
Jacob Ready (Robert) is a special education teacher and occasional actor. His previous theatrical work includes Hamlet at Art House Theater, Rope at New Heat Studios, and Victims at Mabou Mines, all directed by the legendary Christopher-Rashee Stevenson. He also works in educational theater, developing pieces in collaboration with students at Story Pirates, CO/LAB Theater Group, and the NYC Student Shakespeare Festival.
Noah Pyzik (Cody) Broadway: Purlie Victorious, Our Town. Off-Broadway: City Center Stage I, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, La MaMa, The York Theatre, Theatre Row. He is the recipient of a New York Innovative Theatre Award, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award nomination, and various film festival honors. He created and produced T4T Fest which featured 100 trans artists in its inaugural year.
Cat Rayhill (Narrator) is a Manhattan-based actor from the greatest city in the world, Utica, NY. They are a graduate of Union College where they studied History with a focus on Queer Cultural History and Dance. They also attended the William Esper Acting Studio to study Meisner Technique. Recent credits including Four Stupid Tourists (dir. Emily Andrews), Fireflies & Faultlines (dir. Noa Brenner) and the upcoming short film At Dinner We Wear Gold (dir. Brynn Daigle).
Joseph Glasser (Swing) is ecstatic to be making their return to the theatre! Having been on stage since they were literally still in the womb, growing up backstage, and then performing on their own, theatre has always provided a sense of comfort and belonging. Joe would like thank their wonderfully talented partner Cassidy for bringing this entire show into being, and their mom Donna for her endless love and support.