Eilin O'Dea

Fusion Theatre Company Founder and Artistic Director

Medea / Director

Eilin is a dual graduate as both a classically trained actress graduating from the prestigious LIR Academy, Trinity College, Dublin and the Conservatory of Music, DIT, Dublin. Eilin’s career has seen her perform throughout Europe as well as the United States to critical acclaim.

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She is the recipient of numerous Culture Ireland awards allowing her to showcase her talents here in the United States. Her performances have been consistently praised  by Theatre critics, with her performance as Molly Bloom being described as “Rich, Passionate, Compelling” (Irish Theatre Magazine), “O’Dea is every inch the sensualist Joyce imagines” (Irish Times), “Brilliant”(Sunday Business Post).

Her performance as Madame Cassandra alongside Cynthia Nixon and Gabriel Byrne in front of a sold out Symphony Space, Broadway, was described as “Staggering” by Theatre critic Belinda  Mckeown. As a result of seeing one of her performances at Symphony Space, Emmy award winner John Shea wrote a part for her in his then upcoming movie Grey Lady.

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Her performance as Antigone which merged the play and Operatic arias was  described as “Superb, an actor who sings as well as she acts” (Steve Capra, New York Theatre Critic).

“In particular the multi –talented and creative Eilin O’Dea brings the maximum of dramatic tension to the role of Antigone”(Let’s Talk Off Broadway, Yvonne Korshak).

While her recent Off Broadway performance as Inez in No Exit was lauded as “driving the play with Pinteresque brio” (Darryl Reilly).

Eilin made her Directorial debut at 20 years old directing numerous productions at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, Ireland’s national Irish speaking Theatre. She has gone on to direct numerous successful productions with her work as a Director noted for “stripping drama to its bare truth…she eschews theatricality and gives us a bare truth..” (Steve Capra).

Dahlia Barakat

Founding Member

Set Designer

Dahlia graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor’s degree in Set and Costume Design from Cairo, Egypt. After teaching art for 2 years, she has decided to focus all of her efforts into teaching herself, instead, what she loves to do most. She has participated in several productions and won an award for best set design. She spent the last year earning a Certificate in Theatre Studies at Northern Virginia Community College where she got to dabble in more set design and stage management. She now lives in New York City where she is thrilled to be working with Fusion Theatre and hopes to be a part of many more local productions.

Paul Gerrit Groen

Founding Member / Resident Actor

Creon

In the recent premier of A Kind Man he was “wonderful as Tommy, with a portrayal of such warmth and goodness that it burst out of the auditorium”. As The Officer in Philip Glass’s In the Penal Colony, “he captured his character’s devastation”. He has sung with the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, New York City Opera and at the Sydney Opera House. In the 2022/2023 season, he sings Hunding and covers Wotan for the Regents Opera Ring Cycle in London and premiered two new, contemporary operas. He is a co-founder of Fusion Theatre.

Raluca Georgiana

Founding Member / Resident Actress

First Woman

Raluca Georgiana is an actor, theatre director, dancer and a mother who has a Bachelors of Arts in Theatre, French and Spanish from University of Pennsylvania and a MFA in Acting from Columbia University, who over the years has directed and choreographed for the Dwight School, Fildwith Ensemble, County Prep HS and High Tech HS. Most recently she performed in Fusion Theatre's in-person streamed production of No Exit (Estelle), as well as several online productions such as the new play Zachary Hates Everything (Mom/ Windsor), the film Spaghetti Western/ Feature (Maria dei Gelati), the virtual play One Empire Under God (Amaru Bakali, Ensemble), various Not Muppet Classic Theatre productions such as Little Mermaid (Ariel) as well as other monthly production and the mini tv web series Lockdown Series (Aunt Kathy). Past productions include Luceafarul: the Legend of the Evening Star (Veronica) at the Off-Broadway Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre, and the Acorn Theatre. (Theatre Row). Other acting credits include Machinal (Young Woman) at Grayfriar’s Kirk in Edinborough, Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew Aguecheek) at Shapiro Theatre, Turandot (Zelima, Arlechino) at LaMaMa etc.

Alkis Sarantinos

Jason

Alkis hails from Montreal, Canada. After a few years as principal tenor for the Montreal West Operatic Society, North America's oldest Gilbert and Sullivan opera repertory company, he moved to NYC. He has worked with many important local opera companies over the years. His opera credits include roles in Cosi Fan Tutte (Ferrando), Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio), Lucia du Lamermoor (Arturo), Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo), The Magic Flute (Monostatos). He has also studied with some of the great operatic singers, including Huguette Tourangeau, Cheryl Studer, and Dimitri Kavrakos, as well as acting coaches from the world renowned Actor's Studio He is a fixture in the Greek theatre scene, having performed in various Greek adaptations of classic plays and musicals such as My Fair Lady (Freddy) and A Christmas Carol (Fred), as well many original Greek works, ancient and modern. Other acting credits include theatrical and reading adaptations of Proof (Robert), American Beauty (Lester), Seven Stories (the Psychiatrist), Angels in America (Louis), Clothes For A Summer Hotel (Edouard), as well as performances in important theatre events such as TheatreWorks short play festival and the Lower East Side play festival. When not performing, he maintains a private voice studio coaching singers of all levels. alki_s@hotmail.com

Maureen O'Boyle

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Nurse

Recent NY theater includes Order Up! (Frankie & Co Productions), Gasp!, Uncle Vanya (Columbia University), Macbeth, The Rimers of Eldritch (Snapped Productions), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Original Binding Productions), Allie’s Appendix (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity), Antigone/Progeny (Extant Arts), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Good Lonely People, The Oath (MTWorks). All-time favorites include Pentecost (Burning Coal Theatre Company) and The Castle (The Somnambulist Project).