meet the Buzzer TEAM
Gloria Bangiola
Actor, Producer
Gloria Bangiola (she/her) is an actor, producer, singer, and teacher, and the co-founder and artistic director of Salted Lemon. Favorite roles on film: Glue Trap (Eliza); Oh (Merissa), and on stage: Buzzer (Suzy); Julius Caesar (Portia and The Soothsayer); Planned Obsolescence (Gwen); Make Her Happen (The Waitress). A graduate of Indiana University (BME) and Brooklyn College (MM), she is a founding member of The New York Philharmonic Chorus. Gloria has two albums of original folk music: Past the Willow and the Well and Fool’s Gold out on Spotify and iTunes. She has written and performed multiple cabarets in New York City and teaches music to students of all ages. www.gloriabea.com @gloria.bangiola
Actor, Producer
LANGSTON REESE
Langston Reese started acting in University of Pittsburgh’s theater program his senior year while finishing a Marketing and Business Administration degree. After graduating, Langston studied at the Philadelphia Acting Studio and then moved to New York to further his studies at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute. Favorite credits include Ferdinand and Sebastian in The Tempest (Quintessence Theater Group) and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop (Santa Fe Playhouse). In his spare time, Langston enjoys cooking and making music with his friends.
VINCENT VAN DER VELDE
Actor, Producer
Vincent Van der Velde (He/Him)is a Belgian actor, writer, and producer based in NYC. A 2020 Stella Adler Studio conservatory graduate, he holds a bachelor in finance from KULeuven (BEL), and co-founded Salted Lemon. His work originates from a personal trigger, focusing on social issues and what binds us as human beings. The beauty is in the flaw. NYC theatre: Buzzer; The Goat, or who is Sylvia?; By the way, meet Vera Stark; All my Sons; When we were young and unafraid; Julius Caesar; The Tempest; The Sun Tries Dating. Regional: Colorado New Play Festival company member. International: The Lark; An Oresteia (AcSenT) Film: The Chapel, 12 and More Omissions, Brief Encounters, FIX, Mother, Majdoline. TV: 20/20 (ABC).
Director, Writer
TONI KWADZOGAH
Toni Kwadzogah is an actor and writer. She is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and has an undergrad degree in English from Rutgers University, with focuses in Comparative Literature and Film Study. Previous directing credits: Smith Street Stage's As You Like it (Asst. Director). Previous acting credits: Escalus/M. Overdone in Measure for Measure, Dot in The Brooklyn Way, Vera Stark in By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, and Karen in Speed-the-Plow.
ARYN GEIER
Stage Manager
Aryn Geier (BA Musical Theatre - American University) is Bronx-based Actor, Stage Manager, Theatre Educator, and Costume Designer. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to theatre, focusing on stories that spark empathy and understanding of others. Some favorite credits include As You Like It at Smith Street Stage (SM), No Mercy at Moxie Arts NYC (SM and Costume Design), Jooce at New York Theatre Festival (Suncloud).
Lighting/Sound Designer
MICHAEL COMP
Working in the industry since she was 14, Michael Comp has had the pleasure of appearing on stage and in front of the camera, but has made the bulk of her career gaining and implementing tech skills behind both. She loves to collaborate with others to tell a story and is excited to help take part in bringing "Buzzer" to life. Recent credits include: Dragon Puppeteer/Performer at Evermore Park, Board of Directors/Head Technician at Grassroots Shakespeare Washington DC, Head Broadcasting Producer/Lighting Designer at B'nai Jeshurun, and winner of The Ten Show at The Hive Collaborative.