APRIL 29 - MAY 16, 2026
At The Bushwick Starr

Written and performed by ​​Michael Oluokun
Directed by Andrew Scoville
Presented by The Bushwick Starr

FEATURING:
Myles Madden and Michael Oluokun

CREATIVE TEAM:
Associate Director: Myles Madden
Scenic Designer: Emmie Finckel
Lighting Designer: Ebony Burton
Costume Designer: Nia Safarr Banks
Sound Designer: Ariana Cardoza
Props Supervisor & Scenic Associate: Sean Frank
Production Stage Manager: Pau
Assistant Stage Manager: Delaney Jordan

Line Producer: Alverneq Lindsay

ADDITIONAL STAFF:
Devin McCallion Fletcher (Production Manager), Jay Maury (Technical + Design Director), Colleen Combs (Assistant Technical Director), Chavon Patterson (Box Office Manager), Jen Williams (House Manager), Justin Allen (House Associate)

CREW:
Production Electrician: Jacqueline Scaletta
Wardrobe Supervisor: Noah Willis-Hogan
Scenic: Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez, Maggie Heath, Cole Montgomery, Kaylyn Kilkuskie, Lillie Shelor
Scenic Painters: Josh Oberlander, Isaac De Marchi
Lighting: Bonnie Puk, Eliut Ortiz
Sound: June Ricks, Olivia Martinez
Bushwick Starr Staff

SUPPORT + DEVELOPMENT:

Have You Ever Thought About is made with support from the New York State Council on the Arts

SPECIAL THANKS:
David Miner

BIOS:

Michael Oluokun
Michael Oluokun (he/they/she) is a writer, comedian, actor, producer and lover of frivolous trifles. Since graduating from NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, Michael has produced and acted in theatre and film productions shown everywhere from the Brick Theater to Tubi. Michael's pilot script "Fighters" was a Quarterfinalist in the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab in 2022. You can catch Michael performing in stand-up (and sometimes improv) shows across NYC, going to a comedian’s birthday party or downloading books off the internet.

Andrew Scoville
Andrew is a director specializing in immersive and interactive theater with a passion for integrating science ideas into live experiences. Recent credits include Theater of the Mind (a neuroscience/theater hybrid by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar currently running with Chicago’s Goodman Theater), Travels (Ars Nova), Money Heist: The Experience (Netflix and Fever), The Brobot Johnson Experience (Bushwick Starr, NY Times Critics Pick). Associate director on Here Lies Love (dir. Alex Timbers, Broadway, Public Theater, National Theater UK, Seattle Rep) and others. Graduate and faculty at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, NYU Tisch. Co-director FGP NYC.

Myles Madden
Myles Madden is an actor and writer and serves as the associate director/costar of Have You Ever Thought About? He studied Dramatic Writing and Film & Television Production at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Myles also writes and performs with his sketch comedy group Pencils of Color which has performed at New York comedy venues such as The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, Caveat, The Magnet Theater, and Brooklyn Comedy Collective, as well as amassing over 60,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok.

Emmie Finckel
Emmie Finckel (they/them) is a queer, Asian-American scenic designer. Recent credits include In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwright’s Horizons), Torera (WP Theater), Comedy of Errors (Public Theater: Mobile Unit), 53% Of (2nd Stage), The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre), In the Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door), Medea: Re-Versed (Red Bull), See What I Wanna See (Out of the Box), Indian Princesses, As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse), Becoming A Man (A.R.T.), Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theater), She Loves Me (Long Wharf), Hurricane Diane, The Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage), Sanctuary City (TheaterWorks Hartford), the ripple, the wave, that carried me home (Yale Repertory Theater). Emmie holds a BA from Wesleyan University, an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and teaches at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU. www.efinckel.com.

Ebony M. Burton
Ebony M. Burton (she/her) is an Oakland-born, Brooklyn-based lighting designer for theater, dance, and live events. Projects include A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors, Hurricane Diane (People’s Light); Flex, Loving and Loving (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Candide (SFSO); The Seven (Juilliard); Much Ado About Nothing (Williams College); Fences (NBPAC); Alicia Keys: An Evening With the Composer (Public Theater); P is for Pop, D is for Dip (PAC NYC); the end/the beginning (NYLA); The Sins of Sor Juana (Fordham University); Marie It’s Time (HERE Arts Center); The Book of Lucy; Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Brown/Trinity); as well as various collaborations with Blaze Ferrer. Other projects include Ultramarine, an art installation presented in Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza as part of their Social Sculpture Project. MFA in Design for Stage & Film from NYU Tisch. BA in Psychology from Oberlin College. Website: www.ebonyburton.com, IG: @thecolorcarmine

Nia Safarr Banks
“Nia Safarr Banks is a Costume Designer from Richmond, VA. Her design work has been seen in various productions, including William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at American Shakespeare Center, August Wilson’s Fences and The Piano Lesson at Shakespeare and Company, and Self Portrait (Deluxe) at The Bushwick Starr. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Costume Design from Boston University in 2023, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019. She has been nominated for two Richmond Critic Awards for her outstanding work in Costume Design, for both An Octoroon (2019) and A Christmas Kaddish (2022). "

Ariana Cardoza
Ariana Cardoza is a sound designer based in New York City. Previously, her work has been heard at 59E59 Theaters (Polishing Shakespeare, Not Nobody), Kitchen Theatre Company (Milkweed, King James, The Brobot Adventure, Laughs in Spanish), Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein), Hangar Theatre (Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B), Columbia University (Out of the Blue, As Youse Like It), and The Brick (PRISONCORE!). arianasound.com

Sean Frank 
Sean is a Brooklyn-based props designer & set dresser. Broadway: Becky Shaw (associate props supervisor). Recent props design/supervision credits include: Spare Parts (Theatre Row), The Tragedy of Coriolanus (Theatre for a New Audience), Beau the Musical, Inspired by True Events (Out of the Box Theatrics), Teeth (New World Stages), Road Kills (Good Apples Collective). Assistant credits: Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons + Studio Seaview), Practice, The Antiquities, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Stereophonic, Wet Brain, Teeth, Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons).

Pau
Pau (Production Stage Manager) is a stage manager and actress originally from Santiago, Chile and based in New York City. She graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy’s Integrated Program and obtained her BFA in Musical Theatre at The New School, NY. Some of her Stage Management credits are: REGIONAL: Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting; Your Name Means Dream (Contemporary American Theatre Festival). NYC: Spread (INTAR Theatre); Domino Effect (The People’s Theatre); Brilliance; The Waterman (The Players Theatre); PAM (Ars Nova); Buggy Baby (APAC); FLEX (NYU); All Is Fair I & II (Quest Players); Puka Who? (Rising Sun

Delaney Jordan
Delaney Jordan is a New York City and Boston based Stage Manager with an extensive background in dance performance. Her past work includes a wide range of productions in both traditional and non-traditional theatre spaces with a concentration in immersive and interactive works. Select recent credits include: Legends of Brook Ave. (Stage Manager), Dirty Books (Production Stage Manager), La clemenza di Tito (Assistant Stage Manager), Domino Effect (Assistant Stage Manager). 

Artwork by Brenna O’Brien