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Jeremy Rafal, writer and performer

Jeremy playing the pianoJeremy Rafal was born in the Philippines, raised in Hawaii, and now a New York City based multi-hyphenate artist as an actor, musician, writer, director, and educator.  He was last seen on stage in Heart Strings (The Atlantic Theater), Maple & Vine (Constellation Stage and Screen), Machinal (The Mechanicals), The King & I (Interlakes Theatre), Richard III and King John (American Theatre of Actors). As a pianist, he has performed and competed nationally and internationally taking him to Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Russia, Italy, among others. He earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and a Doctor of Music degree from Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University under the tutelage of the late Dr. Karen Shaw. He is excited to finally bring The Boy from Bantay to Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025 after its premiere at FringeNYC. TV credits include Power Book III “Raising Kanan”, FBI, I’d Kill for You, among others. He has also appeared in films and several commercials. As a writer, his play Where Voices Linger was a runner up in Kingsman Quarterly’s Holiday Playwright Contest. His short film Exit 15 has won several accolades at film festivals including Best Dramatic Short, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and an Audience Award. He recently composed the opera Standing Above Pajaro with San Francisco based playwright Conrad Panganiban, inspired by the 1930 Watsonville Riots against Filipino migrant workers. Besides being an actor-musician, Jeremy is also into linguistics, jump roping, and CrossFit as a certified CF-L1 trainer. IG @thatonepinoyguy

Josh Boerman, director

Josh Boerman is a New York-based director and designer. From 2013 to 2015 he worked as costume manager at the Flea Theatre, assisting with and maintaining costumes for shows including Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, a cautionary tail, and the Drama Desk-nominated The Mysteries. He also designed the costumes for Kapow-i GoGo, currently in monthly residence at the PIT. Josh has directed over 20 episodes of the long-running late-night play competition #serials@theflea, and is an internationally ranked competitive pinball player.

Kate Morris, co-producer

Kate is a graduating Arts and Entertainment Management student at Pace University. She has interned at The Thrasher-Horne Center and The Jazz Gallery, gaining hands-on knowledge in venue operations, marketing, and event logistics. Now, she’s co-producing The Boy from Bantay at Edinburgh Fringe 2025, further honing her skills in live event production. Kate is passionate about performance, music, and travel.

Leviathan Lab, co-producer and fiscal sponsor

Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of AANHPI artists’ words, and the presentation of AANHPI bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established AANHPI artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve www.leviathanlab.org

THE BOY FROM BANTAY is a fiscally-sponsored project of Leviathan Lab, a nonprofit creative studio for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander theatre and film artists. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.