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Meet the team
Flying V Staff Members
Joey Ibanez (he/him)
Co-Artistic Lead – Flying V Fights
Joey is a DMV based actor, digital artist, and professional wrestler. Joey first joined Flying V in 2019 as a professional wrestler, then later that year as a company member. As an actor, Joey has performed locally and internationally with theatre companies such as the Tobacco Factory @ Bristol, Charing Cross Theatre, Fishamble, Constellation Theatre, Rorschach Theater, Adventure Theatre – MTC, ComedySportzDC, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, and Kennedy Center. He has also toured nationally, performing with the American Shakespeare Center and the Kennedy Center. As a professional wrestler, Joey has performed with various promotions across the Northeast. TRAINING: CHIKARA-Wrestle Factory, MA Bristol Old Vic Theatre School ‘08. Proud member of AEA.
navi (he/they)
Artistic Lead - R&D
Navi is a manymedia artist who has spent the last twenty years making music, performing, creating visual art, writing, and designing for the stage and screen. You can find out more about them here!
Tim German (he/him)
Co-Artistic Lead – Flying V Fights
Tim is an actor, playwright, and professional wrestler. Second City and University of Maryland Trained, Tim has worked in theatres and wrestling rings around the DMV and eastern seaboard. He was named one of independent wrestling’s Top 100 unsigned talents of 2020 by GoProWrestling, and he currently teaches both wrestling and theatre education in and around Montgomery County. Tim has performed with Flying V in FLYING V FIGHTS: SECRET HISTORY OF THE UNKNOWN WORLD, SHEILA AND MOBY, and CRYSTAL CREEK MOTEL,, as well as Eel O’Neal, recurrent heel in the wrestling ring. He joined Flying V as an official Company Member in 2018, and joined Joey Ibanez in leading Flying V Fights as a co-Artistic Lead in December 2020. Other local theatre credits include: Prologue Theatre, Single Carrot Theatre, 4615 Theatre Company, Cohesion Theatre Company, Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Adventure Theatre MTC.
Ruben Vellekoop (he/him)
Company Production Manager
Bio Coming Soon!
Susanna Pretzer (she/her)
Literary Manager
Susanna has served as a dramaturg and/or script supervisor for many Flying V projects, from SHEILA AND MOBY and BROTHER MARIO to CRYSTAL CREEK MOTEL and every AWESOME-A-THON and episode of PAPERLESS PULP. She was on the writing team for FLYING V FIGHTS 3: A SECRET HISTORY OF THE UNKNOWN WORLD and has dramaturged productions at Olney Theatre Center, Premiere Stages, Florida Studio Theatre, and Random Access Theatre. She has also provided script coverage for organizations including Manhattan Theatre Club, WSC Avant Bard’s Scripts In Play Festival, City Theatre, the Inkwell, the Short+Sweet Festival, and Dobama Theatre.
Kelly Colburn (she/they/Kelly)
Executive Director, Outgoing Artistic Lead - Theatre
Kelly is a DC-based multi-disciplinary artist working as a producer, director, designer, and deviser for live performance. In addition to working at Flying V, Kelly is also the Digital Producer at Theater Alliance. Kelly has worked with companies across dance and theater in the DMV such as Orange Grove Dance, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Christopher K. Morgan & Artists, SOLEDefined, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, Theater J, Imagination Stage, Roundhouse Theatre, Olney Theater Centre, Pointless Theatre Company, Rorschach Theater, Adventure Theatre, and Shakespeare Theatre Company. Kelly received her first off-broadway credit as part of the Theater Mitu Technology Team on american (tele) visions at New York Theatre Workshop in 2022 which garnered her nominations at the Lucille Lortel Awards and Henry Hewes Awards. Kelly received a 2020 Helen Hayes Award for Projections Design on Blood At The Root with Theater Alliance, has multiple Helen Hayes awards nominations, was a 2017-2018 NextLOOK Resident and a recipient of the 2018 Jim Henson Puppetry Grant. DCCAH Fellowship Awardee. BFA NYU Tisch ’11 | MFA UMD ’18
Company Members
Danny Cackley
James Finley
Patrick Flynn
Madeline Key
Lee Liebeskind
Neil McFadden
Daniel Mori
Dre Moore
Joseph Musumeci
Gordon Nimmo-Smith
Megan Reichelt
Kristin Thompson
Emily Whitworth
Board Members
Michael Beder
Myra Cruz
Bob Cali
Katherine Offutt
Warren Sharon
Advisory Board
Ellys Abrams
Andrea Bachinski
Michael Bobbitt
William Caldwell
Stephanie Coppula
Kim Goldberg
Andrew Gordon
Jon Jon Johnson
Lee Liebeskind
Matthew Pauli
Jonathan Ezra Rubin
Michael Saltzman
Mike Valentyne
The Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring
Flying V is a proud resident company of the Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring. The consortium is housed in the Silver Spring Black Box on Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland and is comprised of Lumina Studio Theatre, Live Garra Theatre, ArtStream, and Flying V.
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center
Flying V is also a resident partner at the B-CCRSC in Bethesda, Maryland. A proud member of the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, Flying V shares this building with other awesome nonprofit community partners: Chevy Chase at Home, the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County , Wonders Learning, and Live & Learn Bethesda.