The Gig: After Moise and the World of Reason

DANIL BERDNIKOV (Skater) was born in Samara, Russia, and introduced to the ice at the age of three by his parents—both professional athletes—who first put him on hockey skates. What began as a family tradition quickly grew into a lifelong passion. As a teenager, Danil competed across Russia before moving to Moscow to continue his education and begin performing professionally with Stage Entertainment Russia. Over the past decade, he has toured extensively throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, performing with productions including Willy Bietak Productions, Holiday on Ice, Wheeler Productions, Stageworks Worldwide Productions, and Dynamic Shows Entertainment. In 2025, he toured with Art on Ice in Switzerland, sharing the stage with world-renowned skaters and international music artists. Danil relocated to New York City in 2021 and is now in his fourth season with Ice Theatre of New York. He is thrilled to be making his Williamstown Theatre Festival debut.

DAN DONIGAN (Skater) known professionally as Milk, is a NYC-based drag queen, figure skater, personal trainer, designer, musician, community organizer, model, actor. Milk competed on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 and All Stars 3. Dan has been skating for 25+ years, competing nationally in ice dance. Most recently, winning the 2025 Eastern Adult Sectional Gold Solo Ice Dance gold medal, in drag. Commercially, Milk has been the face of several campaigns, including Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, and MDNA Skin. He volunteers in arts and food service programs throughout NYC, as the world is made more vibrant when we take care of each other through active community organization and participation.

BENJAMIN GUTHRIE (Skater) is a Canadian-based professional figure skater performing around the world. Born and raised in a small town of northern Canada, Ben made the move to the city of Ottawa as a young teen to pursue a competitive career in figure skating. Finishing with a personal best season, Ben retired from the amateur world of skating in 2016 and simultaneously graduated from the University of Ottawa with an Honors Bachelor of Commerce specialized in Marketing. After working as a General Manager for the Gloucester Skating Club, a Skate Canada Professional Coach, and an Off-ice Program Director, Ben jumped into the world of performing in 2019. Ben’s professional skating career has now spanned more than 10 countries performing for various companies and productions. Highlights include: 5 seasons with Holiday on Ice (Line Captain, Semi Principal, and Principal Skater roles) touring throughout Europe, 2 North American tours with Disney on Ice (Principal Skater), stationary feria shows in Mexico with Illusion on Ice (Semi-Principal and Principal Skater), Toronto’s 145th year of the Canadian National Exhibition: ACTION! (Soloist, Ensemble Skater and Line Captain), and 2 summer seasons with the world-renowned Hot Ice (Soloist and Ensemble Skater) based in Blackpool, England.

ISAAC ALAN LINDY (Skater) is a NYC-based performing artist working across figure skating, dance and musical theater. Professional skating highlights include Le Patin Libre's Murmuration (Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, Venice Biennale), Holiday on Ice European tours (Line Captain, Ensemble), International Ice Stars (Principal Skater, Royal Opera House of Muscat), and the development of new site-specific work with IceLab Leipzig. As a dancer, Isaac has worked with Lyric Opera of Chicago (The Daughter of the Regiment), Opera Philadelphia (Principal Understudy, Oscar; La Traviata), the Putty Dance Project, Ruckus Dance, and has performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Isaac holds a BA with Honors in Urban Studies from Vassar College and is a proud member of the American Guild of Musical Artists. isaac-alan-lindy.com

WILL DAVIS (Conceiver, Choreographer, and Director) is a director and choreographer. His work has been seen off-broadway at Signature Theater, City Center, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Soho Rep. Regionally, his work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and ATC in Chicago where Davis previously served as Artistic Director. He received a Helen Hayes award for best direction for his work on Colossal at the Olney Theatre Center, was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for his direction of Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons, and is the recipient of the Princeton Arts Fellowship. Davis is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater.

DOUGLAS WEBSTER (Associate Choreographer) is the Founding Executive and Artistic Director of Ice Dance International (IDI), a professional performing arts figure skating company based in Maine since 2014. Webster has directed and produced all of IDI’s programs since its inception: 4 national tours (including the recent 14 city tour SOAR!), 2 performances at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, 3 PBS television specials, and has established community skating hubs in Stowe, VT and Portsmouth, NH. Prior to founding IDI, he served as the Artistic Director of the Ice Theatre of New York; Creative Director for Disson Skating’s 3-year series, Shall We Dance on Ice; and spent a decade as a choreographer for Disney on Ice, Holiday on Ice, Stars on Ice, and ABC’s Skating with the Stars. He is a leading figure skating educator heading IDI’s skate school, SKATE 360. These classes offer a multi-dimensional way of moving on ice and have been featured at United States Figure Skating’s elite training camps. Webster has also choreographed for many Olympic, World, and National Champions. Currently living in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, he shares his passion for skating with the town teaching and growing programs at the Piscataquis County Ice Arena while continuing to build IDI’s presence across the globe as the company moves into its second decade. Webster studied acting with Barbara Marchant at William Esper Studios in the early 90s and appeared in Tina Landau’s Stonewall: Night Variations in 1994 before committing to a life in skating. Visit www.icedanceinternational.org to learn more about IDI.

SARAH MARGARET STOWELL (Assistant Director) (she/her) is a New York based director and arts leader. She has recently worked at Rattlestick Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Mercury Store, The Chain Theatre, NewYorkRep, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Tuacahn Center for the Arts, and Virtual Stage Lab. Sarah earned her BFA from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama John Wells Directing Program. IG: @SarahStowell_

GRAY ST. BURDICK (Production Coordinator) (they/them) is an NYC and ATL based stage manager and live entertainment coordinator. They recently worked with Little Island and Rutgers Opera Theater. Outside of opera, theater, and dance, they are a Game Presentation & Live Events Associate at Sports Illustrated Stadium and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Gray is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts. IG: @graysaintburdick

OANA BOTEZ (Costume Designer) is a Romanian American costume designer for theater, opera, film and dance. She is a Henry Hewes Award recipient, Princess Grace Award recipient, NEA/TCG Career Development Program recipient, Barrymore Award recipient, Henry Hewes Design Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominee. New York: BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/Richard B.FisherCenter, Public Theater, Signature Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Big Apple Circus/Lincoln Center, Classic Stage Company, Soho Rep, PS122, The Kitchen. Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin (Barrington Stage Company); Macbeth (Old Globe); Angels in America (Wilma); Man in a Case (Hartford). Opera: The Comet/Poppea (The Industry LA, Curtis Institute, Philadelphia); Song of Ambassadors (Alice Tully Hall/ Lincoln Center); Carmen (Minneapolis Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Portland Opera); In a Grove (Pittsburgh Opera & Prototype NY); Persona (National Sawdust, REDCAT); A House in Bali (BAM), Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap Opera), Cosi (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Guy & Dolls (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Émigré (NY Philharmonic), Dido and Aeneas (Château de Versailles) Internationally: Bucharest National Theater (Romania), Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistances, The Old Vic, Budapest National Theater, Cluj Hungarian National Theater (Romania), Le Quartz (Brest, France), La Filature (Mulhousse, France), Exit Festival /Maison des Arts Creteil, Tanz im August Festival Hebbel am Ufer – HAU1(Berlin, Germany), Edinburgh International Festival, Singapore Arts Festival. She is teaching at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in the Design Department.

STOLI STOLNACK (Assistant Lighting Designer) (he/they) is an NYC-based lighting associate. Associate: Purpose (Broadway), Discoshow (Spiegelworld), Dear World and Once Upon a Mattress (Encores), Prayer for the French Republic and How I Learned to Drive (MTC- Friedman), Jagged Little Pill (1st National Tour), The Harder They Come and Fire in Dreamland (The Public), Dance Nation and Wives (Playwrights Horizons).