Who we are

Morgane Ciot

Artistic co-director

Morgane is a writer & director based in NYC. Her work with The Classics Department includes directing the genre-bending shows Psychomagic 9 and Bet on Love. Her first short film, Vibrator Girl, had its world premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV festival, and was an official selection at Palm Springs International ShortFest, SIFF + Museum of Pop Culture Science Fiction, and others. She was voted “Most Mischievous Girl” in her senior year of high school. Her male counterpart was the kid who threatened to bomb the school. :/

Alice Maynwaring

Artistic co-director

Alice Maynwaring is a Brooklyn-based theater artist and ritual designer. She is also a student of many worlds, having studied psychology at Columbia, theology at Boston University, and Western esotericism in her room late at night. In a past life, she was a software engineer. Now, her aim is to create immersive experiences that challenge people to discover new layers within themselves.

Duncan Horst

Male muse, ritual director

Duncan Horst blends musicals, game shows, immersive theater, long-form improv, freestyle and improvised music to create works which blur the boundaries between stage and reality. He is a writer, director, long form and musical improv performer, and reality artist.

His characters — often enigmatically named Duncan Horst — leverage the authority given by the modern public to American game show hosts, CEOs, cult leaders, and traditional leading men to invite an audience to take that authority in their own lives, and distribute the authority to the entire afterparty and beyond. His theater is a laboratory where new culture erupts from the transgression of overly-familiar forms, encouraging an audience to actively participate both on stage and create new capacity within their own lives.

As actor and Master of Ceremonies, he offers his art as a bridge between the sham-man of modern culture to the trickster shaman of ancient forms. He can be reached passively on the astral plane, or actively through persistence hunting.