Our Story

Our founding members hail from a variety of backgrounds - from law to business, from technology to arts. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, each of us were deeply involved in theater-making at a time when the bounds of the medium were shattered, and the global artistic community was calling into question what theater could be in a remote landscape.

With our founding members based in Chicago, New York City, and London we are committed to applying these hard-learned lessons to increase the efficiency, efficacy, and ethicality of our productions, even as we return to a world of in-person art.

We aim to develop highly mobile networks of support and resource acquisition, so that we may produce high quality, full length productions whenever and wherever opportunity arises, and connect passionate individuals across all walks of life.

Meet The Team

Artistic Director

Chicago Lead

Hershey Kaur Suri

Hershey Kaur Suri is a director, producer, and actor based in Chicago, IL. Receiving her B.A. in Politics and Theatre at Pomona College, she moved to Chicago in 2021 to pursue a career focused on wrongful conviction litigation and theatre. She is now pursuing a Juris Doctorate at the University of Chicago Law School, set to graduate in June of 2027.

As a sociolegal scholar, her work both in the legal and theatre worlds focus on how community-based storytelling impacts the law and vice versa.

Hershey is an Artistic Associate with Shattered Globe Theatre, Broadway Producer Hub’s Theatre Producer of Color’s class of 2026, and the 2025 Jeff Award Impact Fellow. She is represented by Dream Team Talent Chicago. hersheysuri.com

Executive Producer

London Lead

Nandini Mittal

Nandini Mittal is a producer based in London. After receiving her Bachelor's in Economics and Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College in 2022, Dini moved to New York to work in the Sustainable Finance advisory space. She most recently moved to London, spending most of her time in a dance studio or trying to win rush tickets!

Dini grew up heavily involved in the performing arts community in Bangkok and then had the pleasure of sharing the stage with deeply talented peers—now POP! co-founders—during her time at CMC. Having acted, directed, produced, and dabbled in set design, Dini is thrilled to be a founding member of the POP! team.

Marketing Director

NYC Lead

Tiffany Zhou

Tiffany Zhou is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. She studied theater and mathematics at Pomona College and dabbles in both in The Big Apple!

When she is not overseeing one too many financial spreadsheets, you can find her lounging under foliage, doing yoga with cats, or hanging out with New York Cares.

She is absolutely delighted to be a part of the POP! team and cannot wait for you to see where we pop up next!

Technical Director

Hunter Lustberg

Hunter Lustberg is an actor, writer and lighting designer based in New York City. He received his Bachelors in Theater and Written arts from Bard College in 2021 and has continued his acting studies at John Strasberg Studios.

In 2022 his play Roomies haunted the New York Theater Festival, earning nominations for Best Play and Best Director.

Since then, he’s been hard at work on a novel about finding beauty in the things we can’t hope to understand. While that’s busy baking at 400°F for three thousand hours, he’s stoked to be joining the unbelievably talented tech team at POP! and can’t wait to help light up the stage.

Development Director

Fiona Ross

Fiona is a Chicago-based actor, stage manager, producer, and philanthropy professional. She holds a BFA in Acting, BS in English Literature, and Certificate in On-Camera Acting from Missouri State University.

Fiona is a proud member of Shattered Globe Protégé Program’s 2024 Cohort, Forefront's Grantmakers Institute, and was a 2025 Exponent Philanthropy Next Gen Fellow. She is passionate about accessible, equitable theatre, reading good books, and being a cat mom. fionaross.me

Associate Producer

Jack Morrill

Jack Morrill is an actor, director, producer, and drag artist based out of New York City. He received his BA in Arts Administration and BFA in Acting from Elon University in 2023. They have worked at several big Off-Broadway theatres in NYC and currently find themselves at The Juilliard School working in ticketing.

Jack is passionate about queer art and is looking to build the next generation of the queer canon through theatre, TV, and film.

You can find his alter ego, Ciggy Capri, on a Pop Up! stage from time to time.

Jack is incredibly honored to be a part of such a powerhouse group of artists.

Outreach Associate

Anuka Sethi

Anuka Sethi is an India-born, Dubai-raised, and New York City-based actor and creative producer who proudly answers the question "Where are you from?" with a very long story. Drawing from her Third Culture Kid background, she hopes to bring nuance and authenticity to performances that centre underrepresented voices, particularly within South Asian narratives on stage and screen. Recent acting credits include The Thousand And One Nights (La MaMa/dir. Ghina Fawaz), Alexandria (Pop Up! Productions/Dixon Place - where she happily caught the Pop Up! bug!), The Wolves (SoHo Playhouse), Sightings (Philipstown Depot Theatre), and the award-winning short film Hide & Seek (streaming on TasveerTV). Anuka is currently the Artist in Residence at Live & In Color. BFA: NYU Tisch. Offstage, she is fuelled by matcha, fresh nails, and the belief that there is always one more TV show worth binge-ing. anukasethi.com.