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Written by Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Angela Astle
Cast:
Todd d’Amour* – Marco
Candice Holdorf* – Waitress/Ballerina
Lynn Kenny – Psychiatrist/Ballerina
Maria Portman Kelly* – Suzy
Brian Pracht – Joe
Zack Robidas – Bobby
Marnie Schulenburg – Allegra
Cotton Wright* – Supervisor/Ballerina
Creative Team:
Jason Paradine – Production Manager
Heather Cohn – Set Design
Kate August – Stage Manager
Ashley Martinez – Choreographer
Kevin Fuller – Sound Design
Becky Kelly -Costume Design
Andy Fritsch – Lighting Design
Kelly O’Donnell & August Schulenburg – Props
Isaiah Tanenbaum – Photography & Graphics
Emily Owens PR – Publicist
Cast
Marco
Todd is from New Orleans. NYC: Spain, dir. Shana Gold; What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends, Theatre Row; La Femme est Morte, PS122; Syphon, dir. Shana Gold; Orpheus & Eurydice, (Orpheus), Human Group; The Cenci, Watermill Cntr/OHIO; Lie of the Mind (Jake), MTS; Rus, Mabou Mines/HERE; Woman of Trachis (Heracles), OHIO, dir. Alice Reagan; STANLEY, Dir. Lisa D’Amour, HERE; Red Tide Blooming, PS122, Dir. Taylor Mac; Major Barbara, Two-Headed Calf; The World, Gail Gates, et al; Regional: A Streetcar named Desire (Stanley), SMT; Silent Lives (Charlie Chaplin), TNT; A Perfect Ganesh, TNT. Todd would like to thank his family. Thank you Lisa.
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Ballerina/Waitress
Candice is honored to be working with Adam and Angela on this beautiful play. A co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble, Candice has performed with Flux as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Claudia in 8 Little Antichrists (part of The Angel Eaters Trilogy) and Chuck in Rue. Other roles include Charlotte/Restriction in 36:24:36 (New York Fringe); Margot Wendice in Dial M For Murder (Cortland Repertory); Jill in Conference Room A (Kids With Guns); Mary in Vanities (Atlanta’s Neighborhood Playhouse); Dauphin in Henry V (14th Street Playhouse). She is a professional commercial actress, model and yoga teacher. Candice is an Atlanta native and alumna of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. www.candiceholdorf.com
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Suzy
Maria Portman Kelly is pleased to join Flux Theatre Ensemble after participating in last year’s Imagination Compact for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performance credits include work with Heiress Productions, Abingdon Theatre, The Culture Project, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Public Theatre of Maine, The Theater at Monmouth, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She holds a BFA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and is a proud member of AEA.
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Ballerina/Psychiatrist
Originally from WI, Lynn is celebrating her 7th year on the East Coast. Having moved to the city in May she is thrilled to be joining Flux in this beautiful artistic conversation, marking her first experience in Independent Theatre. Lynn was recently seen as The Countess Cortez at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not on 42nd Street and may be seen as a featured extra in Richard Kelly’s upcoming film, The Box. Lynn holds an MFA in Acting with a personal emphasis in film.
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Joe
Brian is thrilled to be working with Flux Theatre Ensemble again. Last summer he appeared as Demetrius in their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other productions include Cherrie and Jerry (Axial Theatre), Twelfth Night (Blunder Prods.), Animal Planet (Hot Shorts Fest), Don’t Panic (SwampKing PlayFest), The Proof is in the Pudding (Strawberry One Act Festival), lowbrow (and a little bit tacky) (Plum Prods.), and The Pot Luck Plays (Milk Can Theatre Company). Special thanks to my family and A.O.
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Bobby
Zack Robidas is a founding member of At Play Productions. He is a member of the Old Vic New Voices Network and is a resident member of the 24 Hour Plays. He has appeared on two of three Law and Order’s and can be seen as a recurring character on the NBC show Kings. Zack has spent five summers with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and is a graduate of DeSales University. He would like to thank all his Fluxing friends for their continued support. “My love to my love.”
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Allegra
NY Theatre: Angel Eaters (Joann), Flux Theatre Ensemble; Anais Nin Goes to Hell (Andromeda), MT Works; The Yellow Wood (Ms. Math, etc), NYMF ‘07; TV/Film: Currently Alison Stewart on As the World Turns, Young and The Restless, & LA Diaries, Canterbury’s Law (Annabeth Mills), Made For Each Other (Sassy Waitress), Fringe (Young Mom). Thank you Flux Core for your hard work and dedication. Thanks to Allan, Sare, and T for continually coming to my shows. Thank you Mom and Dad for being so supportive while I repeatedly get cast in roles where I am violated or a drug addict. Marnie is grateful to share the stage again with her boyfriend, Zack. I love you duppa!
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Ballerina/Supervisor
A member of Flux Theatre Ensemble, Cotton was last seen as Azazyl in Flux’s Angel Eaters. She has worked with Oberon Theatre Ensemble, King’s County Shakespeare Company, Gideon Productions and Artistic New Directions. Some of her favorite regional theater credits include Twelfth Night (Viola), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia), Steel Magnolias (Shelby), Oklahoma (Laurey) and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Sally). She is exceptionally grateful to her friends and family for their continued love and support despite her frequent (if unintentional) neglect. She is currently workshopping a new musical for the New York Fringe Festival and shooting a webisode to be released in 2010.
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*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
Playwright
Adam’s plays Food For Fish and Nerve were called “fabulously weird and weirdly fabulous” and “sweet, sexy, neurotic friendly”, respectively, by the New York Times. His work has been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands and Lithuania. Adam’s plays have been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwright Horizons, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Lark, Julliard, Manhattan Theatre Source, Clubbed Thumb, Theatre of Note and Studio Dante, among others. Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Open Minds, Anne, The Art Machine, Food For Fish, Hearts like Fists, Herbie, Incendiary, Bee Eater, Temporary Everything, Susan Gets Some Play and Nerve. Adam’s plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service, The New York Theater Review and in various Smith and Kraus anthologies. Adam is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and was a founding member of Ars Nova Play Group. Adam received his playwriting MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow and, subsequently, received a Playwright’s Diploma from the Julliard School.
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Director
Angela came to New York from Denver in August 2007. She was the Venue Director for the New York International Fringe Festival 2007 where she first met Flux. She was invited to be the associate director for Flux’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream while also associate producing Lysistrata at Gallery Players. Past directing credits include Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins’ play based on the movie and book of the same name) and Waffles by Martha Garvey as part of the Estrogenius Festival 2008 at Manhattan Theatre Source. Other recent directing credits include A Place for Owls by Fiona Jones, and What We Planned For by Jen Thatcher. Angela is currently the Associate Producer at New Perspectives Theatre Company.
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Production Manager
Jason is a co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble. For Flux, Jason has been seen as an actor in Rattlers and Rue. He was set designer for Other Bodies, Riding the Bull and Life is a Dream and has served as Production Manger for all of Flux’s shows. Jason works as a carpenter at the Public Theater and can be found building scenery throughout the city with No Time for Love Productions. As an actor, production manager, carpenter and set designer, Jason has spanned the East Coast.
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Set Design
Heather is a co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble and currently serves as the Managing & Development Director. Set design credits: Flyers and Other Tales (Midtown International Theatre Festival); Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir (NYC Fringe Festival). Directing credits with Flux: Other Bodies by August Schulenburg (winner of the FringeNYC Excellence Award for “Outstanding Direction”); staged readings of Sueño (Jose Rivera) and Pretty Theft (Adam Szymkowicz); upcoming The Lesser Seductions of History (Fall of 2009).
Heather is a proud member of the Women’s Project Producer’s LAB (2008-2010). She serves as treasurer of the Board of Directors of The Equus Projects, and has also worked with NYTW, TCG, The Pearl, Fourth Arts Block (FAB), Cornerstone Theater Co., Cherry Lane, and Repertorio Español.
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Choreographer
Ashley has acted with companies including PCPA Theatrefest, The Glendale Centre Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival. Direction/Choreography credits include: You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Norris Center), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Norris Center), Killing Mockingbirds w/ The Rough Eagles (INTIMAN), L.A. Storytellers (Cornerstone Theatre Company). Ashley continues her work in arts education through Centrum (Port Townsend, WA), and Inside Out Community Arts (Venice, CA). Ashley is a certified yoga instructor, and passionate about creating conceptually rich community-based theatre.
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Stage Manager
Kate August is an elusive creature of the off-off Broadway theater and recently off Broadway. Past projects include but are not limited to; Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire, Call Me Anne, Force Majure, One Nation Under, Red Light Winter, 2Gents, The Optimist, 99 Degrees, 516 and the After Dark series sponsored by the Potomac Theater Company, and many other kamikaze theatre events, as they have always been her favorite types of theatre endeavors. And often times she can be found teaching “children how to lie” in Long Island, or out in the Midwest touring with the Beijing Opera.
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Sound Design
Kevin has spent the past six years working as a professional sound designer/engineer across the country. Past productions include Beauty and the Beast, 42nd Street, and Stand by Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story, (Mountain Playhouse), Metamorphosis, and Assassins (Amarillo Little Theatre). Kevin is excited to be doing his first show with Flux. As well as design, Kevin balances his time between playwriting and musical theatre composition. He would like to thank Jason, Angela, Heather, Gus, Kelly and the rest of Flux for giving him the chance to work on this great show. Special thanks to friends and family, his beautiful girlfriend Eliza and the rest of the Chetlin family for all their love and support.
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Costume Design
Becky started designing while working on her BA in Acting/Directing at DeSales Univerversity. During her time there, she assisted on West Side Story, The Little Foxes, and Triumph of Love. She assisted on Flux’s Angel Eater’s Trilogy last Fall and she’s grateful for the opportunity to work with them again on Pretty Theft. Love and thanks to the family and friends!
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Publicist
Emily Owens PR is a NYC based public relations agency specializing in independent theatre. Cli
ents include Horse Trade Theater Group, terraNOVA Collective, Theatre of the Expendable, The Vagabond Theatre Ensemble, playwright Robert Attenweiler, Director/Choreographer Rachel Klein, and Sponsored By Nobody. Emily has also previously worked on the critically acclaimed Hostage Song: the new indie-rock musical, The New York FRIGID Festival, and Revealed Burlesque.
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