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| Naked Holidays NYC Cast and Crew |
Cast
Alexandra Bard
Shooting her first commercial at the age of 10 months it seems this Aussie was born an actress. Alexandra first began her acting studies at the age of 10 with the Australian Theatre for Young People, (patrons including actress Nicole Kidman and Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann) and in her later teens continued her studies at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (acknowledged for graduates such as Mel Gibson and Cate Blanchett). Today, Alexandra is a graduate of New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a proud student of William Esper of the William Esper Studio. Alexandra has worked on numerous international commercial and print campaigns, her Australian TV and film credits include the soap opera: Home and Away and TV movie The Natalia Wood Story. New York Theatre credits include: (Alma) Summer and Smoke, (Miss Julie) Miss Julie, (Juliet) Romeo and Juliet, (Lady Macbeth) Macbeth, (Lady Nijo/ Win) Top Girls. Alexandra is excited to be embarking on a career in the US and more importantly to be spending her Christmas with Endtimes Productions!
Jason Barker
Originally from Texas y'all; a graduate of Sam Houston State with a B.F. A. in Theatre. Several recent classes at the Atlantic Theatre School. NYC credits include: The Best Party Ever at the Richmond Shepard Theatre, several showcases/one-acts produced by The Actor's Project NYC and staged at the Abingdon and Michael Weller Theatres. Member of AFTRA; for more info go to: www.jasonbarkeronline.com. Jason is excited to play his "naked" part in this EndTimes production.
Nadja Hoyer-Booth
Nadja is a recent convert to the acting profession. Upon surprising herself, family & friends with her new calling and getting her first audition, callback and part, she proceeded to take acting classes for two years with Matthew Corrozine. Life's been good, and Nadja can be seen as the "Cougar" in "Beast", the music video; burning at the stake in "Silent"; as the Medical Examiner in "Blood Kisses"; played Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet" in North Hampton, MA.; and as a "neighbor" in Gene Simmons Family Jewels on A & E. She is thrilled to be romping off-off Broadway with the wonderful cast and crew in this production of "Naked Holidays".
Alessandro Colla
Alessandro Colla is an alumnus of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and Boston University. Theater credits include: Luis Felipe in BOMBERS' ROW (2007) Trinculo in THE TEMPEST (06), Loophole in FRIENDLY FIRE (05), and Speedracer in POLAROID STORIES (05). Film credits: Gaspare in HBO Original VENDETTA (99)
Rainbow Geffner
Rainbow Geffner received her masters from East15 Acting School in London, England and trained in physical theatre at Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre in California. She has been performing nationally and internationally, doing original theatrical works professionally, for the past ten years. She has a number of commercial and television credits to her name and has made a number of short films this past year that can be seen at her website www.rainbowgeffner.com. Rainbow recently completed the
fall training at SITI Company. Look out for her in a new production this January called the Zombie Chronicles with Cagey Productions.
Colleen Jasinski
Colleen is very excited to be working with End Times on this wild and wacky show! She was most recently seen as Lady MacDuff and one of the Weird Sisters in New Perspectives Theatre Company's school production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Prior to that, she appeared as a bawdy stripper in the New York Times critically acclaimed production of Hanoch Levin's Job's Passion, presented by Theatre for the New City. Other favorite roles include Suzanne Gold-Stein in Twilight of the Golds, Mariette in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, Julie in Bubbling, and Flora in A Perfect Analysis Given by A Parrot,. She would like to thank her family and friends for all their love and support and wishes everyone a happy holiday season and prosperous New Year!
Jamie King
Jamie King was born and raised in Port Townsend Washington. He holds a BFA in Theatre from New York University where he attended the Stella Adler Conservatory, the Experimental Theatre Wing and the International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam. Since graduating, he has appeared in numerous plays, a few favorites being "Jabu" with Elizabeth Swados, "Limitless Joy" with Josh Fox and "Veritas" at Columbia University, as well as many independent and student films.
Jessica Ko
is thankful to EndTimes for keeping her employed this year. Other credits include: Overheard (EndTimes), Over the Asian Airwaves (EndTimes), Rose Pie (Garden Variety Festival), Little Tales (Manhattan Children's Theatre), Waiting for Lefty, and an all-female cast of Glengarry Glen Ross. You can currently can catch her in a national Lowes commercial on everyone's favorite home improvement channel, HGTV. Thanks and love to all the JK's and to JC.
Jamie Lewis
Jamie Lewis studied at the two-year acting conservatory in Manhattan, The School for Film and Television and an Associate Degree in Radio/ Television Broadcasting. Before moving to NYC from Syracuse, NY; Jamie was a Radio Dj for five years at Syracuse's #1 Rock Station and performed in a number of shows at Syracuse's,Theatre 90. Jamie continues to do voice-overs in the commercial industry, including for VH1. Most recently she has been in the CBS TV show: Love Monkey, a TV Pilot: Bloodhounds, and is filming an independent: Drunken Disciples of God. Jamie is delighted to be apart of this show!
Angela Lovell
Angela Lovell is an award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, and music/film critic. Once a writer at Universal Studios and MTV, she now freelances for publications such as Match.com and High Times. Angela can be found in Brooklyn avoiding dairy products and petting strangers’ dogs. See her best side at: www.tickingboxes.com
Serena Miller
Serena Ebony Miller, aka "The Walking Thesaurus", is another recent transplant to New York from Philadelphia, where she attended the University of the Arts (BFA, Theater Arts). Those who have helped her move would say that she has "too many books" and continue to wonder why she chose one of the biggest instruments a person could play. As a musician, Serena has been seen in plaid during rock performances, not seen at all in countless pit orchestras, and recognized only by her hair in others. Her love for the stage brought her to work with several companies in Philadelphia after graduation, and she is really excited to spend her holidays with EndTimes. She sends love and thanks to her family for their patience and support, to her boss for not firing her, her co-workers, the cast and crew, and apartments 4 and 5. Special thanks to the state of Pennsylvania and its noble peaks.
Justin Ness
Justin received his BA, Theater Arts from Boise State University. Yes, the football field is really blue. Hmm? No, I did not play college football there. Hah...yes, I certainly am big enough to have played there. Um, New York credits include: Creon - The Medea; Son/Hanging Man - Baaahhh (NYC Fringe); Lieutenant - Plays for the Sunni Triangle; Officer - Hugging the Shoulder (NYC Fringe); Don Pedro - Much Ado About Nothing; Lincoln County Sherriff - The Ascetic of Lincoln County (NYC Fringe); Regional Credits: Leroy Lumpkin - Smoke and Mirrors; "Daniel" - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged; Homer Collyer - The Dazzle; Teddy Hodell - Valparaiso and BabbyBobby - The Cripple of Inishmaan. Film: Searching for Bobby D opposite Kevin Dobson and Carmen Electra.
Kerstin Porter
Kerstin completed her theater studies at UC Santa Cruz. She took the last year to participate in a theater internship in London. Finally she took the big move to New York to pursue acting. She is enjoying the beginning to an exciting new career.
Kendra Jewell Treichler
Kendra studied at the University of Texas at Austin and the British American Dramatic Academy in Oxford, UK. New York credits include: Erotium in The Menaechmi Twins, Wendy in A Thousand Yard Stare and Pisanio in Cymbeline. Television credits: Law & Order: CI She is a founding member of award-winning Spotlight Music Ensemble. Kendra is thrilled to make this her first End Times Production. Ho! Ho! Ho!
Luke Tudball
Luke trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama, London , and at the Russian School of Acting, as well as at the University of East Anglia , Norwich, He made his London West End debut in April 2002, taking a leading role in the musical production 'Life On Earth' at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the London Palladium, and has worked and toured in Hungary, as well as extensively in the UK and the United States. Luke has worked with groups as diverse as the National Youth Music Theatre of Great Britain, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, the Keble Choir, and the English National Opera Company. He is a member of British Actors Equity, The Spotlight, The London Equity Choir, and the Actors’ Centre, London , as well as the TVI Actors Centre, New York . His many other credits include work in voiceover, radio, film and television.
Recent work includes: ‘Law and Order’ (Gulf War Veteran), ‘I Can Cry!’ (BBC Newsreader),‘Furnace Four’ (Strivitz),‘Out of the Flames’ (Basem), ‘Friendly Fire’ (British Army Commander), ‘Happy Hour’ (Comedian), 'The Gruffalo and Friends' (The Gruffalo), ‘The Room On The Broom Song Show’ (The Gruffalo), 'The Pirates of Penzance' (The Pirate King), 'Vincent - Prisoner of a Dream' (Paul Gauguin), and 'Stig of the Dump' (Stig). For more information, please visit www.luketudball.co.uk
Matthew Watkins
Mr. Watkins graduated from University of The Arts with a BFA in theatre 2005. Since graduating, Mr. Watkins accepts and enjoys the professional responsibility of being called Mister. Mr. Watkins is pleased to be involved in his first professional theatre show in New York. Mr. Watkins delivered a powerful performance as JP the delivery guy in a Domino’s Pizza commercial 2006. Mr. Watkins was fortunate to work with Men of Science, playing Clem in the MTV pilot The O.Z. Mr. Watkins would like thank his parents, Uncle Brian, and friends for their support in this exciting career.
Secret Santa’s Juicy Jollies, the legendary North Pole musical comedy troupe, has been playing exclusive gigs at various NYC clubs and theaters for years, presenting their unique brand of magical Christmas mayhem. They can be seen worldwide every year, beamed live via satellite from the North Pole, in their annual holiday spectacular, Have A Juicy Jolly Christmas! Their body of work, including the best-selling, multi-platinum CD’s The Workshop Sessions, Naughty or Nice, and Live From The Frozen Tundra! has delighted and/or disturbed millions of dedicated fans. They have also been seen at Caroline’s On Broadway, Danny’s Skylight Room, Don’t Tell Mama and The D Lounge. You can learn more of their secrets at www.juicysanta.com
Alexandra Bard
Shooting her first commercial at the age of 10 months it seems this Aussie was born an actress. Alexandra first began her acting studies at the age of 10 with the Australian Theatre for Young People, (patrons including actress Nicole Kidman and Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann) and in her later teens continued her studies at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (acknowledged for graduates such as Mel Gibson and Cate Blanchett). Today, Alexandra is a graduate of New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a proud student of William Esper of the William Esper Studio. Alexandra has worked on numerous international commercial and print campaigns, her Australian TV and film credits include the soap opera: Home and Away and TV movie The Natalia Wood Story. New York Theatre credits include: (Alma) Summer and Smoke, (Miss Julie) Miss Julie, (Juliet) Romeo and Juliet, (Lady Macbeth) Macbeth, (Lady Nijo/ Win) Top Girls. Alexandra is excited to be embarking on a career in the US and more importantly to be spending her Christmas with Endtimes Productions!
Jason Barker
Originally from Texas y'all; a graduate of Sam Houston State with a B.F. A. in Theatre. Several recent classes at the Atlantic Theatre School. NYC credits include: The Best Party Ever at the Richmond Shepard Theatre, several showcases/one-acts produced by The Actor's Project NYC and staged at the Abingdon and Michael Weller Theatres. Member of AFTRA; for more info go to: www.jasonbarkeronline.com. Jason is excited to play his "naked" part in this EndTimes production.
Nadja Hoyer-Booth
Nadja is a recent convert to the acting profession. Upon surprising herself, family & friends with her new calling and getting her first audition, callback and part, she proceeded to take acting classes for two years with Matthew Corrozine. Life's been good, and Nadja can be seen as the "Cougar" in "Beast", the music video; burning at the stake in "Silent"; as the Medical Examiner in "Blood Kisses"; played Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet" in North Hampton, MA.; and as a "neighbor" in Gene Simmons Family Jewels on A & E. She is thrilled to be romping off-off Broadway with the wonderful cast and crew in this production of "Naked Holidays".
Alessandro Colla
Alessandro Colla is an alumnus of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and Boston University. Theater credits include: Luis Felipe in BOMBERS' ROW (2007) Trinculo in THE TEMPEST (06), Loophole in FRIENDLY FIRE (05), and Speedracer in POLAROID STORIES (05). Film credits: Gaspare in HBO Original VENDETTA (99)
Rainbow Geffner
Rainbow Geffner received her masters from East15 Acting School in London, England and trained in physical theatre at Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre in California. She has been performing nationally and internationally, doing original theatrical works professionally, for the past ten years. She has a number of commercial and television credits to her name and has made a number of short films this past year that can be seen at her website www.rainbowgeffner.com. Rainbow recently completed the
fall training at SITI Company. Look out for her in a new production this January called the Zombie Chronicles with Cagey Productions.
Colleen Jasinski
Colleen is very excited to be working with End Times on this wild and wacky show! She was most recently seen as Lady MacDuff and one of the Weird Sisters in New Perspectives Theatre Company's school production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Prior to that, she appeared as a bawdy stripper in the New York Times critically acclaimed production of Hanoch Levin's Job's Passion, presented by Theatre for the New City. Other favorite roles include Suzanne Gold-Stein in Twilight of the Golds, Mariette in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, Julie in Bubbling, and Flora in A Perfect Analysis Given by A Parrot,. She would like to thank her family and friends for all their love and support and wishes everyone a happy holiday season and prosperous New Year!
Jamie King
Jamie King was born and raised in Port Townsend Washington. He holds a BFA in Theatre from New York University where he attended the Stella Adler Conservatory, the Experimental Theatre Wing and the International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam. Since graduating, he has appeared in numerous plays, a few favorites being "Jabu" with Elizabeth Swados, "Limitless Joy" with Josh Fox and "Veritas" at Columbia University, as well as many independent and student films.
Jessica Ko
is thankful to EndTimes for keeping her employed this year. Other credits include: Overheard (EndTimes), Over the Asian Airwaves (EndTimes), Rose Pie (Garden Variety Festival), Little Tales (Manhattan Children's Theatre), Waiting for Lefty, and an all-female cast of Glengarry Glen Ross. You can currently can catch her in a national Lowes commercial on everyone's favorite home improvement channel, HGTV. Thanks and love to all the JK's and to JC.
Jamie Lewis
Jamie Lewis studied at the two-year acting conservatory in Manhattan, The School for Film and Television and an Associate Degree in Radio/ Television Broadcasting. Before moving to NYC from Syracuse, NY; Jamie was a Radio Dj for five years at Syracuse's #1 Rock Station and performed in a number of shows at Syracuse's,Theatre 90. Jamie continues to do voice-overs in the commercial industry, including for VH1. Most recently she has been in the CBS TV show: Love Monkey, a TV Pilot: Bloodhounds, and is filming an independent: Drunken Disciples of God. Jamie is delighted to be apart of this show!
Angela Lovell
Angela Lovell is an award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, and music/film critic. Once a writer at Universal Studios and MTV, she now freelances for publications such as Match.com and High Times. Angela can be found in Brooklyn avoiding dairy products and petting strangers’ dogs. See her best side at: www.tickingboxes.com
Serena Miller
Serena Ebony Miller, aka "The Walking Thesaurus", is another recent transplant to New York from Philadelphia, where she attended the University of the Arts (BFA, Theater Arts). Those who have helped her move would say that she has "too many books" and continue to wonder why she chose one of the biggest instruments a person could play. As a musician, Serena has been seen in plaid during rock performances, not seen at all in countless pit orchestras, and recognized only by her hair in others. Her love for the stage brought her to work with several companies in Philadelphia after graduation, and she is really excited to spend her holidays with EndTimes. She sends love and thanks to her family for their patience and support, to her boss for not firing her, her co-workers, the cast and crew, and apartments 4 and 5. Special thanks to the state of Pennsylvania and its noble peaks.
Justin Ness
Justin received his BA, Theater Arts from Boise State University. Yes, the football field is really blue. Hmm? No, I did not play college football there. Hah...yes, I certainly am big enough to have played there. Um, New York credits include: Creon - The Medea; Son/Hanging Man - Baaahhh (NYC Fringe); Lieutenant - Plays for the Sunni Triangle; Officer - Hugging the Shoulder (NYC Fringe); Don Pedro - Much Ado About Nothing; Lincoln County Sherriff - The Ascetic of Lincoln County (NYC Fringe); Regional Credits: Leroy Lumpkin - Smoke and Mirrors; "Daniel" - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged; Homer Collyer - The Dazzle; Teddy Hodell - Valparaiso and BabbyBobby - The Cripple of Inishmaan. Film: Searching for Bobby D opposite Kevin Dobson and Carmen Electra.
Kerstin Porter
Kerstin completed her theater studies at UC Santa Cruz. She took the last year to participate in a theater internship in London. Finally she took the big move to New York to pursue acting. She is enjoying the beginning to an exciting new career.
Kendra Jewell Treichler
Kendra studied at the University of Texas at Austin and the British American Dramatic Academy in Oxford, UK. New York credits include: Erotium in The Menaechmi Twins, Wendy in A Thousand Yard Stare and Pisanio in Cymbeline. Television credits: Law & Order: CI She is a founding member of award-winning Spotlight Music Ensemble. Kendra is thrilled to make this her first End Times Production. Ho! Ho! Ho!
Luke Tudball
Luke trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama, London , and at the Russian School of Acting, as well as at the University of East Anglia , Norwich, He made his London West End debut in April 2002, taking a leading role in the musical production 'Life On Earth' at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the London Palladium, and has worked and toured in Hungary, as well as extensively in the UK and the United States. Luke has worked with groups as diverse as the National Youth Music Theatre of Great Britain, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, the Keble Choir, and the English National Opera Company. He is a member of British Actors Equity, The Spotlight, The London Equity Choir, and the Actors’ Centre, London , as well as the TVI Actors Centre, New York . His many other credits include work in voiceover, radio, film and television.
Recent work includes: ‘Law and Order’ (Gulf War Veteran), ‘I Can Cry!’ (BBC Newsreader),‘Furnace Four’ (Strivitz),‘Out of the Flames’ (Basem), ‘Friendly Fire’ (British Army Commander), ‘Happy Hour’ (Comedian), 'The Gruffalo and Friends' (The Gruffalo), ‘The Room On The Broom Song Show’ (The Gruffalo), 'The Pirates of Penzance' (The Pirate King), 'Vincent - Prisoner of a Dream' (Paul Gauguin), and 'Stig of the Dump' (Stig). For more information, please visit www.luketudball.co.uk
Matthew Watkins
Mr. Watkins graduated from University of The Arts with a BFA in theatre 2005. Since graduating, Mr. Watkins accepts and enjoys the professional responsibility of being called Mister. Mr. Watkins is pleased to be involved in his first professional theatre show in New York. Mr. Watkins delivered a powerful performance as JP the delivery guy in a Domino’s Pizza commercial 2006. Mr. Watkins was fortunate to work with Men of Science, playing Clem in the MTV pilot The O.Z. Mr. Watkins would like thank his parents, Uncle Brian, and friends for their support in this exciting career.
Secret Santa’s Juicy Jollies, the legendary North Pole musical comedy troupe, has been playing exclusive gigs at various NYC clubs and theaters for years, presenting their unique brand of magical Christmas mayhem. They can be seen worldwide every year, beamed live via satellite from the North Pole, in their annual holiday spectacular, Have A Juicy Jolly Christmas! Their body of work, including the best-selling, multi-platinum CD’s The Workshop Sessions, Naughty or Nice, and Live From The Frozen Tundra! has delighted and/or disturbed millions of dedicated fans. They have also been seen at Caroline’s On Broadway, Danny’s Skylight Room, Don’t Tell Mama and The D Lounge. You can learn more of their secrets at www.juicysanta.com
Writers
Bob DeRosa
Bob DeRosa lives and works in beautiful downtown Burbank, CA. Bob has written plenty of shows for Sacred Fools Theatre in L.A., as well as two evenings of one-act plays: BRUTALLY YOURS and POWER TRIP! He co-wrote the feature film THE AIR I BREATHE, starring Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Forest Whitaker. It opens in New York on January 25th, so please see it opening weekend. He really hopes he's not still on strike by the time you read this, but if he is...SEE YOU ON THE PICKET LINES!
Tom Kiesche
Tom is a semi-prolific writer, having had his work shown on stages on both American coasts, in print, and on the Internet through
various websites. This past year he has had three film scripts optioned by producers in Hollywood, one family-comedy, one
western, and one Sci-Fi/Horror with a deep comic edge, as well as, he has been a paid, and popular contributor to the blogs at
Backstage.com. However, more people are familiar with him through his acting in commercials and guest starring roles on
Television. For more information on Tom, look him up: www.tomkiesche.com, www.imdb.com, www.myspace.com/Kiesche or just
Google him. Enjoy the holidays, and if it doesn’t offend you, have a very Merry Christmas.
George Larkin
Writer of plays done at such places at the Lark, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Edge Fest, Theatricum Botanicum, the Met Theatre, Sacred Fools, UCSD, the Unknown Theatre, the Hudson, UCSD, and Yale that won or were up for seventeen awards. Yale grad with ever useful Masters of Shakespearean Studies from the University of Birmingham, England. Long worked in film and television development as well. www.asalark.com. Thanks to Russ and all of the End Times!
Angela Lovell
Angela Lovell is an award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, and music/film critic. Once a writer at Universal Studios and MTV, she now freelances for publications such as Match.com and High Times. Angela can be found in Brooklyn avoiding dairy products and petting strangers’ dogs. See her best side at: www.tickingboxes.com
Joshua Rebell
Plays include Embraceable You (The Tamarind Theatre, Los Angeles), Paint (Synchronicity Space - Off Broadway), The Movie Line (The Samuel Beckett Theatre - Off Broadway), Gatsby in Hollywood (The Met Theatre, Los Angeles), Black Tie Affairs (The Met Theatre, Los Angeles). The Lady Across The Street (The Flea Theatre - Off Broadway), and Preying On Puritans (Sacred Fools Theatre Company, Los Angeles). For Sacred Fools, he has also written plays for Grimm! (to be published Winter 2008), Slow and Tight, Naked Holidays (a project he co-created), and Crime Scene, Sacred Fools’ long running late night serial, for which he wrote one of the three inaugural story lines. Screenplays include Confession, Misty in Maine, Deception, and a screen adaptation of his play, Preying On Puritans. He is a proud member of both The Writers' Guild and The Dramatists Guild, Inc.
Ruth Silveira
Trained in both the classics (UC Berkeley and Stanford) and improv (San Francisco's The Committee, Ruth took a long hiatus from the stage in order to make a living from TV and voiceover work while she raised her family. Now, she has happily returned to her first love, the stage. She is a member of Sacred Fools Theater Company where she has been able to expand from acting into directing, costuming, producing, and writing.
Rebecca “RI” Stokes
Raised in Providence, RI Stokes was the youngest recipient of the RI Youth Playwriting competition in 1999 for her play “The Boy Next Door” and again in 2000 “Martyrs”. Stokes graduated from the University of the South: Sewanee in 2005. She was the recipient of the 2004 Scholar Award at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference under playwrights Romulus Linney and Hilary Bell. Stokes has studied solo performance with writer/performer David Cale, and is the author of two solo pieces. She is a former member of Boston’s SouthCity Ensemble whose group-written play ‘Mosaic’ ran at Improv!Boston was hailed by the Boston Globe as “Witty, acerbic, and intense.” She is a writer for the Lifetime drama “Inspector Mom” starring Danica McKellar. Her play “Bad Dog” was produced by the Theatre forum in fall of 2006. She is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at the New School For Drama.
Directors
Russell Dobular
Is a New York native, born and raised in Flushing, Queens. His plays have been presented in New York, and Los Angeles, and he has directed several dozen productions, including the hit comedy Backseats and Bathroom Stalls, and Dianne Spoderek’s The Drunk Monologues. Mr. Dobular also served as the founding Artistic Director of the Horse Trade Theater Group, from 1997-2000. His new play, “Flounder and the Bad Acid”, will be presented by EndTimes this season. Russell would like to thank Count Nagy for keeping it funny all these years, the company bitch, for picking up the load and running with it, and all the awesomely talented people who have helped us go so far, so fast. The best is yet to come guys, so let’s ride this crazy beast ‘till it surrenders and then hit it with the cattle prods ‘till it doesn’t.
Matthew Kreiner
After many years as an actor, Matthew debuted himself as a director in the UAlbany Theatre Council production of “One Hour to Live” written by his brother, Daniel Kreiner. His is very excited about these two short plays, “The Art of the Pick Up” and “Woo at the Zoo”. He has directed in Albany (“The Zoo Story”, “The Problem”, and self written “The Friend”), and in the New York City area (“Galileo”, “Ninth Circle”, “In Rebel Country”). He would like to thank EndTimes Productions for this opportunity as well as his family and friends, which he loves unconditionally.
Ilana Landecker
Ilana Landecker would like to thank you all for coming out. This is a little something for all of you to take with you for the holidays, and Ilana hopes the memory will last for holidays to come. Ilana previously worked with Endtimes Productions on their vignettes last winter directing "A Chance Encounter with George W." She can be seen this March/April at Theater for the New City as Eugenie Salsafette in an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether". Many, many thanks to EndTimes Productions for this opportunity. Thanks to my wonderful cast, you all rock. And thank you all for coming out to take in some theatre. Enjoy!
Jeremy Pape
is NOT a native New Yorker. A transplant from Virginia via Philadelphia, Jeremy is trying hard to keep these old men young. A graduate of the University of the Arts’ BFA acting program, Jeremy was involved in theatre before he could tie his shoes. With experience in every aspect of theatre, from performance and directing to set building and tech design, Jeremy likes to think to himself as indispensable but anyone wise would call him…company bitch. Recent credits include light design for Wide-Eyed Productions’ critically acclaimed ‘The Medea’, directing and design for various EndTimes productions and anything else I can think of that sounds impressive.
Tony Macy-Perez
Tony Macy-Perez has recently directed a run of Sex on Trial and two Off-Broadway Productions, Social Security and Days of Wine and Roses. He has directed shows in New York, Miami and Atlantic City. His play Requiem for a Life was recently published in the Best of the Strawberry One-Act Festival Volume Three. He can be reached at Tonezone78@aol.com
Laurie Rae Waugh
Last worked as a Stage Manager with VertaMirandance production of Chosen, a musical at The Producers Club. Laurie has also directed Rage, Inc, The Foursome and Southworth Academy all at TSI/Playtime Series. Ms. Waugh made her directorial debut with the VertaMirandance Brooklyn production of Dreams Forgotten. Laurie is also a Stage Manager for the New York Dinner Theatre production of The Godfather’s Meshuggener Wedding. Ms. Waugh was a production stage manager for over 20 shows from 1980 to 1987. Her most notable credits are: Sisters: Some Theatrical Ritual About The Nunnery, the American Premieres of The Bachelor & The Last Burning. She also stage managed a one night show called Broadway Cares, a performance to benefit STAMP OUT AIDS, dedicated to Michael Bennett.
Andi Cohen - Stage Manager
Andi is a recent NYU grad. Past stage management projects include The Second Tosca, True West (Dreamscape Theater Co.), Carcass (Diaspora Drama Group) and The M Game (MIR Productions). She is also a props designer with past projects including Purple Hearts (Invisible City), Days and Nights (Purple Man Theater Co.), and What Use Are Flowers? on which she did sound and prop design. In addition to stage managing and props, Andi is also a director, sound designer and lighting designer.
Lindsay Dwyer - Choreographer
Born and raised in Phoenix Arizona, Lindsay earned a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts (Phila, PA). Immediately after graduation, she became a seaman and danced in production shows for Carnival Cruise Lines. She is now happy to be on land and is thankful to Jeremy Pape (aka Company Bitch) for giving her the opportunity to choreograph for non-dancers who are now transformed into fierce showgirls and boys.
Serena Miller - Musical Director
Bob DeRosa
Bob DeRosa lives and works in beautiful downtown Burbank, CA. Bob has written plenty of shows for Sacred Fools Theatre in L.A., as well as two evenings of one-act plays: BRUTALLY YOURS and POWER TRIP! He co-wrote the feature film THE AIR I BREATHE, starring Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Forest Whitaker. It opens in New York on January 25th, so please see it opening weekend. He really hopes he's not still on strike by the time you read this, but if he is...SEE YOU ON THE PICKET LINES!
Tom Kiesche
Tom is a semi-prolific writer, having had his work shown on stages on both American coasts, in print, and on the Internet through
various websites. This past year he has had three film scripts optioned by producers in Hollywood, one family-comedy, one
western, and one Sci-Fi/Horror with a deep comic edge, as well as, he has been a paid, and popular contributor to the blogs at
Backstage.com. However, more people are familiar with him through his acting in commercials and guest starring roles on
Television. For more information on Tom, look him up: www.tomkiesche.com, www.imdb.com, www.myspace.com/Kiesche or just
Google him. Enjoy the holidays, and if it doesn’t offend you, have a very Merry Christmas.
George Larkin
Writer of plays done at such places at the Lark, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Edge Fest, Theatricum Botanicum, the Met Theatre, Sacred Fools, UCSD, the Unknown Theatre, the Hudson, UCSD, and Yale that won or were up for seventeen awards. Yale grad with ever useful Masters of Shakespearean Studies from the University of Birmingham, England. Long worked in film and television development as well. www.asalark.com. Thanks to Russ and all of the End Times!
Angela Lovell
Angela Lovell is an award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, and music/film critic. Once a writer at Universal Studios and MTV, she now freelances for publications such as Match.com and High Times. Angela can be found in Brooklyn avoiding dairy products and petting strangers’ dogs. See her best side at: www.tickingboxes.com
Joshua Rebell
Plays include Embraceable You (The Tamarind Theatre, Los Angeles), Paint (Synchronicity Space - Off Broadway), The Movie Line (The Samuel Beckett Theatre - Off Broadway), Gatsby in Hollywood (The Met Theatre, Los Angeles), Black Tie Affairs (The Met Theatre, Los Angeles). The Lady Across The Street (The Flea Theatre - Off Broadway), and Preying On Puritans (Sacred Fools Theatre Company, Los Angeles). For Sacred Fools, he has also written plays for Grimm! (to be published Winter 2008), Slow and Tight, Naked Holidays (a project he co-created), and Crime Scene, Sacred Fools’ long running late night serial, for which he wrote one of the three inaugural story lines. Screenplays include Confession, Misty in Maine, Deception, and a screen adaptation of his play, Preying On Puritans. He is a proud member of both The Writers' Guild and The Dramatists Guild, Inc.
Ruth Silveira
Trained in both the classics (UC Berkeley and Stanford) and improv (San Francisco's The Committee, Ruth took a long hiatus from the stage in order to make a living from TV and voiceover work while she raised her family. Now, she has happily returned to her first love, the stage. She is a member of Sacred Fools Theater Company where she has been able to expand from acting into directing, costuming, producing, and writing.
Rebecca “RI” Stokes
Raised in Providence, RI Stokes was the youngest recipient of the RI Youth Playwriting competition in 1999 for her play “The Boy Next Door” and again in 2000 “Martyrs”. Stokes graduated from the University of the South: Sewanee in 2005. She was the recipient of the 2004 Scholar Award at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference under playwrights Romulus Linney and Hilary Bell. Stokes has studied solo performance with writer/performer David Cale, and is the author of two solo pieces. She is a former member of Boston’s SouthCity Ensemble whose group-written play ‘Mosaic’ ran at Improv!Boston was hailed by the Boston Globe as “Witty, acerbic, and intense.” She is a writer for the Lifetime drama “Inspector Mom” starring Danica McKellar. Her play “Bad Dog” was produced by the Theatre forum in fall of 2006. She is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at the New School For Drama.
Directors
Russell Dobular
Is a New York native, born and raised in Flushing, Queens. His plays have been presented in New York, and Los Angeles, and he has directed several dozen productions, including the hit comedy Backseats and Bathroom Stalls, and Dianne Spoderek’s The Drunk Monologues. Mr. Dobular also served as the founding Artistic Director of the Horse Trade Theater Group, from 1997-2000. His new play, “Flounder and the Bad Acid”, will be presented by EndTimes this season. Russell would like to thank Count Nagy for keeping it funny all these years, the company bitch, for picking up the load and running with it, and all the awesomely talented people who have helped us go so far, so fast. The best is yet to come guys, so let’s ride this crazy beast ‘till it surrenders and then hit it with the cattle prods ‘till it doesn’t.
Matthew Kreiner
After many years as an actor, Matthew debuted himself as a director in the UAlbany Theatre Council production of “One Hour to Live” written by his brother, Daniel Kreiner. His is very excited about these two short plays, “The Art of the Pick Up” and “Woo at the Zoo”. He has directed in Albany (“The Zoo Story”, “The Problem”, and self written “The Friend”), and in the New York City area (“Galileo”, “Ninth Circle”, “In Rebel Country”). He would like to thank EndTimes Productions for this opportunity as well as his family and friends, which he loves unconditionally.
Ilana Landecker
Ilana Landecker would like to thank you all for coming out. This is a little something for all of you to take with you for the holidays, and Ilana hopes the memory will last for holidays to come. Ilana previously worked with Endtimes Productions on their vignettes last winter directing "A Chance Encounter with George W." She can be seen this March/April at Theater for the New City as Eugenie Salsafette in an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether". Many, many thanks to EndTimes Productions for this opportunity. Thanks to my wonderful cast, you all rock. And thank you all for coming out to take in some theatre. Enjoy!
Jeremy Pape
is NOT a native New Yorker. A transplant from Virginia via Philadelphia, Jeremy is trying hard to keep these old men young. A graduate of the University of the Arts’ BFA acting program, Jeremy was involved in theatre before he could tie his shoes. With experience in every aspect of theatre, from performance and directing to set building and tech design, Jeremy likes to think to himself as indispensable but anyone wise would call him…company bitch. Recent credits include light design for Wide-Eyed Productions’ critically acclaimed ‘The Medea’, directing and design for various EndTimes productions and anything else I can think of that sounds impressive.
Tony Macy-Perez
Tony Macy-Perez has recently directed a run of Sex on Trial and two Off-Broadway Productions, Social Security and Days of Wine and Roses. He has directed shows in New York, Miami and Atlantic City. His play Requiem for a Life was recently published in the Best of the Strawberry One-Act Festival Volume Three. He can be reached at Tonezone78@aol.com
Laurie Rae Waugh
Last worked as a Stage Manager with VertaMirandance production of Chosen, a musical at The Producers Club. Laurie has also directed Rage, Inc, The Foursome and Southworth Academy all at TSI/Playtime Series. Ms. Waugh made her directorial debut with the VertaMirandance Brooklyn production of Dreams Forgotten. Laurie is also a Stage Manager for the New York Dinner Theatre production of The Godfather’s Meshuggener Wedding. Ms. Waugh was a production stage manager for over 20 shows from 1980 to 1987. Her most notable credits are: Sisters: Some Theatrical Ritual About The Nunnery, the American Premieres of The Bachelor & The Last Burning. She also stage managed a one night show called Broadway Cares, a performance to benefit STAMP OUT AIDS, dedicated to Michael Bennett.
Andi Cohen - Stage Manager
Andi is a recent NYU grad. Past stage management projects include The Second Tosca, True West (Dreamscape Theater Co.), Carcass (Diaspora Drama Group) and The M Game (MIR Productions). She is also a props designer with past projects including Purple Hearts (Invisible City), Days and Nights (Purple Man Theater Co.), and What Use Are Flowers? on which she did sound and prop design. In addition to stage managing and props, Andi is also a director, sound designer and lighting designer.
Lindsay Dwyer - Choreographer
Born and raised in Phoenix Arizona, Lindsay earned a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts (Phila, PA). Immediately after graduation, she became a seaman and danced in production shows for Carnival Cruise Lines. She is now happy to be on land and is thankful to Jeremy Pape (aka Company Bitch) for giving her the opportunity to choreograph for non-dancers who are now transformed into fierce showgirls and boys.
Serena Miller - Musical Director
