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Playhouse
The American Legacy 220 East Fourth Street ~ New
York, New York 10009
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EAST SIDE STORIES UNMASKED A weekend so big it takes two weekends to do it. |
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The Tall Blonde with the Toy Giraffe by Armand Ruhlman A dark and sultry night at Avenue B and East 9th. directed by Rachael Langton with Amanda Jones, Michael A. Jones, and Jed Peterson art by James Romberger Poppyseed by Michael Dinwiddie The Ninth St Bakery in the 1976. Welcome home. directed by Linda Kuriloff with Adrian Baidoo and Rosina Fernhoff |
Izzy Sticks With It by Rex McGregor Ava Astor meets a vocal young Irving Berlin on a sidewalk of New York directed by Michael Hardart with Aidan Eastwood, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe, Michelle Geisler, Sarah Hankins art by Jason Simms Carmen Pabon, Presente! by Nina Howes Reflections from the Life and Works of the "Social Worker from the Lord" directed by Gloria Zelaya with Marisol Carrere |
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| Welcome to the Neighborhood THE TALL BLONDE WITH A TOY GIRAFFE Armand Ruhlman Living in the East Village since the 1980’s, I’ve created a number of Film/Video projects (my short film, “Downtown Shadows,” was an official selection of the New York Short Film Festival - in Greenwich Village). I’ve also performed excerpts of my writing at La Mama theater and other live venues in downtown Manhattan. Besides New Orleans, I’ve lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, CA, Paris, and Marseilles, France. This included time in a crumbling garret overlooking the rooftops of the historic Bastille district in Paris. Amanda Jones with Metropolitan Playhouse: Alison’s House, The House of Mirth, Nowadays, Under the Gaslight and The Contrast. New York: Walking Down Broadway at the Mint Theatre; Anais Nin Goes to Hell with Manhattan Theatre Works; Cymbeline with Boomerang Theatre Company; Marie Antoinette: Color of Flesh with Earl Productions; Cyrano with Hudson Warehouse; five seasons with Jean Cocteau Repertory including Candida, The Maids, Uncle Vanya, and Dona Rosita the Spinster. Regional: Engaged and Arsenic and Old Lace at the Depot Theatre; Bell, Book and Candle and Picnic at Sierra Repertory; The Magnificent Ambersons at Oldcastle Theatre. International: The Baby Monitor at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (Claire Booth Luce nominee for Best Actress) and the first ever Belgrade Pride Theater Festival. More at www.amandajones.biz Michael A. Jones As an actor, he has performed in plays such as August Wilson’s Women (AUDELCO AWARD), Fences (AUDELCO AWARD), Wild Children (written by Vincent Pastore of the HBO series The Sopranos), 365 Plays/365 Days, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Black Girl, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He has performed in several films. His writing credits include the plays,Queen Z, being developed with the Chain Theatre NYC, Family Matters, produced at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, Angela’s Justice, produced at Theater for the New City and Josh: The Black Babe Ruth, produced at Woodie King, Jr’s New Federal Theatre. He has written several screenplays. Jed Peterson Previously at Metropolitan Playhouse: Thunder Rock; The Man Of The Hour. Created the role of Harry "the Hat" in the National Tour of CHEERS: Live On Stage. Other New York credits include: Jack Worthing and Gwendolyn Fairfax in The Importance Of Being Earnest (NY Classical Theatre); The Dark Star From Harlem (La Mama); Maverick (Cliplight Theater); Deconstruction (Storm Theatre); Stephen Foster in Hard Times: An American Musical, featuring the music of Stephen Foster (The Cell Theatre). Jed has played the dancer Rudolf Nureyev in three productions of Nureyev’s Eyes (American Stage [World Premier], Delaware Theatre Company, and Blue Barn Theatre). Other Regional credits include: The 39 Steps (American Stage); Zorro! (East Lynne Theatre); Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Tent Theatre); King Lear, Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Fiddler On The Roof, Candida, Room Service (Utah Shakespeare Festival); A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre). Television appearances include: The Blacklist, Madam Secretary, Elementary. Training: Moscow Art Theatre School (First American Ensemble), Princeton University (B.A. English, Dramatic Literature), LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Union Affiliations: AEA, SAG-AFTRA Jed is a Resident Artist at The Cell Theatre; and a member of the Acting Company of Playwrights Gallery. www.JedQPeterson.com Rachael Langton POPPYSEED Michael D. Dinwiddie is a playwright/composer and associate professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. His works have been produced in New York, regional, and educational theater, and he has served as playwright-in-residence at Michigan State University, Florida A&M University, St. Louis University and La Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and a Walt Disney Fellowship at Touchstone Pictures. In 2018 Michael was inducted into the College of Fellows at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education,ASCAP, and the Black Theatre Network. Adrian Baidoo is from Ghana, Africa by way of Steeler Nation Pittsburgh. Broadway: THE INHERITANCE. Off-Broadway: SEPARATE AND EQUAL (59E59); ROCCO, CHELSEA, ADRIANA...(HERE); PIRIRA (WEST END THEATER); ON STRIVER’S ROW (METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE). Broadway First National Tour: CINDERELLA. Regional: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, MUNY, MTWichita WVPT. TV: “Royal Pains”. Numerous Commercials and Print. BFA University of Michigan and Moscow Art Theatre School Graduate. @AdrianBaidoo. www.AdrianBaidoo.com Rosina Fernhoff |
Stick Around IZZY STICKS WITH IT Rex McGregor is a New Zealand playwright. His short comedies have been produced on four continents from New York and London to Sydney and Chennai. His most popular play, Threatened Panda Fights Back, has been produced over a dozen times. Aidan Eastwood previously appeared in Philip Barry’s You and I with the Metropolitan Playhouse and is happy to be back. He has numerous credits performing the works of Shakespeare, including Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, and The Comedy of the Errors (Mainestage Shakespeare). He has also had a ton of fun working on Little Shop of Horrors (Playhouse on Park), and The Servant of Two Masters (Theatre for a New Audience). Jamahl Garrison-Lowe Michelle Geisler is finishing up her master's degree in music therapy at NYU and currently spends most of her time making music with children in a pediatric hospital. Michelle is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and has worked with theatres in NYC and around the country. Highlights include a season with Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Twelfth Night [Viola], To Kill A Mockingbird [Mayella Ewell], Tom Sawyer [Becky Thatcher]...and a handful of others!), many summers working with Playhouse Stage Company (Albany, NY), and Metropolitan Playhouse's 2014 production of Icebound (Nettie). In addition to all of the above, Michelle has spent the past five years serving as the Visual and Performing Arts Director for an overnight summer camp in PA. Michelle is abundantly grateful to have spent a bit of this wild year working with Metropolitan Playhouse! Sarah Hankins is a director, actor, and teacher with a strong focus in collaboration, visual storytelling, and heightened language. Sarah is the Interim Artistic Director and Learning Director at Triad Stage in North Carolina. Previous credits include Artistic Director of the NYC eco-theatre Green Theatre Collective and six years as Associate Artist at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Sarah always welcomes the chance to return to Metropolitan Playhouse, where she made her NYC acting debut as Dora Sunnyside. You can learn more about Sarah at sarahhankins.com. Michael Hardart is a director and actor based in New York City. He is Associate Director at Metropolitan Playhouse. As a director he has worked with Metropolitan Playhouse (Within the Law, A Man’s World; both nominated for NYIT’s Outstanding Revival, You and I, The Climbers, The Awful Truth, Rollo’s Wild Oat, Both Your Houses, Deep are the Roots, The Great Divide, Under the Gaslight, It Pays to Advertise), Abingdon Theater Company (Benefit Challenge Series), Sink or Swim Rep (An Ideal Husband), Boomerang Theater Company (Rock ‘n Roles) among others. As an actor, he has appeared in New York in End of Summer, The Henrietta, The Drunkard, Dodsworth, Power; Nowadays, Year One of the Empire, A Twice Told Romance, The Pioneer, The Octoroon, The Devil's Disciple, Metamora, and The City (Metropolitan Playhouse); The Crucible (Sink or Swim Rep); Eleanor Rigby is Waiting (NY Fringe Festival). Regionally he has appeared in On Golden Pond, A Month of Sundays (The Public Theater, ME); The Contrafact of Freedom, Lathem Prince (Hunger & Thirst Theater Collective); Moon Over Buffalo (Bristol Riverside Theatre); and The Rainmaker (Iowa Touring Theatre Company). Visit michaelhardart.com for more. CARMEN PABON PRESENTE! Nina Howes is a nurse, an activist, and a writer. Her plays have been produced off- off Broadway at The Metropolitan Playhouse, Theater for the New City, Clemente Soto Velez Center, and the Dorothy Strelsin Theater. Her book Lower East Side Oral Histories is available on Amazon.com. Marisol Carrere is Founder/Directing-Producer of CARRERE FILMS INTERNATIONAL, LLC. She is an award-winning Actress, a Writer & Producer. Marisol wrote/producer “I Am Julia”, directed by David Capurso. The short film chronicles her story of school bullies while growing up as an outsider in NY (winner 2012 Golden Palm Award/Mexico IFF). She is grateful to have been recognized as NY1 News “New Yorker Of The Week” for her Community work in schools with her film & international educational program THE I AM PEACE PROJECT, for the Prevention of Bullying, utilizing Screenwriting, Media & the Arts (Presented in NY, Colombia, Peru & Mexico). As an Actress, Marisol has appeared in International Film Festivals, and is currently developing a Latin American co-production. Film credits include: RIN RIN EN LA MOTO (2021) Robinson Posada writer/Jhon Freddy Ospina director, The Inquisition of Camilo Sanz - LPZMedia/HBO Latino (she is also associate producer), Crack Down Big City Blues writer/director Paul De Silva, SEX, LOVE & SALSA an Adrien Manzano film (In Festivals Worldwide), Conscientious Objector (2012) producer/director J.W. Cortez. NY Theater credits: Receiving Best Actress Awards include: EL MANDATARIO IDIOTA/THE IDIOT RULER, You Always Forget Something/Siempre se Olvida Algo, Oh!Yantay -TeatroStageFest. Best Lead Actress Nominations: Tide Beyond the Rift, Q.E.P.D, THE LITTLE HUT/La Pequeña Cabaña. Appeared in national TV/Print & Commercial Spots, and various Public Service Announcements. Professional affiliations include SAG-AFTR, New York Women In Film & Television, LULAC, Hispanic Organization of Latino Actors, and FELT Theater, INC. She is a recipient of Excellence in Acting Award from Hunter College/Theatre Arts Department. Marisol has studied in France and is fluent in three languages. www.iamjuliamovie.com, www.imdb.com/name/nm4098959/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t5 Gloria Zelaya has directed (two Summer Tours) and taught acting at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. She has collaborated with several other companies, including Intar, La MaMa ETC, Mass Transit, The Women’s Project, Theater for the New City, New World Theater, Duo Theater, Urban Youth Theater (International Fringe Festival). She has presented at: TeatroStageFest (The Golden Cacao Bean), the Samuel Becket Theater as part of the Evening Shades festival in NYC. TheTalia Spanish Theater; and the Samuel French Festival. Directed four Stage Readings for the Actor's Studio P.D.U (member of the Playwrights and Directors Unit) Has directed plays for FELT Inc and Around the Block Inc. theater companies. For the Metropolitan Playhouse Theater, she directed the stage reading of Cola'o. She was invited to be part of the Actors Fund; The Performing Legacy Program. Ms. Zelaya has co-produced two films: I Am Julia, Mexico International Film Festival, Golden Palm Award. She also participated in the casting for the film, Festival short plays. Her latest work is the short film Hope Garden writer, director and co-producer of the film. Her play Life of a Painter was presented as part of the SEA Theater Festival of short plays. Hector Marin-Arias Set Designer- Was born in Costa Rica. He’s a painter/artist who studied in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Spain and France. He lived in Europe for 15 years where he painted and exhibited his work. He worked with the T.S.E theater company in Paris and Geneva and in New York with Don Quijote Experimental Children’s Theater with the production Stories of the Popol-Vuh. Mr. Marin has worked with The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater as a prop master for “Charge it Please”, Stage Manager for los “Jibaros Progresistas”. Designed the set for “Mujeres in Farsa Picante” Prop/Mask, designer, visual artist and technical director of “The Fickle Finger of Lady Death, Stage Manager for “Dr. Goodmouth” at the Apollo Theater, and the Riverside Stage Park and in Philadelphia. He designed in 1993 the official poster for the Boiler Room, starring Ms. Miriam Colon, directed by Alen Colon. Set Designer for Insights Series, three plays presented at HERE space; Productions of The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. He is a founding member of FELT Inc. For this company he has designed the sets for the productions “For the Love of Liz'', ``Some People Have all the Luck”, ``The Missteps of a Salsa Dancer, '' Subway Story.” Set design for “The Little Hut” directed by Gloria Zelaya and winner of the ACE Latin Award 2007. He was the production designer/art director of the video “Life of a Painter” by Gloria Zelaya. He worked as Properties Design for “The King of Infinite Space” production of The Common Ground Stage and Film Company. Mr. Marin was the Art Director for the films “Walking with Angels'' and “Home is a Struggle” Winner of The Mesquite Award at the San Antonio Cine Festival, Texas. He holds a B.A degree in the arts from Queens College and an MFA from Brooklyn College. |
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