The American Legacy
Metropolitan Playhouse
The American Legacy
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Artists for East Side Stories: Visionaries
Yvonne Opffer ConybeareYvonne Opffer Conybeare (Director)
Yvonne Conybeare (Director) Metropolitan: Alphabet City VIII, Dodsworth, The Devil and Tom Walker, The Truth, Inheritors, Missouri Legend, The Devil’s Disciple, The City, The Show Off, A Pearl of Great Price, An Inconvenient River, The Exploitation of Joice Heth, Ragtime Galz, 225. Workshop Theater: Kid Surrender, Gallery Players: The Misanthrope, Holiday, A Lie of the Mind.  Abingdon Theatre: Elvis and Juliet starring Fred Willard and David Rasche. Yvonne has taught at Clark and Fairfield Universities, performs and teaches with Freestyle Repertory Theater, is a member of the Society of Stage Directors Choreographers, the League of Independent Theatres NY, Metropolitan’s Board of Directors, and is the founder/director of Vernacular Productions, an not-for-profit arts organization, that produces and co-produces theater, dance, and dance-theater work inspired or informed by American vernacular dance, music, and theater, and seeks to increase participation in the vernacular performing arts. http://www.conybeare.net/vernacular-productions
Emily Grosland (Michael Schupbach)
Emily S. Grosland most recently performed in the world premier of Eve Ensler's Emotional Creature at Berkeley Rep, followed by it's Off-Broadway run at the Signature Center. Previous credits include: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (National Tour), Cowgirls (Florida Studio Theatre), Peter Pan (Candlelight Pavilion), The Diary of Anne Frank (Theatre L’Homme Dieu), Big (Stages St. Louis), Wagner's Ring Cycle (LA Opera), and Bees and Lions (Sanguine Theatre at the WOW Café). Thank you Michael for so generously sharing your time and your story. @EmGrosland www.EmilySGrosland.com
Sheila Head (Dawn Hampton)
Sheila improvises in NYC and LA as Sandra O’Day, an ex-con motivational speaker with anger management issues. Theater credits include: No Exit, Regrets Only, Self Torture and Strenuous Exercise, Creation Nation. Television/film credits include: Black Dog Red Dog, Odd Todd, Split the Difference, Salon Royal, As the World Turns, Nail Polish. Comedy appearances in New York and LA include PS NBC, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theater, HBO Workspace, IO West and Catch A Rising Star. Sheila is the narrator of the NBC documentary series Caught on Camera and the Lifetime documentaries Beyond the Headlines. She is thrilled to be performing at the Metropolitan Playhouse and honored to work with the one and only Ms. Dawn Hampton.
Stephen Conrad Monroe (Shirley Campbell)
 Mr. Moore was last seen in the World Premier of N*****/F***** at HERE Arts Center. Other NEW YORK THEATRE: Lincoln Center, Flux Theatre, Red Fern Theatre, The Civilians, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Working Man's Clothes, The Playwright’s Theatre, The Lark Theatre, Columbia Stages, Full Stop Collective, Bone Orchard and Wow Cafe. REGIONAL: Philadelphia Theatre Company's, Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Kansas City Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, O'Neill Theatre Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Hope Repertory Theatre, The Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts. HONG KONG: Lion King. TV: Sesame Street. FILM: Margaret (dir. Kenneth Lonergan), Wedding Daze (dir. Michael Ian Black), The Painting and Yield. Actors Equity SAG, AFTRA, M.F.A. -Yale School of Drama.