APRIL 15TH line up
A Pregnant Pause
By GL Horton Director Elizabeth Burke Featuring: Andrea Cordaro, Mia Anderson, Matthew T. Carlson Head of Household By Amy Grossman Director Stephanie Cunningham Featuring: Kervin Peralta & Brennan Lowery My Penny By Steve Marsh Director NJ Aguwna Featuring: Gregory Hernandez & Christopher Sanchez |
The Dotted Line
By Chris Widney Director Stephanie Cunningham Featuring: Noam Blanks, Janice Gerlach, Ashleigh Herndon, Courtney Vinson, Shelly Antony & Jeffery Adams The Lie By Jean & Jim Anton Director Jak Prince Featuring: Christopher Sanchez & Jesse Geguzis You're Hired! By Donna Latham Director Taylor Reynold Featuring: Lindsay Timmington, Josh Fielden Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz & Elizabeth Burke |
the talent
Elizabeth Burke
Director /Actor is a 2000 graduate of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, DC and since, has performed in TV, film and theatre in DC and New York City. The classics are a favorite genre of hers, and she has been fortunate to have performed leading roles in Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Electra. Luckily for her, the most interesting powerful female roles are for women over 30. Elizabeth recently won Best Actor, Manhattan Repertory Theater Spring 2011 One-Act Play Competition for her work in “Weekend Method.” She is thrilled to be working once again with The Rising Sun Performance Company after a 3 year hiatus to work on several political campaigns. Elizabeth also writes a monthly column on the national political scene, “Burke’s Law”, at The Clyde Fitch Report. www.clydefitchreport.com. Visit her website at: www.elizabethburke.com |
James and Jean Anton
Playwrights James and Jean were born in New York City, but spent 10 years working abroad in countries as diverse as Italy, Brazil, Ecuador, Denmark, and Iran (where they witnessed the overthrow of the Shah.) They lived for 12 years in Arizona, and have spent the past 15 years living in a small town outside Boston, Massachusetts. February of this year (2014), one of their plays, CAREFUL! was selected to be produced by the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival at the Roy Arias Studios (Stage II) in the Times Square Theatre Center, in Manhattan. In March 2014 the Fine Arts Association in Wiloughby, Ohio produced our play Out To Lunch. Several years ago another one of their plays, FREAKS, was a finalist (there were 1,400 submissions) in the Actor's Theater of Louisville playwright’s contest. Other plays have been produced by Brooklyn College, Acme Theater in Maynard, MA, Hovey Players in Waltham, MA, the Arlington Players and Playwright’s Platform both in Arlington MA. James and Jean also wrote and illustrated a children’s column for the Gannett News Service entitled Dr. Crystal’s Cosmic Kid Stuff. Recently they have produced and published an illustrated children’s iBook entitled: Tell Mommy A Story. They have written and illustrated four books for younger readers that have been published by Scholastic Inc, Sterling Publishers, and McGraw Hill. |
NJ Aguwna , Director
NJ Agwuna is a freelance director and film PA, hailing from the ‘burb’s of central Maryland. Performing from a young age, NJ found herself drawn more to the directorial and technical side of theatre. In 2009 she pursued her passion for theatre, at Binghamton University, where she majored in Theatre Directing and Cinema. A recent resident of NYC, some of NJ’s credits include To Know One But Myself (Director), Then She Fell (PA), Amazing Spider-Man 2, Alondra was Here (Stage Manager), Bodega Bay (Asst. Stage Manager), Alice In Wonderland (Collaborating Artist/ White Rabbit),Today’s Special, Boardwalk Empire, Elementary, The Following, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (Stage Management Sub), and Redhead Randy; Anti-Bullying film, Dracula (Director). In her spare time she coaches auditioning techniques for actors, rehearses with her musical Improv troupe, works on devising new pieces, and assists with casting at various casting agencies. She is thrilled to be a part of this reading series and thanks her friends and family for all of their love and support. www.njagwuna.com |
Donna Latham’s been making up stuff, writing it down, and acting it out
forever. Her plays have been produced coast to coast in the US, and Grievances and Whirligigs went up at the Accidental Theatre’s Biscuit Tin Readings in Belfast. And We Will Share the Sky was a Kennedy Center Finalist for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award and is the recipient of the National Theatre for Young Audiences Playwriting Award from the University of Central Missouri. Coyote’s Moon went up at the La MaMa Theatre 50 Block Party in New York. Christmas Beast ran at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. Three by the Sea received its world premiere at the Looking Glass Theatre in New York. Be Bold, Be Bold was produced at the Geneva Underground Playhouse. MyFace received its world premiere in the EstroGenius Festival at the Manhattan Theatre Source and later went up at F.A.C.T.’s WORDS & WINE Reading Series in New York. Do These Jeans Make My Butt Look Massive? received its first New York production at The Looking Glass Theatre. Proverbs was a finalist in the Irish Fest Play Contest at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago, appeared at the Snowdance Comedy Festival in Racine, was shortlisted by the Women at Play(s) Festival in Vancouver, ran along with Paddy and the Mermaid at Prime Time Players in Chapel Hill, and appeared at Frogs With Fangs in Columbus, Ohio. It went up at Unity Stage Theatre’s Figgy Pudding Festival in Queens. Corner Critics opened Nothing Without a Company’s Word Circus II in Chicago. She received an Honorable Mention Award from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild for Paddy and the Mermaid. Donna is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild. |
Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz
has performed in theatre, musicals, film, television and dance in Sweden and Europe, most recently in the Swedish Original Cast of MAMMA MIA and CHESS. In New York she has appeared in productions at New York Theatre Workshop, Lincoln Center, La Mama, New York Classical Theatre, MITF, New York Fringe Festival and with Scandinavian American Theater Company. She has appeared in several independent films. One of her recent films, GOD’S FAVOR, premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2013. |
Janice Gerlach is currently an MFA Acting candidate at the New School for Drama, scheduled to graduate this coming May. She recently appeared in "Standard Aptitude" at the New School as part of their New Voices Festival. She is also a founding company member of a dance-based ensemble theater company, New Dance Theatre, here in NYC. A few previous credits: MacBeth (NSD),In the Hand of Dreams (NSD), To Dream of Trees (NYC Dream Up Festival), and Day of the Feast (J & S Productions). Please visit janicegerlach.com for contact information and resume!
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Brennan Lowery is graduating this May with his MFA from The New School for Drama. You can see him in the all-new comedy Get Me a Guy this summer by Moonlight Productions and as part of Writopia Lab's Worldwide Plays Festival in May. Check out
www.brennanlowery.com for more info. This is his first reading for Under Rehearsed! |
Jeffrey Adams is currently a graduating MFA candidate at The New School for Drama. His most recent attributes include: NSD's Red Light Winter (Davis), As You Like It (Orlando), and Wide Eyed Theatre Company's NYC Fringe production of Animals, written by Sam Byron. Adams is a proud member of Wide Eyed's improvisational comedy troupe, Real. Good. Spies. and can next be seen in a West Coast production of Into the Woods. (jeffreybrianadams.com)
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Lindsay Timmington is an actress, writer and director who was last seen in Equus at The Gallery Players. She holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and has been published in HowlRound, The Elephant Journal and The Good Men Project. Favorite past roles include Agnes in BUG, Stevie in The Goat and Cynthia in The Maiden’s Prayer.
www.shattertheshouldbe.com |
COURTNEY A. VINSON: MFA Acting Candidate at The New School for Drama, 2014. Upcoming projects: Actor Showcase for The New School for Drama; Cassandra, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Shakespeare & Company) Theatre Credits include: Kara, The Ladder; Emily, Blue Window; Hecate/Donalbain, Macbeth; (The New School for Drama) Abrahim, Making Love Legal (D.C. Fringe Festival), Medea, Medea; Mina, Dracula; Agnes, BUG (Penn State University Berks), Dorothee, Le Pond; June, June; Susannah, Zusehen (NSD) Film Credits: This is Felipe's House; Travels Pt. I
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