CAST

STUART LUTH (William) has performed both regionally and locally, from the Theater at Monmouth (Maine) to the New York Theatre Workshop. He teaches improvisation to business executives and is a founding member of the sketch comedy group Slightly Known People. He recently played a friendly guidance counselor in Dear Harvard, which won Best Drama in the 2007 New York Television Festival.

LUCY OWEN (Clara, et. al.) has recently relocated to New York via Los Angeles where she perfomed in the Theatre of Note/Halpalis production of Three Sisters (Natasha) and received “Best Actress in a Supporting Role” awards from both Eye Spy LA and Review Plays.com.  Regional credits include Berkely Rep (Cloud Nine), Theatreworks in Mountainview (Shakespeare In Hollywood), San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (Henry IV, parts 1 & 2; The Winter’s Tale), PCPA Theatrefest (Arcadia, Amadeus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Romeo and Juliet, Skylight), Transparent Theatre (Eternity…, Viginia Woolf’s Night and Day, The Rehearsal, Hamlet), Porchlight Theatre Company (The Seagull, An Ideal Husband).  Lucy is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and a proud member of Actor’s Equity.

JEDEDIAH BAKER (Theodore, et. al.) is pleased to be getting back on the stage after an unintentional break of about thirty months. He moved to New York last fall after spending two years in St. John’s, Newfoundland pursuing a Master’s Degree in Folklore. There, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by portraying Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat in Cats (TaDa Productions). Previous roles include Leonidik in The Promise (Basement on the Hill) and Hamlet in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (TheatreZone), both in Boston, and Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Muhlenberg College. His favorite movie is Back to the Future.

CREW/CREATIVE

JENNIFER LYNN JORDAN (Co-Playwright) is known for her medievalist blog Per Omnia Saecula, which has had thousands of visitors since its August 2007 debut.  Her New York theatrical career began at The Tank Performing Arts Space, where she curated and directed a Dante-inspired evening of theatre (in addition to being their very first intern.  You can find her performing medieval puppet shows for the Medieval and Renaissance Center at New York University.

GIL VAROD (Co-Playwright) is the lyricist and co-bookwriter for “Oedipus for Kids”, which extended and sold out as a Next Link Selection at the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival, and is about to be published by Samuel French.  He is best known for the website Broadway Abridged where his satirical scripts skewering Broadway shows have been read by tens of thousands of visitors.

SHANNON FILLION (Director) is a New York based director/producer whose work includes Maggie Misplaced (GLO Festival), The High Cost of Living (Prospect Theater’s Dark Nights Series), Better This Way (FringeNYC), Yehuda Duenyas’s One Million Forgotten Moments, The Turtle Tattoo (MITF), Monkey Study (6B Garden), and Hamlet (Austin Arts Center).  Shannon studied with director Brigid Panet at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with Tina Packer at Shakespeare & Company, and is a graduate of both Trinity College and the Trinity/LaMama program.  She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and has worked on staff at New York Theatre Workshop since 2006.

SCOTT ORLESKY (Set Design) is an award winning producer, designer and composer. He has designed shows that have toured on 5 continents and his work has won a Dora Mavor Moore award for theatrical design, an IALD award for architectural design and an ISES award for special events production.
He has production managed such events as the Grand Rock Music Festival, The Royal Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the World Congress on Education and Technology.
He has had ETF teams drop in from the roof of the Skydome, rigged 80 ostrich feather chandeliers to fly in from the ceiling in a hockey rink and sailed a pink submarine up the Brisbane River.

SHAUN FILLION (Lighting Designer) designs lighting and video for the stage, which has earned him critical acclaim on both coasts. His designs have garnered him the Princess Grace Award, as well as nominations for the Ovation Awards in Los Angeles. Recent venues include HERE, Taper/P.L.A.Y., REDCAT, Boston Court, and PS-122. www.shaunfillion.com

JONATHAN REZNICK (Sound Design/Score/Audio Engineering) If you did not count his founding membership in two successive theatrical troops,  his roles on and off stage in a handful of other independent productions in NYC, and his experience building custom audio racks and servicing audio equipment for Broadway shows from Fiddler to Wicked, this would actually be Jon’s first venture into a theater.  But since it isn’t, suffice it to say Jon has at least some notion of what he’s doing running the boards for this show.  In case you are not already instilled with confidence that Jon owns his role: he has been listening to MP3s since they were MP2s and currently works as an ops manager for a streaming media company on Wall Street.  Jon boasts that he can turn anything, literally anything, into an MP3.  Just ask.  Want breakfast on your iPod?  No problem!  One egg or two?

GINA GUADAGNINO (Costumes) has been designing and building costumes for the past twelve years. She studied under the Carbonell Award-winning designer Penelope Koleos-Williams at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Recent past works include Nine of Cups (2002), King Lear (2003), Titus Andronicus (2004), “Shakespeare in the Line” (2004), and The Devil is an Ass (2005). Between 2003-2006, she also designed and produced an eclectic line of wedding gowns and Halloween costumes under her own label, Empire Threads. She was lovingly bludgeoned out of retirement to work on time, et. al. after which she plans to return to her previous practice of denying that she even owns a sewing machine.

JENN HALTMAN (Casting Director) is the Casting Associate at New York Theatre Workshop (All That I Will Ever Be, The Black Eyed, The Misanthrope, and the upcoming Beast). She has also worked on shows for Studio Dante, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Page 73 Productions, The Edge Theatre Company and most recently Beebo Brinker Chronicles at 37 Arts.  Many thanks to Jack Doulin for his guidance and support.

ISABELLA GREGORY (Stage Manager) This will be Isabella’s second fringe show after Stage Managing last year’s Pogo and Evie. Originally hails from a small summer town on Long Island. She has devoted many summer stock seasons to the  Gateway Playhouse in her small town. Jerry Herman’s Show tunes (Off Broadway), Saturday Night Live (2002-2003). Billy Connolly: Too Old to Die Young (Off Broadway) , Lee Evans: Same World Different Planet (Off Broadway) , Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed (Off Broadway), Poe: A Musical based on the Life of E.A Poe (Off Broadway), and Escape From Bellevue (Off Broadway). She holds a BA in communication Arts from NYIT. She would like to thank Gil, Jennifer and Shannon for this awesome opportunity. Much Love to her newborn son Atticus Declan, and her loving, loud and humorous family.