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Evan Alboum,
Rabbi Task – Evan is recently back from a long trip to Los
Angeles where he appeared in several national commercials, some
award-winning and non-award winning short films and a couple of
cheesy murder mysteries, as well as the world premiere of End
of the World Party starring Jim J. Bullock. Other Los Angeles
productions include Amadeus (Mozart), The Amercian
Clock (Sid/Ryan), Man of La Mancha (Barber/Anselmo),
Fiddler on the Roof (Motel), Servant ofTwo Masters
(Waiter), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry) and two original
works at the now-exiled Pig Latin Embassy. Closer to home he has
performed in Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead, Midsummer Night’s Dream, It’s
Called The Sugar Plum and Sweeney Todd, among other
stuff. He has spent one looong season at the New Jersey Shakespeare
Festival and two short seasons with the New England Shakespeare
Festival (Comedy of Errors and As You Like It),
which religiously adheres to unrehearsed first folio technique,
not to mention rotating roles on a nightly basis. Evan started his
career as a corporeal mime, touring in Italy with the Oberlin Mime
Players and with the Adaptors Movement Theatre in New York. He continues
to perform with Pink, Inc. He studies acting with Suzanne Shepard
and voice with Lynda Sharman and teaches music in the public schools. |
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Deborah Baum, Snag
– is a 2001 graduate of Hofstra University with a BFA in Acting.
Favorite past credits include; Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth
Bennet), Love’s Labours Lost (Princess of France),
‘Night Mother (Mama), Two Noble Kinsmen
(Emilia), King Lear (Regan), Picnic (Millie),
for which she received an Irene Ryan nomination, Steel Magnolias
(Shelby and Annelle), Hamlet (Ophelia), The Wisdom
of Eve (Eve Harrington), The BabyDance (Wanda) and
Noises Off (Brooke). Off-Off Broadway: WWOW Radio Mystery
Evening (Thelma/Studio Singer), Spike Heels (Georgie)
and Every Third Thought (Dolores). Film: Bound Words,
Glory Days, The Devil and Daniel Webster, A
Beautiful Mind. |
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Gwen Brownson, Sheeva
– Gwen Brownson is a transplant to New York from Los Angeles
where she received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from UCLA and subsequently
spent several years doing theatre and independent film work. In
L.A. Gwen was an active member of Theatre of Note as well as the
Greenroom Theatre Company where she produced a successful run
of her own original theatre piece, Aftershock.
She has performed at The Rita and Burton Goldberg Theatre,
Manhattan Theatre Source, Actor's Circle Theatre, The Complex, LATC,
and The Actor's Theatre of Seattle to name a few. Most
recently she was featured in the premiere production of the award
winning new play Killesville as part of the new playwrights
festival at NYU. She would like to thank Mac for writing such a
fabulous play and Boris for taking on the challenge. |
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Max Davis, Tillic
– NY Credits: Flute/Thisby in MidSummer Night's Dream
(REV Theatre Company), Roger in Raised in Captivity (The
Outsider Collective), Reuben in Hidden in this Picture
(The Playhouse Theatre) Regional Credits: Arthur in Camille
(Olney Theatre Centre), Officer in Comedy of Errors (Olney
Summer Shakespeare) Dance Credits: Ensemble Dancer in Coyote
Dancers Present...(Kaye Playhouse). Max is a graduate of
the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Favorite Ice Cream: Cappucino Commotion |
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Michael Frederic,
Ehren – New York: The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet;
A Christmas Carol; No Meat, No Irony; Five
Women Wearing the Same Dress. Regional: Gross Indecency
(dir. Loretta Greco), As You Like It (dir. Tazewell Thompson),
The Threepenny Opera (dir. Bart Sher), Violet
(dir. Drew Barr) with PlayMakers Rep, Play by Play with
StageWorks, The Comedy of Errors with the Saratoga Springs
Shakespeare Festival, Assassins with Open Stage of Harrisburg.
Other regional credits include Professor in Tracers, Mr.
Ablett in Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, Henry in
Mr. Lucky (a one-man piece which he wrote), and Clive in
Masterpieces (which was performed in Hamburg, Germany).
He is originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, and he makes a mean
jambalaya. Training: MFA from UNC-Chapel Hill. |
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Babs O., Shockeye
– Babs performed in a summer production of King Lear
(Edmund the Bastard) with the Hudson Shakespeare. He recently appeared
in the off-Broadway show Counting Coup at La Mama. He is
glad to be back at HERE with the Theatre of Relativity. Babs dedicates
this performance to his dad. |
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Giovanni Pucci, Jonah
– Regional: Terminal (Joseph Chaikin, director),
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Marion McClinton, director),
Harvey (Douglas Hughes, director), all at the La Jolla
Playhouse. Huey in Italian-American Reconciliation at the
Seven Angels Theatre; Dominick De Caesar in Wrong Turn at Lungfish
at the Boarshead Theatre. Giovanni was last seen in New York as
Tranio in Taming of the Shrew at the Abingdon Theatre.
He is a recent graduate of the William Esper Studio. Many thanks
to Boris, Edwidge, the cast, and to Suzanne Esper, to Jutta Rose,
and to his family. |
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Brad Russell, King
Memnon – Brad is a graduate of Boston University’s School
of the Arts, where he played leading roles in a wide variety of
plays, including the major modern and classical works. After a two-year
hitch in the Army, Brad was immediately cast in Lute Song,
at Cincinnati’s Edgecliff Theatre. On the road he was featured
in the Frank Casaro production of Cervantes (starring Richard
Kiley), in a 30-city tour of the U.S. and Canada. Roles in stock
and regional theater include: Judge Wilson in 1776, Stanley
in Five Finger Exercise, Mortimer in The Fantastics,
and Nick in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw. In NY,
Brad studied with Herbert Berghof and Michael Shurtleff. New York
roles include: Teddy in The Homecoming, Hank in Boys
in the Band, Paul Gauguin in Strangers on the Earth,
and Gov. Slaton in The Lynching of Leo Frank at the Medicine
Show. Offstage, Brad relaxes with his two cockapoos: Cowboy and
Andy. |
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Ben Scaccia, Little
Bitch – Ben is excited to be making his debut with Theater
of Relatvity at HERE. Ben was recently seen as an over-zealous,
zany actor-type (go figure) in Random Acts #2 at Looking
Glass Forum, as a soup-craving nerdo-neurotic in The Wicked
Quarter Mile at ATA and (if you had found yourself meandering
around southern Vermont late summer last year) as the Gentleman
Caller in The Glass Menagerie. He is a recent graduate
of the William Esper Studio where he studied with Bill Esper for
two mind-bending, wrenching, ecstatic years. During a jaunt on the
left-side of the continent (San Francisco), Ben's favorite roles
included a muck-slinging medieval hedonist in Caryl Churchill's
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and a starving artist
in the absurdist vein in Ionesco's The Painting. Ben would
like to thank Leanne for her unbelievable eye, mind and heart and
his mom for her unending wisdom and support. |
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Steve Spehar,
Scaro – A Chicago native, equal parts
Midwestern and California boy, a graduate of San Francisco State
University, and gypsy-youth-bred-gypsy-adulthood, Steve spent
a fair portion of the last two decades not sitting still much―living
and wandering throughout California, North America, Europe, North
Africa and South America. He finally settled in New York just
over five years ago and now can't imagine being anywhere else.
Most recently he appeared as Jacques (and other roles) in As
You Like It for the New England Shakespeare Festival. Before
that, he was Antipholus/Ephesus in Comedy of Errors, also
for NESF. Other NY credits: A Midsummer Nights Dream and
Twelfth Night (Miranda Theatre); both parts of Henry
IV (for Expanded Arts' notorious Shakespeare-in-the-Parking-Lot
series); Salome (Kraine Theatre); Mary Stuart (Columbia
U.); Taming of the Shrew (Expanded Arts); Blood Knot
(New Day Repertory); and Moonchildren (Sanford Meisner
Theatre). Other credits include Lloyd in Mud, Jake in
A Lie of the Mind, The Tempest, and numerous original
works for Revolving Door Productions, a theatre company
based in Fullerton, California, of which he was a founding member;
The Bus Plays for LA's Cornerstone Theatre Co. at the Museum
of Contemporary Art; Becket at Second Stage in Hollywood;
The Unseen Hand at Theatre Rubin in Prague, shortly after
the Wall came down, Boy, Girl & Probability at the
Kafka Theatre in Prague, and the Edinburgh Festival premiere of
the Vietnam drama Tracers. Steve also directs and is a
playwright with several credits, most recently his play The
Frontier for Audacity Productions in Dallas, TX. Audacity
will be producing his play Sug as part of the Tom Waits'
inspired Small Change Project in Dallas in early 2003. |
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Caroline Tamas, Veetra
– Caroline Tamas most recently performed in Venus Fly Trap's
dance/theater piece Stalking Christopher Walken for the
2002 N.Y.C. Fringe Festival. Previously, she toured with The National
Theater for Children, co-performed/co-created the production of
Dario Fo's The First Miracle of the Boy Jesus for the 2001
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, worked as company actor with Northern
Stage in Vermont; including their production of Wit with
Lisa Harrow and Mayella in To Kill A Mockingbird, toured
Germany with American Drama Group Europe in A Christmas Carol,
and Interborough Repertory Theater's The World In My Hands
a Helen Keller story here in New York. |
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Sonia Tatninov, Ayla
– Sonia Tatninov is very excited to be working with this cast
& production team. She has been seen in various NYC productions
including the title role in, The Snowmaiden with the Vital
Children's Theater Company; playing the LES Raver Sprirt Iris in
Shakespeare-in-the-Parking Lot's, The Tempest. As Bobbie
in the Gallery Player's Tunnel Phobia; and in Hibakusha
Outcry with the IRT. She toured the NY Metro area and the Czech
Republic in 36 Exposures with the GATE Acting Ensemble.
She can next be seen in a Columbia MFA Directing collage of The
Seagull, performing the role of Paulina in both Russian and
English. Sonia is a graduate of Oberlin College. |
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Trace Turville, Rebekah
– A recent transplant from Los Angeles, The Sky Over Nineveh
marks Trace’s New York stage debut. Los Angeles theatre
credits include Marle in Futon Dialogues; Helen Hill in
The Break Up Notebook—recently nominated for a 2001
GLAAD Award; Emily in Oxblood's production of Debt; Taylor/Cassidy
in Actor!; Adele Harms in the World premiere of Self
Portrait Nude; Dot in Mrs. California; Storm in Eve
Ensler's Floating Rhoda & The Glue Man; and The Duchess
in Bertolt Brecht & W.H. Auden's adaptation of The Duchess
of Malfi, for which she received a Garland Award from Back
Stage West/Drama-Logue, and an L.A. Weekly nomination. Trace has
performed regionally as Alison in A.R. Gurney's The Old Boy
with Spokane Interplayer's Ensemble, Irina in Three Sisters
with Atlanta-based Playground Theatre Co., and Sylvia Plath in Letters
Home at the Seattle Public Theatre. Television credits include
The Guardian, The Young & The Restless, Sister,
Sister and ABC's MOW Tempting Fate. Independent film
credits include Sway, The Spider, David Proshker,
Hide, and Love Liza (Sundance 2002/December 2002
theatrical release). Trace holds a M.F.A. in Acting from California
Institute of the Arts. Much love and thanks to Peter and my family. |
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