March 29-April 11
Via Brooklyn presents
TESTAMENT Written by Tristan Bernays Directed by Lucy Jane Atkinson with Biko Eisen-Martin....Impenitent Thief on the Cross, Anthony Jessica Giannone..................................Lot’s Daughter, Mary Cori Hundt ..............................................Lot’s Daughter, Jane Doreen Jépaul Mitchell ....................Son of Abraham, Isaac Desireé Rodriguez.........................................Singer, Rosetta Executive Producers Ian Harkins, Cori Hundt, and Rafe Terrizzi Associate Producers Jack Collard and Danielle Joy Director of Photography Jessica Bennett Editor Béla Baptiste
Casting Director Destiny Lilly Production Manager Nikolas George Brown Costume, Hair, and Makeup Design Carla Posada Sound Design Chaim Rubenstein Props and Set Design Rafe Terrizzi Music Director Desireé Rodriguez Sound Mixer Nic Heese Dramaturg Ana Verde Sensitiviy Reader: Shannon Harris Key Grip: Edward Herrera Gaffer: Ariel Nehorayoff Camera Assistant: Marina King Colorist: Eli Freireich Graphic Design: Kyra Tantao Cover Compliance Company: Safe Production Services
BIKO EISEN-MARTIN
Credits include The Public Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, 59E59, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Longwharf Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Folger, Denver Center, CrossroadsTheatre Co., Arden Theatre Co., Syracuse Stage, Cleveland Play House, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Gulfshore Playhouse, Olney Theatre , Marin Theatre Co., Chautauqua, Pioneer Theatre, Colorado Shakes, TheatreWorks, Campo Santo Theatre Co., and San Jose Stage CO. Film/TV: Buck (Sundance), Dietland (AMC), Finding Frida (upcoming). BA/MAT: Brown University; MFA: National Theatre Conservatory. @saybiko www.bikoeisenmartin.com
JESSICA GIANNONE is an actor, teaching artist, and NY Times recommended baker (Pie Birds). She earned her MFA in Professional Acting at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she was chosen “Expert’s Choice” by THE STAGE, and her BFA in Performing Arts from SCAD, where she was awarded for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Most recently, Jessica played Jen in The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter (NBC’s This is Us) at Cape Fear Regional Theater (BroadwayWorld Award). Other credits include Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre (Falstaff Award Nom.), Petal in 1st NYC Revival of Michael John LaChiusa’s Marie Christine, Torchbearing Ladies (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Upton Abbey (Upright Citizens Brigade), and Musical Improv Megawatt (Magnet Theatre). Her UK ctredits include
The Libertine (Glasgow Citizens Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), The Winter’s Tale and Jez Butterworth’s The River (Tobacco Factory Theatre). She combines her activities by hosting Pie, Pint, and a Play Reading in Brooklyn and being a Co-Founder of Adventure Players Live!, an interactive online children’s theatre.
CORI HUNDT TV/Film: Avenue 5 (HBO), Fatal Encounters (NBC Peacock), Celebrity Ghost Stories (Biography Channel), and Audition the Film (Viacom). New York Theatre: Territories: The Spoils (PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2), Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky (59E59), Women Are Crazy Because Men Are Assholes (Abingdon), Fuente Ovejuna (FringeNYC- Overall Excellence Award Winner), She Stoops to Conquer (Hudson Warehouse), 12 Angry Jurors (The Alpha NYC), Oy! (The Alpha NYC),
Grand Unified (Ugly Rhino Productions), Warehouse of Horrors (Ugly Rhino Productions), Collide (Rhapsody Theatre Collective), The Ride (Experience the Ride), Aesthetic Anarchy (Performa 11), and Something Outrageous (45th Street Theatre). US Regional Theatre: Wild Oats (12 Miles West Theatre Company) and Dames of Thrones: Richard III (International Shakespeare Center). UK Theatre: Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky (EdFringe) and The Collection (Wallace Collection). New Media: “Kevin Spacey Teaches Acting” (Masterclass. com). MA: LAMDA, BA: Middlebury College. www.CoriHundt.com
DORON JéPAUL MITCHEL is a writer/actor based in New York City. Last seen on Broadway in Aaron Sorkin's To Kill A Mockingbird (Original Cast) and previously performed in the Lincoln Center’s One Night Only Benefit Concert of
Camelot featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda. He starred in the BET CRE8 Semi-Finalist film Getaway and was featured in the Huffington Post Award-winning short Night directed by Joosje Duk. Writing Credit: A Letter to...” (National Black Theatre 2018). His screenplay, Traphouse (semifinalist for the 2021 Sundance Institute Development Lab). MFA: NYU Tisch Grad Acting. IG: @doronjepaul. www.doronjepaulmitchell.com
Amsterdam (NBC), Almost Family (FOX), The Sun is Also a Star (Warner Bros.) The Village (NBC), Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Madam Secretary (CBS), Unforgettable (CBS), Black Nativity (FOX). She has sung backup for Gloria Estefan and Harry Connick Jr. She has recorded with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s on their album “Mosquito.” She is a member of the Broadway Inspirational Voices choir directed by Michael McElroy. @msdesrod TRISTAN BERNAYS PLAYWRIGHT
DESIREÉ RODRIGUEZ Credits include the West Coast Premiere of John Leguizamo’s Kiss My Aztec in the role of Pilar (Berkeley Rep & La Jolla Playhouse) Off Broadway: Elizabeth in Tricks the Devil Taught Me (Minetta Lane Theatre). National tours and regionally: Ana in Barrio Grrrl! (Kennedy Center), Frida/Rufina/ Alfonsina in Tres Vidas (Core
Ensemble), Roberta in Why You Beasting? (Fringe). TV/Film credits include: New
Tristan is an award-winning writer and performer from London. His previous work includes: Ghost House (VAULT Festival, 2020, Dir: Andy Twyman); Frankenstein (Classic Stage Company in New York, 2020, Dir: Timothy Douglas); Souvenir (Secret Locations, 2019, Dir: Sophie Larsmon); War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience (Secret Location, 2019, Dir: Jack Pirie); Old Fools (Southwark Playhouse, 2018, Dir: Sharon Burrell); Teddy (The Vaults + UK Tour, 2018, Dir: Eleanor Rhode); Boudica (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2017, Dir: Eleanor Rhode); Frankenstein (Wiltons Music Hall, 2017, Dir: Eleanor Rhode); Testament (VAULT Festival, 2017, Dir: Lucy Jane Atkinson); Teddy
(Southwark Playhouse, 2015, Dir: Eleanor Rhode); The Bread & The Beer (Soho Theatre + UK Tour, 2014, Dir: Sophie Larsmon). Tristan was Writer-In-Residence at Dancing Ledge TV Productions (2018). He was also a member Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group (2016) and the Orange Tree Theatre’s Writers Group (2014). He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama, where he teaches Playwriting.
winner: Show of the Week VAULT 2019), and Meat, by Gillian Greer, (Theatre 503). She has directed work in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and is currently developing a further host of new plays with an eclectic mix of some of the UK’s most exciting up-andcoming playwrights. She is represented by Alexandra Cory at Berlin Associates.
LUCY JANE ATKINSON DIRECTOR
ABOUT VIA BROOKLYN
Atkinson is an experienced and award-winning director. Her work focuses on new writing, including musical theatre, devising, and immersive theatre. In 2018 she was named number 1 on The Stage’s Top Talents To Watch, stating “her direction is simple, but acutely sensitive to the shifting energy of the writing. Evident but never overbearing.” Recent credits include A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy, (VAULT Festival, UK tour, Trafalgar Studios; winner: Outstanding New Work, VAULT 2018; Winner: Off WestEnd Award for Best Actress; Nominated: Off West-End Awards for Best Director, Most Promising Playwright, & Best New Play), Vespertilio by Barry McStay, (VAULT Festival, Dublin Fringe;
Via Brooklyn develops theatrical productions, coupled with interactive programming, to engage audiences around the world. Our mission is to foster enthusiasm, contemplation, and community by blurring the traditional lines between stage, canvas, camera, music, page, and everything in between. We believe the synergy of artistic media can create visionary live theatre experiences.
TESTAMENT is part of 59E59 Theaters PLAYS IN PLACE season of virtual events. 59E59 Theaters was established by the Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation in 2004 to grant professional space and expertise to non-profit theater companies premiering their work in New York City. Under the leadership of Val Day, Artistic Director, and Brian Beirne, Managing Director, 59E59 Theaters presents a year-round curated program of Off Broadway plays and musicals that are nurtured and supported through highly-subsidized rental rates, as well as production, ticketing, FOH, marketing, and press support.