DIRECTOR
ELEANOR HANDLEY Eleanor is thrilled to be back in the director's chair this year. She first joined the program by directing Every Brilliant Thing and has since appeared in Three Days of Rain, Jericho, Love Letters, and Tally's Folly. Her NYC credits include Corruption and The Hard Problem (Lincoln Center Theater), Jericho (59E59), Limonade Tous les Jours (Cell Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (Morgan Library). Regionally, she has performed in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Private Lives, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Blithe Spirit, Lend Me a Tenor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Comedy of Errors at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Time Stands Still, Witness for the Prosecution, Lost in Yonkers, and Rumors at Bristol Riverside Theatre; and King Lear, The Three Musketeers, Troilus and Cressida, and Twelfth Night at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Her television credits include Unforgettable, Royal Pains, As the World Turns, and Twelfth Night.
CAST
MICHAEL SATOW (C.S. Lewis) Off-Broadway/NY Stage includes: A Better Place (The Duke) Final Analysis (The Griffin), Hot Season (Sheen Center), Raft of the Medusa (Secret Theatre), Look Upon Our Lowliness (HSA Theatre), Merchant of Venice (Westbeth). Regional Stage includes: Time Stands Still, On Golden Pond (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Rumors, Betrayal (Theatre Workshop of Nantucket), Red (Riverside Theatre), Lend Me A Tenor, Arsenic & Old Lace, Hound of the Baskervilles (Florida Rep), Hannah (Premiere Stages), Shipwrecked! (Capital Rep), Proof (Seacoast Rep), Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.), Jericho (Florida Studio Theatre). TV/Film include: Elementary, Instinct (CBS), Recurring as Stark Schiff in The Good Fight (CBS), Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver (HBO), Manhattan Love Story, All My Children (ABC) Under Jakob’s Ladder, How To Break Up With Your Mother. Currently producing and staring in upcoming True Crime Podcast The Murderer Killings. Numerous commercials and voiceovers. Graduate of Northeastern University and Maggie Flanigan Studio. – AEA, SAGAFTRA. michaelsatow.com, @michaelsatow.
GANNON MCHALE (Freud) is a veteran New York City character actor. Broadway: JAMES JOYCE’S THE DEAD, THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Off-Broadway: THE GOD COMMITTEE, FAME ON 42NDSTREET, THE FANTASTICKS. Seven national and two international tours, numerous Regional Theatre residencies. Film & TV: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5177066/ Author of STEALTH BOAT: Fighting the Cold War in a Fast Attack Submarine (Naval Institute Press 2008), a memoir of his time in the Submarine Service.
PRODUCER
DANNY VACCARO is thrilled to be part of the ACAPNJ Performance Series for the 6th year as Producer, Director, and sometimes actor. Bringing plays to this community has been a pleasure as well as a learning experience. With ACAP: Talley’s Folly, Love Letters, Time Stands Still, Every Brilliant Thing, Three Days of Rain, Jericho. As a performer: Broadway and Tour- Girl From the North Country, La Cage aux Folles, Wizard of Oz, Diary of Anne Frank, Nunsense Amen, Streakin’ .TV- FEUD, Law & Order
SVU, Younger. Danny is a graduate of Northwestern University and a member of Actor’s Equity.
CONFERENCE CHAIR
ANNETTE VACCARO is a psychoanalyst and a psychotherapist with a general practice, and a specialty in clinical supervision, in Livingston, NJ. She is the Director of Academic Affairs, At ACAP, Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, and its academic partner BGSP, the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Vaccaro is an Associate Professor at Caldwell University and coordinator of their Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a Concentration in Art Therapy Master’s degree program.
Freud’s Last Session
by Mark St. Germain
With Michael Satow and Gannon McHale
Presented by ACAP and BGSP Cosponsoring with NAAP
Directed by: Eleanor Handly
Produced by: Danny Vaccaro
Online Version Tech: Kaila Kawriluk
Playbill designed by: Mike Vaccaro and Kaila Hawriluk
Small Group Discussions: Dr. Vicki Semel, Joan Hess & Judith Lapides
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
2PM-2:15PM: Opening Remarks- Dr. Vicki Semel
2:15PM-4PM: Performance of Freud’s Last Session
4PM-4:15PM: Intermission
4:15PM-5:15pm: Small Group Discussions
5:15PM-6PM: Large Group Discussion & Wrap-Up
*Please note, evaluations for today’s conference will be emailed following the completion of the event from grants@acapnj.org. Evaluations must be completed by Sunday November 17, 2024. Kindly allow 2 WEEKS processing time to receive your certificate from grants@acapnj.org. An evaluation must be completed in order to receive CEUs.
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ACAP serves as a community resource by offering courses, clinical programs and experiences, and Continuing Education (CE) opportunities to help build skills for those working with individuals and groups in the areas of interpersonal relationships, crisis resolution, education and mental health issues, and parenting. ACAP with its partner, a branch of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP), are educational and mental health resources, offering degrees, empowering individuals, and organizations with practical, successful life strategies.
The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) since 1972 has successfully pursued its mission to unite the various schools of psychoanalytic thought and to ensure the independence, advancement, recognition, and sustainability of the profession of psychoanalysis.
