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ADRIAN BURKE………………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Guy JULIANA PHILLIPI……………….……………………………………………………………………..…………………………Mermaid/Lyndall JIM SHERWOOD………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………Antonio Meucci ROSANNE RUBINO………………………………………………………………………..……… ……………………………Esterre Meucci THERESE DIZON..…………………………..………………………………………………………..…… ………..…………………………Clementine SETTINGS: PRESENT DAY STATEN ISLAND, CUBA, LATE 1800S, AND UNDERWATER INSPIRED BY THE POEMS OF MATTHEA HARVEY
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Playwright / Director…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………RAN XIA Associate Director…………………………………………………………………………………………CHARLOTTE ARNOUX Sound Designer..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………ADRIAN BRIDGES Costume Designer………………………………………………………………………………………………………FLORENCE LEBAS
First Developed at EXQUISITE CORPSE COMPANY’s April 2016 Writer’s Lab Presented by MITF. A production affiliated with The Arctic Group Inspired by poems by Matthea Harvey, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Lord Tennyson
This is a story For the mermaids who longed for sound This is the story of an inventor A costume designer A mysterious seashell collector A pair of young lovers And an enchanted mirror Revealing things you're not ready to Let go
ADRIAN BURKE (Guy) is a nonunion actor, director, and improviser based in New York City. He recently completed the Acting Apprenticeship program at the Barrow Group Theater School. He is a house performer at Reckless Theatre where he performs every Thursday with his teams MINGLE and DEATHWISH. He is an advanced level improviser at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and a teacher at The Play Group Theater in White Plains, NY. In New York, he has performed at 4th Street Theatre of New York Theater Workshop, The Barrow Group, Dixon Place, The Brick Theater, The Paradise Factory, and many more. Adrian has trained at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, The Atlantic Theater Company, Terry Schreiber Studio, and The Barrow Group Theater Company. He received his undergraduate degree in film production from Boston University. THERESE DIZON (Clementine) is a NJ native whose heart always runs off to NYC. She recently completed an apprenticeship with The Barrow Group Theatre Company. ROSANNE RUBINO (Esterre). Selected credits include The Arsonist (NYU Goldberg Theater), The Alving Estate (Journey Lab). Film: Get My Gun, Prom King 2010, Sycamore, Muse (in production). TV: A Crime To Remember, The Mind of a Murderer. Training: Michael Howard Studio Conservatory. JIM SHERWOOD (Antonio) makes his NYC acting debut in De Profundis. Also a playwright, Jim has authored lyrics for two musicals and a bathroom farce, Scattered Showers. He is enrolled in the Barrow Group’ s Playwriting Program and is a two-time alumnus of Lincoln Center’ s “Across a Crowded Room” musical theatre workshop. Jim sings tenor with the Lehman College Chorus and works daily as a white-collar criminal defense lawyer.
JULIANA PHILIPPI has been acting since childhood, wearing her mother’ s clothes and singing along to "The Sound of Music". Julie Andrews was her first teacher. She grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, studied and graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama and a minor in Art History. She studied music and singing with the San Juan Children's Choir for over ten years in Puerto Rico, traveling around the island performing, and joining the Vienna Boys Choir at the Musikverein Festival in Vienna, Austria, as part of the 2002 Europe Tour. She is also a trained Flamenco dancer, having received her instruction from Milagros Vicente in Puerto Rico for four years and from Linda Andrade in Los Angeles, CA. She is multi lingual, writes stories and plays, and lives in NYC and LA, acting and collaborating in creating stories that need to be told. She played the lead and only woman in the original play Ole! with Theater in Asylum during its three year run at the NYC World Premiere at the Theater Under St. Marks 2012, Chicago Fringe Festival 2013 and the Prague Fringe Festival 2014. This role is an amazing one to interpret, and thank Ran for the opportunity to bring it to life. I thank my mom. Without you, I wouldn't be doing this. ADRIAN BRIDGES is a guitarist, composer, and sound designer. He received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from New York University’s Jazz Studies program, with emphasis on guitar and composition. He performs with his hip hop collective, Izzy Man & The Plan and has found a home composing, sound designing, and performing with companies such as Theater In Asylum (¡Olé!, The Debates), Kaleid Theatre (Eurydice, Glow, Take/Sacrifice), Less Than Rent Theater (Little Town Blues, Diva–Best Musical, 2013 United Solo Theatre Festival), Lyra Theater (The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui), and Artilliers (Dreamplay, Sea/Sick)! More at www.adrianbridges.com.
RAN XIA (Playwright/Director) is an interdisciplinary dramatist, theatre director, designer, and visual artist. Art Takes Times Square, Stories of the Creative (SEE.ME), Dacia Gallery (Times Square Arts Centre), Spiegel Me (Installation at Fountains Foundation, Columbia College, Chicago). The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte (Exquisite Corpse Company), Wanda, Daisy, & the Great Rapture (Exquisite Corpse Company), Disability (by Ivan Faute, Planet Connections Festival), Princess Anybody (Dir.Rachel Graf Evans, A physical performance piece/forum theatre), De Profundis, Word Play (Radioactive Festival and MITF 2016), [AI] (An adaptation of Ayn Rand's Novella Anthem at Brick Theater), Baby Fat: Act I(A punk rock opera based on Screeching Weasel's album of same title, Dir. Michael Scholar, Jr. with Columbia Stages and LA MAMA); and ongoing project: Harmony (a prerecorded virtual audio play). ranxia.info FLORENCE LEBAS (Costume Designer) is a New York-based director / costume designer / arts administrator/ teaching artist / occasional wigmaker / all around theatre person. She graduated from Whitman College in scenic Walla Walla, Washington. Recent stage credits include We Were Always Our
Own Thing (Director/TinyRhino), The Revolution (Director/ Exquisite Corpse Company) Word Play (Director/Radioactive Festival, Midtown International Festival), Swept (Director/ Take Ten Festival), Sex in the City 7 (Director/ TinyRhino), The Sun Experiment (Stage Manager / FringeNYC), The Drunken City (Director / Harper Joy Theatre), andEurydice (Costume Designer / Harper Joy Theatre). Florence currently works as a Program Assistant for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. CHARLOTTE ARNOUX (Associate Director) hails from Marseille, in the south of France. She is a stage and screen actress, writer, producer and teacher, with a particular penchant for New Works. Her recent credits include Word Play as part of the Midtown International Theater Festival and the Radioactive Festival; Splat Goes Your Day at the Sam French OOB Festival;The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals; the Coffee Catchups webseries; and the awardwinning independent short film Absolute Threshold. Charlotte is also a teacher at the Cappiello Studio, where she works with young actors to develop works pertaining to social justice issues. www.charlottearnoux.com
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Midtown International Theatre Festival Laure Porse, Joey Merlo, Caitlin Goldie Tess Howsam, Blake Bishton, Blaire O’Leary who produced the Writer’s Lab and Drinks and Drama. You made this possible. As well as Guggenheim Museum’s StillspottingNYC Project. This story would not exist without you.