United Stages
playbill
February 21, 2013; pub.#2110
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presents the world premiere of
Co-Artistic Directors: Meghan E. Jones and Michael Kingsbaker Executive Director: Dave Lankford Creative Director: Jonathan Ashley Stage Manager: Liz Elise Richards*
Make Love with the Light On By Bob Kolsby Directed by Beth Jastroch Katie: Katelyn Collins Jason: Andy Hassell Schuhplattler By Meghan E. Jones Directed by Lily Robbins Girl: Stephanie Ringstaff Daddy: Michael Bernstein The Fly Space By Beth Jastroch Directed by Michael Kingsbaker DT: Nick Stevens Shelby: Danielle Beckmann Bruce: Ian Bell
〖 Intermission 〗
Seen By Dave Lankford Directed by Meghan E. Jones Arnold: Lawrence Crimlis Susan: Morgan McGuire On with the Show By Michael Sean McGuinness Directed by Olivia Killingsworth Julia: Maiken Wiese Richard: Loren Dunn* Maggie: Aubrey Ball Ingredients for Love By Michael Kingsbaker Directed by Ian Bell Man: Stephen Alan Wilson*
Music by Andy Evan Cohen (piano) and Olivia Killingsworth (vocals) Sound Designer: Andy Evan Cohen Lighting Designer: Jake Fine Associate Scenic Designer: Brandon Hardy Makeup Designer: Lisa Forst Costume Designer: Charlotte Lily Gaspard House Manager: Emily Robin Fink Publicist: Dale Heller, Heller Highwater LLC *Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
The Shelter is a family of artists creating original theater for the New York stage. The heartbeat of The Shelter is our Shelter Sunday workshop, where writers, directors and actors challenge themselves to refine their respective crafts through hard work, creative exercise, experimentation and artistic discourse. Weekly activities include readings of original scripts, rehearsals of monologues, songs and scenes, as well as acting and directing exercises. Shelter Sunday operates with an open-door policy; we welcome all who would like to attend. For more information, please visit www.theshelternyc.org
W h o’ s W h o Jonathan Ashley (creative director), after growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona, moved to the East Coast to pursue visual arts. He studied fine art at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and filmmaking at NYU, Tisch. In addition to his work with The Shelter, Jonathan is an illustrator, animator and graphic designer. Jonathan is very thankful to work with such a talented and supportive group of artists. Aubrey Ball (Maggie, On with the Show) is thrilled to be a part of Ghost Light. This is her third production with the company, having last appeared as Valerie in Soarward Holiday Party and as Wilhelmina in Fairy Tale. She was recently seen as Valerie in Waiting for Dogot and as Chrissy in the webseries Wrights Wrongs. Past favorite roles include Essie in You Can’t Take It with You, Wife in Rashoman, Ann/Ben in The Normal Heart and June in Fifth of July. Thanks to her friends, her family, her T. Schreiber family and all the “Shelties” for their support and belief.
Danielle Beckmann (Shelby, The Fly Space) is a founding member, performer and executive producer of the hit New York stand-up comedy show, Comic Diversity. Her NYC theater credits include Pizza Man (Bridge Theatre), Rent a White Guy The Musical (The Secret Theatre), The Little Mermaid (The Players Theatre), Cinderella (The Players Theatre), American English (17 Frost Theatre of the Arts) and I Hate Love (Midtown International Theatre Festival). Danielle proudly received her B.F.A. in theater performance from Chapman University. www.daniellebeckmann.com. Ian Bell (Bruce, The Fly Space; director, Ingredients for Love) graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in film production, and has been working in the industry since. He continued to hone his acting craft study-
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
W h o’ s W h o ing under Terry Schreiber. Previous theater credits include Balm in Gilead, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Dogs Lie and the feature films Half Brother and The Talk Man. This is his third production with The Shelter. www.ianandrewbell.com. Michael Bernstein (Daddy, Schuhplattler). With The Shelter: his plays Kate (Fairy Tale) and Robot Girl (The Shelter Presents: Art), as well as The Butler in Dinner for the Queen (Fairy Tale). With Ugly Rhino: Celebration, Grief, Centralia, The Awakening and Gowanus ’73. Michael will be familiar to anyone in Turkey, Germany or Japan who’s seen horror spoof You Can’t Kill Stephen King. He is honored to appear in Schuhplattler. www.michaelbernstein.biz.
greenroomblog.com, creativespotlights.com and noredlipstick.com. @KCinNYC. Lawrence Crimlis (Arnold, Seen) studied theater at Pennsylvania State University, The Terry Schreiber Studio and Larry Moss. Select theater: Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead (Gloria Maddox Theatre, 2011 NYIT Award, Outstanding Play); Lee Blessing’s Down the Road (Harold Clurman Theatre); Terry Curtis Fox’s Cops (Walnut Street Theatre). Select film and TV: Tobacco Burn (Justin Liberman, director), Pan Man (Vitally Bokser, director), Not Dark Yet (Brian Paccione, director), Creatures of Habit (PIG Productions), Desperation Highway (Aon Films). https://vimeo.com/50586004.
Andy Evan Cohen (sound designer, piano player). Recent credits as composer and sound designer include Off-Broadway runs of Black Milk and She’s of a Certain Age, The Man in Room 306 at 59E59, Listen! The River at the Edinburgh Fringe, several productions at T. Schreiber studios (including NYIT Award-winning Balm in Gilead) and (upcoming) Incendiary Agents at the New Ohio Theatre. Andy is proud to be a Shelter resident artist, having worked on Night Windows, Fairy Tale, The Shelter Presents: Art and others. He holds degrees in music from Oberlin and Manhattan School of Music. Please visit www.andycomusic.com.
Loren Dunn* (Richard, On with the Show) recently appeared with The Shelter as Arlin Whitiker in Soarward Holiday Party. Other credits include New York: The Pretty Trap (Off Broadway, NY premiere), Night of the Iguana, Women of Manhattan, Cassiopeia; international: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Italy); regional: You Can’t Take It with You, The Glass Menagerie, The School for Scandal, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Foreigner; TV: As the World Turns, One Life to Live, 30 Rock. Love to his beautiful wife Jenny!
Katelyn Collins (Katie, Make Love with the Light On) received her B.F.A. in theater performance from Salem State University, and is about to begin classes at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. Recent NYC credits include A Prelude to the Morning After (The Radium Girls), Soarward Holiday Party (The Shelter) and Cause of Failure (FullStop Collective), where she is a proud associated artist. She will appear with them next in Foreplays 2013 this March. You can find Katelyn online as blogger for
Jake Fine (lighting designer) is a New York-based lighting designer. Previously with The Shelter: Night Windows, Fairy Tale and The Shelter Presents: Art. Other work includes A Raisin in the Sun for The Gallery Players, A Lie of the Mind and Top Girls at Stella Adler Studios, The Seagull and Hindsight for The Drilling Company, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Sanguine Theater Company, Peter and the Wolf for Marc Arthur, The Lost Light for the SharkMother Arts Collective, “Mic” (FringeN YC) and Unexpected Company (Strawberry One-Act Festival; winner, Best Play Award). Concert designs for groups such as Ben Folds, Reel Big Fish, Jack’s Mannequin, Augustana, Derek Trucks/Susan Tedeschi Band, Ludacris, Nicki Minaj and more.
W h o’ s W h o Emily Robin Fink (house manager) is thrilled to be back working with The Shelter. Past projects include Merchant of Venice (Portia) with York Shakespeare, Playboy of the Western World (Widow Quin) with Hangar Theater and Ivanov (Anna) with Miscreant. Much love to The Shelter family.
the American Theatre Wing Scholarship. Favorite roles include Annie (The Real Thing directed by Terry Schreiber), Julia (Fefu and Her Friends), Helen Jones (Machinal, Kennedy Center, finalist in The American College Theatre Festival). She can also be seen several local and national commercials.
Brandon Hardy (associate scenic designer). Broadway: Ghost The Musical, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Enron, The Addams Family (also national tour, Brazil and Australia). Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast national tour, Shakespeare in the Park’s The Winter’s Tale and A Streetcar Named Desire for The Comedie Francaise. NYC directorial debut forthcoming in The Untitled Show. Shelter resident artist! Productions include Night Windows, Fairy Tale, The Shelter Presents: Art and Soarward Holiday Party. www.BrandonHardy-Art.com.
Olivia Killingsworth (director, On with the Show; vocalist) recently starred in The Shelter Presents: Art (Robin, Robot Girl), and directed pieces in The Shelter’s Night Windows and Fairy Tale. Other acting credits: Alien Child (T. Schreiber Studio), The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (Kirk Douglas Theater) and Steve Martin’s Wasp (The MET Theater). Olivia has trained as an actor and singer with Betty Buckley, Terry Schreiber, Larry Moss and Melanie Vaughan, and is a graduate of Occidental College.
Andy Hassell (Jason, Make Love with the Light On). This will be his fifth show with The Shelter as a resident artist. He’s a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Most recent credits include Happy Endings (SmartMouth Productions), a viral webisode available on FunnyorDie.com. Theater: The Shelter Presents: Art (The Shelter). Film: Living the Dream (Columbia Film Fest). www.andyhassell.com.
Michael Kingsbaker (co-artistic director; director, The Fly Space; playwright, Ingredients for Love) has been working professionally on screen and in theater for over twenty-five years. In Los Angeles, he was a member of Academy Award-winner Bobby Moresco’s Actor’s Gym. Last year, Michael was nominated by the Colorado Theatre Guild for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Robert in John Kolvenbach’s On an Average Day (Curious Theatre). Recently, he co-directed the immersive Soarward Holiday Party for The Shelter. Bob Kolsby (playwright, Make Love with the Light On) was a Shubert Fellow in Dramatic Writing at Brandeis University. Columbia Pictures selected him as a member of their Talent Program and the studio purchased and optioned his original screenplay Radical Change. His plays have been produced throughout the US and Canada. He has taught non-fiction writing and playwriting at Brandeis University and City College and has been a guest artist at the Long Wharf Theatre.
Beth Jastroch (director, Make Love with the Light On; playwright, The Fly Space) is a graduate of NYU and Stella Adler. She has been writing, directing and occasionally acting with The Shelter for three years! Most recently with The Shelter: Soarward Holiday Party (Mindy the bartender) and The Shelter Presents: Art (Karen, Mark Makes Dave Lankford (executive director; playwright, Art; and director of Robot Girl). Thanks to her Seen) is a founding member of The Shelter and often contributes as a writer, director and actor. family, friends and Roger. Most recently, he appeared as the gregarious Uri Meghan E. Jones (co-artistic director; playwright, (Soarward Holiday Party) and a struggling father Schuhplattler; director, Seen) is an actor, writer (The Shelter Presents: Art). Dave is an alumnus of and director. Recently, she received critical success T. Schreiber Studio and The American University. for her turn as Edna Pontellier in Ugly Rhino’s He’s also director of product for the Emmy-Award The Awakening. Meghan attended the American winning The Dr. Oz Show, where he recently Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she was awarded launched the interactive project You Feel. He owes
W h o’ s W h o thanks to a special night at Radiolab’s In the Dark for inspiring Seen. www.davelankford.com. Michael Sean McGuinness (playwright, On with the Show). National tour: Goosebumps (writer/ director, Rupert Holmes). Off Broadway: Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (The Pearl Theatre Company). Regional: Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Pig Iron Theatre Company), Prospero in The Tempest (Vermont Shakespeare Company), Iago in Othello (Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre). TV/film: Frasier, Law & Order, Terry Tate Office Linebacker, The Season (with David Margulies). Education/training: B.F.A., acting, New York University; Stella Adler. The Shelter: Fairy Tale (Henry in Kate), The Shelter Presents: Art (playwright, Glyph). Morgan McGuire (Susan, Seen) hails from the golden hills of California and now resides in the Borough Kings. Not so many moons ago she received a bachelor’s of fine arts in acting from Marymount Manhattan College. She last graced The Gloria Maddox stage in the T. Schreiber Studio production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Morgan is beyond excited to be a small part of Ghost Light. Many thanks to Dave and Meghan for keeping her in the dark!
credits include The Man Under (59E59), Pericles (Soho Rep) and World Wide Lab: A Director’s Feast, featuring international alums of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab (Irondale Center). Other favorite credits include Three Sisters (The Atlantic Stage 2), Where’s My Money (Cherry Lane), Lizzie Borden (The Living Theater) and the award-winning productions of Balm in Gilead and The Changing Room (T. Schreiber Studio). www.lizeliserichards.com. Stephanie Ringstaff (Girl, Schuhplattler) is thrilled to be playing The Girl in Schuhplattler! She has been a part of The Shelter for two years now, having last made an appearance in Soarward Holiday Party. Native to California, Steph graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a dual major in theater and psychology. Recent credits include Special Events Cast at Sleep No More and East of the Sun, West of the Moon with Enchanted Forest.
Lily Robbins (director, Schuhplattler). This is Lily’s directorial debut in New York. She hails from Denver, Colorado, where she studied ballet, figure skating and low-flying trapeze. Lily attended Bard College where she studied Medieval art and was a founding member of the Bard Women’s Rugby Team. She has previously directed Five Women Wearing the Same Dress and adapted and directed Girl, Interrupted with the Union Street Liz Elise Richards* (stage manager) is happy to Players. She is forever thankful for The Shelter. be back working with so many friends. Recent SM www.lilyrobbins.com.
W h o’ s W h o Nick Stevens (DT, The Fly Space) is very happy to be appearing in his second Shelter production! You may have seen him as Spaceman Hank Calkins in Fairy Tale. Classically trained, Nick is no stranger to singing and dancing with earlier roles including Mike Connor (High Society!), Richard Henry Lee (1776) and Marcellus Washburn (The Music Man). He’d like to thank his parents for their support and for not putting him on a rocket and sending him into space.
his work as Satan in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (T. Schreiber Studio). Credits extend from theater and TV to commercials and voice-overs. He is currently the national spokesperson for Johnnie Walker. Love to Noelle. www.stephenalanwilson.com. Maiken Wiese (Julia, On with the Show) hails from Seattle where she performed with Live Girls! Theater and the Seattle Children’s Theater. She’s jazzed to be back with the Shelter for Ghost Light. In New York, she has performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Flea Theater and as an actor/writer in Sticky. Her play In the 9th Month was an audience favorite at the Estrogenius Festival 2011. You can see her alter-ego, Makin’ Whoopee at Nerdlesque, an evening of geekery at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg. www.maikenwiese.com.
Stephen Alan Wilson* (Man, Ingredients for Love) is pleased to return to The Shelter after lending his voice to Fairy Tale in 2011. He was recently the recipient of the 2012 NYIT Award for Outstanding Heller Highwater LLC (publicist). With over a Actor in a Featured Role for decade of experience working in public and media
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