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The Primitive Streak by Hunter Rodgers Thursday, September 21 @ 6:15pm |
Cast, Crew, and Creative |
Spencer Aste (Senator Ross) Most Recently: Axis Theatre Company's Dead End, Various Roles in Bedlam's St. Joan dir. Eric Tucker, Axial Theatre Company's Maybe Never Fell. Edinburgh: Hamlet in Bed, dir. by Lisa Peterson, 3-D Hamlet with Fundamental Theatre Project. Lincoln Center: Polonius/Gravedigger Hamlet (Lincoln Center Institute); Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (New York Philharmonic). A Midsummer Night's Dream (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra). New York: The Acting Company (company member): Richard Richard III, Iago Othello, Edgar Allan Poe Murder By Poe. Other NY Companies: Axis Theater Co. (company member), The Workshop Theater, Between Two Boroughs, Storm Theatre Co., The Cell, New York Theatre Workshop, MTC, MCC, Boomerang Theat. Co., Rising Phoenix Rep. and La MaMa among others. Favorite playwrights: Adam Rapp, Marc Palmieri and Edgar Oliver. Films: Ted (principal) 200 American; Parked Hippie Taking Woodstock (directed by Ang Lee); voice of Scratch Toy Story (directed by John Lasseter); Bern My First Kiss and the People Involved. Television: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Royal Pains (USA Network). Web Series The Thing www.theplayis.com. Spencer was recognized by NYTheatre.com as one of 2012's People Of The Year. He received his M.F.A. from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, CO and his B.F.A. from the University of Utah. Much love to Erik. Appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association |
Chica Loya (Sandy)Excited to be a part of this journey, Mikaela Loya, an Arizona native has had the pleasure of performing in numerous shows at Arizona Broadway Theatre after graduating from Arizonas Conservatory for Arts and Academics. Theatre Credits include The Buddy Holly Story (Maria Elena), Spring Awakening (Wendla), Gypsy (Louise), Hairspray, Joseph...Dreamcoat, 9to5, Footloose, All Shook Up. She thanks her friends and family for their endless support. |
Jessica Bettini (Barbara/Reporter)Jessica Bettini is a New York City based Actor, Improviser, and Voice Over Artist. She received her acting training from Columbia College Chicago and participated in the first ever Comedy Studies program in association with The Second City. Upon graduating, she went on to complete Second City's Conservatory program, as well as the improv program at iO. She has been on several improv teams around Chicago and New York, including National Comedy Theatre and Oscar Buzz. She has been seen in several commercials and new media projects, and is thrilled to be with the cast of Primitive Streak. |
Tony Lepore (Stage Manager, Lighting/Sound Designer)Tony Lepore has been involved in theatre for the past dozen years or so as a producer, composer, stage manager, lighting designer, composer, sound designer, playwright, and tech director in cities across the US, UK, Canada, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates. His producing credits include Eva Minemar's Angry Jellow Bubbles (Internationally), WET- The Opera by internationally renowned composer Anne LeBaron at the Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), The La Lupa Italian Cultural Arts Festival, Rick Pagano's Eldon Corvet and Hanging Alice, and hundreds more as part of Managing Director duties at Angry Bubble Productions. He has worked with various theatre companies including the Naked Angels, Barry Josephson Productions, VoiceChair Productions, the Barrow Street Theatre, the Elephant Theatre Company, the Present Company, Current-TV, and Lauren Reyner Productions. His play "The Decoy" was a finalist at The Network's 2012 Playwright's Festival at the Barrow Group Theatre. He's also a jazz drummer and produces Downtempo & Trip-Hop music under the name ViolaCello. www.TonyLepore.com |
Sarah Doneghy (Mr. Addison)Sarah Doneghy is an all around performer. She works in theater, film, television, improvisation, sketch comedy, and as a stand-up comedian. Using Drama Therapy techniques she has collaborated with human trafficking survivors, hospice patients, and prisoners to help put their stories on stage. She is best known for her one-woman show, 'Mixed Nut', which tells her personal story of growing up mixed race in West Virginia. Two of Sarah's passions are acting and activism. When they overlap only magic can ensue! She is honored to be playing 'Mr. Addison', in 'The Primitive Streak'. She would like to thank the entire cast and crew, her family, friends, The Bubbles, and Chris Merritt-Lish. |
Eva Minemar (Director)Eva is the co-founder and artistic director of LA LUPA Italian Cultural Arts Festival (LA LUPA FEST) and is a proud member of The Actor's Studio Directors Unit & Women in Film. Eva's first directing accolade came when she was nominated for an Irene Ryan Award while in the Cal-Arts Theatre Program. She came home to NYC where she finished her formal education at Circle in the Square. Soon after graduating Circle she became artistic director of the Lower East Side Landmark, Piano Store Theatre with fellow La Lupa Producer Tony Lepore. She conceived and directed a ten-year and twelve city-touring woman's theatre staple, Angry Jellow Bubbles, which was exclusively chosen to be performed for the delegates of the world at the United Nations for International Women's Day. She co-founded and is Artistic Director of the New York based Production Company, Angry Bubble Productions in order to provide opportunities and support for women in the theatrical arts and to give women writers a voice and an opportunity to have their work performed world-wide and without compromise to commercial concerns. Since then, she has gone on to produce, write, direct, and star in over fifty plays, numerous one-woman shows, and several TV and film roles. www.EvaMinemar.com |
Jonathan Harris (Dean)Select theatre credits include: Voices from the Aisles (Stage 72), Spring's Awakening (Melchior) Times Square Arts Center, Peter Pan (Captain Hook/Teaching Artist) Riverdale Children's Theatre, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brick) Chattanooga Theatre Centre, Les Miserable (Jean Valjean) Lehman Stages, Pig Farm (Tim) Chattanooga Theatre Centre. Film: Hole in the Wall (Tyler, Supporting) Best Family Comedy, Manhattan Film Festival, Second Place Silver, INYFF |
Emma Pettersson (Pam)Emma Pettersson is a Swedish actress, dancer, and choreographer based out of New York City. She started her path in Musical theatre at the age of eight at the same age she took her first dance class. Her career as a dancer began when she was accepted into the Swedish Ballet School. From there she went on to The Royal Swedish Ballet School, and School of the Hamburg Ballet, John Neumeire, and later graduated from Lund's Dance and Musical High School. After high school Emma moved to New York City to further her career in musical theatre. She attended AMDA (The American Musical and Dramatic Academy) a two year conservatory program focused on Musical Theatre. She graduated from The New School with a Bachelors in Fine Arts with a Major in Musical Theatre. Since graduation she has worked on multiple projects including, Hairspray, ensemble/Amber u/d, Crown & Scepter Theatre company, Garden of Delights, New Stage Theatre company, Let it Grow, Dana K Brown. She has also worked as a teaching artist at Once Upon a Time Theatre company, performing: Children's Classics, Cinderella, Holiday Ballet, and A Christmas Carol, and Coppelia. She also choreographed a piece for Designboost, New York Fashion Week (2012). |
Jenetha Philbert (Miss Chalet) Jenetha was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Chicago Law School, and recently completed her acting training at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. When she is not acting, she is busy practicing law. Her practice areas include criminal law, white collar defense, civil litigation and real estate law to name a few. She is also a former state prosecutor. This is her first professional acting gig since graduating from the Maggie Flanigan Studio in June and she is ecstatic to be a part of this project. |
Hunter Rodgers (Playwright)Hunter Rodgers is a writer and actor from the deeply conservative Deep South. He was educated in London at the most liberal of liberal arts schools Rose Bruford College and he now resides in Astoria, the most ethnically diverse county in America. Hunter understands confusion and makes it his mission to write about that which he doesn't understand, which means the world is his oyster. The Primitive Streak was the first work he ever had produced (almost a decade ago) and it's been equally rewarding and frustrating watching this political piece go from soft satire to hard reality. This is for all the mixed up kids like me. |