sExTortiOn's Creative Team.....
DIRECTOR/DESIGNER: Christopher Caines has created over 30 works for his company Christopher Caines Dance since 2000. Other recent credits as choreographer include Noel Coward’s Bitter Sweet at Bard SummerScape (2011) and St. Francis Day at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (2011, ’12). He has been resident choreographer for the Actors Shakespeare Company in residence at New Jersey City University since 2005. Directing credits include many works by award-winning Canadian playwright Peter Aterman. 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography.
FIGHT DIRECTOR: Galway McCullough began his study of staged violence in 1992. In 1993 he was awarded the Best Male Actor Combatant Award at the Society of American Fight Directors National Stage Combat Workshop. Since that time he has choreographed fights for over 60 projects in addition to his work as a SAG/AFTRA actor. To see examples of his work go to vimeo.com/user4617782
MEDIA DESIGNER: Katherine Hammond is the Producing Artistic Director and media designer at the Warehouse of Theatre in Norfolk, VA,
which produces works that explore the collision of theatre and film. She also is the Director of Theatre at Old Dominion University. Her work
appeared last year at the Fresh Fruit Festival in the production of Pride River Crossing.
STAGE MANAGER: Veronica Gheller has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Colorado. She recently completed working with The Bleeker Company stage managing their production of SMILE at the Archlight Theatre. She has also worked with Retro Productions Theatre Company as an Assistant Stage Manager during their productions of “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” and “The Runner Stumbles.”
PLAYWRIGHT: Patrick Thomas McCarthy's PRIDE RIVER CROSSING: A Spoon River for a New Century (C) 2011 earned him Outstanding Playwright honors for last year's ALL OUT ARTS Fresh Fruit Festival. His newest work THE LEARS: Fools of Fortune (C) 2013 is a contemporary imagining of Shakespeare's KING LEAR with an Alzheimers addled Lear dividing his family estate.
sExtOrtiOn's CAST....
JOSHUA DAVID BISHOP [Brent Dodge] is happy to be on board! Recent credits include: Off-Broadway: "Isabelle and the Pretty-Ugly Spell" (Bleeker Street), "The Lost Boys, or an Awfully Big Adventure" (Medicine Show) and "Sleepy Hollow" (The York). Other favorite roles: Jack in "Into the Woods" (90 Square Arts), Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" (AFT), and The Leading Player in "Pippin" (Oxford University).
JUSTIN GARASCIA [Bradley Michael White, THE BMW} Welcome to sExtOrtiOn! Select NYC and Regional credits Include: Restoration Comedy (The Flea), Night in the Old Marketplace (The Brick Theater), Tartuffe, A Chorus Line and Picnic. Next up, Justin will appear in The Return at Access Theater Company. BFA in Theater Performance from Western Michigan University. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @justingarascia or www.justingarascia.com.
ANDREW GELLES [Ben Benjamin] Theatre: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Changeling, Bang Bang You're Dead;
TV: So You Want to Be a Movie Star; Madness of War; My Life as a Video Game; Pigeon Kickers. Training: LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; Stella Adler Studios, Pace University BFA acting program ..... and skateboarding.
TV: So You Want to Be a Movie Star; Madness of War; My Life as a Video Game; Pigeon Kickers. Training: LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; Stella Adler Studios, Pace University BFA acting program ..... and skateboarding.
JULIA HOCHNER [Brenda Fenton Flair, the BFF] was most recently seen in Tape, directed by Joshua Warr. Other credits include Phases (finalist, 2012 Thespis Theatre Festival), Mister Nobody at Point Blank Range (Black Moniker Theatre), Cab Drivers: A Love Story (NYU 10-Minute Play Festival), and a reading of Sympathetic Dissonance by Jaymes Jorsling. She has studied with LAByrinth Theatre and is a graduate of Maggie Flanigan Studio.
JEFF RONAN [Mr. Zee] is thrilled to be working with the cast of SExtOrtiOn! Past plays include Henry V, The Electric Baby, and Seven Homeless Mammoths all with Two River Theater, Red with ReVision Theatre, The Shape of Things and Humbug with
Premiere Stages, and the Drama Desk Award-nominated These Seven Sicknesses with The Flea Theater where he is a member of their resident acting company. Jeffronan.com
Premiere Stages, and the Drama Desk Award-nominated These Seven Sicknesses with The Flea Theater where he is a member of their resident acting company. Jeffronan.com
SPENCER SCOTT [Donny Doirko] is an up and coming actor in New York. He studied at Syracuse University before making his way back to his hometown to pursue his acting career. He has worked on "Sextortion" as Donny since it's very first read through and is excited to bring this piece and his work to the Fresh Fruit Festival. His Theatre credits include Macbeth, and A Christmas Carol. His. TV and film credits include Digital Physics, Tattoo Nightmares on Spike TV, and Our World.
SETH SHIRLEY [Buck Cummings] returns to Sextortion after taking part in the second and third staged readings. Creighton University [West Side Story, Side by Side by Sondheim, Godspell], Omaha Playhouse, Opera Omaha.
CHANTAL THOMSON [Britany Gray] is thrilled to be playing the role of Britany Gray once again! The AMDA graduate recently starred in the Off-Broadway premier of Talent 101 as Rebecca Goldman and in the first production of Pride River Crossing as the Young Female. Last year she understudied the role of Belle in a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol, this year she will be performing the role. Performance highlights include, the title role in Annie, Hodel in the Fiddler on the Roof, and Kim MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie. www.chantalthomson.com
JOSHUA WARR [Quin Quimby] just made his directorial debut directing Night Lights Theatre's production of Tape at the Dorothy Strelsin black box of the Abingdon Theatre. Warr's year run of his acclaimed cabaret show Joshing Around at the legendary Duplex garnered him four Broadway World Award nominations, two for Warr including Best Duo and Best Musical Comedy Performance. NY credits: Joshing Around; The Strip Show; Pride River Crossing (Fruitie Award - Best Acting Ensemble); Side Show; The Knight of the Burning Pestle; Raft of the Medusa; SING NO EVIL (MAC Award nom); Soul Ascending; Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens.