MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS for our annual residency at ART OF ACTING STUDIO in LOS ANGELES with our bareNaked LA Reading Series beginning this Thursday!
Thursday, March 28th: A Collection Of Short Plays by Danelle Eliav, Tyler Fascett, Israel Horovitz, Kristina Poe, Michael Reyes, and Jennifer Skura. Friday, March 29th: Accidents Waiting To Happen by Jonathan Libman. Saturday, March 30th: Family Tress by Jason Furlani.
ALL Readings are FREE and each presentation will feature LIVE MUSIC from Satu, Jason Powers and THE PUBLIC TRUST along with FREE DRINKS. VISIT US ON FACEBOOK for more info on the line-up and who's who.
DANELLE ELIAV
(playwright: BUSTED) Originally from
Canada, Danelle has trained and performed in Toronto, Victoria, Jerusalem,
London and New York. She is an actor, writer and director in theater and
film. As an actress, she has performed with LAByrinth Theater Company,
Primary Stages, the Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Red Bull Theater,
Atlantic Theater as well as has performed in the New York Fringe Festival and
the Midtown International Film Festival. Select Theatre includes: Goodnight, Sister (Dir. James
Lapine) & Speaking of Tushy (Dir.
Israel Horovitz, The Cherry Lane Theatre);
Cynthia and the Dreadful Kite (Dir. Jill DeArmon, LAByrinth Theater
Barn Series at the Public & Vampire Cowboys Saloon); When in Disgrace (St. Clements
Theater); Talk Thirty to Me (Bridge
Theatre Company); Burning Cities (NY
Fringe); Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Allentown
Shakespeare); Mothergun (MITF)
and title roles in Extremities and Cymbeline. Danelle is a proud
member of The Barefoot Theatre Company and has performed in countless
readings in the 70/70 Horovitz Project and in productions of Suite Horovitz (Dir. Pam Seiderman
at Theater for a New City) and Mid-East
Pieces (Dir. Mike LoPorto at Bleecker Street Theater & Eric
Nightengale at Theater for a New City). Film credits include: the
upcoming feature Victoriana starring
Corey Stoll directed by Jadrien Ford Steele, as well as several independent
shorts such as Naptime and Bodega. Danelle is an Actor-member of
the New York Playwrights Lab where she has worked closely with playwright
Israel Horovitz. As a playwright, Danelle has had two of her short
plays Busted and Unknown Variables performed at
Rebel Verses Festival at CenterStage Theater in NY, her short play Wreck produced in Barefoot’s Smashed Workshop Series and is
currently developing her first full length play Withdrawal. As a filmmaker, her short film The Girl and the Spanish Boy has
been at festivals all over the world, and won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best
Drama at Yorkton Film Festival, the Rising Star Award at Canada International
Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Festival Art Déco de Cinema,
São Paulo, Brasil, as well as the Certificate of Merit at the Williamsburg
International Film Festival. She also was selected for the Reykjavik
International Film Festival Talent Lab. Most recently Danelle produced the
feature film Emoticon ;) which
she also acted in alongside Carol Kane, Sonia Braga, Michael Cristofer, Daphne
Rubin-Vega and Christine Ebersole. Trained at RADA and the Neighborhood
Playhouse School of the Theater. She happily splits her time between
New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. Co-Producer for the Barefoot Theatre Company and an acting Ensemble Member.
TYLER FASCETT (Playwright: Crispety, Crunchety, Peanut-Buttery) is a writer for the
stage and screen based out of Los Angeles. He's also the co-founder of the
rock&roll band, THE PUBLIC TRUST. Tyler has developed a working
relationship with The Barefoot Theatre Comapny over the years and is ecstatic to
have his work back in the hands of this esteemed group of artists. Currently a Playwright In Residence with the Barefoot Theatre Company where his short play, POUND FOR POUND was seen for previous bareNaked presentations at NYC's Cherry Lane Theatre along with Art Of Acting Studio in Los Angeles.
JASON
FURLANI (Playwright: FAMILY TREES) Currently
a Playwright In Residence with Barefoot Theatre Company, Jason has asserted
himself as a veteran in the New York theatre world, having had successful
productions of his work with various companies and on numerous stages in NYC,
and now...Los Angeles. Prior to his tenure with Barefoot, Jason was in
residence with the Blue Collar Theater Company, who presented his full-length
comedy, THE BIG VIG, at the Bank Street Theatre, and, his full-length play LEADED
at the West End Theatre, as well as, his ten minute play SUSAN IS A PINHEAD,
which had its debut as part of the Blue Collar “Shorts” Festival. Other
companies/stages that have featured Jason's work include: Zena Group, the
Kraine Theatre, and The 42nd Street Workshop. This past summer, Jason's one act
ROCKET'S RED GLARE, was featured in the Subversive Theatre's 2012 Subversive
Shorts Festival in Buffalo, NY. His most recent completed full- length work,
FAMILY TREES, was developed as part of his membership in the Actors Studio
Playwright/Director's Workshop (Carlin Glynn, Director.) Along with Jason's work in the theatre, his
original screenplay, REXFORD ALL-STARS, placed "second" in the 2012
All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival and was an Official Second Round Selection
of the 2011 Austin Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition. He has also
recently completed work on the screenplay for the feature film, VENICE (Polaris
Pictures) and, his short screenplay, FLOATING SUNFLOWERS, was recently
produced/is in the final stages of post-production with Barefoot Studio
Pictures. Jason wrote the script for
both of the Families of Freedom fundraising events (a 9/11 charity) hosted in
successive order by Chevy Chase and Carol Kane.
ISRAEL HOROVITZ (Playwright: THE BUMP) Israel Horovitz has written over 70 plays, several
of which have been translated into as many as 30 languages and performed
worldwide. His play Line is now in it’s 39th year of continuous performance
off-Broadway. He is Founding Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage Company, and
of the New York Playwrights Lab. Horovitz teaches a bilingual screenwriting
workshop with writers from la Fémis, France's national film school, and
Columbia University's graduate film program. He is married to Gillian
Adams-Horovitz, former British National Marathon Champion and Record holder,
and former USA Track & Field (Masters) Marathon Champion. The Horovitz
family divides its time among homes in Gloucester, Massachusettes, NYC’s
Greenwich Village, and London’s Dulwich Village. Mr. Horovitz visits France,
frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He
is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history. Playwright In Residence with the Barefoot Theatre Company and acting Advisory Board Member.
JONATHAN LIBMAN
(Playwright: ACCIDENTS WAITING TO HAPPEN
/Director: FAMILY TREES) has had his work
performed at New Dramatists, The Actors Studio, Provincetown Playhouse, Cherry
Lane, The Medicine Show, The Slipper Room, Fresh Ground Pepper (Yes the names
together sound ridiculous) as well as other locations in New York. He is a
member of Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, Participated in 24 Seven
Lab, and is a Resident Playwright of Barefoot Theatre Company. He was a
finalist for Seven Devils Playwriting Conference and the Coe Playwrights
Festival. Graduate of NYU's Tisch School
of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program. Recently
he directed a staged reading of Lauren Yee's HOOKMAN for Rattlestick
Playwrights Theater and Stable Cable Lab Company and also directed a workshop
of a very provocative play about a semi-repentant
Nazi Doctor and the
inner workings of a concentration camp, called THE LAST SONDERKOMMANDO, by
David Libman featuring Rob Beitzel, Will Brill, Joey Collins and Mark Hattan at
The Actors Studio. Born and raised
around Penn Station he thanks his Mom and Dad for showing him how to truly
exhibit courage and humanity in the face of great adversity. Thanks to Francisco,
Jason, Barefoot and everyone who came tonight to do some good.
KRISTINA POE
(Playwright: THE STAIN) Kristina spent the
first twenty years of her theater career in management, stage managing
Off-Broadway and regionally, production managing for companies in San Francisco
and New York, and most recently was the company manager for LAByrinth Theater
Company in New York City for almost six years. She wrote her first play, LOVE
SICK, after becoming a member of LAByrinth, and presented it at their Summer
Intensive in 2009. LOVE SICK was also part of the Barn Series at the Public
Theater and had a 29-hour workshop at the Cherry Pit Theater. The play was
first produced by The Elephant Theater Company in Hollywood, CA, where it was
named one of the Top Ten best reviewed production of 2011, and then in New York
by AirPort Bar Productions. Her play, THE RESTLESSNESS OF DESIRE, closed out
LAByrinth’s Barn Series this June and is currently in Semi-Finalist status for
the O'Neill Conference, and her adaptation of the Tennessee Williams’ short
story, THE MATTRESS BY THE TOMATO PATCH, was included in a workshop of
Williams’ adaptations being curated by Cincinnati Playhouse. Her newest
piece, THE IDEA OF ME, was first presented at LAB’s Intensive at Connecticut
College, then workshopped in NYC in January, and Cherry Lane Theater is hosting
a public reading in April. Kristina attended University of NC School of
the Arts, and is a proud alum of Summer Repertory Theater (SRT) in Santa Rosa,
CA.
MICHAEL REYES (Playwright: GRANDE
LATTE) lives in New York, where he
writes fiction and plays. He is an Iraq War vet and currently works at a
bookstore. He was a member of Castillo Theatre's young playwrights group and
The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre writing workshop. His play Over There/ Over
Here was produced in New York and L.A. Press in New York Times, Backstage and
American Theatre Magazine. Former resident artist at The Bowery Poetry Club.
His play Park Slope was recently given a workshop production by Barefoot
Theatre Company. He has been published in Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Eclipse
and 31 More Nights Of Halloween by Rainstorm Press. Currently a member and Playwright In Residence of
Barefoot Theatre Company and The Dramatist's Guild.
JENNIFER SKURA (Playwright:
EVERYTHING ELSE) Jennifer’s work has recently been performed at Dixon Place,
Barefoot Theatre Company, Dialogue with Three Chords (D3C), NEWvember, and The
Culture Project's IMPACT Festival. Other plays include PIRATE (Tangent
Theatre), OFF A BRIDGE (Dixon Place), A MAD WOMAN’ BREAKFAST (D3C), SWEET
CITRUS (92nd Street Y), AMARILLO, and JOSEPH AND MRS. M (BRIC Arts), STARR
adapted from Barry Gifford’s “Room 584, The Starr Hotel” (Open Channel
Creations, Monk Parrots & Roger Smith Hotel), Failure to thrive., EXOTIC ANIMALS and THREE DAY HARBOR. Jennifer
would like to thank the cast and crew of this performance as well as
participators in the earlier stages of development. Each of these
theatre-makers has graciously given his/her priceless time, talent and energy.
They are artistic giants. Love to Greg. Thanks Barefoot! Current Playwright In Residence with the Barefoot Theatre Company. SAG-AFTRA, AEA, DG,
HRC member. jenniferskura.com
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