STEPHANIE JANSSEN is a New York based actress and playwright. Recent stage work includes Clive at the New Group, Ivanov at Classic Stage Company, Death of a Salesman on Broadway (dir. Mike Nichols) and Mrs. Warren's Profession on Broadway at The Roundabout. Also in New York, she appeared in Israel Horovitz's New Shorts with Barefoot, as well as Crave as well as A Light Gathering of Dust with Potomac Theatre Project, among others. Regionally, she has worked at The Denver Center Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville/ Humana Festival, Gloucester Stage Company, and the Guthrie. Her play The Umbrella Plays was recognized with an Outstanding Play Award at the New York Fringe Festival, and was subsequently produced in Luxembourg. TV/ Film includes Law & Order and Everything is Ordinary. Stephanie graduated from Middlebury College, and received an M.F.A. in acting from NYU. Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble Member.
RAYE CYPHERS completed the 2-year Meisner training program at the William Esper Studio under Barbara Marchant. She recently performed in a reading of The Vote in Orange (as Jaquí) as part of an awards ceremony for the insignia of Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on Playwirght Israel Horovitz from the Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy, with Kevin Kline, Bobby Cannavale, Judith Ivey and Angelina Fiordellisi. Raye is an Artistic Associate of the Barefoot Theatre Company and has performed with Barefoot in staged readings at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of the BareNaked Reading series including Parkslope and Pound for Pound. She performed with Bruce High Quality Foundation in a production of The Flowers of Washington Square Park at the Ray Smith Studio and as a lead dancer in the Height's Players production of Brigadoon. She earned her BArch at Cooper Union, trained at the Joffrey Ballet School and is a longtime member of the Ice Theatre of New York with 10+ years of competitive Figure Skating. She is the creator and co-producer of the anti-hydrofracking campaign to raise awareness of the need protect NY water supplies entitled “ANYBody of Water”.
BERNARDO CUBRíA Favorite credits include Luis in American Jornalero (INTAR), The Man in A Summer's Day (Rattlestick Playwrights), Husband in So Go The Ghosts of Mexico (La Mama), Hamlet in Hamlet (New Perspectives Theatre), Manuelo in Boleros for the Disenchanted (Richmond, VA) Marido in Sangre (Central Park SummerStage), and Ed in This is Fiction (Cherry Lane). He's a proud member of Inviolet Repertory Theatre Company. Film: The Truth About Lies, Death of an Ally, The Cutting Room. www.bernardocubria.com
CASEY HAYES (stage directions) grew up performing in a barn in rural West Virginia, but has since graduated to better insulated theaters. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and currently serves as an Associate Company Member of Theatre East. Favorite roles include The Angel in Angels in America: Perestroika; Myrtle in The (Love) Story of Myrtle Willoughby and Willough Myrtleby (and the Neighbors); and Suzanne in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other credits include Co-Founder and Co-Producer of The Dirt Theatre Festival, a showcase of original work by students; Director of Cindy and Julie at Louis Brandeis High School; and serving as the Management Fellow at the 23rd annual Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
MANDO ALVARADO (Playwright) is a writer/actor living in Los Angeles. His first feature film, Cruzando, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Michael Ray Escamilla, has screened at festivals such as the HBO NY International Latino Film Festival, the Newport Beach International Film Festival and the London Latino International Film Festival. And is currently available on DVD. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway by Rattlestick Theater, INTAR, Cherry, Lortel/Theaterworks and SummerStages, with developmental support from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Lark, Naked Angels, Mixed Company, Theater Alliance, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. He's currently with the writing staff on Tyrant for FX which will be directed by Ang Lee.
JERRY RUIZ
Upcoming directorial projects include Basilica by Mando Alvarado for Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and How I Learned to Drive. Recent directing credits include Love Goest to Press for the Mint Theater, Enfrascada by Tanya Saracho for Clubbed Thumb, King of Infinite Space for Summerstage, Mariela in the Desert for Spanish Rep, 26 Miles at ASU, Nocturnal Creatures for La Micro, Rattlers by Johnna Adams for Flux Theater Ensemble, Twelfth Night for Chalk Rep in LA, and The King is Dead by Caroline V. McGraw.
Jerry has developed work at The Public Theater, Second Stage, The Atlantic, Playwright's Horizons, Two River Theater Company, New Dramatists, the Lark and the Playwright's Realm. He was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, 2009-2011. 2011 Phil Killian Directing Fellow at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 2008-2009 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. From 2002-2004 he was a Resident Assistant Director on the Broadway production of La Boheme. Jerry graduated from the MFA Directing program at UCSD in 2007. BA: Harvard University. www.jerryruizdirector.com
MUSICAL GUEST:
Sophia Bastian
For more info on our musician check out the link:
http://www.giantstep.net/index.php/2013/03/december-next-step-winner-sophia-bastian/
Barefoot
Theatre CompaNY
Season 2012-2013
bareNaked Reading Series
Molly Marinik, Program
Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer
proudly presents
ON THE
5:31
written by Mando Alvarado
directed by Jerry Ruiz
CAST
Gina…………….………..…Stephanie Janssen*
Sandra……………………………..…Raye Cyphers
Benny………….………..……Bernardo Cubria*
Stage Directions…Casey Hayes
*member AEA
Musical Guest: Sophia Bastian
COMING UP NEXT AT
THE LOFT:
Monday, May 13, 2013
@ 7pm
5th bareNaked Reading
WELCOME TO THE WHITE
ROOM
by Trish Harnetiaux
Directed by Benjamin Kamine
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Ricardo Riethmuller and East 3rd
Productions
Archutek Communications, LLC
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Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
Sol Crespo, Company Manager
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