Tuesday, January 27, 2015

MEET Director Joli Tribuzio (2.3.15 bareNaked Reading Series)


Please join us for our February bareNaked Reading!

Take a moment to read a little more about our director, Joli Tribuzio!  She is currently one of our Associate Directors and has been a long time family member of Barefoot Theatre Company.  We're thrilled to continue our collaboration with this fearless actor/director! 

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

  WETIKO
By Greg Paul
Directed by Joli Tribuzio

"Russ, an ex-marine, decides to adopt Jack, a pit-fighting dog. However, Bead, the animal's former owner, has other plans. Can Jack be rehabilitated? Or is a life of violence all that he is destined for?”
Starring Gabe Fazio, Raye Levine, Francisco Solorzano, Jennie West, and Christa Wroblewski
Musical Guest: Killer Killy Dwyer

Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune Street (or enter at 155 Bank Street, 1 block south)
7:30pm doors, 8:00pm performance
$5 suggested donation, includes refreshments
Beers sponsored by The Brooklyn Brewery!!!

Please RSVP to confirm your reservation as space is limited. To RSVP send an email with the number attending and your contact info to: barefootrsvp@aol.com

Barefoot Theatre Company
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer


JOLI TRIBUZIO (Director): first had the honor of working with Barefoot on the critically acclaimed stage adaption of Dog Day Afternoon.  Joli played Deborah and Angie and also served as assistant director.  Most recently Joli had the pleasure of reading opposite Francisco Solorzano in Mel Nieves' one act play Between a Hot Dog and a Hard Place at Barefoot's annual Gala.  Joli just completed work on the comedic series Thug Passion to be released in 2015 and also enjoys work as an improvisor having completed a nine year run as Tina in the Off Broadway production of Tony N Tina's Wedding and continuing to work as an actor and teaching artist in NYC public schools with the Family Life Theatre.  An Associate Director at Barefoot Theatre Company.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Meet Playwright, GREG PAUL (Feb bareNaked Reading Series).

We're thrilled about our newest collaboration this coming Feb and hope you'll join us!  Here's an closer look at our playwright for the upcoming bareNaked Reading Series:
 

GREG PAUL likes to write about things that are unseen and unexplained. Some of his plays include: WAIT (2008 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference); The Point of Deviance (Macaulay Honors College’s International Symposium on Surveillance Societies); Goblin Universe, (The Alley Theatre/Louisville KY and semi-finalist for the 2011 National Playwright’s Conference); The Lady’s Child with composer Lisa Dove (NYU/Playwrights Horizons Theatre School); The Amazing True Adventures of Buckbean Bushytail with composer Lisa Dove (Jalopy Music Theatre, Special Music School); Wetiko (2014 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference) . He is a founding member of Juggernaut Theatre Company and The Northern Light Opera Company in Park Rapids MN, which has produced a number of his plays for children. He teaches playwriting at NYU/Playwrights Horizons Theatre School as well as play production at Baruch College, Greg is an alumnus of Ohio University.


WETIKO
By Greg Paul
Directed by Joli Tribuzio

"Russ, an ex-marine, decides to adopt Jack, a pit-fighting dog. However, Bead, the animal's former owner, has other plans. Can Jack be rehabilitated? Or is a life of violence all that he is destined for?”

Starring Gabe Fazio, Raye Levine, Francisco Solorzano, Jennie West, and Christa Wroblewski

Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune Street (or enter at 155 Bank Street, 1 block south)

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

7:30pm doors, 8:00pm performance
$5 suggested donation, includes refreshments

Please RSVP to confirm your reservation as space is limited. To RSVP send an email with the number attending and your contact info to: barefootrsvp@aol.com

Barefoot Theatre Company
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

WHO's WHO (Where You Can't Follow by Adam Szymkowicz) 1.6.15

WHERE YOU CAN’T FOLLOW By Adam Szymkowicz; Directed by Paul Schnee
 

Starring Sol Crespo, David Deblinger, Kathryn Kalucki, Kenneth King, and Charlotte Pines with Musical guests: Lauren O'Brien and Mitch DiStefano

Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune Street (or enter at 155 Bank Street, 1 block south)
7:30pm doors, 8:00pm performance
$5 suggested donation, includes refreshments

Barefoot Theatre Company
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director

Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer

Timothy Dark - Darkseed Entertainment, Music Booking 
Lanie Zapoy, Publicist


-->SOL CRESPO: NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. NY Credits: Jane the Plain, Deinde, Menders, Ajax in Iraq (Flux Theatre Ensemble); Dancing in my Cockroach Killers, Neon Baby, Aloha Boricua, Las facultades, Game Over, The Beep (2007 HOLA for Best Ensemble), Medea’s Last Rosary, The Red Rose (Pregones Theater); Wizard of Oz, Kennedy’s Children, The Mouse that Roared, Las hermanas Mirabal. Sol has received many awards throughout her career including: NYTheatre.com Person of the Year 2012; Ford Foundation Fellowship for Career Advancement 2008; HOLA for Outstanding Performance of a Female Actor 2005. Her short film “Old Maid” is screening soon! Sol is an Ensemble Member of Pregones Theater/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Barefoot Theatre Company and a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble. For full bio and credits please visit www.solmarina.com

DAVID DEBLINGER: an award winning actor, writer and director and is also a co-founder of Labyrinth Theater Company.  As an actor David has appeared in new plays in New York at Manhattan Theater Club, The Public Theater, Labyrinth, Theater for a New Audience and others…. regionally at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Winner Best Lead actor-Acclaim Award), Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe and others.  On TV he has been seen on Blue Bloods (CBS), Broad City (Comedy Central) Law and Order, SVU (NBC), Sex and the City, The Sopranos (HBO), and the recent Showtime pilot “Happyish,” starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.  This April David will appear Off Broadway in the new play, “Queen for a Day” opposite David Proval.  


KENNETH KING: Since Kenneth first coerced Frank into reading his first written piece of theater in a LAB workshop in 2010, Kenneth became hooked on the empowered community of artists that compose the barefoot ensemble.  Joining the ensemble in 2011, he has participated in a myriad of readings and developing new works with the company. In addition Kenneth has proudly earned a degree in Anthropology from Columbia University and is hoping to work his way into some sort of service industry/slash artist hybrid position.  Barefoot is a beautiful refuge for which he is very thankful.  Kenneth also trained in some acting conservatories and stuff, but you can ask him about it later. 
 
CHARLOTTE PINES: is thrilled to be working on this year's Barenaked Reading Series with her BTC family! Past credits include Play DeadCallous Cad, (directed by BTC's John Harlacher, NYIT Best Lead Actress Nominee,) Rhinestone Gorilla Burlesque Presents: Good Idea/Bad Idea, and Fever Dreams' latest horror webseries, Flesh for the Beast, now available on Netflix. She is a resident member of TP&co, and just wrote and produced her first webseries,CAT PLANET, coming soon to Mewtube. More info at www.charlottepines.com.

 
KATHRYN KALUCKI: is a native Brooklynite and is thrilled to join the Barefoot family! Her first venture into acting came in the 6th grade playing Lady Capulet. Nerves overtook and she giggled throughout her first scene. More (successful) attempts came while studying at LaGuardia H.S. ("FAME" school) and Kathryn eventually made her way to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Favorite roles include: Desdemona, Woyzeck and (surprisingly at 5'10) a munchkin in The Wizard of Oz. When not working reception at a local gym, babysitting or practicing Yoga, Kathryn can be found playing with her twin Maltipoo puppies. She also acts.

PAUL SCHNEE: Directing credits include the world premiere of Daniel Reitz’s Napoleon in Exile at 59E59 Theaters; Snow Day and The Children’s Hour, both for the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Casting director credits, with Kerry Barden: The Judge, Get on Up, August: Osage County, Dallas Buyers Club, Pitch Perfect, Prisoners, Winter’s Bone, The Help, and Hateship Loveship, among many other feature films.  Barefoot Theatre Company Associate Director.  www.bardenschnee.com

ADAM SZYMKOWICZ’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania.   His work has been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, LAByrinth Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Primary Stages, The New Group, Southern Rep, Rising Phoenix, The Lark, Chicago Dramatists and Studio Dante among others.  Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, My Base and Scurvy Heart, Herbie, Incendiary, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, Bee Eater, Clown Bar, Fat Cat Killers, The Why Overhead, Elsewhere, Where You Can’t Follow, A Thing of Beauty, UBU, Mercy, Rare Birds, Violent Bones, Sarah, Good Morning Good Night, and Nerve.   Adam received a Playwright’s Diploma from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and an MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writer’s Guild of America, Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group, and was a member of the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and a member of the first Ars Nova Play Group.   He was the premiere Resident Playwright at The Chance Theater in Anaheim, CA and the first playwright to participate in Bloomington Playwrights Projects’ Square One Series.  He has been to The Orchard Project, served twice as Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center, received a grant from the CT Commission on Culture & Tourism, and was commissioned by South Coast Rep.   His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Playscripts, Original Works Publishing, Indie Theater Now and featured in New York Theatre Review ’07 and ’09, NYTE’s Cino Nights, and numerous Smith and Kraus books.  He has written articles for Howlround, New York Theatre Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail and has interviewed over 700 playwrights on his blog. He also has a web series called Compulsive Love (NYTVF) and a comic strip called Toys In My House Comics.  For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Lauren O’Brien & Mitch DiStefano create twisted alternate performance pop for the new millenium!  According to MPress Ceo Rachael Sage, they are “fierce, fearless, and a force to be reckoned with!”  The children of Patti Smith and The Pixies, they take fans on a circus ride through never never land, then kick their rocknroll ass all over town before healing them with love's poetic cascade....  Lauren & Mitch have toured throughout the east coast and have performed at various festivals, including CMJ, MEANY Fest, the NY Funny Songs Festival, and the Joy of Hemp Festival.  They are currently recording their first studio album together. 

Monday, January 5, 2015

Director, Paul Schnee

We're proud to introduce our newest Associate Director, PAUL SCHNEE who will direct our opening bareNaked Reading Series NY next month - mark your calendars: 1.6.15!!!

Paul, along with Joli Tribuzio, Luke Leonard and Lori Kee join Scott Illingworth, Jerry Ruiz & Shira-Lee Shalit as our Associate Directors!  We most recently collaborated with Paul when he directed a new short play by Jose Rivera featuring ensemble members, Stephanie Janssen and Charles Everett for our Spring Gala last season.

PAUL SCHNEE: Directing credits include the world premiere of Daniel Reitz’s Napoleon in Exile at 59E59 Theaters; Snow Day and The Children’s Hour, both for the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Casting director credits, with Kerry Barden: The Judge, Get on Up, August: Osage County, Dallas Buyers Club, Pitch Perfect, Prisoners, Winter’s Bone, The Help, and Hateship Loveship, among many other feature films. www.bardenschnee.com

WHERE YOU CAN’T FOLLOW By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Paul Schnee
Starring Sol Crespo, David Deblinger, Kathryn Kalucki, Kenneth King, and Charlotte Pines with Musical guests: Lauren O'Brien and Mitch DiStefano

Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune Street (or enter at 155 Bank Street, 1 block south)
7:30pm doors, 8:00pm performance
$5 suggested donation, includes refreshments

Please RSVP to confirm your reservation as space is limited. To RSVP send an email with the number attending and your contact info to: barefootrsvp@aol.com

Barefoot Theatre Company

Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer

1.6.15 bareNaked Reading Series (Meet our MUSICIANS)

Please join us for our 2015 bareNaked Reading Series presentation!!!
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
WHERE YOU CAN’T FOLLOW By Adam Szymkowicz; Directed by Paul Schnee
Starring Sol Crespo, David Deblinger, Kathryn Kalucki, Kenneth King, and Charlotte Pines with Musical guests: Lauren O'Brien and Mitch DiStefano

Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune Street (or enter at 155 Bank Street, 1 block south)
7:30pm doors, 8:00pm performance
$5 suggested donation, includes refreshments

Please RSVP to confirm your reservation as space is limited. To RSVP send an email with the number attending and your contact info to: barefootrsvp@aol.com

Lauren O’Brien & Mitch DiStefano create twisted alternate performance pop for the new millenium!  According to MPress Ceo Rachael Sage, they are “fierce, fearless, and a force to be reckoned with!”  The children of Patti Smith and The Pixies, they take fans on a circus ride through never never land, then kick their rocknroll ass all over town before healing them with love's poetic cascade....  Lauren & Mitch have toured throughout the east coast and have performed at various festivals, including CMJ, MEANY Fest, the NY Funny Songs Festival, and the Joy of Hemp Festival.  They are currently recording their first studio album together.

Barefoot Theatre Company
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer

Friday, January 2, 2015

bareNaked Reading Series RETURNS 1.6.15

Please join us for our January bareNaked Reading this coming Tuesday, January 6th, 2015!
 

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WHERE YOU CAN’T FOLLOW 
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Paul Schnee

Starring Sol Crespo, David Deblinger, Kathryn Kalucki, Kenneth King, and Charlotte Pines
Musical guests: Lauren O'Brien and Mitch DiStefano

Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune Street (or enter at 155 Bank Street, 1 block south)
7:30pm doors, 8:00pm performance
$5 suggested donation, includes refreshments

Please RSVP to confirm your reservation as space is limited. To RSVP send an email with the number attending and your contact info to: barefootrsvp@aol.com

MEET OUR PLAYWRIGHT:


-->ADAM SZYMKOWICZ’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania.   His work has been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, LAByrinth Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Primary Stages, The New Group, Southern Rep, Rising Phoenix, The Lark, Chicago Dramatists and Studio Dante among others.  Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, My Base and Scurvy Heart, Herbie, Incendiary, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, Bee Eater, Clown Bar, Fat Cat Killers, The Why Overhead, Elsewhere, Where You Can’t Follow, A Thing of Beauty, UBU, Mercy, Rare Birds, Violent Bones, Sarah, Good Morning Good Night, and Nerve.   Adam received a Playwright’s Diploma from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and an MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writer’s Guild of America, Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group, and was a member of the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and a member of the first Ars Nova Play Group.   He was the premiere Resident Playwright at The Chance Theater in Anaheim, CA and the first playwright to participate in Bloomington Playwrights Projects’ Square One Series.  He has been to The Orchard Project, served twice as Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center, received a grant from the CT Commission on Culture & Tourism, and was commissioned by South Coast Rep.   His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Playscripts, Original Works Publishing, Indie Theater Now and featured in New York Theatre Review ’07 and ’09, NYTE’s Cino Nights, and numerous Smith and Kraus books.  He has written articles for Howlround, New York Theatre Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail and has interviewed over 700 playwrights on his blog. He also has a web series called Compulsive Love (NYTVF) and a comic strip called Toys In My House Comics.  For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.
Barefoot Theatre Company
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer