bareNaked Reading Series (SNOW ORCHID: Who's Who)

LtoR: Cory Michael Kosel, Ray Abruzzo, Angelina Fiordellisi, Francisco Solorzano, John Magaro
 

Here's a look at who's who in Joe Pintauro's SNOW ORCHID directed by the playwright.  The presentation will mark the first of our 4th Anniversary of the reading series that includes FREE DRINKS. and LIVE MUSIC featuring the works of our Resident Playwrights, Ensemble Members and Guest Artists.  The focus of the reading series is to present new or reworked projects on a bare bones level with no props, sets, costumes, or staging...just the text and audiences' response in an exciting and informal environment...  We hope to see you there at one of our presentations this season.  Program Director, Molly Marinik and Co-Producer, Jennie West invite you to visit our site for more info on upcoming events:  http://barefoottheatrecompany.org/readings.php.  SNOW ORCHID is currently taking rsvp for the wait list. 

RAY ABRUZZO - recently received rave reviews for his  portrayal of the title role LOMBARDI at Florida’s Mosaic Theater LA Theater: Ray played Sterling in the critically acclaimed West Coast Premier of  Theresa Rebeck’s MAURITIUS at the Pasadena Playhouse and starred in CANNIBALS at the Zephyr Theater and QUAKE at the Open Fist. Previously,Louis LaRusso’s Vesper’s Eve and Stooplife at the Cast Theater, Supreme Therapy at the Eygyptian Arene Theater, Aldo in the World Premier of John Patrick Shanely’s Italian- American  Reconciliation. Ray performed a one man show, The Male Intellect: an Oxymoron,  in Chicago and Boston. For nearly 10 years Ray was active as a director and actor for the  LA’s Playwright’s Kitchen Ensemble. Ray was also a founding member of the Bond Street Theater Coalition in 1977 which is a thriving company traveling the world to this day. Ray was also head writer and director for the Nickelodeon’s Weinerville.  Television credits include guest spots for over 25 yrs, shows such as NYPD Blue , Law and Order, L&O SVU, NCIS, CSI:NY,  HOUSE and numerous more. He was a series regular or recurring on LA LAW, DYNASY, NIGHT COURT, The PRACTICE, BOSTON LEGAL, and most notably as Little Carmine Lupertazzi for 4 seasons on HBO’s groundbreaking, THE SOPRANOS.  Ray will soon be seen in the lead role in the independent film SOMEBODY MARRY ME, a 98 minute ONE SHOT (no cuts) film.

ANGELINA FIORDELLISI - has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, and Regional theaters.  Roles include Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, the Widow in Zorba, Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense, Honey Leone in The Gravity of Honey (best actress award, Detroit Free Press), Lily St. Regis in Annie, Illona in Game of Love, Emilia in Tamara, Linda in Savage in Limbo, Amanda in Private Lives, Ellie in The Great White Hope, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, currently Mother in The Truth Quotient.  In Film and Television Fiordellisi has appeared in When a Man Loves a Woman, Delusion, Word of Honor, Out of Darkness, Walker Payne, Where the Heart Is, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Star Trek, Kennedy Center Honors Program, Thunder Alley, Law and Order, Crime & Punishment. As a producer, she is currently represented on Broadway with Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, named this season’s #1 show on Broadway by The New York Times, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, New York Magazine and Time Magazine.  As Artistic Director of Cherry Lane Theatre, she has produced 70 plays off and off-off Broadway.  Fiordellisi created the OBIE Award-winning Mentor Project Program now celebrating its 15th Anniversary Season.  www.cherrylanetheatre.org.  Most valued credits:  Wife by Matt Williams and Mother by Matisse and Fred.

JOHN MAGARO - has been seen in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Tiger’s Be Still, directed by Sam Gold. He has also been seen at LAMAMA in Lillian Yuralia, directed by Austin Pendleton.  Regionally he has been seen at Penguin Rep, The Cleveland Playhouse, Ohio Shakespeare Festival, The New Theatre of Miami, Southern Rep., and originating the role of White Steve in Adam Rapp’s Gompers  at The City Theatre of Pittsburgh. TV: L&O, L&O SVU, Body of Proof, Conviction.  FILM: Not Fade Away, Liberal Arts, Taking Chance, My Soul To Take, The Box, The Assassination of a High School President, The Life Before Her Eyes, The Brave One, and the upcoming films Captain Phillips, and Deep

Powder.

FRANCISCO SOLORZANO - adapted, acted and directed in the workshop and world premiere of Dog Day Afternoon (Theatre Row Theatres).  Select acting credits: Horovitz's Sins Of The Mother (Florida Stage; Gloucester Stage Co.); World premiere of Horovitz's What Strong Fences Make(Bleecker Street Theatre, Boston Theatre Marathon), Nilo Cruz's Bicycle Country (Spanish Repertory Theatre, Theatre Row Theatres), Beirut Rocks(EST Marathon, dir Jo Bonney), Sins of the Mother (with Ethan Hawke as well as Bobby Cannavale, Michael Stuhlbarg and John Doman, dir by Jo Bonney), Los Muertos (Stella Adler Theater with Mark Ruffalo), Israel Horovitz's New Shorts (Theatre Row Theatres with Lynn Cohen), 45th anniversary revival of Lanford Wilson's Balm In Gilead, Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie?, Oprhans, Never The Sinner, subUrbia(Various NYC Theatres)  Film: Co-Founder of Barefoot Studio Pictures, Floating Sunflowers (2013 release date); And The World Goes Round(2009's Cannes Short Film Corner), Love Simple (HBO NYC Latino Film Festival) and Between Something and Nothing (NYC's 20th anniversary NEW FEST Film Festival.) BFA: CUNY'S Brooklyn College; a founder and Producing Artistic Director of the Barefoot Theatre Company since 1999.

CORY MICHAEL KOSEL - is an actor/musician from Austin, Texas. NYC: The History Boys (Gallery Players), The Eden Project (Theatre for the New City). Regional: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Theatre Three - Dallas, TX), in a word, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Big City (Hangar Theatre - Ithaca, NY). University: Hamlet, Spring Awakening, Urinetown, The Pillowman, Twelfth Night (TAMUCC). Cory is a member of emerging theatre ensemble Stable Cable Lab Co. (NYC). Education/Training: BA, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi & Hangar Theatre Lab Co. (2010).