Here's a look at our CAST of RUBBLE by Mike Reiss being featured in our 2nd bareNaked Reading Series (Molly Marinik, Program Director; Jennie West, Co-Producer) presentation this season...this Monday, February 11th @ 7pm...
RICHARD KIND - is an
accomplished stage, screen and television actor with many credits to his name.
In addition to his widely recognizable character“Paul Lassiter,” the
irrepressible press secretary to the Mayor of New York on the ABC series Spin
City, he has been seen on Mad About You, Scrubs, Still Standing,
The Division, Miss Match and Curb Your Enthusiasm, among many
other titles. He recently starred in the film The Hereafter, and also
had supporting roles in such notable titles as A Serious Man, The Visitor,
The Station Agent, and A Bug’s Life, to name a few. As a stage
actor, Richard has starred in Broadway musical smash hits The Producers,
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, and he appeared in Candide at
the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center. Richard started his career in
Chicago with the Practical Theatre Company, founded by Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
Brad Hill and Gary Kroeger.
Lynn
Cohen - NY Theatre: Macbeth (Delacorte); Ivanov (LCT): Chasing Manet,
Model Apartment (Primary Stages); Hamlet (Public Theater); Orpheus Descending (Broadway); The
Devils (NYTW); Uncle Vanya (Andre Gregory production); more.
Selected Regional: Guthrie; Hartford Stage; Yale Rep; Huntington: Williamstown;
Long Wharf; Actors Theatre of Louisville
Film and TV: Munich; Eagle Eye: Manhattan Murder Mystery; Vanya on 42nd
Street; The Extra Man; all three NY Law and Orders; Sex and the
City (TV and both movies); Damages, Nurse Jackie, more. And
currently filming Catching Fire: The Hunger Games 2. She’s a Fox Fellow
and AEA Richard Seff Award winner.
DAVID RASCHE - began his career as an actor at
Chicago's famed Second City cabaret. On
TV, he played the title role in "Sledge Hammer," (sometimes written
by Mike Reiss) and he has appeared in episodes of countless shows, from
"Miami Vice" to "Monk."
His movies include "In the Loop," “Burn After Reading,”
“United 93,” "Delirious,” and "Manhattan." In New York, he has performed in numerous
productions both on and off Broadway, most recently in “Warrior Class” at
Second Stage Theater Uptown. He will be
seen soon on HBO as the Speaker of the House on VEEP, starring Julia Louise
Dreyfus, directed by Armando Iannucci,
and written by the team from “In the Loop.”
ELISABETH GRAY - is currently in rehearsals for Breakfast at Tiffany's on
Broadway. Her one-woman comedy about the South opens simultaneously
downtown at the Soho Playhouse. As a writer, she received the Fringe
First award for her first play Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath, which toured
internationally for several years before landing Off-Broadway in 2010.
She is a graduate of Oxford University.
JOHN GAZZALE -
Most recently played Donald in Raft of the Medusa. Prior to
that, Simon Bliss in Hay Fever with
VOICETheatre. NYC theater credits
include Waiting for Lefty (Fayette); A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley (Scrooge). Terranova
(Hearst - FringeNYC 09 Encore); Tennessee William’s Spring Storm (Arthur - New York premiere); Dog Day Afternoon (Leon - Barefoot Theatre Company world
premiere). Member of Barefoot Theatre
Company and VOICETheatre. John sends his
heartfelt thanks and love to all the supportive “company” in his life.
JERRY ADLER - was a veteran of over 50 Broadway productions as Producer, Director and Production Stage Manager, including the original MY FAIR LADY (the revival of which he directed), COCO, THE HOMECOMING, ANNIE and many more,as well as the Tony Award- winning GOOD EVENING which he directed with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook - before he began his new career as an actor. He then appeared in Woody Allen's MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY and THE PUBLIC EYE with Joe Pesci. He has since been seen on many television productions, including THE WEST WING, LAW AND ORDER, NORTHERN EXPOSURE, CSI:MIAMI and was a regular on MAD ABOUT YOU. He is an original cast member of THE SOPRANOS and was "HESH", Tony's mentor/advisor throughout that award-winning HBO Production's run. His recent films include IN HER SHOES opposite Shirley MacLaine and Cameron Diaz, PRIME with Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman, FIND ME GUILTY, Directed by Sidney Lumet, SYNECDOCHE playing Phillip Seymour Hoffman's father,and the soon-to-be-released LAST ANGRY MAN IN BROOKLYN with Robin Williams.On TV he was the fire chief in Rescue Me with Denis Leary,and recently was Howard on THE GOOD WIFE.
LYDIA
GLADSTONE - For Barefoot she has worked offstage as a Costumer and onstage in De Donde (OOBR award) and as Margaret/Vi
in the acclaimed production of Dog Day
Afternoon, on NYC’s Theatre Row. Her work in NY, Regional, and Stock theatres
include scores of characters. Some
recent favorite roles include Fraulein
Schneider(Cabaret), Mrs. Lovett(Sweeney Todd), Nancy Shirley (Frozen), Rose (Gypsy), Desiree (A Little
Night Music), Witch (Into the
Woods-Best Actress Award), Sally Adams (Call
Me Madam), and Kate (Broadway Bound). Off-B’way she portrayed Bluma Jacobson in the
acclaimed Harry and Eddie, at the
Actors Temple. She appeared as Jeannette
Burmeister in The Full Monty at its
sold-out run at Vermont’s acclaimed Northern Stage, and as Iowa Housewife in Menopause the Musical. Last spring she created the title role in Petunia, a garage musical. Many musical reviews including Side by Side by Sondheim, Closer Than Ever, and
Jacques Brel; several world premieres
(two at the York Theatre’s acclaimed new musical showcases), and film/video
works. Her ‘day job’-resident costumer
for Calhoun HS’s acclaimed On Tour Theatre Co. as well as other theatre companies. Proud to be a member of Barefoot Theatre Company.
RONALD COHEN - NY Theatre: Artist Descending a Staircase, Henry IV Part One, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Boomerang Theatre Company); The Recruiting
Officer (New York Classical Theatre); Twelfth Night (Kings County
Shakespeare); Pirandello’s Henry IV (CSC First Look). Regional:
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Cape May Stage; Kansas City Circle Theatre;
New Theatre, Overland Park, KS.; Orlando (FL) Shakespeare; Company of Fools,
Hailey, ID. Film and TV: Not Waving But Drowning: Strangers When We
Meet; Where Is Joel Baum?; Ablution; Landings; Sex and the
City.
MINNA TAYLOR - earned her BFA from NYU Tisch in association with The Atlantic Theater Co and
her MFA from Brooklyn College. She has worked at The Atlantic's Linda
Gross Theater, The Cherry Lane, LABrythn Theater, Gallery Players, and more.
She has appeared in two previous readings written by the incomparable Mike
Reiss and is thrilled to now be working on Rubble. She is a proud
Barefoot Artistic Associate. www.minnataylor.com
KENNETH KING - is an indigenous inhabitant of the island of
Manhattan and has been a proud Barefoot Company ensemble member since 2009. He
has appeared in the 70/70 Horovitz Project #11, Mid-East
Pieces and Suite Horovitz. Kenneth has also been involved with Barefoot’s
commitment to developing and nurturing many new works by emerging artists and
playwrights from this city that he loves.
Kenneth is currently completing a degree in cultural
anthropology at Columbia University, which he hope will give him the edge
needed in the competitive fields of circus runaway and human laboratory test
subject.
RODERICK NASH - acted and staged managed at The Caffe Cino, La
Mama, Judson Poet's Theatre, Circle Rep, Edward Albee's Playwrights unit, and the
APA-Phoenix off-Broadway in War and
Peace, Judith, Man and Superman. He
acted and directed numerous productions for the Association of Theatre Artists
in NYC. For Barefoot Theatre Company he
performed in Balm in Gilead (40th
anniversary production), Dog Day
Afternoon, and readings of Honor Thy
Mother, West Asheville, and Scrooge and Marley. He has an MA in Theatre from North Western
University, where he studied with Alvina Krause. In New York, he studied method acting with
Bobbie Lewis and the Sanford Meisner Technique with Jim Tuttle.
MARK G. CISNEROS
2002 OOBR Award winning actor Mark G. Cisneros has a career
in Theater and Film spanning over 17 years. Theater: Walkabout by Marcus Haupt (the Flea
Theater), The Sons of Juan Perez
by Roberto De Los Reyes (the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater), and ?De Donde? By Mary Gallagher, his first
play with the Barefoot Theatre Company (Looking Glass Theater). Television:
Third Watch (with Ann Margaret) and As
the World Turns; Film: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, New York, accepted to the Havana Film Festival
in 2003; As producer with his previous company On A Quest he is proud to have
produced and starred in two successful plays (La Habitacion by Barbara Colio-accepted to The NY
International Fringe Festival, and Rising
Sun, Falling Star by Yolanda Rodriguez at the 78th St Theater Lab).
Mark is currently ensemble of the Barefoot Theatre Company and is currently
working on the most important production of his life so far…his wedding
plans! As always Mark thanks his
wonderful family and friends for their undying support of his artistic
endeavors and of course dedicates all of his performances to his dear Lydia.
RAYE CYPHERS -
A native New Yorker, 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 JaquÃ) 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”.
James
Valletti – Broadway
(in various capacities): Evita, Matilda, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Women,
Phantom of the Opera, The Times They Are A-Changin.’ Actors’ Fund
Broadway Productions of All About Eve (starring Angela Lansbury, Cynthia
Nixon, Annette Bening, Joel Grey, and Zoe Caldwell), Hair, Chess, Valley of
the Dolls, On the Twentieth Century, Valley of the Dolls and A
Wonderful Life. BC/EFA’s Easter Bonnet Competitions (Co-Writer 2004’s
Avenue Jew; Writer/Director 2003’s The Lion King piece). City Center
Encores! Follies, Finian’s Rainbow, Music in the Air, On the Town, The Wiz.
Off- Broadway: Altar Boyz (Assistant Director), The Divine Sister by
Charles Busch (Assistant Director), Tales From The Tunnel (Writer/Director,
starring Tony-Winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia), A Hillside in Hell (Director),
and a participant in the 2009 Shotgun Theatre Festival. CRS Theater
Company productions of Anything Goes, How To Succeed…, Bye Bye
Birdie, The Music Man, and Hello, Dolly!. Regional: Ring
of Fire, Forbidden Broadway, Children of Eden (NY Premiere), La Cage aux
Folles, Idols of the King. Television: The Tyra Banks Show,
Chicagolicious, Jerseylicious. High School: Director of How To
Succeed… starring “Lady Gaga” (before she was Lady Gaga…). James is
an Associate Member of SDC, and currently edits the Style Network’s #1 hit TV
series Jerseylicious.
We are thrilled to present to you the second installment in the 4th season of our bareNaked Reading Series: Mike Reiss’s RUBBLE.
Barefoot’s FREE READINGS feature a new play, drinks, and live music every second Monday of the month.
Monday, February 11, 2013 @ 7pmRUBBLE
Directed by James Valletti
Starring: Richard Kind, Lynn Cohen, Elisabeth Gray, Ronald Cohen, Mark Cisneros, John Gazzale, David Rasche, Minna Taylor, Kenneth King, Lydia Gladstone with Stage Directions read by Raye Cyphers
Musical Director / Arrangement by Christopher Howatt; Stage Managed by Arthur Kriklivy; Drinks Sponsored by Archutek Communications, LLC
THE LOFT (East 3rd Productions); 684 Broadway, #5W, NYC 10012 (corner of B’way and East 3rd/Great Jones)
Admission is FREE - RSVP a must, SEATING IS EXTREMELY LIMITED
To RSVP send an email with play title, number attending and contact info to:
barefootrsvp@aol.com
Barefoot Theatre Company
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer
Heller Highwater PR, Dale Heller, Publicist
Reading Series Lead Sponsor:
Ricardo Riethmuller, East 3rd Productions
JENNIE WEST most recently appeared in Michael Reyes' Park Slope part of Barefoot's Workshop Series. Jennie started performing at a very young age most notably singing private audience for former first lady Bess Wallace Truman. She has honed her craft at such institutions as The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and The New School. Her work, based in the Meisner Technique, won her the Best Performance Award at the Dusty Film Festival for her leading role in Resonance and distinction as a "standout" in stage productions. Jennie began working with Barefoot Theatre Company on their production of Balm in Gilead as "Babe".
