ENSEMBLE THEATRE MAKING (now on sale!)

Here's an inside look at one of our long time Advisory Board Members and Directors, ROSE BURNETT BONCZEK and her new book ( with quotes/interviews with several Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble Members!)...Be sure to read below to find out about the upcoming workshop and book signing at the Drama Bookshop on Friday, May 3rd.  Congratulations Rose!!! 

Rose most recently directed several short plays for our benefit for Hurricane Sandy Victims in the ROCKAWAYS.  All proceeds from the event went towards Mike D's (Beastie Boys) ROCKAWAY PLATE LUNCH TRUCK.  The staged readings took place at the legendary Cherry Lane Theatre featuring the Barefoot Theatre Ensemble alongside special guest artists, Jesse Eisenberg, Gina Gershon, Mickey Sumner, John Doman, Craig "muMs" Grant, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Will Rogers, Angelina Fiordellisi, and more...

Rose Burnett Bonczek is a professor of theater arts and program head of the BFA in Acting at Brooklyn College where she specializes in directing, improvisation, and theater pedagogy. She has directed professionally and in educational theater for over 35 years, and is the festival director and co-producer of Gi60: The International One Minute Play Festival held annually in New York and in the UK. Ms. Bonczek is the recipient of the Clare Tow Distinguished Teacher award, and recent directing credits include Sisters by Tim Duncheon for Boomerang Theater,The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson at Brooklyn College, and the world premiere of Lily Rose by Aurora de Pena for the Ghost Story Festival of Halifax, UK.

HERE'S A NOTE FROM ROSE about an upcoming Workshop and Signing at DRAMA BOOKSHOP:

I'm delighted to announce that David Storck and I have been invited to conduct a workshop followed by a book signing at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street in Manhattan, on Friday, May 3, 2013. Starting at 5:00 pm, David and I will offer a workshop in DBS's downstairs theater space (followed by a Q & A) on why ensembles matter, how to build strong foundations, and ways of cultivating truly collaborative ensembles. Then from 6:00-7:00 pm, the event will continue upstairs with a book signing (and sales!) of Ensemble Theatre Making.

 

For additional information, please see:

http://www.dramabookshop.com/event/ensemble-theatre-making-practical-guide-rose-burnett-bonczek-and-david-storck

 

Now: The Drama Book Shop has asked us to sell a minimum of twenty (20) copies of the book at the event. It would be a tremendous help to us if you would 1) RSVP to this email that you're going to attend the event (the workshop, the book signing, or both!), and 2) if you intend to purchase a copy of the book for yourself, or as a gift for a friend or colleague. We're excited by this opportunity, please help spread the word, and we look forward to hearing from you!

 

Best wishes,

 

Rose

BAREFOOT OUTREACH PROGRAM (2013 in Red Hook, Brooklyn for the Good Shepard Services)

Please take a moment to HELP US bring playwriting to inner city high school kids in need!  We're currently looking to raise a tiny budget to help us with our month long playwriting program that will culminate with an evening of FREE Readings featuring the works of our students paired with works by established playwrights!  Any donation will help us provide a small stipend to our Teaching Artists donating their time and talent to the project.  Additionally, funds will help cover the costs for copies and producing of event which will take place on Monday, April 22nd.    

TO DONATE AND HELP US VISIT: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/barefoot-outreach-2013

Here's a look at our Outreach Director and Teaching Artist part of Barefoot Theatre Company's EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: 

Aidan Koehler is a proud member of The Barefoot Theatre Company and the company's Director of Outreach.  Recent acting credits include "Eavesdropping on Dreams", "Suite Horovitz", and "A Christmas Carol" with Barefoot.  "Lilly Why Do You Smoke So Much?" with Target Margin. "Lebensraum", "Our Town", and "What Shall I Give My Children?" with The Harold Clurman Lab Theatre. "Two Maples at Urban Stages. "Twelfth Night" and "Midsummer" with Vermont Shakespeare.  Most recently in film, Aidan and other Barefoot members worked on the David Wain and Michael Showalter film, "They Came Together", due out in 2014.  In the past the Barefoot Outreach has worked with a variety of ages, from young children to adults in NYC.  Thrilled with this current collaboration between Barefoot and Good Shepherd, Aidan is proud of the work we have done, and looking forward to our future with the NYC community.

Casey Hayes 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. 


We are partnering with GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES and their Red Hook Beacon Center. (More on these Amazing organizations Below).  Three Wednesday afternoons in April, two Barefoot Teaching Artists will collaborate with Good Shepherd's Beacon Center and their students (ages 14-17) to write short plays.  During the week, when not meeting with teaching artists, students meet every day with Beacon Center staff to work on their writing pieces.

The third meeting will consist of students being paired up with writers and artists from the Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble on a 1-on-1 basis to edit their final drafts.

The last day will be for student to come to an off-broadway theatre, meet Barefoot members and learn about the process of creating and producing one's own work.  They will see a short rehearsal, followed by their pieces read on stage and then a more established playwright's work read on stage.  It's going to be awesome!

In the past, Barefoot Theatre Company has collaborated with Stella Adler Studio Of Acting's Outreach Program as well as South Side High School in Long Island, New York by holding ensemble workshops, holding invited dress rehearsals for students, talk-backs with artists as well producing new plays by students in our bareNaked Reading Series...

What We Need & What You Get

• All funds will go towards:
• Teaching Artsits Stipends
• Artists Stipends
• Supplies: Copies, Binders, Water, Coffee.

By supporting our Education Department's OUTREACH PROGRAM, you'll be the first to get a special invitation to the student's presentation at an Off-Broadway venue featuring first rate directors, actors and award winning playwrights taking part in the post show talk-back.  Additionally, you'll get a special thank you along with tax-deductible letter stating how much we've appreciated your support and further gifts such as: company pin, posters, special invite to upcoming events and productions.  

The Impact

Good Shepherd: "Good Shepherd Services is a leading youth development, education and family service agency that serves over 20,000 program participants a year. Focusing on high-need communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx, we provide a broad array of individual, family and school-based services to prevent youth from becoming disconnected from family, school and society. We also help those who come to us already disengaged find hope and motivation to reconnect with their community. When young people cannot stay in their families, we continue to provide a safety net of superior quality foster care and residential programs, as we have since 1857."

 

Beacon Center: "Good Shepherd Service's Red Hook Beacon provides year‐round, day, evening, and weekend activities for more than 2,000 young people and their families annually. Activities designed to promote individual, family and community development include an afterschool program for six to twelve year olds; four youth leadership development groups that engage youth from the ages of 9‐21; a summer camp program and events such as the annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner."   

Other Ways You Can Help

Help us spread the word by sharing the link to this campaign on any and all social media outlets and extend our search for help to friends and family.

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS

Barefoot Theatre Company

is currently in search of new and provocative contemporary plays for our upcoming season of readings and workshops. Barefoot is committed to fostering playwrights and supporting new work: past works developed with Barefoot have been seen at LAByrinth Theater Company, HERE, Florida Stage Company, 59E59 Theatres, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Boston Theatre Marathon, Gloucester Stage Company, Theatre Row, and The Cherry Lane Theatre, among others, as well as published by numerous publishers including Samuel French Play Publishers, Inc.

Our bareNaked Reading Series presents a new play each month at our intimate loft performance venue. The 2012-2013 series includes plays by Joe Pintauro (RAFT OF THE MEDUSA), Mike Reiss ("The Simpsons"), Mando Alvarado (BASILICA), Trish Harnetiaux, Hilary Bettis, and Dwayne Yancey.

Note: we are not a production company; we are a collaborative ensemble of actors, directors, playwrights and designers looking to develop and produce new works with playwrights.  We are interested in scripts that are completed or near completion and have rarely been seen or heard in front of an audience.

When submitting your play, please be sure to include the following: 

1. Brief synopsis, including production and development history 

2. Character breakdown 

3. An updated bio with current contact info

Please send submissions to program director Molly Marinik: mollymarinik@gmail.com.

Thank you for your interest in Barefoot Theatre Company!

Based out of NYC and now LA, Barefoot Theatre Company was founded in 1999 by a multicultural group of artists determined to produce vital, thought-provoking works, both new and existing. We embrace the importance of the collaborative process, nurture our ensemble commitment, and continue to learn from the younger generations we mentor.

Barefoot’s resident playwrights include the award-winning Israel Horovitz and Joe Pintauro, and emerging playwrights Jennifer Skura, Jonathan Libman, Michael Reyes, Tyler Fascett, Trish Harnetiaux, Joseph Sousa, Tim Plaehn and Jason Furlani.

Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director 

Christopher Whalen, Producing Director 

Molly Marinik, Program Director, bareNaked Reading Series 
Jennie West, Co-Producer, bareNaked Reading Series

bareNaked Reading Series (ON THE 5:31 WHO'S WHO)

Here's our paperless program for our 4.8.13 bareNaked Reading Series featuring ON THE 5:31 by Mando Alvarado; directed by Barefoot Associate Director, Jerry Ruiz.  The reading also features Ensemble Member, Stephanie Janssen who originated the role of Nasa in Israel Horovitz's BEIRUT ROCKS alongside Barefoot Ensemble Members, Francisco Solorzano and Christopher Whalen.  The reading also features Barefoot Artistic Associate, Raye Cyphers and special guest Bernardo Curbria with Barefoot Teaching Artist / Actor, Casey Hayes reading stage directions.  

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

5^th bareNaked Reading

WELCOME TO THE WHITE ROOM

by Trish Harnetiaux

Directed by Benjamin Kamine 

Thank you to our generous sponsors:

Ricardo Riethmuller and East 3^rd Productions

Archutek Communications, LLC

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Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director

Christopher Whalen, Producing Director

Sol Crespo, Company Manager

www.barefoottheatrecompany.org

ON THE 5:31 (April bareNaked Reading Series) MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT

Here's a look at our playwright for APRIL's bareNaked Reading Series in NYC featuring ON THE 5:31 by Mando Alvarado; directed by barefoot associate director, Jerry Ruiz.  The cast features barefoot ensemble member, Stephanie Janssen along with barefoot artistic associate Raye Cypers and special guest Bernardo Cubria...  

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.

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