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Barefoot
Theatre Company
Season 2013-2014
bareNaked LA Reading Series
proudly presents
COLLECTION
OF SHORT PLAYS
by Mando
Alvarado, Hilary Bettis, Ed Cardona Jr.,
Bernardo Cubria, Kristoffer Diaz, Yahaira
Hernandez,
Mel Nieves, Carmen
Rivera & Jose Rivera
Starring:
(in order of
appearance)
Chelsey Donn, Jane Stephen
Rosenthal, Jerry O’Donnell,
Miriam Canfield, Alexandra Lill,Joy Darash, Vinny Chhibber,
Paulina Gamiz,
Yetta Gottesman, Bernardo
Cubria,Luciana Faulhaber, Francisco
Solorzano,
Christopher Whalen, Johnny
Yoder, Cristina Fernandez
Directed by
Francisco Solorzano
Live Music: ASHLEY
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Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
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MIRIAM CANFIELD graduated with a BFA from New York University last May, having studied in the
Stella Adler and Classical Studios. She moved out to LA in September and
recently put her ballet and piano training to use in Celine Dion's upcoming
music video, "Incredible."
VINNY CHHIBBER was born in Queens, NY and grew up all over the southern United
States, the oldest of three. In 6th grade, he auditioned for his first
play for fun, was cast and discovered his love for the world of theatre, film
and storytelling. After graduating from the Stella Adler Conservatory in
New York, where he had the good fortune of training with and learning from
legends such as Frank Langella, Alford Molina and Earle Gister he moved to Los
Angeles where he currently resides. Credits include: Brothers & Sisters
(ABC), Chuck (NBC), Dollhouse (FOX) and Rules of Engagement (CBS).
BERNARDO CUBRIA is a playwright and actor. As a playwright his latest full
length The Redhead is Coming is receiving a public reading with
Barefoot Theatre Company in NYC in June. It was developed with Inviolet
Repretory Theatre Company. It has also had readings at The People's Light and
Theatre Company in Philadelphia, and with Inviolet Rep. His first
play Down Boy has received readings at Wordsmyth Theatre Company in
Houston, Texas, and by Token Collective in NYC. His short play Danica and
Jean has been produced at over 15 short play festivals around the country.
As an actor his favorite credits include Cesar
in Basilica (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Philip in Philip
Goes Forth (The Mint), Husband in So Go the Ghosts of
Mexico (La Mama), Luis in American
Jornalero (INTAR), The Man (understudy) in A Summer's
Day (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Florizel in The Winter's
Tale (People's Light and Theatre), Hamlet in Hamlet (New
Perspectives Theatre), Manuelo in Boleros for the
Disenchanted (Richmond, VA) and Ed in This is
Fiction (Cherry Lane). He's a proud member of Inviolet Repertory Theatre
Company.TV: The Good Wife, We Are New York, Film: Late Phases, The Truth
About Lies, and Death of an Ally. Chiquita tquc. www.bernardocubria.com
JOY DARASH - Hailing
from the east coast, Joy has worked in theater, film, and television in both
NYC and LA. She has performed in productions with The Elephant
Theater, The Open Fist Theater, The Lonny Chapman Theater, The Blank
Theater (Living Room Series), and the Underground Theater in LA, and Theater
Studio Inc. and The Producers Club in NYC. Film Credits include All About
Steve, Flotsam, Cat Power, Everybody's Jake, and It's Hard. Television:
Gilmore Girls, Criminal Minds, Rizzoli and Isles. She was also one of the
leads in the KoldCast TV webisode series Acting School Academy.
CHELSEY DONN
Chelsey is thrilled to be joining Barefoot LA for
a second year. Off-Broadway: When in Disgrace, Theatre at St.
Clements; The Demon, A What?, Ensemble Studio Theater; Sighting V, Union
Square Theater. Regional: Futurity (directed by Sarah Benson with
Michael Cerveris), A.R.T; The Corn is Green (directed by Nicholas Martin
with Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Burton) and Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the
Inside (written by Lucy Alibar), Williamstown Theater Festival; David
and Lisa, Walnut Street Theater; Accomplice: Hollywood (produced by
Neil Patrick Harris). Film: Arthur, Loving Leah, OJ:The Musical. Television:
“Onion News Network” Training: BFA from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Lee
Strasberg Institute, Stonestreet Studios, Upright Citizens Brigade, The
Groundlings. www.chelseydonn.com
CRISTINA FERNANDEZ is a member of Barefoot Theater Company.
She is currently attending the California Institute of the Arts
(CalArts), for her MFA in acting. Recent credits include, Tennessee Williams'
"The Dark Room" & "Every Twenty Minutes," at Edgemar
Center For The Arts, directed by James Franco.
LUCIANA FAULHABER - A native of Brazil, Luciana
completed a two-year Meisner training with Bill Esper and the LAByrinth Theatre
Master Class. Some of her credits include Iron Man 3, CSI Vegas, the action
feature The Night Crew and the upcoming horror film Don't Look. Some of
Luciana's theatre credits include off- Broadway show: the
world premiere of The Monkey written and directed by John Patrick
Shanley with music by Henry Krieger, and Fabiola in the critically acclaimed
New York Premiere of The Smell of Popcorn. Luciana is currently bicostal.
YETTA GOTTESMAN - TV/FILM: “Nurse
Jackie”, “Gossip Girl”, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, “Sex and the City”, Jake Squared, Sex , Death and Bowling, Rabbit Hole, 27 Dresses, Lucky You.Theater: El Nogalar (Fountain Theater),
underneathmybed (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Mariela in the Desert
(Denver Center Theater-Ovation Award Nominee, Best Actress),Cedar City Falls
(Galapagos Art Space), The Cook (Seattle
Rep), Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (Hartford Stage), The Last Days of Judas
Iscariot ( The Public Theater), Aphrodisiac (Long Wharf), Touch (The Women’s Project), Where’s My
Money? (Labyrinth Theater Company @ Second Stage and Manhattan Theater Club),
Two Sisters and a Piano (Alliance Theater), Ana in the Tropics (Arena
Stage), Sonia Flew (Coconut Grove
Playhouse). Member of LAByrinth
Theater Company and The Actors Studio.
ALEXANDRA LILL is from Germany, Bavaria. She
discovered her love for acting at an early age and has been performing in
multiple theater productions ever since. Alexandra relocated to LA to venture
into film, but is very delighted to join the Barefoot Theater Company for it´s
bareNaked Reading Serious.
JERRY O'DONNELL - a New York raised actor and director who now lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent TV credits include a recurring role on MADMEN and guest stars on Dexter, Cold Case and Without a Trace. Jerry can currently be seen punching a heavy bag in a Kaiser Hospital commercial. Working with Barefoot theater Co feels like coming home in many ways and Jerry is excited to be an ensemble member working with such talented and committed artists.
JANE STEPHENS ROSENTHAL is an actress, and a poet, and a lady, and she is currently working on writing her first film. She most recently collaborated with Barefoot Theatre Co. acting in the short film written and directed by Caitlin FitzGerald for their sister co., Barefoot Studio Pictures.
FRANCISCO SOLORZANO - for the past 15 years, Francisco has produced, directed, acted, and led the Barefoot Theatre Company as Producing Artistic Director / Co-Founder from Off-Off Broadway to become a critically acclaimed and award winning NYC and LA Ensemble. Most notably onstage, Francisco adapted, directed and acted in the critically acclaimed/sold-out Off-Broadway world premiere of DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Theatre Row Theatres). Francisco has also been known for his leading role in Israel Horovitz's two-act drama SINS OF THE MOTHER (alongside Ethan Hawke, Chris Cooper, Bobby Cannavale, and Michael Stuhlbarg). Most recently, acted in and co-produced two short films with Barefoot Studio Pictures, THE GIRL WITH THE JACKET written and directed by Caitlin FitzGerald and FLOATING SUNFLOWERS (also dir.) w/ Anna Chlumsky, Lynn Cohen & Christopher Whalen. Collaborated on award winning revivals, NY and World Premieres with some of the most prolific companies including: LABYRINTH THEATER COMPANY, RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER, FLORIDA STAGE, GLOUCESTER STAGE CO., ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATER, STELLA ADLER THEATER, THEATRE ROW THEATRES. BFA in Acting: CUNY'S Brooklyn College; Recipient of the Graduate Theater Organization of Brooklyn College, CUNY's Alumnus of the Year Award. Currently splits his time between his home in Brooklyn, New York and Hollywood, CA.
CHRISTOPHER WHALENTheater: bareNaked LA Reading Series in Mike Reiss’ (THE SIMPSONS) I’M CONNECTICUT (opposite Joyce DeWitt); Joe Pintauro’s RAFT OF THE MEDUSA; Kristoffer Diaz's F**KING VIGWAN (OR SWAG); GLOUCESTER BLUE (Cherry Lane Theatre) and SINS OF THE MOTHER written and directed by Israel Horovitz (Gloucester Stage Company), 70/70 Horovitz Project in Horovitz's UNEXPECTED TENDERNESS (alongside Michael Stuhlbarg, Annabella Sciorra, Anna Chlumsky; Bleecker Street Theater), bareNaked Reading Series (NY/LA), SUITE HOROVITZ & MID EAST PIECES by Horovitz (Theatre For The New City). Christopher developed the role of Moretti in the workshop production of DOG DAY AFTERNOON, Horovitz's NEW SHORTS (Theatre Row Theatres opposite Lynn Cohen), BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, PERICLES, CRIMES OF THE HEART,
Israel Horovitz's SECURITY (Bleecker Street Theatre) & NORTH SHORE FISH (78th Street Theatre Lab) and Joseph Sousa's TEETH OF THE SONS (Bleecker Street Theatre) among others. Film: PS. I LOVE YOU opposite Lisa Kudrow, (Warner Brothers), THE PROCTOR (Endless Films). A physical fitness enthusiast, he completed his third New York City marathon in the fall of 2007. Co-Founded Barefoot Studio Pictures with Francisco Solorzano (debut film, Floating Sunflowers premiering this April at World-Fest Houston). Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble Member.
JOHNNY PATRICK YODER - grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Summa Cum Laude, before moving to New York City, where he attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. After graduating and working in NYC, he moved to Los Angeles where he studies at the Groundlings School and the Art of Acting Studio. He is a member of the Improv comedy group Scared Scriptless LA, and regular performs around Los Angeles doing improv shows, all while pursuing his acting career.
He is also passionate about political affairs, and regular participates in rallies, phone banks, and protests throughout the Los Angeles area.
He is also passionate about political affairs, and regular participates in rallies, phone banks, and protests throughout the Los Angeles area.
MANDO ALVARADO 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.
HILARY BETTIS is a playwright and screenwriter. Awards,
residencies, and commissions include: Kennedy Center MFA Workshop (The Ghosts of Lote Bravo), Lecomte du
Nouy Award, NYFA Fellowship, Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship, O’Neill
National Playwrights Conference (Alligator),
2050 Fellowship at NYTW, James McLure Fellowship New River Dramatists,
Sloan/EST Commission (Dakota Atoll), John N. Wall Fellowship Sewanee
Writer’s Conference, Blackburn Nomination (Mexico),
PoNY Nomination, Cherry Jones/Abingdon Theatre Company Grant. Finalist and
semifinalist include: the Source Festival and BAPF (Alligator), BAPF (Dakota
Atoll), current O’Neill NPC finalist (Dakota
Atoll), New Dramatists and the Leah Ryan Prize. Readings and workshops include:
Juilliard, New York Theatre Workshop, New Georges, The Lark, The Flea, EST,
Abingdon, Barrow Street, Barefoot Theatre Company, Pavement Group, Project Y,
Great Plains Theatre Conference, Carolina Coastal University, New River
Dramatists, The Actors Studio and The Aurora Fox in Denver. Productions
include: American Girls (Off-Broadway
at 45th St. Theater, regionally The Edge Theater in Denver), The Mud Hole (Off-Off-Broadway F*IT
Club), Two Lovers (New Georges #1MPF),
and The Bronze Serpent (INTAR American
Nightcap). Publications include Smith & Kraus, McFarland & Company,
Original Works (American Girls). Film
screenings include: Williamsburg
Film Festival, IFS Festival (winner best actress), Nashville Film Festival
finalist (B’Hurst).
She is a member of
SAG, AEA, Dramatists Guild, The Drama League, TCG, Playwrights’ Center and
Fractured Atlas. She is a member of EST, Project Y’s writer group and a New
Georges Affiliated Artist. She is a staff writer for offoffonline.com, and has
contributed articles to TDF Stages. She studied screenwriting with Brooke
Berman at ESPA. Hilary lives in Bushwick with a fat orange cat, plays a little
violin, volunteers with Undocumented Minors, and rides horses as much as it is
possible to being broke and living in a big city. She is currently working on a
feature (The Lost Coyote) with Oscar-winning
producer, Mara Kassin.
Representation:
Chris Till – CAA/Creative Artists Agency chris.till@caa.com
Bernardo Cubría
is a playwright and actor. As a playwright his latest full
length The Redhead is Coming is receiving a public reading with
Barefoot Theatre Company in NYC in June. It was developed with Inviolet
Repretory Theatre Company. It has also had readings at The People's Light and
Theatre Company in Philadelphia, and with Inviolet Rep. His first
play Down Boy has received readings at Wordsmyth Theatre Company in
Houston, Texas, and by Token Collective in NYC. His short play Danica and
Jean has been produced at over 15 short play festivals around the country.
As an actor his favorite credits include Cesar
in Basilica (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Philip in Philip
Goes Forth (The Mint), Husband in So Go the Ghosts of
Mexico (La Mama), Luis in American Jornalero (INTAR), The
Man (understudy) in A Summer's Day (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre),
Florizel in The Winter's Tale (People's Light and
Theatre), Hamlet in Hamlet (New Perspectives Theatre), Manuelo
in Boleros for the Disenchanted (Richmond, VA) and Ed
in This is Fiction (Cherry Lane). He's a proud member of Inviolet
Repertory Theatre Company.TV: The Good Wife, We Are New York, Film: Late
Phases, The Truth About Lies, and Death of an Ally. Chiquita
tquc. www.bernardocubria.com
ED CARDONA JR. La
Ruta, a site-specific play which toured for a one-week run in each of the five
boroughs of New York City (commissioned/produced/Working Theater); American
Jornalero, selected as a MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting
Competition award winner (Intar Theater); Leveret’s Lesson, (St. Andrew’s College, Aurora,
Canada); Jackson Heights, 3am, an ensemble collaborative piece (Theater 167);
Mongo, performed at the Local 3, I.B.E.W. Diversity Conference in part with
membership diversity workshops (commissioned/produced/Working Theater); Super
Moon , FOCUS Festival of the Arts, Aurora, Canada (commissioned/St. Andrews
College); Bottle Rockets and La Perla (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater), With
Love, Gabe (Intar Theatre). Ed has been an artistic associate with the Working
Theater, a collaborator with Urban Arts Partnership/The New Group/Life Stories
and a resident playwright with St. Andrews College, Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence
Lab at Intar Theatre, The Professional Playwrights Unit at the Puerto Rican
Traveling Theatre, The Hall Farm Center for the Arts & Education in
Townsend, VT, and is a founding member of NY Madness. Ed’s work has been
published by NoPassport Press, Dramatic Publishing and Smith and Kraus
Publishing. Ed received his M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University
where he received the John Golden Award for his thesis play, PICK UP POTS!
KRISTOFFER DIAZ is a
playwright and educator living and working in Brooklyn. Full-length titles
include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Welcome to
Arroyo’s, The Upstairs Concierge, and The Unfortunates.
Awards: 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award;
finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; winner, 2011 Lucille Lortel
Award for Outstanding Play; winner, 2011 OBIE Award, Best New American Play;
and the inaugural Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship from The Public Theater
(2011). His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed at The Public
Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The
Goodman, Second Stage, Victory Gardens, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors
Theatre of Louisville, American Theater Company, The Atlantic, InterAct, Mixed
Blood, The Orchard Project, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, Summer Play
Festival, Donmar Warehouse, and South Coast Repertory, among many others. He is
currently developing a pilot for FX.
YAHAIRA HERNANDEZ is delighted to be making her playwriting
debut with Barefoot Theatre Company. Yahaira is an
actor, playwright and director that is dedicated to portraying and
documenting the human experience, whether that be tragic or comedic. She finds
that theater and film are powerful mediums because in the moments of watching
and listening, human beings learn something of themselves, of others and what
is of value.
MEL NIEVES - Born and
raised in NYC. Graduate of the William Esper Studios. 2013 Voices Inside/Out
Playwright-in-Residence. Long time member of the award winning LAByrinth
theatre company. His plays have been presented in New York, Chicago and LA.
more info: www.melnieves.com
CARMEN RIVERA holds an MA in Playwriting and Latin American
Theatre from New York University. Her
OBIE-Award winning play LA GRINGA, just celebrated its’ 18th year anniversary
in repertory at Repertorio Español. It is now the longest running play in New
York Latino Theatre / Off-Broadway History. Carmen’s play, JULIA DE
BURGOS: Child of Water, will be featured in productions in New York City,
Chicago and Puerto Rico this year, celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of
the birth of Julia de Burgos. It will
also be published by Red Sugar Cane Press, in the Spring of 2014. Her play, THE DOWNFALL OF THE DOMINICAN
DICTATOR, RAFAEL TRUJILLO, will open this October at Teatro Círculo. She is a Founding Member and Co-Executive
Director of E.P.P. (Educational Play Productions), along with Cándido Tirado,
which brings plays that deal with social issues into the public schools. For more information on Carmen, check
out www.carmenrivera-writer.com.
José RIVERA an award-winning screenwriter and playwright, most recently collaborated with the Goodman on Boleros for the Disenchantedduring the 2008/2009 Season and Massacre (Sing to Your Children) in the 2006/2007 Season. His plays—The House of Ramon Iglesia,Slaughter in the Lake, Flowers, The Promise,Each Day Dies with Sleep, Tape, Cloud Tectonics, Sueño, Marisol, References to Salvador Dalí Make me Hot, Sonnets for an Old Century, Brainpeople, School of the Americas, Maricela de la Luz Lights the World, Adoration of the Old Woman, The Street of the Sun, Gliese 581D, Yellow, Human Emotional Process, Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words and Giants Have Us in Their Books—have premiered off-Broadway and have been seen at major theaters across the country as well as in France, England, Romania, Peru, Mexico, Greece, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Scotland and Canada. His most recent film credit is the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road directed by Walter Salles. He was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award and Spain’s Goya Award for his first produced screenplay, The Motorcycle Diaries, also directed by Walter Salles. His film Trade was the first film to premiere at the United Nations. Other screenplays includeJohn Brown, Face Value, Celestina, Three Apples Fell From Heaven, Letters to Juliet and Phailan.Rivera has received two OBIE Awards for Playwriting, a Whiting Foundation Award, a McKnight Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, a Fulbright Arts Fellowship and a Kennedy Center Grant. He studied with Gabriel García Márquez at the Sundance Institute and was writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre, London. He is at work on his first novel, Love Makes the City Crumble. 
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