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
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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 Dead, Callous
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.
