Tuesday, March 17, 2015
- Please join us for our March bareNaked Reading!
SAFEWORD
By Mariah MacCarthy
Directed by Jerry Ruiz
Damien and Lisa have a son together, but have gone their separate ways. When she invites him over to fulfill a sexual fantasy, they embark on a night of lust, trust, and excavating trauma—with devastating consequences.
Starring Allison Anderegg, Jake Choi and Danelle Eliav
Musical Guest: Stu Richards aka Chicken Leg.
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
Thanks to our amazing sponsors!
Beer sponsor: The Brooklyn Brewery
Cocktail sponsor: Pete Reyes
Barefoot Theatre Company
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
Danelle Eliav, Associate Producing Director
Molly Marinik, Program Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer
ALLISON ANDEREGG is originally from
Spring Lake, New Jersey and moved to New York to attend Marymount Manhattan
College where she studied acting and fine art. Since graduating she has
performed all over the city in venues varying from sound stages to Joe's Pub to
an abandoned storefront in Brooklyn. She is proud and excited to be an
Artistic Associate with Barefoot Theatre Company.
DANELLE ELIAV is an actress, filmmaker and producer. Born and raised in Canada, she has
worked in Toronto, Victoria, London, New York and Jerusalem. Danelle is
the Associate Producing Director of The Barefoot Theatre Company where she has acted
and produced with for the past seven years. Select Theatre includes: Carnival Kids with
Lesser America (Dir. Stephen Brackett – NY Times Critic’s Pick), Fault
Lines (Dir. Shira-Lee Shalit), (Goodnight, Sister (Dir. James
Lapine) & Speaking of Tushy (Dir. Israel Horovitz, The
Cherry Lane Theatre); Cynthia and the Dreadful Kite (Dir. Jill
DeArmon, LAByrinth Theater Barn Series at the Public & Vampire Cowboys
Saloon); Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Allentown Shakespeare). Film
credits include Indie features Fourth Man Out starring Kate Flannery and
Chord Overstreet and Victoriana starring Corey Stoll directed
by Jadrien Ford Steele (Winner of New Visions Award at Cinequest Film Festival,
Winner of the Grand Chameleon Award and Best Narrative Feature at
Brooklyn International Film Festival), as well as
several independent shorts. Her short film The Girl and the Spanish Boy has
screened at festivals internationally and won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best
Drama at Yorkton Film Festival, the Rising Star Award at Canada International
Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Festival Art Déco de
Cinema, São Paulo, Brasil. She produced Livia De Paolis’ debut feature Emoticon
;) which she also acted in alongside Carol Kane, Sonia Braga, Michael
Cristofer, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Christine Ebersole (Winner Best Cast Gen Art FF). She is the Associate Producer of The Sheik,
a documentary feature film about Iranian wrestling legend the Iron Sheik
featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Up next, Danelle is producing and staring in Brandon Harris’ feature film Homegirls. She is classically trained at the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art and a graduate of Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse School
of the Theatre.
JAKE CHOI is born and raised in
queens, NY and wants to thank barefoot theatre company for having him tonight.
And also to all the beautiful people who came out!
MARIAH
MacCARTHY’s work has been presented and developed at Rattlestick,
Primary Stages, EST/Youngblood, Culture Project, New Dramatists, La MaMa, HERE
Arts Center, Dixon Place, The Brick, Atlantic Stage 2, Bowery Poetry Club,
Jimmy’s No. 43, Theater for the New City, Players Theatre, Fringe NYC,
site-specifically around New York, and around the country. Plays: Baby
Mama: One Woman’s Quest to Give Her
Child to Gay People (upcoming, Ensemble Studio
Theater), Safeword (dev.
Flux Theatre Ensemble and Kid Brooklyn Productions), You Like It (dev. EST/Youngblood), The Hazards of Loving While Broken (dev. Mission
to (dit)Mars and HUB-BUB), Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade
Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion ("one of the most fun
theatre experiences I’ve ever had" -Exeunt Magazine), Magic Trick (FringeNYC), The Foreplay Play (NYIT Award nominee:
Outstanding Production, Outstanding Full-Length Script), Lysistrata Rape Play (dev. The Theatre Project
and Anthem Theatre Company), Ampersand:
A Romeo & Juliet Story (winner: 20 Looking Glass Forum
Awards, FringeNYC “Outstanding Performance”), The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret (“f*cking
brilliant” -Kate Bornstein), A
Man of His Word (winner, California Young Playwrights Contest;
dev. New Dramatists). Winner: Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, Lotos
Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences, 2012 nytheatre.com “Person of the Year,” PoNY
Fellowship nominee. Filling the Well resident artist, Executive Artistic
Director and founder of Caps Lock, Associate Artistic Director of The Brick,
San Diego native, Skidmore graduate, writer-in-residence of The Propulsion Lab,
and a member of Youngblood and Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
JERRY RUIZ
(Director): recently
directed Mala Hierba by Tanya Saracho at Second Stage, Basilica by
Mando Alvarado for Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater and Philip Goes
Forth for the Mint Theater Company. Prior NYC credits include: Enfrascada by
Tanya Saracho (Clubbed Thumb), Love Goes to Press (Mint), Mariela
in the Desert (Repertorio Espanol), A King of Infinite Space (SummerStage/HERE), The
King is Dead by Caroline V. McGraw and Rattlers by
Johnna Adams. Regional: In the Heights (UT-Austin), 26 Miles (Arizona
State University), Waiting for the Hearse (Mixed Blood)
and Twelfth Night (Chalk Rep). Jerry has developed
work at Second Stage, Playwright’s Horizons, Soho Rep, The Public, The
Atlantic, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Playwrights Realm.
Since 2011, he has been the Curator of the Crossing Borders festival at Two
River Theater Company, Associate Director at Barefoot Theatre Company, and
currently has a grant from the Doris Duke foundation to co-create a new work
there. This year, he has been a Guest Artist at the University of Texas,
Austin. Recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development for Directors Program
grant, 2009-2011. Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage, 2007-2009. Member
of SDC.
