Welcome to our Paperless Program for BULLY by Amina Henry; directed by Shira-Lee Shalit for our April 14th bareNaked Reading Series...
Barefoot
Theatre CompaNY
Season 2014-2015
bareNaked Reading Series
Molly Marinik, Program
Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer
proudly presents
BULLY
written by
Amina Henry
directed by
Shira-Lee Shalit
April 14, 2015
CAST
Wren………………..…………..………Erin Cherry*
Simone………………….………Stacey Raymond*
Bree…………………………….Vanessa Aspillaga*
Delilah………………………..….………Mle Chester
Tanisha……………………………...Sevrin Mason*
Candace…………………….….Jelena Stupljanin*
Stage Directions…...............………Raye Levine
*Appearing courtesy AEA
Musical Guest: Cannonball Statman
West Beth Artists
Community
55 Bethune Street
COMING UP NEXT:
May bareNaked Reading
FULL MOON INSIDE A RED SKY
By Mel Nieves
Directed by Michael LoPorto
Tuesday, May 12; doors at 7:30pm
Music
Booking by Darkseed Entertainment
www.barefoottheatrecompany.org
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
ERIN CHERRY hails from Las Vegas, Nevada.
She received her M.F.A. in Acting from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts
where she studied under Bill Esper and Maggie Flanigan. She has appeared on
stage at Julie Harris Stage, WHAT, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park, Classical Theatre of Harlem, New York Stage and Film, Capitol Rep, The
Prince Music Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, and CrossRoads Theatre. Recent stage
roles include Stick Fly (Majestic), The Farm (Penguin Rep), and Lines in the
Dust (Luna Stage). She was also recently an understudy for Manhattan Theatre
Club’s production of When We Were Young and Unafraid staring Cherry Jones. She
is thrilled to be making her bareNaked debut, and wants to send a shout out to
Amina Henry and Shira Lee for the opportunity. For updates on Cherry, you can
follow her on Twitter at: Cherryacts and/ or check out her website at:
ErinCherry.com
STACEY RAYMOND received her BFA in Acting from
Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University). Favorite theater credits
include work at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center,
Theater Row, La Mama, PS 122, HERE, Urban Stages, Cherry Lane Theatre and
Culture Project. TV/Web credits include ALPHA HOUSE as well as a recurring role
in the critically-acclaimed web series PRODUCING JULIET. Stacey portrayed the
leading roles in the award-winning films ALICE IN ANDREW’S LAND and DIVE, as
well as the leading role in the upcoming film THE DAY THAT SHE DIED. Later this
month, Stacey will perform in a workshop performance of a solo show titled THE
DIABOLICAL STARFISH (written by Jen Browne) at Dixon Place. Love to Leah. www.staceyraymond.com
VANESSA ASPILLAGA - Broadway: 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning “Anna in the Tropics” with Jimmy Smits. Off-broadway and Regional: “Domesticated” Lincoln Center Theater, “underneathmybed” Rattlestick Theater (Drama League Distinguished Performance Award Nominee 2010-2011, HOLA Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor Award) “Chasing Manet” Primary Stages, “Paradise Park” Signature Theatre Company, “The Clean House” Lincoln Center Theater, “The Cataract” Women’s Project, “As You Like It” Public Theater New York Shakespeare Festival, “Two Sisters and a Piano” Alliance Theatre Company, “Night of the Asassins” INTAR, “Cutting Open Wings” LAByrinth, “They Still Mambo in Havana” The Flea, “Missionaries” Brooklyn Academy of Music/ LaMama ETC/ New York Stage and Film, “Voir Dire” Long Wharf/ Arena Stage/ Seattle Repertory, “A Park in our House” New York Theatre Workshop/ McCarter. Film and TV: “Detours,” (upcoming) “Alex of Venice,” “Tio Papi,” “Gun Hill Road” (Grand Jury Nominee 2011 Sundance Film Festival) “Morning Glory” (with Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford), “Love and Other Drugs” (with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway), “Petty Crimes,” “My Best Friend’s Wife,” “Pyrite,” “Stringer,” “Mr. Wonderful,” The Jim Gaffigan Show (recurring role July 2015 on TVland) Flesh and Bone (recurring role upcoming Starz) Nurse Jackie, Elementary, The Good Wife, Unforgettable, Rubicon, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, The Jury, Deadline.
Mlé CHESTER is a graduate of the two
year conservatory program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Stage credits include Joe
Turner's Come & Gone, The Women and Roost. She has also
appeared on CBS's Blue Bloods.
SEVRIN
ANNE MASON's selected New York credits include The Crucible on Broadway, Charlotte
Miller’s Rocks , a part of the triptych, Zurich, NY
(Ensemble Theatre
Group) ;
Sarah Shaefer’sI Can’t Explain it Better Than That
and Jessica Dickey’s Row
after Row (Rising Phoenix Rep ) ; Four Hundred Parts Per Million
(Blessed Unrest);
The Calmative
and
Baal
both
directed by Scott
Ebersold ; Much Ado About Nothing
(Boomerang, directed
by Daniel Talbot). Sevrin 's selected film credits include Buffalo Girl by Patch Darragh, Public Hearing
(Automatic Moving Co.
)
, and A Quintet
(Omnibus Productions); and two
webseries:
Help Wanted
and Downsized
.
Sevrin graduated from Boston University and is a proud member of AEA
. You can find her
online at sevrinannemason.com.
JELENA
STUPLJANIN is a NY based actress, born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. Since
2010, she’s a permanent member of New York Innovative Theater Award winning
theater company ‘Rising Phoenix Repertory’ and worked on numerous productions with
them. After graduating from Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, she became a
member of one of the leading Serbian theater companies ‘Atelje 212’. She has
performed in more than 30 mainstream productions and toured on stages of many
European theaters. Jelena became a household name in Serbia with her role in TV
series ‘Foxes’, as well as with a female lead in a feature film “Cirkus
Columbia’ (2010), dir. by the Oscar Winner Danis Tanovic (‘No Man’s Land’
2002). ‘Cirkus Columbia’ was a Bosnian contender for Oscar nominations 2010 and
Jelena won the Best Actress award for her role in it at Alexandria Int. Film
Festival. Other film work: ‘Love Hunter’, ‘Jelena, Katarina, Marija’, ‘The Ambulance’,
‘Fall into Paradise’, ‘A Quintet’, (producing debut, omnibus feature film,
winner of the Special Jury Award at the Chelsea Film Festival, 2014). She just
finished shooting a feature film ‘Humidity’ dir. by Nikola Ljuca.
RAYE LEVINE
is an NYC based Actress. She completed the 2-year Meisner training
program at the William Esper Studio under Barbara Marchant and continued
training with Bill Esper, Nancy Mayans and Deb Jackel. She performed in
a reading of
THE VOTE IN ORANGE
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, along with Kevin Kline, Bobby
Cannavale, Judith Ivey and Angelina Fiordellisi. Raye is an Ensemble
Member of the Barefoot Theatre Company
and has performed in staged readings including
PARKSLOPE, ON THE 5:31
by Mando Alvarado, directed by
Jerry Ruiz, RESTLESSNESS OF DESIRE
by Kristina Poe, directed by Shira-Lee Shalit, PIRATE
by Jennifer Skura, directed by Molly Marinik, WETIKO by Greg Paul, directed by Joli Tribuzio, MAN IN SNOW by Israel Horovitz, directed by Francisco Solorzano (at the Actor's Studio), and
FINALLY,
a
new short by Israel Horovitz at the Calderwood Pavillion as part of the
Boston Theatre Marathon. As part of the Barefoot Theatre Company's 15th
Anniversary Gala & Awards Ceremony, Raye performed in DOG DAY AFTERNOON directed by Francisco Solorzano, and VICTORY GIRLS
by Kristina Poe, directed by Michael LoPorto. Raye
holds a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union. She is a
competitive-level figure skater and member of Ice Theatre of New York.
AMINA HENRY is a poet-playwright
and teaching artist. Recent
productions include: Happily Ever at Brooklyn College, An
American Family Takes a Lover, produced by The Cell: a 21stCentury
Salon and presented by Theatre for the New City (New York, NY), Water produced
by Drama of Works (Brooklyn, NY) and The Minstrel Show, produced as
part of the 2013 Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Festival 13th Street
Theater/CSC. Her work has been developed/presented at: Little Theater at
Dixon Place, The Flea, Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 2013 Black Swan
Lab Series (Ashland, OR), Kitchen Dog Theater, The Brick, HERE Arts Center, The
Cell: a 21st Century Salon, HERO Theatre, the Hive Theater, Shakespeare’s
Sister Company, the Bowery Poetry Club, Brooklyn College and Texas State
University. She was a 2012-2013 Core Apprentice playwright at The Playwrights
Center and a 2013 Finalist for the Leah Ryan FEWW Playwriting Prize for her
play Bully. She was a featured playwright at the 2013 Black
and Latino Playwrights Conference at Texas State University. Publications
include Hello, My Name Is Joe in the compilation 24 Gun
Control Plays, published by NoPassport Press. Amina Henry is a graduate of Yale
University, NYU’s Performance Studies MA program and Brooklyn College’s MFA
Playwriting program.
SHIRA-LEE SHALIT (Director):
is an award-winning director,
chosen by Steven Spielberg as one of 18 Finalists out of 12,000 directors for
his Fox/DreamWorks TV show, "On The Lot.”
She recently directed Stephen Belber’s FAULT LINES at
the Barrow Group Theatre and has directed for the LAByrinth Theater Company,
Barefoot Theatre Company, Nylon Fusion Collective, Vertigo Theater Company, The
Jewish Plays Project, Stonestreet Studios, NYMadness, Thespis Theatre Festival,
The Lark, and the Writers Guild East Screenplay Series. Shira-Lee’s feature film debut, A-LIST starring Academy Award nominee
Sally Kirkland (Anna, JFK) won the Audience
Award at the 2007 Milan International Film Festival, and the Gold Remy Award
for Best Comedy at Worldfest Film Festival. Her first short, FULL CYCLE was a Finalist in the Student
Academy Awards, and her film, OPEN AIR,
starring Lynn Cohen (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) won
multiple awards at festivals worldwide.
Winner of the prestigious Presidential Scholar of the Arts Award,
Shira-Lee is an Associate Director with The Barefoot Theatre Company and a
member of the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit. She teaches master
classes for the LAByrinth Theater Company and is on faculty at Columbia
University and NYU.
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Cannonball Statman performs heavy, fast-paced
music, with singing, barking, speed-rapping, and Tuvan throat singing
layered over an acoustic guitar tuned like a six-string sitar. His debut
album "Icepick" was self-released in Spring 2014, followed by a USA
tour with NYC-based art rock band The Grasping Straws. He continues
touring, recording, and performing in NYC, while drumming in rock and
roll supertrio The Dick Jokes, organizing live events in the NYC
Antifolk scene, and editing the music section for local community
newspaper Boog City.
