Barefoot
Theatre CompaNY
Season 2014-2015
bareNaked Reading Series
Molly Marinik, Program
Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer
proudly presents
FULL MOON
INSIDE A
RED SKY
written by
Mel Nieves
directed by
Michael LoPorto
May 12, 2015
CAST
Maitre d’…….…………..……………Charles Everett
Anthony………………….…..Francisco Solorzano*
Lisa………………………………………….Joli Tribuzio
Sylvia……………………....………Daniella Rabbani*
Stage Directions…...........………Alexandra Slater
*Appearing courtesy AEA
West Beth Artists Community (55 Bethune Street)
COMING UP NEXT:
June bareNaked
Reading
TOWER 5
By Michael Reyes
Directed by Scott Illingworth
Tuesday, June 9; doors at 7:30pm
Music
Booking by Darkseed Entertainment
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
www.barefoottheatrecompany.org
CHARLES EVERETT began
his acting career at the age of 9, performing in community theatre in
Connecticut. Since then, he has gone on to work in film ( Assata aka
Joanne Chesimard, The Last International Playboy), television ( Law
& Order, Rescue Me), theatre ( NEXT, Raft Of The Medusa, Here. This.
Now.), commercials ( Wendy's, Verizon, Royal Caribbean, Red Lobster),
voiceover ( Coke, McDonald's, Ford, Adidas), as well as video games ( Killzone
3). Most recently, Charles was a co-host of the daily one-hour show
"Off Par" on Back9Network. A graduate of the 2 year Meisner
Conservatory at Maggie Flanigan Studio, Charles is a proud ensemble member of
Barefoot Theatre Company.
DANIELLA RABBANI is an actress, singer and
filmmaker. She has devoted much of her young career to carrying on the legacy
of the Yiddish theater. A third generation Holocaust survivor, Daniella
has always been passionate about stories of the past as they relate to the
present. Daniella has been praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal and The New York Observer, among others, for her work Off Broadway and
in concerts around the world including headlining at Jazz and
Lincoln Center, Town Hall in New York City and The State
Jewish Theater in Warsaw, Poland. Recently, Daniella has turned
her attention to television and film. As an actress, she held roles in the
2014 Sundance Film Festival's Appropriate Behavior
, 2014 Tribeca Film Festival's
Be Here Now-ish,
PBS' Triangle Fire and
FX's The Americans . She
produced and starred in the sketch Couples
Audition which aired on
FOX's Laughs
in August 2014 and created the web series
Skirts & Ladders which
landed her a channel partnership with Broadway Video's Above Average. She
is currently working on a short film project inspired by the inheritance of
family trauma. For more information please check out
danielleabbani.com. Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble Member.
JOLI TRIBUZIO first had the privelage
of working with Barefoot on the critically acclaimed stage adaption of Dog Day
Afternoon. Joli played Deborah and Angie and also served as assistant
director. Most recently Joli had the pleasure of reading opposite Frank
Solorzano in Mel Nieves' one act, Between a Hot Dog and A Hard Place.
They will be performing this play at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival with
Barefoot Associate Director, Shira Lee Shalit directing!
Joli just completed work on the comedic series Thug Passion to be released in
2015 and also enjoys work as an improvisor having completed a nine year run as
Tina in the Off Broadway production of Tony N Tina's Wedding and continuing to
work as an actor and teaching artist in NYC public schools with the Family Life
Theatre.
FRANCISCO
SOLORZANO – SELECT THEATRE:
stage adaptation of DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Off-Bwy, world premiere, NYC);
Horovitz's SINS OF THE MOTHER (GSC, FLORIDA STAGE) and many others.
Collaborated onstage with some of the most prolific companies including:
LABYRINTH THEATER CO., RATTLESTICK, ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATER, INTAR, La MaMa,
STELLA ADLER THEATER, DIXON PLACE, PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATRE, 59E59, REPERTORIO
ESPANOL, GSC. SELECT FILM:
Barefoot Studio Pictures' THE GIRL WITH THE JACKET (dir. by Caitlin FitzGerald)
and FLOATING SUNFLOWERS (dir. and winner of several awards w/ Anna Chlumsky,
Lynn Cohen & Christopher Whalen). Founder and Artistic Director of
the critically acclaimed & award winning ensemble, BAREFOOT THEATRE CO.
since 1999; Produced the 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT, a year-long, worldwide
festival celebrating Horovitz’ 70th birthday with 70 of his
play. Actor’s Studio PDU Member. BFA IN ACTING: CUNY'S Brooklyn College; Recipient
of CUNY's Alumnus of the Year Award.
ALEXANDRA SLATER lives in Brooklyn with
her cat Hudson and is currently in her second year of training at Brooklyn
College's BFA program. Her past productions have included Camino Real directed
by Laura Tessman and Quake directed by Johnathon Musser. Next up, you can catch
her at Brooklyn College's production of Paula Vogel's, Baltimore Waltz directed
by Noel MacDuffie. She would also like to thank Michael LoPorto and Jennie West
for this opportunity!
MEL NIEVES
born and raised in NYC is an actor/playwright/teaching-artist. He is a graduate
of the William Esper Studios and a long time member of the award winning
LAByrinth theatre company and a member of the Actor's Studio
Playwright-Directors Unit. Recently collaborated with Barefoot Theatre Company
both in NYC and LA with the bareNaked Reading Series. For more info: www.melnieves.com
MICHAEL LoPORTO - member of
2014-2015 Playwright/Director's lab at The Actor's Studio, founding member of
Barefoot Theatre Company, co-creator of Dialogue with Three Chords, drummer for
punk band The Deacons, and an associate
member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Selected directing credits:
One Night Only: A Benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
featuring Lea Delaria (The Loews Theatre, New Jersey), the off-Broadway world
premiere of CJ Thom's Eightballs: A
Cocaine Comedy (The Lafayette Theatre), the world premiere of six of the
nine plays that make up Israel Horovitz's New
Shorts (The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row Theatres), Fiddler On The Roof in 2004, South
Pacific in 2005, Grease in 2007, Annie Get Your Gun in 2010, The Producers in 2011, Cabaret in 2012, Spamalot in 2013, and Hands
on a Hardbody in 2014 (all at Park
Playhouse in Albany, NY), the 35th anniversary production of The Indian Wants The Bronx by Israel
Horovitz (Gloucester Stage Company) , a year-long narrative told in monthly
installments entitled Shipyard Souls & A Compass Rose (The Den at
Mister Dennehy’s), the world premiere of Next
(HERE Arts Center) as well as its workshop production (The Sargent Theatre,
American Theatre of Actors), a staged readings of The Rebel Sound of F*cking Around (Dixon Place), a production of The Last Days of the Brave & the Bold (SOHO Digital Arts
Gallery), a staged reading of
Mohammad’s Radio (Bleecker Street Theatre),
and a downloadable radio play
entitled The Marriage of a Stone to a
Tree: all written by Stephen Gracia.
