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Barefoot
Theatre CompaNY
Season 2014-2015
bareNaked Reading Series
Molly Marinik, Program
Director
Jennie West, Co-Producer
proudly
presents
TOWER 5
written by
Michael Reyes
directed by
Scott Illingworth
June 9, 2015
CAST
Pfc. Jackson…….…………..……………Mike Carlsen*
Spc. Cruz……………………....…….…..John Concado*
Lieutenant Jones………….........……Craig muMs Grant*
Ali……………………....……..……………Alex Flores*
Radio…………………………...…….….John Harlacher
Stage Directions…............…..........…Patrick McCormick
*Appearing courtesy AEA
Musical Guest: Susan Hwang
Artwork by Jennie West
West Beth Artists
Community (55 Bethune Street)
Thank you so much for
an incredible
season of new plays!
The 2015-2016
bareNaked Reading
Series line-up
will be announced
soon. Wishing
you a fun and
inspiring summer!
Music
Booking by Darkseed Entertainment
Francisco Solorzano, Producing Artistic Director
Christopher Whalen, Producing Director
www.barefoottheatrecompany.org
WHO's WHO (in the cast & crew):
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MIKE
CARLSEN is an actor based
in New York City and associate artistic director of Sponsored By Nobody an
international theatre company based in Brooklyn. A graduate of the Acting
conservatory at Purchase College-SUNY, He has been seen on
broadway in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia .
(TONY Award Best Play 2007) Off broadway credits include The
Wood at the Rattlestick Theatre, WTC View
at 59E59; L(Y)RE at ARS NOVA and most
recently Michael Puzzo's Spirits of Exit Eleven at
the Lion Theatre in Theatre row. TV- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver, The Good Wife, Law and Orders and some more. Film- A
Walk Among The Tombstones, Laugh Killer Laugh as well as the upcoming Custody
with Viola Davis, Lost Cat Corona with Ralph Macchio and 11:55 Holyoke
opposite Julia Stiles.
-->CRAIG muMs GRANT is an American Actor. He has performed on New York City stages for more than 20 years. muMs is best known for playing Arnold Jackson aka Poet on the HBO hit show “OZ.” muMs is a proud member of the Labyrinth Theater Company, debuting in such productions as the critically acclaimed Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, A View From 151st and Penalties and Interests, all performed Off-Broadway at the NYC’s Public Theater. muMs was last seen in his own production of A Sucker Emcee and Lucy Thurber's The Insurgents. Some of muMs’ other acting credits include: "Birdman", "The Knick", "Nurse Jackie", "Side Effects", “Law and Order SVU,” “Law and Order,” “Cold Case,” “Blue Bloods,” “Boston Legal,” “Law and Order Criminal Intent,” “The Sopranos,” amongst others.
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JOHN HARLACHER is an actor and director. Acting work includes the indie feature
Love Simple
; the web series Cat
Planet. many appearences with the Barefoot Theatre Company (of which
he is a member), and the bar-theatre project Dialogue with Three
Chords. Directing work includes
Penetrating The
Space and Callous Cad at The HERE art center,
and the feature
film Urchin , which he also wrote. John also makes theatrical events,
such as NYC's long running Halloween institution
Nightmare Haunted
House, the twisted Christmas show
The Experiment
, Easter's Full
Bunny Contact, and most recently Ninja Escape, a live adventure game
in Seattle.
MICHAEL REYES (playwright) lives in New York, where he writes plays and
short fiction. He is an Iraq War vet and currently works at a bookstore.
He was a member of Castillo Theatre's young playwrights group and The
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre writing workshop. His play Over There/
Over Here was produced in New York and L.A. Press in New York Times,
Backstage and American Theatre Magazine. Former resident artist at The
Bowery Poetry Club. His play Park Slope was read at Cherry Lane Theatre
and was later given a workshop production by Barefoot Theatre Company.
He has been published in Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Eclipse, 31 More
Nights Of Halloween by Rainstorm Press and Twisted Boulevard by Eletrik
Milk Bath Press. Currently a member of Barefoot Theatre Company and The
Dramatist's Guild.
SCOTT ILLINGWORTH (Director) is a Member of the Playwrights/Directors
Unit at The Actors Studio, serves as Associate Director at Barefoot
Theatre Company, is an Artistic Advisor for The Farm Theater, and was
one of four Founding Members of The Passion Play Collective (along with
Keith Reddin, Sarah Ruhl, and Mark Wing-Davey). Recent directing
credits include the Off-Broadway World Premiere and ongoing tour of
Beyond Words with Bill Bowers (Urban Stages, All for One
Theatre Festival), the premiere of Girl on Girl by Lucas Hnath (NYU),
Deadpan Melodrama by Bob Glaudini (Collaboraction), Waiting for Lefty
(NYU), the premiere of Across the Water by Mona Mansour (NYU),
Termination of Species by Ken Urban (Collaboraction), Springtime by
Marie Irene Fornes (Marymount Manhattan), Leaving Iowa (Adirondack
Theatre Festival), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (The Theatre School at
DePaul University), Refugee Girls Revue (Fringe NYC), and Chicago Summer
(Collaboraction at Steppenwolf). Focused on developing new work, Scott
has worked on readings and workshops of dozens of new plays. Some
highlights include The Vote in Orange by Israel Horovitz for the French
Embassy in NYC featuring Kevin Kline, Deep Trees by Andrea Ciannavei
with Lili Taylor and Bobby Cannavale (LAByrith’s Barn Series), The
Absence of Weather by Ken Urban and Some Brighter Distance by Keith
Reddin (TimeLine Theatre), Israel Horovitz’s short plays Inconsolable,
Just The Way You Are, The Vote in Orange, and What Strong Fences Make
(Gloucester Stage and LAByrinth’s Barn Series), Lake Effect by Padraic
Lillis (Geva Theatre Center and Alchemy Theatre), The Hard Sell and The
April Hour (LAB’s Barn Series at The Public), and A Taste of Sunlight in
December (Victory Gardens Theater). He served as Associate Director to
Mark Wing-Davey on the Off-Broadway productions of Passion Play (EPIC),
UNCONDITIONAL (LAByrinth), The Singing Forest (The Public), and Ninth
and Joanie (LAByrinth). Regionally Scott worked with Mr. Wing-Davey on
Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl (Goodman and Yale Rep) and served as
Assistant Director to Philip Seymour Hoffman on The Long Red Road
(Goodman). Previous directing credits include Love Letters starring
Patty Duke, Cloud Tectonics, Stone Cold Dead Serious, The Last Days of
Judas Iscariot, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Caryl Churchill’s A
Dream Play. Scott is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School
of the Arts Graduate Acting Program and is a regular teacher of
Masterclasses for LAByrinth Theater Co. He holds an MFA in Directing and
a BFA in Acting from The Theatre School, DePaul University and is a
member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).
SUSAN HWANG is a New York performer, musician and songwriter. She’s
toured internationally as one third of New York’s favorite
accordion/cello/bari-ukelele power trio, The Debutante Hour. She
founded, curates and hosts The Bushwick Book Club – a monthly series
presenting new music inspired by literature. Recently, she wrote music
for and performed in Yara Arts Group’s “Captain John Smith Goes to
Ukraine” which ran in Kyiv and also NYC's La Mama Experimental
Theater. This summer, Susan will be in Kyiv with Yara Arts creating a
new theater piece involving the Crimean Tatars. Her band, Soozee Hwang
and The Relastics released their first recording, "Dong Peh" this year.
She's also excited about her new cooking show, "Maybe Everything Will
Be Fine." You can watch it on the youtubes at https://youtu.be/_q7hzV1T0HQ (WARNING: this episode not suitable for vegetarians). For more information and performance calendar, visit susanhwanglalala.com.
Jennie has been painting since a very early age continuing an artistic tradition that stretches back for generations within her family.
