Who's Who in Emergency Used Candles...

Here's a look at the director of our Off-Broadway, World Premiere production of Emergency Used Candles by Chiara Montalto:

VICTORIA MALVAGNO

Director, Actress and Dancer, Victoria Malvagno was featured across the globe in the award winning documentary Mad Hot Ballroom from Paramount Classic. She has directed numerous readings and productions for the Barefoot Theatre Company since 1999. Victoria directed the staged workshop production of Emergency Used Candles presented at the Emerging Artists Theatre festival. Theater Acting Credits: Liberty, the new musical (New Workshop Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre), The Water Engine (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland), Israel Horovitz's New Shorts (Theatre Row Theatres), the workshop and premiere of Dog Day Afternoon (Theatre Row Theatres), Jose Rivera's Marisol (Looking Glass Theatre), Women and Wallace (78th Street Theatre Lab), The Audition Play (Boston Theatre Marathon, 2007), Originated the role of Shelly in Israel Horovitz's Security (Gloucester Stage Company / 78th Street Theatre Lab.) T.V.: The Glamorous Life (Pilot). Film: Security, Mad Hot Ballroom. Victoria is also an Educational Liaison and teaching artist for The American Ballroom Theater. Her work with ABrT's Dancing Classrooms program was the subject for the award winning documentary Mad Hot Ballroom. She is a founder and currently the Managing Director of the Barefoot Theatre Company. Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble Member Since 1999.

BACKSTAGE PASS: in the rehearsal room.

Here's a note from Chiara Montalto (writer and performer of Emergency Used Candles) on the rehearsal process:

Victoria Malvagno. Palma Dellaporta. Me. 3 Italian-American women. One script. 47 pounds of Imported cheese. 2,000 cerignola olives. 10 pounds gained on each of us. Ok, that last bit was an exaggeration and a joke, but consensus is that the cheese and olives have just got to go. Rehearsing EUC with Victoria and Palma is such an incredible experience. What's truly amazing is how each of us have not only brought our experience, but our hearts to this process. Victoria's brilliance, experience and nurturing has shed such light on my own story and experience. She is the lens that is bringing the whole thing into focus. What's also incredible is how this process has enabled each of us to grow personally. I don't want to speak for anyone else, but for me, the last few years of my life have really been about loss. Maybe it's partly my age, but in the last few years, I have lost so many people. Rehearsing this material with these women, has helped me to process those painful personal experiences in the best possible way. (pictured: Pop and Chiara)

who's who in Emergency Used Candles...

CHIARA MONTALTO (playwright/performer)

Theater: NYC Revival of Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Metropolitan Operas and The 40th Anniversary Production of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead with the Barefoot Theatre Company, also appeared in an Italian language production of Pirandello's La Giara. Writer and Performer of Emergency Used Candles which was first heard in BTC's bareNaked Reading Series and workshop series. Film: Saturday, and One to One, directing a short documentary, Something Special, about a very remarkable group of Senior citizens. Barefoot Theatre Company Ensemble Member Since 2001.

Who's who in Emergency Used Candles by Chiara Montalto...

Meet our Production Stage Manager and Associate Producer:

PALMA DELLAPORTA: Palma is a Brooklyn native. She has been a member of the professional staff at Brooklyn College for over ten years. A long time Barefoot Theatre Company supporter and friend, she is thrilled to be Stage Managing, for the first time, on this production of Emergency Used Candles. She also helped Chiara prepare for her previous performances of Emergency Used Candles and has enjoyed seeing this work grow. In her spare time, she attempts to teach Chiara how to attract firemen in non-emergency situations.

Ensemble Member, Dan Graff

Check out what one of our newest members, Dan Graff is up to. He was also most recently seen in our 70/70 Horovitz Project and is also one of the co-founders of Barefoot Studio Pictures, an independent film production company born out of Barefoot Theatre Company's mission and aesthetic.

John Chatterton presents
Short Play Lab Program B
Saturday, October 16, 2010 through Sunday, October 17, 2010

Good things come in small packages.

Program B (Sat. 9 pm & Sun. 2 pm)
In order of performance
DRAWING THE LINE by V.E. Kimberlin, directed by Gary Ray Bugarcic; starring Natasha Lee Martin & Dan Graff. A man learns the horrible price of his family's acceptance into a very exclusive community.
A CERTAIN DEGREE OF NEUROSIS by Leah Benavides and Michael Hirstreet, directed by Leah Benavides; starring Michael Hirstreet & Rachael Hip-Flores. When therapy takes a turn for the worse...who's treating who?
BOOT CAMP by Steve Gold, directed by Mark Stone; starring Maureen Schreyer & Roland Sands. Welcome to the Marines, Girly!
TIERESIUS written and directed by Leo I Rodriguez.
HOPSCOTCH by Josh Sohn, directed by Jeff Crosley; starring Melissa Gordon & James Parenti. A couple tries to get to the bottom of some burning questions.
PURGATORY written and directed by Nicholas Linnehan; starring Gillian Hurst & Alvaro Sena. Ever wonder what happens when you die?

http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=SHO114

Who's Who in Emergency Used Candles...

Here's a look at our Understudy/Assistant Stage Manager for Chiara Monalto's Emergency Used Candles directed by Victoria Malvagno at the Cherry Lane Theatre - beginning this Nov 3rd! Welcome Samantha Fontana! She was most recently seen in our SMASHED, workshop series at The Sackett earlier this month.

A native New Yorker, Samantha Fontana received her BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. She is proud to make her off-Broadway debut as the Understudy and Assistant Stage Manager in Emergency Used Candles with the warm and talented Barefoot Theatre Company. Samantha is the co-writer, director and lead actor for "S&M", a new comedic series of web shorts. She recently performed in GI60: International One Minute Play Festival playing multiple roles and has been shooting Grounded: The Documentary, an independent film. Samantha would like to thank Victoria Malvagno and Frank Solorzano for this wonderful opportunity and to Chiara Montalto for her beautiful writing and touching story.

Ensemble Member, John Harlacher

Penetrating the Space runs one more week!

John Harlacher directs Penetrating The Space at Dixon Place. It's a one woman show about a performance artist who believes that by gathering big time agents to watch her perform a piece where aspects of her split personality confront the men who have abused her, she will achieve Hollywood stardom. It's a funny multimedia piece about theatre and some of the strange people who make it. Penetrating the Space will be performed on Friday, October 8 & 15 at 9:30pm; Saturday, October 9 & 16 at 7:30pm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8179x5lRLLg

The second thing is the haunted house project that he's been creating and directing with Tim Haskell for the past 5 years. It's this: www.NightmareNewYork.com "We take what we've learned from working in experemental theatre and apply it towards scaring people. It's really interesting to see how kids from the Bronx who won Hot 97 tickets react to hearing Shakespaere in our "Never say Macbeth in a theatre" room, or to the Bunraku puppets in our "Cameras steal your soul" room."