“ALLIES” JUNE 2006
From the humble confines of a front porch in Florida to the latent existence found in a Times Square apartment to the faded memories uncovered in the family attic to the absurdity of accepting the confession of a modern day virgin birth, the BDTC explore the human experience and the necessity to find an ally in life
FEATURING: Gina Lemoine & Kristin Cappon
FEATURING: Ryan Sutelan, Sara Laudonia &
Barry Jason Schneider
FEATURING: Josh Marcantel & Collin William Key
PLAYWRIGHT
K. Alexa Mavromatis
FEATURING
Kristins Cappon as Lainie
Gina Lemoine as Mary
PLAYWRIGHT
Audrey Cefaly
FEATURING
Donna Blaszczyk as Euba
Gina Lemoine as Fin
PLAYWRIGHT
Barbara Lindsay
FEATURING
Sara Laudonia as Lola
Ryan Sutelan as Andy
Barry Jason Schneider as Barry
PLAYWRIGHT
Charles Hall
FEATURING
Josh Marcantel as Sonny
Collin William Key as David
“FIN & EUBA”
Audrey Cefaly is a playwright, actor and director in the Washington Metro Area. Her original one-acts have won the Northern Virginia One-Act Festival, the Maryland One-Act Festival, the Eastern States One-Act Festival, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s 10 Minute Play Festival. She placed 2nd in the Nantucket Short Play Festival, was a two-time finalist in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival.
Fin & Euba was recently presented as a staged reading at Ensemble Studio Theatre and will soon be made into a short film.
“SIGHTLINES”
Hall developed an interest in writing while working as
a script supervisor at several of the top commercial production houses in Toronto, Canada. Since then,
he has won numerous awards for both stage and screen. After completing a series of successful short films, his feature-length screenplay, Messengers,
was produced by New York-based WorkShop Productions. In addition to lending his support to
such projects as the film adaptation of
De l'autre côté du mur, Hall continues to write compelling, original works intended for a broad
range of audiences.
“ROOM AT THE INN”
Barbara Lindsay’s first full length play, FREE, won the NY Drama League’s 1989 Playwrighting Competition and was given its premiere production in London in 1991. Since then there have been more than 90 national and international productions of her plays and monologues. She has taught writing in California,
West Virginia, and Washington. 120+ of her original monologues have been published on the website www.themonologueshop.com. Her new full length play I-2195 recently won the Women’s Playwrighting
Award at the UM St. Louis and was produced there
in November 2005. Babs is a fifth generation
Californian, now very happily living in Seattle.
“BONE CHINA”
Alexa’s lifelong involvement in the theatre has seen her play a range of roles, onstage and off. Her short play Bone China was a semi-finalist in Turnip Theatre Company/American Globe Theatre’s 12th
Annual NYC Fifteen Minute Play Festival, as well as
a selection for the Boston Theatre Marathon VIII (presented by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre).
A graduate of the University of Georgia,
Alexa is a founder of Rhode Island Playwrights’ Exchange and a member of the Dramatists Guild.
“BONE CHINA” and “SIGHTLINES”
Debra Ann Register moved to New York City ten years ago to pursue a career in the theatre and has acted
on stage in both contemporary and classic works,
as well as directing and producing several shows Off-Off Broadway. She has written threefull-length plays, The Faithful Fall Up,The In Between Moments and The Men in Her Lifeas well as various one acts. Debra received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Salem State College in Directing, and a Masters degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts with
a concentration on Directing.
“FIN & EUBA” and ”ROOM AT THE INN”
Since leaving the City College of New York Theatre Program, Khary has directed four plays with the CCNY CityPeeps Alumni Project. Last year he completed work on Edan Schappert's Panda-Monium with the TSI/Playtime series, Gene Mora's Stage Play with the Scripts Up! play development project and Don Evans' One Monkey Don't Stop No Show with Reflections Theatre Company. This year Khary completed work on August Strindberg's Comrades and most recently, Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano both with eyeBlink Entertainment. Khary is grateful to be working with the Black Door Theatre Company and this wonderful group of actors.
LIGHTING DESIGN
Kate is excited to be working with Black Door Theatre Company for the first time. Her recent work includes lighting design for Imago Dance Theatre’s Trickledown, Ellen Stokes Shadle at the Cunningham Studio, Makram Hamdan at the Joyce SoHo,
Girl Talk at the Barrow Group, and Side Man at the Gallery Players. Assistant lighting design includes
I Have Loved Strangers at the Ohio and
The Bartered Bride at Juilliard. She spent the last four summers in the production department at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Kate is currently in NYU’s Design for Stage and Film graduate program.
STAGE MANAGER
Jeff moved from Louisiana less than three weeks ago and is thrilled to begin his New York theatre journey with Black Door Theatre Company. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre from McNeese State University in 2004. Favorite roles include: Lee in
True West, various roles in I Love You You're Perfect, Now Change and Robert in Proof. Thanks to BDTC for this opportunity and to Josh for letting me
sleep on your couch!
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Black Door Theatre Company's production Allies marks Tiina's return to the theater. Having just completed her BFA in Film Production at the Univeristy of Central Florida, she is very excited and thankful to be living in New York and working with Black Door. Recently her credits have included art director on a variety of short films & commercials,
as well as the completion of her own 7-minute
stop-motion animated short entitled The World,
Naked as a Jaybird. Currently Tiina is seeking opportunites to broaden her education of film,
theater and art.
