Tornado Dreamers

Meet the cast and crew of Tornado Dreams, a SPOKEN OPERA.  Reserve your seat today!  Or join us on Facebook.

TORNADO DREAMS: A Spoken Opera
Thursday, August 28, 2014 @ 7 PM
The TAI Group, 150 West 30th Street, 14th Floor, NY, NY 10001

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FEATURING

ETHAN ANGELICA* (The Dreamer) is thrilled to be working with so many friends on such a fascinating new play. Favorite credits include: Rabbit Island (Elephant Run District, Backstage Critics Pick), The 39 Steps (Sundog Theatre), Brecht in the Park, Peg O' My Heart (Hell's Kitchen Musicals), Much Ado About Nothing (Guthrie Theatre), and multiple tours with Theatreworks/USA. Many thanks to Aimee, Emily and Turn of Flesh Productions. BFA/NYU/CAP21.      
www.ethanangelica.com




HELEN HERBERT* has originated many wonderful roles including: Elizabeth in Queen Elizabeth of Factory Fifteen, Margaret in Everything Will Be Alright, Mag in The Town of No One and Janet in the film “Blissful Acres." She has appeared on Broadway stages on many occasions for benefit concerts and toured with TheaterworksUSA’s A Christmas Carol, thrice.  Training includes: Labyrinth Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Premiere Stages, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Kean University. She is pleased to be making her Turn to Flesh Production debut and very happy to be working with Aimee again.




GLENN PROVOST (The Weatherman) works as an actor, director, playwright, and designer, and is cofounder of Strangers at Home Theatre Company. NYC credits include Romeo (Romeo and Juliet), The Devil (Ti Jean and his Brothers), Gaoler (Two Noble Kinsmen), and Ben (Seascape with Sharks and Dancer). Notable regional credits include his Spotlight Award-nominated turn as Billy Bibbit (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), as well as Vince (Buried Child), Orpheus (Eurydice), Guildenstern (Hamlet / R+G Are Dead), and Ken (Red). He is also a core member of the “Best of NH” winning Dorks in Dungeons improv group, and performs stand-up comedy.








ELIZABETH SELDIN (The Claims Adjuster) Elizabeth Seldin is excited to  be joining Turn To Flesh!  Past credits include: Storytelling Doll ( All Systems Go: Mission 2); Reggie Fluty etc..(The Laramie Project); Challenge Belief ( The Belief Project at Triskellion via FullStop Collective) ; Veronica ( Mrs Mayfields 5th Grade Class of '93 20 Year Reunion) Doctor/Patient ( I'm Bipolar Curious) as well as being a Reader for Laura Stanczyk Casting.  She is a produced Playwright, Professional Acting Coach, Reiki Practitioner and Spoken Word Artist.  More can be found at www.elizabethseldin.com 




JACQUELINE SYDNEY* (The Gardener)  Theatre: Money, Love, and Shame! (Target Margin), Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing . . . Gynecologic Oncology Unit. . . (Clurman Lab. dir. Jaime Castañeda and Cino Nights. dir. Kip Fagan), Satan In High Heels (TOSOS), Dear Harvey (FringeNYC Outstanding Ensemble Award), The Kitchen Table (NYITAward Acting Nomination), The Secret Garden (APAC), Blood Grass (NY & Provincetown), The Family Room (Ethos), And Sophie Comes Too (FringeNYC), The Children’s Hour (APAC), Carcass (New Worlds Theatre) and Machinal (Ohio Theatre).Selected Film & TV:  Eleanor Rigby is Waiting, Filmic Achievement, Uncle Stephanie, Confess, all the soaps.  Web Series: “Simpatico,” “Double Leche,” “The Underground Notes.” 

* Member of Actors' Equity Association

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ANNE DIMOCK (Playwright) is an author, librettist and playwright. Her plays and an opera have been produced in California, New York, Minnesota, and Hawaii. Her dramatic writing focuses on comedies, adaptations, and always includes strong roles for women. Other plays include Roxanne(dot)com, Debbie Does Death and Woman Bakes American Flag Cake (The Matriot Act). She is currently working on a cycle of short plays inspired by her favorite novel – Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

Anne Dimock is also a narrative writer working in fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction book, Humble Pie – Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust, was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. She has received awards, fellowships and residencies for her narrative writing. She is currently working on a YA novel set in 1962-64, and a nonfiction book about the links between consumer product consumption, mental illness and hoarding.

Besides writing, Anne Dimock has a fundraising career in the nonprofit sector. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area and works for a land trust that protects giant redwood trees.
www.annedimock.com


  
AIMEE TODOROFF (Director) is the Artistic Director of Elephant Run District. Selected productions include Rabbit Island, a Backstage Magazine’s Critic’s Pick and a “best of” the 2012 Frigid Festival, American Gun Show and the popular Brecht in the Park Series. Aimee has recently received her MFA in Directing from Southampton Arts, where she studied with Marsha Norman, Rinde Eckert and Joanna Merlin among others. In the past year, she has worked on the off-Broadway debut of Charles Busch'sThe Tribute Artist and served as Assistant Director on David Ives' The Heir Apparent at Classic Stage Company. www.aimeetodoroff.org








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