Meet the Matadors!
Meet the cast and crew of Matadors.Toreros. a play that combines the POETRY OF LORCA with the MYTH OF THE MINOTAUR. Reserve your seat today! Or join us on Facebook.
KATIE MEDVED (Eleanora, a Girl in Blue) is an actor and theater creator hailing from Colorado. She is a member of the Exquisite Corpse Company where she helps devise and perform interactive, multi-media art productions. When not on stage, she can be seen behind the scenes stage managing. Favorites: King Lear (Fool), Drawn and Quartered (Ana), Othello (Cassio), WareART (Producer and assistant director). She is thrilled to be included in this workshop and thanks Alex for her creative juices.
KATO McNICKLE (Playwright) is a playwright, artist, and dog-wrangler from the Connecticut shore. Her play ARIADNE ON THE ISLAND is a 2010 Clauder Award recipient and 2008 O'Neill National Theater Conference finalist. Other recent playwriting awards include: a 2008 Heideman Award finalist with Actors Theatre of Louisville for ABOUT A HUNDRED PANCAKES; Theatre for Youth National Playwriting Award 2010 for CHANCE OF RAIN: A NOAH RIFF; a 2007 O'Neill National Theater Conference finalist for MINOTAURS. TOREROS.; and an Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellow for FENCERS. She has studied playwriting with Paula Vogel, Bonnie Metzgar, Kia Corthron, and Donna DiNovelli. Plays and selections have been published by Smith & Kraus in a recent Best Monologues for Women; The Lodestone Quarterly; The Brown University Classics Journal, and Lemon Puppy Arts Journal. She is Vice-President of the Mystic Paper Beasts, a Connecticut-based puppetry troupe and partner of The Dragon’s Egg Performance Space. She holds a BA from Brown University in Ancient Studies. She is mad for new discoveries in cognitive science, and continues to study the connection between art, perception, neuroscience, and performance since beginning this inquiry while at Brown. Member of the Dramatist Guild and the Star Wars Fan Club.
MINOTAURS.TOREROS.
Thursday, September 25, 2014 @ 7 PM
The TAI Group, 150 West 30th Street, 14th Floor, NY, NY 10001
Event is FREE and open to the public!
Donate $10 at the door, get a glass of wine!
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FEATURING
MARISOL ROSA-SHAPIRO (Miura, a Female Matador) is an actress, director, theater deviser, and teaching artist. She is a proud New York City native and a recent graduate of the Lecoq-based training program at Helikos International School for Theater Creation in Florence, Italy. Recent credits include Experiment #39 (Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival), Experimental Peace Project (Target Margin Theater Institute, NYC), Punch It Softly and It Will Sing (Helikos Scuola), and Post Office Bumbershoot (Wesley Fellowship, Boulder, CO). Marisol is a teaching artist with the New Victory Theater and TADA! Youth Theater here in NYC.
DAVID ROSENBLATT* (Manolete, a Boy Minotaur) is a NYC based actor, musician, and yoga instructor. He has most recently helped develop new work with Knud Adams in Sam Arbery's The Logic (OOB Fest. Winner), Saint Fortune's Whisky Jack and the representatives' Flooded with Light. Previous acting credits include the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate at the Human Festival of New American Plays and Annie Baker's Body Awareness.
KATIE MEDVED (Eleanora, a Girl in Blue) is an actor and theater creator hailing from Colorado. She is a member of the Exquisite Corpse Company where she helps devise and perform interactive, multi-media art productions. When not on stage, she can be seen behind the scenes stage managing. Favorites: King Lear (Fool), Drawn and Quartered (Ana), Othello (Cassio), WareART (Producer and assistant director). She is thrilled to be included in this workshop and thanks Alex for her creative juices.
Filipe Valle Costa* (Romero, a Gypsy) began his training in his hometown Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Graceland University, and a M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Florida. While at UF, he was an active member of the Hip Hop theatre troupe, Signs of Life, as a performer, writer, director and producer, as well as frequent company member at the Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, FL. A proud Teaching Artist with the Shakespeare Forum where he hopes to continue to “inspire artists and non-artists alike to find their creative voices through theatre and the works of Shakespeare," he also plans to give Portuguese playwrights a voice in New York City through his new theatre group, saudade. Off-Off-Broadway: Good Grief (INTAR), Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Shakespeare Forum). Regional: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Over the Tavern, End Days, Sirens, Carrie, Dracula and A Christmas Carol (Hippodrome Theatre). UF: In the Blood, Romeo and Juliet and You Can’t Take It With You.
* Member Actor's Equity Association
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KATO McNICKLE (Playwright) is a playwright, artist, and dog-wrangler from the Connecticut shore. Her play ARIADNE ON THE ISLAND is a 2010 Clauder Award recipient and 2008 O'Neill National Theater Conference finalist. Other recent playwriting awards include: a 2008 Heideman Award finalist with Actors Theatre of Louisville for ABOUT A HUNDRED PANCAKES; Theatre for Youth National Playwriting Award 2010 for CHANCE OF RAIN: A NOAH RIFF; a 2007 O'Neill National Theater Conference finalist for MINOTAURS. TOREROS.; and an Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellow for FENCERS. She has studied playwriting with Paula Vogel, Bonnie Metzgar, Kia Corthron, and Donna DiNovelli. Plays and selections have been published by Smith & Kraus in a recent Best Monologues for Women; The Lodestone Quarterly; The Brown University Classics Journal, and Lemon Puppy Arts Journal. She is Vice-President of the Mystic Paper Beasts, a Connecticut-based puppetry troupe and partner of The Dragon’s Egg Performance Space. She holds a BA from Brown University in Ancient Studies. She is mad for new discoveries in cognitive science, and continues to study the connection between art, perception, neuroscience, and performance since beginning this inquiry while at Brown. Member of the Dramatist Guild and the Star Wars Fan Club.
ALEX RANDRUP (Director) is a New York based director and producer. Recent directing credits include Sisters Mine (Target Margin Theater Lab) and assisting on Hobo Grunt Cycle (Lone Wolf Tribe) and The NOT WORKING Project (Naked Angels/New School). Recent producing credits include Whiskey Jack (FringeNYC 2014) and assisting on PROPAGANDA: A Festival Celebrating Russian Voices (Cooper Union, featuring Uzo Aduba, Masha Gessen and Derrick Adkins), Human Fruit Bowl(FringeNYC 2013 Overall Excellence Award), and queerSPAWN (HERE Arts Center). She is a graduate of Fordham University. Upcoming: directing Trigger Warning as part of the Emerging Artist Theatre's New Works Series.
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