Damn Your Eyes! The Cast of "The Devil's Own Game"

Lead us into temptation!  Meet the cast and crew of The Devil's Own Game, a reimagining of Faust.

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THE DEVIL'S OWN GAME

Thursday, October 23, 2014 @ 8 PM

The Crown Theatre at The Producers Club

358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036

Event is FREE and open to the public!

$10 Donation Suggested.

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FEATURING

ZILLAH GLORY* (Johanna) is an AEA and SAG-AFTRA actress, director, and writer. Most recently she played Masha alongside Kristen Stewart's Irena for the upcoming film "Still Alice" and was Marlene Kuzio in the HBO miniseries "Olive Kitteridge" featuring Frances McDormand.  Favorite roles include Eurydice in Eurydice (New Rep Theatre, Boston) and Valerie in The Weir (San Jose Rep.) An ongoing student at The Barrow Group, Z continues to hone her practice as a reader for Barden Schnee Casting, Tim Phillips Studio, and Paul Michael's The Network while directing the development of INTERLUDES, a New (Orleans) monologue play.  She's delighted to return to this gem of a character and to get to know the artists at Turn To Flesh Productions. www.zillahglory.com

MELIS AKER* (Mephistophilis) is delighted to be working with Turn To Flesh! A few past theatrical credits include Love in Afghanistan (Roya) at Arena Stage followed by a reading at the Roundabout Theatre Co., The Wishing Tree (Leyla) at the Signature Theatre Co. through Columbia Stages, Soldier X (Amani) at the Ma-Yi Theatre Co., Proof (Catherine) at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I Capture the Castle (Cassandra), Double Indemnity (Lola), These Shining Lives (Pearl) at Stoneham Theatre. Melis holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Thank you, Meron! www.melisaker.com | Dulcina Eisen Associates

LEIGHTON SAMUELS (Faust) is a graduate University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and has been working his way through New York for the past year.  He just finished the Summer Season at the Theater at Monmouth playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Oliver in As You Like It, and Gerald in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance. Prior experience includes ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Vasquez), Twelfth Night (Sebastian), and Dog Sees God (Matt).

CAROLYN BERLINER (Stage Directions) - is delighted to be working with Meron Langsner again after playing a lead role in the Valentine's Day reading of his libretto THE MARQUIS DE SADE'S JUSTINE (co-written w Silvia Graziano) at Fort Point Theatre Channel in Boston.  Favorite roles include: Duchess in The Elephant Man at Williamstown Theatre Festival (w Bradley Cooper & Patricia Clarkson), Andromache in Trojan Women at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a principal part in the International 48 Hour Film Festival award-winning short, TODAY __CKS. She is a recent graduate of the William Esper Studio.  Carolyn received her BA from Tufts University.






* Member Actors' Equity Association

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MERON LANGSNER (Playwright) has had his work performed around the country and overseas.  Recent productions include OVER HERE at the 2014 NY International Fringe Festival (FringeReview UK Recommend Show & Theatre Is Easy "Best Bet") and BURNING UP THE DICTIONARY at the Boston Center for the Arts (IRNE Nomination for Best New Play). He was one of three writers in the country selected for the pilot year of the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright Residencies, and his work has been developed at the Lark, New Repertory Theatre, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference (featured artist).  His publishers include Bloomsbury, Smith & Kraus, Applause, YouthPLAYS, and Indie Theatre Now.  As a fight director, Meron has composed movement and violence for over 150 productions, films, and tours. at venues that include the American Repertory Theatre, ArtsEmerson, and Merrimack Rep.  He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis, an MA in Performance Theory from NYU/Tisch, and a PhD in Theatre History from Tufts University.  Meron is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Society of American Fight Directors.  Visit him on the web at www.MeronLangsner.com, and find several of his scripts (including this one) at Indie Theater Now at this URL: http://www.indietheaternow.com/Playwright/meron-langsner

LAURA PITTENGER (Director) NYC directing credits: Third Floor (The Tank NYC); The Devil's Own Game (staged reading, Turn to Flesh); assistant to Tony Lo Bianco: The Little Flower. Regional: Someone Who'll Watch Over Me; Life x 3; The Last 5 Years. Playwriting: The HVAC Plays (FringeNYC 2014); Daughters of Trinity: Women of the Manhattan Project (collaboration w/Jennifer Blackmer & Ball State University, Playwrights' Center reading); The Fort (KCACTF Regional Ten-Minute Play Festival). Playwriting mentor to student writers in Bushwick Starr's Big Green Theatre Festival. National qualifier: Kennedy Center Critics' Competition. Literary Manager: Turn to Flesh Productions. Intern: Klapper Casting. Graduate of Ball State University. www.laurapittenger.com 

SAMANTHA EGLE (Stage Violence) is a fight choreographer and instructor living in New York City, She has been training and working in theatrical violence for over six years. She has taught at Northwestern University and is presently assisting Fight Master David Brimmer in his classes at NYU. Her favorite choreographer credits include We Band of Brothers, Cymbeline, The Princess Bride andRedemption: Tournament of Heroes. She also works as a stage manager, carpenter and writer and is presently working in the literary office of the Public Theater. She is a proud graduate of Northwestern University.