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Doric Wilson
(general director; playwright; founder) was one of the first playwrights at NYC's
legendary Caffe Cino, his comedy And He Made a Her* opening there
in 1961. A pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway movement, he has written,
directed, produced and/or designed over a hundred productions and was a
founding member of Circle Repertory Theater and the Barr/Wilder/Albee
Playwright's Unit. A participant in all three nights of the Stonewall
Riots, he became active in the early days GAA (Gay Activist Alliance) and
in 2004 was honored to be one of the Grand Marshals in NYC's Gay Pride
March celebrating the 35th anniversary of Stonewall. As a "star"
bartender/manager of the newly liberated gay bar scene, he opened such
landmark institutions as the Spike, TY’s and Brothers & Sisters
Cabaret. In 1974, Doric Wilson formed TOSOS, the first professional
theatre company to deal openly and honestly with the gay experience. In
2001, with Mark Finley and Barry Childs, he resurrected the company. His plays Street Theater,* The West Street Gang, Forever
After,* and A Perfect Relationship, quickly became staples of
the emerging gay theater circuit of the 1970s, winning numerous honors. A
full length version of an earlier Cino one act play Now She Dances!*
premiered (2001) at the Flexible Deadlock Theatre (Glasgow, Scotland),
directed by Steven Bottoms. Doric Wilson received the first Robert Chesley
Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay Theatre (1994); the 2007 IT Award
for Artistic Achievement, and
in 2009, the ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) Career
Achievement Award for Professional Theatre.. He is working on a new play: The Boy Next
Door for the coming season. His collected plays can be downloaded for
free from his website: www.doricwilson.com
(photo: Eric Marcus)
Email: doricw@nyc.rr.com. / phone: 212-563-2218 / Blog: http://doricwilson.blogspot.com/ Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_Wilson /
glbtq
encyclopedia entry http://www.glbtq.com/arts/wilson_d.html |
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Mark Finley ( artistic director; director; playwright; actor; founder) will be making his Off-Broadway directorial debut with Chris Weikel’s Penny Penniworth opening Oct 5 and running thru Nov 1 at the Tada Theater 15, West 28th Street. TOSOS directing credits include: five Doric Wilson plays: And He Made a Her, A Perfect Relationship (2003 OOBR Award), Street Theater and staged readings of The West Street Gang and Now She Dances!; five Chris Weikel plays: Pig Tale, Speaking Parts, Gareth & Lynette; Penny Penniworth and Weikel Works; New York Minutes, a musical revue of the songs of the late John Wallowitch (which he also conceived); a historic production of Lanford Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright featuring Michael Lynch; Eisenstein's Monster, an evening of short plays by Linda Eisenstein; Kevin Brofsky's Dancing Straight; and his own adaptation of Young Stowaways in Space. A revival of his play How Do We Get Her in the Water? opened Movie Lover, a Triple Feature, and his most recent play The Mermaid premiered in 2005 and is published by United Stages. EAT produced his play The Chiselers as part of this year’s Spring Fest. Mark recently returned from Ireland and the Sixth International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival where he directed Chris Weikel’s Pig Tale. He has directed two hit shows in the NYC Fringe Festival: Meryl Cohn’s And Sophie Comes Too and Chris Weikel’s Penny Penniworth. He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Future plans also include: a production of his play ; Elizabeth Whitney's A Day Without Sunshine, a musical biography of Anita Bryant, for the next Ethyl Eichelberger outing; and a revival of Doric Wilson’s Forever After. (photo:Kelly Campbel www.kellycampbellphoto.com) Email contact: finberg1@juno.com
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Barry Childs (administrative
director; director; founder) TOSOS directing credits: the world premiere of Robert Patrick’s
Hollywood at Sunset (2004 oobr award), the staged reading of Tom
Eyen’s Sarah B. Divine (LOOK AGAIN! Series), and Mark
Finley's The Mermaid. Producing credits: Doric Wilson’s Street
Theater (The Eagle NYC); Weikel’s Penny Penniworth ( 2003
FringeNYC Festival) and Mark Finley's adaptation of Young Stowaways in
Space. Other NYC directing credits: Middleton and Rowley‘s The
Changeling and Shakespeare’s A Winter's Tale (Bottom's Dream
Arts); The Flushing Cycle (Queens Theatre in the Park), and Joe
Orton's The Erpingham Camp. West Coast: Charles Ludlam's Le
Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Maeterlinck's The Intruder and Tom
Eyen's My next Husband Will Be a Beauty. Barry holds a PhD in
Theatre History from the University of Oregon, and has taught numerous
classes in acting and theatre history at the University of North Dakota,
the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the University of Oregon.
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| Jamie Heinlein
(director, Ethyl Eichelberger Solo Show Project, actor; founding
member) Acting: for TOSOS: "Eve" in the 2007 revival of Doric Wilson’s And He Made
a Her, "Penny Penniworth" & "Malodorous Dump"
in Chris Weikel's Penny Penniworth, & "Muriel Fell"
in Mark Finley's How do We Get Her in the Water? For EAT:
"Joanne" in Kathleen Warnock’s Rock the Line, "Pansey
Sue" in David Bell’s Chauncey’s First Day of School",
"Tess" in Chris Weikel’s Faithfully Presented &
many more. NDT: Anapest, Rick Willett’s 2B, other
NYC acting credits include work at the Public Theater, The Apollo, Soho
Rep & The Samuel Beckett. Producing: Stephen Belber’s The
Transparency of Val"& several staged readings of Bill
Solly & Donald Ward’s ground-breaking hit Boy Meets Boy.
Co-produced & acted in The End of Civilization, Savior of
the Universe & Exhibit #9 for Theatre Outrageous, a company
she co-founded, where she also curated the GNU PLAZ reading series. Jamie
is a member of TOSOS, Emerging Artists Theatre and The Mirror Rep.
Email contact: jheinlein@gmail.com |
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Rick Hinkson
(director, Billy Blackwell/John Wallowitch Musical Theatre Project)
A native of the Pacific Northwest, his first life in the theatre began at
the University of Puget Sound, and continued in many small Seattle
theatres. First fully professional experience, a season with the Great
Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, was followed by work at Seattle
Repertory Theatre, the Seattle premieres of Sweeney Todd and Sunday
in the Park with George at Civic Light Opera, and Doric Wilson’s Street
Theater, directed by the author. Following a sabbatical involving a
lot of traveling and singing with Seattle Men’s Chorus and The
Washingtonians! (a comedic choir), his second life in the theatre included
touring the US and Canada in an industrial show for Holland America Line,
Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Intiman Theatre. A second sabbatical
involved working on HAL cruise ships, including three years as Cruise
Director. He now lives in NYC.
Email contact: rickseattle@yahoo.com |
| Kathleen Warnock
(director, Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwright Project;
playwright) is a
playwright who got her biggest break in the Chesley/Chambers when her play
The Audience was given a staged reading and later chosen for full
production by EAT (Emerging Artists Theatre) under the title Rock the
Line. (It is published by United Stages.) Her work has been seen in
New York City, regionally, in London, and most recently, at the
International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, where Some Are People
(directed by Mark Finley) was presented by EAT. All Good Cretins Go To
Heaven will be seen in June at the Metropolitan Playhouse's East
Village Chronicles; The Adventures of... in the Samuel French
Off-Off-Broadway play festival in July; and Sharing the Pie in the
Rochester (MN) Rep's inaugural Short Play Festival. She also organizes
Drunken! Careening! Writers! held the 3rd Thursday of each
month at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St.
Email contact: kwnyc@yahoo.com |
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Chris Weikel (
actor; costume consultant, playwright, founding member) TOSOS produced his
Pig Tale (ten best plays - 2008); Weikel Works: The Plays in
Concert (Liebestraum; Family Vote; and Making it up as We
Go Along: Two Lives Improvised in One Act); Speaking Parts; Gareth
and Lynette; and Penny
Penniwotth
("must see" show - 2003 FringeNYC Festival). EAT workshopped his
The Way-Weary (Kennedy Center Finalist, Playwright’s First
Semifinalist) and the premieres of his Lost Boys; Dansport; Gareth
and Lynette; and Faithfully Presented. D-Stages premiered his Speaking
Parts and Appointed
Limits in the Off-Center festival. His play Pig Tale has benn invited
to the 2009 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. His
TOSOS acting credits include Doric Wilson’s And He Made a Her; Street
Theater, The West Street Gang and Now She Dances!; Frank
Adamo’s Dis Con; Igor Goldin’’s
production of Bill Solly and Donald Ward’s Boy Meets Boy; and the
Igor Goldin/Tim Herman Look Askew! He was recently featured in New
York Minutes / The World of John Wallowitch. As a costumer he designed the
TOSOS production of Street Theater and A Perfect Relationship
(oob award), as well as Mark Finley's The Mermaid.
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| Michael Muccio (technical
director; set designer) designed the set for Mark Finley’s
production of Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship (oobr award); Robert
Patrick's Hollywood at Sunset (oobr award); the Kevin Brofsky/Mark
Finley/Chris Weikel triple feature Movie Lover, Musically
Speaking: The World of Bill Solly; Eisenstein's Monster, both
revues of the songs of John Wallowitch, Wiekel Works and Doric
Wilson's And He MAde a Her.. Michael received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin
in 1987 and spent the next six years working with many Midwest theatre
companies as actor, director, and designer before he made the move to NYC
to pursue a career in the theatre.
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| David Stern (webmaster; designer, producer) |
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| Wynne Anders (actor) |
| Chris Andersson (actor; singer, founding member) |
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Anne Ashby (actor) |
| Chad Austin (actor) |
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Timothy Babcock (actor) most recently performed Thom Pain (based on nothing) for Counter-Prouctions in Provinceown, MA for which the Cape Cod Times named him as one of the Top 16 Performers of 2008 on Cape Cod. In NYC Timothy premiered Robert Moulthrop's one actor drama Lecture, with Cello at the 2008 NYC Int'l Fringe Festival, directed by Kent Paul. Other credits include Father Flynn in Doubt, I Am My Own Wife (both for Counter-Prod.), Carl in The Baltimore Waltz, Everyman in Everyman and Mr. America in Joyce Carol Oates' Homesick. A former year-round resident in Provincetown, Timothy had the great privilege of premiering many many new plays as part of the Playwright's Festivals for the former Provincetown Theatre Company. He is member Actor's Equity Association. Contact: timothyactor@gmail.com |
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Virginia Baeta (actor, writer, singer, theatre producer, founding member) Based in NYC, she made her TOSOS debut as the Girl in Lanford Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright (Look Again!). For the Chesley Chambers series she played Anne Lister in Emma Donoghue's I Know My Own Heart and Penelope Raintree in Garet Scott’s Roll with the Punches and directed Carolyn Gage’s The Countess and the Lesbians. Other recent appearances include multiple leading roles with The Queen’s Company—NYC’s all-female classical theatre ensemble: Viola in Twelfth Night; Edward II in Edward II; Sir Peter Teazle in ; Don Pedro in Much Ado about Nothing; Edgar in a workshop of King Lear; and Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra. For her performance of Argan in Resonance Ensemble’s production of Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid, Virginia was nominated for an IT Award for Best Performance. She has written several full-length and one-act plays (including Homeless, Damaged Goods, Icarus, and Decaf No-Foam Cassandra) which have been bopping around the non-committal developmental purgatory of the workshop circuit, and is currently working on her first screenplay (a lesbian Cinderella/mistaken identity fable), a one-woman show based on Homer’s Odyssey, the \fs24plain Sacred SPAM Chorus of Brooklyn, and (of course) Hamlet. Film work includes the lesbian horror "classic" Make a Wish and other hardly-mentionables. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat (Gabbie – who lives up to her name) and loves to read, cook, and wonder about her neighbors a la "Rear Window." One of these days, she also plans on updating her website: www.virginiabaeta.com Contact: virginia@virginiabaeta.com . |
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Eric C. Bailey (actor) made his debut with TOSOS in 2006 as Billy in Weikel Works and played Silvadorf in the Peculiar Works presentation of Doric Wilson’s And He Made a Her. He has toured nationally with Shenandoah Shakespeare's Beguile the Rich troupe, productions of School House Rock Live! and All in the Timing. Other favorite roles include, Roland Maule in Present Laughter, Paul Unger in The Country Girl, and Sam, et al. in Fully Committed. Website: www.eric-bailey.com |
| Paul Batchelor (actor, founding member) |
| Benjamen Beckley (actor) |
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Moe Bertran (actor) made his TOSOS debut as Mama Truth et al in Chris Weikel's Pig Tale. He originated the title role of Felony Mayhem in David Pumo's Auntie Mayhem (winner, Off-Off Broadway Review Award for Excellence; nominee, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Innovative Theatre Awards; currently in development as the feature film House of Mayhem). Moe has performed David Pumo's one-man show, Love Scenes, to critical and audience acclaim at the following venues: NYC – Cherry Lane Theatre (winner, Best Actor, Fresh Fruit Festival), Wing's Theater, The Duplex, Midtown International Theater Festival, Sandi Shurin Theater, Raw Space & Centerstage; LA - Celebration Theater; Chicago - Bailiwick Repertory; SF - San Francisco Fringe Festival (winner, Best Male Solo) and picked up by New Conservatory Theater Center. He is soon to be seen in David Pumo’s one-man show, Burning Bridges, as part of EAT’s One Man Talking. He is a former member of The 4th Unity & No-Pants Theater Companies. Currently he is a repertory member of Wings and TOSOS, and the Artistic Director of Gato Flaco Productions. Moe has worked with some of theater's great luminaries including Eric Bentley, Francine LeFrak, William Carden, Richard Caliban, Robert Patrick & Michael Kearns. His performance of the FOOL in the HB Playwrights Foundation Holiday Show garnered him a rave review from its producer, the legendary Uta Hagen. Website: www.gatoflaco.com |
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| Amy Bizjak (actor) |
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Ron Bopst (actor)
made his TOSOS debut in David Bell’s GLAAD Award-nominated Bernadette
and the Butcher of Broadway. Recently he was Jack (Warner) in
Robert Patrick’s Sound for the Chesley/Chambers series. He is the
Actors Company Manager for Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT). He was last
seen in the Fall 2008 EATFest as Marshall in Richard Ploetz’s Old
Flame and before that as Harry in Jennie Contuzzi’s Love, Me
(Margaret) and Aaron in F.J. Hartland’s Onions. Ron recently
appeared in the Off Broadway premier of Kevin Brofsky’s Claymont
with EAT. Ron has also performed in numerous other plays with EAT
including David Bell’s Tonylust! The Broadway Bloodbath of 2006!.
Other favorite EAT roles are Larry in Matt Casarino’s Larry Gets the
Call and Rich in Karen Schiff’s Recoil, as well as Bob
Cratchit in the benefit reading of Joe Godfrey’s A Queer Carol.
In addition to EAT (www.eatheatre.org)
and TOSOS, Ron is also a member of Handcart Ensemble (www.handcartensemble.org)
and has performed in three of their last four productions. Ron is a member
of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Contact ron.bopst@gmail.com
(stay tuned for the debut of his website at www.ronbopst.com!)
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Christopher Borg (actor, director, writer, stand-up comedian, dialect coach and musician) has been an advocate of Independent and LGBT Theatre Since settling in Manhattan in 1999. For TOSOS, he originated the roles of Lavinia/Hock in Chris Weikel’s Penny Pennyworth; played Tom, Dick, and Harry in Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship (2003 OOBR Award); Gertrude Garnet in Charles Busch’s The Lady in Question; the waiter in David Bell’s What The F**K? (2003 OOBR Award) and he directed David Bell’s Bernadette & The Butcher Of Broadway (GLAAD Media Award nominee). For the TOSOS Chesley/Chambers series he played Richard in Victor Bumbalo’s Questa; Joe in Ron Tavel's Kitchenette; Peter Szczepenak in Constance Congdon’s Dog Opera; Lady Herodias in Doric Wilson’s Now She Dances!; Susan Evans/Lady Sharon Dylan in Garet Scott’s Roll with the Punches. Borg is a member of the New York Neo-Futurists, with whom he writes and performs in the award-winning Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind playing every Friday and Saturday night at the Kraine. Other New York credits include Modern Living (LaMaMa, Etc.); Griffin Hunter (Inverse Theatre Company); The Sabbath Queen (Storahtelling); Bury The Dead (Stage Door Acting Ensemble); and Nothing (Ontological). As a long-time company member of Emerging Artists Theatre., he originated the role of Eddie Russini in David Bell’s 08 Off-Broadway hit, The Play About the Naked Guy. Borg donates time to the New York Innovative Theatre Awards as the nominee coordinator, can be seen as "Paul" in the romantic film-fest favorite What Are The Odds, and is the founding member of 2 improv groups. He received training at the University of Utah's Actor Training Program, Pioneer Theatre Company and the Acting Fellowship at The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington DC. Contact: Phone: 212-203-1361. Email: christopher_borg@yahoo.com |
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Jason Bowcutt
(actor, director, producer) made his TOSOS debut in David Bell’s What
the Fuck and co-directed a full staged reading of Charles Busch's The
Lady in Question with Christopher Borg. As an actor Jason was
nominated for a Drama Desk Award for portraying Nathan Leopold Jr. in Never
the Sinner at the John Houseman Theatre. Jason has worked with The
Guthrie Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Cincinatti Playhouse in the Park, Rep
Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company and many more. Along with
the powerful Shay Gines and the supple Nick Micozzi Jason co-founded the
New York Innovative Theatre Awards and has served as co-executive director
since its inception.
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Morry Campbell (musician, actor, songwriter, founding member) made his TOSOS debut as Maurice/Edouard de Max in Tom Eyen’s Sarah B. Divine (LOOK AGAIN!), for which he also composed music. He also performed his own songs in Igor Goldin & Tim Herman musical revue Look Askew; and played roles in Linda Eisenstein’s Gentrification and That Was No Lady from the Sea (Eisenstein’s Monsters). From North Central Montana, he has appeared at venues throughout the City, including CBGB’s 313 Gallery, the Vintage Café, Rockwood Music Hall, Googie's Lounge, the C-Note, the Creek and the Cave and Don’t Tell Mama’s. Morry has written and performed songs for several NYC theatre companies, including Bottom’s Dream Arts. He is an active volunteer at the New York City LGBT Center, editing video and contributing original music for the Center’s monthly television program, Out At The Center (also available on the Web at www.gaycenter.org/out). Morry has recorded with Dan Manjovi, Roger Kuhn, Robert Urban, Katie Sawicki, NEKKED, cellist Ilya Levitin, and has appeared numerous times as guitarist for singer/songwriter Terry Christopher. He recently recorded a CD of his original music, entitled "Long Way Home," which is available on CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com/cd/morrycampbell2) and downloadable on iTunes. Relevant websites: www.morrycampbell.com / www.songtalk.net / www.cdbaby.com/cd/morrycampbell2. Contact: morrycampbell@verizon.net |
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Jonathan Cedano (actor) |
| Melissa Center (actor) |
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Vinnie Costa
(actor), recently was in the 2008 EATFest production of Jon Spano’s
Family Comes First. A very funny man, has been seen all over NYC; performing on stages as diverse at The Duplex, Stand-Up NY, EAT, TSI, CenterStage, Macy’s Santaland and many, many others. He had the pleasure of exploring Central & South America as host of the Travel Channel’s 5 Takes: Latin America. Some of his favorite roles have been Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web, Mother Superior in Nunsense, and Mr. MacAfee in Birdie . Vinnie is a proud member of Emerging Artists Theatre, SAG and Actor’s Equity. Vinnie can currently be seen on Broadway at the Marriott Marquis Ticket Desk. Website: www.vinniecosta.com. |
| Brigit Darby (actor) |
| Liz Davito (actor) |
| Elisa DeCarlo (actor) |
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Stephanie Deliani (actor) |
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Gail Dennison (actor, writer, solo performer) has been around the block (and NYC) a few times. She made her TOSOS debut as the drama coach in Mark Finley’s The Mermaid. For the Chesley Chambers series she played Mrs. Hanford in Alisha Silver's Golden and Beverly Carstairs in Finley’s The Chiselers. A graduate from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she performs/writes her one woman show THAT GAIL throughout Manhattan. She has numerous commercials (and a Law and Order - Criminal Intent) to her credit. Other stage credits include Daily Sounds (Evan Pappas, director) and The Fair Haired Boy (workshop with Sheldon Harnick). She's a proud member of "The Heartless Floozies" (an all-women comedy group). She is currently working on Judy's House, a slightly off-balance comedy/variety show. Go to internationalfamilymag.com to read her "Judy's House" column and watch her fun (albeit slightly disturbing) webisodes. |
| Victoria Dicce (actor) |
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Tim Dietrich (actor) made his TOSOS debut as Kyle in Chris Weikel's Pig Tale. Tim received his BFA in Acting from the University of Evansville (IN) and completed the first year of the MFA acting program at Rutgers University (NJ). NY credits include: Nueva Cancione at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 365 plays/365 days at the Public Theatre, Music For A High Ceiling with Slant Theatre Project, and Dream Girl with YTP. |
| Brett Douglas (actor) |
| Tom Dusenbury (actor, founding member) |
| Ryan Duncan (actor) |
| Desmond Dutcher (actor) |
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Amy Driesler
(actor; writer) Made her TOSOS debut in the Chesley/Chambers series as Nan
in Carolyn Gage’s The Countess and the Lesbians. Amy was last
seen as Sebastian in The Queen’s Company’s Twelfth Night.
Before that she played a bunch of fun roles in Judith Shakespeare Company’s
Coriolanus and Thomas and Beralde in Resonance Ensemble’s The
Imaginary Invalid directed by Rebecca Patterson. Contact: babydykefilm@yahoo.com
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| Steven Fales (actor; solo artist; writer) |
| Dudley Findlay, Jr. (actor) |
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Shay Gines (actor, producer) made her TOSOS debut in David Bell’s Star Fuckers; a crewman in Mark Finley’s adaptation of Young Stowaways in Space; and Lotte Von Elsner in Charles Busch’s The Lady in Question. For the Chesley Chambers series she played Madeline Newell in Constance Congdon’s Dog Opera; Dotty Line/Miss Beever-Schott: in Bob Cruz’s Schadenfreude!; and Martha in Meryl Cohn’s And Sophie Comes Too. Since graduated from the Actors Training Program at the University of Utah, she has done everything from spackling walls at the Pasadena Playhouse and running follow-spot for the Pioneer Theatre Company to serving as the Artist in Residence for Touchstone Theatre. She has performed in theaters of all sizes from 30 seats to 1,000 across the country, from L.A. to NYC. She is an award winning producer of Off and Off-Off-Broadway productions. Shay is also a Founding Director for the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation. |
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Igor Goldin (actor; director; founding member) For TOSOS he has directed the musical Bill Solly and Donald Ward’s BOY MEETS BOY (scheduled to open Off-Broadway late 2004); the revue LOOK ASKEW; MUSICALLY SPEAKING: THE WORLD OF BILL SOLLY and Lanford Wilson's THE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION. Igor is also Associate Artistic Director of Emerging Artists Theatre Company and ongoing visiting director of musical theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). Other Off-Broadway directorial credits include A RITUAL OF FAITH, and TRUE LOVE, TWO MINUTES, STATE VS. JOOP and SPILT MILK (Emerging Artists); COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE SUNSET (Finalist - Samuel French Festival); Mae West's THE DRAG (New Village Productions); Scott Sickles’ BEAUTIFUL NOISES (42nd Street Workshop & NativeAliens); HARD TO GET (Waterfront Ensemble/OOBR Award). His TOSOS acting credits include his "magnetic" performance in Chris Weikel's PENNY PENNIWORTH. Igor is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. |
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Michael Hartney (actor) |
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Steven Hauck
(actor, founding member) will make his Broadway debut in March 2009 at the
Walter Kerr Theater as Schultz in Irena’s Vow with Tovah Feldshuh
(www.irenasvow.com).
A founding member of TOSOS, his played Bill Reynolds in Robert Anderson’s
Tea and Sympathy (Look Again!); Dr. Maximilian/Professor
Mittelhoffer in Charles Busch’s The Lady in Question; and for the
Chesley Chamber series : Will in Tim Mullaney’s What to Say (Glass
Houses); Jonathan Cavendish in Felice Picano’s The Bombay Trunk;
and Travis O. Huntley in Bob Cruz’s The Writers Block. Other NYC
Theater includes new plays with the Directors Company, La MaMa, NY Fringe
Festival, Emerging Artists Theater (company member), and the Young
Playwrights Festival at the Cherry Lane. International: Phantom in
Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Regional: Cyrano (Milwaukee Rep); Art
and Twelve Angry Men (Geva Theatre); How I Learned To Drive
(Tennessee Rep). TV: Law & Order CI, Guiding Light, As
the World Turns and commercials for Nike and the New York Times. FILM:
Confessions Of A Shopaholic.
Resume & Commercial Reel: http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/stevenhauck |
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Jamie Heinlein (actor, founding member) TOSOS: "Eve" in the 2007 revival of Doric Wilson’s And He Made a Her, "Penny Penniworth" & "Malodorous Dump" in Chris Weikel's Penny Penniworth; "Muriel Fell" in Mark Finley's How do We Get Her in the Water?; and Heidi Mittelhoffer in Charles Busch’s The Lady in Question. For the TOSOS Chesley/Chambers series, roles include: Isabella in Emma Donoghue's I Know My Own Heart; Lou in Kathy Anderson’s Incoming; Grace in Carolyn Gage’s The Countess and the Lesbians; Dorothy (Parker) in Robert Patrick’s Sound; Lon in Victor Bumbalo’s Questa; Candy File in Kathleen Warnock's The Audience (retitled Rock the Line); Karen in Lisa Ferber's Penny's One Date; Sara Murphy etc. in Tennessee Williams’ Clothes for a Summer Hotel; Maureen in Constance Congdon’s Dog Opera; Lisa In Chris Weikel’s Dansport; Nadine in Vanda’s Screaming in the Wilderness; and Millicent/Chou Chou in Garet Scott’s Roll with the Punches. For EAT: "Joanne" in Kathleen Warnock’s Rock the Line, "Pansey Sue" in David Bell’s Chauncey’s First Day of School", "Tess" in Chris Weikel’s Faithfully Presented & many more. NDT: Anapest, Rick Willett’s 2B, other NYC acting credits include work at the Public Theater, The Apollo, Soho Rep & The Samuel Beckett. Producing: Stephen Belber’s The Transparency of Val"& several staged readings of Bill Solly & Donald Ward’s ground-breaking hit Boy Meets Boy. Co-produced & acted in The End of Civilization, Savior of the Universe & Exhibit #9 for Theatre Outrageous, a company she co-founded, where she also curated the GNU PLAZ reading series. Jamie is a member of TOSOS, Emerging Artists Theatre and The Mirror Rep. (jheinlein@gmail.com ) Jamie is also the director of the TOSOS Ethyl Eichelberger Solo Show Project |
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Kevin Held (actor, producer) TOSOS: Barry in Mark Finley’s productions of Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship (2003 oobr award); Timothy in Wilson's Street Street Theater The Eagle NYC; and Penn in the world premier of Robert Patrick’s Hollywood at Sunset (2004 oobr award). For the Chesley/Chambers Playwrights Project he appeared as Bill and later as the Prisoner in Wilson's Now She Dances!; Lee in Mark Finley's The Mermaid; Kenny Sundress in Bob Cruz's Shadenfreude!; Kyle in Chris Weikel's Pig Tale; and various roles in Jimmy Maize's In One Room. Central to the production staff of TOSOS, Kevin was co-producer of Chris Weikel's Tales Told. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. (Currently in exile in Los Angles) |
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Rick Hinkson (actor, singer, bon vivant) A native of the Pacific Northwest, his first life in the theatre began at the University of Puget Sound, and continued in many small Seattle theatres. First fully professional experience, a season with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, was followed by work at Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Seattle premieres of Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George at Civic Light Opera, and Doric Wilson’s Street Theater, directed by the author. Following a sabbatical involving a lot of traveling and singing with Seattle Men’s Chorus and The Washingtonians! (a comedic choir), his second life in the theatre included touring the US and Canada in an industrial show for Holland America Line, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Intiman Theatre. A second sabbatical involved working on HAL cruise ships, including three years as Cruise Director. He now lives in NYC. (rickseattle@yahoo.com). Rick is also director of the TOSOS Billy Blackwell/John Wallowitch Musical Theatre Project |
| Marlon Hurt (actor) |
| Nathan Johnson (actor) |
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Leicester L. Landon (actor, playwright, producer) made his TOSOS debut in a reading of the first half of Doric Wilson’s new play, The Boy Next Door. He feels so fortunate to have been introduced to the world of gay theater in NYC. He can occasionally be seen performing at Stage Left Studio's collection of erotica inspired vignettes Forbidden Kiss. Last summer he was part of a musical in the Fringe Festival, Revolution on the Roof. He's also played a lover or two with a mouthful of Shakespeare in various garden settings of the city. Leicester has otherwise been cultivating his playwrighting skills and enriching his life with as much travel and art as is within means. |
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Jeremy Lawrence (actor, playwright, lyricist) TOSOS has produced both Lawrence’s one man Tennessee Williams shows, Everyone Expects Me to Write Another "Streetcar" and his Bistro award winning Lavender Songs: Queer Berlin Cabaret from Weimar to Hitler. For the TOSOS Chesley/Chamber series he played Carl Lindstrom in Bob Ost’s Breeders and Gus in Mark Finley’s Forever Under. Lawrence has performed in classics and world premieres at regional theatres, in L.A., New York and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. On TV his antics have included delivering Richie’s baby on Happy Days, threatening to burn an original copy of the constitution on Night Court, himself on E.R and to lobotomize the comedy trio Stella. On film he has been directed by Brian De Palma and Ron Howard. His English lyrics of the songs from the cabarets of Weimar Berlin have been recorded by Ute Lemper. Contact: www.jeremylawrence.net
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Michael Lynch (actor; singer, founding member) has presented TOSOS with two unforgettable performances: first as Boom Boom in Doric Wilson's Street Theater - a role he had originally played in the notorious Mineshaft production of the early1980s; and more recently the role of Leslie Bright in Lanford Wilson's The Madness of Lady Bright. He is working on a performance piece for the TOSOS Ethyl Eichelberger Solo Show Project. Michael started his career at age of 14 with the 1972 NYSF production of Derek Walcott’s Ti Jean And His Brothers. Other credits include: Silence, Cunning, Exile (NYSF); Under the Kerosene Moon and How to Write a Play (dir. Everett Quinton); Al Carmines’ The Agony of Paul (Judsons Poet Theatre); Joe Godfrey’s A Queer Carol (the Duplex) and he has worked with The Ridiculous Theatrical Company and Peter Brooks’ International Centre for Theatre Research. Films include Dog Day Afternoon, Kid With Radio, The Wiz and a shattering performance in Chocolate Babies. He also appeared in the very first Law and Order television movie which started the series. He has worked with Ben Vereen, Everett Quinton, The Hot Peaches, Cyndi Lauper (all drag remake of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and has appeared on the David Letterman Show. Michael is the author of two plays, About Face: Gay Black And From the Bronx; and No Fats No Fems: A World Of Exclusion, which premiered at BAAD, then moved for a successful run at LaMama ETC. |
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Deric McNish (actor) made his TOSOS debut in the Chesley/Chambers series as Valentino in Robert Patrick’s Sound, directed by Mark Finley. Recent New York credits include Eagle Squadron Go! in the Fringe Festival, readings with the Airmid Theatre Company, and a short film called The Dinner Guest. Deric has performed at theaters across the country including The Cleveland Play House, The Kraine Theater, Porthouse Theatre, Cider Mill Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Ohio Shakespeare Festival, the National Theatre, Expanded Arts and La Mama. Film & TV appearances include Third Watch, Damages, and White Room. Deric is also an improv performer and a co-founder of B.Side Theatre. Contact: dericoh@gmail.com |
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Jimmy Maize (actor; writer; director) |
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Nick Mathews (actor) made his TOSOS debut as Urhelancia in the revival of Doric Wilson's And He Made A Her; and for the Chesley/Chambers series, Julian in Mark Finley's The Chiselers, which went on to be part of 2008 EATFest. For Wings Theatre he played Ricky in David Pumo’s Work Wife and Nat in Jeff Corrick's The Jocker Other NYC credits include: Downtown Daylight Project (13th St. Rep); Diva Clause (MTS); and Far Away (NYTW). He just finished working on a pilot entitled Mr. Bones as "Joey." He has also appeared on As The World Turns, Guiding Light and All My Children. Nick is a graduate of the William Esper Studio and has continued training with Kate McGregor, Adrienne Weiss and Jeffrey Stocker. Contact: nicholas@nicholasmathews.com. |
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Jesse May (actor)
made his TOSOS debut as Dave in Chris Weikel's Pig Tale. He originally
hails from Iowa, where the sky is capacious and the people are quiet.
Since coming to New York he has worked on films (The Cookout),
off-Broadway (The Contrast), and for various commercial interests
like Pepsi and Time Warner.
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Jolie Meshbesher (actor; singer) |
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AK Miller (actor; singer) |
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Mary Louise Mooney (actor) |
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Carol Nelson (actor) has been doing theatre in NYC for many years, appearing in many venues. She has worked at LaMama, Theatre for the New City, Irish Repertory Company and Wings Theatre. She was a founding member of the 4th E. Theatre Company which worked on East 4th Street for many years. She has originated roles in plays by Robert Patrick, Terry Talley and Clint Jeffries. Also, and favorite, she appeared in many plays written for her by her late husband of 31 years, playwright Steven Nelson. Contact : stevencaroln@aim.com / 646-247-3636
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Joshua Polenberg (actor) |
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Catherine Michele Porter (actor) made her TOSOS II debut in Chris Weikel’s Weikel Works, and also appeared in the Chambers/Chesley reading of Bob Ost’s Breeders. She has appeared Off Broadway in Mac Wellman=s award-winning Crowbar, and has acted with such Off-Off companies as Flux Theatre Ensemble, Aisling Arts, Theatre Askew and 78th Street Theatre Lab. She is Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Peculiar Works Project, an OBIE Award-winning company with whom she has performed many leading roles and produced more than 100 original, site-specific works featuring hundreds of artists annually (www.peculiarworks.org). Catherine’s alter ego is the Director of Development and Finance for the performance space Dixon Place. She is a member of Actor’s Equity Association, and serves on the boards of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and Concrete Temple. Contact: cporter@peculiarworks.org. |
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Patrick Porter (actor) made his TOSOS debut as Johnny in Chris Weikel's Pig Tale. Patrick was born and reared in Shreveport, Louisiana, educated in Texas at Baylor University and Baylor Law School, and then decided to chuck it all and go to New York City to train and work as an actor. He works out of NYC on stage and increasingly in Film/TV. He trained in the Musical Theatre (Integrated) program at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in NYC and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London for Shakespeare Performance. In addition to Pig Tale, Patrick's recent credits include Mortimer in the NYC Premier of David Hopes' Edward The King, Father in Ragtime at the White Plains Performing Arts Center, Duke/Carrasco in a Co-production of Man of La Mancha for Cleveland Playhouse and Virginia Stage Company and Twelfth Night and Man of La Mancha in repertory at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. NYC and Regional Theatre work also includes Blood on the Dining Room Floor; Irene; 108 Waverly; Belles of the Mill; How to Marry a Millionaire; Voir Dire; Everyman; Whiskey Down; Cabaret; and Cymbeline. Website: www.patrickporternyc.com |
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Adam Raynen
(actor) joined TOSOS playing Donovan in Doric Wilson’s Street Theater
at the Eagle and for the Chesley/Chambers series he was seen as Scott
in Nicholas A. Patricca’s Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg; Eli in Alisha
Silver's Golden; and Ramon (Navarro) in Robert Patrick’s Sound.
Other NY credits: Norman Beim's Jewel Thieves! (Turtle Shell
Productions); and the stage debut of Richard Day's Straight Jacket
(13th St. Rep.). He's also appeared Off Broadway in Coriolanus
and Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareNYC). Lately he's been busy
at All My Children, One Life To Live, and numerous independent
films in and around NYC. Adam is an NYU/Tisch School of the Arts graduate,
and a member of AEA. Contact: adamraynen@yahoo.com
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Karen Stanion (actor; founding member) For TOSOS: played Amy in the Barry Child’s production of Mark Finley’s The Mermaid; Donna in Jane Chambers’ Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Look Again!); and for the Chesley/Chambers series: Susan in Victor Bumbalo’s Questa; Gloria (Swanson) in Robert Patrick’s Sound; and Margo Carstairs, "tempestuous ice sculptress," in Mark Finley’s The Chiselers, moving with it to the Spring EATfest 2009 at Tada Theatre. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a native New Yorker. She most recently played the role of Lily in Diva Clause and Marilyn Monroe in D.U.I. at Manhattan Theatre Source. Karen recently had the pleasure of reprising her EAT role as Lydia in Kathleen Warnock’s Some Are People which was directed by Mark Finley at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Other favorite roles include Miss Caswell in All About Eve with the legendary Charles Busch, Sophia in Tango Masculino (OOBR Award) at Wings Theatre; and Renee in The Palooka (NYIT Award nominee for Best Actress). Karen was recently seen on the Biography Channel’s Celebrity Ghost Stories, starring as a turn of the century prostitute who gets murdered. She is a member of TOSOS, EAT, and Wings Theatre Company. Contact: klola6@aol.com |
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Dana Steer (actor) |
| Tari Stratton (actor) |
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Blake Walton (actor, playwright, director) was a member to the original TOSOS where he created the role of Mark in the historic Spike Bar production of Doric Wilson's The West Street Gang. He recently returned to New York after a 21 year absence. Regional Theater credits: Jeffrey in Jeffrey (Central Stage), Michael in Snakebit (Gorilla Theatre), Molina in the non-musical version of Kiss of the Spider Woman (Central Stage), Charlie/others in Dirty Blonde (American Stage), Greg in The Sum of us (Florida Studio Theatre), Hysterium in Forum, Littlechap in Stop the World…, Robert in Don’t Dress for Dinner (Golden Apple), The Baker in into the Woods (The Players) Michael in I Do, I Do!, (Sarasota Magazine Award: Best Actor in a Musical) and Bette Davis in Me & Jezebel (SAMMY AWARD: Best Actor), both at Theatre Works. He came to New York at age 23 to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School and studied with William Esper, Phillip Gushee and had a rare opportunity to work with Sanford Meisner. After playing a small role in St. Joan at Long Wharf Theatre, he originated roles in several new plays and musicals: Ham, Songs and Ceremonies and a new translation of School for Wives. This was followed by Thomas Farrington’s Rain Kisses, Young Bankers in Love, and The Old Magician in Love with The Farrington Company. With Amy Whitman he wrote Eb & Flo, (The Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia), then on his own Out of My Mind (Bailiwick Theater, Chicago) which he has expanded to full-length. He completed Best Man and Streetwalk Serenade, and is working on Henry III and True Blue. He has taught acting to students age 8 to 80, directed large musicals (42nd Street, Big River, Singin’ in the Rain) and worked in L.A. as agent’s assistant then casting assistant casting TV pilots, films, commercials and regional theaters. Contact, etc.: bfw1017@yahoo.com / www.blakewalton.info / http://www.youtube.com/bfw1017 |
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Chris Weikel ( actor; costume consultant, playwright, founding member) TOSOS acting credits include Doric Wilson’s And He Made a Her; Street Theater, The West Street Gang and Now She Dances!; Frank Adamo’s Dis Con; Igor Goldin’’s production of Bill Solly and Donald Ward’s Boy Meets Boy; and the Igor Goldin/Tim Herman Look Askew! He was recently featured in New York Minutes / The World of John Wallowitch. TOSOS produced his Pig Tale (ten best plays - 2008); Weikel Works: The Plays in Concert (Liebestraum; Family Vote; and Making it up as We Go Along: Two Lives Improvised in One Act); Speaking Parts; Gareth and Lynette; and Penny Penniwotth ("must see" show - 2003 FringeNYC Festival). EAT workshopped his The Way-Weary (Kennedy Center Finalist, Playwright’s First Semifinalist) and the premieres of his Lost Boys; Dansport; Gareth and Lynette; and Faithfully Presented. D-Stages premiered his Speaking Parts and Appointed Limits in the Off-Center festival. His play Pig Tale has benn invited to the 2009 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. As a costumer he designed the TOSOS production of Street Theater and A Perfect Relationship (oob award), as well as Mark Finley's The Mermaid. |
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Bradley Wells (actor) made his TOSOS debut playing Adam in a segment of Doric Wilson's And He Made a Her for the Peculiar Works Project’s West Village Fragments, directed by Mark Finley. New York theatre credits include: Hanoch Levine's Murder at PS 122 for Personal Space Theatrics, The Force Trilogy for Aisling Arts at the Chocolate Factory, Taming of the Shrew at 78th Street Theatre Lab, and Remuda at the Midtown International Theatre Festival. Bradley has also appeared on the FX series Damages and Nickelodeon's Naked Brothers Band. |
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Elizabeth Whitney (performance artist; writer) was most recently seen at TOSOS in a reading of Meryl Cohn's And Sophie Comes Too. The TOSOS Ethyl Eichelberger Solo Show Project produced her solo piece, Wonder Woman: The Musical! in 2005, and she’s will be taking it to the the 2009 Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival this summer. She is currently developing A Day Without Sunshine, a new solo work about the infamous career of Anita Bryant (dir. Mark Finley). NY performances include Emerging Artists Theatre’s One Woman Standing Festival, HERE, Dixon Place, Galapagos, Fresh Fruit Festival, and PS122. Outside of NY: The Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca, NY), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (OH), Athica Art Space (Athens, GA), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto), The Mae West Fest (Seattle), Bailiwick Repertory (Chicago), Living Art Space (Tulsa), and Saints & Sinners Literary Festival (New Orleans). Awards include Puffin Foundation for the Arts, Lesbian Theatre Awards from Curve Magazine, Best Performance in the New York City Fresh Fruit Festival, and Best Solo Performance at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. Residencies include ARTSCAPE'S Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency, La Mama ETC.’s Italy Playwriting Retreat, Eugene O’Neill Theatre’s Cabaret Conference, Sarah Lawrence Playwriting Intensive, and Tectonic Theatre Project’s Intensive. Other ongoing performance projects include The Femme Show (www.thefemmeshow.com) and The Miscegenations Project (www.miscegenations.com). She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and teaches at Emerson College, and she really needs a job in New York City. (www.elizabethwhitney.com.) |
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Kevin Brofsky (playwright, founding member) made his TOSOS debut with his play Dancing Straight (part of the Movie Lover triple feature). Claymont, produced by Emerging Artists Theater (EAT) at the Intar Theater, ran in rep with the TOSOS production of Young Stowaways in Space. His one-act play Strawberry Fields was published by Samuel French in their 25th Annual Off-Off Broadway Festival series. He has written nearly 50 one-act plays which are widely performed in cities across the country. New York City productions of his full-length plays include Stars (New Village Productions and Spotlight Production; Awaken the Wolves (Spotlight Productions) both winner of Spotlight's Best Play Awards; Living With Dragons (Pulse Theater); the book for the musical Northern Boulevard (AMAS Theater) which starred Rosetta LeNoire and The Matinee Ladies (Greenwich House and at the SNAP Productions in Omaha). |
| Meryl Cohn (playwright) was a semifinalist for both the 2008 and the 2006 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a 2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting Grant Finalist, and a semifinalist for the Lark Play Development Center’s Playwrights Week. She is a recipient of the Denis Johnston Playwriting Award, and Curve Magazine's Lesbian Theatre Award. She studied playwriting at Smith College and received an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her recent play commissions have included the New Provincetown Players productions of: The Siegels of Montauk; Reasons to Live; Naked with Fruit; And Sophie Comes Too; Ask Andrea Anything; Almost Home, and Funny, Sexy, Smart. Her plays have been produced and read in numerous places, including ManhattanTheatreSource's ESTROgenius and HOMOgenius festivals, Studio 400, Northampton’s 24-Hour Festival, and the TOSOS Chambers/Chesley series. |
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Mark Finley ( artistic director; director, playwright; founder) Directing credits for TOSOS include the recent Chris Weikel's hit Pig Tale (The Blade ten best plays - 2008) which has been invited to the 2009 Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival; and New York Minutes, a musical revue of the songs of the late John Wallowitch (which he also conceived); and Michael Lynch in a historic production of Lanford Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright. Other TOSOS II credits: Eisenstein's Monster, an evening of short plays by Linda Eisenstein; five Chris Weikel plays: ; Speaking Parts, Gareth & Lynette; Penny Penniworth and Weikel Works; five Doric Wilson plays: And He Made a Her, A Perfect Relationship (2003 OOBR Award), Street Theater and staged readings of The West Street Gang and Now She Dances!; Kevin Brofsky's Dancing Straight; and his own adaptation of Young Stowaways in Space. A revival of his play How Do We Get Her in the Water? opened Movie Lover, a Triple Feature, and his most recent play The Mermaid had its world premiere to much success in 2005 and is published by United Stages. He has just finished a new play , The Faraway Girl. His play The Chiseler was part of the Spring EATfest 2009. Mark has also directed for Theater for the New City, Abingdon, Emerging Artists Theatre and NativeAliens, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. He recently returned from Ireland and the Fifth International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival when he directed Kathleen Warnock’s Some Are People. Future plans: Elizabeth Whitney's A Day Without Sunshine, a musical biography of Anita Bryant, which he directed for the next Ethyl Eichelberger outing; and a revival of Doric Wilson’s Forever After. (finberg1@juno.com) |
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Bob Ost (playwright) wrote book, music and lyrics for Finale!, Grand Prize winner in the 1990 American Musical Theater Festival Competition (presented at the National Alliance of Musical Theaters) and the 1992 New American Musical Writers Competition, and a finalist at the O'Neill Music Conference in 1989. The Body Shop came in second in the '96 Turnip Festival 15-minute Play Competition, and a musical version of the play (written with Gary Hughes and Claudia Perry) was the Christmas presentation at Westside Repertory Theatre, on a double bill with Bob's comic Not on Christmas Eve. His adaptation of Machiavelli's La Mandragola, with his own original score, was commissioned by Westside Repertory in 1998. His one-act Beast was presented in the first season of Playwrights Horizons; The Necessary Disposal has been a finalist in three national competitions, and was part of both the Shotgun Productions New Play Reading Series and The WorkShop Theater reading series in NYC; Breeders was a finalist in two national competitions, as well as the TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series; his one-act A Glass of Water was part of the Lovecreek Festival, the HomoGenius Festival and the 8-Minute Madness Festival; Speak to Me I'll Listen was the audience choice at the Shortened Attention Span Festival, and he wrote Neverwonderland for the Shortened Attention Span Horrorfest. He is president of Theater Resources Unlimited, and a member of the WorkShop Theatre, the Dramatist's Guild and ASCAP. |
| Nicholas A. Patricca (playwright) Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Loyola University Chicago; Playwright in Residence at Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago; Artistic Associate at Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago. Nick has been active in the Chicago theatre movement since the mid 1970's. Nineteen of his plays have been professionally produced. Eleven have been published. Nick was a founding member and artistic director of Chicago New Plays Festival Theatre Company, a playwrights collective, and is a founding member of the Chicago Alliance for Playwrights. Nick holds a Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Chicago, is an active member of the Dramatists Guild, president of Chicago Network for Justice and Peace, and a member of the Writers in Prison Committee of the San Miguel de Allende Mexico Chapter of International PEN. In May of 2006, Nick received the Oscar Wilde Award for Outstanding Achievement in New Work for the Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, for his play Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg . . . . In August of 2006, in Athens, Greece, he received an Onassis Distinction Prize for his play The Defiant Muse which received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater in Chicago in October of 2007. |
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Robert Patrick
(playwright) has been a major influence in the development of alternative
theater since The Haunted Host opened at the Caffe Cino (1964). He
moved uptown to Broadway with Kennedy's Children, still the most
telling dissection of the 1960s. His more than 50 published plays include T-Shirts;
Untold Decades;, My Cup Runneth Over; and far too many more
then we have room to list here. TOSOS presented the world premiere of
his new play, Hollywood at Sunset (2004 oobr award). In 1994 and Sound
as part of the Chesley/Chambers readings. Patrick published his novel, TEMPLE
SLAVE, a romantic fictionalization of the Caffe Cino and the origins
of modern gay theatre. 1980 he won the International Thespian Society's
Founders Award" for services to theatre and to youth," and in
1995 received the second Robert Chesley Lifetime Award for Gay Playwriting
(presented by its first recipient, Doric Wilson). Patrick lives in Los
Angeles (rbrtptrck@aol.com.)
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| David Pumo (playwright) David’s first full-length play, Love Scenes, has played to audience and critical acclaim at the following venues: NYC – Cherry Lane Theatre (winner, Best Actor, Fresh Fruit Festival), Wing's Theater, The Duplex, Midtown International Theater Festival, Sandi Shurin Theater, Raw Space & Centerstage; LA - Celebration Theater; Chicago - Bailiwick Repertory; SF - San Fransisco Fringe Festival (winner, Best Male Solo) and picked up by New Conservatory Theater Center. Most recently produced on Atlantis Cruise Lines, and as part of the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival. His second play, Auntie Mayhem, won an Off-Off Broadway Review Award for Excellence, was nominated for Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Innovative Theatre awards, was published as part of Martin Denton’s anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2004, and is currently in development as the feature film, House of Mayhem, with Aria Films and Full Circle Films of London. Short plays include The Seed (winner, Riant Theatre One Act Festival), Perhaps (The 4th Unity) and Work Wife (Wings Theatre Company). He served for three years as Co-Artistic Director of The 4th Unity, and is currently a repertory member of TOSOS and Wings Theatre Companies, and Managing Director of Gato Flaco Productions. Projects in development include: White City, music and lyrics by Pete Townshend; and Burning Bridges, a one-man show, soon to be part of EAT’s One Man Standing. He graduated from NYU Tisch School of Arts with a degree in film and television, and Brooklyn Law School. |
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Vanda (playwright) Had a reading of her play Screaming in the Wilderness in the TOSOS Chesley/Chambers series. In 2004 she received an Edward Albee Fellowship in 2004. Her play, Why’d Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe?, was produced in The Fresh Fruit Festival in July, 2006. A finalist for the Reva Shriner Contest, the Panowski Playwright Award and Plays Labs at the Playwrights Center, this play was also a semi-finalist for the Cherry Lane Mentor Program and the O’Neill Playwriting Conference. Her play, Screaming in the Wilderness, was a finalist for the Playwright’s Center Jerome Foundation Grant and received honorable mention in Stage3’s Playwright Contest. It was produced by Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) in June 2003. Another full-length play, An Appearance of Desire, was a finalist in The Eugene O’Neill National Playwriting Conference, as well as being a finalist for the Playwright Center’s Jerome Foundation Grant, and won third place in The Open Book Contest sponsored by Doubleday. Vanda has had numerous one act plays produced around the country. Her published one act, "Our Lady of Stone" (published by New Theatre Publications) was recently produced in Scotland. Vanda is a member of Emerging Artists Theatre, TOSOS and the Dramatists Guild. She is a full-time Assistant Professor at Metropolitan College of New York. |
| Kathleen Warnock ( playwright) got her biggest break in the Chesley/Chambers reading series when her play The Audience was given a staged reading and later chosen for full production by EAT (Emerging Artists Theatre) under the title Rock the Line. (It is published by United Stages.) Her work has been seen in New York City, regionally, in London, and most recently, at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, where Some Are People (directed by Mark Finley) was presented by EAT. All Good Cretins Go To Heaven will be seen in June at the Metropolitan Playhouse's East Village Chronicles; The Adventures of... in the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway play festival in July; and Sharing the Pie in the Rochester (MN) Rep's inaugural Short Play Festival. She also organizes Drunken! Careening! Writers! held the 3rd Thursday of each month at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. (kwnyc@yahoo.com ). Kathleen is also the director of the TOSOS Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwright Project. |
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Chris Weikel ( playwright; actor, founding member) TOSOS produced his Pig Tale (The Blade ten best plays - 2008) which has been invited to the 2009 Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival; Weikel Works: The Plays in Concert (Liebestraum; Family Vote; and Making it up as We Go Along: Two Lives Improvised in One Act); Speaking Parts; Gareth and Lynette; and Penny Penniwotth ("must see" show - 2003 FringeNYC Festival). EAT workshopped his The Way-Weary (Kennedy Center Finalist, Playwright’s First Semifinalist) and the premieres of his Lost Boys; Dansport; Gareth and Lynette; and Faithfully Presented. D-Stages premiered his Speaking Parts and Appointed Limits in the Off-Center festival. His play Pig Tale has benn invited to the 2009 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. His TOSOS acting credits include Doric Wilson’s And He Made a Her; Street Theater, The West Street Gang and Now She Dances!; Frank Adamo’s Dis Con; Igor Goldin’’s production of Bill Solly and Donald Ward’s Boy Meets Boy; and the Igor Goldin/Tim Herman Look Askew! He was recently featured in New York Minutes / The World of John Wallowitch. As a costumer he designed the TOSOS production of Street Theater and A Perfect Relationship (oob award), as well as Mark Finley's The Mermaid. |
| Elizabeth Whitney (performance artist; writer) was most recently seen at TOSOS in a reading of Meryl Cohn's And Sophie Comes Too. The TOSOS Ethyl Eichelberger Solo Show Project produced her solo piece, Wonder Woman: The Musical! in 2005, and she’s will be taking it to the the 2009 Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival this summer. She is currently developing A Day Without Sunshine, a new solo work about the infamous career of Anita Bryant (dir. Mark Finley). NY performances include Emerging Artists Theatre’s One Woman Standing Festival, HERE, Dixon Place, Galapagos, Fresh Fruit Festival, and PS122. Outside of NY: The Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca, NY), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (OH), Athica Art Space (Athens, GA), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto), The Mae West Fest (Seattle), Bailiwick Repertory (Chicago), Living Art Space (Tulsa), and Saints & Sinners Literary Festival (New Orleans). Awards include Puffin Foundation for the Arts, Lesbian Theatre Awards from Curve Magazine, Best Performance in the New York City Fresh Fruit Festival, and Best Solo Performance at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. Residencies include ARTSCAPE'S Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency, La Mama ETC.’s Italy Playwriting Retreat, Eugene O’Neill Theatre’s Cabaret Conference, Sarah Lawrence Playwriting Intensive, and Tectonic Theatre Project’s Intensive. Other ongoing performance projects include The Femme Show (www.thefemmeshow.com) and The Miscegenations Project (www.miscegenations.com). She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and teaches at Emerson College, and she really needs a job in New York City. (www.elizabethwhitney.com.) |
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Doric Wilson (playwright; founder) was one of the first playwrights at NYC's legendary Caffe Cino, his comedy And He Made a Her* opening there in 1961. A pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway movement, he has written, directed, produced and/or designed over a hundred productions and was a founding member of Circle Repertory Theater and the Barr/Wilder/Albee Playwright's Unit. A participant in all three nights of the Stonewall Riots, he became active in the early days GAA (Gay Activist Alliance) and in 2004 was honored to be one of the Grand Marshals in NYC's Gay Pride March celebrating the 35th anniversary of Stonewall. As a "star" bartender/manager of the newly liberated gay bar scene, he opened such landmark institutions as the Spike, TY’s and Brothers & Sisters Cabaret. In 1974, Doric Wilson formed TOSOS, the first professional theatre company to deal openly and honestly with the gay experience. In 2001, with Mark Finley and Barry Childs, he resurrected the company. His plays Street Theater,* The West Street Gang, Forever After,* and A Perfect Relationship, quickly became staples of the emerging gay theater circuit of the 1970s, winning numerous honors. A full length version of an earlier Cino one act play Now She Dances!* premiered (2001) at the Flexible Deadlock Theatre (Glasgow, Scotland), directed by Steven Bottoms. Doric Wilson received the first Robert Chesley Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay Theatre (1994) and the 2007 IT Award for Artistic Achievement. He is working on a new play: The Boy Next Door for the coming season. His collected plays can be downloaded for free from his website: www.doricwilson.com (doricw@nyc.rr.com). (*published by United Stages.) |
On Sabbatical
| Mark Barranco (company stage manager) made his TOSOS II debut as the stage manager for Mark Finley’s production of Doric Wilson’s STREET THEATER (Eagle NYC). His other TOSOS credits include Robert Patrick's HOLLYWOOD AT SUNSET (2004 oobr award); Chris Weikel's PENNY PENNIWORTH (2003 FringeNYC Festival) and the Chesley / Chambers readings of Garet Scott's ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES and Bob Cruz’s SCHADENFREUDE!: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BEN AND DAY-GLO. |
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Bob Cruz (On Sabbatical - playwright; producer; Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project, co-director; Board of Directors) His new play, SCHADENFREUDE!: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BEN AND DAY-GLO, was just presented as part of the Chesley/Chambers Project, as was his work in progress THE WRITERS BLOCK, directed by Bruce Ward. For TOSOS he produced Chris Weikel’s TALES TOLD; the revival of Doric Wilson’s STREET THEATER at the Eagle; and the upcoming MOVIE LOVER. He has appeared as an actor off-Broadway in LADY L (Actor's Playhouse). He is finishing up THE IMMORALITY OF INDIFFERENCE, a gay perspective on the Titanic disaster. He attended Yale. |
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TOSOS II — The Other Side of Silence
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