Renaissant Arts presents the U.S. Premiere of
Trout Stanley
written by Claudia Dey
directed by Jen Wineman

Starring:
Kelly McAndrew*
Erika Rolfsrud*
Warren Sulatycky**
*Member of Actors' Equity
** Member of Canadian Actors' Equity

Set Design: Tim Mackabee
Light Design: Tse Wei Lim
Costume Design: Caitlin O'Connor
Sound Design: Elizabeth Coleman
Composer: Andrew Shapiro
Dramaturgy: Laura Roemer

Producer: Sarah Bagley
Stage Manager: Molly Eustis
Casting: Cindi Rush Casting
Publicity: The Jacksina Company
Marketing Design: Our Hero Productions

Renaissant Arts Artistic Director: Warren Sulatycky
Renaissant Arts Managing Director: Sasha Cucciniello

 

 

Sarah Bagley (Producer) Sarah Bagley is the Founder of the theatrical production company The Story Shop. Current projects include the first annual Allentown Shakespeare in the Park – an outdoor Shakespeare festival to be held in the Union Terrace Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania in September 2006 – and the showcase productions of "When I Used to Be a Goddess" and "Melo-llama: A Melodrama." Sarah’s was the associate producer for "The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl!" by Quiara Hudes (Summer Play Festival, 2005) and from 2000-2002 she served as the Artistic Director of Wendell Theatre Group in Durham, NC. She has worked at La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Playwrights Horizons, and International Creative Management, and is currently the play development associate for Arielle Tepper Productions and the Summer Play Festival.


Elizabeth Coleman (Sound Design) Some of her favorite sound design credits include: Urinetown (Carnegie Mellon), Fits and Starts (Overlap Productions), Agememnon (the Vortex Theatre Company), Dracula (Directors Theatre | New York), The Home For Lost Boys (The Ostara Group) Secret Narrative of the Phonebook (Horse Trade Theatre Company), Miss Julie (Backyard Theatre), Red Nightmare (Off-World Theatre), 6 Degrees of Separation (NYU), Measure for Measure (Carnegie Mellon University), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Williamstown), Polaroid Stories (Williamstown) and Disco Pigs (Williamstown). She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.


Sasha Cucciniello (Managing Director, Renaissant Arts) Sasha is an actor and theatre artist who has worked both on-stage and behind the scenes in New York for many years. As and actor Sasha has appeared in: Sleep Cycle (workshop), How 2 Men Got On In the World (Connelly Theatre), Fefu and Her Friend's (The Culture Project), Rubber Chicken Suite (The Tank, One Arm Red), Space Karaoke (The Tank, One Arm Red), Fractal Remainder (Red Metal Mailbox), Travelogue: an Illustrated Motion Picture of Memory (Curious Noise Theatre), Lovebird with a Mirror (Curious Noise Theatre), SHORTS (Collective Unconscious), Desire Caught by the Tail (Here Arts Center), City for Sale (San Francisco Mime Troupe). She is a founding member of Curious Noise Theatre, a company dedicated to high comedy, deep story and truth. Currently Sasha is writing (in collaboration with Sarah Gancher) asolo show based on her father’s life as a swindler called CON, which she will perform next year in NYC. With Philip Arnoult and the Center for International Theatre Development, she traveled to Budapest, Russia, and the Sundance Theatre Lab. She has also worked for Performance Space 122 and The San Francisco Mime Troupe.


Claudia Dey (Playwright) Plays: "Beaver" (Factory Theatre, Horse Trade Theatre Group, New York, Theatre La Licorne, Montreal, Presentation House Theatre, Vancouver, published by Playwrights Canada Press), "The Gwendolyn Poems" (Factory Theatre, published by Playwrights Canada Press, Governor General’s Award Nominee, Trillium Award Finalist), "Trout Stanley" (Ship’s Company Theatre, Factory Theatre, The Guild Society/Sour Brides Theatre Society, Whitehorse, published by Coach House Books, Dora Award Nominee.) Claudia is also a graduate of McGill University and the National Theatre School where she now works as a guest artist. Claudia is currently writing a novel.


Molly Minor Eustis (Stage Manager) Molly Minor Eustis is an M.F.A. candidate in Stage Management at Columbia University. Originally from New Orleans, she holds a B.A. in Theatre from the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. Recent credits include - SM: The Crucible (Columbia Stages), Hail Satan (Manhattan Theatre Source), Fleet Week: The Musical (NY Fringe at the Lucille Lortel), Unsung, a benefit for BC/EFA (The Zipper Theater); ASM: Scapin (CSC), The Map Maker's Sorrow (The Summer Play Festival at Theater Row).


Tse Wei Lim (Light Design) Tse Wei Lim is currently pursuing an MFA in Lighting Design at Tisch. He has designed lighting and scenery in New York, Boston, Singapore, and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.


Timothy R. Mackabee (Set Design) NY Credits: Gorilla Man (PS 122), Between Worlds (Blue Heron), Armless (NYC Fringe), Foreign Affairs (Workshop Theatre Co.), Winter’s Tale (Sonnet Rep), Those Who Can, Do (Clubbed Thumb), A For Adultery, The House of Bernarda Alba (Prospect Theatre Co.) Dance: Raw, Beyond The Red (National Tour), & Seed (Cedar Lake Ensemble) Regional: The Story (Philadelphia Theatre Co.) Associate/Assistant designer on Broadway for Ring of Fire, ‘night, Mother, Frozen, Wonderful Town, & Little Women. Assistant Off-Broadway for Here Lies Jenny (Zipper), Drumstruck (Dodger Stages), [title of show] (Vineyard) and productions at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Primary Stages, Second Stage Theatre & The Vineyard. 5 (long) seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. BFA: North Carolina School of the Arts.


Kelly McAndrew (Grace) is thrilled to be working on Trout Stanley. Ms McAndrew was most recently seen in Lisa D'Amour's The Cataract at The Women's Project directed by Katie Pearl. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (with Ned Beatty and Jason Patric). Off-Broadway: Book of Days (Signature Theatre); Down the Garden Paths (Minetta Lane). Recent regional credits include: Three Sisters (ART), Eugene's Home (Berkshire Theatre Fesitval), Proof (George Streeet Playhouse), Talley's Folly (Rep. Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse), The Miracle Worker and The Great White Hope (Arena Stage) and Holiday (Olney Theatre) for which she was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress. Kelly has also worked with The Arizona Theatre Company, the Pioneer Theatre, Shakespeare on the Sound, The Unicorn Theatre and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. Film/TV: As the World Turns, New Guy, Company K, Out of the Darkness. Training: MFA University of Missouri, Kansas City. Proud member AEA.


Cait O'Connor (Costume Design) received her B.A. in Media Arts/Costume Design from Bennington College where she designed several faculty productions including Monteverdi's 'Orfeo'. Since graduating, she has collaborated with Claudia Hill on costumes for The Wooster Group's upcoming production of 'Hamlet', designed children's clothing for Sesame Workshop, and taught costume design at the Dalton School while costuming their productions. Cait has a strong fine arts background and has exhibited works in several New York galleries including the Monique Goldstrom Gallery in SoHo. In 2003, she received the Island Fund Award for Excellence in the field of visual art.


Our Hero Productions (Marketing Design) Our Hero Productions is a graphic design and photography agency currently based in charming Greenpoint, NY. Run by Brian Michael Thomas (née Our Hero), OHP specializes in the assisting those in (but not confined to) the arts and entertainment industry. Past and current clients include: The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker, CAMI, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Backstage, The Debate Society, Splinter Group Productions, The Worth Street Theatre Company, Studio 42 and One Year Lease, among others.


Laura Roemer (Dramaturg) Previous credits as dramaturg include Ark (Looking Glass Theatre); The Golem (Manhattan Ensemble Theatre); Nothing of Origins and Atelier (Studio 42); Little Fishes (Abingdon Theatre Company); The French Summer Festival (Century Center for the Performing Arts), The House of Blue Leaves and Seven Guitars (Brooklyn College). Laura holds a BFA in Theatre from New York University and an MFA in Dramaturgy from Brooklyn College.


Renaissant Arts (Producer) Renaissant Arts' work is modern and innovative with a strong emphasis on human stories that explore and celebrate the heart, mind and soul. The unique ability of the company is to cross pollinate projects between live theatre, film, television, music, photography, and the visual arts. Renaissant Arts' aesthetic digs deep into the interconnected human layers of emotional and intellectual life, humor, tragedy, and the layered ties that link people to each other and their societies. Renaissant Arts explores what it is to be alive and human in the 21st century on both the personal and metaphysical level. How do we find meaning and deep purpose in modern life? What is human existence in the face of love, passion, desire, death, sex, and rebirth? And how can art transform lives from the ordinary to the sublime?


Erika Rolfsrud (Sugar) Erika’s most recent credits include covering Rabbit Hole on Broadway, preceded by a highly successful run of the one-woman show Bad Dates (Arizona Theatre Company). Her Off-Broadway credits include The Glory of Living (MCC, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman), How I Learned to Drive (Vineyard at the Century Theatre), Love's Fire (The Public Theatre/Acting Company), O, Pioneers! (Women's Project/Acting Company) and Eclipsed (Irish Repertory Theatre). Regionally, Erika has performed at the Wilma Theatre (Outrage), Arizona Theatre Company (Bad Dates), ACT Theatre in Seattle (Jumpers), Hartford Theatreworks (The Dazzle), Old Globe Theatre (The Seagull, Cymbeline, Henry IV, Dancing At Lughnasa, Macbeth), plus seasons with Utah, Seattle and Idaho Shakespearean Festivals. She was featured in the film Alone, and has been seen on All My Children and Third Watch.


Andrew Shapiro (Composer) Fusing vocals with ambient streams and pulses, Andrew Shapiro (b. 1975) creates a sound world that "blends the minimalist influence of Philip Glass with the moody pop sensibility of ‘80s New Wave" (New Music Box magazine). Shapiro grew up in Larchmont, NY and later studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Observing Philip Glass's application of popular production methods toward his manuscripts during an internship at Glass's studio deepened Shapiro's instinct to merge classical and popular sensibilities. March 2006 marks the release of Shapiro’s second EP Quiet Kissing, an eclectic mixture of neo-80’s pop, aching ambient textures and solo piano. Shapiro’s recording debut, Invisible Days (2003) was named one of the "Top 12" individually produced recordings of the year by Performing Songwriter Magazine. Other recordings include his keyboard performances Piano Solo and Soundesign (Ambient Electronic). Shapiro performs as a soloist, with his group Airbox and composes for a variety of film and theater projects. He can be also be heard performing his piano music at McDonald's in downtown Manhattan Sundays throughout the year. Shapiro received an extensive profile in The New York Times headlined “Quarter Pounder With Keys” (May 15th, 2005) and was featured as the “Best Pianist in a Fast-Food Restaurant” in the “Best of New York” issue of the Village Voice (2005). Shapiro lives in New York City. For more information, mp3s and images visit www.andrewshapiro.com.


Warren Sulatycky (Trout Stanley/Artistic Director, Renaissant Arts) Renaissant is a multi-disciplinary arts company focused on international theatre and independent filmmaking. Founded by Canadian director/actor/writer Warren Sulatycky in the mid 90’s, Warren has worked globally with such theatre institutions as Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina (“Geometry of Miracles," Tramway Theatre, Glasgow; National Theatre, London) and New York’s Lincoln Centre as a member of its Directors Lab ’03. Warren’s plays have been produced across Canada, “Terre” at Theatre Lepage’s Ex Machina, Quebec City, “Babas” at the Factory Theatre, Toronto/Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon, and “The End of Love," The Theatre Centre, Toronto. Warren was a two year co-creator member at the Blyth Festival’s collective “Death of Hired Man” in 2000 and 2001. He has been the playwright-in-residence at the both Blyth Festival and The Factory Theatre and was Artistic Director at Toronto’s premiere alternative theatre space, Theatre Centre, in the early nineties where he produced seminal and original works by Daniel MacIvor, Daniel Brooks, Sky Gilbert, and Diane Flacks. Warren trained originally at the National Theatre School of Canada with Paul Thompson, and worked for many years thereafter as an actor with most major theatre companies across Canada. He has guest starred on major network series and in films with Keanu Reeves, Paul Gross, and David Carridine among others. For television and film, Warren directed commercials and music videos for ten years before moving to longer formats to direct multiple television series in Canada, the US, France, Cuba, and Italy. He is creator and executive producer of the international reality series “Date With Design” and he currently has a number of new television series in development with major American networks. His film “Surrender” was broadcast on Canada’s Showcase television and he is working with an LA-based collective of actors on his feature film “Road," to be shot in the spring of ’06. Warren divides his career between Toronto, New York and Los Angeles as a theatre, film and television artist.


Jen Wineman (Director) Jen Wineman's directing credits in NYC include the NYC workshop of Joshua Feldman’s Sleep Cycle, Ben Rosenthal’s "Welcome Back", Buddy Combs (Atlantic Theater Company Acting School), Christine Flanagan’s "Unfurnished" (Baruch College), Clay McLeod Chapman’s "Jewish Mothers" (Culture Project), Bradford Louryk’s "Klytaemnestra’s Unmentionables" (hERE), as well as two of her original pieces, "Atelier"(University Settlement) and "15 Seconds of Silence" (fo r Studio 42). At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, she has directed productions of Caryl Churchill’s "This is a Chair" and Joshua Feldman’s "HeartBreakWordMusic" and assisted director Maria Mileaf on Lucy Prebble’s "The Sugar Syndrome" starring Gaby Hoffman. As an assistant director, Jen has also worked with German director, Birgitta Trommler on MCC’s production of "What of the Night" starring Jane Alexander (Lucille Lortel Theater) and with Kevin Malony of TWEED Theaterworks on "Caged" with Lily Tomlin, "Screen Door" with Wallace Shawn (Town Hall), and "This is no Dream; This is Really Happening" (Angel Orensanz Foundation). Onstage, Jen has appeared in numerous plays, including Mabou Mines’ acclaimed production of "Ecco Porco," written and directed by Lee Breuer and performed at PS 122. She is a co-founder and active board member of Studio 42, a downtown theater company dedicated to creating new work and supporting emerging artists. She is a graduate of Vassar College. This summer at New York Stage and Film, she will be directing a new adaptation of the Oresteia by Leah Ryan. She is also developing a tongue-in-cheek stage adaptation of the 1979 cult hit film, "Roller Boogie."