Plus 1 Solo Show Festival - Fall 2010
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Mark is a dad, husband, actor, and comedian. He lives in Brooklyn with his beautiful and boundlessly patient wife Dawn and his two hilarious kids, Jack and Evan. Mark received his BA in acting (with a focus on theater performance) from Marymount Manhattan College and trained at UCB in New York, has appeared in many commercials and regularly performs improv around the city with Suspicious Package and Big Tobacco. Every year he embarks on a tour to college campuses to perform a motivational solo show at college orientations. He is excited to share his story, crack some people up, and have a scotch afterward.
Margie hails from Boston and earned a BA from Pitzer College in California. Los Angeles: American Pie, VIP, Felicity and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; studied at the Groundlings. New York: studied at HB Studios, Atlantic Theater Company and Upright Citizen’s Brigade; performing with improv troupe Noo Yawk Tawk, created and starred in the hit parody Cex and the Sity, and wrote and produced several shows, including Pie Obsessed Drunken Fatties, Good On Paper, Damaged Dancers and The Poop Show. Practicing and teaching yoga is her other life passion.
Jamila is a St. Louis native but has finally deemed New York City as her second home. She has performed at numerous New York comedy clubs and been on stage with Target Margin Theater and ACT. You may have seen her on Law and Order: SVU, Nurse Jackie and Rescue Me, or maybe just on the train, at the yoga studio or in the Laundromat. She is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater. Check her out at www.youtube.com/webbofcomedy.
Katherine is a playwright, actor and stand-up comic. Previous works include My Dead Mother is Funnier Than You (Plaidbird Productions) and The Shih Tzu Doesn’t Like Lesbians (On the Leesh Productions). She is a graduate of James Madison University and the Atlantic Acting School. She can be seen performing stand-up in clubs and rooms all over the tri-state area. She enjoys being stalked on Facebook and at cuteandparanoid.wordpress.com.
23-year-old Erica recently moved to NYC from Boston, where she studied at Berklee College of Music and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In 2009, she played nearly 100 shows and toured the West Coast, Northwest and major Northeastern cities and has released two EPs, What’s Left (2009) and From Here On (2010). Her song “In Margins” was on the top 20 most-played songs 3 weeks in a row on WITR radio last month, and was named WITR’s Up and Coming Artist in August 2010. www.myspace.com/ericarussomusic
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James Angiola (Director, JACKed Up)
James is a television director and producer who has spent his career working on Emmy Award-winning shows for MTV, VH1, and CBS Sports. While attending Villanova University, James directed Christopher Hampton’s Dangerous Liaisons and Neil Simon’s Rumors for Villanova’s Student Theatre.
Megan Cooper (Director, Call Me)
Megan has worked as a director of both theatre and opera in NYC (The Player’s Theatre, Sticky, etc.), regionally and in the UK. She has worked as a music director and also as an actor.
Dawn-Elin Fraser (Director, Can’t the Revolution Wait?)
Dawn is both an Assistant Arts Professor and the head of Spoken Voice and Speech at the New Studio on Broadway, one of the BFA studios at NYU/Tisch. Prior to that she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and has performed with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, A.C.T., SF Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and Campo Santo. She was a Core Faculty member in the MFA program at American Conservatory Theatre and has held residencies/taught master classes at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, University of San Francisco and the SF Arts Education Project, in addition to dialect coaching shows at all of the major Bay Area theaters including the Marin Theater Company, A.C.T., Berkeley Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Theaterworks. She is a member of both Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and holds a M.F.A. in Acting from American Conservatory Theater.
Matt Hoverman (Director, I’m Fired!)
As a playwright, his full-length play Who You See Here recently had a sold-out run at the Drama Desk Award-winning The Barrow Group and has been optioned by Broadway producing legend Nelle Nugent. Other plays include In Transit (2006 FringeNYC Best Playwriting Award), The Student (2009 Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival Winner and currently a 2010 Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award Finalist), The Audience (co-book writer, three Drama Desk Award nominations, including Best New Musical), to name a few. As a teacher and director, Matt has over 20 years of teaching experience, from Theatre For a New Audience, UCSD, The Acting Company and through his popular Create Your Own Solo Show workshops, he has midwived the creation of over 150 shows since 2001, including all 4 of the solo shows in tonight’s Plus 1 Solo Show Festival, garnering countless honors from FringeNYC, MITF and other festivals. Brown University BA in Playwriting, University of California, San Diego MFA in acting. Matt is represented by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. www.matthoverman.com
Allison Lemel (Stage Manager)
Alison has stage managed several productions, including the spring 2010 Plus 1 Solo Show Festival and Proof for Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions. Other New York credits: Dances in Funny (FringeNYC 2009), Love, Oil & Pizza (Red Room Theatre), and Against Her Better Judgment at the Drilling Company Theatre. She has also worked as a spotlight operator for My Illustrious Wasteland and F#@king Up Everything (NYMF) and as spotlight operator and assistant electrician on the Off-Broadway production of How to be a Good Italian Daughter (In Spite of Myself).
