Entertaining Lesbians
November 4, 2004 at 7:00 PM | La Tea Theater at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
November 7, 2004 at 7:00 PM | La Tea Theater at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
November 10, 2004 at 7:00 PM | La Tea Theater at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
November 13, 2004 at 7:00 PM | La Tea Theater at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
November 16, 2004 at 7:00 PM | La Tea Theater at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
November 19, 2004 at 7:00 PM | La Tea Theater at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Talent
Dustin Burell (Oliver)
Dustin C Burrell is originally from Clarkesville, GA and has lived in New York for a little over a year. During that time he has appeared in several shows including the Off-Off Broadway Review Award-winning Where's Charley? with the St. Jean's Players. Other memorable performances include Measure for Measure with BLUNT Theater Company and Johnny Theater's Red & Black. Previous to his pilgrimage to New York he briefly toured with Repertory Theater of America.
Michelle Claudine Coffaro (Janis)
An alumni of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Michele Coffaro has toured nationally in Romeo and Juliet and a bilingual Three Musketeers. She has played both female roles in Beyond Therapy, and just finished playing Amanda in The Food Chain for Island Rep's summer season at Fire Island. As a writer and performer of sketch comedy, she was featured in the Toyota Comedy Festival as well as at Caroline's. Regional Credits include: As Bees in Honey Drown, Betrayal, All My Sons, Godspell, As You Like It, and Macbeth in the Long Island Shakespeare Festival. Thanks to Rodney, who she played Estelle for in his Midtown Theatre Festival production of No Exit - always a pleasure and adventure!
Dietra Kelsey (Mrs. Kelly)
Dietra Kelsey, born under the Sun Sign of Sagittarius and hailing from our nation’s capitol Washington D.C., is a multi-talented actress and writer who’s an alumnus of Hampton University. She received critical acclaim for her performance as anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston in the one woman show ZORA SPEAKS that she wrote and produced premiering at The Riverside Church Theatre and a long run at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York, before touring nationally. She garnered rave reviews for PASSAGE, her educational play chronicling the civil rights movement that she performed in and toured nationwide. Her most recent credits include the David Chappelle Show and an upcoming commercial for American Express. Presently, she is preparing to produce her independent romantic film, THE WISH.
Erica Livingston (Rowena)
Erica Livingston is the curator for The Sputnik Cinema Series (www.barsputnik.com) which supports local independent filmakers from the five boroughs. She is also the spokesperson for an artist friendly website named creativitycity.com which provides a free venue to the artistic community for posting work, reels, resumes, and networking. She taught Improv 101 at Mississippi College before moving to New York. Erica’s Improv and sketch credits include Rash Behaviour (look for their feature film of the same name at festivals in 2005), Wink and a Gun, La theatre de la Fleur (Commedia del Arte), Viagra Falls, and Capitol City Improv. Some of her favorite stage credits include Pandora in Beth Henly’s Impossible Marriage, Jackie O in Wendy MacLeod’s House of Yes, and Maureen in Topher Payne’s stage adaptation of Jo Caron’s book Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet. Erica has directed such plays as Two Devils Drinking, The Giving Tree, and an adaptation of Bootsie Barker Bites. Erica graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and is currently living in Brooklyn with her husband, Andrew, and her daughter, Ariel.
Lauren Seikaly (Christy)
Lauren Seikaly grew up in Virginia and moved to New York after graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in Theatre. Lauren’s theatre credits include God of Vengeance (Target Margin Theatre), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Five Myles, Brooklyn), Poop – A True Story (New York Fringe Festival), A Light in the Shadows (Tribeca Playhouse), City (HERE Arts Center), The Time of Your Life; The Blue Demon (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film credits include Noise, starring Ally Sheedy, Disorder (Foxtrail Productions), Kuwait (Thursday Films), and What Men Talk About (webJammer Productions).
Stacie Theon (Arlette)
Stacie Theon, a North Dakota native, had the privilege of training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Some of her favorite roles include, Goneril in King Lear, The Courtesan in The Comedy of Errors and who could forget her memorable performance as Apostle Woman #3 in Jesus Christ Superstar? Stacie is currently creating a one-woman show entitled Does this Show Me Look Fat?
Carlo Vogel (Tad)
Carlo Vogel has been seen in the television shows: Law and Order - SVU, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and America's Most Wanted. He appears in Spike Lee's movies Clockers and Girl Six, as well as in the movie Boiler Room. Stage credits include Shakespeare on the Sound - Much Ado About Nothing, Marc Spitz's The Rise and Fall of the Farewell Drugs and Nathan Parker's Chosen Speed. Carlo also directed Spitz's plays Worry Baby and I Wanna Be Adored.
Creatives
Topher Payne (Playwright)
Topher Payne is the literary manager for Atlanta's Process Theatre, a company dedicated to fostering the development of new works. His works include Beached Wails, which will receive its seventh production in Florida in Spring of 2005; Relations Unknown at Process Theatre; a Vietnam-era adaptation of Cyrano, commissioned by Atlanta Classical Theatre; Things Are Looking Up, commissioned by Horizon Theatre Company; Chip Jennings and the Meaning of it All and Home Fires Burning, both produced by Late Night New Stage in Mississippi; and an adaptation of Jo Carson's Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet, produced in Mississippi and Georgia. His play Ashes to Ashes, Spud to Spud, co-authored with Clint Thornton, was produced by kef productions in June 2004 at The Charlie Pineapple Theatre in Williamsburg. He is currently at work on a play about the life of Joan Crawford. His musings have appeared in Southern Voice, Express Gay News, Houston Voice, Washington Blade, and New York Blade. Topher's pop culture column, Dyke and Fag Discuss, co-authored with Kristin Johnson, appears bi-weekly in Atlanta's David Magazine.
Rodney Hakim (Director)
Rodney’s directing credits include GRE’s First Folio Shakespeare Series, The Taming of the Shrew, The Dress, No Exit (“Best of the Fest,” Midtown International Theatre Festival), Seasons of Love: Four One-Act Comedies by Anton Chekhov, and A.D. for Oedipus Rex and Collateral Damage. NYC performance credits include Measure for Measure, Avenge (The Spanish Tragedy), You Remember Her, The Wedding, The Anniversary, A Man for All Seasons, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Jesus Christ Superstar, and The Chairs.
Rosa Faulisi (Costume Coordinator)
Daniel Liot Fine (Sound Design)
Daniel studied Music Theory with Thomas Addison at the Mannes Conservatory and studied Classical Guitar with Lezwek Cesarczyk at New York University. A graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, he also studied Playwriting with Lenora Champagne and Steven Smith, and Painting with Michael St. John.
Peter Cline (Sound Design)
Theo Athinas (Sound Design)
James Bedell (Light Design)
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