Featuring Adrian Baidoo*, Kaelyn Ambert-Gonzalez, Emily Jackson*, Talya Mar, Scott McCord*, Melissa Mickens*, Chuck Montgomery*, Chuk Obasi, and Adriana Rossetto
Created by Vieve Radha Price & John Gould Rubin Written by Dan Hasse & based on original work by the devising company Directed by John Gould Rubin Scenic and Costume Design .Liz Toonkel Devising Company .Bronwen Carson, Jason Gray, ……………… …… Lighting Design .Erin Earle Fleming Karen Eilbacher, Chelsea Frei, Salomé Krell, …………………… Sound Design .Drew Weinstein Chuk Obasi, Adriana Rossetto, and Sarah ………………………… Projection and Video Design ....Elizabeth Mak Wharton in collaboration with TÉA Creative ………… Video Consultant Ray Sun The Private Theatre .. ……………………………… …………………………………… Producing Director Vieve Radha Price Artistic Director: John Gould Rubin ………………… Producer/Executive Director ....Sarah Wharton Executive Director: Sarah Wharton ……… Producer/Production Manager .Libby Jensen Development Director: Adriana Rossetto ………… Producer/General Manager Cheryl Dennis Managing Member: Libby Jensen …………… Press Representative...Richard Kornberg & Associates Managing Member: Cheryl Dennis Insight Advisory Team ....Marnie Jull, Jamie Price, Managing Member: Vieve Radha Price …… Talya Mar, Adriana Rossetto, Chuk Obasi, and Managing Member: Chuk Obasi Sarah Wharton Managing Member: Evan Cummings Stage Manager .....Rachel Switlick Development Assistant: Lauren Grajewski ……………………… Private Theatre Photographer ...... Hunter Canning Administrative Assistant: Lena Gloria … … Graphic Design .....Jesse Jae Hoon ……………………… Original Graphic Design Achilles Lavidis *Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity ……………… Assistant Stage Manager ...Kyle Anthony Association. ……………… Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex is Company Manager .Lauren Grajewski ………………… an Equity Approved Showcase. Wardrobe Supervisor .Diane Hunte …………………… HERE 2018-19 SEASON
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BIOGRAPHIES
Kaelyn Ambert-Gonzalez (Chelsea/WorkSpace/Annabelle) Kaelyn Ambert-Gonzalez is a graduate of the BFA Acting Conservatory at Purchase College. Recent credits include the film Angelfish (Peter Lee) and INTAR’s Unit 52.
Adrian Baidoo* (Sean/Dan) Adrian is sooo ready to take part in this dynamic production! He is from Ghana, Africa by way of Steeler Nation Pittsburgh. He was just seen leading the cast of 59E59 Theater’s Basketball Drama, SEPARATE AND EQUAL. Off Broadway: PIRIRA; ON STRIVER’S ROW (Metropolitan Playhouse). Broadway First National Tour: CINDERELLA. Regional: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, MUNY, MTWichita WVPT. Tv: “Royal Pains”. Numerous Commercials and Print. BFA University of Michigan and Moscow Art Theatre School Graduate. Lots of love to Vieve, John, Chuk, HH, and this excellent cast and crew! Instagram/Twitter: @AdrianBaidoo
Emily Jackson* (Gianna/Desirée) Emily Jackson Graduated with a BFA in Acting from CalArts. Credits include DOWN CLEGHORN (Ensemble Studio Theater), GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES (Arc Stages) MEDEA (Royce Hall / UCLA Live), WAITING FOR LEFTY (Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater), HEDDA GABLER (Source Material) TV: Fringe, Shades of Blue, I House of Cards, God Friended ME, FILM: Incarnate (Universal), The award winning indie LIVING WITH THE DEAD, among others. This one's for Dad.
Talya Mar (Claudia/Wife) Talya Mar grew up bicultural and bilingual in Bloomington, Indiana. She works both on stage and screen, and regularly develops her own work. She previously worked with The Private Theatre on Playing With Fire, and over the past year has been working with TEA Creative on two upcoming projects. // www.talyamar.com
Scott McCord* (Alex/Joe/Director) Scott McCord is an award-winning actor, voice actor and musician. Recent theatre credits include: CAPTURE, BOUND ESCAPE (Collective NY), THE HEAD HUNTER (One Shot Deal) for which he won Best Supporting Actor (Planet Connections Festivity 2018), and THE FINAL REEL (Parallel Exit). Selected TV credits include: THE DEUCE, CARTER, LOST GIRL, ROOKIE BLUE, HEMLOCK GROVE and the films SHOOT ‘EM UP and 16 BLOCKS. As Voice Actor: PAW PATROL, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA the Series, TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND, INSPECTOR GADGET, JUSTIN TIME (Canada Screens Award, Best Performance in an Animated Series) and THE NUT JOB. Scott has been a featured animation guest at Armageddon Expo in Australia and New Zealand. He is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio.
Melissa Mickens* (Cheryl/Lillian/Woman/Penelope) Melissa Mickens is a multi-disciplinary artist, producer and teacher based in Harlem. A proud member of ACTOR'S EQUITY, Melissa has appeared in productions at the Brick, JACK Arts, ARS Nova ANT Fest, Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, Fire This Time Festival, Planet Connections Fest, National Black Theatre, The Lark, Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Hangar Theatre. A NYU Tisch graduate, Melissa is a teaching artist with the Stella Adler Youth and Teen Summer Conservatory Programs where she specializes in Shakespeare scene study. Melissa is also the award-winning creator and producer of SHAMPAGNE, now in its second season. For Papa. IG: @rocksolidmel
Chuck Montgomery* (Trevor/Casting/Employee/Officer) Chuck Montgomery-Last worked with John Gould Rubin in a production of “ Mother Courage And Her Children” at the Harold Clurman Theater at The Stella Adler Studios. He has been a fixture in Downtown Theater since the 90’s appearing with Target Margin Theater, The Arden Party and as a member of the legendary Cucaracha Theater. He can be seen in the films Stepmom and Mona Lisa Smile and has worked extensively with filmmaker Hal Hartley appearing in his films Amateur, Henry Fool, and Fay Grim. TV credits-“High Maintenance”, “Orange is The New Black”, “Alpha House” as well as all the “Law & Order”s. Many VOs-commercials, narrations, audio books.
Chuk Obasi (Rocco/Brother/Husband/Man) Obasi currently serves as a Managing Member of The Private Theatre. He is also a Movement Teacher at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and Adjunct Professor of Musical Theatre at Drew University. Recent works: The Neighbors at the Italian Theatre Festival (Director); One-man play The Actual Dance at the United Solo Festival (performer); Music concert A Drink with Death (Lyricist) at Feinstein’s/54 Below; Critically acclaimed play Uniform Justice (Playwright/ Director) at the NY International Fringe Festival; Award-winning Feature films “The Depths” and “79 Parts” (Actor). Music from his new opera in development, Moonshine in B Minor (co-librettist) will be featured in performance at The Public Theatre in February 2019.
Adriana Rossetto (Adriana/Voicemail) Adriana is an international actress with a predilection for raw, socially progressive work with avant-garde esthetics. She graduated from the conservatory program at the Stella Adler Studio, class of 2014. Recent credits include Post:Death, directed by Theresa Buchheister at The Brick Theatre (Title:Point), A Doll House (Dorset Theatre Festival reading series). Adriana is a resident actress and Director of Development at John Gould Rubin’s The Private Theatre, resident actress and board member at Vieve Price's TEA Creative and Artistic Associate of Valeria Orani’s Umanism. Past training include the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) and NIDA (Sydney).
John Gould Rubin (Creator/Director) John Gould Rubin, Artistic Director of The Private Theater, for which he directed a site-specific Hedda Gabler and a deconstruction of Strindberg’s Playing With Fire at The Box; and former co-Artistic Director and Executive Director of LAByrinth, for which he directed 7 plays including premiere’s by John Patrick Shanley and Erin Cressida Wilson. He’s directed throughout NYC at Rattlestick, Ma-Yi, and The Public among others, notably: Turn Me Loose (w/Joe Morton) at The Westside, The Wallis-Annenberg and Arena Stage; Peer Gynt at The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Norway, Queen For A Day (w/David Proval & Vinnie Pastore) at St. Clements and The Cherry Orchard w/Ellen Burstyn at The Actors Studio, American Buffalo w/Treat Williams and Stephen Adly Guirgis at The Dorset Theater Festival. Current projects: A Doll House radically re-imagined w/The Private Theatre, Godless by Michael Ricigliano, Jr., King Lear w/Joe Morton and a multimedia production of Revolutionary Road in Beijing, China.
Vieve Radha Price (Creator/Producer) Vieve Radha Price is the Founding Director of TÉA Creative, and a managing member of The Private Theatre. Vieve is a leading developer of the Insight approach to artistry and theatrical performance, specializing in community-based, company-devised performance pieces that reflexively immerse audiences in the social and cultural issues that divide them. In addition to Rocco, Chelsea, Vieve has created and produced Under the Veil (Being Muslim and Non-Muslim post 9/11) and Cadence Home (finding self and family after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan). She is currently at work with a new company on The Race Project. www.teacreativeinc.com
Dan Hasse (Playwright) Screenplays include Fritz Haber (Sloan Foundation Award and Grant) and Daughters of Erin (HHF Films). He adapted and co-directed Hamlet in the Golden Vale (feature film; 2018) and King of Infinite Space (VR experience; 2018), produced by Roll The Bones with support from "The Immersive Storytelling Studio" at The National Theatre. Theatre directing includes The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Gym at Judson), Fist in Mouth (Studio at Cherry Lane), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Access Theater / East Coast Tour), Beautiful Bodies (Stella Adler Studio; NYU Conservatory). Residencies with Bedlam and The Actors Studio. Member of the 2014 LAByrinth Theater Intensive Ensemble, 2015 Shakespeare Society Ambassador Program, and 2018-2019 SDC Foundation Observership Class. Dan is Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Square. Everything is dedicated to P&V. www.danhasse.com
Liz Toonkel (Scenic and Costume Designer) Liz Toonkel is an artist, designer and magician working in performance, theater and film. She has performed and displayed her artwork at Honor Fraser Gallery, LAX Festival, Perform Chinatown and the 2016 Queer Biennial in Los Angeles. Liz has collaborated previously with John Gould Rubin on Caucasian Chalk Circle (NYU Stella Adler) and A Doll House (Dorset Theater Festival, Marble House). As a Production Designer, she has designed over 10 feature films, numerous television shows, pilots, commercials and music videos. BFA NYU Tisch: Film & TV. MFA Calarts: Scenic Design and Art & Technology. www.liztoonkel.com
Erin Earle Fleming (Lighting Designer) Selected credits include: Visions of Silence (Cantata Profana); Fidelio (HeartBeat Opera); Three Sisters, Twenty Six Seconds (Columbia University); Kiss (Yale Rep); Sweat, If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, Blood Wedding, and Macbeth (Yale School of Drama); Xander Xyst, Dragon:1 (ArsNova ANT Fest); The Feels...(kms), Re:Union, (Yale Cabaret); Les Enfants Terribles (Butler Opera Center); Bus Stop, Love and Information (Mary Moody Northern Theatre); Pinocchio (ZACH Theatre); Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Doctuh Mistuh). A native Texan, Erin holds a BA from St. Edward’s University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama. www.erinearlefleming.com
Drew Weinstein (Sound Designer) Drew is a New York based multidisciplinary theatre and sound artist. He creates original works which have been presented at venues including HERE Arts Center, JACK, the Brick, the Hive, the Jersey City Theatre Center, and LEIMAY’s SOAK. As a composer and designer, Drew’s work has been heard at the Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival, Abrons Arts Center, the Performing Garage, Anacostia Arts Center (Washington DC), the Producers Club, HERE Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, and Cider Mill Playhouse, among others.
Elizabeth Mak (Production and Video Designer) Elizabeth Mak is an NYC-based lighting, projection, and scenic designer. New York City designs include The Tricky Part and A Walk in the Woods with The Barrow Group, and work with the Public Under the Radar Festival, New Ohio Ice Factory, and IATI. Regional designs include Bridges of Madison County (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater); and The Square Root of Three Sisters (International Festival of Arts and Ideas). International designs include Nanyang: The Musical (Singapore International Festival of Arts) and Salomé: Woman of Valor (Vancouver Chutzpah Festival, Ashkenaz Toronto Festival). MFA Yale School of Drama. elizabethmak.com.
Libby Jensen (Production Manager) Recent credits include: DirectorFest (Drama League), Colin Quinn's Red State, Blue State (Minetta Lane), Ordinary Days (Keen Company), Popcorn Falls (Davenport), Henry VI, Parts 1-3 (NAATCO), Mike Birbiglia's The New One (Cherry Lane), The Saintliness of Margery Kempe (The Duke), The Echo Drift (PROTOTYPE), A Clockwork Orange (New World Stages), The End of Longing (MCC), Street Children (Vertigo Theater Co), Turn Me Loose (Westside Theater), Double Falsehood (Letter of Marque). Resident Production Manager at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and AfterWork Theater. www.libbyjensen.com
Rachel Switlick (Stage Manager) Rachel Switlick is continually looking for ways to be involved in meaningful interdisciplinary work. Having just completed her MA in Performance & Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, she is thrilled to return to New York to work with such an amazing group of artists. Her recent past works include producing and performing Eat My Heart Out, an interactive performance art exhibition commemorating past relationships through the medium of baking; performing in Rachel Cheung’s Grid Games: The World is Your Oyster; and stage managing Sam Simon’s The Actual Dance. While pursuing her BFA in Dance and her BA in English at The Ohio State University, her co-choreographed piece, Everything Before I Asked and She Said Alright was awarded the City of Prague Award at the 2012 New Prague Dance Festival. Rachel’s current academic research focuses on the current position of the performing arts in contemporary US society, searching for a better way forward.
Kyle Anthony (Assistant Stage Manager) This is Kyle’s first production with The Private Theatre and is ecstatic to be part of the team! Off-Broadway: Women on Fire (Royal Family Productions), The King, The Final Hours (Macias PR), Bridges: A New Musical and Monuments (Prospect Theatre). Other NYC favorites include: Luna Park (APAC), The Algonquin Kid (Amas Musical Theatre),Mechanical (Queens Council on the Arts), In Pursuit of Peace (Broadway Bound Festival), and Midsummer Night’s Dream (Baruch College). BFA in Stage Management from DePaul University’s Theatre School. Much love to my friends and family for their unconditional support.
TÉA Creative (Producer) TÉA Creative gathers diverse companies of artists to create Insight art and to explore the development and application of Insight artistry. Insight artists learn to attend explicitly to the inner flow of their conscious experience. We approach content and form by creating performance pieces that illuminate the inner patterns of feeling and thinking of our characters and audience members. In principle, Insight art is as broad as the sweep of human consciousness, and Insight artists are free to work and create within the intrinsically fascinating and dramatic process of our individual and collective struggle to build meaningful relationships, transcend our limitations, and lead worthy lives. For the past 10 years, TÉA Creative has been creating and producing Insight art. In 2009 we debuted with Under the Veil: Being Muslim (and Non-Muslim) in New York, post-9/11, performed the piece dozens of times, in six states, to thousands of audience members. In 2012, we produced a sold-out, site-specific, equity showcase of Cadence: Home in midtown Manhattan, an Insight theatre piece about the dramatic journey of veterans returning home to their former selves, loves, and lives from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cadence was subsequently produced at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa. In 2013, TÉA Creative partnered with the Mayor’s office in Memphis to create Uniform Justice, an exploration of the inner heart of community-police relations in a community shattered by patterns of retaliatory violence. In 2012, TÉA Creative partnered with The Private Theatre to begin the process of researching, devising, and workshopping Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex. Rocco, Chelsea dramatizes the conflicted political-cultural web in which Americans currently struggle to make life-defining decisions, build and heal their relationships, and wrestle with their better selves, with a world premier at Here Arts Center in New York City in 2019. TÉA Creative continues to work on a number of Insight based projects, including a handbook for Insight artistry and a new Insight performance piece about the dynamics of race in the U.S.
The Private Theatre (Producer) was founded in 1980 by a group of theatre artists, some from the Yale School of Drama, and others who had met in Eastern Europe in pursuit of the Jerzy Grotowski/Tadeus Kantor revolution. These along with adventurous Americans such as Joanne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Liz LeCompte, Robert Wilson, Richard Forman, and other European and Asian practitioners served as inspiration to advance a rebellion against American theater conventions of the 70’s and 80’s. The company began their work with radical, devised and site-specific works initially producing Philoktet, the U.S. premiere of Heiner Müeller, at the now-defunct Second Avenue Theater. Other early works include the The Last American in Paris, a devised theatrical conflation of the films An American in Paris and Last Tango in Paris; an all-male version of The Maids, staged in a 4th floor walk-up apartment for twelve audience members each performance over six weeks; Michael Stephens’ Our Father at The Colonnades Theater Lab, which subsequently played for four years at The West Bank Café and won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; and An Unseen Energy Swallows Space, a devised work that later premiered at The Kitchen. The Private Theatre also produced the European premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ original LAByrinth Theater production of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. More recent works include The Fartiste which won a first in the New York International Fringe Festival; a radically site-specificHedda Gabler in a townhouse for 25 audience members per performance; and Playing with Fire at The Box, the sex cabaret on Chrystie St., and I, Peer, a reimagining of Peer Gynt featuring wheel-chair using actor Neil Hancock which performed in the International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Norway. The Private Theatre’s membership is diverse in ethnicity, physical ability, nationalization status, sexual orientation, age and career establishment— but all share stakes in creative initiative, leadership, and business administration. Both their creative method and organization structure contribute to the theatre scene they wish to see in New York: an increasingly collaborative and diverse group of empathic artists empowered to create awesome and cutting-edge work.
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Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex is an original performance piece co-created by Vieve Radha Price and John Gould Rubin. It is a joint production of The Private Theatre and TÉA Creative. The play mirrors for audience members the inner, conscious experience of the title characters as they struggle to take their personal bearings and to make life-defining decisions in a social and political culture that inculcates polarizing habits of mind. Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex is the fruit of several years of community research, aesthetic development, and artistic creation carried out in collaboration with our multidisciplinary Company. We set for ourselves the theatrical challenge of exploring the drama of the polarizing mindsets that lie at the root of social, political, and cultural conflict in America today. In this, our interest was neither discovering what Americans think about polarization, nor in dramatizing which polarized positions they might adopt or espouse. Rather, we wanted to capture the inner drama – the struggles, the tensions, the successes, the failures – of Americans making decisions and fostering personal relationships in an explicitly polarized cultural milieu. In key ways, we wanted to understand ourselves, and we wanted to dramatize this in a manner that was revelatory for our audiences.
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Special Thanks: Jamie Price, Bronwen Carson, Salomé Krell, Dan Scofield, Lucy Di Rosa, Karen Eilbacher, Danielle Carole, Chelsea Frei, Eisa Davis, Kwan Fai Lamb, Jason Gray, Lucy Clements, Sarah Wharton, Tobias Wong, John Carlin, Sarah Ellen Stevens, Luke Forbes, Glenn Chip Hughes, Marnie Jull, Emily Lyon, Lauren Grajewski, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Irondale, The Actor’s Studio, Bedlam’s madLab, Matthew Boyce, Ron Simons, Nancy Sobota, Veronica Bainbridge, Gina Barnett, Pablo Salame, Randi Berry, Peter Klein, Drew McCoy & Amy Aquino, Jamie deRoy, John Turner, Roger Cooper, Denise Simon, Jesse Cutler, David & Sandy Marshall, Stephen Stout, Patrick F. Adams, Michael Ricigliano, Jr., LMCC, Lori Henry, and Lori Levin
Thank you to Bob Chase, Lucretia Holden, & Fred Johnson for all of the support in developing this piece.
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Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC.
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