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For of its vacant loft, factory and residen­ Teatum, our Director of Area Develop­ the past 15 years, Brooklyn has been tial structures, into affordable apart­ ment at (212) 643-3880. undergoing a transformation brought ments and co-ops. about by an enlightened partnership In the process, thousands of C0 Brooktyn Union Gas Brooklyn.The new land of opportunity. .... ] 11BAmeater Company Sheila Allen C.B. Anderson Gerry Bamman Domm1c Ch1anese Jerome Dempsey THE ACTORS SHEILA ALLEN !Roles include: Titania in 150 productions for film, stage and recording. Are Dyin,g Out and Lord Escalus in Measure {or DREAM, Mrs. Sorby in DUCK and ]ocasta in He is married to actress Susan Anderson and Measure. His many regional credits include the OEDIPUS) moved to New York in August, has three sons, Andy, Joseph and Ted. Goodman Theatre and Hartman Theatre, and 1979. She joined the BAM Theater Company he is a member of the O'Neill Playwrights Con­ for its premiere season, playing Paulina in The GERRY BAMMAN !Roles include: Bottom in ference and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Mr. Winter's Tale, Nadiezhda in Barbarians and The DREAM, Thomas in OFFICER, Dr. Reiling in Chianese has performed in numerous plays Wife in Brecht's The Wedding. Most recently DUCK and Chorus Leader in OEDIPUS), a return­ and readings for the Actors Studio, New she appeared in Vikings at the Manhattan ing member of the BAM Theater Company, ap­ Dramatists, Playwrights Horizons and other Theatre Club. Last ·summer she returned to peared last season as Officer of Justice in The professional workshops, and he appeared last England and played Lady Redesdale, the Winter's Tale, Ben Kusick in j ohnny on a Spot season in The Sorrows of Stephen at the Public mother of Unity Milford, in the BBC-TV play and in the title role of Tom in He and She. He Theater. His television work includes Kojak, Unity, and appeared with Ian McKellan at the was a founding member of the Manhattan Pro­ Beacon Hill, All My Children, and most recent­ Edinburgh Festival in The Tarnished Phoenix, a ject, one of the foremost experimental com­ ly, Mother Seton and Fort Apache, the Bronx. program about D.H. and Frieda Lawrence. panies of the early 1970s. Their four interna­ Among his film credits are Dog Day Afternoon, Since 1962 she has played many roles with the tionally acclaimed production s, Alice in All the President's Men, And justice for All, and Royal Shakespeare Company including Wonderland, Endgame, Our Late Night and The the role of Johnny Ola in Godfather ll. Mr. Goneril in King Lear, Constance in King john, Sea Gull, all staged by the artistic director, An· Chianese is a graduate of Brooklyn College. Lady Percy in Henry N , Lady Macduff in · dre Gregory, were performed throughout Macbeth, Sofia in The Zykovs, Alice in Dance of North and South America, Europe and Asia, as JEROME DEMPSEY !Roles include. Qumce m Death, and the title role in Pam Gems' Queen well as New York City. In New York, Mr. Bam­ DREAM, Mr. Balance in OFFICER and Envoy Christina. Other roles include Lady Macbeth man has also appeared in Henry V, Museum, from Corinth in OEDIPUS) most recently ap­ for the Shaw Repertory Theatre and Maggie in Troilus and Cressida and Andrei Serban's adap­ peared as Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin in the British premiere of The Shadow Box. Televi­ tatinn of The Master and Margarita. He spent the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of The sion credits include The Regiment, George Eliot, one season at the Guthrie Theater, played the Suicide. Last season with the BAM Theater Jocasta in Oedipus Rex, Shoulder to Shoulder, Duke in Measure for Measure at the Yale Reper­ Company, he portrayed Doc Blossom in johnny The Way of the World, and Cassie in the series, tory Theatre, and last summer he portrayed Ja­ on a Spot, Ivakin in Barbarians and Dr. Rem­ A Bouquet of Barbed W!Te. ques in the American Repertory Theatre's pro­ ington in He and She. He played Abraham Van duction of A s You Like It. He appears in Helsing in the Broadway production of Dracula Nicholas Ray and Wim Wender's film, Light­ and has performed as Mr. Peachum in the New C. B. ANDERSON !Roles include: Philostrate in ning Over Water. Mr. Bamman has written two York Shakespeare Festival's The Threepenny DREAM, Mr. Scruple in OFFICER and C. Maynes film scripts and his musical version of A Thous­ Opera. A member of the Actors Studio, the in JUNGLE) came to New York in 1979 from and Nights and a Night was produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a former faculty Nashville, where he was founder and artistic Theatre of the Open Eye in 1976. member of the Yale School of Drama, Mr. director of Ensemble Theatre Company. Dempsey's Broadway appearances include Previously he was a member of the Academy West Side Story, The Deputy, Room Service, Spof­ Theatre's acting company of Atlanta. Among DOMINIC CHIANESE !Roles include: Egeus m ford and The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks. Off-Broadway credits include The Year Boston the more than 75 major roles he has played are DREAM, Mr. Scale m OFFICER, Old Ekdal in 1 King Lear, Hamlet, Captain Boyle in juno and DUCK and Shepherd m OEDIPUS) began his Won the Pennant, An Evening for Merlin Finch the Paycock, Archie Rice in The Entertainer, professional career with the American opposite Sada Thompson, and at the American Krapp in Krapp's Last Tape, and Henry in Lion Savoyards Company performing Gilbert and Place Theatre in Sunday Dinner and Old Glory. in Winter. Last year, as a member of the BAM Sullivan repertory in New York. His Broadway His regional credits include many roles for Theater Company, Mr. Anderson played Gaoler credits include Richard Jll, Oliver, Scratch and Philadelphia's Theatre of the Living Arts, Yale and a Shepherd in The Winter's Tale, the The Water Engine.