Extended through February 24 THE FLEA THEATER JIM SIMPSON artistic director CAROL OSTROW producing director BETH DEMBROW managing director presents NECTARINE EP Written and Directed by TOMMY SMITH Additional Direction by BENJAMIN H. KAMINE and TOM COSTELLO Original Music by REGGIE WATTS, JOHN OSEBOLD and MICHAEL McQUILKEN Sound Design by MICHAEL McQUILKEN Lighting/Projection Design by SARAH LASLEY Stage Management by COURTNEY ULRICH CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Jamie Bock Jenelle Chu Jessica Frey Marlowe Holden Christina Lee Cristina Pitter THE FLEA THEATER Michelle Silvani Louisa Ward Mari Yamamoto Nectarine EP FLEA STAFF Artistic Director...........................................................................................................Jim Simpson Producing Director.....................................................................................................Carol Ostrow Managing Director..................................................................................................Beth Dembrow Technical Director........................................................................................................Liz Blessing Company Manager.........................................................................................................Erin Daley Development Associate...................................................................................................Alek Deva Marketing Associate................................................................................................David Sernick Audience Development Associate........................................................................Dominic Spillane Assistant Technical Director....................................................................................Brandon Stock Resident Graphic Designer..........................................................................................David Prittie Graphic Designer.................................................................................................Judah Stevenson Photographer.........................................................................................................Hunter Canning Theater, Technical & Production Consultant.............................................................Kyle Chepulis Accountant........................................................................................Joel Faden & Company, Inc. Attorney........................................Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LP/Carol Kaplan Development Consultant........................................................................................Rachel Colbert Press Representative....................................................................................Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle Thanks Technical Artistry, ThinkSo, Tribeca Lighting, Souths 2 THE CAST Jamie Bock recently joined The Bats and has performed in The Shakes: The Honest Whore and Romeo & Juliet, as well as #serials@theflea. Other NYC credits include Home (Theater for the New City), Treefall (The Sargent Theater), and Breakers (Stage Left Studios). Holds a BFA from NYU Tisch (Atlantic Theater Studio). www. jamiebock.com Jenelle Chu graduated from the University of Missouri in Kansas City in Vocal Performance. Credits at The Flea include These Seven Sicknesses, #serials@ theflea, and The Shakes. Workshops and readings at The Flea include Dave Koresh Superstar by Robert Askins, Job by Thomas Bradshaw, Out of Joint by A. Rey Pamatmat, Iowa by Jenny Schwartz with Todd Almond, and Nomad by Elizabeth Swados with Erin Courtney. She is thrilled to be a part of this beautiful cast of talented women. Special thanks to Tommy, Ben, Tom, and Courtney. Jessica Frey is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (Atlantic Acting School). Recent credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Friar/Benvolio) with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Educational Tour; TEN with Partial Comfort Productions; Way of the World (Lady Wishfort) with World’s End Theater Company; and a couple fantastic new plays like Giant Killer Slugs and Bubble & Squeak with Pipeline Nectarine EP Theatre Company. She is a proud member of Partial Comfort Productions and The Bats. www.jessicafrey.com Marlowe Holden joined The Bats in September and has recently been seen at The Flea in The Shakes: The Honest Whore and Romeo & Juliet and #serials@ theflea. Outside of The Flea, she has most recently been seen in Adam R. Burnett’s latest work, NIGHTMARES: a demonstration of the Sublime. She will soon be appearing in Buran Theatre’s Poshlost Saudade. An Oklahoma native, Marlowe received her BFA in Acting from The School of Drama at The University of Oklahoma. THE FLEA THEATER Christina Lee is a Canadian-born Korean living in New York. She joined The Flea Theater in September and has been enjoying the theater scene in the city. Christine is currently singing and dancing at the Vital Theater for children, and also rehearsing for the upcoming production Ain’t No Sunshine. Cristina Pitter is thrilled to be working on this trippy production. Having joined The Bats in June 2012, she has been seen in #serials@theflea and will be back again for The Shakes: Romeo & Juliet. She is also a proud ensemble member of Barefoot Theatre Company. Edu. Brooklyn College - BFA in Acting, Suffolk 33 County Community College - AS in Theatre Arts. She sends love and light to everyone who has supported her and danced with her. Michelle Silvani has been most frequently and most recently seen at the Flea in #serials@theflea. Other Flea credits include I Hate Fucking Mexicans by LEGOM, musical workshops of Iowa by Todd Almond and Jenny Schwartz, and Love Buggin’ by Nathan Leigh and Rebecca Schoffer. Some other favorite projects have been: Little Sally in Urinetown, Maggie the Pirate, (both with Momentum Repertory Company of which she is Secretary), EdWARd2 (Dublin), A Piece Of Humanity (El Teatro La Tea) and Van’s Sister in Dog Sees God at Adelphi University, from which she earned her B.F.A. in Acting. Lulu Ward Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lulu graduated from the New York Film Academy in 2011 and has since worked in film and theatre in the city. Recent shows include Job at The Flea, the Goold and Powers adaptation of Six Characters in Search of an Author (Step daughter), The Hans Project (Max Graf), Coriolanus (1st Senator), Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page), The Shakes: The Honest Whore (Doctor Benedict). Film credits include Supercapitalist (Lou), Halo-Hell Jumper (Doctor), The Puritans (Julie), Butterfly (Jasmine), The Austin Pendleton Project (Self). Future projects for Lulu are The Shakes: Romeo and THE FLEA THEATER Juliet at The Flea Theater and feature film,Entwined , currently in pre-production. Mari Yamamoto is an actress/violinist/singer/dancer hailing from Tokyo via London. She has trained extensively at the Lee Strasberg Film & Theatre Institute. Her recent NY credits include Aphrodite in Jason and the Argonauts on SummerStage NYC, Arkadina in The Seagull at The Theatre for The New City, world premiere of Miranda Huba’s Bloody Lullabies for Brave Women at MagicFutureBox, and various roles in Restoration Comedy and Job at The Flea Theater. Upcoming projects are Pornography for the People at HERE Arts Center as a part of the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival and Oedipus Rex at La MamaTheatre. For more info www.mariyamamoto.com Nectarine EP THE CREATIVE TEAM Tommy Smith (Playwright and Director) work includes Lotus Eaters EP (IRT Theater), Pigeon (Ensemble Studio Theatre; dir. Billy Carden), The Wife (Access Gallery; dir. May Adrales), White Hot (Here Arts Center; dir. May Adrales), Sextet (Washington Ensemble Theatre; dir. Roger Benington), PTSD (Ensemble Studio Theatre; dir. Billy Carden), Air Conditioning (Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference; dir. Steve Cosson), among others. His work has also appeared at PS 122, The Ontological Theatre, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, The Yale Cabaret; internationally, he has been produced in Prague, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Montreal, Berlin and Athens. His award-winning theatrical collaborations with Reggie Watts have played at The Public Theatre, Lamama, The Warhol Museum, MCA Chicago, ICA Boston, On The Boards and PICA: TBA, among others. He is the recipient of the PONY fellow at The Lark, a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, a recipient of the E.S.T. Sloan Grant, a winner of the Page 73 Productions Playwriting Fellowship, and a recipient of the Creative Capital award. Publications include Pigeon for Dramatists Play Service, White Hot in the New York Theatre Review. Recently, his feature filmFigment was optioned by Ridley Scott’s production company ScottFree. He is a graduate of the playwriting program at The Juilliard School. He lives in New York City. 4 Tom Costello (Additional Direction) is a Resident Director at The Flea where he recently directed The Wundelsteipen (and other difficult roles for young people) by Nick Jones. Other credits include Pipeline Theatre Company’s productions of Sleepless City by Tim Chawaga, Shakespeare the Dead by Alex Mills (Dream Up Festival) and Bubble and Squeak by Evan Twohy which was a finalist in the 2011 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. He has also directed numerous productions for Atlantic Acting School, where he is a faculty member. Tom received his BFA in Drama from NYU/Tisch. Benjamin H. Kamine (Additional Direction) recently directed the world premiere of Thomas Bradshaw’s Job at The Flea (Timeout Critics’ Pick, “a jolting treat” – Ben Brantley, New York Times). Other directing credits