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Two One-Acts
*All actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association **Jonathan Bank is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. ***Tuan means "Sir" in Malay October 3 - 18, 2003
Jonathan Bank (Director, One Day More) previously directed Othello for the Obie award winning National Asian American Theater Company (NAATCO) and is pleased to be returning. As Artistic Director of the Obie and Drama Desk Award winning Mint Theater Company, Bank has unearthed and produced 20 worthy but neglected plays including the critically acclaimed productions of D.H. Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law and of Arthur Schnitzler's Far and Wide (which he adapted and directed) both currently running in two separate theaters in 311 W. 43rd St. He is the editor of the newly published Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company (2002, Granville Press) - which includes his adaptations of Welcome to Our City and The House of Mirth. At the Mint he has directed: Mr. Pim Passes By, by A.A. Milne; Oroonoko, by Thomas Southerne; Quality Street, by J. M. Barrie; and The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton and Clyde Fitch. He directed three acclaimed productions of Pericles - one at the Mint, and two different productions for the Kings Company Shakespeare Company. Mr. Bank directed John Brown's Body, The Double Bass and Three Days of Rain for the Miniature Theater of Chester and Mr. Pim Passes By and Candida for the Peterborough Players. Before coming to the Mint Theater Company, Mr. Bank served as Literary Assistant for Roundabout Theater, Director of the Play Reading Series at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, and was a member of the professional acting company at the Fairmount Theater of the Deaf in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Kevin Bartlett (Tuan, Arsat) has the good fortune of working as a theatre artist for over 20 years, as an actor, producer, director and designer. Through wide open exploration, he has discovered that the process is the pay-off... the microscope of dramatic focus opens the gate to growth and understanding. He is grateful to the muses for all gifts received. Some favorite moments were provided by Long Days Journey Into Night, Sam Shepard, Willy the Shakes, Peter O'Toole, Indulgences In A Louisville Harem, CityStage Ensemble, and Fringe NYC. Currently he is also General Manager for BurgerBoy Productions, producers of Minimum Wage: Blue Code Ringo, winners of Time Out New York's "Best Comedy Musical of 2002." Jovinna Chan (Co-Artistic Director/Co-Founder, Fluid Motion) received her acting training from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Upon graduation in 1999, she continued her acting training through an internship program with Kings County Shakespeare Company that focused on classical training. Besides acting, Jovinna has also received training in modern dance. In the past three years, she has been involved in numerous productions (including The Rivals, The Tempest, Henry V, Punk Girls, The House of Bernarda Alba), staged readings (wAve), independent films (TEA), and collaborative projects in theater and dance (Dance Space Center). In March 2002, she co-founded Fluid Motion Theater & Film, Inc. Michelle Chen (Producer, Arsat) has worked on a variety of theatrical productions, including Fuenteovejuna (NAATCO; as Associate Producer), Down South (Rattlestick Theater; as Company Manager) and Fluid Motion's original production of Arsat (NY Fringe Festival, as Producer). She has also been involved with a number of independent films and documentaries, including Tea (Fluid Motion); Under: Elegy (Dragonlady Productions); Sidewalk (Midnight Magic Productions); Liz Mermin and Jenny Raskin's On Hostile Ground; Michael Apted's Married in America and Victoria Mills' Mothers and Daughters: Mirrors that Bind. After two years on staff at The Public Theater, she is now a Development Associate at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas and Producing Director of Fluid Motion Theater & Film, Inc. Ivanna Cullinan (Dramaturg, Arsat) has also worked with Fluid Motion as an actor for their workshop of Dear Felice. This past spring she directed Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3 for the Judith Shakespeare Company's Unplugged Series, and directed David's Red Haired Death for Creative Voices Theatre. She appeared in Funny at the Vital Theatre Company as well as Jig Saw with Sightlines Theatre, and will be the Princess of France in Judith Shakespeare's upcoming Unplugged of Love's Labor's Lost. Shayne Dukevitch (Assistant Stage Manager) is very happy to be working with NAATCO and Fluid Motion for the first time. She has stage managed with Ma-Yi Theater Company, Magic Bridge Theater Company and Theatreworks/USA. Lydia Gaston (Diamelen, Arsat) was last seen as Laurencia in NAATCO's production of Fuenteovejuna. She created the role of Alonay/Malika in Ma-Yi's Nikimalika/L'il Brown Brothers, and My Huoy in Pan Asian Rep's Cambodia Agonistes. Her B'way credits include the 1996 revival of The King and I (Lady Thiang), Jerome Robbins' B'way, Miss Saigon, The Red Shoes and Shogun. TV and film credits: featured role in The Sopranos and "the Woman" in Anniversary. While daughter Maya is in kindergarten Lydia continues to pursue her B.A. in theatre and dance at Empire State College. Mel Duane Gionson (Carvil, One Day More) just finished working with IMUA! Theatre Company in Karaoke Stories as the Karaoke King. Other credits include: New York - New York Shakespeare Festival; Manhattan Theatre Club; National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO); Pan Asian Repertory Theatre; and Second Generation Productions. Regional - The Long Wharf Theatre; McCarter Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Huntington Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Barter Theatre; InterAct Theatre; Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays; Philadelphia Theatre Co.; O'Neill Playwright's Conference. National Tour of the Broadway production of The King and I opposite Hayley Mills, Faith Prince, Marie Osmond, and Maureen McGovern. TV & Film - As the World Turns, The City, and A Price Above Rubies starring Rene Zellwegger (don't blink). He was born and raised in Waipahu, Hawaii. Thanks Mia, for continuing to make magic happen .... Jojo Gonzalez (Arsat, Capt. Hagberd) is happy to be back with NAATCO and very pleased to debut with Fluid Motion. He last appeared in the title role of the multi- OBIE Award winning play The Romance of Magno Rubio, co-produced by The Ma Yi Theatre Company and The Cultural Center of The Philippines. He will reprise the role at The Laguna Playhouse in California this fall. Off-Broadway: Fucking A, Dogeaters (The Public Theater), Watcher, Middle Finger, Li'l Brown Brothers, Mother Courage, Pinaytok (Ma-Yi); Salt (Actors Studio); School for Wives (NAATCO); Last Hand Laundry in Chinatown (La Mama); Mr. Porter and Mr. Shakespeare (Medicine Show). Regional: The Silence of God (CATF); Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse); The Good Earth (Bristol Riverside Theater); 90 North (Berkshire Theater Festival). TV: Time of Your Life (with Jennifer Love Hewitt), Borderline (with Sherry Stringfield), New York Undercover. Film: Disoriented (San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival). Awards: 2003 OBIE (The Romance of Magno Rubio), 1995 OOBR (School For Wives), 1991-1993 Meet the Composer Grant. Love to SanMaZoSa, The Dogeaters Vortex past, present and future ...In Memory of James Wilson Barbosa... Karen Hergesheimer (Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of Henderson State University. She has stage managed for the Barrow Group in NY and was an apprentice at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre in 2002-03. She has also stage managed for the Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival, Theatre West Virginia, and First Frontier, Inc. Maile Holck (Bessie, One Day More) This is Maile's first show with NAATCO. She was last seen in 36 Views at the Geva Theatre in beautiful Rochester, NY. Other roles include: May, Fool for Love; Poppy, Noises Off; Katherine/Jaquenetta, Love's Labor's Lost (International Production, Recklinghausen, Germany); Joan, Joan in Her Own Voice; Strange Lady, Man of Destiny; Adela, The House of Bernarda Alba; Anna, The Baltimore Waltz. Maile is a fairly recent graduate of the graduate acting program at the University of Washington. Michael Jerome Johnson (Fight Director/Arsat) is making his NYC debut as a fight director. Later in October his work will also be seen in The Lady Cavaliers' Women at-Arms Festival, at Theatre for the New City. He has worked as a fight director at such companies as The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Ford's Theatre, Theatre at Lime Kiln, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Project, and Theatre of the First Amendment. He has taught and/or choreographed fights at the University of Maryland, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Catholic University, University of Virginia (guest teacher), Mc Daniel College, American University (guest teacher), Georgetown University, RADA (guest teacher), and his alma mater, North Carolina School of the Arts. Michael has also taught at workshops in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and London. He created the knife fighting discipline for the Society of American Fight Directors and holds the ranks of Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the organization. Jesse Jou (Assistant Director, Arsat) is delighted to be working on Arsat. An actor director, he trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and studied with the School for Russian Art Theatre. Previous directing credits include The Bear, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Foreigner. Tim Kang (Brother, Arsat) NYC Theatre: Karaoke Stories (IMUA! Theatre Company), Masha No Home (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Museum (Keen Company) Regional Theatre: Mother Courage and Her Children (ART), Richard II (ART) Training: MFA - A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University. Mia Katigbak (Artistic/Producing Director) is the co-founder of NAATCO. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School for Arts and Sciences. Acting: New York: Dogeaters, Sound and Beauty (Public Theatre); Watcher, Flipzoids, Middle Finger, Swooney Planet (Ma-Yi Theater); 99 Histories (Cherry Lane Alternative); Love Seats for Virginia Woolf, (A:D/B Project Space); several for NAATCO; New York Theatre Workshop; Women's Project; Pan-Asian Rep; New Federal Theatre; Henry Street Settlement. Regional: McTeague (Berkeley Repertory Theater). Directing: Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Chekhov's Swan Song (NAATCO); Playwrights Horizons' Playwrighting Workshop; Writers' Theatre. Production work: Westside Arts Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, Pan-Asian Rep. John Ko (Musician, Arsat) began studying percussion in 1991 with the New York based Taiko (Japanese Drum) ensemble, Soh Daiko, with whom he still performs. In 1996, he began his studies of the Poongmul and Samulnori styles of Korean drumming with Shimnyung Pae at the Center for Korean American Culture. At times, he has also performed with the Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble and TaikoZa. Past performances include Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, SummerStage, an appearance on Sesame Street, Celebrate Brooklyn, Dance Theater Workshop, The Public Theater, and throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He has taught taiko extensively and will soon begin youth & adult taiko classes at the Chinatown YMCA. Sarah Lambert (Set Designer) Previous designs with NAATCO include: Air Raid, Fuenteovejuna, The House of Bernarda Alba, Othello, A Phoenix Too Frequent (& The Harmfulness of Tobacco), Falsettoland, Long Day's Journey into Night, Ah Wilderness!, The School for Wives, and The Cherry Orchard. Some recent `03 projects include: Last of the Suns (Ma-Yi Theater), Dating Games (Winged Angel Productions NYC & LA) and Syncopation (Penguin Rep). Other designs include: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (NY, London, Toronto, San Francisco and LA), Spectators at an Event, a dance piece, for Susan Marshall & Company (BAM Next Wave Festival and tour), as well as the usual assortment of regional credits, college productions and quirky downtown projects. She is an Artistic Associate with Theater of Necessity (Mephisto and Stunt Man). She also worked as a dramaturg on The Laramie Project (NYC, regional, and HBO productions). She has a BA from Cornell and an MFA from Yale. Current projects include: The Unexpected Man (Penguin Rep), The Spire Grill (Marymount Manhattan) and a rep theater design for the Pearl Theater's `03-`04 season, beginning with The Rivals (now running) and The Merchant of Venice soon to join it in rep. Dave Morreale (Sound Design) graduated from New York University with a major in Music Technology and recently designed the sound for Karaoke Stories for IMUA! Theater Company. His sound design for NAATCO's Air Raid was widely acclaimed and he also played Hugo, the Sound Man, in NAATCO's Fuenteovejuna. His experience includes both stage and screen productions. Dave has worked as a live sound technician for Camp Broadway and for NYU's Dance Education Master's class recitals. In 2001, Dave won the award for Sound Design at the NYU First Run Festival for the film Little India. Stephen Petrilli (Lighting Designer) has designed several shows for New York's Pearl Theatre Company, Second Generation Productions, Melting Pot Theatre Company, and the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO). In the dance world, he has designed for Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Shapiro & Smith Dance and Performance Artist Judith Ren-Lay. Regional theatre credits include designs for The Village Theatre in Seattle, State Theatre Company in Austin and the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Stephen also spent five years touring as the Lighting/Sound Supervisor for Pilobolus. He and his girlfriend Shannon had a baby boy, Liam, in December. Among them they have three cats. Christine Simpson (Director and Adapter, Arsat; Co-Artistic Director and Co Founder, Fluid Motion) New York directing credits: wAve by Sung Rno (a staged reading at The Joseph Papp Public Theater); The Evils of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov (Jose Quintero Theatre); the original production of Arsat at the 7th Annual NYC Fringe Festival; Lee, Ms. Simpson's adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic East of Eden (Blue Heron Theatre). Ms. Simpson also assistant directed New Georges/Reverie Productions' Self-Defense by Carson Kreitzer. Ms. Simpson's first film, TEA (The Incredible True Story Of Two Complete Strangers Who Stumbled Into Each Other's Lives And Were Too Oblivious To Realize It), was an official selection of the 26th annual Asian American International Film Festival (NYC); the 5th Annual "Chicks with Flicks" Film Festival (NYC); 1st Annual Reel Venus Film Festival (NYC); and the 4th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (CA). TEA has also been screened at the Miami Beach Film Society and the Cape May New Jersey Film Festival. In March 2002, Ms. Simpson co-founded Fluid Motion Theater & Film, Inc. Shelley Troupe (Executive Director, NAATCO) began her association with NAATCO in 1995 by serving as a Marketing Intern. She joined NAATCO's Board in 1999. In addition to her duties as NAATCO's Executive Director, Shelley also serves as an Administrator of the George Balanchine Foundation and works in the office of Waxman Williams Entertainment. Previously, she worked for five years as General Manager of the Irish Repertory Theatre in Chelsea. She holds a BA in Speech Communication and Theatre from Albion College (Michigan) and an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University. Elly van Horne (Costume Designer) Favorite shows for NAATCO include: Fuenteovejuna, The House of Bernarda Alba, Falsettoland, and He Who Says Yes/He Who Says No. Recent projects: Love Seats for Virginia Woolf at the A:DB Project Space, Sick With Lust: Fire Island Tales by Andrew Holleran at Judy's Chelsea, Mephisto for the Theatre of Necessity, Hai! a dance piece for Hunter College and The Flashing Stream for Mirage Theatre Company. Robert Wu (Harry, One Day More) credits include Regional: The King and I (Downtown Cabaret Theater); Cyrano de Bergerac (Hangar Theater); Twelfth Night (Hamptons Shakespeare Co.); Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare & Co.); The Misanthrope (UMASS); Tonight at 8:30 (Williamstown); The Long Walk, Jack and Jill (Guthrie Theater Lab). New York City: Julius Caesar (The Public); A Doll's House (Wings Theater). Film: Blindside. T.V.: Guiding Light; All My Children. B.A. from UMASS Amherst; M.F.A. from NYU's Graduate Acting Program. Wynn Yamami (Musician, Arsat) has performed as a taiko drummer with Toshiko Akiyoshi, dancer Sachiyo Ito, and Soh Daiko (NYC). He received an advanced degree in piano performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and has worked as a keyboardist for funk and jazz bands, as well as numerous musical theater productions. He has written on Asian American music in Dialogue, and popular music in the forthcoming Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music. Currently he is writing his dissertation in historical musicology at New York University. An earlier version of Arsat was produced at The New York International Fringe Festival, a production of The Present Company, featuring Pun Bandhu, Jovinna Chan, Eric Hanson, and Kurt Uy. One Day More is made possible in part with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts. Arsat is made possible in part by the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. There will be a short pause between Arsat and One Day More. Special thanks to: Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater, Christine Barratt of Tirec Corporation, Susan Bernfield and New Georges, Jerry Browning, Cathy Bruce, Ariadne Condos, Andrew Eisenman, Ching Gonzalez, Michael Johnson, Kathleen Eads Orbach, Jorge Ortoll and Ma-Yi Theater, Tan Ping, Tony Sachs, Stephen Stout, Ardelle Striker and Blue Heron, Jane Titus, Henry Yuk, and the original cast and crew of ARSAT: Pun Bandhu, Jovinna Chan, Maggie de Castro, Eric Hanson, and Kurt Uy The producers wish to thank the TDF Costume Collection for its assistance in this production. This production is being presented through a Baruch Performing Arts Residency to NAATCO. The mission of the Baruch Performing Arts Center is to serve the Baruch community by fording ways to integrate the performing arts into all aspects of the life of the college, including the interests of the students, faculty, staff and Alumni of the Baruch Community. This will be done through programming and allied activities that support and enrich the educational curriculum throughout the college as well as by opening new areas of interest to promote growth of the students as individuals educated for life as well as work. The BPAC will reach out to the arts community and assist in the creation and nurturing of new projects and classic works. Director - Eric Krebs
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