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The National Asian American Theatre Company
presents
by Federico Garcia Lorca Adapted and Directed by
*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association Chorus: Nikki Calonge, Ann Chow, Miyoko Conley, Keiko Green, Allison Hiroto, Loresa Lanceta, Juni Ng, Indika Senanayake, Kiat Sing Teo, Kristin Villanueva, Simmone Yu, Rochelle Zimmerman.
+Set adapted from original design by Sarah Lambert, The House of Bernarda Alba, NAATCO 2000 NAATCO's all-female cast tore into their roles, crafting each character with such care and
attention that after a few minutes you hardly noticed the actresses' ethnicity.
Ching Valdes-Aran is so entirely at home in Bernarda's skin, she seems born to the role - when she
issues an order, it's clear why all who hear her obey...
Chay Yew's adaptation of Lorca's masterwork adds a chorus of women who serve as neighbors in the
story and who also provide the sound of rainfall, the clapping and pounding of a flamenco beat,
and the crash of horse hooves against the house. It's in the use of the chorus that Yew's version
of the play is most successful.
Photos by Bruce Johnson Ali Ahn (Adela) most recently appeared in Strike-Slip at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Other theater credits: As You Like It (A Noise Within), The Winchester House (Theatre at Boston Court), Moonshine (Redcat and Edinburgh Fringe Festival), New Works Festival (Mark Taper Forum), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatricum Botanicum). Film: "Present," "Love, Fish and Teeth," "The Visitor." Education: M.F.A., CalArts, B.A. Yale University. Nikki Calonge (Chorus) is a senior at New York University studying theatre at Tisch School of the Arts. This summer and fall she plans to study and travel to Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Love to family and friends and many thanks to the cast and crew of this production! Michael G. Chin (Fight Choreographer) is recognized as a Fight Master, Fight Director and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. He has choreographed on Broadway, Off Broadway and at Regional Theatres throughout the country. He is on adjunct faculty at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. In 2005 he won the outstanding Fight Direction Award from the New York Theatre Fringe Festival. The House of Bernarda Alba marks Mr. Chin's 7th production with NAATCO. Ann Chow (Chorus) is thrilled to be a part of this NAATCO production of The House of Bernarda Alba. She recently graduated from Baruch College, majoring in Theatre and Music. Her previous acting credits include Dr. Faustus: Occult Remix (Baruch College), The Overcoat (Baruch College), and Six Characters (Still) in Search of an Author (Middlesex University, London). Thanks to Mia for this wonderful opportunity. Miyoko Conley (Chorus) is thrilled to be a part of The House of Bernarda Alba. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and some of her past credits include The Oresteia (Apollo), Equus (Jill), and Pacific Overtures (Kurogo). Recently she wrote and directed a one-act play, Stones of Eternal Light. Many thanks to Mia, Chay, the cast and crew, her parents, and Alex. Keiko Green (Chorus) is a student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating this December from the Experimental Theatre Wing. She is ecstatic to be working with NAATCO again, this time as a performer. Special thanks to Mia for this amazing opportunity, and endless love to her Amsterdam bones! Carmen M. Herlihy (Martirio) NY: columbinus (NYTW; Drama League Nomination for Ensemble), The Thugs (Soho Rep), Misterioso 119 (Act French/Lark), Romeo and Juliet (RTW), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Two Rooms (Atlantic), HamletMachine, Ahraishak, (Theater Mitu). London: Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Vagina Monologues. Regional: Hartford Stage, Berkshire Theater Festival, McCarter, RMT, Mark Taper Forum, NCT. TV: "Six Degrees" (ABC). Film, upcoming: "Tiny Dancer" (Dir. Eva Husson), "The Trouble with Cali (Dir. Paul Sorvino). Training: BFA, NYU Tisch; ETW Amsterdam; RADA in London. Allison Hiroto (Chorus) is proud to be working with NAATCO and this wonderful company. National/regional credits include: Pocahontas, Annie Get Your Gun, Sadako and a Thousand Cranes, The Mikado, Warrior Sisters, Motel. Allison is a member of the Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa where she performed in Seven Against Thebes, Dionysus, Mythos Oedipus, Perseus and Herakles via Phaedra. She is also a member of the Yara Arts Group, Loco 7, and Living Voices. Mails Holck (Magdalena) After a brief hiatus from theatre, Maile is pleased to be working once again with NAATCO. Credits include One Day More (NAATCO), Mizu no Eki.(Pacific Performance Project in NY and Japan), 36 Views (Geva Theatre Center and Portland Center Stage). MFA, University of WA, Graduate Acting. She will next be seen on the beach in Hawaii with her niece and nephew, Kylie and Jordan. Mia Katigbak (Maria Josefa) is Artistic Producing Director and co-founder of NAATCO. She has acted with NAATCO as Croon in Antigone, Ivanov, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, among others. Other NY: As Yet Thou Art Young and Rash (Target Margin); Tight Embrace (Inter); Light Raise the Roof, Architecture of Loss (NYTW); Dogeaters, Sound and Beauty (Public Theatre); Ma-Yi Theater; Women's Project; Pan-Asian Rep; New Federal Theatre; Henry Street Settlement. Regional: Cocktail (Swine Palace); McTeague (Berkeley Repertory Theater). B.A., Bernard College, M.A., Columbia University's Graduate School for Arts and Sciences. Sue Jean Kim (Amelia) Off-Broadway: BFE (Playwrights Horizons/Long Wharf, World Premiere), The Imaginary Invalid (The Pearl Theatre Company), Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays (Drama League), Chuck Mee's Mail Order Bride (World Premiere). Regional: Jennifer Marcus in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Portland Center Stage/San Jose Rep), O'Neill Playwrights Conference, New York Stage & Film, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Drama League Directors' Retreat. Film & TV: "Strip Search" (dir. Sidney Lumet), The Jury (Fox). MFA from NYU Graduate Acting. Kati Kuroda (Poncia) NAATCO's The House of Bernarda Alba (2000). Born and raised in Hawaii, she Is Senior Artist with Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and has acted/directed In a number of productions for them. Others: the Acting Company, The Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ma-Yi, Shakespeare Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, etc. For the past three years she has been teaching in Hawaii and is thrilled to have another opportunity to work with Chay and NAATCO on The House of Bernarda Alba. Loresa Lanceta (Chorus) is honored to be working with NAATCO on Bernarda Alba. Credits: NYC: The Rocky Horror Tribute Show (American Airlines Theatre), The Awakening (Workshop Theatre Co.). Regional credits include: My Fair Lady at Actors Theatre of Louisville and The Cleveland Play House, Aida (Nehebka) at Count Basle Regional Theatre, Joseph ... Dreamcoat (Narrator), Evita, and Big River. Loresa Is a recent graduate of the University of Louisville's Anthropology department. Thanks to Chay and Mla for this wonderful opportunity. Hwi-Won Lee (Associate Costume Designer) Costume designs include As You Like It directed by Di Trevis, Ana 311 and A River Apart by Anjall Vashi and The Tempest by Neal Freeman. Dance: Dust choreographed by Camille Brown, Stream and Holding Time by Christen Von Howard with Alvin Alley. Costume assistant to Robert Perdziola for Anna Karenina at Florida Grand Opera and to Clint Ramos for The Taming of the Shrew at Dallas Theatre Center. Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams (Set Design) Recent credits: The Mikado (Opera Theatre of St. Louis); 9 Parts of Desire (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Points of Departure, Tight Embrace, Kissing Fidel (Intar); Yale Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, McCarter Theatre's Education Tours, Northwest Asian American Theatre, Yale Opera, HERE, PS 122, Urban Stages. Upcoming projects include SummerFest 2007 (NJ Opera); Topdog/Underdog (Actors Theatre of Louisville). MFA, Yale School of Drama. Aaron Meadow (Assistant Lighting designer) works as a freelance lighting designer. He is the resident designer of Stamford Theatre Works, in Connecticut, Is Lighting Director and stage manager for the Urban Bush Women Dance Co., and in television, he is Lighting Director for the Versus Network's nationally televised, in studio television coverage of the NHL (hockey) games. Juni Ng (Chorus) received her MFA in Acting from Columbia University this year. Before Columbia, she obtained her BA in Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Past credits include: A Midsummer Night's Dream (CSC), Metamorphoses - Tales From Ovid (Riverside Church Theater), No to Fear! No to Abuse! Yes to Freedom! (New York and Chicago), The Gnadiges Fraulein (Columbia University) and The Seagull (Columbia University). Fabian Obispo (Composer) NAATCO's The House of Bernarda Alba (2000). MaYi: No Foreigners Beyond This Point (Hewes nomination), The Square; Savage Acts. Off-Broadway: Public: most recently, Durango and Two Sisters And A Piano; MCC, MTC, New Group, Atlantic, Vineyard, CTC, Primary Stage. Regional: Arena, Goodman, Guthrie, DC's Shakespeare Theatre, ACT, Oregon Shakespeare, Seattle Rep., Cincinnati Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Kennedy Center and Alabama Shakespeare. Natsuko Ohama (Angustias) NAATCO's The House of Bemarde Alba (2000). She is a founding member of Shakespeare and Company Lenox, Mass., and Senior Artist at Pan Asian Rep New York. A Drama Desk nominated actress, she has portrayed roles ranging from Juliet to Lady Macbeth from Hamlet to Prospero (Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company). Film and TV work includes "Speed," "Pirates of the Caribbean II," the cult series "Forever Knight" and "In Case of Emergency." Recent theatre work: Kirk Douglas Theater in Dogeaters as Imelda Marcos. This Is for Lilah Kan! Stephen Petrilli (Lighting Designer) NAATCO: the 2000 production of The House of Bernarda Alba, among many others. Several for The Pearl Theatre Company, Second Generation Productions, Melting Pot Theatre Company. Dance: Pilobolus Dance Theatre (with whom he toured as Lighting/Sound Supervisor for five years), Shapiro & Smith Dance, Ailey II. Regional: Penguin Rep, The Village Theatre (Seattle), State Theatre Company (Austin), Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. He and his wife Shannon have a four year old boy, Liam. Clint Ramos (Costume Designer) New York: Public Theater, Foundry Theater, Culture Project, Ma-Yi, Women's Project, MCC, Mint, Red Bull Theater, EST, Vineyard, Play Company, SPF, DTW, Rude Mechanicals, among others. Regional: Asolo Repertory, Folger, American Repertory Theater, Centerstage Baltimore, Merrimack Repertory, Dallas Theater Center, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Chautauqua Theater Company, East West Players, Opera Boston, Opera Theater of St. Louis, among others. International: Stuttgarter Ballet (Stuttgart), Noorlaand Opera/Rijksteatern (Stockholm), DeNederlandse Opera (Amsterdam), Teatro Pilipino (Manila), Kanon Dance (St. Petersburg), Barbican (London). Mildred Ruiz (Choreographer) Founding member, UNIVERSES. Upcoming: Co-Writer/Performer: Ameriville and Blue Suite, (first presented as Eyewitness Blues, NYTW), both directed by Chay Yew. Co-Writer, One Shot in Lotus Position for the War Anthology; Rhythmicity (Humana Festival 2003); UNIVERSES: Slanguage (NYTW); The Ride (PS122), Live (Chile); Ubu: Enchained (Teatre Polski, Poland). Publications: Universes - The Bic Banc. Plays. Poetry & Process (January 2008, TCG); SLANGUAGE In The Fire This Time (TCG). Co-Founder, The Point CDC (1999 OBIE Award Grant & BESSIE Awards); Board Member, Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET); National Performance Network (NPN). NYTW Usual Suspect. www.universesonstage.com and www.myspace.com/universesmusic Jeanne Sakata (Beggar Woman/Prudencia) LA Ovation Award: Best Lead Actress (Chay Yew's Red). East West Players (Maria Callas in Master Class), Public Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, ACT, South Coast Rep, La Jolla, BRT, A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman, Syracuse Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company. Film: "XXX2," "The Sweetest Thing," "American Fusion." TV: "Desperate Housewives," "ER," "Threat Matrix," "Presidio Med," "Line of Fire," "I Got You." Playwright: Dawn's Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi, premiering at EWP in November. Indika Senanayake (Chorus) is from Sri Lanka and graduated this May from Columbia University's MFA Acting program. Recent roles include Puck in A Midsummer Nights' Dream (Classic Stage Company), Nurse/Messenger in Women of Trachis (Target Margin Theatre) and Patachara in Confluence (Guthrie Studio). She is delighted to be working on her first show with NAATCO. Shannon Sexton (Assistant Stage Manager) is in New York pursuing her career as a starving artist. She is a graduate from Keene State College with a degree in Acting and Directing. She !s also a graduate of the National Theater Institute and has studied at the St. Petersburg Theater Arts Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. Thanks to these gorgeous women who, in every way, have livened my spirit. Sophia Skiles (Blanca) is a NYC-based actor and educator. Credits: productions directed by Richard Foreman, Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart, David Herskovits, Ralph Penia, Mary Zimmerman. Member: Crossing Jamaica Avenue, Local 116 Theater Company, the Butane Group, Baubo Performance Project (Chicago). Currently, Guest Artist/Visiting Faculty at Mount Holyoke College. Sophia is a lead organizer for the OBIE-winning THAW (Theaters Against War). Jacob Javits Fellow, Columbia University (MFA, Acting); BS (Performance Studies) Northwestern University. Kat Stroot (Stage Manager), a graduate of NYU's ETW, works as an actor and stage manager in New York and abroad. SM credits include: As Yet Though Art Young and Rash (Target Margin); La Vida Es Sueho (Amnesty International); Five Aerial Scenes from Troilus and Cressida (Tectonic Theater Co./NYU). Acting: Ghost of Christmas past/Tiny Tim, A Christmas Carol (ADGE); Dill, To Kill a Mockingbird (TITO); Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables (Smulowitz productions). Love to James & my family. Kiat Sing Teo (Chorus) is a third year MFA Acting candidate at Columbia University. New York credits: Measure For Measure (New Lions Theater Company), Fete De La Null (dir. Kim Weild, Columbia Stages). Singapore credits: Wayang Tempest (3.14 Company, Life! Theatre Award Nomination), The Selfish Giant (Singapore Repertory Theatre), A Doll's House (Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble), Sampek Engtay (The Theatre Practice), Staying Alive (The Necessary Stage), Bernard's Story (Theatreworks). Dax Valdes (Music Director) is originally from San Francisco. Also a performer, recent credits include Animal Farm, Arabian Nights, Measure For Measure, and Gypsy. Other credits: McCarter Theater, HERE Arts Center, Vital Children's Theatre, NYMF, New York Fringe Festival, Gallery Players, Cohoes Music Hall, Pittsburgh Playhouse, PCPA Theaterfest, Hope Summer Repertory, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Education: BFA Musical Theater from Point Park College and Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Thanks Mia and Ching! Ching Valdes Aran (Bernarda) NAATCO: Swansong, The House of Bernarda Alba (2000). Broadway: The Wild Party, Macbeth (Lady M). Other: The Public, La Mama, Delacorte, Ma-Yi, Women's Project, NYTW, Foundry, Pan Asian, HERE, Mabou Mines, A.C.T., Magic, Yale Rep, Arena Stage, La Jolla, Cincinnati Playhouse, ATL, Kennedy Center, Amore Theatre (Greece), Berlin Festspiele (John Jesurun). Directing/Choreography: La Mama, Penumbra, Ma-Yi, Damrosch Park/Lincoln Ctr., Wake Up Call Festival/Public, New World, DTW, TerreDeScene/France, Edinburgh. Film/TV: "Across the Universe" (Julie Taymor), "FEEL" (Matt Mahurin), HBO, ABC, CBS, NBC. Awards: OBIE, FOX Fellow, Rockefeller MAP, Spencer Cherashore, Charles Bowden, ACC Fellow. Kristin Villanueva (Chorus), born and raised in Manila, Philippines, moved to Arlington, VA at 16 and began her acting career with Firebelly Productions. Professional credits: Firebelly Productions' Waiting for Godot (as Pozzo) in the Czech Republic; as Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus in TheatreWorks Colorado's production of Comedy of Errors. She is a recent graduate of the Acting Conservatory at SUNY Purchase, where she worked with Dean Irby, Lisa Benavides, Tracy Bersley, David Bassuk, and John Gould Rubin. Chay Yew (Adaptor/Director) Chay Yew's plays include Porcelain, A Language of Their Own, Red, A Beautiful Country, Wonderland, Question 27 Question 28 and A Distant Shore. His other work includes adaptations, A Winter People (based on Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard) and Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, and a musical Long Season. His work has been produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Royal Court Theatre (London), Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theatre Club, Wilma Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, Portland Center Stage, East West Players, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Perseverance Theatre, Dad's Garage, Singapore Repertory Theatre and TheatreWorks Singapore. He is also the recipient of the London Fringe Award for Best Playwright and Best Play, George and Elisabeth Marton Playwriting Award, GLAAD Media Award, APGF Community Visibility Award, Made in America Award,AEA/SAG/AFTRA 2004 Diversity Honor, and Robert Chesley Award; he has also received grants from the McKnight Foundation and the TCG/Pew National - Residency Program. His plays are published by Grove Press. He's presently editing 3.0, an anthology of new Asian American plays for TCG Publications. As a director, he most recently directed Naomi lizuka's Strike-Slip in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. His New York production credits include Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, NAATCO and Ma-Yi Theatre Company. Regional production credits include Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf, Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kennedy Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, Empty Space, Portland Center Stage, East West Players, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Gave Theater Center, Laguna Playhouse, Theatre at Boston Court, Highways Performance Space, Gala Hispanic Theatre, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, Northwest Asian American Theatre, Asian American Theatre Company, Talk and Squawk, Smithsonian Institute, and University of California San Diego. His opera credits include the world premieres of Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang's Ainadamar (co-production with Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Los Angeles Philharmonic) and Rob Zuidam's Rage D'Amors (Tanglewood). He is also a recipient of the Obie and DramaLogue Award for direction. An alumnus of New Dramatists, he also serves on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group and the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Simmone Yu (Chorus) is thrilled to be a part of this production. Her most recent stage credits include The Vagina Monologues (The Stiletto Project), The Slash (The Looking Glass Forum), and Sabotage (Small Pond Entertainment). Film credits: "Elise". Her own play, Always Family, which she co-wrote and starred in, will be opening at The Kirk on Theater Row in October. Education: BFA, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. Thanks to Mia and many broken legs to the cast! Rochelle Zimmerman (Chorus) Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, England. UK theatre: Hedda Gabler (Hedda), A Winter's Tale (Perdita), Michael Crompton's Sharks Never Sleep (Annie Lynch). NY Theatre: Antigone (title role), Three Sisters (Natasha), The Tennessee Williams Project (dir. Alec Baldwin). Member: Judy Blazer's theater company, The Artist's Crossing. Upcoming: I Dig Doug at the NY Fringe festival, an original work co-authored with Karen DiConcetto. For more info: www.myspace.com/idigdougfringenyc. Special thanks: Paula Berggren, Steven Chaikelson, Laura Chen-Schultz, Catherine Coray, Vinny Burich; Ariadne Condos, Romy Dorotan and Amy Besa of Cendrillon; Gerik Goncalves, Lalla Grimes, Intar (Eduardo Machado, Megan Smith, Jose Sanchez, Lorenzo Mans); Will MacAdams, John McDermott, Michael Ou, Fred Small; Micah Valdes |
