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Pictured: Xen Theo and
George Ashiotis in a
scene from "
All My Sons" (1989).
Photo by Carol Rosegg.
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GEORGE ASHIOTIS (Co-Artistic Director, Actor)
has been playing around the New York City theater scene for a long, long time. With the exception of The Rules of Charity, he has performed in every TBTB production since the 80s, and has acted in numerous Off-Broadway shows. He performed with Richard Harris in Julius Caesar in Scranton, PA, and worked with Woody Allen in the movie Everybody Says I Love You. His TV credits include, most notably, several episodes of The Guiding Light. Ashiotis sits on the Board of the Alliance of Resident Theatres of New York. "A man's fear of his fate is often his fate. Leaping to avoid it, he meets it." This performance is dedicated to the memory of Evanthia Ashiotis. "For you, Ma!" |
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J. DAVID BRIMMER (Fight Director, Fight Master-SAFD) has choreographed some stuff (New York premieres of Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The American Pilot, Our Leading Lady, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe, current productions of Come Back, Little Sheba, Crimes of the Heart, Almost an Evening), had the pleasure of playing at some wonderful venues (NY Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, Atlantic Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre for a New Audience, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Center Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, North Shore Music Theatre), taught a few places (NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, RADA – Guest Instructor, Strasberg Institute, Yale), and had the privilege of working with some great folks (Stella Adler, Joe Chaikin, JoAnne Akalaitis, Franco Zeffirelli). "Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone." G. Fox |
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CHLOE CHAPIN (Costume Designer) In New York has designed costumes for The Culture Project, El Museo del Barrio (A Soldier's Fugue), The Flea Theater (The Director), AlterEgo Productions (A First Class Man), NYMTF (Behind the Limelight), NYC Fringe Festival (Hermanas, The Delicate Business of Boy and Miss Girl), and Chocolate Factory (Pot au Noir). Chloe has also designed for Princeton University, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale Drama School, Yale Cabaret, Empty Space, Book-It Repertory Theater, Theater Schmeater, and the Seattle Film Festival. Chloe also works as an Assistant Costume Designer (The Public Theater, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club and, most recently, for the new Broadway musical Passing Strange). A native of Santa Cruz, CA, Chloe has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology. |
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DAVE CHONTOS (Production Manager) is a graduate of Bard College, holding Bachelor of Arts Degrees in both Drama and Dance/Choreography. He has worked as a performing arts consultant in Prescott, Arizona, creating a performing arts program in conjunction with Yavapai County Health Department marrying the performing arts with public health curriculum. Dave has also taught drama through the New York City Housing Authority's Performing Arts Unit to college-bound high school students throughout the five boroughs. Currently Dave is pursuing his passion of becoming a full-time working actor in New York, as well as writing and bringing to the stage his first production, Stiletto Divinity. This is his fourth production with TBTB. |
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NATHAN K. CLAUS (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: November. Off-Broadway: Shout! The Mod Musical, Manhattan Theatre Club (Blackbird), Playwrights Horizons (Grey Gardens), Ma-Yi (No Foreigners Beyond This Point), INTAR (The Cook), Signature (The Baltimore Waltz), Second Stage (The Mystery Plays), Specific (People Are Living There), Pan Asian Rep. (China Doll: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl), adobe (Superpowers). Regional: Philadelphia Theatre (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire), Provincetown Rep. (A Girl Called Dusty). Proud member of AEA. |
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KIMOTHY CRUSE (Production Stage Manager) has been a professional actor, director, producer, and writer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in film and television. His credits include: Broadway: The Little Foxes with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton (Assoc. Director). Off-Broadway: The Threepenny Opera with Bea Arthur, Charlotte Rae, George S. Irving, Bob Cuccioli and Donna McKechnie, Weird Romance, Portraits, Fanny, Best Foot Forward, Perfect Crime, Mary Todd...A Woman Apart, A Servant of Two Masters, The Return of the Prodigal, I Knock at the Door, and Pictures in the Hallway (PSM). Regional: On a Clear Day...with Robert Goulet (Ass't. Director), Pal Joey with Dixie Carter and Elaine Stritch (Ass't. Director), SadieThompson with June Havoc (PSM), Colette with Leslie Caron (PSM), Come Back, Little Sheba with Donna McKechnie (PSM), Mary Todd...A Woman Apart, The Tillie Project, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, The Poetry of Pizza, Footloose, Jekyll & Hyde, 42nd Street, Cabaret, South Pacific, Aida, The Full Monty and How The Other Half Loves (PSM). Mr. Cruse has directed over 60 productions in his career and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. |
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NICHOLAS LAZZARO (Production Manager) is thrilled to be working on his fourth production with TBTB. He loves working with passionate artists, and looks forward to many productions with the company. Nick is currently the Technical Director for Second Story Rep, Seattle. He continues to enjoy working for the wonderful people of this company. |
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GREGG MOZGALA (Actor) is an actor and writer. His last role with TBTB was as the Narrator in the NYC premiere of John Belluso's (The Rules of Charity). In New York, he has also appeared in productions with several other companies, including The Brick Theater (True Life Story of...Your Name Here; Action Jesus!), Prospect Theater Company (Midnight is Where the Day Begins), The National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped (Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris), Imua! Theatre Company (The Greeks), Visible Theatre (True Story Project: Sex!), and the Ensemble Studio Theatre (The Roosevelt Cousins Thoroughly Sauced). His regional credits include his original works Game Legs, which he wrote and starred in at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and his play DIS'D which was included in the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Festival this past summer. He is currently playwright in residence at the Visible Theatre. |
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IKE SCHAMBELAN (Co-Artistic Director, Director) started TBTB in 1979. He has directed at the Long Wharf Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The New Dramatists, Equity Library Theatre, the Pittsburgh Public Theater and the George Street Playhouse. He is a member of Actors' Equity and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and holds a Bachelors degree from Swarthmore College and a Doctor of Fine Arts from Yale Drama School. He credits his interest in theater by the blind to his blind grandmother who lived with the family from the time he was six until she died when he was ten. They went to the movies together and curled up in her bed on Monday nights to listen to Lux Radio Theatre. |
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BERT SCOTT (Set and Lighting Designer) Previously for TBTB: The Rules of Charity, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Oedipus, Dial M for Murder, When I'm 64, and Ten Little Indians. Bert has designed lights and/or scenery for many regional theaters, scenery for Dora the Explorer Live for Nickelodeon, and has taught on the design faculties of the University of Michigan and Binghamton University-SUNY. Currently, he is head of the theater design and technology program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Upcoming: Macbeth for the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. |
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NICHOLAS VISELLI (Actor) A company member since 1998, Nick has appeared in numerous shows and readings with TBTB. Most recently he was seen as L.H./Mr. Millicent in the NYC premiere of John Belluso's The Rules of Charity. Other notable company credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Ted Hughes's adaptation of Seneca's Oedipus, Dial M for Murder, When I'm 64, Brecht on Brecht, Murder in Baker Street, and Vassa. In New York he has also worked with the Pearl Theatre, Performers Access Studio, Chashama's OASIS, and The Riverside Shakespeare Co., to name a few. Enjoy the show! |
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EMILY YOUNG (Actor) is thrilled to be working with Theater Breaking Through Barriers on this exciting production of Romeo and Juliet. Recent credits: Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, Alice in Henry V and Katherine in Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Anya in The Cherry Orchard at Trinity Rep, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium, Tracy in Peter Nachtrieb’s Colorado at SPF and Emma in Stephen Karam’s Emma at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Festival. As a playwright, she has had her play The Calamity of Kat Kat and Willie mentioned by NYTheatre.com as one of the “Best of 2006.” Acting Training: Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium. |
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