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Half Life -- Playwright, Director, Cast, Production Team
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Robert Moulthrop, playwright/producer, is a playwright whose work has been seen at Vital Theatre, at the First Downtown Arts Festival, and at Mottola Theatre Company's Cherry Picking events.  A graduate of Brandeis University (BA, Music) and Catholic University of America (MA, Theatre), he is also the author of award-winning short stories, two-and-a half novels, two other plays, and several performance pieces.  He is interested in finding a composer to collaborate on an opera, and, of course, in discovering one or more producers to move Half Life to an extended run.
 
Teresa K. Pond, director, was Producing Artistic Director of ACT Theatre Company in Alaska before receiving her MFA in Directing from University of California, Irvine.  In New York City she has directed professional productions and readings with The Women’s Project Theatre (off-Broadway), American Globe Theatre, Sundog Theatre and a major east coast tour with Words of Choice Productions.  She directs with NYU’s First Look Theatre Company, and she is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and The Women’s Project Directors Forum.  Her background includes a strong cross-section of classical and new plays, musicals and opera.  She is currently directing at Kentucky’s Pioneer Playhouse (The Man Who Came to Dinner).

 

Cast
 
*Cynthia Foster (Eleanor) has appeared in New York, Los Angeles and regional theater.  Favorite roles include Isabelle in Arthur Miller's The American Clock (Hangar Stage Santa Monica), Penny in You Can't Take it With You (Lost Nation Theater) and a bike riding, drum playing, butterfly Zanni in Cirque de Commedia (Hangar Stage).  She has produced, directed, and appeared in independent films, including, most recently, the short film Plushy for IFP award-winning writer/director Apryl Fioriglio Lee. On stage, she originated the roles of Claudette in Jordan Gullikson's The Cooking Show for Firefly Productions, Judith in Sarah Brock's Spinsters for Center Stage, and Sybil Danforth in Midwives by novelist Chris Bohjalian and playwright Dana Yeaton. Cynthia currently studies with Michael Howard and lives in the East Village with her wonderfully supportive husband.  She is a proud member of Actors' Equity.  For more information, visit her website at www.cynthiafoster.com
 
*Mark Lynch (Douglas)  Off-Off Broadway: The Ascetic Of Lincoln County – NY Fringe Festival, 2004; A Midsummer Night’s DreamWestbeth Theatre Center; Subtle Bodies – Theatre Row Theatre. Regional and Touring: The Texas Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown TheatreFestival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, and The Key West Theatre Festival.  Television: Law & Order, One Life To Live, All My Children.  Training: The Circle in the Square Theatre School; B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University.

 

Anna Chlumsky (Denise).  Anna's favorite roles in New York City include: Isabella in Measure for Measure for the Astoria Performing Arts Center; Athena in The Trojan Women at the Collective: Unconscious Theater; and Andrée in Disobedience for The Center for Jewish History, to name a few. In Chicago, Anna performed onstage in Words, Words, Words; Nine; Chuck Mee's Orestes; and Into the Woods as 'Little Red Riding Hood'. Her films include: My Girl, My Girl II, Gold Diggers, A Child's Wish, A Miracle in the Woods, and the upcoming My Sweet Misery.
 
*Michele Fulves (Phyllis) After taking a break and pursuing a Master’s degree in her other passion, language and literacy, Michele is happy to be performing once again in such a courageous piece of theatre. Regional credits include Clara in I’m Not Rappaport, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and her all time favorite role, April in Hot L Baltimore, which she performed in Edinburgh – the other Fringe. She loves the process of developing new works because it is “A journey without a road map.”  She has been involved in numerous projects throughout the city at  Rattlestick Theatre,  Vital Theatre, and the Waterfront Ensemble.  Merci,  Monsieur Pomme.
 
Cameron Hughes (Bob) has been acting on and off since he was 14.  In that time Cameron has been a cad, a lover, a reluctant juror, an Air Force sergeant, a divorcé, a snarly Harley biker, a writer, a bank officer, a long-haired druggy hippie, a computer geek, a Rutger's graduate... and that's just his personal life.  As an actor Cameron has appeared in a plethora of plays and independent films throughout and about New York City.  The dramatic short film Anonymous in which Cameron has the lead was an official selection of the 2003 Breckenridge Festival of Film.  Cameron's latest project, Sequential Vision's independent feature film In Devotion in which he again has the lead (this time playing a priest, something that makes his mother very proud), is currently making the festival rounds.  Cameron would like to dedicate his performances in Half Life to the memory of his father who passed away last year.  I love you Dad.
 
Production
 

Julie Duro (Lighting Designer), has designed for companies and productions throughout the United States.  Opera: Connecticut Opera, Opera International (Washington, D.C.), Opera Illinois, Dayton Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Triangle Opera Theatre, and Houston’s Ebony Opera Guild.  Dance: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, North Carolina Dance Theatre, the Australian Ballet, Southern Ballet Theatre, Dances Patrelle, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.  She was the resident lighting designer for the critically acclaimed Ohio Ballet from 1996 to 1999, and she works frequently with Tulsa Ballet where her work will be seen this fall on La Sylphide.  Theatre: Westport Country Playhouse, Luna Stage, ArtPark, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, the Asolo Conservatory in Florida, and the Juilliard School.  She is the resident lighting designer for the annual Salute to the Presidential Scholars at the Kennedy Center.  She recently designed the lighting for Member of the Wedding at the Westport Country Playhouse directed by Joanne Woodward.

 

Timothy Owen Mazur (Sound Designer), is thrilled to be a part of this immensely powerful play.  Educated at The Esther Boyer College of Music at Temple University and a member of Sound Associates since 1999, Tim would like to thank Domonic Sack, Peter Fitzgerald and Richard Fitzgerald for all of their guidance and expertise in everything that is audio.  Design Credits include: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Home; A Thousand Clowns (Broadway – Production Sound); World AIDS Day; Forbidden Broadway, and Howie the Rookie. Tim has assisted on Stones in His Pockets, The Gathering, Weill Style at BAM, and Pierre Boulez at Manhattan School of Music. Tim sends his love to his family and especially to his new wife Michelle; I promise I will be home soon.

 

Mimi Maxmen (Costume Designer)  New York:  Uncle Vanya starring Tom Courtenay, Amanda Donohoe and James Fox,  Public Enemy  by Kenneth Branagh,  A Shayna Maidel,   Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson and Philip Bosco,   Vieux Carré,  North Shore Fish,  The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers,  Moonchildren,   Today I Am a Fountain Pen, A...My Name Is Alice, Virgil Thompson’s Lord Byron and The Mother of Us All.  She has designed for the Roundabout Theater,  Manhattan Theatre Club, the Mark Taper Forum, Cleveland Play House, Santa Fe Opera, the New York City,  Joffrey, and Metropolitan Opera Ballet companies.  Films include Tumbleweeds starring Janet McTeer,  A Misummer Nights Rave,  Luster.    She currently teaches at Parsons School of Design.

 

Dana Liebowitz (Set Designer) is a recent Bennington College graduate who just designed her first two Fringe shows (new plays) simultaneously, at the same time completing another new play, The Alice Complex by Peter Nickowitz at the Dixon Place HOT! Festival  She looks forward to an equally busy fall season.

 

Elisa Abatsis (Props) is a recent transplant from Boston. An actor/playwright/and part-time hippie chick, she just finished a grueling season of summer stock at Kentucky's Pioneer Playhouse, where she did everything from working the sound board to gracing the stage. Some of Elisa's favorite roles include Toni Simmons in Cactus Flower, Katie Bell Jackson in Talking Pictures, and Essie Carmichael in You Can't Take it With You. Elisa can also be seen in a recent Ford Commercial, holding the keys to a very cute Mustang.

 
 

Vincent Marano (Dramaturg) has been a fixture in the New York theatre community for fifteen years and at the New York International Fringe Festival for the last three, directing the award-winning productions of Timothy Nolan’s The Way Out (Fringe, 2002) and Acts of Contrition (Fringe, 2003).  He is also producing Choking on Happiness and directing The Best It’s Ever Looked as part of that evening in this year’s Fringe.  Vincent got his start with The Family, MTC and Circle Rep, studied at the Roundabout and Terry Schrieber Studios, and worked with the Drama Project.  He received his MA in Playwriting and Directing from Hunter College. He has directed over forty productions or staged reading in the New York City area.  At the Classic Stage Company he produced the critically acclaimed Box Office of the Damned (with the then unknown Kristin Chenoweth); was a resident director at Belmont Italian American Playhouse, producing or directing a dozen plays, including early works by Julia Jordan, and a series of Italian language productions of Pirandello, Dario Fo and Eduardo De Fillipo.  Vincent was the General Manager of Chelsea Playhouse (until its literal demise in 2003) where he directed or co-produced shows by the TWEED, Present Tense Productions, the Epiphany Theatre, El Extreme, Absolute Theater and Riverside Theatre Company.  He’s currently working on his “Italian Iceman Cometh” and hopes to produce it in the fall with the ManhattanTheatreSource.  When not sleeping two hours a night, he is developing a TV series with Discovery Health Channel.

 

 

Eliza Johnson (Stage Manager) graduated from Manhattanville College with a B.A. in Theater.  Her favorite credits include Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique, Pentecost , and This Ain't No Rodeo (w/ Monica Bill Barnes).  In 2004, Eliza completed a two year Production Stage Management Fellowship at Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education.  Love and thanks to her parents.

 

Adeel Aktar (Crew) was the Fringe NYC's venue director at The Flea, and is pleased to continue working with Half Life.  An actor comfortable in a variety of roles, he is a member of The Flea's resident company, The Bats.
 
*Member, Actors Equity Association
 
Supporters
 
The playwright's deepest thanks to those who have, through their generous gifts, supported this play, helping bring Half Life to life . . .
 
Anonymous
Mimi Barker
Luz and Jeffrey Brunner
Kagey and Lee Dorosz
Jack Martin
Dan Moulthrop and Dorothy Russo
Peter and Lela Moulthrop
Jeannette Paladino and Charles Antin
Peter and Ann Pufall
Donald Smith
Patrick J. Waide, Jr.
Karl and Janet Wilks
Richard Winkler
 
Thanks also to Nicole Lerario, Hal Corley, Howard Schuman, Laura Stevens, Vital Theatre, and The Writers Room.

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