This Saturday, my short play
THE STATE OF COLORADO v. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS opens at the Treehouse Theater as part of the Bad Theater Fest. Fortunately, we have a brilliant cast of good actors who can make bad acting absolutely hysterical. I'd like to introduce you to them now.
Daniil Krimer is playing the part of Jim. Daniil a recent graduate of the BFA program at Montclair State University. He is happy to have been given the opportunity to work on this wacky play and sends a shout out to his family for always supporting him... and an apology to Mr. Williams!
As Jim, Daniil plays a very serious actor taking on an important role in Tennessee Williams'
The Glass Menagerie. He plays the role with an almost painful earnestness that contrasts with the rest of the cast. Why? Well, our play takes place in a certain state... where a certain substance has recently become legal....
Zach McCoy plays the role of the Stage Manager in the play. Zach was last seen this summer as David in the off-Broadway revival of
Love and Human Remains at The Peter J. Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons. Other favorite New York credits include
Jitter (Arclight Theatre) and
The Birthday Boys (Access Theatre). In Pennsylvania, Zach has performed many times at Millbrook Playhouse in roles such as Bernard in
Boeing-Boeing, David in
The Foreigner, and Stanley in
Run for Your Wife. Zach has been featured on the AMC original series
Film Fakers, and his short film
Kidnapping Carl recently premiered at the Manhattan Film Festival.
Doug Rossi, who plays Tom in the play, once won an award for playing Tom in a real production of
The Glass Menagerie. His major classical roles include Macbeth, Tartuffe, Orlando, Friar Lawrence, Caliban, Orsino, Launce, Brutus, Ford, and Hamlet. He has appeared in more than 75 NYC productions including FringeNYC, Planet Connections (Winner: Best Featured Actor) and MITF (Nominated: Best Supporting Actor). He also has more than 50 on-camera credits including the title role in the indie feature
Recruiter. Currently, he is re-teaming with
Empire Tales director David Toth to co-write and star in a thriller entitled
Blind Spot.
Sandra Maren Schneider is playing Amanda. Other recent credits include a reading of
I Hate You: A Love Story directed by Dev Bondarin (Abingdon Theatre),
Blue Moon written and directed by Bryan Quick (Shapiro Theater),
Faust - A Tragedy (Staged Reading at the Signature Theatre),
Andromache (Winner of NYC Ancient Drama Festival),
Tango Fever (Teatro LaTea),
Helen Of Troy (La MaMa),
Les Blancs directed by Pat Golden (Staged Reading at the New School),
Spoon River Anthology directed by Jimmy Maize (Columbia Stages),
Happy End directed by Jérôme Savary & Ulrich Waller (St. Pauli Theater, Germany), and
Upon A Time (Workshop of a new musical written by Hayley Annette Green and music by Thomas Auger).
Alex Sunderhaus, who plays Laura, is a Brooklyn-based actress originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her BFA is from Wright State University. Recent stage credits for Alex include:
Seminar (Kitchen Theatre Co.),
The Lucky Ladies and
The Red Cat (The Lark, NYC), and
Boeing Boeing (Millbrook Playhouse). Alex has also been a part of several NYC short films and is an improviser at Upright Citizens Brigade.
So there you have it, the amazing cast of
THE STATE OF COLORADO v. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. Ken Kaissar is directing and doing a wonderful job. If you want to see the show, it is playing Saturday, October 25th at 5:00 and the following Saturday, November 1st, also at 5:00.
Both shows are at the Treehouse Theater. For more information, go here:
Bad Theater Fest
