Tomorrow, June 1, my adaptation of Herman Melville's
Moby-Dick will be done as a reader's theatre presentation as a part of the Abingdon Theatre Company's Sunday Series.
The show is at 7:00 pm at the Abingdon, 312 W. 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan.
You can get tickets here:
Sunday Series
Tickets are $20, but blog readers can use the discount code "BigFish" for $5 off.
The production is directed by Dev Bondarin and stage managed by Jodi M. Witherell. I thought you might want to meet the folks playing the crew of the Pequod. Here they are:
Alex Herrald Theater:
Please Continue,
Carry the Zero (Ensemble Studio Theatre).
Just Right Just Now (Lesser America).
Life And Times (Soho Rep/Public Theater).
These Seven Sicknesses,
The Wundelsteipen,
Future Anxiety,
Just Cause, and
#serials@theflea (Flea Theater).
Victor Frange Presents GAS! (Incubator Arts).
The Consequences (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). Film:
The Conservatory (College Emmy Award winner). Webseries:
Wiggles (Channel 101/dir. Kris Knight).
www.alexherrald.com
Russell Jordan worked with director Dev Bondarin earlier this year in the Manhattan Theatre Works (MTWorks) staged reading of Fengar Gael's
The Draper's Eye. Recent Stage:
Dig Infinity! (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity),
The Messiah Complex (Downtown Urban Theater Festival). Recent Television:
Blue Bloods and
Black Box. Russell is an MTWorks company actor, co-owner of The Harlem Camerata reading salon, and an adjunct professor at York College/CUNY where he teaches Performance for Television. Member: AEA & SAG-AFTRA.
www.russelljordan.com
Doug Rossi has played such classical roles as Tartuffe, Macbeth, Orlando, Friar Lawrence, Caliban, Orsino, Brutus, Ford, Don Pedro, and Hamlet. In NYC, he's appeared in over 70 productions including several at FringeNYC, Planet Connections (Best Featured Actor winner) and MITF (Best Supporting Actor nominee). MFA from Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
Conrad Schott Regional:
Our Town (dir. Les Waters, Actors Theatre of Louisville),
Remix 38 (ATL Humana Festival),
All's Well That Ends Well and
The Atheist's Tragedy (in repertory at Academy for Classical Acting). New York:
The Collective (Zoo Theater),
King Lear (American Bard Theatre Company). Schott was an Actors Theatre of Louisville Acting Apprentice and trained at The National Theatre Institute and BADA Midsummer in Oxford. BA: Vassar College, MFA: Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting.
Gordon Stanley Seven original Broadway casts, including
Joseph…Dreamcoat,
Beauty and the Beast, and
Ragtime; also
Cabaret (1st Roundabout revival). Off-Broadway:
Lies My Father Told Me,
Iron Curtain,
Flamingo Court,
White Woman Street,
Take Me Along, many others. Movies /TV:
Beauty and the Beast,
Pocohontas,
Law and Order: CI. Best credit/longest run: thirty-four years with Renee.
William Oliver Watkins has guest-starred on
Nurse Jackie,
Law & Order: SVU and
Rescue Me. Stage:
Jackie & Me and
Ruined (Denver Center),
Lombardi (Cleveland Playhouse),
The Underside of Jackfruit & Papaya and
McRib (Abingdon),
BIOLIFE (Nuyorican Poetry Club),
Snakeskin Suit and
Nodding Off (Ensemble Studio Theatre),
A Raisin in the Sun (Studio Arena),
To Kill A Mockingbird (Great Plains Theater) and
Blues for an Alabama Sky (St. Louis Black Rep). William trained at Webster Conservatory.
And what a crew they are! Come out to the Abingdon at 7:00 on Sunday to set sail on a grand adventure!
