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| Ildiko Lujza Nemeth |  |
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Ildiko Lujza Nemeth is the founder and artistic director of The New Stage Theatre Company (NSTC) and has served as the Director on all five of the company’s productions. She is a native of Hungary and a veteran of Eastern European experimental theatre. Her desire to bring this form of theatrical expression to the US drove her to move to New York City in 1998. Nemeth graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Actor’s Studio Drama School in 2002 and started NSTC the same year. NSTC is committed to enriching Contemporary American Theatre by bringing artists together from around the world and developing works which embrace their diverse cultural and artistic traditions. The New Stage Theatre Company is dedicated to taking artistic risks by creating works, which overcome the limitations of language, customs and theatrical conventions. Nemeth has garnered numerous prizes, such as the Guardian Critics' Choice Award at the Scotland Fringe Festival in Edinburgh and the Best Performance Award at the International Gombrowicz Festival in Poland. NSTC’s most recent production, “Some Historic, Some Hysteric”, which she directed and co-created, received excellent reviews and was nominated for the 2007 IT Awards in three categories. |
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| Jessica Sofia Mitrani | |
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Jessica Sofia Mitrani was born in 1968 in Colombia, and has lived and worked in New York City since 1999. She joined the New Stage Theatre Company in 2002 after completing her MFA from the Actor's Studio the same year. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Museum of Modern Art Bogota, Museum Of Modern Art Barranquilla, Art Basel Miami Beach Fair,Brooklyn Ballet ; included in numerous film festivals and programs such as Women in the Director's Chair in Chicago, Women Make Movies in New York, Oberhaussen Short Film Festival in Germany, Interfilm Berlin Film Festival, and São Paulo International Short Film Festival among others; and broadcast on the television networks ARTE-WDR in Germany and France, and SBS in Australia. She has been profiled in magazines and books, including Dwell, the New York Times Style "T" magazine, Artnexus, Time Out NY, Backstage, Cinemas d'amerique latine, Kinetoscopio, Semana, Numero, La presencia de las mujeres en el cine colombiano, Escribir en Barranquilla, and El Arte del Caribe Colombiano. Back to top |
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| Julie Atlas Muz | |
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Julie Atlas Muz, Miss Exotic World and Miss Coney Island 2006 is one of the most acclaimed and prolific conceptual
performers and choreographers in New York, who sucker punches the boundaries between performance art, dance and
fine art with dark, twisted, come-hither performances that have secured her place in the underworld of nightlife as well
as the bastion of the art world. A 2004 Whitney Biennial Artist and a 2005 Valencia Bienal, Muz recently took the
International Dublin Theater Festival by storm with Bradford Scobie in their controversial hysterical show “Gerogous
Morons”. Muz has presented her dance work regularly in New York City and nationwide with the Sex Workers Art
show including venues such as The Slipper Room, Chashama, LaMama, The Cock, and Dixon Place and has exhibited
her fine art at WOMANIZER at Dietch Projects. Muz is a Lambent Fellow 2005-8 and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award
2006 recipient has been awarded Artist-in-Residency status from Chashama (2002), Joyce Soho (2001), Mondo Conne
Artist-in-Residency at Dixon Place (2000) and Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (1998-99) and is the leading
lady in Bone Film’s feature Celluloid #1. Muz is super fancy pants. For more information and bookings please visit
www.julieatlasmuz.com
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| Werner Schwab | |
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Werner Schwab (February 4, 1958 - January 1, 1994) was an Austrian playwright and visual artist. From 1978 to 1982 he studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. During the 1980s he worked as a sculptor and woodcutter. Schwab's first play Die Präsidentinnen was produced at the Theater im Künstlerhaus in Vienna in 1990. Between then and his death four years later he wrote sixteen plays, eight of which were produced during his lifetime, making his career one of the briefest, most spectacular and most controversial in contemporary German-language theatre. Schwab's work tends to be extremely scatological, full of images of surreal violence and degradation, and his texts exploit the German language's capacity for neologism to a remarkable degree; they are also firmly within a native Austrian tradition of Black comedy. He is very difficult to translate, but amongst English-language dramatists, certain stylistic parallels might be drawn between his work and that of Steven Berkoff and Enda Walsh. Schwab was a heavy drinker who was said to have written his plays late at night while listening to loud music (particularly the band Einstürzende Neubauten, whom he was friends with). His body was found on New Year's Day 1994. Back to top |
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| Michael Mitchell | |
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Michael Mitchell studied French and German at Oxford. Many years lecturer in German, mainly at Stirling University; special interest in Austrian literature; also wrote a book on the East German playwright Peter Hacks. Since 1995 freelance literary translator, about 50 books of translation published, including Tales from the Vienna Woods and OtherPlays by Ödön von Horváth and Plays and Poems by Oskar Kokoschka. Won Schlegel-Tieck Prize 1998 for translation of Herbert Rosendorfer: Letters Back to Ancient China; shortlisted for Kurt Wolff Prize 2005 for translaion of Thomas Bernhard: Over All the Mountain Tops. Back to top |
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| Federico Restrepo | |
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Is the founder and artistic director of Dance/Puppet Theatre Company, LOCO7, with which he has premiered, designed, performed and directed eight original pieces at La MaMa ETC in New York City, with subsequent tours through out the world such as Italy, Poland, Austria and Colombia. His latest work titled Open Door will premier in December 2006 at The Annex Theatre La MaMa. Born in Bogotá he began his training of mime and ballet as a young boy with Priscila Welton and Miroslav Kura. Federico has designed lights for over twenty-five professional productions in New York as well as abroad. Recent work includes: Trojan Women, (Poland/Austria Tour), Herakles Via Pheadra (La MaMa), Bokan, the Bad Hearted (La MaMa), Driving on the Left Side (Barrow Group Theatre - Off-Broadway, New York), Place Poems (La MaMa), Cucaracha (New York). He has worked as a resident light designer for CAMT in several productions, including Faust ‘00/’05, Don Juan, The Prose of the Transsiberian. He has appeared at La MaMa ETC as a member of the Great Jones Repertory Company in Ellen Stewart’s The Raven, Aescelpius, Herakles Via Phedra, Perseus, Antigone, Mythos Oedipus, Dionysus Fillus Dei, Monk and The Hangman’s Daughter, Seven Against Thebes and Draupadi. He is a resident puppet designer, choreographer, performer and director of La MaMa ETC. Since 2003 Mr. Restrepo has been a teaching artist for New York City Public Schools. He is involved with an outreach programs PACT and City Lore, teaching puppet and mask design and construction to children. His company website is: www.loco7.org Back to top |
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| Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin | |
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Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin is very excited about the production of The Round of Pleasure and what the future holds for New Stage. After an appearance in the 2006 production of Some Historic, Some Hysteric, Fabiyan became very involved with the company and soon became NSTC's General Manager. He has extensive managerial experience and has additionally owned and operated two businesses. Fabiyan holds a BA in Theatre Performance from Marymount Manhattan College and would like to thank family, teachers and friends for their support. Special thanks to the "Hungarians" for all that they do and especially Jeanne for her loving-kindness.
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| Joel Grossman | |
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Joel Grossman is a Colombian born artist. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and specialized in marble sculpture in Pietrasanta, Italy. In 2006, he installed his first public sculpture in Bogota. In January, 2007, two of his paintings were selected for thr Fernando Botero Award for Young Artists. Joel works and lives between Bogota and New York City.
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| Kaylin Lee Clinton | |
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Kaylin last appeared with New Stage in Some Historic, Some Hysteric (NYIT Nom), where along with eating a teacup, she provided voices for a Romanian aunt and a French transvestite. Since then, Kaylin has voiced a murderous Mommy for NPR's Studio 360, was murdered herself in the film Family Meeting, worked on the David Wain web-series Wainy Days, and portrayed six different roles in George Fischoff's musical Gauguin/Savage Light. Kaylin wishes to thank her parents for not attending this particular production, so that you, the audience member, can bear full witness! BFA: NYU.
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| Catherine Correa | |
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Catherine Correa was born in Bogota, Colombia , where she received Vaganova
training. After graduating , she became a member of Priscilla Welton Dance
Company . She has been in a new wave of multimedia performances
which predominantly feature contemporary ballet and traditional dance. She performed in last years New Stage theater company production Some Historic Some Hysteric.
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| Charles Finney | |
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Charles Finney has studied with Oskar Werner, and at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. Friend of Ernst Molden and Werner Schwab and was part of the new Viennese Theater movement in the early 90's,. He has acted on the German stage in the classical plays of Goethe and Schiller and a worked in Independent Austrian Film with Directors Niki List and Michael Glawogger. He is currently working on drawing one of his screenplays as a graphic novel.
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| Nicole Hafner | |
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Nicole Hafner has studied and performed in New York for the past 7 years. Originally from Germany, she left her home at an early age and discovered her second home here in New York. She is very happy to work with The New Stage Theatre Company again.
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| Markus Hirnigel | |
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MARKUS HIRNIGEL, of Vienna, Austria. studied at both the University of Vienna, and later
with Sandford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. He toured extensively with La Mama E.T.C. the company for three years across Europe and Asia.
Through an involvement with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in the UK, Hirnigel appeared in productions in London, Oxford, Edinburgh and Spoleto, Italy.
Though a full-time resident of Manhattan, Hirnigel has spent several
summers in Austria, acting in numerous productions at the Salzburg
Theater Festival. He has appeared as Vershinin in "Three Sisters" at the Chekhov Festival. Markus Hirnigel has been a featured performer in past NSTC performances.
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| Sarah Lemp | |
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Last seen in the Pearl Theatre Company's production of William Sarayon's "The Cave Dwellers", Sarah Lemp is excited to be working with the New Stage Theatre Company again. Other New York credits include: Some Historic / Some Hysteric (NSTC), Impossible Lorca (Milkcan Theatre Company), The Queens (Juxtaposed Theatre Company/Gene Frankel Theatre), 7 Stories (78th Street Theatre Lab), The Deluxe Illustrated Body (Wings Theatre), Tragedy in Nine Lives (P.S. 122). Sarah is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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| Galway McCullough | |
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Galway McCullough (SAG) is an actor, director and fight choreographer. R.O.P. is his 20th choreography credit since moving to NYC in late '03. He is a member of Combat Inc (www.combatinc.com). His most publicized acting role in NYC was in Caligula with Andre de Shields at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. His most recent stage appearance was as Caesar/Ajax in Inwood Shakespeare Festival's adaptation of Spartacus. Other notable roles: Sefton in Stalag 17, Boxler in In the Heart of America, Hal Carter in Picnic, Tybalt, Montano, Richmond, Zastrozzi, and as Ramon in Love! Valour! Compassion!.
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| John Rosania | |
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Recently returning from a desperate embrace with philosophy in Paris and a prolonged walking tour over the barren Zelkakic range, John Rosania has again re-emerged in the theatre and film world as an actor without scruples, hell-bent on the destruction of western civilization. Having once shaken the hand of Werner Schwab, he is all the more excited to be part of this production. www.actorspages.org/johnrosania Back to top |
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| Peter Schmitz | |
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Peter B. Schmitz has been in the creative and performing arts for over 25 years as a professional modern dancer and as an actor in theater/film/video. He has taught/performed/choreographed through out the United States, Europe, New Zealand and Turkey. Recent New York shows include: "The Balcony" (Medicine Show), "No End of Blame" (P.T.P.), and "Sleuth" (Bristol Valley Theater). This is his first production with The New Stage Theatre Company.
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| Jeanne Lauren Smith | |
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Jeanne Lauren Smith is thrilled to be working again with NSTC. NY credits: Scarab Tale (Dharma Road Productions) Some Historic,Some Hysteric (NSTC) and Hair Pieces (Regroup Theatre Company); Tours: Let's Pretend Circus (Let's Pretend Entertainment). BA: Marymount Manhattan College. Her movement training includes Alexander Technique, Laban, Barteneiff, Lucid Body, Suzuki and Slow Tempo at MMC and at various studios throughout the city. Love and thanks to family, teachers and friends for their support, and especially to Fabi for his sweetness.
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