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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. Back to top |
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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. |
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| Mark Altman | |
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Is Artistic Director of New Worlds Theatre Project where along with his partner Ellen Perecman they translate, adapt and produce timeless Yiddish plays for the modern, English-speaking theatergoer. He is also featured in the hit documentary Divan about formerly ultra-orthodox Jews coming to terms with their decidedly unorthodox life choices. Mark was thrilled to work on something goyish for a change, especially on a piece as challenging and brave as Some Historic/Some Hysteric. Back to top |
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| Lisa Giobbi | |
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After graduation from the Julliard School, Lisa launched into an impressive career, performing and choreographing for film and stage in the United States and in Europe. Lisa’s range of expertise also extends to aerial dance, an arena in which she is widely regarded as a creator and an innovator. Some of Lisa’s credits include performances and/or choreography with Moses Pendleton, Circus Flora, New York’s Big Apple Circus and off-Broadway theater, including David Rabe’s “Those the River Keeps” and David Lynch’s “Industrial Symphony #1.” Back to top |
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| Galina Zisk | |
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Holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, Master of Music Degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. As a winner of numerous competitions, Ms. Zisk has performed in many parts of Europe including Austria, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, as well as in Canada and the United States as a soloist, chamber musician and guest soloist with orchestras. Dr. Zisk has served on the piano faculty of Manhattan School of Music, the Hartwick Summer Music Festival and Institute (Oneonta, NY), and the International School for Musical Arts (Canada). Her solo recitals have been broadcast on CJRT-FM radio in Canada as well as the Bravo! TV channel, and her most recent CD recording, Alexander Gedike’s arrangement for piano trio of Tchaikovsky Seasons, was released by Fidelis Records, Ltd. in 2002. 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.com Back to top |
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| Markus Hirnigel | |
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Markus Hirnigel was born in Vienna, Austria, where he began his studies at the University of Vienna. After his move to New York, he began his studies with Sandford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He then became a member of La Mama E.T.C. and worked extensively with the company for the next three years. He then returned to Europe where he continued to study acting in England at the R.A.D.A. During this time, he appears in productions in London, Oxford, Edinburgh and Spoleto, Italy. Elizabeth Swados invites him to participate in her production off The Hating Pot and he returns to New York for the next two years. During the following summer, Markus returns to Austria to work in several productions at the Salzburg Theater Festival. He most recently appeared as Vershinin in a production of The Three Sisters at the Chekhov Festival in New York City. Back to top |
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| Gaby Schafer | |
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Was raised in Germany and educated in the US, co-founded with her husband Nick Fracaro the 25-year-old, Genet-inspired Thieves Theatre. She was a founding member of RAT, an international coalition of theater workers, has translated, among others, Heiner Mueller, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and, most recently, Oliver Czeslik’s ‘Khadaffi Rocks’, for the New German Voices series at New York’s Public Theater, co-produced by LAByrinth, in which she also acted. In Germany, she has acted at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart and has an upcomimg project at Theater Rampe Stuttgart which she is also co-producing. She holds an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama and for the past four years has been pursuing the study of Butoh and is co-producer of the biennial CAVE New York Butoh Festival. Back to top |
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| Denice Kondik | |
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Has been performing on stage for twenty years. She studied theatre and dance at The College of Wooster and University of Akron, and in New York with the Eric Hawkins Dance Company. She teaches yoga and stress management classes in the tri-state area. Recent performances include: The Tragedian... at the Chekhov Vaudevilles Festival; Parasite, directed by Liesl Tommy; Merry Wives of Windsor: Mistress Ford; All In The Timing: Kafka & Mrs. Trotsky; The Nerd: Tansy McGinnis; 1940’s Radio Hour: Ginger Brooks; Our Town: Emily Webb; The Foreigner: Catherine Simms; Anything Goes: Hope Harcourt. Choreography includes Seduction of Green Darner at NYC Dance Space Center, Yester-We at HERE Arts Center, Talking With at Main Stage Theater, Song Of Myself at Univ. of Akron, Nunsense at Main Stage Theater, The Fantasticks! at Second Stage Dinner Theatre Co. |
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| Catherine Correa | |
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Was born in Bogota, Colombia, where she received Vaganova classical ballet training from Kirill Matveev. After graduating, she became a member of the Pricilla Welton Dance Company and was involved with independent choreographers with whom she explored different ways of expression through dance. In the past years, she has been interested in Tango as a way of expression. She has been involved in a new wave of multimedia performances which predominantly feature contemporary ballet and tango. She worked with Pablo Pugliese in one of the first multimedia performances of tango and contemporary ballet done in the US. Her last performance was with the New Generation Dance Company. Back to top |
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| Kaylin Lee Clinton | |
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Kaylin has been speaking with different accents since she was five, and is delighted to provide the voice for the magnificent Claude Cahun. Among other nationalities Kaylin has recently portrayed are British (Eva in “Absurd Person Singular” at Bristol Valley Theatre,) Russian (Ludmilla in “Voices from Chernobyl” on NPR’s The Next Big Thing,) and Irish (“Regression Night,” Impetuous Theater). Kaylin is a Tisch graduate, and has recently been dabbling in the world of stand-up comedy. Many thanks and lots of love to her family and friends. For Lander. |
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| Nicole Hafner | |
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Is very pleased to perform this wonderful piece “hysterically”. She studied acting for 5 years in New York and performed in several theatre productions during that time. She would like to thank the Self-Strangler who believed in her, Ildiko for driving her beautifully crazy and the City of New York for wonderful inspirations. |
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| Sarah Lemp | |
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Is pleased to be working with The New Stage Theatre Company for the first time. Sarah was last seen in “Impossible Lorca” (Milkcan Theatre Company) at the Michael Weller Theatre. Other New York credits include: 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. Back to top |
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| Florencia Minniti | |
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Florencia was born into royalty in a comely village on the Tibetan side of the Himalayas to a family of snow leopards. At the tender age of three, her parents were killed by poachers for their valuable skin and Florencia was left to fend for her own life. In an amazing display of independence for a three year old, she ran to the Azores to join a grassroots circus company. Quickly, she turned out to be a prodigy mastering the arts of juggling, acrobatics, and various balancing acts. The news of this young upstart traveled fast around the underground circus world. However she knew there was more to her destiny... Bored with her life, a fierce determination grew like a fire deep inside of her to show the world what she was capable of. She underwent a complete transformation: breast implants, liposuction and rhinoplasty and came to new york to fulfill her dreams. It is here where she honed her skills as an actress. She is content with life perfoming in various downtown theater productions. In her spare time she likes to give acting technique classes to Hollywood celebrities. She lives in Brooklyn in a charming abode where she raises a snow leopard in tribute to her parents. Florencia has killed about 4 snow leopard poachers to date and will apologize to no one for it. |
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| Monica Risi | |
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A recent graduate from the MFA programm at The New School for Drama, a.k.a. Actors Studio Drama School. Monica has been part of the LAByrinth’s Spring Master Class of 2005, performed a short Cuban one woman show called A Flower for These Times, instigated and taken part of the production of Alberto Adellach’s March and enjoyed performing as Kleonike in Lysistrata. She is delighted to be part of this project. Back to top |
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| Jeanne Lauren Smith | |
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Jeanne is a recent graduate from Marymount Manhattan College. This is her first production with The New Stage Theatre Company and she would like to thank them for such a wonderful opportunity. Jeanne would like to send loving kindness to everyone involved with the project, as well as her friends and family for their ongoing love and support. Back to top |
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| Paula Roman | |
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Hailing from Seville, Spain, Paula came to New York to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, leaving behind not only a great family and friends but also a promising life as a doctor. She has worked among others with Gene Frankel, Austin Pendleton and Karen Ludwig. She is tremendously grateful to Ildiko and Florencia for this opportunity to work with The New Stage Theatre Company. Back to top |
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| Jose Cavazos | |
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Was born in Mexico City, where he began his career at age of nine in the T.E.F.I Theater and
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| Tino del Casar | |
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Born and raised in Castilian part of Spain. Since a very young age he showed a great talent for artistic expression. He was trained as a fine artist in the School of Applied Arts in both Toledo and Madrid. His first experiences as illustrator and cartoon designer drove Tino into the world of interior decoration, working for more than 10 years for the prestigious "DR studio" in Madrid. He moved to New York City in 2005 to explore other faces of performing arts. Back to top |
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