RIMT #6

The Stella Adler Theatre.
Event #6: Faith -------- Irony

BIOS

Che'Rae Adams is the former Co-Artistic Director of The Road Theatre Company. She enjoys developing, & directing new plays by local playwrights. She has a BA from California State Northridge and an MFA from the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music.

Erika Amato graduated with honors from Vassar College (Drama major). She just finished working on the world premiere musical, KNIGHT LIFE, in Santa Barbara. Her band, Velvet Chain, has released 4 CDs and is on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack

Mark Bazzone's plays have been at the Australian Playwrights' Conference, Adelaide International Theater Festival, Nada, Westbeth, Expanded Arts, and Erie Playwright's Series. He's been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, and is a playwright member of New Dramatists.

Cesar Benito (composer) hailing from Southern Spain, graduated from the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Malaga (1995) in Music Theory and Piano as well as Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts. Cesar was most recently a composer in the A.S.K. Theater Projects’ Composer-Playwright Workshop 2002 in LA.

Larry Biederman directs throughout California after six seasons with A.C.T. Productions include Red Noses, No Mercy and Chekhov's major plays. He's worked at the Arizona Theatre Company, the Magic Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Old Globe Theatre, the MET Theatre and ASK Theater Projects. He holds an MFA in Directing from UCI and serves as the directing faculty at Cal State, Fullerton.

Ariel A. Blumenthal composed and orchestrated music for films, theater and TV shows. His concert music was performed in prestigious venues in Israel, Europe and the US. Blumenthal's music is online at: www.arielablumenthal.com

Eli Bolin composed and co-wrote 2001's off-Broadway musical “I Sing!” He's a member of the BMI Workshop, plays piano at ImprovOlympic, and composed for RIMT #2. Current projects include writing a new musical and being hired by you. Reach him at elibolin@hotmail.com.

Erica Bradshaw, a '96 graduate of the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts, E, as she is called by her friends, is very excited to be a part of the jam. A Jersey girl with a "dream" E Has just taped her co-star debut on the CBS's The District. Originator of the role of Adele in Arthur Millers, Mr. Peter's Connections. Previous credits also include, Myra in Anitgone Territiarry Sexx.

Winsome Brown’s LA Festival of Legitimate Theatre continues through May at the Tamarind Theatre, where Winsome performed her one-woman show “Welcome to Win- someland.” Winsome's plays have been performed on both coasts, in India and in Canada.

Fred Cassidy has a special affection for music in a theatrical context. NOWHERE TO RUN Marc Taper New Works Fest 2002, LIBERTY 1998-2002 A.S.K. Fest, Actor’s Gang, Highways, Theater 150, MISTER WELLS SHOW 1999 & HYSTERIA 1994 at Actor’s Gang

Michael Cohen was the three-time composer of the Hasty Pudding show while a student at Harvard. He also graduated from the film scoring program at USC. He has written the scores for numerous feature films, commercials, and video games.

Kris Coleman is happy to be a part of the RIMT program. His theater credits include: “Once on This Island”, “One Mo' Time”, “A Midsummer nights dream”, and Many more. Presently Kris is working on an untitled film with Slimshot Scenarios.

Patty Cornell - STEEL and THE WOMAN WHO FORGOT HER SWEATER at [Inside] the Ford. Impenetrable and ANTIGONE. TERCIARY. SEXXX as part of Edgefest. The Dybbuk, String of Pearls, and others here in LA. Numerous "Off-Off" credits in NYC. Also award winning shorts and indie features.

Doug Cooney recently adapted DR. SEUSS' 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T as an animated feature for SONY. His novel for young readers, THE BELOVED DEARLY hit bookstands in February. He is currently collaborating on THE LEGEND OF ALEX, a youth musical for the Taper's P.L.A.Y._

Christy Crowl first began her musical endeavors on the toy xylophone at the age of 3. She decided very early to become a Renaissance woman, and currently is a Top 40 Singer/Songwriter, Composer, Pianist, Orchestrator/ Arranger, and Music Director. Her talents have been heard on over 30 TV series & films (most recently "Spiderman,"), and she will soon be featured ON the big, BIG screen in the upcoming IMAX film "Top Speed," with Olympian Marion Jones.

Bryan Davidson received his MFA in playwriting from the University of California at Los Angeles. He co-wrote the screenplay for Kusah Hakwaan, a feature film about Alaskan Tlingit Indian storytelling, which has screened at festivals across the United States and Europe, including the Smithsonian Institute Film and Video Festival. Bryan has worked as a dramaturge with Native Voices, and is currently Outreach and Education Coordinator at A.S.K. Theater Projects. His play WAR MUSIC is scheduled for a 2002 co-production by Playwrights Arena and Echo Theater Company.

Scott Dicken, a Renaissance man, would of course be married to Renaissance woman Christy Crowl. In 2001 he starred as Knute Rockne in the premiere of "Rockne," the musical, co-founded the Key of Me Records label, co-produced and performed on a 15 city national tour, sang on the Emmy Awards, and most recently performed at the Sydney Opera House (with his wife, Christy) as the slide guitarist for Warner Bros.' "Bugs Bunny on Broadway."

Padraic Duffy's plays include TYM & BRIZZ, THE ILLUSTRIOUS BIRTH OF PADRAIC T. DUFFY, and FEET. He has had productions and readings at theaters throughout L.A., including A.S.K., Sacred Fools, and the Echo Theater Company, of which he's a member.

Penka Kouneva is a Sundance Film Composer Fellow, and a winner of the Aaron Copland Award and Meet the Composer Fellowship. Feature film scores include the multiple-award winning "Shadows," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Y.M.I.," "Earth is Heaven." Her blues/roots music-theater "STEEL: John Henry & the Shaker" was recently produced at HOT PROPERTIES [INSIDE] the Ford Amphitheatre.

Erik Liberman - Miami's Rising Star Award-Winner. Sundance Theatre Lab Acting Grant Awardee. Talent Scholarships: UK's Royal National Theater, Ann Reinking's Broadway Theater Project this summer. Ovation/Garland/Outer Critics Circle Award-Winner (Reefer Madness!) Upcoming one-man show directed by Tony-nominee Michele Shay.

Maury R. McIntyre received the Audience Favorite (2001) and Fringe First (1998) awards (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), as well as a Garland Award (1998, Los Angeles) for MOSCOW , for which he composed music to Nick Salamone's book and lyrics.

This is Paul Plunkett's first theatrical project since he quit cigarettes, 4months ago - don't let him smoke. Full-length plays include “Catching Hell”, “Scam America” and “Bite the Wax Tadpole”, shorter pieces include “Engendered Species”, “City of Angles”, “Cat City” and “Crocodile Gandhi: Solver of Crimes”.

Jenna Robinson is a graduate of Vassar College and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her experience spans many realms. A lover of life, love and alchemy, Jenna always feels blessed to share in the creative process.

David Rodwin (Artistic Director) has been performing his one man "hyper-opera" VIRTUAL MOTION around the country since it premiered in 1998 at Sacred Fools in Los Angeles. He's now finishing another one-man music theatre extravaganza called MONKS & SLUTS AND STATESMEN (OH, MY!). Go see a sneak preview of half the show at Sacred Fools later this week - Wed. May 3 @10:30PM at 660 N. Heliotrope. MONKS premieres this summer at Edinburgh. David has had his operas and musicals performed everywhere from Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre in NYC to Mabou Mines to Disney (who inexplicably backed WARNING!: eXplicit Material). David is also the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Raw Impressions, Inc. and intends to become the first not-for-profit media mogul who wears leather pants exclusively. Visit: www.jadelake.com for more info.

Alan Steinberger makes his living as a freelance pianist, composer and orchestrator in the TV and film industry, frequently appears in concert with many local orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and earned a gold record for Winterlude, an album of contemplative Christmas instrumentals.

Composer and lyricist Clifford J. Tasner works as an orchestrator in the film industry. He participated in the ASK Theater Projects Playwright-Composer Studio in Spring of 1999. He is the creative force behind The Billionaires, a leftist political satire ensemble that is getting a lot of radio play lately. He is writing the libretto for The Fireman’s Wife, a
n opera-in-progress about 9/11 that is currently being performed in Long Beach.
Polly Segal: Brown University; Circle in the Square Theater School (NY); Concerts: (NY): Joe's Pub, The Supper Club; 92nd St. Y with Dick Hyman; Starlight Lounge; Triad, Westbank Cafe; (CA): Lunaria's, LA Jazz Festival, Member of Marble Collegiate Gospel Choir, (NY): Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, NJ PAC with Whitney and Cissy Houston.

Dani Shear recently played horny nurse nancy in "Body Snatchers...the musical" at the Odyssey Theater in LA. Prior to that she was seen on Broadway and on tour in "Les Miserables". Love to husband, Brian, and her naughty stepdog, Chubby.

Ken Weiler (Writer) - M.F.A. Rutgers University. He's appeared on FRIENDS, PROVIDENCE & THE KING OF QUEENS to name a few. He's performed regularly at The Comedy Store and with The Four Postmen. www.fourpostmen.com. Special thanks to all. This was an ensemble creation.

Chris Wells is an award-winning theater artist and a native of Los Angeles. Among his many projects and achievements, Christy and The NoNo's is the one he'd like you to know about; it is his band which performs original soul-music written with composer/collaborator Fred Cassidy. When next they play, you must attend.

Douglas Weston you could've seen him on Broadway and Off, at the Taper, SCR, La Jolla Playhouse, at Bergamot Station for his company's production of SO2M, or at any number of venues around the country. You may even have seen him on TV (doubt it) or in half a dozen movies. You have definitely not seen him at the Oscars, Emmys, or Country Music Awards so don't rack your brain unnecessarily.