Throughout the year we organize free readings of new and established work that explore questions of alienation and reconciliation. After each performance, we set up a banquet table with food and wine for the sake of continuing the conversation. We are committed to hospitality as much as to excellent storytelling. Readings are suggested donation events, all donations go towards artist payments and hospitality costs. Our inaugural reading took place in April 2017.
FALL '23
Saturday, October 28th — “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe
Saturday, December 2nd — Tapestry
“TAPESTRY”
AN EVENING OF SONGS, STORIES & SHORT PLAYS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 2023 @ 7PM
FEATURING
Len Cariou, Kamel Boutros, Sally Shaw, James Yeagashi, Rosa Arredondo, Kevin James Doyle, and Chris Domig
As the year draws to a close, Sea Dog presents TAPESTRY, a soul-stirring evening of songs, stories, and short plays. Featuring a dynamic range of performances from and for a beloved community of Sea Dog artists and audiences, this year-end showcase weaves together the rich threads of music, narrative, and drama to transport audiences to different worlds. Join us on a journey that celebrates both the human condition and the creative spirit that binds our community together.
ROSA ARREDONDO joined Chris Domig in Sea Dog Theater's first ever production, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and is thrilled to, once again, be part of Sea Dog's magic. Some of her credits include the Broadway revival of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, the film STILL ALICE, and .Sheriff Valenti on ROSWELL NEW MEXICO. Currently, you can catch her as Francey, on CBS' SO HELP ME TODD.
KAMEL BOUTROS, born in Egypt, graduated from the Curtis Institute with a MA degree in Opera performance. He performed with pianist Martha Argerich in Europe and Japan. He has sung at the Edinburgh Festival and at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as in a gala concert with the late Luciano Pavarotti conducted by James Levine. He was the first prize winner; at the Opera Index’s Competition and the Sullivan Foundation Career Award. Kamel’s recent music arrangement of “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” was used in the show Damages. Kamel played the part of Papin andalso music directed the play Babette’s Feast in NYC, directed by Quinton Gordon in 2010. Presently Kamel is the music director of The Parish of Calvary-St. George’s Church and Concert Series in New York City, and continues his work in acting, singing, and as a pianist in chamber music concerts.
HEATHER SUMMERHAYES CARIOU is a 2016/17 post-graduate Fellow in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and recipient of the 2019 Kalanithi Writing Prize at Stanford Med. Before becoming the author of "Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir"* she was classically trained as an actor/singer/dancer and appeared on stages across Canada and off-Broadway for 20 years. A damn-the-torpedoes kind of gal, she once paddle-captained a raft full of screaming women through Rogue River's Blossom Bar rapid at high water, and made a full-Kabuki Thanksgiving dinner in a Baltimore hotel room for the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound musical. Heather revels in the life of the mind and the open road of the heart. She has several writing projects in the hopper including a collaboration with author Ann Burack-Weiss to adapt her book "The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life" to the stage.
LEN CARIOU is a Tony award-winning actor who has had an incredible stage career, originating roles in many musicals we love today, including A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. Len is also known for playing the patriarch of the family in Blue Bloods, one of CBS's highest rated primetime programs. Len is a dear friend of Sea Dog and played Morrie in our reading of Tuesday's with Morrie in 2022.
CHRIS DOMIG is an actor and director in New York City. Recent acting credits include: The Waste Land: A Performance/Installation at FringeNYC, English World Premiere of Dirt in New York (59E59, 4th Street Theater), Edinburgh (Gilded Balloon), Vancouver (Pacific Theatre), Berlin (ETB), and London (Arcola Theatre). Recent Film: Ava (dir. Tate Taylor, opposite Jessica Chastain) Recent TV: Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire, Black List, Law & Order: SVU and Blindspot. BFA: Wheaton College, MFA: Southern Methodist University. www.christopherdomig.com
KEVIN JAMES DOYLE is an actor and comedian. His first stand up special The 30 Year Old Virgin is available on Amazon Prime. His second stand up show Diary of a Bald Kid won the NYC Frigid Festival Best Solo Comedy. He just wrapped up a run of his most recent show Fool Proof at the Soho Playhouse and an experimental storytelling comedy special 'V. The City of New York' will be released in 2024.
SALLY SHAW is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist. Winning Playbill’s 2021 Search for a Star Competition kick-started her performing career before graduating with a BFA in Musical Theater from Ithaca College in 2022. NYC credits: Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns: The Musical (Stagehand) at the Connelly Theatre, reading of The Humans at Sea Dog Theater (Brigid). Regional credits: The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy) at Cortland Rep, The Snow Queen (Greta) at the Cherry Arts. When she’s not onstage you can catch her creatively assisting Brooklyn’s grooviest band, Sammy Rae & the Friends or Company Managing Sea Dog Theater. Proudly represented by CLA Partners. @sal.shaw
JAMES YAEGASHI is based in NYC, working as an actor, director, translator, and writer. Many fans know him as Robert Minoru from Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu. He has originated many roles on and off Broadway, including Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy, Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out (2003 Tony Award for Best Play), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, John Guare’s A Few Stout Individuals, and Julia Cho’s Durango. His credits also include characters in world-premiere stage adaptations of literary classics, such as Yunioshi in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Broadway and Toru in Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh Int’l Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival.
“THE WOLVES”
BY SARAH DELAPPE
FEATURING
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2023
Directed by Christina Shea-Wright
With performances by: Liviya Hoskinson, Sophia Torres, Willow Street, Cori Diaz, Alyssa Cheatham, Molly K. Lyons, Catherine Oliviere, Taliyah Whitaker and Abigail Dylan Harrison
Director - Christina Shea-Wright @c_sheawright
Christina Shea-Wright has been working professionally in the entertainment industry for almost 2 decades. Acting credits include The Flight Attendant, Bull, Law and Order: SVU, New Amsterdam, Wu-Tang: An American Sage, etc. Casting Projects include Boardwalk Empire, Rubicon, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Veep, The Greatest Showman On Earth, etc. She is so excited to be working with Sea Dog Theater again!
#00 - Liviya Hoskinson @liviyahoskinson
Although she does both comedic and dramatic plays and musicals, Liviya specializes in dramatic acting. They have brought various intricate roles to life from Alan Hoffman in "Prodigal Son" to Charlie Brown in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". He is active in his school's competitive Improv team.
#25 - Sophia Torres @officialsophiatorres
Sophia Torres is an American actress/model from Newark, NJ. She is authentically Brazilian and Puerto Rican and fluent in Spanish/ Portuguese. Sophia was four years old when she began modeling for Ford Models NYC. At seven years old, she signed with Wilhelmina Kids and Teens Talent Management in New York and has appeared in more than 100 commercial prints and 20 national commercials, including voiceovers. Sophia has appeared in short films Scratch and Blow (2013) and You're the Pest, web series (2016); as well as ABC's television series, Quantico (2016). She's a bright honor roll student, enjoys playing piano and basketball as well as dancing ballet, jazz and hip hop. Sophia has a bright future ahead as she continues to pursue her passion of acting, voice acting, and modeling.
#8 - Willow Street
Willow Street is a ninth grade drama student at Brooklyn High School of the Arts. Past credits include Macbeth in Macbeth, and Mariel in Soundscapes. She is excited for the chance to work with Sea Dog Theater. She’s thankful for her parents and her little brother.
#13 - Cori Diaz @corigrams
Cori Diaz is a performer, writer, and a current student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she majors in Dramatic Writing. She is an actor-educator with the nonprofit Speak About It and was a house team performer and sketch writer at the Sea Tea Comedy Theater in Hartford, CT. For playwriting, she has been a finalist in Hartford Stage’s Write On!, a selected candidate in Middlebury College’s Young Writers’ Conference at Breadloaf Campus, and a Selected Playwright at the Eugene O’ Neill Theater Center’s Young Playwrights Festival. She has also done training for improv, sketch, and stand-up with The Onion, People’s Improv Theater, John Crane Sketch, The Groundlings, and Second City Chicago. For more of her work, feel free to contact her at corichristinadiaz@gmail.com.
#2 - Alyssa Cheatham @alyssacheatham
Alyssa Cheatham is a multi-talented teen actress and singer. Alyssa has multiple animation deals and voices the role of Lorelai, in the Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon series Santiago Of The Seas. She was nominated for a WIN award, for this role. Additionally, Alyssa has filmed 11 movies and several TV shows, including a recurring role in season one of The Flight Attendant, on HBO Max. Alyssa is a member of the National Honor Society and is in the Law Institute at her high school. In her free time, Alyssa loves shopping, writing, traveling, making TikToks, and spending time with family and friends.
#46 - Molly K. Lyons @Molly_k_Lyons
Molly’s theater credits include Chasing Rainbows at Papermill Playhouse, Fun Home at Baltimore Center Stage, and multiple shows at Westchester Broadway Theater. In addition to her theater credits, Molly has been featured in multiple national commercials and voiceovers.
#7 - Catherine Oliviere @catherineoliviere
Catherine Oliviere (she/her) is a professional actor and artist based in NYC, with a passion for creating original and artistically fulfilling works! Catherine made her film debut as Kennedy in A24’s Eighth Grade, has made guest appearances in CBS’s Elementary and AMC’s NOS4A2, and most recently, landed a recurring role in the upcoming Invitation to a Bonfire. Favorite theatre credits include Ginger in Rosemary with Ginger at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre, and Eppie in The Weaver of Raveloe at the American Repertory Theatre. Special thanks to Christina and the Seadog family for this honor—and love always to Jenna!
#11 - Taliyah Whitaker @Taliyah_Sanaa_47
Taliyah Whitaker, actor and filmmaker, is a New York native attending NYU Tisch school of Arts for film and TV. She has been acting since six years old and has been on various from the stage to the screen. Including Brownsville Song at Lincoln Center, Roxxane Roxxane on Netflix, Marry Me, and most recently she has guest starred on the Equalizer as a young Queen Latifah.
#14 - Abigail Dylan Harrison @abigaildylanharrison
Abigail Dylan Harrison is best known for her portrayal of “Stacey Solloway” on Showtime’s Golden Globe-winning drama “The Affair.“ Abbey began her career at age 10, when she starred as “Tina Denmark” in the Off-Broadway production of “Ruthless, the Musical!”, and was honored to originate the titular character in Amanda Peet’s “Our Very Own Carlin McCullough" when it premiered at the Geffen Playhouse in 2018. Abbey can be heard as “Fly" on Amazon Prime’s animated series “The Bug Diaries" and performed in Fox’s “A Christmas Story Live.” Additionally, Abigail has guest starred on hit television series such as Disney’s “Bunk’d”, “Bizaardvark" and the NBC medical drama “New Amsterdam." She is currently a first-year student at New York University.