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 '18/SPRING '19
Friday, September 21, 2018 — The (Almost) Unforgettable Edwin Booth by Don Chaffer
Friday, October 19, 2018 — The Office Party by Václav Havel
Saturday, November 17th, 2018 — “An Evening of Art, Words, and Music”
Friday, December 14th, 2018 — "A Christmas Tapestry"
Friday, January 18th, 2019 — Constellations by Nick Payne
Friday, March 29th, 2019 — The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
bY STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS
FRIDAY, MARCH 29TH
where: St. George’s Episcopal Church, 7 Rutherford Pl NYC
“Stephen Adly Guirgis has written a real jaw-dropper -- a courtroom drama that makes a compelling argument for lifting the "eternal damnation" sentence on Judas Iscariot, the most reviled sinner in biblical history. Set in Purgatory and featuring A-list religious figures from Satan to Mother Teresa, this expressionistic fantasy draws on sound theological doctrine to advance its soul-searching meditations on guilt and redemption.” —Variety
FEATURING
Ethan Hova, Gilbert Cruz, Shaun Fauntleroy, Kara Young, Mouna R’miki, Osh Ghanimah, Rachel Ticotin, Rajesh Bose, Gregg Mozgala, Anne Richardson Hansen, Chris Domig, James Yaegashi, Anthony Ruiz, and Kamel Boutros. Directed by Kimille Howard
KIMILLE HOWARD (Director) — is a director from Carmel, Indiana. She recently directed Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau at TheatreSquared. She is the co-program director for the Amoralists’ ‘Wright Club and directed TRIGGERED by Gabriel Jason Dean at the Cherry Lane Theatre for their Ricochet Quadrilogy. As a resident director at The Flea Theater, she directed The Girl With No Hands by Charly Evon Simpson. Kimille is the assistant director to Des McAnuff on Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations which opened on Broadway at The Imperial Theatre in spring 2019. Kimille won Best Director at the 2016 Thespis Festival for It’s All About Lorrie by Joseph Krawczyk at the Hudson Theater which received a commercial run at The American Theater of Actors (2017). Her work has also been seen at The Lark, The National Black Theatre, JAGFest, NYU, Atlantic Acting School, and The Fire This Time Festival among others. She has assisted Ruben Santiago Hudson, Emily Mann, Stephen Wadsworth, Jessica Stone, Jade King Carroll, and Niegel Smith. Kimille is a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club. She will be assisting James Robinson on Porgy and Bess at The Met this fall. BA: Loyola University Chicago
RAJESH BOSE (Jesus/Saint Matthew) — Off Broadway credits include the Daryl Roth Theatre, National Asian American Theatre Company, Theatre 167, and performing as Nirad Das in Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Indian Ink. Regional favorites include Lord Burleigh in Folger Theatre’s production of Mary Stuart, Bartley in Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre’s production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, as well as performances with San Jose Repertory Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh City Theatre, and Quantum Theatre. Film and television credits include “Quantico,” “Blue Bloods,” “Elementary,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Damages,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Criminal Minds,” the series finale of “The Sopranos,” and the Academy Award nominated film Frozen River. Mr. Bose is a graduate of Emerson College.
KAMEL BOUTROS (Uncle Pino/Music) — is a trained musician and opera singer, he is the director of music at St. George's Church, he has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in the following operas: Carmen, Capriccio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme and Roméo et Juliette
CHRISTOPHER J DOMIG (Judas) — 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: Eve (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
SHAUN BENNET FAUNTLEROY (Gloria) — Shaun was most recently seen in Smith Street Stage’s productions of RICHARD III and THE WINTER’S TALE and will soon be seen in the film THE RIVERSIDE BENCH (Barefoot Theatre Co./Barefoot Studios). Shaun is also a playwright and is a recipient of the Theatre Hall of Fame’s 2017 Emerging Theatre Artist Award. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Bentley. They are both foodies. AEA, DGA
OSH GANIMAH (Yusef El-Fayoumy) — is a city guy. Born in Detroit, lived in Chicago most of his life, moved to Harlem for many years, and even spent a few months in Moscow. Osh is a first-generation American, and grew up in one, big loving family. Watching his older brothers get ready to enjoy the nightlife of the 1980’s, he developed a taste for 80s jams and Christian Dior’s Fahrenheit cologne. Osh owes much of his success to the Chicago public school system. He is grateful for the late, Former First Lady of Chicago, Maggie Daley, founder of Gallery 37, an arts program which provided him his first city-job as an actor, singer, and writer. After college, Osh joined Teach For America and taught English and Theatre as a public school teacher in Washington Heights, Harlem, and the South Bronx for five years, in addition to training new teachers. Osh holds a BA in Theatre and English and a BS in Secondary Education from Loyola University Chicago and an MFA in Acting from the grad acting program with the longest name on earth: American Repertory Theater / Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a Harvard University Presidential Fellowship and is the Founder & CEO of Broadway For All. Osh is currently based out of NYC and LA--and resides with his impressive collection of impressive hats.
ANNE RICHARDSON HANSEN (Loretta, Mary, Sister Glenna) — is an actor, writer and filmmaker in New York City. Anne has been acting in film, television and commercials for over 15 years, and is a member of the Obie and Drama Desk winning Theatre Company The Barrow Group. She is a 2007 LAByrinth Theatre Company Artistic Fellow. As a screenwriter, her thriller BABY OBSESSION will premiere on Lifetime in 2018. She has 3 pilots being packaged for TV and 2 more movies in development with Lifetime and The Hallmark Channel. She is a 2018 Sundance Episodic Writer's Lab semi-finalist. As a writer-director, Anne's first film I'LL HIDE, YOU SEEK: a modern day ghost story (short) was produced under the guidance of legendary producer/AD Michael Hausman (Brokeback Mountain, Amadeus, Gangs of New York). She's in pre-production on her first feature DELIVER ME, a social horror thriller, that she plans on shooting Fall 2019 in upstate New York. With an insatiable love of storytelling and conviction for social justice, Anne has a passion for inclusive stories that dig deep into human characters while challenging social thought. What drives her creatively is how to make films with artistic depth that also thrill and entertain.
ETHAN HOVA (Bailiff/Simon the Zealot) — Broadway: The Nap (MTC). Other theatre: The Humans (National Tour), Intelligence (Arena Stage), Guards at the Taj (Woolly Mammoth), (Not) Water (New Georges), The Wong Kids (Ma-Yi). Readings/Workshops: The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Public Theater, McCarter, Signature Theatre, Long Wharf, Roundabout, and The New Group. TV: New Amsterdam, Blindspot, The Blacklist. Training: Carnegie Mellon. Member of Ensemble Studio Theater and Founding Member of Exit, Pursued by a Bear.
GILBERT CRUZ (Judge Littlefield/Caiaphas the Elder)
GREGG MOZGALA (Saint Peter/Matthias of Galilee) — As an actor, Gregg has been in various productions with The Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama ETC, Theater Breaking Through Barriers, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Kennedy Center. He received a Lucille Lortel Award (Best Featured Actor) for his work in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Cost Of Living” by Martyna Majok. Gregg is the founder and Artistic Director of The Apothetae, a theatre company dedicated to the production of works that explore and illuminate the, "Disabled Experience."
MOUNA R’MIKI (Fabiana Aziza Cunningham) — is an actor, writer, producer, dialect/language coach, eyebrow raiser, occasional (verbal) juggler, her work revolves around multi/cross-cultural and multilingual projects. As an actor, she has performed at La MaMa ETC, Signature, Skirball Center of Perf. Arts, Dixon Place, JACK, Theaterlab, Bushwick Starr, among others. She co-wrote, co-produced & acted in Nowhere/Now Here directed by John Gould Rubin & Kat Yen. Film – Writer, co-producer and actor in “The Green Lottery”, Sara in The Guest (Festival circuit: “Special Mention Award of Merit ” at the LA Best Shorts Competition / Castell Award at the Barcelona Film Festival..) ; SAGA (Tangier Film Festival official selection).
ANTHONY RUIZ (Satan) — Anthony’s film credits includes Custody with Viola Davis, Exposed with Keanu Reeves, iCreep with Adrain Martinez, and Eli Moran with David Zayas. He has appeared in many television programs, most recently in New Amsterdam, Madam Secretary, The Punisher 2 and will soon be seen in the new N.Y.P.D. Blue. Anthony is the recipient of the SVA / Directors Guild of America, Best Actor Award for the short film Caravella and winner of the HOLA award for Outstanding Performance in the play The Implications Of Cohabitation. His proudest stage work was to understudy all the Latin male characters in the original cast of Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
RACHEL TICOTIN (Henrietta Iscariot) — is a native New Yorker. She has appeared in films such as Fort Apache, The Bronx; Total Recall; Falling Down, and Con Air. She has appeared in the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Los Angeles as Lt. Arleen Gonzales, and guest starred in the "Warriors" episode of Blue Bloods in 2013 (season 3, episode 15), appearing as "Carmen Castillo".
JAMES YAEGASHI (Freud/Saint Thomas) — Broadway: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way and Take Me Out (2003 Tony for Best Play). Off-Broadway: Wild Goose Dreams, Ping Pong, Durango, Richard III, and Take Me Out (The Public); The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center); House Rules and I_NY (Ma-Yi); A Few Stout Individuals (Signature); and Macbeth (TFANA). Regional: Longwharf, South Coast Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Kennedy Center, etc. International: Singapore Arts Festival, Edinburgh Int’l Festival, Donmar Warehouse and Taganka Theatre. Film & TV: The Runaways (series regular), Daredevil, Madame Secretary, Man on a Ledge, and The Thomas Crown Affair, etc. Interactive: Grand Theft Auto series, Bio Shock series, etc. James is also an award-winning filmmaker, a director, and translator.
KARA YOUNG (Saint Monica) — Harlem Born and raised. Credits: Hair Wolf (dir. Mariama Diallo), Pretty Hunger (dir. Martha Banta, The Public NYC), Queen Latina and Her Power Posse(Dir. Elizabeth Canavan, Cherry Lane), Syncing Ink (dir. Niegel Smith, Alley Theatre), Gutting (National Black Theater). Intensives include LAByrinth Theater Company’s Intensive Ensemble and Sundance Theater Lab. MTV’s Girl Code (4 seasons). @karaakter
CONSTELLATIONS
bY NICK PAYNE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18TH
Join us as we read "Constellations” by Nick Payne, a spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know—delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny.
FEATURING
Emma Duncan and David Rysdahl
EMMA DUNCAN — New York Theater: Illyria (The Public Theater), Cymbeline (Shakespeare in the Park) Regional: The Bridges of Madison County, Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Late Night Cabaret at (Williamstown)The May Queen, The Tempest (Chautauqua Theater Festival) Film: (upcoming)The Land of Owls, The Land, I Fell in Love with the World TV: Dietland (AMC), Chicago Med(recurring), Chicago Justice (NBC), FBI(CBS) and unaired pilots for Showtime and TNT. She is the recipient of the Grace LeVine 2014 Princess Grace Award and is a 2016 Richie Jackson Fellow. MFA: NYU Grad Acting.
DAVID RYSDAHL has acted in numerous films and television shows including CBS’s Bull, Jen Gerber’s The Revival, and Will Sullivan’s That’s Not Us. His most recent feature film Dead Pigs premiered at the Sundance 2018 film fest where it won best acting ensemble. His films have played at festivals all over the world including SXSW, Berlinale, Palm Springs, Cannes, and Slamdance. As a writer/director, his short film Black Swell screened at over 30 festivals, is available on Amazon, and is a Vimeo Staff Pick. He performs improvised one act plays all over New York with his duo team True East.
A CHRISTMAS TAPESTRY: An Evening of Jazz, Theater, and Literature
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14TH at 7PM & 9PM
Calvary-St. George's and Sea Dog Theater are hosting "A Christmas Tapestry: An Evening of Jazz, Theater, and Literature". It's an exciting collaboration between the Andrae Murchison Quintet, Calvary-St. George's Choir and Sea Dog Theater with readings by Michael Howard, Mark Lewis, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, MacIntyre Dixon, Jeff Cribbs and Ariel Woodiwiss. We hope you are able to join us for an intimate evening in The Cave (basement of St. George's church). Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and beverages are included.
THE OFFICE PARTY
BY VACLAV HAVEL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19TH
Join us as we read "The Office Party," an absurdist play and comedy by Vaclav Havel about what happens when language loses its meaning to the point of incomprehension. It's a particularly relevant subject in our current state of media and public discourse.
Officials of the Offices for Opening are at war with those from the Offices for Closing. Hugo Pludek, caught in the middle of their power struggle, is entrusted with a special task: to build a new office for 'The Central Commission for Opening and Closing'.
FEATURING
Daniel Kublick, Gayton Scott, Jay Smith, Matthew Love, Jo Mei,
and T. Ryder Smith
TEA ALAGIĆ (Director) is an internationally-acclaimed, multilingual director. Based in NYC, her credits include off-Broadway, regional and international productions of both traditional theater and devised work. She holds a BFA in acting from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama, where she received the Julian Milton Kaufman Prize in Directing. Tea is presently the head of the MFA and BFA directing department at The New School for Drama in NYC. Tea directed the world premiere of Tarell McCraney’s The Brothers Size at The Public Theater, NYC, and later productions in The Studio Theater Washington DC, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Old Globe San Diego, and The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Other selected credits: North American premiere of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s Jackie starring Tina Benko at NY City Center (multiple Lortel Award nominations); Charise Smith’s Washeteria at Soho Rep; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet starring Elizabeth Olsen and Julian Cihi at CSC Rep; The broadway-bound revival of Passing Strange by Stew and Heidi Rodewald at The Wilma Theater (nominated for 9 Barrymore Awards including Best Directing); Daniel Alexander Jones’ Black Light at the Greenwich House and The Book of Daniel at UT Austin; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Lidless at Page 73; and productions of a wide repertory of plays and musicals at Wilma Theatre/Philadelphia, Goodman/Chicago, National Theatre/London, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Kitchen, The Carlotta Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Mama ETC, Asolo Rep, Hispanic Cultural Center/Albuquerque, ZKM/Croatia, 4+4 Festival/Prague, BAC/London. http://www.teaalagic.com/ Facebook:@TeaAlagic
DANIEL KUBLICK (Hue Plume) has appeared in new works by Dan Rothenberg, Kristin Marting, Ashlin Halfnight, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jerry Lieblich, Eric Bland, Tracy Bersley, Jenny Connell Davis, Jeremy Pickard, Mikhael Tara Garver, Sister Sylvester and art.party.theater.company. Recent credits include: Toshiki Okada’s The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (The Play Company, NYT Critic's Pick); IDIOT (HERE); Tom & Eliza (JACK); Ghost Stories (Tiny Little Band); Dead Behind These Eyes (Sister Sylvester); and Health Insurance (United Solo Festival-- Best Avant-Garde Show). He is a graduate of The Studio/New York and Princeton University, and currently lives in oh so beautiful Brooklyn.
JAY SMITH (Ollie Plume) Christina Masciotti’s Raw Bacon From Poland at Abrons. Also repeatedly (since 2010) in Ms. Masciotti’s Vision Disturbance for New York City Players (directed by Richard Maxwell) in NYC, Boston, Italy, France and Croatia. Other work: four world premieres of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric plays in New York and Europe (Paradise Hotel;Now That Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty; King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe; and The Gods Are Pounding My Head), Jay Gatsby in Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz work-in-progress, Richard Maxwell’s Showcase, and work for Clubbed Thumb, The Talking Band, and many others.
GAYTON SCOTT (Bea Plume)
MATTHEW LOVE (Mark Plume, Executive 1) is an actor and writer whose bylines include Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Vulture, Condé Nast Traveler and Time Out New York, among others. He hosted the 30th anniversary season of NPR staple Selected Shorts, and has since been a consulting producer there. He has hosted or interviewed people including Stephen Colbert, Chris Rock, Carrie Brownstein, Junot Diaz and scads more. He also presides over comedy debate series Uptown Showdown.
JO MEI (Alma, Executive 2)
T. RYDER SMITH (Frank Slug) Broadway: Oslo; War Horse; Equus. NY theatre: Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play and Dead Man’s Cell Phone; David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy; Richard Foreman’s King Cowboy Rufus and The Gods Are Pounding My Head; Christina Masciotti’s Social Security; Katori Hall’s Our Lady of Kibeho; Anne Washburn’s Apparition; Barbara Weichmann’s Summer. Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance in Glenn Berger’s Underneath the Lintel. Drama Desk award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast for the 3-actor Lebensraum; Obie award for Outstanding Ensemble for J. T. Rogers’ Oslo. Regional theatre: world premieres of Sarah Ruhl’s Scenes from Court Life, Yael Farber’s Salome, Craig Wright’s Creditors, Charles Mee’s Big Love. TV: Blacklist, Elementary, White Collar, Nurse Jackie, PBS series The Abolitionists, the animated series The Venture Brothers. Film: The Torture Report, Enclosure, Brainscan. Vocal: many audiobooks, Theatre of War, the Bioshock videogames.
SEA DOG THEATER IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CREATIVE ARTS INITIATIVE
PRESENTS
THE (ALMOST) UNFORGETTABLE EDWIN BOOTH
BY Don Chaffer
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST
A reading of a new musical about Lincoln's assassin's brother. Edwin Booth was more famous than John Wilkes until the whole assassination thing. Set in the nether-world between life and death, Edwin's trying to wake up after a stroke, to get back to his beloved daughter. The only thing in his way? One of history's most hated madmen, his little brother.
FEATURING
Mimi Bessette, Dominic Bogart, Matt Bogart, MacIntyre Dixon, Martha Harms, Martin Landry, Kate Reinders, Skye Scott and Music Director Kyle Norris with Musicians Marty Isenberg and Brian Raddock
DON CHAFFER (Writer) Within theater, Don is a composer/lyricist/librettist/arranger, and occasional Music Director. Outside of theater, he has a band with his wife, Lori Chaffer, called Waterdeep, and is a record producer/engineer/songwriter who has two kids, and live in Nashville, Tennessee. Music Theater credits include: THE UNUSUAL TALE OF MARY & JOSEPH’S BABY (composer/lyricist, With Chris Cragin Day). Readings: River & Rail Theatre (Knoxville); The Olmsted Salon (NYC). Productions: NYC Fringe Festival, Theatre 315 (NYC); River & Rail Theatre (Knoxville, 2016 & 2017; OKC, 2017); King’s College (NYC). THE SPARKLEY CLEAN FUNERAL SINGERS (composer/lyricist, w/ Lori Fischer)–Readings: York Theatre Developmental Reading Series (NYC); Florida Studio Theatre Reading Series (FL); Productions: Capital Repertory Theatre (NY); Cumberland County Playhouse (TN). SON OF A GUN (composer/lyricist/book co-writer, w/ Chris Cragin Day)–Readings/Workshops: O'Neill National Music Theater Conference (CT), Playwrights Horizon (NYC), Joe’s Pub (NYC); Productions: Beckett Theatre, produced by Firebone Theatre, directed by Gabriel Barre. THE HANK LEGACY (co-creator / arranger, w/ Matt Logan)–Production: Studio Tenn (TN). THE CASH LEGACY (co-creator / arranger, w/ Matt Logan)–Production: Studio Tenn (TN). IS THIS HEAVEN, EVAN? (composer/lyricist, w/ Lori Fischer)–Production: Bespoke Music Theater Festival, Marymount College at The York Theatre (NYC). MEDEA (composer)–Production: Huntington University. FORGET EDWIN BOOTH (BROTHER OF LINCOLN’S ASSASSIN) (composer/lyricist/book-writer)–Readings: Studio Tenn (TN), Sea Dog Theater (NYC). Music Theater awards include: Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist award, Two-time Richard Rogers Award finalist, O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference Participant, Yale Institute for Music Theatre finalist, Drama League New Director New Works grant recipient. Commissions include: Bespoke Music Theater Festival, and Pacific Theatre.
GABRIEL BARRE (Director) is an internationally acclaimed director who recently directed Amazing Grace on Broadway. Off Broadway credits include the original productions of Manhattan Theatre Club’s, The Wild Party by Andrew Lippa, Summer of ’42, john & jen and Almost, Maine. National Tours include Amazing Grace, Pippin, and Cinderella. Regional theatre credits include the original production of Memphis, at North Shore Music Theatre and Theatreworks in Palo Alto, CA; Soul Doctor at San Diego Repertory Theatre, as well as Sweeney Todd, Finian’s Rainbow and many new musicals at Goodspeed Musicals in CT. International credits include: the Mexican premiere of, Billy Elliot (recently nominated for 12 Los Metro Awards including Best Director), The Scarlet Pimpernel in Japan, numerous shows in Korea, China and the Czech Republic, including the world premiere of the new Czech musical opening this fall about Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle called, Holmes, The Legend. As an actor, he has been nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical and appeared off-Broadway recently, as Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, which, he also directed.
KYLE C. NORRIS (Music Director) Broadway: School of Rock, Rocky, Pippin, First Date. 1st National Tour: If/Then, Legally Blonde, West Side Story. Las Vegas: Spamalot, Mamma Mia, Hairspray, Avenue Q. Other: TV Time! (Laurie Beechman Theatre), Karine Hannah (54 Below). www.KCNMusic.com
MACINTYRE DIXON (Junius Brutus Booth) Broadway credits include Cyrano de Bergerac , Prelude To A Kiss, Gypsy , The Crucible , 1776 ,A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Over Here, The Tempest , Beauty And The Beast, , 3 Penny Opera , Once In A Lifetime, Alice In Wonderland, Sly Fox, and , Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks, Comic Potential, Arms and The Man, Hamlet, Little Murders, Room Service , The Winter’s Tale, Tom Foolery, Much Ado About Nothing, and Stewed Prunes (co author). Films: It’s Kind Of A Funny Story, School of Rock, In & Out, A River Runs Through It, Secret Of My Success, The Dream Team, Batteries Not Included, Popeye
MATT BOGART (Edwin Booth) Broadway: Jersey Boys, Aida, Miss Saigon, The Civil War, Smokey Joe’s Café (TV/DVD) and Camelot (Tour). Off-Broadway: James Joyce in Himself and Nora (Outer Critics Nom.) and in Dublin, Ireland. TV: HBO’s “Vinyl” as Robert Goulet, “Smash” as JFK, Law and Order & L&O: SVU. Recent work includes, world premiers of Snow Child at Arena Stage, Most Beautiful Room in NY at Long Wharf, Rochester in Jane Eyre and Billy in Carousel with Wichita Symphony. In addition to premiering leading roles at La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Goodspeed, and Cincinnati Playhouse, he has performed solo at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and with Symphony Orchestras throughout the US. Mr. Bogart is an Affiliated Artist of Arena Stage in D.C., a theatre producer & record producer with solo recordings. www.MattBogart.com
DOMINIC BOGART (John Wilkes Booth) Theatre: Nick Massi in JERSEY BOYS (Chicago Company), Mark in RENT (national tour), ZHIVAGO at La Jolla Playhouse, MOLLY'S DREAM and ALL BUT FORGOTTEN at Soho Repertory Theatre, BAT BOY at Portland Center Stage and Human Race Theatre Company, Jesus in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at New Bedford Festival Theatre, and SACRIFICING BOUNDARIES at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. Film and TV: Leads in I AM NOT A HIPSTER (Sundance selection) and EXTRACTED (SXSW selection), supporting roles in THE BIRTH OF A NATION (Sundance multi-award winner), THE GLASS CASTLE (Lionsgate), CBGB, recurring roles on The CW's ARROW, AMC's FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, ABC's FLASHFORWARD, and THE CHRIS ROCK SHOW. Upcoming projects include a lead in the Nate Parker directed series BASELINES, a supporting role in Haroula Rose's feature ONCE UPON A RIVER, and supporting opposite Brie Larson and Michael B. Jordan in the Warner Brothers drama, JUST MERCY.
MARTHA HARMS (Edwina Booth Grossman) is thrilled to be back with Sea Dog! Previous SDT productions: NOT FROM HERE at the ACE Hotel, and the staged reading of Odets' AWAKE AND SING! BFA from Southern Methodist University. www.marthaharms.com
KATE REINDERS (Mary Devlin Booth) was last seen on Broadway in Meteor Shower (standby for Amy Schumer). She created the role of Portia in Something Rotten! (Original Cast recording). Other Broadway: Glinda in Wicked (Broadway and Original Chicago company; Jefferson Award nomination), June in Sam Mendes' revival of Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters, Caroline in the Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations, 2002 revival of Into the Woods and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Other theatre: The Nerd (George Street Playhouse), A Year With Frog and Toad (New Victory Theater; Original Cast recording), Nerds (New York Stage and Film), and Party Come Here (Williamstown Theatre Festival). On television, Kate was a series regular on ABC’s Work It and Lifetime’s Sherri, and has guest-starred on Instinct, Anger Management, Modern Family, and Ugly Betty. Film: Russell Madness, Grudge Match, Such Good People, Certainty, and Kinsey. As half of the singing/songwriting comedy duo "Tastiskank", she has performed at New York’s 54 Below, the TBS Comedy Festival in Las Vegas and the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where they received the 2007 Breakout Award.
MIMI BESSETTE (Julia Ward Howe) Broadway/Off-Broadway: Bonnie & Clyde, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Little Shop of Horrors and Smoke on the Mountain. First National Tours: Soul Doctor, Parade, Keep On The Sunny Side, Big River and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Regional Favorites: Woody Sez, Cowgirls, Duck Commander Musical, Always...Patsy Cline, Church Basement Ladies, Hank Williams Lost Highway, The Buddy Holly Story, Blood Brothers, Pump Boys and Dinettes and Woody Guthrie's American Song. Film/TV: Difficult People(opposite Andrea Martin) and Annie(opposite Jamie Foxx). She is featured on four cast albums and is the singer and executive producer on her own albums Lullabies of Broadway and Lullabies of Broadway Act II. Both will be released this fall on Broadway Records. Mimi will next be seen as Miss Shingle in A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder at Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, FL.
MARTIN LANDRY (Adam Badeau) is an actor/musician whose theatrical credits include Off-Broadway, national tours, and a lot of regional productions. Upcoming: MURDER FOR TWO at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Thanks to Don and Gabe for letting him hang out with them again, and love to Janice (always). www.martinlandry.net
SKYE SCOTT (Sleeper Clarke) was most recently seen in the world premier of SOUL: The Stax Musical playing hall of fame guitar legend Steve Cropper. National Tours: JERSEY BOYS, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET. Off-Broadway: JERSEY BOYS (Crewe). Other favorites: LOVE ACTUALLY (Mark) at the Wallis Center in LA and BAZ: Star Crossed Love (Gatsby) at the Palazzo in Las Vegas with For the Record. Proud alum of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
LAUREN WIDNER (Assistant Director) is a freelance director, pianist, and vocal coach. Upcoming: Nuclear Follies. Past credits include: 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (Lookingglass Theatre), The Fantasticks (BCCPA), A Connecticut Christmas Carol (Goodspeed Opera House), The Foreigner (Cape Playhouse). MM in Music Education (Boston University), MA in Theatre Directing (Roosevelt University). www.laurenwidner.com
PAIGE CARTER (Stage Manager) is an AEA Stage Manager & Event Producer here in NYC. Paige is the Programming Lead & Co-Director for Camp Wonderful, a summer camp for adults. Paige is an alumni of Elon University and Columbia University, as well as a proud former resident of Las Vegas, NV and North Carolina.
MARTY ISENBERG (Musician) Bassist Marty Isenberg has made substitute performances on the Broadway shows “Fun Home”, “Lion King”, “Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular”, and has toured with the show ‘Soul Doctor’. As an active member of the New York jazz scene, Marty has had the opportunity to both tour internationally and perform with some of the most pre-eminent jazz musicians of our time including: Ari Hoenig, Tyshawn Sorey, Chad Lefkewitz Brown, Sean Nowell, Tony Moreno, Dave Pietro, Zachary and Adam O’Farrill, Uri Gurvich, and Onaje Allen Gumbs. His trio with collaborator Dave Juarez performs frequently in New York City and in 2015 toured Central America culminating in headlining the El Salvador Jazz Festival. Marty received his undergraduate degree from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he majored in Jazz Performance and minored in Jazz Composition, and received his Master of Music degree from New York University. He has held adjunct faculty positions at New York University, Sacred Heart University, and Quinnipiac University. He is the founder of the Clinton Hill Music School in Brooklyn, where he currently resides.
BRIAN RADDOCK (Musician)