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 LION IN THE STREETS
by JUDITH THOMPSON
In this shattering, desperately funny, uplifting and provocative play by one of Canada 's preeminent playwrights, the ghost of a murdered seven year-old girl returns to the community where she lived to discover the identity of her killer. Peering into the lives of her friends and neighbours, she discovers the secrets lurking beneath the happy façade of middle-class life and learns the powerful nature of love and forgiveness.
About the Production Team:
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KAREEM FAHMY (Director) |
Kareem hails from Sherbrooke Quebec and is a graduate of McGill University where he directed Montreal 's English-language premiere of Lion in the Streets in 2000. He founded The Alternate Theatre in 2001 and has served as its artistic director since. With The Alternate Theatre he directed the Canadian premieres of Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Naomi Iizuka's Language of Angels , among other productions. Kareem is currently studying with Anne Bogart and Brian Kulick as a candidate in the Masters' directing program in the theatre division at Columbia University . His New York directing credits include Bertolt Brecht's Drums in the Night and Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class. |
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BRIAN IRELAND (Scenic Designer) |
Brian is currently working towards earning his M.F.A. in design from New York University 's Tisch School of the Arts. Brian designs for dance, theater, and puppetry and is very pleased to be working with this production. |
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ANDREW LU (Lighting Designer) |
Born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Andrew has moved to New York City to foolishly pursue a career in the performing arts. His work includes: Set designer for Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage (Atlas Room Theatre, New York City), lighting and co-set designer for the jazz opera, Québecité composed by Juno Award winner D.D. Jackson and libretto by Governor General Award winner George Elliott Clarke (2003 Guelph Jazz Festival, River Run Centre, Guelph), set and lighting designer for Grotowski's Head by Anthony Reid (2001 Toronto Fringe Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto), writer, director, and designer for Razor Wire (The Inner Stage Theatre, Guelph), set, lighting and sound designer for Back to Basics by Ric Knowles and Elyssa Livergant (1999 Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto), set, lighting and projection designer for Here Lies Henry by Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks (The Inner Stage Theatre, Guelph), set designer for A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (The Inner Stage Theatre, Guelph), associate set designer for Ladies' Night by Stephen Sinclair and Anthony McCarten (The Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, Brantford). For his play Razor Wire, Andrew was awarded the third prize Gladys Cameron Watt Award in the 60th Annual Canadian One Act Playwriting Competition in Ottawa. Andrew graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in design for stage and film. |
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ANDREW PAPADEAS (Sound Designer) |
Andrew writes for a variety of ensembles from standard orchestra to self-built interactive computer instruments. He is co-founder of the multimedia ensemble "Spiral Blue" as sound designer and head computer programmer, and has composed for several short films and television. Andrew teaches computer music at SUNY Stony Brook, where he received his Masters' degree in music composition, under Daniel Weymouth and Daria Semegen. He has collaborated with, and been commissioned by, both visual and performing artists, primarily working on computer generated art forms. |
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ANNE K. WOOD (Costume and Makeup Designer) |
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After receiving her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Anne has been fortunate to work with very gifted individuals in her field. A few favorite projects include costuming Shakespeare's Measure for Measure directed by Martha Henry, Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart , and costuming various dancers at Battery Dance Company who may now be seen touring internationally with their show. |
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ANDREA WALES (Stage Manager) |
Andrea is a second year stage manager at Columbia University. This is her second collaboration with Kareem, the first being Drums in the Night last fall. Her recent work has been on Delayed which was part of Columbia 's New Voices Play Festival and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. |
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| COURTNEY TODD (Dramaturg) |
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Courtney is pleased to be involved in her third collaboration with The Alternate Theatre, after serving as dramaturg on its productions of Curse of the Starving Class and . the Kid . She is in her second year as an MFA student in dramaturgy and script development at Columbia University's School of the Arts. She received her Bachelors of Arts degrees in English and Comparative Religion from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas . She worked as a stage manager and dramaturg on Brecht's Mother Courage at Columbia University. In Dallas, her dramaturgy credits include A Doll's House, All in the Timing , and A Winter's Tale at SMU, and Henry IV Parts I and II with the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas. |
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| DEREK BUTLER (Producer) |
| Derek graduated from The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in oboe performance. Upon moving to New York , Butler began select graduate studies in arts administration and theater management at Brooklyn College while working simultaneously assisting the Artistic and Executive Directors of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. After completing his graduate studies, Butler left the non-profit world of Lincoln Center to join the corporate world of Universal Music Group (formerly PolyGram records) to do marketing and public relations for the three world-renowned classical labels Deutsche Grammaphon, Philips Classics and Decca Records. From Universal, he became the Associate Director of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a project of the Alliance for the Arts, and ultimately the Vice President of J.F. Mastroianni Associates, Inc., a boutique artist management firm where he worked with a roster of mostly high-profile opera stars. |
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| About the Cast: |
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| NATHAN BLEW (Scalato, Bill, Rodney, The Midnight Man, Ben) |
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This is Nathan's second Alternate Theatre production and he is very, very happy to be working with Kareem again. He most recently appeared in You Can't Take It With You at Two Rivers Theatre (NJ), The Alternate Theatre's production of ...the Kid and on daytime TV's All My Children. |
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AMANDA BOEKELHEIDE (Rachel, Lily, Rhonda, Scarlett)
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Amanda Boekelheide received her BA in theatre from Pitzer in LA, and Marymount in London, then continued her study in physical theatre at L'École de Mime Corporeal Dramatique in London. Since 1997 she has been a core member of Liminal Performance Group, working as an actor and the company's movement director. In 2002, Boekelheide received several regional grants to study with theatre ensembles and artists in Germany, France and Poland. She won a Drammy award for her work in Three Plays, Five Lives in 2003. Boekelheide teaches workshops in mutual physicality, articulated physicality and impossible architecture. She currently resides in NY where she was the 2003-2004 artist in residence at the International House. She studied Suzuki/Viewpoints with SITI Company in 2004, and will graduate from Columbia's MFA program in Acting in 2006. Please visit her website for more info. |
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| JAMES RYAN CALDWELL (Timmy, Ron, David, Michael) |
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James just returned from a month in Saratoga Springs training with the SITI Company. Acting credits include Henry IV Part 1 (dir. Padraic Lillis), You Again (dir. Bill Gullo), Drums in the Night (dir. Kareem Famhy), Vert-Galant (Circle East Rep.) and The Second Death of Priscilla (dir. Andrew Belser). Internationally he has performed The Bakkhai at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Festival of Ancient Greek Drama in Cyprus. Currently J. R. is collaborating on a project for The N Network and workshopping his first play the bird stories. |
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JEFFREY CLARKE (Martin, Isobel's Father, George/Maria, Father Hayes, Edward) |
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Jeff is a recent gradate of Columbia's MFA Acting program. He is a founding member of PL115, and performed God's Waiting Room with them in the 2005 New York Fringe Festival. Other recent work includes A Lie of the Mind, Ivanov and Mother Courage at Columbia, Crocodile Eyes in the Premio Dams festival in Bologna, Italy, Twelfth Night, performed at international festivals in Germany and Korea, and The First Chapter of Peter at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which earned his ensemble a Fringe First Nomination. |
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TANIA MOLINA( Isobel ) |
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Tania Molina is starting her second year at Columbia University's MFA Acting Program. Before coming to New York, she worked for many years in Puerto Rico as an independent actress developing roles like Maria in La edad de la ciruela, Margarita in El deseo mas canalla and Charlotte in Old Pink. Other credits include Maria in Twelfth Night , Maria Lvovna in Summerfolk and Maria in Woyzek. Recent works include Aurora in Uneventful Deaths for Agathon by Javier Antonio Gonzalez and Georgina in the staged reading of Windows by Sylvia Bofill. |
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RACHEL SCHWARTZ(Sue, Jill, Joanne, Sherry) |
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Rachel's recent credits include One Wednesday at West Haddam High at Manhattan Theatre Source, Alcestis at chashama, and The Comedy of Errors and Antony and Cleopatra at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. She received her MFA in acting from Columbia University, where she performed in such plays as Hamlet, Machinal, Thyestes, and The Cherry Orchard. |
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TRACY WELLER (Nellie, Laura, Christine, Joan)
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In addition to her Columbia training, Tracy has studied abroad at the British American Drama Academy, with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company and apprenticed at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. New York City credits include Faust at the Met, Library Play at TSI, Green Apple at The Belt (at The Zipper), Lion by the Tail and Look After LuLu at The Century Center. Columbia productions include Twelfth Night (in which she played Olivia), directed by Niky Wolcz, The House of Bernarda Alba -- Best Ensemble of The Year, New York Observer -- (Magdalena), directed by Karin Coonrod and Lie of The Mind (Sally), directed by Jeff Janisheski. Other favorite roles include Yelena in Uncle Vanya, Julia Julie (the debauched cabaret star) in The Shadow and Alma in Little Eyolf. |
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