Big Talk
By Katy Przybylski
Directed by Leah Winkler
*Creative Consultant Rachel Oakley
featuring
Nikki Dillon, David Weinheimer, Rachel Pearl and Gary Ferrar
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Katie Przybylski (shuh-bil-skee) (Playwright) hails from Michigan, where she grew up among many automobiles and squirrels. She currently studies and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Ubiquitous, Correspondence, and Way of the Word, and is forthcoming in Xenith, and Mosaic49. This is the first play she’s written, she wishes you well.
Leah Winkler is a writer/director from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. In addition to working with ETG- she is the A/P/A commissioned writer for the Japanese American National Museum’s Discover Nikkei project. She has directed her plays at the Ontological Hysteric Theater ( Pale Horse…6Speed-cowriter), The Brick Theater (Big Girls Club- Happy Dance Dance Princess Show), HERE Arts Center (The Formula Play) and the Indianapolis New Art Theatre( Everywhere). Her short plays have been seen at h Cultural Development Corporation’s Source Festival (little girls- dir Scott Fortier) , Workingman’s Clothes Productions’(BGC-Dir.Teddy Nicholas). She has also worked with the Asian American Arts Alliance and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company. Come see her read at the Southern Writers Reading Series on April 14th 8 p.m. at Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth & Eldridge.
Nikki Dillon originally hales from Atlanta, GA and moved to New York to study performance and pursue a career in acting. She attended Hofstra University and recieved a BFA in theatre performance. In her first year living in the city she has appeared in Holly Down in Heaven at New Dramatists, The Daughter at Theatroiati, Synesthesia 2009 at The Electric Pear, and The Twelfth Labor at Lark Play Development Center. She has previously appeared as COMPUTER in ETG’s A Pale Horse…. Some of her other favorite roles are Marie Duplesis in Camille, and Austin in True West.
Rachel Pearl is an actor/singer/writer originally from Issaquah, Washington. She previously played a COMPUTER in ETG’s Pale Horse…at the Ontological. She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University. Credits include: The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), Equus (Dora Strang) The Fantasticks (Louisa).
Gary Ferrar is a writer, director, and entertainer currently living in Brooklyn. He holds a B.A. in Theater Arts and English from Hofstra University and is a recipient of the Philip Rosenthal Grant for comedy in theater. Gary serves as as the artistic director for The Hyper Aware Ventilation Company where he is currently working on “Time Traveling with Cannibals”. Much thanks to Leah and Lindsay for this opportunity to work with ETG!
David Weinheimer (1) is thrilled to be working with REPUBLIC Worldwide for the first time. A 2005 graduate from Butler University with a BA in Theatre, after graduating David spent a year and a half on tour with Missoula Children’s Theatre, doing both “Jack and the Beanstalk” (Magic) and “Frog Prince” (Henry/King). David can be seen most weekends here in New York performing at the National Comedy Theatre as part of the house improv team. Other recent New York credits include: “The Tempest” (Stephano) and “Twelfth Night” (Valentine) with Theatre1010, “Merchant of Venice” (Gratiano) with Hudson Shakespeare, “Pericles” (Helicanus/Antiochus) with Hudson Warehouse, and staged readings of “Tymon of Athens” (Flavius) and “Henry VIII” (Henry VIII) with Instant Shakespeare. He can also be seen in the award-winning documentary “The Little Red Truck.” www.davidweinheimer.com”
As part of…..
Way of the Word:
Poems to Plays
April 5th and April 12th 2010. 8PM
Bar On A @ 170 Avenue A, NYC
REPUBLIC Worldwide presents Way of the Word: Poems to Plays. Produced by Marissa Forbes and directed by the founding members of Everywhere Theatre Group. Writers include Lonely Christopher, Marissa Forbes, and Katie Przybylski. Performers include T. Ramon Campbell, Tricia Cramer, and Kristopher W. Imperati, Dan Whalen, Mary Hynes, David Wienhiemer, Nikki Dillion, Rachel Pearl, and Gary Ferrer. Directors include Teddy Nicholas, Chase Voorhees, and Leah Winkler.
Doors open at 8pm, performances begin at 8:30. Drink specials from 8 to 9pm. Sales of the first Way of the Word anthology will be available for purchase, with portions of the proceeds donated to Reading Excellence and Discovery (READ).
