Check out yet another great review of The Internet!

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Andy Webster, the reviewer, notes that  “The script, by Leah Winkler, who also directed with Lindsay Mack, effectively skewers the false personas and banal self-descriptions on dating Web sites while underscoring the longing.” You can read the full review here, where he goes into detail about Chase Voorhees awesome sound design and our “android temptress” cast member Tess Frazer Hoffemeir  in her gold bikini!

Love Among Leah Winkler’s Webbies at St. Mark’s Church – NYTimes.com

More big news to come…..hope to see you at th show! Don’t wait to get your tickets! Get them now!

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CAST

Tess Frazer Hofmaier was a drama major at LaGuardia high school of the Performing Arts and at the Proffesional Performing Arts School in Manhattan. She studied dance at Steps and has performed throughout NYC with Ballet Hispanico’s Student Ensemble and with the Looking Glass theatre. Tess is thrilled to be a part of this ingenious production!

T. Ramón Campbell (A): A small town boy from Ossining, NY with roots in Tuskegee, AL and Jarrett, VA, Ramón grew up an active participant of the theatre arts in his community, playing in high school productions of The King and I, Bye Bye Birdie and Gypsy. Furthering his education at SUNY Purchase College in Westchester, NY Ramón earned a BA in Literature/Drama Studies and wrote, produced, directed and performed in his first original work.  In Denver, CO he achieved an MFA in acting, at the National Theatre Conservatory.  As an apprentice with the Denver Center Theatre Company, Ramón had the honor of performing in such classics as The Tempest, Dream, On Monkey Mountain, The Women of Trachis, The Importance of Being Ernest, Bus Stop, Le Misanthrope and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.  Recently, Ramón played Joe in the SUNY Purchase College Production of Four directed by Teddy Nicolas.  Than at the Ontological Hysterical Theatre he played Luke, in the ETG Original production of A Pale Horse, Death, Hell: Followed With a Lifetime Original Series.  Ramón is honored to have the opportunity to join Everywhere Theatre Group in this project.

Rachel Radenberg is a Brooklyn based artist.  She Graduated from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.  Love and thanks to ETG.

Phillip Gulley is an interdisciplinary artist and general practitioner of performance based in New York City. He ventures into acting, dancing, installation, administration, sound art, dramaturgy and other lovely things with a bit of wonder that he has found his way to such wonderful people and places. Phillip holds the position of Sponsored Artist Program Associate at The Field, is currently a MFA candidate at PIMA Brooklyn College, and holds a degree in Performance Theatre from the University of South Florida.

James Roberts is a New York based actor-singer-dancer. Previous credits include productions of: Yearbook, Once on This Island, Damn Yankees, Baby, and Mother Courage. James would like to thank his friends and family for their boundless support.

Rachel Pearl is an actor/singer/writer originally from Issaquah, Washington, and is happy to be joining ETG again for this new endeavor. She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University. She previously appeared in A Pale Horse . . .  and Big Talk with ETG. Other credits include: The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), Equus (Dora Strang) The Fantasticks (Louisa).

Clint Headley is an actor and dancer from New York City by way of Trinidad & Tobago. He’s credited in many short films and music videos, and has done some stage as well. He loves acting and hopes one day to be a feature film director.

Nicki Miller is an actor/dancer/aerialist with a Bachelor’s degree in Drama from Syracuse University. Currently she is an aerial performer and teacher at The House of Yes in Brooklyn and is doing aerial silk choreography for the Deconstructive Theatre Project’s upcoming show, The Orpheus Variations at Theatre for A New City in September.  The big project for the upcoming year is a collaboration with actor/aerialist Sarah Bowles on developing a site-specific production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with aerial and live music in the engine room of a boat! More info at nickimiller.wordpress.com!

Laura Sundh is a graduate from the University of Iowa with a BA in Dance and Psychology.  She moved to New York after a year spent in Minneapolis on scholarship with Zenon Dance Company.  Laura has worked with choreographers such as David Dorfman, Charlotte Adams, Armando Duarte/Duarte Dance Works Contemporary Dance Company, and Alan Sener, among others.  She is honored to be part of such a talented group of people, and looks forward to things to come.

TJ Jamez is a professional dancer and fashion designer. He is one of the co-founders of Fire Cry, a dance crew that grew into a movement for talented artists of music and fashion. He has been working most recently updating his clothing line for Fire Cry but has been in several music videos, and can be seen this month in the upcoming film Step Up 3D.

Dan Whalen is a social worker and performer from Grand Rapids, MI.  While persuing a political science degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, he appeared in productions including Noises Off!; Henry IV, Part I; Stop Kiss; The Madwoman of Chaillot; and The Photographer, while also giving writing and directing a shot.  Productions in his native Michigan included Les Miserables; 42nd Street; and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet.  While working on the piece What Is Wild as part of the Ontological Hysteric Incubator’s Short Form series he had the opportunity to meet the members of Everywhere Theatre Group, which led to an appearance in last year’s ETG production of A Pale Horse… and the rest, as they say, is history.  A big Thank You! to the cast and crew and everyone who made this show possible – and that includes you, Mom and Dad.  Enjoy the show, and I love you.

Benjamin Myer: Please visit my bio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNUAgg1tqw

CREATIVE TEAM AND CREW

Lindsay Mack (Creative Director, Co-stage Director, Choreographer, Costumes/Props) is a Brooklyn based performer; she is the resident choreographer/costumer for ETG, as well as being a company member performer. Credits with ETG include: Big Girls Club: Happy Dance Dance Princess Show! at The Brick (video segment); A Pale Horse…Culmination for Ontological-Hysteric’s Incubator Short Form Series, The Formula Play at HERE Arts Center, and A Pale Horse… at Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Outside of ETG, she has performed at the Public Theater, Snapple Theater Center, and most recently played Abigail Williams in The Crucible at Gallery Players, and Antigone in Anouilh’s Antigone at Brecht Forum. LindsayAnnMack.com.

Chase Voorhees (Videographer, Sound Designer, Creative Consultant) is a Brooklyn based artist. He gets paid to be an online editor at DuArt in Manhattan. He is also a founding member of ETG, having worked on all previous productions, with titles varying from co-director to videographer to sound op, and so on. Beyond the skills listed here, he is adept at taking photographs, and teaching himself instruments. The cello is next. ChaseVoorhees.com.

Leah Winkler ( writer, text director and stage co-director) is a  writer/director from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky and a founding member of ETG. She has directed her plays at OHT, Brick Theater, HERE Arts Center, Indianapolis New Art Theatre and her  short plays have been seen at the Cultural Development Corporation’s Source Festival, Workingman’s Clothes Productions’ Binge Fest and Butler University. Leah has worked with A4, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company and writes essays for Discover Nikkei. She is also a 2010 member of Terra Nova Theater Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwright’s Group for her play, Death for Sydney Black. Love and thanks to everyone!!!! www.leahwinkler.org

Teddy Nicholas ( lighting designer, song writer for “song”) is a designer, playwright and director from in Queens, NY. He was a Dixon Place HOT! Festival Artist from ‘07-‘08 where he wrote and performed a solo piece, STDs – Socially Transmitted Dissociation, and wrote and directed UNTITLED. He performed in 365 Days/365 Plays at HERE Arts Center and The Public Theater under the direction of Lenora Champagne. He directed the Wadsworth award-winning production of Christopher Shinn’s Four at Purchase College, where he earned a B.A. Drama Studies. He directed Big Girls Club (Workingman’s Clothes BINGE Festival at Wings Theater). Teddy co-wrote/directed with Leah Winkler A Pale Horse, Death & Hell Followed With (A Lifetime Original Series), a show developed from the Ontological-Hysteric Theater’s Incubator Short Form series. He recently  directed  Lonely Christopher’s Pages from a Course in General Linguistics (REPUBLIC Worldwide’s The Way of the Word.  Teddy has stage managed and toured internationally with Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company with The Shipment (Brooklyn Arts Exchange, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, OH; The Kitchen, NY; Kunstenfestival des Arts, BE) and assisted stage managed CHURCH (Under The Radar Festival 08 at The Public Theater). He also stage managed Thomas Bradshaw’s Southern Promises (PS122), Eliza Bent’s She of the Voice (Undergroundero Festival at PS122), Tommy Smith’s The Break-Up & Ken Urban’s The Happy Sad (The Flea Theater), Taylor Mac’s OKAY and Anne Washburn’s October/November (Ensemble Studio Theatre). He is a founding member of Everywhere Theatre Group.

Blair Hotchner (Stage Manager) received a BA in Dance and Psychology from Hofstra University (2010). She stage managed the Hofstra Masquerade’s production of Amused (Fall 2008). She had the honor of Stage Managing Hofstra Dance Department’s 25th anniversary Concert (Fall 2009). She was the assistant choreographer for Overground dance theater latest piece Urban Tao (2010). She loved the experience she has had working with ETG.

Allison M. Malinowski (Production Stage Manager) – Allison received her B.A. in Drama Studies from SUNY Purchase, and involved herself in over fifteen productions there as either production stage manager, light/sound technician, or actress.  She was also chosen as the first Technical Directing intern for the Humanities Theatre.  Allison has interned with the Walt Disney World® Resort on four occasions, and has worked with the The Jackson Repertory Theatre as a production stage manager.  She has interned as a technician at Dixon Place, and is a part-time Technical Director for the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio.

Scenic Design: Robert Bursztyn ( bio coming soon)

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The Internet.

ETG attempts to stage the world wide web in The Internet. Fusing dance, movement, video, music, original and found texts, ETG examines what lies beneath the cool, sleek surface of the information super highway. By asking what propels people into the shadowy underworld of the world wide web where one desires to objectify bodies and see people fail, ETG aims to find the root of human connection at its newest form.

Presented as part of the  INCUBATOR ARTS PROJECT

Performances August 12-21

at

Incubator Arts Project

St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
(at 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

For more information visit:

http://www.incubatorarts.org/

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ETG is casting  performers for our upcoming summer show, “THE INTERNET” which will perform in August 2010 at the INCUBATOR ARTS PROJECT in New York, NY. We are seeking performers, dancers/excellent movers  who  possess raw emotion in their movement.

Show Description:

ETG attempts to stage the world wide web in THE INTERNET. Fusing dance, movement, video, music, original and found texts, we will examine what lies beneath the cool, sleek surface of the information super highway. By asking what propels us into the shadowy underworld of the world wide web where we desire to objectify bodies and see people fail, we aim to find the root of human connection at its newest form.

First rehearsal: 6/12. Rehearses evenings/Saturdays in Brooklyn; Show dates: August 12-21.

To be considered for an audition, please email a headshot/resume to Lindsay at everywheretheatre@gmail.com with the subject “CASTING”.

Auditions will be held on Saturday, June 5 from 9am-12pm, and on Sunday June 6 from 10am-2pm at Shetler Studios. Please indicate any conflicts in your email, as we will be contacting you with an appointment on a first come, first served basis. If you cannot make these audition dates but would still like to be considered, please indicate this in your submission and we will contact you after JUNE 6th regarding a time slot.

For this audition, please prepare a 60 second dance piece to the music of your choosing (bringing music on an iPod is fine). We want to see your love for dance in this piece, so prepare anything that moves you and gets you excited and passionate. Any style of dance or type of music is great.

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).

Here are some sneak peak pics by the lovely Jessica Monahan. We packed the house on April 5th and hope to do it again!

xo ETG

By Katy Przybylski

Directed by Leah Winkler

*Creative Consultant Rachel Oakley

featuring

Nikki Dillon, David Weinheimer, Rachel Pearl and Gary Ferrar

——————————biographies—————————

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).

PRESENTED BY REPUBLIC WORLDWIDE in COLLABORATION WITH EVERYWHERE THEATRE GROUP

Produced by Marissa Forbes and directed by the founding members of Everywhere Theatre Group, Way of the Word: Poems to Plays, promises to be a unique and entertaining evening of poetic theater beginning with Lonely Christopher’s adaptation of “For Example” into “Pages from a Course in General Linguistics” directed by Teddy Nicholas, performed by T. Ramon Campbell, Tricia Cramer, and Kristopher W. Imperati, with sound by Brendan Bryne; followed by Marissa Forbes’ “Scrabble (or Nietzsche)”, directed by Chase Voorhees, performed by Dan Whalen and Mary Hynes, concluding with “Big Talk” by Katie Przybylski, directed by Leah Winkler, performed by David Wienhiemer, Nikki Dillion, Rachel Pearl, and Gary Ferrer.

Doors open at 8pm, performances begin at 8:30. The evening will conclude with a meet and greet with ETG, REPUBLIC Worldwide, the playwrights/poets, performers, and directors.

*Way of the Word’s first poetry anthology, featuring the poems transformed into plays and poems from around the nation will be available for purchase online and at the door for $10. Portions of the proceeds will be donated to Reading Excellence and Discovery (READ), a foundation that promotes literacy by pairing qualified high school tutors with elementary students who demonstrate below grade level reading skills.

Opening night: Monday April 5, 2010
(Encore performance: Monday April 12, 2010)
8pm-11pm
Bar On A
170 Avenue A
(between 10th St & 11th St)

Come join us for a lovely evening!

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