2008-2009 Season

Summer Stars
A Summer Pirate Adventure
High School Mystery: The Case of the Missing Mascot
Director & Choreographer: Ben Tostado
Musical Director: Jeff Quinto
Costume Designer: Severe Erase
Lighting Designer: Joe Cantalupo
Stage Manager: Julie Whitehouse
August 23, 2008 – 4:00pm & 6:00pm

The 15/20s: Staged Readings of New Works
Woyzeck: Homecoming
by Eric Henry Sanders
directed by Tom Wojtunik
featuring:
Richard D. Busser, Peter Hawk Byrne, Gita Reddy*, Christopher Tramanata*, Catherine Yeager
October 8, 2008 – 7:00pm

End of Land
by Kathleen Warnock
directed by Mark Finley
featuring:
Brett Douglas*, Janice Mann*, Karen Stanion
October 22, 2008 – 7:00pm

The Patient River
by Kevin Brofsky
directed by José Zayas
featuring:
Lia Aprile*, Keith Eric Chappelle*, Dan Cozzens, Crystal Finn*, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Ryan McCarthy*, Gameela Wright*
November 19, 2008 – 7:00pm

Sans Merci
by Johnna Adams
directed by Jessi D. Hill
featuring:
Catia Ojeda*, Jamee Vance*, Catherine Yeager
December 10, 2008 – 7:00pm

Production Stage Manager: Jennifer Marie Russo*

Ragtime
Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens

Director: Tom Wojtunik
Music Director: Daniel Feyer
Choreographer: Ryan Kasprzak
Set Design: Michael P. Kramer
Costume Design: David Withrow
Lighting Design: Travis Walker
Sound Design: Kristyn R. Smith
Casting: wojcik|seay casting
Production Stage Manager: Jillian Zeman

featuring:
Joel Abels*, Timothy G. Avant, Michael Edward Baker*, Teanna Berry, Jordan Bloom, Stacie Bono*, Nathan Brisby, Matthew D. Brooks*, Mark Gerrard*, Jonathan Gregg, Shawna M. Hamic*, Marcie Henderson*, D. William Hughes*, Zekari Jackson, Carmel Javaher*, Tyson Jennette*, Anna Lise Jensen*, Daniel Henri Luttway, Ricky Oliver*, Alex Pearlman, Vanessa Robinson, Gabriel Rodriguez, Janine Ayn Romano, Jarred St. John, Emily Thompson, Richard Vernon*, James Andrew Walsh*

February 5 – 22, 2009 (Thu- Sat @ 8:00pm, Sun @ 6:00pm)

Astoria Playmaking
Teaching Artist: Susan Willerman
Assistant Teacher: Alex Pappas

Writers: Zuha Azam, Hajar Bouddou, Linda Chin, Asmaaul Chowdhury, Faith Currenti, Emily Escobar, Mariana Franco, Caitlin King-Nicholson, Christal Luna, Noor Meer, Pauline Mock, Amy Molina, Rachel Raghunth, Diana Dela Rosa, Merry Shil, Charlie Tenesaca, Yusef Williams, Raquel Zhagur

Directors: Joel Abels, Jessi D. Hill, John Koprowski, Rebecca Lewis-Whitson, Olivia Mora, Alex Pappas

Actors: Joel Abels*, Erika Amato*, Matthew D. Brooks*, Emily Edgerton, Jason Hare*, Stephanie Hatfield, Marcie Henderson*, D. William Hughes*, Anna Lise Jensen*, Lawrence Lesher, Rebecca Lewis-Whitson, Alex Pappas*, Stephanie Parsons, Abby Duke Pollard*, Karen Sternberg, Barri Tsavaris, Jacqueline van Biene*, Jillian Zeman

March 9 & 16, 2009 – 6:00pm

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr.
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton

Director: Christina Sussman
Musical Director: Laura Lupinacci
Assistant Director: Nancy DePoalo
Choreographer: Olivia Hartle
Costume Designer: David Withrow
Lighting & Sound Designer: Joe Cantalupo

May 7 – 8, 2009 (6:00pm)
Co-Production with I.S. 10
45-11 31st Avenue, Astoria

The Children’s Hour
by Lillian Hellman

Director: Jessi D. Hill
Set Designer: Caleb Levengood
Costume Designer: Emily Morgan DeAngelis
Lighting Designer: Gina Scherr
Co-Sound Designers: Greg H. Hennigan & David A. Thomas

May 21 – June 7, 2009 (Thu- Sat @ 8:00pm, Sun @ 6:00pm)

Senior Stars
Director: Steven Smeltzer

June 20, 2009 – 4:00pm & 6:00pm



*actors appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association