OUR MISSION and OUr vision TO PROVIDENorman Reedus (AMC’s The Walk-ing Dead) and Garret Backstrom....

Dear Friends of the theatre,

Welcome to the Edgemar Center for the Arts where theatre, dance, music, produc-tions, visual arts, and our annual film fes-tival, Cinema at the Edge, come together in one place. We feel deeply grateful to be able to continue...

OUR MISSION and OUr vision

TO PROVIDE a physical enviroment that nurtures the creative process and encourages collaboration between writers, directors, actors, musicians, dancers and visual artists.

TO CREATE a thriving learning environment.

TO INVITE the community to observe, engage, interact, and add its voices to our artistic discovery.

We hope you will continue to join us and make Edgemar Center for the Arts a creative home to many

Warmly,

Michelle DannerArtistic Director

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EDGEMAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Written By_________________________ Christopher Durang

Directed By___________________________Barbara Tarbuck

Prod. Stage Manager__________________ Carly Llewelyn-Ryan

Directors Assistant__________________________ Anna Zak

Production Designer___________________ Alessandra Manias

Production design Assistant__________________Gianluca zago

costume designer_________________________ larae Mychel

Lighting Designer_________________________Kyle McAnally

Sound Designer_____________________________ DJ Medina

Graphic Designer____________________________ Rob Riley

Produced By________________________ Alexandra Guarrieri

Associate Producer___________________________Rob Riley

Associate Producer_______________________ Josephine hies

A family reunion you don’t want to miss


A family reunion

When the psychic Jamaican housekeeper predicts that the famous movie-star sister will come to sell the childhood home that her two idle siblings have lived

in all their lives, the zany antics that ensue would make Chekhov turnover in his grave!

A Tony Award Winning Play

Vanya ____________________ Brian Drillinger

Sonia ____________________ Michelle Danner

Masha ___________________Christine Dunford

Spike ________________________ Nate Golon

Nina _________________________Remy Nozik

Cassandra _____________ Tamika Katon-Donegal

The Cast


Barbara TarbuckTrained on a Fullbright Grant to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Barbara’s New York theatre work includes the Amer-ican premiere of Harold Pinter’s Landscape & Silence, David Ma-met’s Water Engine at the Public Theatre and on broadway, Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway, the National Tour of Broadway Bound, and off Broadw

ay includes Enter the Night at the Signature Theatre. Regional standouts are Sidney Bechet Killed a Man, and Blue Window at South Coast Repertory (where she earned LA Drama Critics Awards), Long Day Jour-ney Into the Night at Dallas Theatre Center, Six Char-acters in Search of an Author at Williamstown, Death of a Salesman at San Diego Rep, and The Cripple of Irishman at Geffen Playhouse. Major films are Walking Tall, Curley Sue, and Petere Greenaway’s Tulse Luper Suitcases. TV guest stars include American Horror Story: Asylum, Mad Men, Cold Case, ER, but is most recognized as “Australian Jane Jax” on General Hospi-tal. A long time member of Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York and L.A., she now joins the Echo Theater Company as well, where she performed American Falls in the fall of 2015.

The Director


Who’s In The CastBrian Drillinger (Vanya)Produced and stars in the indie features; The Bandit Hound, Hel-lo Herman, Hollywood Film Festival

2012, Monaco Film Festival 2013 winner Award for Social Rele-vance and How To Go Out On A Date In Queens, LA Indie Awards Best Supporting Actor 2006. He played Stanley, on Broadway and in the film version of Neil Simons, Brighton Beach Memoirs and the National tour of Broadway Bound. Regional: The Substance of Fire at the Old Globe in San Diego, originated the role of Jason Posner for the Pulitzer Prize win-ning play Wit at the South Coast Repertory (original production), the Seattle Repertory and the Alley Theatre in Houston, also at SCR, Death Of A Salesman and Boundary Waters, An Enemy Of The People for Bristol Riverside Theatre in PA. NY: The Real Thing at the T. Schreiber Theatre and Roots at JRT. LA: Solace, Gangster Apparel and Dove at the Hudson Theatre, A Shayna Madel at the Tiffany Theatre, and Bright Ideas at Edgemar Center For The Arts. TV: The Agency, Wings, Life Goes On, Reasonable Doubts and Gen-eral Hospital, Indies: Starry Night opposite Sally Kirkland and I Shot A Man In Vegas opposite Janeane Garafalo, Brian studied acting at SUNY Purchase and graduated


with honors. He Teaches acting at Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA and for the T. Schreiber Studio in NYC.

Michelle Danner (Sonia)So thrilled to be on stage again with her friends of many years, Christine and Brian, with whom she’s collaborated

with on many projects, as well as her past students Nate and Remy and new friend Tamika. Many thanks to her director Barbara, a long time friend and to the won-derful crew that has contributed to the show. The Founding Direc-tor of the Edgemar Center for the Arts, Michelle has directed and acted in over thirty plays, musicals and films in New York and Los Angeles. In 2011 Michelle directed the film Hello Herman starring Norman Reedus (AMC’s The Walk-ing Dead) and Garret Backstrom. Her latest film, The Bandit Hound, a family comedy starring Cather-ine Bell, Lou Ferigno, Judd Nelson, Paul Sorvino, and Verne Troyer, was released this year. Michelle teaches The Golden Box acting seminar all over the world. She is currently in pre-production for a feature film called “The Runner” and putting the finsishing touches on her acting book, “The Golden Box,” which will be released in 2017. Thank you to Max and Nico for the incredible love!

Christine Dunford (Masha)A Los Angeles based actor and playwright who recently added the title of “director” to her hybrid skill set with a criti-cally-acclaimed

production of Good People at the Hudson Theater. Ms. Dunford was trained at the Juilliard School and made her acting debut in Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She continued to work for Mr. Papp’s Public Theater, both in classical works, playing the lead in Love’s Labors Lost, as well as con-temporary plays, including the Royal Court Theater of London’s Amer-ican premiere of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money. Christine made her Broadway debut when Serious Money was moved uptown to the Theater Royale. Other Off-Broadway credits include Infidelities (Primary Stages) and the title role in Tamara. LA stage work includes: 7 Blow Jobs and Erotic Curtsies (both with Bottom’s Dream Theater Compa-ny); Losing Venice (Attic Theater); The Shadow Box, directed by fellow Juilliard alum Keith David (Edgemar Center for the Arts); The Cryptogram and Old Neighborhood (Geffen Play-house.) Films include Ulee’s Gold; Love & Basketball; American Dream; Bandit Hound; Hello Herman; Date in Queens; Slaves of NY; and Reversal of Fortune, as well as the award-win-ning shorts Dos Corazones and Lost

People of Mountain Village. Ms. Dunford has appeared in over 100 episodes of television. She was a series regular on the com-edies Good Sports; Bob; Hudson Street; Something So Right and Secret Lives of Men and has guest starred on Longmire; The Mental-ist; Arrested Development; Bones; Two and a Half Men; Frasier; Seinfeld & many others. Christine has also written and performed solo shows for the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival, The Improv in Hollywood and Edgemar.

Nate Golon (Spike)Nate is so excited to be back on stage at Edgemar, having previously starred here in

Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, Harold Pinter’s A Night Out, and Tobias Mehler’s original comedy, It’s A Living. Nate has worn various hats during his time in Los Angeles, as an actor, writer, director, and producer. His success as an actor/writer/producer began with his online scripted comedic series, Workshop, which was nominated for 16 web awards. Season 2 of Workshop is the first ever inde-pendently produced half-hour comedy to air on Hulu. Nate stars in the series, and is the creator and executive producer. Shortly after Workshop, Nate released his

Who’s In The Cast


Remy Nozik (Nina)Remy is thrilled to be back at Edgemar after her last show here seven years since

Tamika Katon-Donegal (Cassandra)A New York na-tive with a BFA in Theatre from the University of Southern California, and a member of

Ensemble Studio Theatre LA. Fa-vorite credits include: Film: Doctor Strange, Carry Me, Godzilla, Thugs: The Musical, Something Like a Business TV: Agent Carter, Adam Ruins Everything, Marry Me, and The Newsroom. Theatre: Apocry-pha, Speak Now!, Luckiest Girl, No Word in Guyanese for Me, Rent, Our Town, Tree, and Hair. Many thanks to her family for their

neo-noir short film, Briefcase, which found immediate critical success, and was featured on over 75 film sites worldwide. Netflix licensed the film for worldwide marketing and advertising use. Nate’s second comedic online se-ries, My Synthesized Life, marked Nate’s directorial debut, was nominated for four web awards, and garnered Nate a Best Direc-tor nomination. Shortly after the release of My Synthesized Life, Nate sold everything and took a job teaching English in a small country town in southern Japan. Upon his return, Nate wrote his first book, Journey of Self: Six Months in the Japanese Country-side, which immediately became a #1 bestseller on Amazon. Nate would go on to release his second book, 22 Original Modern Mono-logues for Actors and Actresses, later that year. Nate has been fea-tured by TV Guide and Backstage, and has been a featured speaker at SAG-AFTRA three times. He has been recognized by his national fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, in their Road to Greatness campaign. Nate was also recently honored by the city of Los Angeles for his volunteer work with the inner-city literacy organization, United Voic-es of Literacy.

Who’s In The Castthen, she has completed the Drama BFA program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts/Atlan-tic Acting School. She has since moved back to LA and has been working primarilyin Film and TV. Favorite credits include: The Miraculous Year (HBO); Secrets and Lies (ABC); Sleeping with Other People (Leslie Hedland); Like Share Follow (Glenn Gers); Goodbye World (Denis Henry Hennelly). Theatre credits include Hello Herman (Edgemar); A Night Out (Edgemar); The Cherry Or-chard (NYU Tisch); The Children’s Hour (NYU Tisch); Almost, Maine (NYU Tisch). Remy feels so lucky to be working with the fabulously talented, generous, humble, and hilarious cast of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.


Who’s In The Cast creative crew

Carly Llewyn-Ryan (Prod. Stage Manager)She first started stage manage-ment during her time at univer-sity. In 2008 she graduated with a BA (Hons) Drama and Creative Writing. She began stage man-aging again as a member of the Windmill Players from 2012 and worked for Wyre Theatres part-time before moving to the US from North-West England. Her stage management experience includes The Danny Crowe Show, ‘Allo, ‘Allo, Improbable Fiction, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight and Good People and she has worked showcases, comedy night, orchestral performances, play readings and musicals. She also has experience as a director.

Anna Zak (director’s assistant)An actress originally from Brus-sels, Belgium, Anna began her acting career at 5 years old. Mov-ing all over Europe (the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands) and the United


constant love, Barbara Tarbuck for believing in her talent (and having the patience of a saint), and her manager James Jolly for his steadfast support. You can cur-rently catch her on Forever 31 on ABC.com, TheFiftiestv.com, and other projects she can’t publicly discuss because of those pesky NDAs everyone has to sign. For more choclatey, nutty, goodness, follow her on Instagram and Twitter.

States, she developed a worldly perspective and appreciation for the arts. Anna was awarded best actress at the Texas state festival for The Imaginary Invalid (Toi-nette) and continued to perform in productions such as Oklahoma and Chicago. Anna is trained clas-sically in voice and dance. Before moving to Los Angeles, Anna was a member of a one-year intensive actors company at Burr & Burton Academy of Dramatic Arts where she was trained by Broadway directors, choreographers and casting directors. She has studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and has just finished her first show at the Odyssey- “Drama Queens from Hell” . Anna is very excited to be a part of this production.

Alessandra Manias (Production designer)After more than 15 years of experience in Italy in marketing communication and production design for photo shoots, artistic installations, exhibition stands, videos, etc...she’s recently moved in Los Angeles and she started to work immediately for music videos, web series, theatre palys, movie....Her talent is to connect architecture, style and psycholo-gy in every project she does.

Kyle McAnally (Lighting Designer)Kyle is a professional Lighting Designer and Theatrical Profes-sional from Dallas Texas who has recently relocated to the Los Angeles Area. This is Kyle’s First Show at Edgemar Center for the

creative crew

Gianluca zago (Production Design assistant)He worked in Italy as product manager and marketing con-sultant and now he’s helping Alessandra Manias to realize set projects thanks to his talent to fix things and problem solving capacity. He collaborates in every project with attention to details and he use his sensitivity to give a soul to the set.

DJ Medina (Sound designer) He has been making noise since he was old enough to ‘throw Arts. Kyle graduated from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2013, and since then has worked for Carnival Cruise Lines, Houston Grand Opera’s Community Out-reach Initiatives, and The Santa Fe Playhouse. In 2015 Kyle left Carnival Cruise Lines to returnto the Santa Fe University of Art and Design as a staff member for two semesters. Since then Kyle has relocated to Los Angeles to pursue his freelance career.


Arts. Kyle graduated from the Santa Fe University of Art and De-sign in 2013, and since then has worked for Carnival Cruise Lines, Houston Grand Opera’s Commu-nity Outreach Initiatives, and The Santa Fe Playhouse. In 2015 Kyle left Carnival Cruise Lines to returnto the Santa Fe University of Art and Design as a staff member for two semesters. Since then Kyle has relocated to Los Angeles to pursue his freelance career.

larae mychel (costume designer) LaRae has been a fashion design-er for over a decade. Her signa-ture line Larae Mychel has been on runways for LA to NYC. LaRae has expanded her business to include costume design, in 2014 and has never looked back. Her fashion and costumes can be seen now be seen worldwide.

alexandra guarnieri (producer)Born in Paris, Alexandra is co-founder and managing director of Edgemar Center for the Arts. She also co-produced several films, her latest film, The Bandit Hound was released this year. With a passion for art, she also curates the Edgemar Center for the Arts Art Gallery and runs the Michelle Danner Acting Stu-dio, one of the top acting schools in the country, offering classes for all ages.


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Early Deadline: October 31, 2016Regular Deadline: January 2, 2016

Late Deadline: March 15, 2017

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