Cast
Shawna Cormier (Hibiscus Van der Waal) is performing at 59E59 Theaters for the first time.. A graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA Acting Program, she is an actor, writer, and educator. Her favorite roles include Puck in A Midsummer's Night Dream, Eurydice in Eurydice, and Witch/Lady McDuff in Macbeth. Thank you to Mr. Kaliski for writing an amazing role in an amazing play. For my incredible husband and culminating roommate, Josh. Proud member of AEA.
Maggie Low (Linda Fairchild) has been a New York actor for over thirty years working Off Broadway, regionally, in independent films, television and radio.
She has originated roles in Catholic School Girls, Candle in the Window, Times of War, The Big Vig, Venus' Diary and Kerry and Angie. Recently she played Grace in Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver. Feature films and television include: The Cold Lands, Postcards from America, Deborah Sampson, and a guest lead on Law & Order. Maggie currently teaches at Maggie Low Studio, curates Play with Your Dinner and is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio.
She has originated roles in Catholic School Girls, Candle in the Window, Times of War, The Big Vig, Venus' Diary and Kerry and Angie. Recently she played Grace in Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver. Feature films and television include: The Cold Lands, Postcards from America, Deborah Sampson, and a guest lead on Law & Order. Maggie currently teaches at Maggie Low Studio, curates Play with Your Dinner and is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio.
Jeremiah Maestas (Copious Fairchild): Broadway: Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater). Off/Off Broadway:
Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo); Questa (Wings Theatre Co.), The
Minervae (OTSP), A Lesson in Art (Artful Conspirators). Regional and other
credits: Earthquake Sun (San Diego Rep.); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (The
Warner); The Elephant Man, Suddenly Last Summer, Compleat Female Stage
Beauty, The Shape of Things (TheatreWorks); Love! Valour! Compassion!
(Diversionary); Jesus Hopped the “A” Train (LPT); Macbeth (Sledgehammer);
Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Aspen). Film: Jukka, The Tea Party. TV: “The
Following”, “Madam Secretary”, “The Mysteries of Laura”. Education: MFA,
Brooklyn College; BA, Univ. of San Diego. Thank you Steve, and the Adjusted
Realists – this is another thrill and honor!
Roger Manix (Maple): Acting Credits: Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo); The Seagull (dir. Obie-winner Mary Robinson); The Comedy of Errors (dir. Ray Virta); les Liaisons Dangereuses (dir. Langdon Brown); This (dir. Stephen Kaliski); Macbeth (dir. Michael Kier); As You Like It (dir. Ken Bush) Rhinoceros (dir. Michele Chivu); Salome, Unidentified Human Remains, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scary Stories, Overheard (dir. Russell Dobular); Take Me Out, The Rimers of Eldrich (dir. Rose Bonczek). Readings: Tropical Family (dir. Rob Urbinati, The New Group) and The Hot Month (Boomerang Theatre Company). TV Credits: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Straight Plan for the Gay Man," "The Conan O'Brien Show," "The Dana Carvey Show," and HBO's "True Blood." Roger is the owner of Brooklyn Training Ground, a studio dedicated to the work of Sanford Meisner. MFA, Acting, Brooklyn College. brooklyntrainingground.com.
Josh Tobin (Jerry) Recent credits include Jack in July House at the NY International Fringe Festival, Leo in 4000 Miles at Baltimore Center Stage, and the title role in Scapin Off-Broadway at Theatre Row. This summer, Josh appeared in Jonathan Demme’s film Ricki and the Flash, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. Additionally, Josh was recently accepted into the Advanced Study Improv program at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. B.A. - Davidson College; M.F.A. - U.N.C. – Chapel Hill/PlayMakers Rep.
Creative Team
Stephen Kaliski (Playwright and Co-Director) is a director, playwright, and educator. Directing credits include Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Yale Dramatic Association), Vinegar Tom (Manhattanville College), The Minervae (On the Square; Backstage “Critic’s Pick”), This (Proprietors Theatre Company) Cardenio, The Violet Hour and The Dumb Waiter (Brooklyn College), West Lethargy (59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, New York Fringe), and His Minute Hand (Hollywood Fringe, 45 Bleecker). Playwriting credits include West Lethargy, which was published in Plays and Playwrights 2011 (ed. Martin Denton), His Minute Hand, Any May Now, and Memoriam, a sequel to Euripides’ Alcestis. He has worked with such directors as Austin Pendleton (Three Sisters, Assistant Director) and Michael Grandage (Evita on Broadway, SDC Traube Fellow) as well as with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Classic Stage Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. Stephen received his BA in English from Davidson College and his MFA in directing from Brooklyn College. He’s taught acting, directing, public speaking, and master classes on leadership and joy at Fordham, Brooklyn College, NYU, LIU Post, Yale, The Professional Performing Arts School, Talent Unlimited High School, and BMCC. He’s also the co-founder of Upright // Outloud, a corporate training group that specializes in public speaking and postural realignment. www.stephenkaliski.com. www.uprightoutloud.com.
Amanda Holston (Co-Director) is a theater artist and educator now based in Philadelphia. She is happy to return to work with Adjusted Realists after her previous foray into directing (and creature-buildling) with last summer’s production of Pterodactyls. Acting credits include: Blue Bloods (CBS); A Respectable Wedding (World Wide Lab – Irondale); In Conflict (The Culture Project - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Long Wharf Theater, Barrow Street Theater); To Fool the Eye (1812 Productions). Amanda received her BA in Theater from Temple University and her MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. In her waking hours, Amanda is a posture educator offering private and group structural alignment coaching for actors and laypersons alike. She’s also a professor of public speaking and the co-founder of Upright // Outloud, a corporate training group that specializes in public speaking and postural realignment. Visit EveryBodyAlign.com and UprightOutloud.com for more.
Eric Vigdorov (Producer and General Manager) is a New York-based theatrical producer and manager. Currently Eric is an MFA candidate at Columbia University School of the Arts, studying Theatre Management & Producing. He holds a BFA degree in Acting from Brooklyn College, where he originally met and worked with Roger and Steve. Eric’s philosophy in producing is to create a theatrical environment through which the audience will leave the show feeling wholly challenged and inspired. He is the former Associate Producer at the Barefoot Theatre Company and has worked for both the Commercial and Not-for-Profit theatre. Eric also has substantial financial experience, working on Wall Street for the past 5 years.
Jessica Greenberg (Lighting Design): Jessica’s work as a designer has taken her to many venues in New York and around the country, with diverse projects in theatre, dance, and opera. New York designs include productions with New Opera NYC, Alivewire Theatrics, Red Fern Theatre, Castillo Theatre, Two Headed Calf, Midlantic Theatre, Heiress Productions, The Exchange/Orchard Project, and Epic Theatre Ensemble Education Programs. She has also served as a lecturer or guest designer at Hampshire College, Endicott College, Amherst College, Smith College and Yale University. Jessica is currently Assistant Professor of Lighting & Sound Design at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. She holds a BA from Hampshire College and a MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. www.jessicagreenberg.com.
William Mellette (Costume Design): William's costume design and fashion styling runs the entertainment spectrum; from music halls of Brooklyn to amusement park stunt shows and short films to cruise ships. Past clients and projects include Holland America Cruise Line, Billboard Music, Hard Rock Resorts, Matel, New York Fringe Festival, several Broadway and Off-Broadway shows as well as various photo shoots and concerts. Please visit www.williammellette.com to learn more and enjoy the show.
Matt Sherwin (Sound Design / Original Music) Off & Off-Off Broadway: Born Bad (Soho Rep), The Accomplices, A Spalding Gray Matter, Critical Darling (The New Group), Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater), 365 Plays: Week 6 by Suzan-Lori Parks (Public Theater), Rough Sketch (59e59); Regional: Veils (Barrington Stage), The Valley of Fear (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Cymbeline, The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Sons of the Prophet(TheatreSquared); University Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, In the Next Room (Yale Dramatic Association, Steve Kaliski, Dir), Vinegar Tom (Manhattanville College, Steve Kaliski, Dir), The Blue Room (Pace University), The Water Engine, The Bluest Eye (U. of Wisconsin-Madison). Two albums as a singer/songwriter: 12:30 Songs and Cold Reader. Ten years as a teaching artist with Lincoln Center Theater’s Songwriting in the Schools Program. MFA: NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. mattsherwin.com.
Jason Sherwood (Set Design) Recent: Cake Off (Signature Theatre, world premiere); The Circus In Winter (Goodspeed, world premiere); Jasper In Deadland (Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater, world premiere); Seawife (Naked Angels, Off-Broadway, world premiere); The Whipping Man (Alliance Theatre); The CA Lyons Project (Alliance Theatre, world premiere); Company (Bucks County Playhouse), Choir Boy (Studio Theatre). Upcoming designs include Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Theatre); Paint Your Wagon (Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater); Songbird (Off-Broadway, 59E59, world premiere); Sojourners (Off-Broadway, Playwrights Realm, world premiere); Charles Franics Chan... (Off-Broadway, Walker Space, NAATCO, world premiere); Pericles (Two River Theater). Sherwood is the 2013 LiveDesign Magazine "Designer to Watch." NYU grad.
Haejin Han (Production Stage Manager) is a stage manager and a lighting designer. She was an assistant production manager for Brigadoon on Broadway and was an assistant technical director for Hero at Lincoln Center, David H. Koch Theater. She stage managed at the BAM Harvey Theater for Sweet Science Suite. In 2014, she received the outstanding stage manager award at the New York Innovative Theater Awards. She has worked with many dance companies, including Elisa Monte, Nimbus Dance Works, ITE, Francesca Harper Dance Company, and Life Dance. Currently, she is working at the TheaterLab as a technical director and at John Jay College as a production manager. She is touring with Burq off as stage manager/lighting designer in the US and the UK. She is honored to work with Gluten!. More info: www.haejinhan.com