PLAYWRIGHT AND PERFORMER OF "PRINCES OF DARKNESS":
BILL CONNINGTON is the adapter and star of the Off-Broadway extended-run, critically-lauded show ZOMBIE. ZOMBIE was adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates, and directed by Thomas Caruso. Bill was named the Best Lead Actor (Offoffoff Fringe), and Outstanding Male Actor (Talkin' Broadway). ZOMBIE was awarded Outstanding Solo Show by FringeNYC. Critic Patrick Lee named Bill's performance as one of the most outstanding of the year. Anita Gates wrote in the New York Times, "Shocking...a chilling one-man study of perversity...Mr. Connington commits totally to this haunting characterization and leaves us wondering exactly what kind of people are walking the streets alongside us." ZOMBIE also played the New York International Fringe Festival and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York. A short film version has been shot in Boston is currently being edited. http://www.zombietheplay.com/
Bill has performed in three evenings of Joyce Carol Oates plays at the New York Society Library, "Just Like That" on Theater Row, "Mr. Gallico" at HERE, "Spectacle of Spectacles" and "All Mixed Up Inside My Head" at LaMama E.T.C., and in his own play "Dating Rituals of the American Male" at the Royal Theater in NYC. He has also performed in regional theater, television, and independent film. Bill is an award-winning playwright, and wrote the book for the musical "The Eternal Anniversary" (Summer Shorts 3, 59 East 59 Theater), and has written "God and the Supermodel," "The Perfect Lady," "Walker," and "The Relationship Thing." His plays "Lord Byron's Lover," "Teach Me All About Love, Johnny Mathis," and his adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" have been performed in New York. He is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER OF "PRINCES OF DARKNESS":
Rachel Klein (director/choreographer) Recent Directing Credits: The Tragedy of Maria Macabre (an on-going work in progress developed by an Emerging Artists Residency Grant from the Field) Lizardman! A new musical-- book by Michael L. Cooper, Music by David Mallamud; Hound by John Patrick Bray; All Kinds of Shifty Villains by Robert Attenweiler; Sir Sheever by Benjamin Spiro; Sean Gill’s Our Prison, Go-Go Killers!, Stage Blood is Never Enough, and Aenigma, as well as several devised movement pieces including Metro, Rock N’ Roll Medusa, and La Enferma. Rachel’s choreography has been featured at Night of 1000 Stevies, La MaMa, Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, 45 Bleecker, Banzai!, Bowery Poetry Club, the Bushwick Site Fest and Open Studios Festival, the Hiro Ballroom, the Bushwick Starr, the Duplex, the Downtown Clown Review, and Don Hill’s. Rachel holds a BA in theater directing from Columbia College Chicago, and is an associate member of the SDC. Rachel recently assistant directed John Gould Rubin on his production of In the Daylight, Off-Broadway. http://www.rachelkleinproductions.com/
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SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER of "PRINCES OF DARKNESS":
Sean Gill (Sound Designer/Composer) is a designer, playwright, filmmaker, and musician who has written over twenty plays including the nostalgic Our Prison, the horrific Aenigma (featured in Something Weird…in the Red Room), the retro-futuristic extravaganza Go-Go Killers!, and the 80's horror paean Stage Blood is Never Enough. He has directed over thirty feature-length and short films including Thursday Night, Low Lives, the Sleepy-Time Time cycle, Highly Confidential, Go Harlem, Chewies 4, Crescendo, Chinese Pop!, and The Tragedie of Admiral Cigarette. His work has been showcased in a dozen international film festivals, and screened everywhere from the Anthology Film Archives to the Canadian Film Centre to the Staten Island Ferry. Gill, who holds twin BAs from Oberlin College (in Film and History) and works as a sequence editor for several television shows on the A&E network, has several film and theatrical projects in the pipeline, including the apocalyptic Mustache Party and the madcap sci-fi Black Hole Adventure. News regarding current projects, as well as his writings on cult films, Michael Ironside, and Golan/Globus can be found at www.juntajuleil.blogspot.com.
LIGHTING DESIGNER:
Kia Rogers – Kia lives and works in New York City, most recently she collaborated with international artist Yeondoo Jung on his new theatre piece, Cinemagician, at The Asia Society. Her designs have been seen at The SoHo Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre, The Bleecker Street Theatre, Dixon Place and The Brick Theatre. Regionally Kia has been a returning guest artist at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington and with The Barnstormers in New Hampshire. She is the resident lighting designer at Manhattan Theatre Source. Her website is kiarogerslightingdesign.com.
EMILY OWENS PR:
Emily Owens is a NYC-based public relations agency specializing in independent theatre. Clients include Horse Trade Theater Group, The Brick, terraNOVA Collective, Nosedive Productions, Flux Theatre Ensemble, and Rachel Klein Productions. www.emilyowenspr.com
Naomi Anhorn (Stage Manager) Hails from ND, but is making NYC home. Credits Include: Septimus & Clarissa (Red Bull Theater/Ripe Time) Red Mother (Spiderwoman Theater Co.) Matthew & The Pastor's Wife (EST Marathon '10), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD Arts/The Essentials), SUNFISH (ASCAP Workshop), Snapshots (Prospect Theater Co,) 5 Decades of Dance(Janis Brenner & Dancers,) Hostage Song (NAMT ’09),My Illustrious Wasteland (NYMF ’09,) Reborning (The Public/SPF '09) Romeo & Juliet (MMAC) Blood From a Stoner (EST Marathon '09) In Security (Unbound Collective/3LD Arts) Zombie (Theatre Row & Fringe NYC ‘08) Plan B (Lookingglass Theatre) The Jack Sprat Low-Fat: World Tour(Two Beans Productions), Wood (NYMF 2008,) Another Vermeer (Abingdon Theatre Co.) Not Waving (Theatre Row/SPF ‘07) What Will They See (Residue Dance).