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2014
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When October Goes

-reading the role of Ruth Martin

Self-Reflections Reading Series
Self- Reflections is a reading series of new plays from emerging playwrights. This is our fourth annual series. This time we will be focusing of mental health and plays that examine the gray area of morality

Identity Theatre Company

13th St Repertory Theatre 
50 W 13th St. NY, NY 10011 (between 5th/ 6th Aves.)
Tickets are $10 for each night's performances
Click here to purchase tickets 

Instant Shakespeare Company Readings

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September 27th Othello at MB, the Mulberry Street Branch, 10 Jersey Street (Between Lafayette & Mulberry Streets)
-reading Emilia

October 4th King Lear at CO, the Columbus Branch, 742 10th Ave between 50th & 51st
-reading Goneril

All Readings are FREE! Readings start at 1:00 p.m.


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from our Winter shoot- Dori Gavitt Photography

Summer Photo shoot with Dori Gavitt Photography

Shooting again with Dori Gavitt on August 3rd in the Meatpacking district. Get ready for some amazing retro looks!

A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing with the Spontaneous Shakespeare Players

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Spontaneous Generosity: Happy Birthday Bill!

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April 20th
7:30-10:30 p.m.
New World Stages-The Green Room
340 West 50th Street
New York, NY 10019
$10 suggested donation



Join the Spontaneous Shakespeare Players for Spontaneous Generosity: Happy Birthday Bill, a night of First Folio, drink specials (Spontaneous Shake and Dead Billy), and spontaneous giving. Bring your wallets and get inspired!

The Spontaneous Shakespeare Players are produced by: 
Mercia Entertainment

Taming of the Shrew

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Instant Shakespeare Company 
-reading the role of Katerina

RI Riverside Branch NYPL, 127 Amsterdam Ave. (at 65th St.)

FREE to the public

Shakespeare for Everyone!The Instant Shakespeare readings are set up to make Shakespeare accessible. The readings are usually without rehearsal, but they are on-your-feet Instant staged readings where the readers/actors move around as much as they feel comfortable. Readers are encouraged to share with their fellow readers and the audience so that the plays can exist as words and thoughts communicated through space, not just words on the page.


A Taste of Rotten Theatre: 

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'll be judging at the Cupcakes Ladies next event.

Another Taste of Rotten Theatre
Producers Club Theaters & Bar
The Prince Theater
358 W. 44th Street at 9th Ave. NYC
April Fool’s Day 2014 – Tuesday, April 1, 7pm

Lifestyle shoot with Dori Gavitt

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Excited to be working with one of my best friends, Jen Gelber and Dori Gavitt on  a lifestyle shoot in Central Park on New Year's day! What a way to kick off 2014!!

I appeared as a Dannan woman in The Otherworld. 
Check out the brand new trailer below:

THE OTHERWORLD TRAILER from gp on Vimeo.

Kick up your Heels!

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I've been asked again to donate a pair of heels and I did, please check them out and bid on them beginning January 2014, all for an amazing cause!

2013

Hamlet - Quarto reading

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written by William Shakespeare 

Reading the role of: 
Gertrude
Instant Shakespeare Company
August 17, 2013
1 p.m.
FREE to public! 


Adriana in  The Comedy of Errors

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Mercia Entertainment presents:

Spontaneous Shakespeare Players

The Comedy of Errors

May 11th: Noon
May 12th: 3:00 PM
May 18th: Noon
May 19th: 3:00 PM- Cancelled due to weather

Directed by: Mary Riley
Dramaturg: Demitra Papadinas
Costumes: Christine Kahler
Fight Choreographer: Jenn Gartner
Prompter: Christine Kahler
Cast:  Justin Bennett*, Collin Biddle, Jen Browne, Jennifer Carter, Ariel Francoeur, Jenn Gartner, Erin Gilbreth*, Bill Green, Nathaneal Harting, Aaron David Kapner, Aaron Matteson, Mary McGloin* Mary Riley*, & Rich Wisneski
*denotes a member of Actor's Equity

An Equity Approved Showcase
Running time: 90 minutes

Gertrude in Hamlet

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Mercia Entertainment  presents:

Spontaneous Shakespeare Players

Hamlet

June 15th: Noon
June 16th: 3:00 PM
June 22nd: Noon
June 23rd: 3:00 PM

Directed by: Mary Riley
Dramaturg: Nicole Greenbaum
Costume Design: Christine A. Kahler
Fight Choreographer: Jenn Gartner
Prompters: Jenn Gartner, Christine A. Kahler & Mary Riley
Cast: Julie Baber, Laura Mae Baker, Justin Bennett*, Collin Biddle, Jennifer Carter, Jenn Gartner, Erin Gilbreth*,  Nicole Greenbaum, Nathaneal Harting, Aaron David Kapner, Mary Riley*, Brendan Sokler, & Rich Wisneski

*denotes a member of Actor's Equity
an Equity Approved Showcase
Running time: 2 hours with 1 intermission


Titus Andronicus

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written by William Shakespeare 

Reading the role of: 
Tamora


Instant Shakespeare Company
NYPL-Epiphany Branch
228 E 23rd St  New York, NY 10010
March 3
0, 2013
1 p.m.
FREE to public! 

War of the Roses

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TAKE WING AND SOAR PRODUCTIONS presents WAR OF THE ROSES for its 2012-2013 CLASSICAL LAB READING SERIES.

Can a man be “good” and politic? Do you have to be a bad man to be a good King? Join us as a multiracial cast of 25-30 Classically Trained Actors take the stage to duel with words and swords in WAR OF THE ROSES, a three part epic retelling of Shakespeare's Henry VI directed by Dathan B. Williams. 

WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION TO FOLLOW. LIMITED SEATING. RSVP STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. CALL US AT 212-696-6575 TO RSVPWWW.TAKEWINGANDSOAR.ORG | $10 DONATION.

Written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Adapted by HAWAII SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Directed by DATHAN B. WILLIAMS
Fight Direction by DAN BURKE 
Asst. Fight Direction by CARMAN LACIVITA
Light Design by JAMES PREZ CARTER
Sound Design by DAVID D. WRIGHT
Casting Director SARA KOCH CASTING
Produced by DEBRA ANN BYRD for TWASInc.


Poker Night

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POKER NIGHT is a comedic web series built on the foundation of two of America’s favorite pastimes: poker and movies. The characters are a ragtag group of friends who debate more than they agree. Their outside lives are a wreck, but at the table, these men are kings. Each night there’s only one winner, but in the end, they’re all losers.  
Directed by: Michael Valinsky
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I appear in: episodes #2 & #4


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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” 
​​― Walt Whitman


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