“A Splashy Musical Opening Number”
music by Dave Ogrin featuring Emma Canalese,
lyrics by Martin Strenczewilk Chris Hayes, David Rubin,
directed by Maggie F. Levin and Lauren Schacher
presents
"Wired"
by Brian Dykstra AXTELL: Michael Hirstreet
directed by Rebecca Hengstenberg STEPH: James P. Stephens
"The Believers"
by Anton Dudley HEATHER: Diana DeCarlo
death by directed by Jason Tyne-Zimmerman
“An A-to-Z Pop Culture Gripe Face-
CAMMIE: Elaine Moran
POP!
Off, With Ascending, and then, at MAN: Jeff Scherer
Midpoint, Descending, Word Count” MAN 2: Michael Hartney
by Michael Hartney REFEREE: Rachel Korowitz
"Hartshorne"
by Mike Batistick SARAH: Colby Minifie
directed by Greg T. Parente MADELEINE: Sharon Halevy
Riffs, Rants, and Ramblings on the
Current State of Popular Cultural "Big Love" created and performed by
Affairs... and Our Own Mortality by art.party.out.reach Mary Birnbaum, Megan Campisi,
directed by Kyle Davies Kyle Davies, and Mark Fisher
"The Back Line" DIERDRE: Julia Giolzetti
by Rob Ackerman Mr. BLANKENSHIP: Greg Blatto
directed by Jessica Browne-White TIM: James Redfern
“My Future Husband is Dead!”
Conceived and Curated by Daniel Horrigan (An Ode to River Phoenix) featuring Sarita Louise Moore,
choreographed by Sarita Louise Moore Erin Tracy, and Emily Turner
Hosted by Michael Hartney
"Combat Dating"
by C.S. Hanson MATT: Michael Judson Pace
directed by Sara Sahin SARAH: Morgan Lindsey Tachco
May 8th - 10th, 2009
The Robert Moss Theatre @ 440 Studios
Stage Manager: David Sugarman
440 Lafayette Street (across from the Public Theatre)
BIOS JULIA GIOLZETTI has a BFA in Theatre from NYU. She's appeared in baseball-themed
commercials for Bank of America and billboard campaigns for "Big Love." She'll also be in the
ROB ACKERMAN wrote Tabletop (Drama Desk Award, Best Ensemble Performance), world premiere of T.A.B., part of the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, on May 13.
Disconnect (The Working Theater, Classic Stage Co), Icarus of Ohio (hotINK, Tisch Mainstage) SHARON HALEVY is glad to be working with At Hand again (first was reading of End of the
and Volleygirls (American Conservatory Theatre). His first play, Origin of the Species, became a World Button). Credits include: The Hatpin (NYMF), Lift: The Musical (the York Theater), Twelfth
feature film starring Amanda Peet. This is his 3rd piece for POP and he does not plan to STOP. Night (Hudson Shakespeare Company), and 7 Stories High (NYC Fringe Festival).
MIKE BATISTICK is a NYC-based playwright who grew up in New Jersey. Heʼs received critical C.S. HANSON Plays developed at EST, Abingdon, NJ Rep, LaMaMa, Naked Angels. Plays
acclaim for his three Off-Broadway plays, Port Authority Throw Down (at the Culture Project), produced by 3Graces, Theatre for the New City, Metropolitan Playhouse, American Globe/
Chicken, and Ponies (at Michael Imperioliʼs Studio Dante). His work has been produced in Turnip, Pittsburgh New Works, Living Image Arts. ATL Heideman finalist for Extremes and
London, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Texas, Washington, DC, and New York. Falutin.
MARY BIRNBAUM is a NY based director and the artistic director of art.party.theater.company MICHAEL HARTNEY serves as a board member for At Hand Theatre, where he played William
for which she directed Schooled, a plop art adaptation of Moliere's The Learned Ladies set in Shakespeare in Cake and Plays... Michael is on the house sketch team High Treason at the
various apartments around NY. Training: Ecole Jacques Lecoq (2008), Harvard University (AB, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Film/TV: over a dozen commercials, webisodes for Skoal, a
English Language and Literature, 2007). Nick at Nite pilot, and Nickelodeonʼs “WACK”, as The Big Cheese.
GREGORY BLATTO After leaving law, Greg studied at NYCʼs American Academy of Dramatic CHRIS HAYES is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. Most
Arts, H.B. Studios and The School of Film and Television. Credits include: This Story of Yours, recently, he was seen in Caesar & Cleopatra at Theatre Row. Other roles include Bobby in
The Hand That Feeds, Memorial, Loyalties, Hot L Baltimore and The Art of Dining, as well as Company and Joe in The Long Goodbye.
several film and commercial credits. Thanks to Norma & Daniel.
REBECCA HENGSTENBERG received her bachelor's from University of Wisconsin - Stevens
JESSICA BROWNE-WHITE is happy to be working on her second production with At Hand Point with a directing emphasis. Directing credits include: Keely and Du, Horse Country, Songs
Theatre as she thoroughly enjoyed Assistant Directing Trickster at the Gate. Other directing For a New World, as well as A Fresh Start, Conversation with a Kleagle, SNAFU, and
credits include Macbeth and Talking With (Stratford Players). As a performer, Jessica was most Calculating Route in NY.
recently seen clowning around Manhattan promoting Cirque du Soleil's Kooza.
MICHAEL HIRSTREET Credits include: Working It Out (Horsetrade Theatre), ANIMALS (NY
MEGAN CAMPISI Training: Lecoq; Yale (B.A.); commedia dell'arte with Antonio Fava; puppetry Fringe), The Art of the Pick-Up (Riant Theatre), and War in Paramus (HB Playwrights
with Philippe Genty; Shakespeare at RADA. Recent devised works: Nutmeat: a vaudeville Foundation), and readings and workshops of Dream of the Burning Boy, ANIMALS, Chu and
fairytale; Floating Brothel. Last seen: Immediate Medium's Chuck Chuck Chuck. For kicks: Blossom, and Class Mothers '68. BFA in Acting from Rutgers University.
teaches annual theater workshops in China.
RACHEL KOROWITZ Founder, producer and co-host of Ash Wednesday, the Magnet Theaterʼs
EMMA CANALESE graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse and Western Australian Academy long-running variety night. She has studied with and performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade
of the Arts. Shows include Love Labours Won (Edinburgh Fringe), Feel and Respond (Taiwan), and The PIT, and is a member of Chicago City Limits. TV: numerous commercials, short films,
Impasse (Australia), Burning Cities (NY Fringe), Hair (Real Theatre, NY). Drink and be merry! and AMCʼs Date Night. Film: American Standard.
www.emmacanalese.com
MAGGIE F. LEVIN is founding artistic director of The Real Theatre Company. Favorite projects
KYLE DAVIES Recent shows directed: Last Supper (starring Penny Fuller, Dan Lauria), include Hair (Theatre Row) and Alice Through the Subway System (Lucky Chengʼs). She is
Survived By… (Theatre for a New City), In the Name of Bob (New Dramatists). Assistant book writer for Peter Gabrielʼs Us and the Heart musical, Allies. www.maggielevin.com
directed numerous shows on and off Broadway. Training: Syracuse University (B.F.A.) and
LʼEcole Jacques Lecoq. COLBY MINIFIE: Broadway: The Pillowman. Off-Broadway: Landscape of the Body, Dark at
the Top of the Stairs. Regional: The Shaker Chair, High Society, Three Sisters. Film: The
DIANA DECARLO trained at The Stella Adler Conservatory in NYC. Diana appeared in Greatest, The Winning Season. TV: “Law & Order”.
numerous theater productions, independent films and on TVʼs “One Life to Live” and “Guiding
Light.” She loves traveling, cooking, dancing till dawn, movies, photography and considers SARITA LOUISE MOORE choreographed and performed in At Handʼs most recent production of
shopping a sport. Trickster at the Gate. She has traveled throughout CA, to NY and Europe, dancing and
choreographing for film, theatre and music videos. She hosts outdoor classes (“Dance Picnics”)
ANTON DUDLEYʻs plays include Substitution (Soho Playhouse), Getting Home (Secondstage and teaches Roots Modern dance technique. For more info, visit myspace.com/mooresarita.
Theatre), Slag Heap (Cherry Lane Theatre), Honor and the River (Walnut Street Theatre, Luna
Stage, SPF), Davy & Stu (EST), Cold Hard Cash (Williamstown Theatre Festival), ELAINE MORAN POP! debut. Her recent New York productions include Manhattan Children's
Circumvention (Keen Company), and 6 seasons with NY Stage & Film. Theatre's If You Give a Pig a Party, Sondheim's Putting It Together at The Cell, and Project
Opera Manhattan's Die Zauberflote.
BRIAN DYKSTRA writes things (like Wired.) He also acts in things he writes (like A Play On
Words at 59E59, America's Off Broadway Festival running May 12-29, $18.00.) Yes, this bio is DAVE OGRIN produced and engineered albums for the Beastie Boys, Paul Simon, Mick Jagger,
really a first-person advertisement. Weird, huh? and Run DMC. He also wrote the music and lyrics for Wild Women Of Planet Wongo (NYMTF,
YES Fest and Red Barn Theatre) and Hell Hole Honeys (Eugene OʼNeill Music Theater Conf-
MARK FISHER is happy to make up stories and act them out using masks. Jersey erence, 2006 TRU New Voices Award, currently running at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, NY).
Shore native, BFA from Syracuse University. Next: The Full Monty at Paper Mill Playhouse.
MICHAEL JUDSON PACE NY Theatre: The Rivals (Ampersand), The Hand that Feeds You EMILY TURNER holds a degree in dance and entertainment business from Oklahoma City
(Do Not Disturb). Regional: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (KY Shakespeare Fest), The Mercury University. TV: “Gossip Girl”, “All My Children”, “Law & Order”, and most recently, a commercial
and the Magic (Humana Festival), and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare & Company). Film: Glen. for ALL Detergent with Melissa Rivers. Theatre credits: Will Rogers Follies, Music Man, and The
He has studied with SITI Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Shakespeare & Company. World of Magic and World's Greatest Magic.
GREG PARENTE Assoc. Artistic Director of the Professional Performing Arts School and the JASON TYNE-ZIMMERMAN trained at Northwestern University. Currently performing in Queen
artistic director of The Strain Theatre Company. Strain credits: 7 Stories (in rep with At Handʼs of Sharks' CHOMPetition and Special Ops and is preparing to direct in Rising Sun Performance
Cake and Plays), Fully Committed, Proof, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Specter (IT Nomination- Company's One-Act Festival as well as their summer outdoor piece Found. Special thanks to
Best Actor), Tape… Rebecca Tyne-Zimmerman for sharing her living room with us.
JAMES REDFERN previous ensemble credits include Devil in Wonderland In Alice, Emperor in
Wounds To The Face; Pontius Pilate in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Lucky in Waiting for
Godot; Player in Hamlet; and The Lost Colony. AT HAND THEATRE COMPANY
DAVID RUBIN is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. Recent
work includes: Edgar in King Lear and is a member of Really Sketchy monthly at Shetler Board of Directors: Artistic Director: Daniel Horrigan
Studios, and various readings and short films. He is excited to be singing again in this piece! Lisa Lebofsky, President Executive Director: Justin Scribner
Thanks to Mags, friends, and family! Nick Catania, Secretary Co-Founder: Marty Strenczewilk
SARA SAHIN Directing Credits: All Fall Down (reading) by Selda Sahin and Greg Turner, The Sean Free Advisory Board:
Eastern Standard Time Series, Tea, Revival and The Hand That Feeds You. Sara has assisted Michael Hartney Rob Ackerman, Brian Dykstra,
Carl Andress, Bartlett Sher, Joe Calaraco, Julianne Boyd, and worked for the NYC Opera, the
Goodman Theatre, Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, and the Barrington Stage Company. Daniel Horrigan Arian Moayed, Greg T. Parente,
Justin Scribner Margarett Perry, Daniel Whitman
LAUREN SCHACHER is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Recent work includes King Lear, Hair, Company, and Tennessee Williams' The Long Goodbye, Meghan Strenczewilk Artistic Associates: Jessica Browne-White,
as well as a variety of indie films and viral videos. Love to Mags for yet another musical Kathleen Zebzda Sara Sahin, Liz Schurra, Gary Slootskiy
adventure. www.laurenschacher.com
JEFF SCHERER has written four screenplays, including Skeletons (semi-finalist at Austin Film AT HAND THEATRE COMPANY was created 3 years ago as a company dedicated to
Festival and Project Greenlight), produced 3 plays with Toolbox Productions, (2 at NY Fringe), presenting new and relevant plays to New York audiences. Past productions include the critcally
and has been in over a dozen improv teams and shows. He has appeared in several acclaimed NY premiere of John Patrick Brayʼs Trickster at the Gate, as well as the world
commercials, and is currently writing a childrenʼs book, a novel and a TV series. premieres of Andrea Lepcio's One Nation Under, Brian Dykstra's Silence! and Cake and
SECRET HOSPITAL is a NY-based sketch comedy group featuring writer/performers Michael Plays...Without The Cake by Jono Hustis. In addition to these productions, At Hand continues to
Hartney, Rachel Korowitz, Dan McInerney and Jeff Scherer. Theyʼve performed at the Upright nurture new work through their Staged Reading Series, helmed by director Sara Sahin. At
Citizens Brigade Theater, The Magnet Theater, Gotham City Improv, Manhattan Comedy Handʼs annual spring fundraiser, POP!, brings over 35 theatre artists together to participate in
Collective, and, most frequently, at the Peopleʼs Improv Theater. www.secrethospital.com creating an evening revolving around pop culture themes.
JAMES P. STEPHENS Theatre: Crimes of the Heart, Bloodknot, and most recently, As of 2008, At Hand Theatre has altered our mission to adopt a greener approach. At Handʼs
Conversation with a Kleagle. Film: REVENANTS, The Understudy, Appearances. James mission is to produce original plays that activate the imagination of its audience using
studied with Stephen Henderson, Ward Nixon & is a founding member of the Sledge Project. sustainable theatrical practices. We use only what is immediate and necessary to tell new
Thanks to Rebecca for her knowledge, passion, & professionalism. stories on stage. Our actors, writers, directors and designers explore original works collabor-
atively in the rehearsal room, focusing on story and performance rather than production
MARTIN STRENCZEWILK co-founded At Hand Theatre Company with Daniel Horrigan. He is
elements. Our productions are intensely rehearsed and visually emblematic, and although
constantly surprised that writing musical theatre is something he spends most of his time doing.
minimally technical, totally vivid. Through this stripped style, At Hand is able to reduce materials,
He lives in Rochester, NY, with his wife and animals.
reuse resources, conserve energy, and produce more affordable, eco-conscious theatre.
MORGAN LINDSEY TACHCO is active in the independent theatre community as an actress
(The Expatriates, We Call Her Benny) an administrator (Associate Artistic Director, JMTC; Co- To make a tax-deductible donation to At Hand, please visit our website: www.athandtheatre.com
founder, FRIGID Festival; Brooklyn Arts Council) and Outreach Manager with the New York
Innovative Theatre Foundation. www.morganlindseytachco.com Special Thanks to:
ERIN TRACY is a choreographer, director, and performer. Her dances have been performed at Genie Printing, David Sugarman, Daniel Whitman, Maria Koulioufas and At Handʼs Board of Directors.
Galapagos, Dixon Place, and Green Space. In addition, she has choreographed dances for
such shows as We Built This City, Uncontained, and Who am I When I Wake Up? Erin received
Postcard and Graphic Design by Jeff Hardy.
Program Design by Justin Scribner.
her BFA from NYUʼs Experimental Theatre Wing.
A digital playbill is available online at www.athandtheatre.com