CAST & CREATIVE
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CAST
Mari Blake* - BAMBI
Mari Blake is an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in NYC. Off-Broadway: The Cry of the Butterfly, Cassandra, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Shadows. Select regional: Steel Magnolias (Cape Fear Regional Theatre), That Book Woman (Pioneer Playhouse), The Star-Spangled Girl (Judson Theatre Company). Mari just returned from LA where she was promoting her latest film project The Reverb (Pink Collar Productions)! Seeking management!
www.mariblake.com Instagram @macaroni_blake
Dan Patrick Brady* - JOHNNY
Dan Patrick Brady has been doing theatre for almost five decades. Among his favorite roles:
Off-Broadway: The Lover, Eden, Curse of the Starving Class, Women and Football. OFF-OFF BROADWAY: Downward Facing Debbie, Recovery, Coronado, Purple Hearts, Murder in the First, The Norman Conquests, Journey of the Fifth Horse, Midnight, Yancey. REGIONALLY: The Grapes of Wrath, Blackbird, To Kill A Mockingbird, Orphans, The Elephant Man, Laughing Stock. TELEVISION: Loving, Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance. FILM: Paradise Falls, My Demon Lover
Evan Klein - CONNOR
Evan Klein is a New York and LA based actor. A graduate from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, his previous credits include: The Pitt Season 2 (HBO MAX), Honor Schmonor (Playwrights Horizon/Ember Productions) and The Heist Play (Elysian Theatre).
Jon Krupp* - MARCUS
Jon Krupp is thrilled to help bring Tom's play to life! NYC-area work includes US v Gupta (New Georges/Lucy Jackson Bushwick Starr); Circle Mirror Transformation (Mile Square Theatre); Milk (New Georges @HERE); Marielle Heller's inaugural production of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD); Lost & Found (directed by Andrew Block!); and Lisa D'Amour's 16 Spells to Charm the Beast (Clubbed Thumb). Regional: Yale Rep, Northern Stage, the Asolo, Baltimore's Center Stage, Delaware Theatre Co., the Fulton Opera House, and others. TV: FBI: Most Wanted; Bull; Law & Order; Law & Order: SVU; Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Jon's play Kilonova won the 2022 Barbour Prize from the Episcopal Actors Guild. B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., Yale School of Drama.
Kate Miller* - TINA
Kate is chuffed to bits to be back home on the boards - right around the corner from her apartment, no less!
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BROADWAY: Moon Over Buffalo with Carol Burnett & Amadeus with Michael Sheen.
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OFF BROADWAY: Love (CSC) Pera Palas (Second Stage)
OFF-OFF BROADWAY: (notably) A Marriage Proposal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ubu is King
REGIONAL: (notably) The Cherry Orchard, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Summer and Smoke, Ah, Wilderness!, The Front Page, The Good Doctor
TELEVISION: (notably) Blue Bloods, Hightown, Ramy, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Elementary, Sex & the City, Third Watch, the Law & Order franchise, One Life to Live, The Young & The Restless, All My Children, As The World Turns, Guiding Light
FILM: The Trial of the Chicago 7, Tox, Entropy, The Basketball Diaries, Chump Change, Stolen, Halfway to Zen, Love Affair
ANIMATION: (notably) Dora the Explorer, The Loud House (Nickelodeon) Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo (Cartoon Network/Adult Swim) God of War:Ragnarök (Sony) Gotham Nights (Warner Bros)
Kate is based in New York, Los Angeles and East Hampton. Her current location is the West Village.
LONG LIVE INDIE FILM & THEATRE! #resist
*Actors appear courtesy of AEA. An approved Equity Showcase
CREATIVE
Andrew Block - Director
Andrew Block received the Ovation and L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Director & Production for the world premiere of John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair, starring Emmy-winner Jon Bernthal. His recent collaborations as an Artistic Associate of SparkPlug Productions include NYC premieres of Adam Szymkowicz's Fat Cat Killers and the NYC Fringe hit Clown Bar 2 (Audience Choice, Most Fringe awards); Selected credits: Kelley Nicole Girod’s This Stretch of Montpelier and Body of Water (The Fire This Time Festival, Le Petit); Mark Jason Williams’ Straight Faced Lies & The Other Day (Theatre at 14th St Y); John Pollono's Lost and Found (FringeNYC Encore, Lucille Lortel Theatre); David Caudle’s Downward Facing Debbie (ProjectY); Sondheim's Company (Gallery Players); Why Bother? (Best Director, Planet Connections Festivity); Adam Rapp’s Bingo With the Indians (GLAAD award nomination for Outstanding Theatre, West-coast premiere); Bedroom Farce (FAPC); Reach (Ivy Theatre); Avenue Q (Manhattan College); Inherit the Wind (Manhattan College); Rumors (AADA); The Shape of Things (Adelphi University); Recovery (FringeNYC). He is a multi-hat-wearing Arts professional, with extensive experience in production, advocacy, education, and community building, and is a proud native of New Orleans. www.andrewblock.info
Tom Kelly - Playwright
Angelina Cerami - Assistant Director
Angelina Cerami is a New York based Actor, Director and Writer. Previous directing credits include Cardboard Boxes (Elon University), The Last Five Years (Breaking Barriers Theatre Company), and Spring Awakening (Breaking Barriers Theatre Company). Angelina wants to thank her friends and family for their unwavering support!
www.angelinacerami.com Instagram: angelinacerami_
Tom holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, where he studied with Jack Gelber and Mac Wellman. His play Bleached Blonde Betty was staged by Cat On My Head Productions at the Workshop Theater in Manhattan. A screenplay based on that play, written by Tom and John Knapich, won last year's Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest. His play The Gangster and the Busboy received a staged reading at The Director's Company and has been optioned by an independent film producer. tomkellysemail@gmail.com
Winnie Chiang - Stage Manager
Winnie Chiang is excited to continue her journey with Bathroom Attendant. Her recent credits include The Heart Sellers, John Proctor is the Villain, Fat Ham, and The Bluest Eye (Production Assistant, The Huntington); The Supreme Leader (ASM, Mile Square Theatre); Dust of Egypt (PSM, Sheen Center), Forever and a Day (SM, Frigid NY, Days of the Dead Festival); The Chinese Lady (ASM, Central Square Theater); Destination Undefined (SM, Cellunova Productions); and Nüwa in Fairyland (PSM, CHUANG Stage). Winnie is passionate about collaborative storytelling and is dedicated to fostering supportive, inclusive environments behind the scenes.
Tony Lepore - Original Music, Lighting & Sound Design
Tony Lepore has been involved in theater for over 25 years, serving as a producer, composer, stage manager, lighting designer, sound designer, and playwright in cities across the US, UK, Canada, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates. Films for which he scored the music have won awards at international film festivals. His debut jazz album Unannounced is out now. TonyLepore.com
Scott Fetterman - Production Designer
Scott Fetterman is a multimedia designer, video producer, technician, and performer; he currently holds the position of Lead Audiovisual Technician at BAM Fisher in Brooklyn, NY and is a proud member of IATSE Local 4. A product of NYC’s downtown experimental scene, Scott got his start working with Temporary Distortion from 2011-2017 in several capacities; most notably as Video Designer, Assistant Installation Designer, and Musician for the 6-hour-long installation-based performance My Voice Has An Echo In It, which toured within the US and France. Other key collaborations include Oscar-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox (The Truth Has Changed, Staying Home, and The Edge of Nature), One Year Lease Theater Company (Pool No Water and Skin Tight), and director Andrew Block (too many to list).
Christopher Lee - Producer
Christopher Lee is an actor and writer whose training began at North Carolina School of the Arts, continued with extensive classically based studies at Oxford University (Baliol College), and concluded with a Bachelor’s in Theater from Loyola University New Orleans. He has performed in dozens of shows in NYC with multiple appearances at Ensemble Studio Theatre as well as a national tour and studied Improv at UCB. Recent Shows: The "Audience Choice Award" winning sold out run of Clown Bar 2, the NYC premier of Fat Cat Killers- both written by ADAM SZYMKOWICZ, DEAN HASPIEL'S The War of Woo, and MARK JASON WILLIAMS' Straight Faced Lies directed by Andrew Block. Television: recurring roles on One Life to Live, All My Children, and As the World Turns. Recent New Media: Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rock* Games), Life with Althaar (Gemini Collisionworks, Apple Podcasts), and Where Does the Light Go? (SparkPlug Productions #wdtlg, Spotify & Apple Podcasts). Upcoming: Steve Space in The Adventures of Steve Space and His Athletic Stratos Commanders. He would like to thank Bex, Fidget & Boo for their support. www.ChristopherLee.nyc
Rebekkah Ross - Producer
Rebekkah Ross is a co-founder and co-Artistic Director of SparkPlug Productions. She is an actor-narrator-author-producer and woman-behind-the-puppet in The Willy & Fidget Super Funtime Show. Additional upcoming projects include a new podcast from the mind of Christopher Rozzi, and a series of picture books. She has recently completed her first middle grade novel Betty Lou and the Howl of the Rougarou and can't wait for you to read it. www.rebekkahross.com
SparkPlug Productions
SPARKPLUG PRODUCTIONS was founded in 2006 by Christopher Lee and Rebekkah Ross, Artistic Directors, to create performance opportunities for artists we believe in. Our goal is to produce new works through a cooperative spirit among artists. We hope to develop a platform that allows us to break through boundaries and conventions to create new multimedia works as well as a vibrant community. SparkPlug is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and donations are tax-deductible.
www.SparkPlugProductions.com | IG: @splugnyc
SparkPlug wishes to thank Materials for the Arts and Actors' Equity Association for their continued support of our organization and of artists and the Arts Community in New York City.
