Amelia, a serious English lit grad student longs to have more time for her music.  Her witty boyfriend Jack is a poor painter who can’t seem to keep a day job.  They clearly adore one another, but what happens when Jack loses his apartment and moves in with Amelia? This piece follows Jack and Amelia as they experience the joys and growing pains of their first real relationship. 

Cast
Amelia – Holly Ellis
Jack – Brian W. Seibert

Creative Team
Playwright – Josh Drimmer
Director – Constance Thackaberry
Stage Manager – Nataliya Vasilyeva
Artwork for the play created by Josh J. Peters
Original Music by Martha Goode and Paul Snook

Cast & Creative Team Bios

Josh Drimmer - Playwright
Recent productions:  Love Is Good (New York premiere August 2006) and Waiting for the N (Emerging Artists Theater, New Works Reading Series).  Selected works have appeared at the American Globe Theater's 15 Minute Play Festival, the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab, Feed The Herd's Stampede Festival, the Yale Playwrights  Festival, and the Houston Young Playwrights Exchange.  Josh has also written the book for an off-Broadway cabaret.  Josh is a member of WETLab and lives in Brooklyn. 

Constance Thackaberry –– Director
Recent directing credits include:  The Audience for Brooklyn Playwright’s Collective, 11th Hour at 151 Bank Street, To Be Confirmed and No Exit.  Connie holds a BA in English Literature from the Honors College at Kent State University and received her MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School.  She was named a Leopold Schepp Scholar during her graduate studies.  Favorite acting roles include Kate in She Stoops to Conquer, Desdemona in Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, and Madge in Picnic.  Her work has been seen at:  Ensemble Studio Theater, Bowery Poetry Club, 151 Bank Street, LUT in Leicester, England, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Cain Park, Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland Signstage Theatre, and Porthouse Theater among others.  Connie is a proud member of Actor’s Equity, the resident company at Actors’ Summit, and Lincoln Center Directors Lab.  She is currently working with John Patrick Bray on developing his play Liner Notes.

Brian W. Seibert – Jack
Off-Broadway:  Fools In Love (BAM Harvey Theater), The Shadow Box, Tempest Tossed Fools (Manhattan Ensemble Theater), Tape, Joined at the Head (Westbeth Theatre); Off-Off-Broadway:  A Case of Murder (La MaMa E.T.C.), Hay Fever, The Baltimore Waltz (The Producers Club), Zoloft or Zofia (13th Street Rep), Penguins, Puppies & Porn (NYFringe), When You Wake (HERE Arts).  Regional:  Macbeth, Pigeon River Opera, As You Like It, The Waiting Room, Watching Trisha (Petoskey Theatre Festival).  MFA in Acting (Actors Studio Drama School).

Holly Ellis – Amelia
Film:  What's Eating Mrs. Stouffer? (Best Director, Best Script, Best in Show: Hofstra Senior Film Festival); NY Theatre (partial listing):  Joined at the Head (151 Bank Street), An Experiment With an Airpump (CUNY Graduate Center), Hay Fever (Producers Club), The Audience (Bowery Poetry Club), The Six Sirens (Don't Tell Mama), 11th Hour (151 Bank Street); MFA:  Actors Studio Drama School; Improv:  Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre School; Craft:  Gene Lasko; Voice:  Phil Hall, Nova Thomas.

Nataliya Vasilyeva – Stage Manager
Nataliya is a Brooklyn-based stage manager who is very excited to be a part of this production.  Past stage management credits include Riff Raff, The Drunk Monk (Subterranean Theatre Ensemble), Turn of the Screw (Stony Brook Opera Ensemble), Closer (Pocket Theatre), Proof, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and How I Learned to Drive (Long Island Play Project).

Josh J. Peters – artist
Josh J. Peters is a self-taught New York artist who has exhibited in Chelsea, Soho, and Williamsburg.  His work can be seen on the web at WWW.JOSHJPETERS.COM.  Josh is also a trained actor receiving his MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School.

Martha Goode – Original Music/Arrangements
Sound Designs: Love Is Good (Love Creek Productions), Training Wisteria (NY International Fringe Festival; Kennedy Center/ACTF; Regional Barbizon Award Winner, Boston Playwright's Theater), Translations of Xhosa (Kennedy Center/ ACTF, Boston University), Chrysalis (Producer's Club), Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night & As You Like It, Blood Wedding, No Place To Be Somebody (Boston University). Board Operator: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Harvey (Barter Theater). Martha is co-owner of Night Owl Studios.

Paul Snook – Original Music/Arrangements
is co-owner of Night Owl Studios. He is a classically trained Bassoonist and a self-taught Bass Guitarist. Paul was signed by Sony as band member of Drum Theatre (No.1 in Italy). He has performed and collaborated with artists like Natalie Cole, Bill Withers, Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Alexander O'Neal, Gerald Alston, Darryl Hallm Paul Inder and Les Warner. He has worked with The Insteps, a co-production with Glen Adams, Corey Red & Precise (Life Records), Fishbone, Cage, Awkward Thought, NRSV, Maximum Penalty, Lafayette Harris (Bring in Da Noise), Escapade, Robert Mitchell. Paul is the bass player and lead singer in the New York band Krust.