JON KATZBERG

Jon Katsberg
by Isaac Rathbone

THECAST
Maggie ALLEY SCOTT
Ed STEVE RUSSO

THESTAFF
Playwright                                                         ISAAC RATHBONE
Director                                                             JENNIFER RATHBONE
Costume Designer                                             MEREDITH NEAL

Jon Katsberg dissects a relationship and toys with gender roles and identities. In the search for the mystery behind the name, Jon Katsberg, masks are exposed. This serio-comedic drama takes routine, everyday conversation through a repetitive whirlwind of intentions. It is not the words themselves that carry weight, but the need for truth, understanding, and balance. Jon Katsberg premiered as part of the Sam French One-Act Festival.

Isaac Rathbone (Playwright)
NY Credits include: There’s Always A Band- Manhattan Rep, Breakfast For Dinner- FringeNYC 2006, The System- The Kraine Theatre, The Audition- The Brooklyn Lyceum. Other Credits include: Death & Motor Vehicles- Theatre Three (Port Jefferson, NY), Studio Rep (Providence, RI), and Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan, CA), Hold The Bus- SUNY Brockport and NewGate Theatre (Providence, RI), Breakfast For Dinner-Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK). He is a founding member of Oracle Theatre Inc., and resident playwright. His adaptations of Japanese folktales are presented as part of OTI’s WOLF Family Series.
Jennifer Rathbone (Director)
As a BFA graduate from Hofstra University in Theatre Production and an MFA graduate from SUNY Purchase Design Technology, she has been involved in varied aspects of theatre. Select Credits include: T.Schreiber Studio's How I Learned To Drive (Lighting, 2006 NYIT Awards Nominee "Outstanding Lighting Design"); SLDT (Lighting Designer); Oracle Theatre’s WOLF: Japanese Folk Tales; Home & The Death of Tintagiles (Director). She also teaches students in disciplines of theatre arts/design at the Trevor Day School in NYC.
Meredith Neal (Costume Designer)
NY Credits include: The World Goes Round- St. Bart’s Players, Pvt. Wars- Incumbo Theater Co., The Suitcase Chronicles- ATA, The Garden Party- Oracle/Havel Festival, There’s Always A Band- Manhattan Rep, Breakfast for Dinner- Oracle/FringeNY, Why'd Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe?-the Fresh Fruits Festival, Savage/Love-Michael Chekhov Theater Company, Better Living-T. Schreiber Studio, Collaboration Town's They're Just Like Us (2006 NY Innovative Theater Award Nominee, Outstanding Costume Design), Tempco.'s Iphigenia and Other Daughters, and Turtle Shell Productions' Blues for Mister Charlie.† Regional: two summers Monomoy Theater on Cape Cod, several productions for Princeton University. MFA - Ohio University. Check out her designs on www.meredithneal.net.
Steve Russo (Ed)
Steve Russo studied acting at Rutgers University and received a Masters of Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University. He recently appeared in the Oracle Theatre, Inc. production of The Garden Party at the Brick, during UTC#61’s Havel Festival in the Fall of 2006. He will also be in the Short Attention Span Festival at the Player’s Theatre at the end of this month.
Alley Scott (Maggie)
Theatre: Five Years from Now; Polly in The Threepenny Opera; The Roaring Girl; 4:48 Psychosis; Don Juan Returns from the War; Mountain Language; The Proposal; Tamora in Titus Andronicus; Exit the King; The Winter’s Tale; MacBeth; Beyond Therapy; Man and Gentleman; Theatre Recrudescence’s All Fall Down. Training: British American Drama Academy London Theatre Program and Midsummer in Oxford. Alley recently appeared in the Oracle Theatre, Inc. production of The Garden Party at the Brick, during UTC#61’s Havel Festival in the Fall of 2006.