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All actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association
About the plays
A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT and THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO are a unique
combination and a perfect celebration of a unique company's 10th
anniversary. We hope you will join us for an evening of laughter as we
inaugurate another decade of important work.
A Phoenix Too Frequent was written for and performed at the
Mercury Theatre in London in 1946. It is "not only positive, but positively
ebullient. Although Phoenix takes place entirely in a tomb, the dead body
of its new occupant lying covered upstage throughout, the vitality and
energy of life dispel the potential gloom of this situation."
Glenda Leeming, 1990
"Fry has written his most impressive play... The play's symbolism is
effectively embodied in its metaphorical chiaroscuro of day and night,
death and life, demonstrating the resurrection of love, the Phoenix, from
its ashes and new love from a dead husband's corpse."
Emil Roy, 1968
"Out of the conventional laughingstock of the hen-pecked husband
Chekhov creates a character who is completely three-dimensional, and the
balance between pathetic and comic is seen very clearly in the characterization."
Vera Gottlieb, 1982
Biographies
Michi Barall (Dynamene) is thrilled to make her NAATCO debut.
She was last seen at MCC in Jose Rivera's Sueño. Other
New York and regional credits include Tartuffe at the Delacorte
Theatre/NYSF, A Kiss for Cinderella at the Cleveland Playhouse,
Sisters Matsumoto at Seattle Rep, Red at Portland Stage
and the Intiman, Most Fabulous Stoiy Ever Told at Williamstown,,
HOUSE ARREST: First Edition at Arena Stage, Boy and School
for Wives (Dramalogue) at the La Jolla Playhouse. Michi has appeared
on television in " Cosby," "One Life to Live," and "As the World Turns."
She graduated with an AB in Humanities Honors from Stanford University
and an MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program. She is a recipient of a
1999 Fox Foundation Fellowship. Very special thanks to Mia and Stephen.
Joel Carino (Tegeus/Chromis) is pleased to be doing his second
production with NAATCO. He was last seen in the role of Montano in NAATCO's
production of Othello earlier this year. He has performed off-Broadway
in The Changeling at Theatre for a New Audience, American Passenger
at the Kraine Theatre, and Troilius and Cressida at the New
York Shakespeare Festival. Joel has also performed with the Lincoln Center
Institute, the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, and many other downtown theatres.
He received his MFA degree from NYU's Graduate Acting Program and is originally
from New Mexico. Thanks and love to Mom, Dad, and Grandma.
Mia Katigbak (Doto) is Artistic/Producing Director and co-founder
of NAATCO for whom she has directed Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Chekhov's
Swan Song, and with whom she has acted in Eugene O'Neill's Long
Day's Journey Into Night, Lady Gregory's A Gaol Gate, G.
Bernard Shaw's How He Lied to Her Husband and Village Wooing,
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and August Strindberg's The
Stronger. She has acted in plays by Filipino-American playwrights
Ralph Peña, Jessica Hagedorn, and Han Ong, with the Women's Project,
Pan-Asian Rep, New Federal Theatre, Henry Street Settlement, Ma-Yi Theatre,
the Public Theatre, and Berkeley Rep. She has staged readings for Playwrights
Horizons' Playwriting Workshop and the Writers' Theatre. She has done
production work with Westside Arts Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience,
and Pan-Asian Rep. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from
Columbia University's Graduate School for Arts and Sciences.
Sarah Lambert (Set Design) Previous designs with NAATCO include
Othello, Falsettoland, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The School for
Wives, and The Cherry Orchard. Other recent designs include
Gross Indecency. The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (the New York,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Plymouth, and London productions),
Making Tracks (Second Generation), Much Ado About Nothing (Cornell),
The Lucky Chance (Marymount), and Spectators at an Event, a
dance piece, for Susan Marshall & Company (BAM Next Wave Festival
and tour). She has designed at Seattle Rep, PlayMaker's Rep, and the Yale
Rep, as well as for New York University's Experimental Wing, Barnard College,
Hunter, City, and Queens Colleges, and numerous downtown NYC companies
with flinky names. Sarah is an Artistic Associate with Theater of Necessity,
with whom she designed and dramaturged Stunt Man. She has a BA
from Cornell and a MFA from Yale. She is currently working on Full
Bloom for Barrington Stage.
Timothy Ford Murphy (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to be returning
to NAATCO for these fine productions. Tim made his professional debut
when he originated the role of "Lun Tha" in the National Touring Company
of The King and I starring Hayley Mills. Most recently he appeared
in NAATCO's production of Brecht/Weill's He Who Says Yes/He Who Says
No. Tim also feels very fortunate to have played "Ta" in the recent
readings of David Henry Hwang's adaptation of Flower Drum Song. Additionally,
Tim has appeared in various stock productions in his home state of Nebraska.
Tim currently attends NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where hopes to graduate
very soon.
Janine L. Pangburn (Stage Manager) Professional singer, actress,
and stage manager. Management credits include work with NAATCO's recent
production of Othello, off-Broadway at the Mint Theater Company
(Miss Lulu Bett), Inside Broadway (Free to Be... You
and Me), Philadelphia Fringe Festival (1997 & 1999), and Pig Iron
Theater Company (Cafeteria). Performing credits: Devilla in Killer
Shoes (Original Cast Album), Carrie Nation in How the West Was
Won, and a four-year participant with National Children's Theater
touring/artists-in-residencies program. Love to my Warrior, who always
inspires me.
Stephen Petrilli (Lighting Design) has designed several shows
for NAATCO, The Pearl Theatre Company, and The Melting Pot Theatre Company,
for Shapiro & Smith Dance, Infinity Dance Theatre, Complexions and
Performance Artist Judith Ren-Lay. Regionally, he has designed for State
Theatre Company in Austin and the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in
his hometown of Pittsburgh. Stephen spent five years touring as the Lighting/Sound
Supervisor for Pilobolus, and lives with two really great cats.
James Saito: Broadway: Golden Child The King and I. Off
Broadway & regional theatres include: Roundabout, Vineyard, Manhattan
Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Kennedy Center, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, ACT, Singapore Rep, Arena Stage.
Film & TV include Pearl Harbor (upcoming), The Thomas Crown
Affair Henry Fool, Home Alone 3, Devil's Advocate, Die Hard with a Vengeance,
Blood & Orchids, To Be The Best, Sex and the City, Law and Order,
New York Undercover, Star Trek Voyager, Hot Dog...the Movie, Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles (Shredder).
Stephen Stout (Director) has directed Moliere's School for
Wives, Shaw's How He Lied to Her Husband and Village Wooing,
O'Neill's Ah Wilderness and Long Day's Journey Into Night,
and Kaufman and Hart's You Can t Take It With You for NAATCO.
He was Artistic Director of Passage Theatre Company (dedicated to celebrating
the new American play) in Trenton, NJ for three years, and has directed
at American Place, West Bank Café, and The Phoenix Ensemble in
New York City. As an actor, Stephen has performed on Broadway (The
Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosensweig), Off-Broadway (Cloud
9, Loose Ends, Lucky Stiff, From Above, All My Sons), regionally
throughout the country, and can be seen in the current movie Center
Stage, as well as the upcoming Independent Feature Fortunes. He
lives in CT with wife Kendall Crolius and children Trevor and Martha.
Elly van Horne (Costume Designer) has designed Othello, He
Who Says Yes/He Who Says No, Falsettoland, You Can't Take it With You,
Long Day's Journey Into Night, Ah, Wilderness!, How He Lied to Her Husband,
Village Wooing and The Cherry Orchard for NAATCO She has worked
extensively with Circle Rep Lab, the last show she designed there being
Sakura, the Bandit Princess. She has designed regional theatre
(Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Miniature Theatre of Chester, Berkshire
Public Theatre), and for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
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