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The
Hourglass Group presents the first New York revival of Mae West's notorious
1926 play Sex, the play that landed West in jail and made
her famous. Directed by Elyse Singer, the play stars Carolyn Baeumler in
the role originally created by West and features music by Steven Bernstein's
Sex Mob.
The
Company
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| Carolyn
Baeumler (Margy LaMont) just finished understudying both Blanche and
Stella in the New York Theatre Workshop production of A Streetcar Named
Desire, directed by Ivo Van Hove. She was recently featured in the
Erotica
Project at Joe's Pub and HERE and performed in the 1999 Humana Festival
at the Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the 10-minute play ensemble
company. Other recent projects include Douglas Bost's Abraham's Posterity
as part of EST's Octoberfest and Tracey S. Wilson's Leader of the People
at HERE. Credits include Lolli in In-Betweens at the Cherry Lane
Theatre, Courtney Love in Elyse Singer's Love in the Void (alt.fan.c-love),
A
Clockwork Orange at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Lorne Loraine in Private
Life, Eva in Care-less: Eva Tanguay at Dixon Place and Madonna
in Flags Unfurled: 1976. Carolyn is a Usual Suspect at New York
Theatre Workshop and a graduate of New York University. |
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| Cynthia
Darlow (Clara) Broadway: Present Laughter; Sex and Longing;
Prelude
to a Kiss; Rumors; Grease. Off-Broadway: The Cider
House Rules; Once in a Lifetime; The Most Fabulous Story
Ever Told; 'Til the Rapture Comes; The Naked Truth;
June
Moon; Death Defying Acts; The Cover of Life;
Baby
with the Bathwater; Sister Mary Ignatius.../The Actor's Nightmare.
Regional: American Repertory Theatre; Yale Rep; Goodman; Mark Taper Forum;
Ford's Theatre. Television: Square One T.V. (Children's Television
Workshop); Soul Man (w/Dan Ackroyd); Law and Order;
Fool's
Fire (w/Julie Taymor). Film: The Thomas Crown Affair. Member
of The Actor's Company Theatre (T.A.C.T.). |
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| Nick
Garrison (Red/Nightclub singer - January) comes from Seattle, where
he has recently appeared in Deflowered in the Attic, Randee Sparks:
Semi-Precious, Assassins and Ruthless. He was seen
at the 1999 Humana Festival of New American Plays in Naomi Iizuka's Aloha,
Say the Pretty Girls and Life Under 30. |
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| Dominic
Hamilton-Little (Manly/Condez/Jenkins) is delighted to have Sex
in his life once again. Recent credits include Liberace in Agamemnon
vs. Liberace at HERE, and Professor Dorsey in the independent feature
film Building Bombs. He has performed his one man show Fey Ways:
Diatribe & Reminiscence in Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles and excerpts
at Surf Reality and P.S. 122. |
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| Nina
Hellman (Agnes Scott/Marie) Recent credits include Sex a.ka. Wieners
and Boobs by David Wain, Michael Showalter and Joe LoTruglio at the
Tamarind Theatre in Los Angeles, The Escape Artist by Michael Laurence
at Primary Stages and Natacha Kantor's L'Orgueil in Paris, France.
Off-Broadway, she played the cigarette girl in Once in a Lifetime
at the Atlantic Theatre and has appeared in Todd Alcott's Yikes!
and David Latham's Laguna Beach. She has appeared at Stella,
big room comedy, hosted by David Wain, Michael Black and Michael Showalter
and is a performing member of The Flying Karamozov Brothers' New Old Time
Chautauqua. Her band, Cake Like's third album, Goodbye, So What
was recently released on Neil Young's Vapor Records. Nina is a graduate
of New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. |
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| Bruce
Kronenberg (Rocky) has been doing theater in New York for the past
15 years. National Tour: Louie in Lost in Yonkers; Regional: Roma
in Glengarry Glen Ross at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Portland;
Second Murderer in Richard III at the American Shakespeare Theatre
in Stratford. NYC: Tony n' Tina's Wedding (first new company). Recent
film credits: The Guy's Guide to Marrying Money. TV: Law and
Order, New York Undercover. Thanks to Jerry Manning. |
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| Andrew
Elvis Miller (Jimmy Stanton) Film/TV: To be released - Lead roles in
Desires,
Inc. (with Jerky Boy Johnny Brennan), Bury the Evidence (with
Karen Black and Melissa Errico), and A Midwife's Tale (PBS). NYC:
Blue Man Group, In-Betweens (Cherry Lane Theatre and BIAP),
The
Folsom Head, Fixing Frank and Hunting Humans (Currican,
regrettably closing 2/00). |
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| Chuck
Montgomery (Dawson/Jones/Al) Recently: Tulpa with Target Margin
Theater; world premiere of Soon, written and directed by Hal Hartley
at the Salzburg Festival. Also, Antigone with Arden Party; Dubliners
with the DearKnows Theater Company. Member of the Obie Award-winning Cucaracha
Theatre, where he appeared in Underground Soap I, II and III; A
Vast Wreck and Roberto Zucco. Film: Amateur, Henry
Fool (Hal Hartley, dir.), Stepmom, Frogs for Snakes and
Suits.
TV: Sopranos, Law & Order. |
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| "Sable"
aka Pedro Serrazino (Red/Nightclub singer - December) has been a performer
for most of his 23 years. A native of Boston, Pedro is a recent addition
to the NYC scene. He can currently be seen performing at LIPS, as well
as occasional guest spots at Bar D'o. He would like to thank Sherry Vine
for her kindness and support. Pedro is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory
of Music. This is his New York theatre debut. |
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| T.
Ryder Smith (Lt. Gregg) In NY: The Seagull (Target Margin),
Summer
(New Georges), Blithdale (HERE), The Emperor of the Moon
and Victor (Arden Party), Ambrosio (Signature),
Mirandolina
(Pearl). Regional: The Wilma, Actor's Theater of Louisville, Dallas Theater
Center, Santa Fe Stages, others. TV: Law & Order,
New York
Undercover. Film: Brainscan. |
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| Fred
Velde (Captain/Stanton/Magistrate) is a native New Yorker who has been
part of the New York theatre for over 30 years, quite often working with
non-profit groups such as The Phoenix Ensemble and the Harbor Theatre,
helping develop new works. As an actor, he has appeared in films, soaps
and commercials. Theatre credits include The Price of Genius on
Broadway and Traveling Souls in Moscow. |
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| Mae
West (Playwright) was born in 1893 in Brooklyn. She made her stage
debut at the age of six and her Broadway playwriting debut in April 1926
when Sex opened at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre, with West starring
as Margy LaMont. After running nearly a year, the play was raided by the
NYPD and West served eight days on Welfare Island on charges of obscenity.
She went on to write seven more plays including The Drag, Pleasure
Man and Diamond Lil. West wrote and starred in some of the highest
grossing movies of the 1930s despite an ongoing battle with the censorship
boards. At the age of 85, she made the final film appearance--in Sextette.
Mae West died in November 1980. |
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| Elyse
Singer (Director) is best known for her 1995 multimedia play Love
in the Void (alt.fan.c-love), an adaptation of Courtney Love's Internet
posts, performed by Carolyn Baeumler. It ran at HERE and P.S. 122 and has
the distinction of being featured in 24
Hours in Cyberspace, the first Web site inducted into the Smithsonian.
Other original works include Private Property (Edinburgh Festival),
Care-less:
Eva Tanguay (Dixon Place) and Frequency Hopping, which has just
been commissioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation First
Light Project 2000. In New York, Elyse has worked extensively downtown,
directing and producing the premieres of new plays by writers such as Ruth
Margraff, Neena Beber, Naomi Iizuka, Catherine Zimdahl, Aaron Mack Schloff
and Mark Russell. Recently, she directed Deborah Swisher's Hundreds
of Sisters & One BIG Brother at HERE, HBO Workspace in LA, and
Brava! in San Francisco; it is scheduled to open Off-Broadway this January.
A Yale graduate, Elyse is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop,
an alumna of the '95 and '96 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Labs, an
Affiliated Artist of New Georges and Artistic Director of the Hourglass
Group. |
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| Steven
Bernstein (Composer) In addition to leading the acclaimed Sex Mob,
Steven is also a long-time member of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and led
the legendary Spanish Fly (with Marcus Rojas and Dave Tronzo), all the
while working with everyone from Bootsy Collins, Medeski, Martin &
Wood and Don Byron to Lou Reed and They Might Be Giants. He was the director
of the Kansas City Band that toured in conjunction with Robert Altman's
film in 1996, and has orchestrated, arranged and conducted over a half-dozen
film scores, including Get Shorty, Kansas City, Clay Pigeons
and Manny & Lo, aside from multi-faceted work in television,
theater and dozens of sessions a year. Theater credits include Donald Byrd's
Harlem
Nutcracker at BAM, The Comedy of Errors at Lincoln Center and
The
Flying Karamazov Brothers Do the Impossible on Broadway. |
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| Evan
House (Composer/Musical Director) moved to New York City in August
from Pittsburg, Kansas, where he taught music at Pittsburg State University.
He was raised in Greenville, North Carolina and began playing percussion,
piano, and guitar at an early age. His formal music training (in percussion
and composition) took place at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Oberlin
Conservatory, and University of Michigan, where he studied for several
years with William Bolcom and William Albright. He has had commissions
from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Tales and Scales, and Quorum; performances
by the Boston, Phoenix, and Jacksonville Symphonies and at the Aspen Music
Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, and June in Buffalo; and residencies
at the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Cincinnati Conservatory.
He was awarded three ASCAP Morton Gould Awards for his music, some of which
is published by MMB, Inc. and C. Alan Publications. |
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| Tyler
Micoleau (Lighting Designer) Tyler is a native of Portland, Maine,
but freelances out of New York City. Here he has designed the lighting
for numerous Off-Off- and Off-Broadway theatre organizations, including
the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (1996-98), The Vineyard Theater
(My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine, for David Warren and Nicky Silver),
and the Atlantic Theatre (Mojo, also with director Neil Pepe). Regionally,
Tyler has designed at the Long Wharf Theatre, Portland Stage Company, The
Berkshire Theater Festival and Maine State Music Theater. He most recently
designed the lighting for Refuge, a new play by Jessica Goldberg
at the Playwrights Horizons Studio Theater. |
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| Kaye
Voyce (Costume Designer) Recent credits include Look Back in Anger
(Classic Stage Company), Life is a Dream (Court Theatre, Chicago)
directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, The Rake's Progress (Wolftrap Opera),
The
Taming of the Shrew (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Twelfth Night
(The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.), and Stop Kiss (The
Public Theatre). Other current projects include Arms and the Man
at the Roundabout and Valparaiso at Steppenwolf, directed by Frank
Galati. Kaye previously worked with Elyse Singer on Love in the Void
and Care-less: Eva Tanguay. |
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| George
Xenos (Set Designer) - bio TK |
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| Carey
Bertini (Choreographer) - bio TK |
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| M.
Saylor Billings (Production Stage Manager) wears many hats in the NYC
theater scene including lighting and set design; directing; sound technician;
and even acting occasionally in improv. She is currently a Production Manager
for HERE Theatre, pursuing a film acting career, and beginning preproduction
for the trailer of her script A Fool's Religion. Thanks to Madeana. |
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| Ninon
Rogers (Assistant Director/Producer and all around Jane) Ninon is pleased
to be a Sex assistant. She first worked with Elyse Singer as Assistant
Stage Manager for Love in the Void, starring the magnificent Carolyn
Baeumler. In her acting career, she was most recently seen in Donny Levit's
23
Skiddoo!!!, a play with film. She has performed at the Women's Project,
the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and with New York Stage and Film in Evan Smith's
Servicemen,
directed by Michael Wilson. |
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| The
Hourglass Group (Producer) was founded by Elyse Singer, Carolyn Baeumler
and Nina Hellman as the culmination of collaborating on more than a dozen
projects over five years. Hourglass develops new plays and reinvestigates
neglected classics; we champion writers who experiment with dramatic language
and new theatrical forms, including the use of multimedia. In our work,
we are particularly interested in raising questions about the feminine
icon, fame and celebrity in America, person and identity, women and technology
and sex goddesses throughout history. |
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| Mark
L. Beigelman (Associate Producer) is an attorney in private practice
specializing in entertainment law, with an emphasis on theatre, film and
television. Currently of counsel to firm of Kaufmann, Feiner, Yamin, Gildin
& Robbins LLP and a member, along with Ronald E. Feiner and Pamela
Golinski, of Kaufmann, Feiner's entertainment law department. Represents
producers, writers, directors, designers and other professionals in the
professional theatre in New York. Teacher/Lecturer: NYU, Commercial Theater
Institute. Producer: Cloud 9 (NY premiere) and Nine (Tony--Best
Musical) and The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway. Co-Executive Producer:
Trick
(motion picture distributed by Fine Line). BA, MA and JD Degrees. |
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| Ben
Feldman (Associate Producer) JD Degree: NYU Law (Winner: ASCAP Copyright
Prize). An entertainment lawyer at Mark L. Beigelman P.C., Ben represents
David Alan Basche (ABC’s Oh, Grow Up) the films Trust
Dance and Urbania (w/ Daniel Futterman & Alan Cumming),
Jesse Ventura, Emmy winning writer Peter Hirsch, creators/writers of shows
at Oxygen, MTV and USA, Big Mouth Productions (Innocent Until Proven
Guilty--HBO premiere 10/17/99) and Undergroundfilm.com. Producer: The
Stand In (play optioned by Miramax). Assisted theater producer Daryl
Roth 1992-1994. Board Member: Naked Angels. Ben attended both Choate and
Yale with the incomparable Elyse Singer. |
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