Capital Fringe Festival 2017
CAST
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Jorge Luna: At the age of seven he was inspired by a virtuoso circus performance by a troupe called Círcolo. He started off as a dj and loved being smuggled into nightclubs at a young age to spin. FILM: All The Beautiful Things (Sundance), The Last Frankenstein, Catching Fireflies, All Is Not Lost, Angelo, Bronx 3M. TV: One Life to Live, Basile. THEATRE: Hamlet; Caborca, The Dream Dances; The Ume Group, Yuragi; Ren Gyo Soh, Starry Messenger; Theatre For The New City, Cymbeline; Chashama, Iphigenia at Aulis; Tiyatro Global, The Promise; CBA, FLORIDITA, My Love; INTAR, Barceloneta, de noche; IATI, The Tempest, Julius Caesar; BC. TRAINING: Shakespeare; RADA. MFA Acting; Brooklyn College. www.jorgeluna.net
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Miles Butler is grateful to be a part of this rare and charming Ume ensemble. Recent NYC: Anthropomorphic (Puppetry Arts), Ariel in The Tempest (Stag and Lion), Alexander Who's Not Going To Move (Two Beans, National Tour), enter a garden (Motor Company), in the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey (Beck Lyrics) DC: Studio Theatre, Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Wolf Trap, Ford's Theater, Folger Theater and various. Former company member of Synetic Theater and the Flea Theatre. Proud Brooklyn College Alumnus. Shout out to my parents, bro, Amy, and Ryan Gosling. Love you guys! www.milesbutler.com
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Clara Kundin is an actor, singer, and teaching artist based in NYC. She received her B.A. in theater from St. Olaf College and continued her studies in physical theater at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She began studying butoh in Paris under Yumi Fujitani at the École du Jeu and has continued training in NYC with Ren Gyo Soh. Clara is the executive director of Rebel Playhouse, an educational children's theater, and the associate education director and company member for The Ume Group. As an actor, she has performed with Creative Time, Torn Out Theater, the GYM at Judson, the Guthrie Theater, and many more. She first performed in SHINKA at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn in 2016. www.clarakundin.com
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Jennifer Marinelli is an actress hailing from Lapeer, Michigan. In New York City, Jennifer has worked, and more. Jennifer graduated from Michigan State University and has trained at The William Esper Studio and The Barrow Group. Favorite roles include Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With The Ume Group, Jennifer has performed in "EDGED", the Lysistrata Project (Workshop Production), "Lullaby for Madame L" at Triskelion Arts, "Flowers of Affordance" at the UNFIX Festival. Find out more at JenniferMarinelli.com with Columbia University, the Woodshed Collective, Hudson Warehouse, Open Hydrant Theatre Company. http://www.jennifermarinelli.com/
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Efrén Sánchez
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Efrén Sánchez has developed his artistic career México, Cuba, Canada, Venezuela, United States, England, Colombia and Spain. He has been involved in more than 50 productions as actor, director and playwright earning several national and international awards for his artistic work. He is currently the Latin America producer of the International festival Interculturalidad Canarias-México. He has been trained in Acting, Aereal Dance, Contact Improv, Tap, Pantomime, Contemporary Dance, Classic Dance, Jazz, View Points, Suzuki, Biomechanics, Cyr Wheel, Trapeze, Vertical Dance (Wall Harness), Fabric/Sling/Cocoon, Lighting Design, Aereal Yoga, Art-Therapy, Music-Therapy and Theater-Therapy.
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Creative Team
Director/Choreographer
Yoshiko Usami (AKA Yokko) |
Yokko is the artistic Director of Ren Gyo Soh. She is an actor, choreographer, director, a movement & Butoh Artist, solo Performer from Japan. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including “Best One-Woman Show” for Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014 at Theatre Row). Butoh Medea was selected to perform in Warsaw, Poland. (United Solo Europe 2015, Teatre Syrena), toured Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, nominated The Asian Arts Award. Other Theatre credits include: BALDY (CRS, United Solo 2013, HFF 2013, Fringe NYC 2012), ISIS Variation (Fringe NYC 2014), FACET (Irondale Center, Wave Rising Series, HFF 2013), Butoh Electra (Irondale Center, Fringe NYC 2011). Yokko also acted in several of local and international films, one of which is the Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo (2016). She is the associate artistic director of The Ume Group. Winner of Best Physical Theatre Show, Best Choreography (Butoh Medea, United Solo 2015, 2014).
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Lighting Designer & PM
Robin Dill |
Robin Dill- A Lighting, Scenic and Sound Designer/Technician from Walnut Creek, CA. Robin has designed and teched shows for a number of groups around NYC like The Ume Group and the Void Theatre Company, for independent artists like Yokko, and for collaborative projects like UNFIX NYC. He also works various projects ranging from Production managing NY Fashion week shows to working trade shows and other events all around NYC.
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Costume Designer
Deepsikha Chatterjee |
Deepsikha Chatterjee (Costume Design) Deepsikha Chatterjee enjoys teaching theatre, costumes and crafts to a diverse student body at Hunter College CUNY.She received her BA in fashion design and psychology in India and her MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Florida State University. She has worked at several reputed theatre companies across the US. She had been researching costumes, film, makeup and masks from India and Asia and has presented on these topics at several international conferences. Her costume design for Butoh Medea received the best costume design award at United Solo 2014.She has thoroughly enjoyed working with this creative team.
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Assistant Director
Rui Dun |
Rui Dun is a director/actor based in Brooklyn, NY. Coming from China, she values the rich culture she is rooted in. Holding a BA in Chinese Literature, applying the eastern philosophy to the western approach of theatre is one of her interests working towards her MFA in directing at Actors Studio Drama School. She has directed Aniuta(Chekhov), The Man Who Couldn’t Dance (ASDS), The Brother (SPF 2017). www.ruidun.space
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Producer/Company Manager
Bob Lyness |
Bob Lyness comes from a theater background, but has primarily studied and performed butoh for the past twelve years, studying with Yoshito Ohno, Diego Pinon, Vangeline, Joan Laage, and others, and really considers Yoshito Ohno as his main mentor and inspiration. He is thrilled to be working with Erika Hassan again.
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