Theater Resources Unlimited Announces Cast For ADELE'S WAY Reading

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces Adele's Way, part of The 2018 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series on June 18, 2018 at 7pm at the Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam St., New York, NY.

Tickets are free, but RSVP is required. RSVP by emailing TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com, or by calling 212-714-7628.

Monday, June 18, 2018 at 7pm

Adele's Way, by Dennis Porter, Directed by Joan Kane.

Gathered together after the sudden loss of their talented wife and mother, a close-knit but vulnerable family grieves, reminisces, and explores the cause of her death and its impact death on their future lives.

Featuring Rivka Borek, Kevin Gilmartin*, Helen Herbert*, Bryan Hamilton and Morgan Canham

Reading will be followed by a Dollars & Sense panel about the development process for new works, featuring Georgia Buchanan, former consultant and managing director the York Theater, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, The Women's Project and Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, producer (Communicating Doors, Kat and the Kings); Ivette Dumeng, artistic director of Nylon Fusion (Marty's Shadow, Half Moon Bay, The Big Funk, Kristina); Ken Waissman, producer (original Grease, Torch Song Trilogy, Over Here!, Agnes of God); Frank Zuback, producer (Roof of the World, Taking Leave, American Soldier).

ABOUT THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Dennis Porter (playwright) is a graduate of Cambridge University (BA) and U.C., Berkeley (PhD) and is now a reformed academic, long based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Dennis is the author of books on European and U.S. literature and culture (Pursuit of Crime, Yale; Haunted Journeys, Princeton; Rousseau's Legacy, Oxford), he now devotes his writing life exclusively to works for the stage. His plays in a variety of lengths and genres from manic farce to psycho-political drama and have received major awards, typically with festival productions or staged readings including the following: Full-length: Rainbow with Strings John Gassner Award, Boston; All the Rest Julie Harris Competition, Beverly Hills Theatre Guild; Adele's Way, HRC Showcase Theatre, Hudson, NY and Capital Stage, Sacramento, CA; Surprised by Love, a translation of Marivaux comedy, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Chicago; Let Them Eat Proust, finalist, National Arts Club, Manhattan; Americana, O'Neill Conference, semi-finalist; Sex-Wise, Provincetown Theatre (2012). One-Acts: Between Men, Dubuque Competition and the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Off-Broadway; Bragging Rights, finalist, Tennessee Williams Contest and Last Frontier Conference, Valdez; Set Piece,Pittsburgh New Works and Provincetown Theatre; Like a Scream, First Stage, Los Angeles. 10-Minute: Billie, Boston Marathon; Lost and Found, Boston, and Actors Theatre, Santa Cruz, etc; Flushing Blackberries, Provincetown Theatre. Dennis is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Theatre Resources Unlimited and the Playwrights' Center.

Joan Kane (director) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus and directed I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row, Six Characters in Search of an Author in Oslo, Norway and Kafka's Belinda in Prague. She also directed both Safe and what do you mean at 59E59 Theaters and in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, getting four star reviews for each. Joan was awarded Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival was named to the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame by nytheatre.com. She has also directed plays and readings for the Lark Play Development Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the NY Fringe Festival, Theater for the New City, Urban Stages, the Bleecker St Theater, the Workshop Theater, Nylon Fusion, Abingdon Theatre, Oberon Theatre, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Midtown International Festival, The Players Club, the Lambs Club and The Actors Studio. Joan has an MFA in Directing from The New School, an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street College. She is a member of The New York Madness Company, the Dramatists Guild and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers. Joan currently serves as a Vice President for Programming on the Board of Directors of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Kevin Gilmartin* (Tim)Off-Broadway: Professor Bernhardi, Night Games, Flirtation and Antigone all for Drama Desk Award nominated Marvell Repertory Theatre. Off-Off-Broadway: The Poll Tax Matter and Your Colonel at Metropolitan Playhouse, A Homecoming in FringeNYC, Live From The Surface of The Moon for Stable Cable Lab and The Seagull at the Shapiro Theatre. Regional Theatre: Other Desert Cities and Freud's Last Session for Shaker Bridge Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream in the New Brunswick Theatre Festival and According To Goldman at Alliance Repertory Theatre. Film: American Thief, When The Moon Was Twice As Big, Groomed, Farewell, The Anniversary, and others. TV Commercials: Federal Express, Chevrolet, Xerox, and others. www.KevinGilmartin.net

Helen Herbert* (Rebecca) is very happy to be with working with Joan and Bruce again! Selected NY roles: Haley in Final Request and Marilyn Monroe in It's All Make Believe, Isn't It? for Nylon Fusion, Elizabeth in Queen Elizabeth of Factory Fifteen in the Samuel French Festival, Mag in The Town of No One in FringeNYC and Margaret in Everything Will Be Alright at the Columbia MFA Program. She has also performed with the LAByrinth Theater Company, Irish Repertory Theater, Theatreworks USA, the Paper Mill Playhouse and Premiere Stages, among others. She has a green thumb and lives in Brooklyn with her husband. AEA & SAG-AFTRA. HelenHerbert.net

Bryan James Hamilton (Detective) is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse and appeared on Bull on CBS. Credits include Mikey in My Dinner With Schwartzey by Penny Jackson. Andy in Quack by Patrick Gabridge for Nylon Fusion Theatre Co., Humayun in Guards of The Taj by Rajiv Joseph. He will play Leviticus by Mandi Riggi at 59E59 and in Edinburgh. Bryan is founder of film Production Company Made By Actors and is represented by VGP Artist Management and Take 3 Talent. He is thrilled to be working with Joan Kane and this cast!

Morgan V. Canham (Lily) is thrilled to be working with Joan Kane again in the cast of Adele's Way. NY Theatre includes: Miss Julie, Hoboken: The Play, Halcyon Days, and The Agency. Television: HBO's Ballers, The Sonnet Project, Cosita Linda, Titulares y Mas. Film: Bad Trash, State of Mind, Just Super, and Physics 101. Dance: Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias, Daddy Yankee, Prince Royce, Yandel, Justin Quiles. She wants to give a huge thank you to Joan for bringing her onboard for this project, to her incredibly supportive family & friends, & her acting coach Pamela Scott. Present moment, wonderful moment. www.MorganVCanham.com

Rivka Borek (stage directions reader) just graduated from American Conservatory Theater's MFA Program. Regional: Hamlet, A Christmas Carol for ACT, Sense & Sensibility and Oh Gastronomy! at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens and The Great Gatsby for Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Othello in a Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival tour, Argument Sessions at the Ars Nova ANT Festival, As You Like It for Carolinian Shakespeare Festival and Who's Afraid of Monsters? in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Readings and workshops with The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, and New Georges.

Kim Marie Jones* (stage manager)has 20 plus years experoience as s Production Manager, Lighting Designer, Props Master, AEA Stage Manager, and Producer. She is an alumni of St. John's University and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a Workshop Theater member and TRU's Technical Director.

Ego Actus (Production Company) is Latin for "My Way." Joan Kane and Bruce A! Kraemer created an independent theatre in company in 2009 dedicated to doing art for art's sake. Each artist brings his or her own way of creating to our shows and we unify them into a collective "my way." Joan directs and Bruce designs, they both produce. Everything we have presented to date has been in Manhattan or Europe, plus one show in Philadelphia. Our off-Broadway shows have included Play Nice! at 59E59 Theaters and I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row. We presented both Safe and what do you mean in the East to Edinburgh Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We have done 21 festival shows in ten different festivals including the Prague Fringe, the United Solo Festival and the FringeArts. Our shows have been nominated for 61 awards, of which we have won 21. We have also done 16 stand-alone shows including Equity productions at Theatre Row, Theater for a New City, Urban Stages, and the WorkShop Theater. We are affiliated with the League of Independent Theater, A.R.T/NY, and Fractured Atlas.

*These actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association

Bruce A! Kraemer (producer) is the producer of all Ego Actus shows. He wrote what do you mean which played at 59e59 Theater and in the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His Identity Paper was in the 2016 United Solo Festival and he co-wrote Kafka's Belinda which played in the 2015 Prague Fringe Festival and was nominated for an Inspiration Award. He has done lighting design for Roundabout Theatre and Soho Rep and has designed shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ensemble Studio Theatre, 59E59 Theaters, the NYC Fringe, Theatre Row, and many others. Bruce also does TV and event lighting, audio, technical direction, stage management, production intercom and RF coordination. He has done one or another of those for the Summer and Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, the World Cup, two Papal visits, three Superbowls, the Commonwealth Games, the Goodwill Games, six Tony Awards, the Grammys, three Video Music Awards, the WNBA All Star Game, the NBA All Star game, the NBA Draft, four NFL Drafts, the MLB Draft, ten Christmas Tree Lightings at Rockefeller Center, on Broadway, off Broadway, off off Broadway, for dance, fashion shows, art installations and hundreds of corporate events.

ABOUT TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES

The 2018 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series is the 19th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by the panels on producing, "Dollars and Sense" featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers. Reservations required: 212-714-7628, or email TRUStaff1@gmail.com.

This series made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.