THE ROBOT FROM RECYCLANDIA Plays Roy Arias Theatre, Opens 11/4

Roy Arias Theatre presents THE ROBOT FROM RECYCLANDIA, directed by Robert Perillo. A robot from outer space come to Earth and produces a reality TV show. But this robot is really on a secret mission to judge humanity and if humans fail the test, he'll exterminate man. The robot observes 6 people from the Bronx projects who will represent humanity. Will man survive? Is the apocalypse coming? What is the robot's final answer? Watch and find out. THE ROBOT FROM RECYCLANDIA will open on Wednesday, Nov 4th at 7:00pm and 9:00pm; future dates TBA at the Roy Arias Theatre.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
Aldo Pisano (Actor/Writer) originally developed The Robot From Recyclandia with award winning soloist Brenda Wong Aoki. Aldo recently performed a staged reading of The Robot From Recyclandia at the famed San Francisco Mime Troupe Theater. He has also performed in De Novo on tour and at New York's Rattlestick Theater. Other memorable productions include Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Peter Dubois), The Emigrants (dir. Alba Oms), and The Tempest (dir. Joe Morton). Aldo has worked regionally with The California Shakespeare Theater, Mixed Blood Theater, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, San Jose Rep, Theatre Works, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Teatro Vision, and others. Favorite roles include Carlino in Wait Until Dark, Manulo in The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, Ramon in Love! Valour! Compassion! (Dean Goodman Award), and Sir Toby in Twelfth Night. TV/Film credits include Nash Bridges, his lead role in the feature drama Get Money, and numerous indie films which have screened at Sundance & internationally. Aldo has taught for the Public Theater, ENACT, S.F. Shakespeare Festival, Red Ladder, and E.O.R.O. Aldo has trained at the Public Theater, A.C.T., Shakespeare & Co., The Actor's Center, and with Lloyd Richards, Patsy Rodenburg, and Kristin Linklater.

Robert Francis Perillo (Director/Dramaturg) is a stage director and actor and has directed and appeared in plays by playwrights as varied as William Shakespeare, Noel Coward, John Patrick Shanley, George F. Walker, Charles Ludlam, Tom Stoppard and Oscar Wilde. Last autumn he
directed the first New York revival of the musical The Spitfire Grill. Most recently he was visiting artist for Stanford University's production of Love's Labor's Lost. Mr. Perillo is also a Master Voice Teacher and has trained actors for over a quarter of a century. He has worked at Binghamton University, Marymount College, the National Shakespeare Conservatory, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where he was head of the voice department. Mr. Perillo trains and coaches actors privately, both for performance and auditions. In addition, he has worked extensively with businessmen and women, writers, politicians, singers and clergymen. He has given seminars and workshops to choral groups, readers of scripture and to other teachers of voice and speech. Mr. Perillo is on the faculty of the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab.

Chris Bayes (Physical Coach) supplied additional movement for 39 Steps on Broadway. His credits include Theatre de la Jeune Lune: 6 years as an actor, director, composer, designer, artistic director. In 1989 he joined The Acting Company of the Guthrie for more than 20 productions.
In 1993 he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming. New York, directing: Julliard, NYU's Graduate Acting, NYU's ETW, Fordham, HERE, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, Present Company Theatorium. Other directing: Touchstone, Intiman, Court, Idaho Shakes., Yale Rep. 2000 Fox Fellow. Faculty: Julliard, Actor's Center, Public Shakespeare Lab, NYU's Graduate Acting. Head of movement and physical theatre, Brown/Trinity Consortium 2004-2006; currently Head of Physical Acting at the Yale School of Drama.

Louis Colaianni (Voice Coach) is a Voice and Speech coach for Broadway and regional theatre. He was Will Ferrell's vocal coach for the Broadway and HBO productions of You're Welcome, America. He has been Voice and Text Director for productions at: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Shakespeare & Company, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. For fifteen years was resident voice, speech and text coach at Kansas City Repertory Theatre (formerly Missouri Repertory Theatre); taught workshops in voice, phonetics, sound and movement, and text in Europe and U.S.; taught in numerous theatre programs including Pace University/Actors Studio; Vassar College; SUNY Purchase; The O'Neill Theatre Center; Columbia University; Ohio University, Dartmouth College, Trinity Repertory Theatre / Conservatory (Anne Bogart, Artistic Director); Hunter College, The New Actors Workshop, American Conservatory Theater, University of California: Santa Cruz, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Shakespeare & Company. He has written The Joy of Phonetics and Accents; Bringing Speech to Life; How to Speak Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Names: A New Pronouncing Dictionary.

Josh Prince (Choreographer) Broadway: Shrek, The Musical (Dreamworks/Neal St. Productions, dir. Jason Moore,) New York City: The Bridge Project (BAM/The Old Vic, dir. Sam Mendes); The Jerry Springer Opera (starring Harvey Keitel, dir. Jason Moore) at Carnegie Hall; Camelot (starring Gabriel Byrne, dir. Lonny Price) with the NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center (Televised on PBS); and All Singing All Dancing (choreographer/co-director,Town Hall). Josh has also had the pleasure of choreographing and/or directing Calvin Berger (MTC 7@7 Series), Dance Break 2007 (New World Stages), Emerald Man (NYMF), Break Out In Song (If My Friends Could See Me Now) flash mob at Time Warner Center, Barnum, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, One Way Ticket To Hell, The Full Monty, The Big Funk, La Boheme, and Singin' In The Rain. Previous Broadway/National Tour acting credits include: The Producers, in which he starred as Carmen Ghia opposite Martin Short and Jason Alexander, Saturday Night Fever, Little Me, and Cats. In addition to numerous regional roles and concerts, Josh has soloed twice at Town Hall in their Broadway By the Year series. Earlier New York City credits include Babes In Arms, Do Re Mi, and Pajama Game for City Center Encores! and Paul Bunyan at NYC Opera. Off-Broadway he has starred in Forbidden Broadway and the play, In The Wings, as well as I Can Get It For You Wholesale (York Musicals in Mufti) and So Long 174th St. (Musicals Tonight). Film and Television credits include Law and Order: SVU, the Warner Bros. film, A Cinderella Story, starring Hillary Duff, and he recently taped an episode of MTV's reality show Taking The Stage, where he appeared as a guest choreographer. Upcoming: Choreographing the next Bridge Project (BAM/Old Vic), and choreographing the national tour of Shrek, The Musical (Dreamworks).

Veronique Ory (Producer) recently re-located to New York from Los Angeles after producing the Off-Broadway sensation STITCHING by Athony Neilson in Hollywood. She most recently was Associate Producer for Caucasian Chalk Circle with PL115; Nathan + Joe Comedy Show at Comix NY. Ms. Ory is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Athena Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles. She has produced all twelve Athena Theatre productions since 2003. Some highlights include their most recent Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
which played to sold out houses at the Lankershim Arts Center. The Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel and Proof by David Auburn won members of the casts Best Actor/Actress of the year by Metro LA and Reviewplays.com. "We strive for theatre that entertains, informs, enlightens, questions and deepens audience awareness to vital modern issues."

Andrew Ingkavet (Sound Designer) composes for film, theater, television and new media and recently won Best Movie Music at the 2009 Garden State Film Festival for his score to New Jersey's Red October. Variety said of his score to feature film Noelle (2007), "Obviously a labor of love for all parties involved, Beecher Cotton's moody lensing of Cape Cod winterscapes and Andrew Ingkavet's delicate musical score are the film's standout production values." Andrew has a Bachelors of Music from New York University where he scored student films for Adam Sandler and founded band/comedy troupe The Zoning Board- a major hit at college radio. In the early 90's, Andrew was one of the first VJ's for MTV-Asia launching the satellite network across Asia. Currently, Andrew is founder/Head Monk of audio agency 300 Monks (300monks.com), providing audio branding, music supervision, licensing and custom scoring to ad agencies, producers, & film studios. You can see hear more of Ingkavet's work at http://www.ingkavet.org

Rachelle Beckerman (Lighting Design) has a BA from SUNY Buffalo in Photography and Theatre Production & Technology. She headed to Ohio University after a two year hiatus from the arts and studied with Ursula Belden and Michael Lincoln where she received her MFA in Lighting and Scenic Design. In her first year at OU Rachelle spent a term studying at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London, where the three months she spent exploring opened her eyes to alterNative Theatre practices. A year and a half later, she found herself submerged in work on the 2007 Prague Quadrennial (PQ) with Ursula Belden, building the OU submission as well as assisting Ursula with work on the USA national and student exhibits. The summer of 2007 was consumed with attending PQ 07 and interning with Warner en Consorten, a street theatre company in Amsterdam, NL. In the months with Warner en Consorten, she spent time in the studio discovering, rehearsing and expanding pieces with the company and performing in The Netherlands, as well as Aurillac, France. Rachelle's recent activities have included production design for Elizabeth Audley's all over. for Fringe NYC, Emily by Chris Cragin with The Firebone Theatre Company and working on the design of the USA USITT student exhibit for PQ 2011.

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