Sex, Shoplifting and Rock & Roll at Theater for the New City

Cast

Emily Vaeth………………Hope

Elisa Tarquinio….……….Ringer

Dan Purcell…….…………Lou

Director……………….…JD Glickman

Writer…………………….Claude Solnik

Stage Manager………….Joanna Newman

Lighting Design……….…Marsh Shugart

Original Music……………Mike Borgia

Dan Purcell (Lou) is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. His past credits include Freddy in the original “Kiss the Fortune Teller”, Darryl in the original “The Statement”, Rick and The Hustler in “Six Degrees of Separation”, multiple roles in “The Death of a Miner”, Charles in “As You Like It”, and the opera “La Traviata”. Dan is immensely thankful for his family's health throughout the pandemic, as well as for the opportunity to return to theatre work.

Elisa Tarquinio (Ringer): Theater for the New City debut. Off-Off Broadway: My Love Was Stolen By a Con Man. Regional: The Bodyguard The Musical, The Wizard of Oz. Select Theatre: The Laramie Project, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweeney Todd. Select Film: In My Head, Time Out. Thank you to Claude and Jeffrey for this opportunity. Thank you so much to my friends and family for the unconditional love and support. Instagram: @elisatarquinio 

Emily Vaeth (Hope): Theater for the New City debut. Regional: Elf, Shrek, Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Seussical. Additional Credits: The Composer's Melody, James and the Giant Peach, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All Shook Up, To Kill A Mockingbird, Once Upon A Mattress, Fiddler on the Roof, Romeo and Juliet, The Miracle Worker, Anything Goes. Film: Release Me, The Maury Povich Show. Thank you to Theater for the New City, Claude, Jeff and Joanna for all of the support and for providing this opportunity. Endless thanks to family and friends for the constant love and support.

JD Glickman (director) received his B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he trained at the Circle-in-the-Square Theater Conservatory with Alan Langdon, Tony Greco and John Malkovich; as well as The Michael Chekhov Studio with Beatrice Straight, Mala Powers, Joanna Merlin and Ted Pugh. In addition to his formal studies, he continued his training in New York City at The Actors Space with Alan Langdon, The William Esper Studio with Suzanne Esper as well as with Darryl Hickman and Tony Greco in Los Angeles. Glickman’s director credits include: Pillow Talk by Peter Tolan, The Statement, Fast Girls, The Bachelor Party, In the Boom Boom Room, True West, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Stone, Extremities, The Odd Couple (women & men version), Angles in America (scene showcase), Fool For Love, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Long Days Journey Into Night (scene showcase, American Buffalo, Barefoot in the Park, Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Glass Menagerie, Spoon River Anthology, Oleanna, The Great God Pan, Equus, Gungfly (original play – end production – co-director) and Jean Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” at the Lab Theatre at Randolph College.

Some of Glickman’s notable stage acting credits: NYC, Los Angeles and St. Louis: The Enormous Radio: Jack Tate, The Public Theatre, The Merchant of Venice: Prince of Aragon, Central Park Shakespeare Festival, The Elephant Man: John Merrick, The Actors Space Theatre, Edmond: Customer and Preacher, Chekhov Studio Theatre, In The Boom Boom Room: Al Royce, Chekhov Studio Theatre, True West: Lee, Chekhov Studio Theatre West, A Weekend Near Madison: Jimmy, Chekhov Studio Theatre, See How They Run: Clive Winton, Webster Theatre, Spoon River: Eugene Carman, Chekhov Studio Theatre, Pillow Talk: Aaron, The Gardner Stage, Waiting for Lefty: Dr. Benjamin, Lillian Theatre, The Authorʼs Voice: Todd, 3rd Street Stage, Neighborhood Crime Watch, Ronald, Webster Theatre, Long Days Journey Into Night: Edmund, Chekhov Studio Theatre. Some of his TV and Film credits include, Melrose Place, Models Inc., NYPD Blue, En Pilgrim Död and Last Exit to Brooklyn, Below 30/Above 10,000, Coffee Date, Dark Rider and Rosenberg, which he co-wrote and produced and made it’s US premier at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival in 2015. His most recent work includes playing the roll of Frank in the new TV series “How To Make It In Hollywood” as well as Rudolph Hess in the one man play entitled “Hess”. Glickman is a celebrated teacher and has instructed hundreds of actors the Michael Chekhov work at COCA (St. Louis, MO), Randolph College, Conservatory (Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, Milan, Paris and Stockholm) and at Kulturama and Calle Flygare theatre schools in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, he runs the Actors Studio Stockholm in Stockholm, Sweden and instructs the work in NYC at his own Conservatory – NYC.

Claude Solnik (playwright) is a playwright in residence at Theater for the New City, where around a dozen of his full-length plays have been presented. His play “A Life in the Rye” was named among the top ten plays of the year in New York City by theaterscene.net in 2019. His works range from drama to comedy, weaving the threads of character, situation and conflict. He would like to thank Crystal Field, Theater for the New City and the whole TNC staff for their support of his and others’ new work. And he’d like to thank JD Glickman and those in this production for taking this script from page to stage and his family for their encouragement. More about his work can be found at https://csolnik.wixsite.com/claudesolnik . 

Joanna Newman (stage manager) gave her first performance as an adult in The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet for Ivy Lane Players in Levittown. She then became the unwitting stage manager of their production of Die Mommie Die, assistant stage manager of Animal Tales at the Bare Bones Theater Co., member of We’re Not Scared Young People’s Workshop under Richie Applebaum and stage manager of the Textile Co.’s productions of Imagine, Grace is Good, The Bohemians, Birds of Paradise and Harmony in A Flat. She would like to thank her friend the late Richie Applebaum for infecting her with his love and passion for theater and recently made her directorial debut  'The Trip to Times Square.”

Mike Borgia (original music) is a native New York born singer and songwriter with over 18 albums recorded and released worldwide. During the pandemic of 2020 he wrote over 130 songs. Throughout his career as a touring musician, he created opportunities to write and place music for TV/film commercials, plays and short promotional segments. His catalogue can be found at http://mikeborgia.com