COMPANY
Josh
Chambers - Timothy Fannon - Justin Fayne
- Sue Kessler - Jared Klein - Rebecca
Marzalek-Kelly
Jay Maury - Cate Owren - Jane
Pickett - Noel Allain - Jon Bernthal
- Alec Brewster - Amanda Maddock
Coleman O'Toole - James Varkala -
Ramona Fantino - Richard Hawk - Will
Schmerge
Josh Chambers is co-artistic director of Fovea Floods Theater. He
has directed over 20 productions with the company, including Edmond, The
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Jungle of Cities, Dollbody (Atlantic
Theatre Studio, NYC), Goose/Goose, A Party for Boris, Tunnel, Baal
(Proctors' Too, Schenectady, NY), Paul Pry (Saratoga Stages, Saratoga,
NY), Mount Weather (DC Arts Center, Washington, DC), The Resistible
Rise of Arturo Ui (Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, NYC), and Bull Spears
(CSV, NYC). In 1999, Chambers co-wrote and directed A Sleep of Reason
Creates Monsters with Scott Feldsher for the 1st Annual Chekhov Now Festival
at the Access Theater in New York. In the fall of 2002, he directed Not in
Our Name's "An Evening of Conscience" at The Great Hall
at Cooper Union in New York City, whose performers included Edward Asner,
Danny Glover, Tony Kushner, Marisa Tomei, Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, and
Howard Zinn. Composing credits include US Highway Love Slaves Pt. III
- South of Heaven with Sledgehammer Theatre in San Diego, The Madwoman
of Chaillot, The Butterfly's Evil Spell, and Vinegar Tom, all
directed by Alma Becker for Skidmore College, and the world premieres of Erik
Ehn's Imp of Simplicity and Book of Tink. Other composing
credits include Mary/Mary, an award-winning independent feature film,
Ron Binion's Brain Babies, Amanda Maddock's Timepiece, Thursday's
Child, and Your Birthday Slumber Party, Noel Allain's Wolfbrow,
and The Body Snatcher, co-written with Peter Maradudin and Scott
Feldsher. Chambers has been a guest artist with the LAByrinth Theater Company
at their summer intensives, where he directed readings of Brett C. Leonard’s
Guinea Pig Solo, and Alice Tuan’s Hit. He has also
been an invited artist at both the Sundance Institute and the UCSB summer
Theatre Laboratories. At Cal Arts, he has directed Ibsen’s Ghosts,
an original adaptation of Hamlet entitled "A Toy in
Blood", Monteverdi's opera, L'Orfeo, and Erik Ehn's Book
of Tink. His west coast credits also include the world premiere of Erik
Ehn’s Medusachrist at the REDCAT theater in downtown Los Angeles.
Chambers is a recipient of the Palamountain Award for Outstanding Alumni at
Skidmore College. He holds a B.S. in Theater from Skidmore, where he was a
Filene Music Scholar in Classical Guitar. He was recently a guest director/composer
for Skidmore Theater where he collaborated with Alma Becker on the mainstage
production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. His original play, Bull
Spears, was recently published in NYTE's Plays and Playwrights 2005,
and will be produced this spring at Sledgehammer Theatre in San Diego.
Timothy Fannon is co-artistic director of Fovea Floods Theater.
He has appeared in their NYC productions of Baal (Baal) and The
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Ernesto Roma) at the Ontological Theater,
The Maids (Solange) at the Bushwick Starr, Dollbody (Heister)
at the Atlantic Theater Studio, Triple Dog Dare (Rod/ Brent/Horsedick)
and Bull Spears at the CSV Arts Center, A Sleep of Reason Creates
Monsters (Treplev) at the Access Theater, as well as Mount Weather
(Long Nose), A Party for Boris (Old Cripple), Jungle of
Cities (John Garga) and Edmond (Ensemble) in Saratoga Springs.
Other notable roles include: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato Dooley),
Center Stage; Oresteia (Agamemnon), Athens/Milan/Theater for the
New City, NY; The Burnt Woman of Harvard (John Brown), Inverse Theater
Co.; Talk to me like the rain…/This Property is Condemned,
Blue Heron Arts Center; Blood/White, Bank Street Theater. His directing
credits for the company include Mud, Krapp's Last Tape, One for the Road,
The Lover, and Coriolanus, in addition to assistant directing
Baal and Paul Pry. Tim is a graduate of Skidmore College
and the Royal National Theatre Studio in London. He recently completed his
MFA in acting at Brooklyn College.
Justin Fayne was seen in the Fovea Floods productions of Bull Spears, One for the Road and Triple Dog Dare at CSV, Paul Pry with Saratoga Stages, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Baal at the Ontological Theater, Dollbody at the Atlantic Theater Studio, A Sleep of Reason Creates Monsters at the Access Theater, and Mud and Tunnel at Cafe Lena. Skidmore College credits include: The Lover, A Party for Boris, The Skin of Our Teeth and True West. Other credits include Menelaos in the One-Year Lease production of Oresteia in NYC, which later toured to Athens and Milan. He has studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and holds a B.S. in Theater from Skidmore College.
Sue Kessler is company manager of Fovea Floods Theater and
was seen in their productions of Flesh Country Ballads, Bull Spears, One
for the Road, Triple Dog Dare, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Baal, Mount
Weather, Paul Pry and Tunnel. She has also served as director
(The Maids), producer (Arturo Ui) assistant director (A
Sleep of Reason Creates Monsters), and scenic artist (The Turn of
The Screw, Bull Spears) for the company. Her musical director
credits include The Book of Tink, Vinegar Tom and The Imp of
Simplicity at Skidmore College and Paul Pry and Tunnel
for Fovea Floods. She composed original music for Triple Dog Dare
(The War In Heaven) and she co-composed music with Josh Chambers
for the following Skidmore College productions: The Bacchae, The Madwoman
of Chaillot, The Butterfly's Evil Spell, and for the independent feature
film, Mary/Mary.
Jared Klein is a resident lighting/video designer with Fovea
Floods Theater. Fovea credits include: The Turn of The Screw, Bull Spears,
The Maids, One for the Road, Triple Dog Dare, Paul Pry, The Resistible Rise
of Arturo Ui, Baal, Dollbody, A Sleep of Reason Creates Monsters and
Tunnel. International credits include: House of No More, Shelf
Life and Flicker all by Caden Manson/Big Art Group (lighting
designer/technical director), which premiered in New York, France, Germany,
Austria, Belgium, and Italy. Other select credits: Gus Schulenburg's Rue
and Riding The Bull (lighting designer); Not In Our Name's “An
Evening of Conscience” (lighting designer/stage manager); Dogg's
Hamlet - Cahoots Macbeth (director/production designer); Reflections
of Darkness (director/designer); The Misanthrope (lighting designer);
The Skin of Our Teeth (assistant director to Phil Soltanoff). For
two seasons, Jared worked with The Lake George Opera Festival as audio/video
engineer. Jared is also a freelance industrial designer whose clients have
included Olympus Fashion Week, MTV, BLT Productions, and SONY. He is currently
the Director of Production and resident designer at Five Towns College.
Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly directed the Fovea Floods productions
of The Turn of the Screw (Bushwick Starr), The War In Heaven
(CSV) and was the assistant director for The Resistible Rise Of Arturo
Ui (Ontological Theater). Her company acting credits include Ensemble
in Flesh Country Ballads, Madame in The Maids, Clover Twat
in Bull Spears, and Ensemble in Paul Pry. She is currently
working with Jake Hooker & Grammar School as a performer in Pot au
Noir (The Chocolate Factory, Nov. 2006). She has also worked with the
LAByrinth Theater Company as the assistant director for Guinea Pig Solo
and Dutch Heart of Man (Public Theater). With the LAB she has also
directed the reading of Chuck Mee’s new play The Mail Order Bride
as a part of the 2004 Barn Series (Public Theater) and upstate at their summer
intensive. She was also the stage manager for Looking for Mr. Brady
(Public Theater). She has designed lights for Rue and Riding
the Bull (both@ Theater for the New City) and was the choreographer for
Rue. Other stage credits include: Puppeteer in The Skin of Our
Teeth (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and film credit: The Hard Place
(dir. Marieke Gaboury). She has a B.S. in theatre from Skidmore College and
has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, the Williamstown Theatre
Festival, and the London based Shakespeare Program.
Jay Maury is a resident designer and technical director of
Fovea Floods Theater. Jay also works with the Lake George Opera Festival as
master electrician and sound consultant. Recent projects include Flesh
Country Ballads, Bull Spears, The Maids, One for the Road, Triple Dog Dare,
Paul Pry, The Resistible of Arturo Ui and Not In Our Name's "An
Evening of Conscience". Currently, Jay works as a freelance lighting
and sound designer for Travis Bass Inc.
Cate Owren has performed in the Fovea Floods productions
of A Party for Boris, Tunnel, Baal, Mount Weather, Dollbody, Triple Dog
Dare, The Maids, Bull Spears, and Flesh Country Ballads. She
also served as managing producer for One for the Road. Cate has worked
with Richard Foreman (NYC, Vienna, Amsterdam) and studied with Anne Bogart
and the SITI Company. She graduated from Skidmore College with a double major
in Theater and English, and she is currently completing a Master's degree
in International Affairs/ Socioeconomic Development at The New School. She
has lived and worked in West Africa and Latin America.
Jane Pickett has performed in the Fovea Floods productions
of Bull Spears, The Maids, Triple Dog Dare, Paul Pry, The Resistible Rise
of Arturo Ui and A Sleep of Reason Creates Monsters. She also
wrote and directed In Passing for the company, which peformed at
CSV in New York. This past summer, her original play, Autopilot (an
adaptation of The Little Prince) was produced in the Philadelphia
Fringe Festival. She has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and
participated in an ongoing play/screenwriting workshop with Tom Noonan at
the Paradise Theater. She has worked with Creative Alternatives of New York,
a company that provides comprehensive therapeutic theater workshops for populations
with special needs by combining theater with modern group psychotherapy. Jane
is currently persuing an MFA in playwriting at CalArts.
Noel Joseph Allain is an actor and writer living in NYC. He is a graduate of Skidmore College and is currently studying acting at the Juilliard School. He is a founding member of Fovea Floods Theater. Fovea credits include Bull Spears, Baal, Paul Pry, Mount Weather, A Sleep of Reason Creates Monsters, Dollbody, A Party for Boris, and Goose/Goose. Noel has performed for Richard Foreman in both Bad Boy Nietszche and Now That Communism is Dead, My Life Feels Empty at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater and abroad. He has also appeared in the Ontological's 7 Minute Series (Not A Jabberwock) and Downstairs Series (Urban Foul) both under the direction of Chris Ajemian. Plays written include Tunnel, Wolfbrow, and Waveside, co-written with Chris Ajemian. He is the co-founder of Shakespeare East with which he has performed the roles of Prince Hal in the Shakespeare East original, Breath of Kings (for which he won the Theater Mirror’s Best of Boston Theater of 2003 Award for Featured/Supporting Actor), Touchstone in As You Like It, and Leontes in A Winter's Tale.
Jon Bernthal studied at Skidmore College, The Moscow Art
Theatre School, and at Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre
Training at the American Repretory Theatre. Jon's Fovea Floods acting credits
include Baal, A Party For Boris, Mud, Mt. Weather, and The Resistible
Rise of Arturo Ui. Film and television credits include: CBS's The
Class (Duncan Carmello), Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (Christopher
Amoroso), Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding (Dominic), the award-winning independent
film, Mary/Mary (Manny) as well as guest appearances on How I
Met Your Mother, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Special
Victims Unit, CSI: Miami, Boston Legal, Dr. Vegas and Without A Trace.
Alec Brewster was seen in the Fovea Floods productions of
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Ontological Theater, Baal,
and A Party For Boris.
Amanda Maddock is a puppeteer who builds and performs for
theater and television. She has created original works for St. Ann's Puppet
Labapalooza, the O'Neill Puppetry Conference, Sandglass Theatre's
Puppetry in the Green Mountains Festival, the Henson International Puppetry
Festival, and at the Henson Carriage House Puppetry Series, and recently received
funding from the Henson Foundation to continue work on a new puppetry project.
She has built puppets for Crank Yankers, SNL, and Avenue Q.
TV performing credits include: The Book of Pooh, Bear in the Big Blue
House, Between the Lions, and a new kids' series currently filming (in
Iceland) for Nickelodeon called Lazytown. Amanda has been a member
of Fovea Floods since 1998, and has created costumes, puppets, and masks for
A Party for Boris, Mount Weather, Tunnel, A Sleep of Reason Creates Monsters,
Dollbody, Baal, and the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
Coleman O'Toole is a founding member of Fovea Floods Theater and was seen in their productions of A Sleep of Reason Creates Monsters, Paul Pry, Baal, Tunnel, A Party for Boris, Jungle of Cities and Dollbody. He is a graduate of Skidmore College where he was seen in such productions as Machinal, The Cotton Candy Kingdom, Guernica and The Imp of Simplicity. Currently, Coleman is attending the New England School of Law.
James Varkala has studied theatre at Skidmore College, Bloomfield
College, Columbia University, and MKA. He has worked at Capital Rep Theater
in Albany, NY (carpenter/electrician), The Lake George Opera Festival (carpenter),
and The Utah Shakespeare Festival (Master Carpenter). Fovea Floods credits
include: Bull Spears, Triple Dog Dare, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,
and Paul Pry. James is currently a New York City-based feelance technician.
Ramona Fantino has worked with Fovea Floods as assistant director for Bull Spears and The Maids, and as stage manager for One For the Road and Paul Pry. She also peformed in Flesh Country Ballads. She has a B.A. in Theater and Psychology from Barnard College of Columbia University, where she directed Ionesco’s Jack, or the Submission for her senior thesis. After graduating in 2002, she interned with Richard Foreman for his production of Panic! (How to be Happy!).
Richard Hawk was seen in the Fovea Floods productions of
Bull Spears, Triple Dog Dare, and Paul Pry. He
has trained at the University of the Arts and with the International Theater
Institute.
Will Schmerge was seen in the Fovea Floods productions of
Bull Spears, Triple Dog Dare, and The Resistible Rise
of Arturo Ui. Will is a graduate of Skidmore College, where he received
a B.A. in English / Theater with a concentration in Acting, Directing and
Creative Writing.
