White Rabbit Theatre and Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
proudly present

Bubby’s Shadow

"An unexpected knock on the door, and Jonny’s home again…to his sister, his niece, and the past he left behind.  Join the Cohens on their mystical journey, traversing darkness, finding light -- and ultimately themselves.  For when it comes to family bonds, not even death can stand in the way. "

Benefiting: Jewish Social Services Hospice & Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice and Palliative Care

Andrew Rothkin, Playwright & Producer
Greg Cicchino†, Director
Neal Kowalsky†, Assistant Director
Paul Siebold, Press Agent
Kaitlin Nemeth, Stage Manager
Adam Samtur, Assistant Stage Manager & Props Master
Roejendra Adams, Costume Designer
Amada Anderson, Web Master
R. Allen Babcock, Set Designer
Porsche McGovern, Lighting Designer
Karen Raphaeli, Jewish Culture Consultant
Tony Sokol, Music Composer & Sound Designer
Aaron Gonzalez (Projections Designer)

Starring

Rosie Cosch*, Jeffrey Farber*, Isabelle Goodman, JJ Pyle, Andrew Rothkin

and
Gloria Rosen*
as Bubby

* Denotes member of Actor’s Equity Association
† Denotes Associate member of SDCF

Sun 6/3 @ 12pm * Tues 6/5 * 4pm
 Sat 6/9 @ 4:30pm * Fri 6/15 @ 6pm  *  Sun 6/17 @ 11 am
 Tues 6/19 @ 8:30pm *  Wed 6/20 @ 6pm * Sat 6/23 @ 7pm

45 Bleecker Street Theater, NYC
Tickets $18
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CAST

Rosie Cosch (Debra) is thrilled to be playing Debra in Bubby’s Shadow at Bleecker Street Theatre. New York Theatre: Love Stinks (Midtown International Theatre Festival Award); The Red Dress (HB Studio); Never Always (45th Street Theatre); This Side Up and Blue Tentacles (Love Creek Productions); The Java Prophet (TriBeCa Lab). Regional: Love Stinks (Stratford City Centre, CT); All In The Timing: Foreplay and Variations on The Death of Trotsky (Greenville Theatre, NY). www.rosiecosch.com

Jeffrey Farber* (Norman) studied at both The Circle In The Square Theatre School and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute through NYU and with Alice Spivak ever after.  As a youth, he attempted to mug Al Pacino in “Serpico”, traveled the country as Spiderman for Marvel Comics, and later as a grownup, he traveled the northeast as the Rabbi in The Godfather’s Meshugeneh Wedding.  And selling women’s wear (daily).  Jeff can be seen as Viggie in the non-cult hit Auditions and has performed in many OOB & regional theatre productions.  Some of his recent favorites; Harry Edison in The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, Sidney Feinman in What Makes Sammy Run, Arnold in A Thousand Clowns, Serge in Art and Henry Kissinger in Nixon’s Nixon. 

Isabelle Goodman (Cara), age 13. Regional Theatre: Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, Children of Eden.  Stagedoor Manor: All Shook Up, Little Shop of Horrors, Oklahoma!. Community Theatre: Once Upon a Mattress, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol.  Isabelle would like to thank her friends and family, her teachers, Gulia, Ameila, Eric, Kristen, and everyone that made this possible.

JJ Pyle * (Christine) originated the role of "Matchgirl" in Paul Hoan Zeidler's Time Scream and Hurry on both coasts, at the Elephant Lab in Los Angeles and at the Cherry Lane in NYC.  Other leading roles include; Chrissy in David Rabe's In the Boom Boom Room, Darlene in Landford Wilson's Balm In Gilead and Debroah in Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, as well as many others.  Recent television appearances include HBO's “Boardwalk Empire” and “Criminal Minds” on CBS.  She also appeared as herself in The Food Network's “24 Hour Restaurant Battle”.

Gloria Rosen* (Fay) Gloria’s roles include lightly aged ladies, edgy ghosts, the odd wise woman and the occasional fairy.  She recently appeared as the Mother in the Pleasantly Depressing Film production of “How to Break Up with Your Mother” - screened at the Newfilmmakers NY Spring Festival.  Her funny and irreverent solo show, Listen…Can You Hear Me Now?  -- based on her life growing up with deaf parents -- has been performed in New York at the Estro Sola Voce Festival and at the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival.  She’s very pleased to be part of The Planet Connection Festivities!  Gloria@gloriarosen.net 

Andrew Rothkin (Jonny, Playwright, Producer) is extremely grateful to his cast and staff for bringing Bubby’s Shadow to life.  Andrew most recently played Chip Chippendale in the comic short film “Channel 99” and A.J. in his 45 minute one-act, Meredith’s Ring.  (The original incarnation of the play, which Andrew staged for the inaugural season of The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, won the festival’s “Outstanding Overall Production of a One-Act Play” Award.)  Other favorite roles include works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Chekhov, Moliere and Christopher Durang.  Playwriting highlights include Voice, Danny, Paved with Gold, Love Bites, tryin’ to touch the sun and LOVE & LUST, as well as numerous readings, including Strangers on Hollow Hill,  Alice on the Edge, his horror screenplay All for Sara, and most recently, Hamlet Bound & Unbound for the Baltimore Playwright’s Festival.  Andrew is also a director, teacher/coach, and Artistic Director of White Rabbit Theatre.  www.AndrewRothkin.com

STAFF

Roejendra Adams (Costume Designer) recently designed The Comedy of Errors with Theatre 20/20, Two Sisters and a Piano at The Bridge Theatre and A Raisin in the Sun at The Gallery Players.  Roejendra is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she designed Hotel Casablanca, Fences, and On the Razzle.

Amada Anderson (Web Mistress) is also an Actress/Singer/Tour Guide/Special Events Organizer/Intuitive and Thriller activist, Living LIFE to the fullest and inviting you to come along for the ride! Other fun sites she has created: ThrillTheWorldNYC.com and NewYorkBroadwayTours.com. In 2010, as part of The Planet Connections Festivity, she won "Outstanding Supporting Actress" for the role of Darcie in Andrew Rothkin's play Danny.  She is the social media/web manager for Planet Connections.org, as well as the director of Thrill The World NYC, which will dance 10/27/12 in Jackie Robinson’s Bandshell as a global tribute to Michael Jackson for world records and charity. Follow @amadaanderson.

R. Allen Babcock (Set Designer) resides at and designs for the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT.  Regional: Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Syracuse Stage & North Star Productions, Rochester, NY) M. Butterfly [assistant to Dawn Chiang],(Syracuse Stage & Charlotte Repertory Theatre)  NYC: Prisoner of Love, Fool for Love, The Shape of Things (Variations Theatre Group) Antigone, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet (The Queen's Players), We All Fall Down (Pop Mega Hot Theatre Factory), Tartuffe, Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra, Largo Desolato (all as Resident Designer for Beyond the Wall Productions).  Allen is a BFA graduate of Syracuse University and is currently juggling way too many balls to count but would have it no other way!

Greg Cicchino (Director) is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Syracuse University, with an additional concentration in Directing. He has worked closely with Syracuse Stage and is trained in directing and acting in a large variety of theatrical styles from Ancient Greek to Shakespeare, from Beckett to the clowning styles of Jacques Lecoq. He has directed contemporary dramas, classical work and several musicals with both chamber and large companies. He has worked in commercial and non-profit theater at every level. He has assisted prominent directors such as Lonny Price (Candide) and Stafford Arima (Altar Boyz – NYMF). As a director, Greg has taken several shows through the reading and workshop stages into full development, including the New York International Fringe Festival musical The Unusual Suspects, which was one of Backstage magazine's Picks of the Fringe. Other favorite credits include Largo Desolato (Abingdon Theater), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (The TANK) and Into the Woods (Montclair State University). www.gregcicchino.com

Aaron Gonzalez (Projections Designer) is a Director, Actor, Writer, Designer and Stage Manager.  He is a graduate of the UNC School of the Arts Directing Program, where he studied under Gerald Freedman. Since his graduation, he has worked with Dan Sullivan, Robert Falls, Lonny Price, and Fisher Stevens. Most recently, Aaron was the PSM/Projection Designer/Video Tech for John Leguizamo’s GHETTO KLOWN.Resume and contact info at http://flavors.me/aarongonzalez.

Neal Kowalsky (Assistant Director) is an SDC Associate Member, New Jersey Native and graduate of James Madison University, GO DUKES.  Credits include: Thieves (The Public), Next to Normal (SDCF Observer), Papermill Theatre (TYA Artistic Director), The Mac-Haydn Theatre (Assistant Director).  Winner of “Outstanding Play” in Curan Rep’s One-Act Festival for his direction in Subtlety, as well as a “Producer’s Choice Nomination” in Left Hip Production’s 48-hour Theatre Festival for direction of kids.  Participant in “From the Hip All-Stars” 48-hour Festival.  Neal is also Assistant Director for Empress of Sex, showing in the Planet Connections Festival this year.  www.nealkowalsky.com

Porsche McGovern (Lighting Designer) is a New York based lighting designer.  She loves new works and bringing fresh perspectives to classics.  Selected designs include Parker and Dizzy's Fabulous Journey to the End of the Rainbow (NY Fringe), Twelfth Night on a Brooklyn rooftop, Orpheus Descending in a Greenwich Village church, and the 6th Annual Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Blood Festival.  Some of her honors include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Richard L. Hay Fellowship in Lighting Design, an ETC-LDI Sponsorship, and participating in the USITT Young Designers’ Forum, Clambake, and the Prague Quadrennial American Student Exhibition.  Porsche holds an MFA in Lighting Design from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from St. Lawrence University. www.PorscheLighting.com

Kaitlin Nemeth (State Manager): The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos- SM (CollaborationTown at The New Ohio Theater); Prison Light - SM (HERE Arts Center); Thieves - SM (Amerinda at The Public Theater). The Play About My Dad - ASM (CollaborationTown at 59E59); The Skin You Leave Behind - PSM (Punch Theatre at TBG Theater). Stage Direction Intern for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (2008). Theatre Intern for BIMA at Brandeis University (2010). B.A. Theatre, Muhlenberg College. Selected Muhlenberg credits: Out of the Ash - Director (New Voices 2009), Godspell - Musical Director, Weldon Rising - ASM, Persistence: Moments of Youth in Nazi Germany - SM/AD.

Karen Raphaeli (Jewish Culture Consultant) Directing credits include: the key to all mythologies (Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Winterfest 2012), Hummingbirds (Planet Connections 2011), Daguerreotypes (MITF 2008), Troika: God Tolstoy & Sophia, Behind the Invisible Enemy, Boulevard Xmas Trees, and Blood Oranges (Thirteenth Street Repertory Company), Small Cell in Tehran (Theatervision/Playtime), Soapbox (Samuel French Festival). Producing credits include: Closure (MITF 2010), The Play Plays (MITF 2009), Quickies! and Quickies 2! (TSRC). Karen comes from a family filled with Jewish educators.

Adam Samtur (Assistant Stage Manager & Props Master) is thrilled to be working on Bubby, as well as this awesomely stellar cast and crew!  He is an actor/playwright by nature, but Stage Managing does give him that feeling of unbridled power he so longs for.  SM Credits: Twin Towers (Planets Connectivity Festival), Anyone for a Threesome? (Just ASK Productions), Lad, A Dog (Golden Fleece, Ltd.), Raya and Sag-In (Golden Fleece, Ltd.), The Ring (Hamm & Clov; Theodore Mann, director), The Irish Play (Hamm & Clov), and the Woodstock Fringe Festival.  Adam is Co-Artistic Director of Just ASK Productions (justaskproductions.tumblr.com). Contact him at adam.samtur@gmail.com.

Paul Siebold* (Press Agent) is the managing director of OFF OFF PR, a firm dedicated to promoting developing theatrical productions through effective marketing communications.  He has been a marketing, promotions and public relations executive for over 15 years.  Paul’s work has helped to achieve significant pre-press, sold-out houses and post-production success for his clients.  Among his many successes, Paul was the publicist for the 2008 and 2009 winners of the New York Innovative Theatre Award's "Outstanding Production of a Musical."  Paul works with performers, album releases, comedies, dramas, musicals, plays, dance and solo performances as part of festivals, theater company seasons, independently produced productions, and more. www.offoffpr.com.  Member, AEA/AFTRA.

Tony Sokol (Music Composer & Sound Designer) is a writer, playwright and musician.  He has had over 20 plays produced in NYC, including Vampyr Theatre and the rock opera AssassiNation: We Killed JFK.  He appeared on “The Joan Rivers Show”, “Strange Universe” and Britain's “The Girlie Show." He was born in Brooklyn, NY.

White Rabbit Theatre began in 1997 in conjunction with Artistic Director Andrew Rothkin’s first NYC directing engagement, Tennessee Williams’ Hello from Bertha and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion.  The company has since produced many new works and contemporary classics…as readings, workshops and fully staged productions.  White Rabbit Theatre has garnered multiple awards and nominations, most notably The 2008 Midtown International Theatre Festival’s “Outstanding Overall Production of a New Drama Play” Award for Bubby’s Shadow and The 2009 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity’s “Outstanding Overall Production of One-Act Play” Award for Meredith’s Ring.  Other highlights include productions of tryin' t' touch the sun, CHiLLS, An Evening of Psychos, Voice and Danny, as well as staged readings of Alice on The Edge and Strangers on Hollow Hill.

Our Mission...

White Rabbit Theatre is a diverse, multi-ethnic ensemble committed to creating vibrant productions of literate, challenging plays...with the intention of guiding audiences through emotional, psychological and spiritual journeys.

White Rabbit Theatre strives to provide a safe space for growth, where members may expand their own personal and artistic journeys; in this exploration, actors may direct, directors write or playwrights design…in workshops, readings, and ultimately in production.

White Rabbit Theatre is foremost a place to create passionate, thought-provoking art.

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