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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT: David
Elzer
818/508-1754
MEDIA ALERT
FOR THEATRE EDITORS AND REVIEWERS
AND
CALENDAR LISTINGS
ROSALIND
PRODUCTIONS
Presents
A WORLD
PREMIERE PLAY
STAGES
Written
by ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON
Directed
by JON LAWRENCE RIVERA
Featuring RYAN MICHELLE BATHE
(SAG
Award Nominee for “
Boston
Legal”)
Limited Engagement opens Friday, June 2nd
at
the Hudson Mainstage Theatre in
Hollywood
!
Some friendships can survive
anything.
April 18, 2006
…
Hollywood
…Rosalind Productions
presents a world premiere play STAGES,
written by Abigail Rose Solomon, directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera and
featuring Ryan Michelle Bathe (Sara Holt on “
Boston
Legal”). STAGES
will preview June 1 at
8pm
and will open Friday, June 2nd and will perform for six weeks
through Sunday, July 9th at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre,
6539 Santa Monica Blvd.
in
Hollywood
.
When a 26 year-old, nice Jewish actress is offered the
role of a lifetime, she hesitates. Haunted by the death of her
childhood best friend, fearful of growing apart from her troubled
roommate, and in love with the wrong guy, she can’t see her way clear
to a future.
But when a surprise visitor
reminds her that the show must go on, she finds the courage to step out
of the wings and into her life. At turns, hilarious and
heartbreaking, STAGES is a
deeply felt and imaginatively written examination of love, loss, letting
go, and finding the next stage of your life.
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ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
JON LAWRENCE RIVERA, (Director) is the recipient of two 2005 Ovation
Award nominations for directing the musical Songs for the New World by Jason Robert Brown at Ventura's Rubicon
Theatre (Santa Barbara Independent Award, best director) and for
directing the Los Angeles premiere of
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (Maddy Award, best director), which
will be remounted by Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
this upcoming fall. Most
recently he directed the Sondheim/Lapine musical Into
The Woods at Actors Co-op, the West Coast premiere of Edwin
Sanchez's Barefoot Boy With Shoes On at the Underground Theater; the world
premieres of Diane Lefer's Harvest
at Studio/Stage, Dennis Miles' Von
Lutz at the
Lillian
Theater
and Mixed Messages by Cherylene Lee at East West Players.
Mr. Rivera is the founding
artistic director of Playwrights' Arena where he directed the following
critically acclaimed productions: Nick Salamone's Red Hat & Tales (also at the Edinburgh Fringe), Jean
Colonomos' Palm Fever, Luis Alfaro's Straight
As A Line (also at New York's Primary Stages), Paula Cizmar's Street
Stories, Steven Leigh Morris' Beachwood
Drive (also at the Lublin Theatre Festival in Poland), Larry
Fineberg's Failure Of Nerve starring Barbara Bain, Daniel Cariaga's Sleepwalk,
and Luis Alfaro's Bitter Homes and
Gardens. Other
directing credits include J for J
by Jenny Sullivan starring John Ritter (Rubicon Theatre), Soundings
by Beverly Olevin at the Odyssey Theatre, Clean
by Edwin Sanchez (West Coast Premiere) at the Celebration Theatre.
His productions have garnered over 70 local and international awards.
Mr. Rivera is currently working on a film documentary called "The
Reunion: 25 Years After Up With People."
Abigail Rose Solomon (Writer/Rebecca)
grew up in NYC and moved to
Los Angeles
in 2003. She founded ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS in 2005. As an
actress she has worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre
Festival,
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
,
California
Shakespeare Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, and Sacred Fools Theatre
Company, among others. She has appeared on “Sex & The City,” “
Law & Order,” “NYPD Blue,” “Days of Our Lives” and in
the film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” She has also toured
nationally for the past four years with The Thin Line a one-woman show written by Cathy Plourde.
She received her MFA from the
NYU Graduate Acting Program and her BA in Theatre, cum laude, from
Williams
College
. She was on the Artistic Committee of Theatre 40 in
Beverly Hills
and is on the Advisory Board of The Vineyard Playhouse on
Martha's Vineyard
and is an Ovation Voter for LA Stage Alliance. As a writer, she
has performed her short one-woman show, The Woman Who Had Nothing But Her Sunday Suit all over the country.
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ABOUT
THE CAST
RYAN MICHELLE BATHE (Sarah) Since her mother is also an actress, Ryan Michelle Bathe was exposed to
the acting profession at an early age. She recalls her first performance
as "Snoopy" in her fourth grade play in
Stamford
,
Connecticut
, and in high school she performed in Pippin.
Bathe, who has a mezzo-soprano voice, was also a member of the Chamber
Singers, a group that sang a varied music program and performed in
Europe
. Bathe continued her interest in acting by performing in several
productions while attending
Stanford
University
, where she double-majored in Black Studies and English. Her mentor
encouraged her to apply to drama schools, so after receiving her BA, she
went on to get an MFA from the renowned
New York
University
Tisch
School
of the Arts.
Her television credits include
guest starring roles on "ER," "Girlfriends,"
"Half and Half," "The Education of Max Bickford" and
Showtime's "Good Fences." And most recently, she was a nominee
for a SAG Award for her work as Sara Holt on the ABC Television
Network's "Boston Legal".
She just completed an ABC comedy pilot with Alicia Silverstone
“Pink Collar” and was also seen in the acclaimed “Lackawanna
Blues”.
JULES WILCOX (Priscilla)
recently received her MFA from UCLA’s Department of Theatre, Film and
TV. While at UCLA she received the Jack Nicholson and Rod Steiger Awards
for Excellence in Acting. Having grown up on a farm in
Missouri
, her love for theatre and film has taken her from the
University
of
Missouri
to the Off-Broadway theatres of NYC to the soundstages of LA. Favorite
roles include: Ophelia in Hamlet, Dorinda in The
Beaux’ Stratagem, and Tessa in the west coast premier of Charles
Mee’s Summertime.
NICK HOFFA (Michael) was most recently in
the award-winning Theatre at
Boston Court
’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother
Courage and Her Children directed by Jessica Kubzansky and starring
Camille Saviola. Prior to
that, he acted with Wendie Malick, Dan Lauria and Dorian Harewood
in Questa, a play that
was executive produced by David Milch.
Other credits include roles on “Alias,” “Monk,” “Strong
Medicine” and in several independent films and national commercials.
He is relatively new to
Los Angeles
, coming most directly from
San Francisco
, where he worked with Sierra Repertory Theatre, New Conservatory
Theater, Subterranean Shakespeare, Fools Fury, and
42nd Street
Moon. He trained at the
American Conservatory Theatre and
Full Circle
and for three years directed the IMCO theater company.
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STAGES is produced by Racquel Lehrman, Theatre Planners. The
Set Design is by J. Kent Inasy. The Lighting Design is by Kathi
O’Donohue (Hedwig and the Angry
Inch). The Sound Design
is by Bob Blackburn (Last Summer
at Bluefish Cove, Barefoot Boy With Shoes On). The
costume design is by Michael Mullen (Pageant).
The Casting Director is Michael Donovan. Shirley Jo Finney served
as Dramaturg. The Production
Stage manager is Ando Iovino.
ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS is a new theatre collective specializing in
telling women’s stories. ROSALIND’s
board of advisors include James Burrows, Joshua Rebell, Abigail Rose
Solomon, Peter J. Solomon and Daisy Walker.
STAGES will preview on Thursday, June 1
at
8pm
and will open Friday, June 2 at
8pm
and will perform for six weeks through Sunday, July 9 at the
Hudson Mainstage Theatre,
6539 Santa Monica Blvd.
in
Hollywood
. Performances
are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at
8pm
; Sundays at
3pm
. Ticket
prices are $20 for all performances, $5 off for Students, Seniors &
Guild Members with ID’s. For
tickets, please call 323-960-7782, Groups (10+) may call 310-358-2789
or go online to www.plays411.com/stages.
For more information on the production, please visit www.rosalindproductions.com.
For further information or
for press comps please contact David Elzer at DEMAND PR at 818/508-1754
or at ELZERD@aol.com.
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