Garbo Dreams: the Solo Play
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Creative Team
Lauren LoGiudice (Greta Garbo and Co-Producer): After growing up in relentless, culturally diverse Queens, graduating from Wesleyan Univesity, rocking the performance art scene in San Francisco, and jetting to India to work in HIV prevention and study Baharata Natyam, Lauren surged into the entertainment world as an actor, writer, and producer. She has studied with the best in the business (T. Schreiber Studios, Michael Howard Studio, et. al.) to become a force unto herself. She is known for playing women who won't take no for answer—persistence in her characters is an understatement.
Her first solo show, Queens Girl, was a dramatic comedy that toured to worldwide raves and was featured in Backstage as a noteworthy acting achievement. Lauren has also performed in several films, television shows, and commercials, including Veep, When Harry Tries to Marry, All My Children, Flick’s Chicks, and the scandalous "More Than Just Shoes" national campaign by Zappos.com. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, Time Out NY, Backstage, BBC, NY1, America Oggi, Roma C’e, and others. She is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA, Dramatists Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television, and 85 Broads. www.laurenlogiudice.com
Britta Uschkamp (Costume Designer and Co-Producer of Garbo Dreams: The Exhibition) was born on Halloween 1978 in the carnivalesque city of Köln/Cologne, Germany, to a Polish mom and a German dad. Britta completed postgraduate fashion studies in Paris (IFM) and a BA(Hons) Fashion in London (Middlesex University). She has worked for J.Maskrey, Darja Richter, Maria Lucas, Unrath&Strano, Julian Roberts, polo’s for you, Russel Sage, J-C de Castelbajac, Coréle Lingerie, and Givenchy.
In February 2007, following a very decisive visit to a French lingerie-factory and winning the 1st prize for her beachwear collection at Mittelmoda/Maredimoda, Britta decided that it was time to revolutionize the world as a "soft feminist activist" with the launch of her own lingerie-label. Add to this the publication of numerous erotic short stories and it all makes perfect sense!
Britta has designed princess dresses for Disney France, styled actress Marina Hands for Harpers Bazaar UK and created the lingerie-universe for the American feature film When Harry Tries To Marry. In 2012 she started collaborating with NYC actress and playwright Lauren LoGiudice to form the Garbo Dreams exhibition. Britta lives, works, and runs in Paris but also loves Poland, Germany and the USA. Alongside her collection she is developing a lingerie design workshop. She dreams of creating a cutting-edge TV drama series and of working more in the film-industry. www.brittauschkamp.com
Christopher Catalano (voice of Peter Marshall, Adolf Hitler, Paul Lynde, Maurice Stiller, John Gilbert, Louis B. Mayer, and Clarence Brown) is originally from New Orleans, LA. A classically trained actor, he has performed Shakespeare in 38 states. Since landing in NYC, he has appeared onstage in over 75 plays (from Lanford Wilson to Trey Parker), and performed as an improvisational comedian over 500 times. If you pass by Book of Mormon shortly before show time you will find Chris moonlighting as the "lottery dude." But no, he can't get you a ticket. More at: www.christophercatalano.com
Greg Cicchino (Original Direction) 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 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). Greg is also the founding member of the Chain Theater, because all things are possible. www.gregcicchino.com
Sarah Dacey-Charles (voice of Mercedes de Acosta) is a fierce NYC actress who brings her pride in being out-and-proud to her Garbo Dreams character, one of the first vocally out lesbians in recent history. Sarah starred in The Penobscot Theatre Company’s production of Wit and also appeared in the new TV series The Following as an ATF agent in a scene alongside Kevin Bacon. In 2011, Sarah won LIFF Best Actor Award for her portrayal of Barbara Stanwyck in the Indy film Agnes Moorehead is God!. On Broadway, Sarah played the locket hag and covered Madam Thenardier in Les Miserables. National Tours include 9 to 5, and Sunset Boulevard. Sarah’s regional theatre highlights include playing Fosca in Passion (TheatreWorks), Yvonne in Sunday In the Park With George (Arden Theatre Co.), Rona in Spelling Bee (Mason Street Warehouse), Eunice in A Street Car Named Desire (New Harmony Theatre), and Sister Walburga in The Divine Sister (Stageworks Hudson). For more info, please visit www.sarahdaceycharles.com
Barbara Mahler (Movement Coach) is a choreographer, performer, movement educator, body worker. She is a master teacher of and major contributor to Klein Technique™ and serves as faculty and certified practitioner of Zero Balancing. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – 2007. She was selected for the 2013 BAX 10 AWARD in Arts Education. Her small and intimate dances/choreography have been presented across the globe: in Chile, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and many venues in New York, as well as across the US. Barbara has been an ongoing guest faculty with the Danish National School of Theater and Contemporary Dance since 1994. www.barbaramahler.net
Janice Orlandi (Director at The Red Room and Movement Specialist) Member of (AEA, SAG/AFTRA) (SSDC Associate) is a Movement Pedagogy Specialist at the Artistic Director Actors Movement Studio NYC, featured in American Theater Magazine and Back Stage. She has extensive training with Anne Bogart and Lloyd Williamson, Certified Master Teacher and teacher-trainer of Williamson Physical Technique for Actors, including in Period Style movement and dance. She is a certified teacher of Michael Chekhov Technique, and has trained in Viewpoints and Composition with Anne Bogart, Tina Landau and SITI Company. She also trained in Rasaboxes with founder Richard Schechner NYU Performance Studies. Janice has taught at Actors Movement Studio NYC, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Atlantic Theater Company, University of the Arts College of Performing Arts PA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, and many other dance schools and institutions in the US and abroad. She is a founding member of Expanded Arts & Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, NYC. www.actorsmovementstudio.com
Lynn Singer (Acting and Voice Consultant) is one of the top acting and voice coaches in NYC. She has taught voice, speech, and acting for 25 years to celebrities, actors, and business professionals. Her affiliations include SAG, AFTRA, AEA, NY Singing Teachers Association, and The Voice Foundation. Lynn Singer has acted, directed, and produced in theatre, film, and television. She has done acting and directing work for projects at the Jean Cocteau Theatre, Lincoln Center Outdoors Festival, New Federal Theatre with Le Roi Jones (Ammu Amiri Baraka), Theatre St. Clemens with Mary Louise Berke, Mercer Arts Theatre, Judson Poet’s Theatre, Julian Players, and Yale. Lynn has been the voice of radio and television commercials for two decades and has been active in Screen Actors Guild. Lynn has trained students in acting, voice, and speech in NYC, LA, Japan, and Europe. In NYC, Lynn has taught at Actors and Directors Lab with Jack Garfield and Pat Sedgwick Heller, Actors Information Project, Actors Institute, Circle in the Square Professional School substituting for Nikos Psacharopoulos, Yale University, Gene Frankel Studio, New School for Social Research and T. Schrieber Studio. She maintains a private practice in NYC. www.lsvoiceworks.com
Amy Villarejo (Consultant) is a prominent force in film cultural critique and an expert on Greta Garbo. Amy joined the Cornell faculty in 1997, after receiving her AB from Bryn Mawr and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. During graduate school, she published her first book, a monograph on the 1933 film Queen Christina (British Film Institute Publishing, 1995, co-authored with Marcia Landy). At Cornell, she holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance (of which she is currently chair) and the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program (which she directed from 2004-2007). She has published widely, including a book on film and cultural studies (Keyframes, Routledge, 2001), on queer documentary (Lesbian Rule, Duke University Press, 2003), and an introduction to the discipline of cinema and media studies, Film Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2007), currently being revised for its second edition. More recently, she is co-editor of a special issue of GLQ, “Queer Marxism,” and author of a forthcoming monograph on television, Ethereal Queer (Duke University Press).
Her first solo show, Queens Girl, was a dramatic comedy that toured to worldwide raves and was featured in Backstage as a noteworthy acting achievement. Lauren has also performed in several films, television shows, and commercials, including Veep, When Harry Tries to Marry, All My Children, Flick’s Chicks, and the scandalous "More Than Just Shoes" national campaign by Zappos.com. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, Time Out NY, Backstage, BBC, NY1, America Oggi, Roma C’e, and others. She is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA, Dramatists Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television, and 85 Broads. www.laurenlogiudice.com
Britta Uschkamp (Costume Designer and Co-Producer of Garbo Dreams: The Exhibition) was born on Halloween 1978 in the carnivalesque city of Köln/Cologne, Germany, to a Polish mom and a German dad. Britta completed postgraduate fashion studies in Paris (IFM) and a BA(Hons) Fashion in London (Middlesex University). She has worked for J.Maskrey, Darja Richter, Maria Lucas, Unrath&Strano, Julian Roberts, polo’s for you, Russel Sage, J-C de Castelbajac, Coréle Lingerie, and Givenchy.
In February 2007, following a very decisive visit to a French lingerie-factory and winning the 1st prize for her beachwear collection at Mittelmoda/Maredimoda, Britta decided that it was time to revolutionize the world as a "soft feminist activist" with the launch of her own lingerie-label. Add to this the publication of numerous erotic short stories and it all makes perfect sense!
Britta has designed princess dresses for Disney France, styled actress Marina Hands for Harpers Bazaar UK and created the lingerie-universe for the American feature film When Harry Tries To Marry. In 2012 she started collaborating with NYC actress and playwright Lauren LoGiudice to form the Garbo Dreams exhibition. Britta lives, works, and runs in Paris but also loves Poland, Germany and the USA. Alongside her collection she is developing a lingerie design workshop. She dreams of creating a cutting-edge TV drama series and of working more in the film-industry. www.brittauschkamp.com
Christopher Catalano (voice of Peter Marshall, Adolf Hitler, Paul Lynde, Maurice Stiller, John Gilbert, Louis B. Mayer, and Clarence Brown) is originally from New Orleans, LA. A classically trained actor, he has performed Shakespeare in 38 states. Since landing in NYC, he has appeared onstage in over 75 plays (from Lanford Wilson to Trey Parker), and performed as an improvisational comedian over 500 times. If you pass by Book of Mormon shortly before show time you will find Chris moonlighting as the "lottery dude." But no, he can't get you a ticket. More at: www.christophercatalano.com
Greg Cicchino (Original Direction) 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 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). Greg is also the founding member of the Chain Theater, because all things are possible. www.gregcicchino.com
Sarah Dacey-Charles (voice of Mercedes de Acosta) is a fierce NYC actress who brings her pride in being out-and-proud to her Garbo Dreams character, one of the first vocally out lesbians in recent history. Sarah starred in The Penobscot Theatre Company’s production of Wit and also appeared in the new TV series The Following as an ATF agent in a scene alongside Kevin Bacon. In 2011, Sarah won LIFF Best Actor Award for her portrayal of Barbara Stanwyck in the Indy film Agnes Moorehead is God!. On Broadway, Sarah played the locket hag and covered Madam Thenardier in Les Miserables. National Tours include 9 to 5, and Sunset Boulevard. Sarah’s regional theatre highlights include playing Fosca in Passion (TheatreWorks), Yvonne in Sunday In the Park With George (Arden Theatre Co.), Rona in Spelling Bee (Mason Street Warehouse), Eunice in A Street Car Named Desire (New Harmony Theatre), and Sister Walburga in The Divine Sister (Stageworks Hudson). For more info, please visit www.sarahdaceycharles.com
Barbara Mahler (Movement Coach) is a choreographer, performer, movement educator, body worker. She is a master teacher of and major contributor to Klein Technique™ and serves as faculty and certified practitioner of Zero Balancing. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – 2007. She was selected for the 2013 BAX 10 AWARD in Arts Education. Her small and intimate dances/choreography have been presented across the globe: in Chile, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and many venues in New York, as well as across the US. Barbara has been an ongoing guest faculty with the Danish National School of Theater and Contemporary Dance since 1994. www.barbaramahler.net
Janice Orlandi (Director at The Red Room and Movement Specialist) Member of (AEA, SAG/AFTRA) (SSDC Associate) is a Movement Pedagogy Specialist at the Artistic Director Actors Movement Studio NYC, featured in American Theater Magazine and Back Stage. She has extensive training with Anne Bogart and Lloyd Williamson, Certified Master Teacher and teacher-trainer of Williamson Physical Technique for Actors, including in Period Style movement and dance. She is a certified teacher of Michael Chekhov Technique, and has trained in Viewpoints and Composition with Anne Bogart, Tina Landau and SITI Company. She also trained in Rasaboxes with founder Richard Schechner NYU Performance Studies. Janice has taught at Actors Movement Studio NYC, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Atlantic Theater Company, University of the Arts College of Performing Arts PA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, and many other dance schools and institutions in the US and abroad. She is a founding member of Expanded Arts & Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, NYC. www.actorsmovementstudio.com
Lynn Singer (Acting and Voice Consultant) is one of the top acting and voice coaches in NYC. She has taught voice, speech, and acting for 25 years to celebrities, actors, and business professionals. Her affiliations include SAG, AFTRA, AEA, NY Singing Teachers Association, and The Voice Foundation. Lynn Singer has acted, directed, and produced in theatre, film, and television. She has done acting and directing work for projects at the Jean Cocteau Theatre, Lincoln Center Outdoors Festival, New Federal Theatre with Le Roi Jones (Ammu Amiri Baraka), Theatre St. Clemens with Mary Louise Berke, Mercer Arts Theatre, Judson Poet’s Theatre, Julian Players, and Yale. Lynn has been the voice of radio and television commercials for two decades and has been active in Screen Actors Guild. Lynn has trained students in acting, voice, and speech in NYC, LA, Japan, and Europe. In NYC, Lynn has taught at Actors and Directors Lab with Jack Garfield and Pat Sedgwick Heller, Actors Information Project, Actors Institute, Circle in the Square Professional School substituting for Nikos Psacharopoulos, Yale University, Gene Frankel Studio, New School for Social Research and T. Schrieber Studio. She maintains a private practice in NYC. www.lsvoiceworks.com
Amy Villarejo (Consultant) is a prominent force in film cultural critique and an expert on Greta Garbo. Amy joined the Cornell faculty in 1997, after receiving her AB from Bryn Mawr and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. During graduate school, she published her first book, a monograph on the 1933 film Queen Christina (British Film Institute Publishing, 1995, co-authored with Marcia Landy). At Cornell, she holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance (of which she is currently chair) and the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program (which she directed from 2004-2007). She has published widely, including a book on film and cultural studies (Keyframes, Routledge, 2001), on queer documentary (Lesbian Rule, Duke University Press, 2003), and an introduction to the discipline of cinema and media studies, Film Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2007), currently being revised for its second edition. More recently, she is co-editor of a special issue of GLQ, “Queer Marxism,” and author of a forthcoming monograph on television, Ethereal Queer (Duke University Press).