Chinese Mother Jewish Daughter LLC
SPIRITS the bar plays
SPIRITS (the bar plays) is a series of short plays inspired by real-life stories set in and around bars.
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August 17 @ Summer Fresh Fest
D!ckless and Other (Mostly) True Tales
An Artist Showcase
Featuring excerpts from SPIRITS- the bar plays, an original pilot called D!CKLESS, and lyrics by Stacey Weingarten.
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PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS...!
SPARK Women's Playwriting Project (March 2021)
Feb 18th @ Skylight Theatre, LA (2020)
Fresh Brews/Skylight Theatre, LA (2019)
Feb 15-18th @ SPF, NYC (2017)
Sourtoe Cocktail Club
A dark comedy based on a true story
Gaslighting, power struggle, and gender politics are on display beween Billie, a bartender, and Bobbie, her manager, in the fallout when the famed "Sourtoe", a severed toe used for making "Sourtoe Cocktails", is lost for the first time.
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V-CARD
A Short Comedy
Before things can get hot and heavy with Jack, Jill whips out her “V-Card”-- a literal, business-sized card-- in an attempt to avoid an awkward conversation on a subject two consenting thirty-somethings shouldn't have a problem with : why she’s still a virgin. The card explains everything on the back… but should Jill have to explain herself in the first place?
Leta Renée-Alan
Jill
Leta Renée-Alan is a native New Yorker. NY theater credits include: The Weasel Festival (The Public Theater); Outer Banks (Signature Theatre); The Animals (JACK); The Place We Built (The Flea); Red Wednesday (Laguardia Performing Arts Center); The Wall (Brooklyn Lyceum); Clybourne Park (Brooklyn College). BA: Brown University, MFA: Brooklyn College Graduate Acting. @LetaReneeAlan www.LetaReneeAlan.com
Matthew Jeffers
Jack
Matthew Jeffers is thrilled to be a part of The Players Theater Short Play Festival. Favorite previous credits include The Mysteries (The Flea), The Blacklist (NBC), Little Rooms (Ma-Yi), Washington Square Theater Project (Playwrights Horizons), and a particularly surly bomber in some Hearthstone commercials. Towson University Grad and Baltimore native.
Stacey Weingarten
Writer/Director
Stacey Weingarten is a writer, puppeteer, director, and producer (EP: Chinese Mother Jewish Daughter LLC). She develops original projects that explore a wide variety of subjects, often with an agenda of social awareness through entertainment. Favorite projects include Ludo’s Broken Bride (Adaptation/Director), 5th Republic (Book), Rescue Rue (Concept, Book, Addt’l Lyrics), Monica’s Mixing Bowl (Producer/Writer), Spirits: The Bar Plays (Writer). Currently, she puppet wrangles for Sesame Street and teaches puppetry at Pace University. FCLC '10. Dramatist Guild Fellow '14-'15. For more information, please visit SAWeingarten.com.
Paper Kraine Productions
May 2017
Sourtoe Cocktail Club
A dark comedy based on a true story
Gaslighting, power struggle, and gender politics are on display beween Billie, a bartender, and Bobbie, her manager, in the fallout when the famed "Sourtoe", a severed toe used for making "Sourtoe Cocktails", is lost for the first time.
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Katherine Dudas
Billie
Katherine Dudas is an actor, writer, improviser, and comedian. She's written for Reductress and her comedic personal essays have been featured in Bustle. As an actor, Katherine's was the lead as an improvised character on Oxygen Network's "My Crazy Love. Her original show "Why?: A Reverse Christmas Carol on a Woman Who Voted for Trump" was selected for a performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade this May. Katherine is also currently writing, producing, and starring in her Funny or Die featured web series Waking Up Worried with Katherine on Facebook. She didn't kiss Prince Charming in a 7th grade production of Cinderella because she was too afraid.
Jackson Perrin
Bobbie
Jackson Perrin is a Houston native now residing in Brooklyn. He's an alumni of Texas State’s Musical Theater program, a member of AEA, and a certified coach of One Voice Vocal technique. Most recently he participated in the workshop reading of Douglas Lyon's and Melvin Tunstall's "Peter Darling".
SPF @ Players Theatre "NYC"
June 2017
The Gentleman Gangster
A modern historical fiction (comedy)
While getting ready for his drag show in Hell's Kitchen, Gary is possessed by the ghost of an Irish Gangster seeking revenge. Hijinks ensue as the Old Hell's Kitchen collides with the New in this comedic short.
Zachary Clarence
Gary
Zachary Clarence is a filmmaker, theatre artist, and pretentious af. Loves working on LGBTQIA stories, and was recently seen in “Burning” at the Theatre at St. Clements and the webseries “Drag Tomi Lahren!” Writing/directing credits include “The Women’s Bathroom Project,” two seasons with Brunch Theatre and upcoming “End Conversion Therapy.” www.zacharyclarence.com
Cassi Mikat
The Nun
Cassi Mikat is thrilled to be joining the cast of Gentleman Gangster and promote new works in NYC. Regional credits include Master Class (Sharon Graham), Sweeney Todd, It’s a Wonderful Life: ALRP (Jazz Quartet), and The Full Monty with the Human Race Theatre Company, as well as Les Miserables (Madame Thenardier), South Pacific (Lead Nurse), and Into the Woods (Florinda) with The Encore Musical Theatre Company. Other favorite credits include Sondheim on Sondheim (Barbara Cook track), 25th…Spelling Bee (Rona), and Tartuffe (Dorine). She has also sung in concert both with Tony Award-Winner Leslie Uggams and Adam Pascal. Cassi is a graduate of the Wright State University musical theatre program.
Kate Sutherlin McLeod
Becca
Kate Sutherlin McLeod is an actor and writer. McLeod is returning to the stage after various film roles: Making a Scene with James Franco, Privilege, All-Star Weekend, and Last of Us Fan Film Series, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at The Long Beach International Film Festival. McLeod is currently voicing the main character of an up and coming animated series, Necromandy. Previous theater credits include, Twelfth Night, Dancing at Lughnasa and Uncommon Women and Others.
Lev Harvey
Jesse
Lev Harvey, a New Jersey native, is thrilled to be a part of this production. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lev has performed with the New Yiddish Rep and Origin Theatre Company as well as with JW Actor’s Studio. He is best known for his portrayal of Happy Loman in New Yiddish Rep’s Off-Broadway production of Death of a Salesman (2016 Drama Desk Nominee). Other New York Theatre credits include Warmth, The Bespoke Overcoat, The Irish Hebrew Lesson, You Belong to Me, and The Constant Wife. He also appeared on MTV’s The Substitute. He would like to thank his family and friends for their never-ending love and support.
Carl Zurhorst
The Bartender
Carl Zurhorst: Born in Maine and based in NYC, Carl trained at William Esper Studios and recently completed a MA in Acting from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Favorite Credits: Damn Yankees (National Tour), General Tilney in Northanger Abbey (Bristol, UK), Frankenstein at The Bristol Festival of Ideas, Panic! The Musical (54 Below, Joe’s Pub), Tulsa in Gypsy. Recently seen at Rhapsody Collective’s Fifth Circuit in Earth Learned Cruelty as Marc. www.carlzurhorst.com
Stacey Weingarten
Writer/Director
Stacey Weingarten is a woman of many hats, mostly cloches and porkpies. When she’s not writing, directing, or producing (as EP of Chinese Mother Jewish Daughter LLC), she’s usually puppet wrangling for shows like Sesame Street or teaching Puppetry at Pace University. Favorite writing credits include: 5th Republic (NYMF '11), Jarreau’s (NYMF Reading ’12), LUDO’s Broken Bride (ANT Fest '13; NYMF ‘16), Rescue Rue (NYMF & NYCTF ‘14), and webseries Monica’s Mixing Bowl (MonicasMixingBowl.com). DG Fellow ’14-’15. For more information, please visit SAWeingarten.com.
Devin Richey
Choreographer/Movement Coach
Devin Richey originally hails from the small town of Milford, Michigan and currently calls New York City his home. He has just acquired a BFA in Commercial Dance from Pace University, with a focus in Choreography and Pedagogy. His choreography credits include: Young Choreographer’s Festival 2016, Dumbo Dance Festival 2016, Choreographer’s Canvas 2016; official music videos for mocap.’s “Frameshift,” and 43’s “Bleed Green Walls;” TECHO/Univision #ZeroSlums Poverty Awareness flash mob; (assoc.) “Bossanova” (Dancespace 2016). Devin continues to perform and choreograph in both the Commercial and Theatrical industries.
Mick Bleyer
Fight Choreographer
Mick Bleyer is an award winning choreographer and director with a focus on stage combat, his work has been seen all over the city. Acting credits include Lincoln Center, Goodspeed, North Shore, Classical Theatre of Harlem, NYMF, and a summer season at the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, as well as tons of workshops and readings of new works. He is also a founding member of the vocal jazz quintet Marquee Five. Thanks to Stacey for bringing him along for the ride!
Loren Giron
Production Asst/Social Media
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Stefani Page Vivian
Hair/Makeup
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Sourtoe Cocktail Club
SPF at Players Theatre Oct 12-15
Oct 12-15th @ SPF
Sourtoe Cocktail Club
A dark comedy based on a true story
Dawson City, Yukon Territory, 1980. Bartender Billie bursts into the backroom of the Sourdough Saloon with bad news: the severed toe used for tourist-favorite “sourtoe cocktails” is gone. A macabre game of manipulation ensues as Billie and bar manager Bobbie make a plan to replace it… but with whose toe? A dark comedy based on real events. Runtime 10 minutes.
Dorie Casper
Billie
Dorie Casper is thrilled to be making Sourtoe Cocktails at the Boo! Short Play Festival! Dorie is a graduate of the Second Year Conservatory at Michael Howard Studios and currently attends scene study with Gabrielle Berberich and Richard Kline. Favorite roles include CAROLE LOMBARD in A PRIVATE NIGHT WITH HOLLYWOOD ICONS, LUCYGALE in SHILOH RULES and JOANNE in VANITIES. In addition to acting, Dorie is also a cowriter/producer/actor for the award winning webseries,Thro-Bax. She would like to thank Stacey Weingarten for this exciting opportunity. Break a toe everyone!
Charlie Manoukian
Bobbie
Charlie Manoukian is an actor and a real-life bartender! He's excited for his first perfromance in the Boo! Short Play Festival. Charlie has acted all around New York including Off-Broadway and in short films and webseries. Thank you to this wonderful and small but talented team!
Thumb War
Flying Solo @ Secret Theatre Oct 13-15
Oct 13 & 15 @ Flying Solo
Thumb War
A slam play based on personal experience
A puppet builder wakes to find himself in a living nightmare: after years of feeling neglected and abused, his thumb is staging a coup to escape. And he's taking some of his friends!
Joshua Holden
Puppeteer
Joshua Holden an award-winning international puppeteer, actor, and joy-maker based in Brooklyn, was named one of “20 Theatre workers You hold Know” by American Theatre Magazine. He was on the Broadway national tour of Avenue Q, the Lead Puppeteer in Peter Pan 360 (ThreeSixty Entertainment), and garnered an Arts Impulse award as well as an IRNE nomination for “Best Actor In a Musical” as Bill Snibson in Me & My Girl (Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston). He worked with international artist Banksy on his controversial piece Sirens of the Lambs. Joshua is the creator and host of, The Joshua Show: a joy filled internationally touring family show. A proud Massachusetts native and an alumnus of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, he earned a B.F.A. in Acting from The Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University. JoshuaShow.com
Stacey Weingarten
Writer/Director
Stacey Weingarten is a woman of many hats, mostly cloches and porkpies. When she’s not writing, directing, or producing (as EP of Chinese Mother Jewish Daughter LLC), she’s usually puppet wrangling for shows like Sesame Street or teaching Puppetry at Pace University. Favorite writing credits include: 5th Republic (NYMF '11), Jarreau’s (NYMF Reading ’12), LUDO’s Broken Bride (ANT Fest '13; NYMF ‘16), Rescue Rue (NYMF & NYCTF ‘14), and webseries Monica’s Mixing Bowl (MonicasMixingBowl.com). DG Fellow ’14-’15. For more information, please visit SAWeingarten.com.