The Garret Theatre Company Presents: ENOUGH WITH THE DOGS… plus other found scraps and raw works, an evening of original works-in-progress, foraged internet gems, and live music. Tickets available at the door on a sliding scale of $15-30. If you’d like to help us raise funds for our upcoming production in the fall, please consider a $30 ticket. Find us on Instagram @garrettheatre .
Saturday, April 29, 2023 at the Greek Cultural Center (26-80 30th St)
Doors at 7:30pm; Show at 8pm
Music, food, drinks, and original works
by Forrest Gillespie, Kasey O’Brien, and Maysie Ocera
Digital Program
Enough with the Dogs
A rant from the internet.
Performed by Reagan Tankersly
Directed by Hannah Adrian
Music by Jack Dryden
Made out of Meat
Written by Kasey O’Brien
Performed by Melissa Reinertson, Chloe Ivanson
Directed by Kasey O’Brien
Music by Jane Cramer
Magnetic Health
A Dome Theatre play written by Forrest Gillespie
Performed by John Christopher Morton, Katy, Floyd
Directed by Forrest Gillespie
Music by Jack Dryden
An Open Letter to Denise
Another rant from the internet.
Performed by Billy Berger-Bailey
Directed by Jack Dryden
Music by Dan Fisher
Kitchen Baby
Written by Maysie Ocera
Performed by Hannah Adrian, Jack Dryden, Billy Berger Bailey, Ania Upstill, Philip Lopez
Directed by Kasey O’Brien
Emceed by Isto Barton
Musical Accompaniment by Bobbie Johnston
Reagan Tankersly
Reagan Tankersley is a performer, voice actor, teaching artist, and a five-year resident of Astoria, Queens. He has just completed a tour with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Romeo + Juliet, Capulet/Friar Lawrence), and is excited to wrap up Book 7 of the Harley Cole Mystery Series with Lukeman Literary, available anywhere you get your audiobooks. He loves dogs–every dog, any dog, especially his own.
Kasey O’Brien (Solange)
Chicago credits: Much Ado About Nothing(Beatrice), Macbeth(2nd Witch), Summer and Smoke(Alma), That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play(Valerie), The Hyacinth Macaw(Susannah), and an all-female stage adaptation of Reservoir Dogs(White). Film credits: Jim Shoe, Clean, and The Mockingbird.
Here in New York she has been seen in Balm in Gilead(Ann), Cowboy Mouth(Cavale), and 10,000 Moor, an all-female adaptation of Titus Andronicus(Marcus and Demetrius). Kasey is also an award-winning filmmaker whose short films have played in festivals around the world. MFA from The New School.
https://www.kaseyobriennyc.com
IG: @kaseyobs
Chloe Joy Ivanson
Chloe Joy Ivanson (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based actor, producer, and Sagittarius.
Instagram: @chloejoyivanson
John Christopher Morton
John Christopher Morton is a New York-based actor who began performing with the Dome Theatre Group in 2011. Morton played the lead role in the indie feature “August Lucey,” and also appeared in the films “Frankie in Blunderland,” directed by Caleb Emerson, and “Girls Against Boys,” directed by Austin Chick (XX/XY, August). On TV, he has had roles on “Celebrity Ghost Stories” and the FX show “Louie.” Morton studied acting with Susan Batson at the Susan Batson Studio, and Barbara Marchant at the William Esper Studio.
Katy Pinke
Katy Pinke is a New York based actress, musician, and artist. She has performed original work at Edinburgh Fringe, Dixon Place, and Tate Xchange (at Tate Modern); shown artwork with Heroes Gallery, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, and Echo Arts Collective; and frequently performs her music around New York City. Her debut album is in the works and will be coming out next year. BA Princeton University, MFA Rose Bruford College, London.
Instagram: @__katypinke
Floyd Tangeman
Floyd Tangeman is an underground artist from San Francisco.
Forrest Gillespie
Forrest Gillespie is writer director artistic at Dome Theatre, many plays in many places, also co founder Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg, BK, and more.
Isto Barton (Madame)
Moving from Austin – just before the pandemic – he was a company member of the Shakespeare at Winedale (Hamlet, MacBeth, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Henry VI 1-3) and Sh*tfaced Shakespeare (Midsummer, Much Ado) repertories… and held various other non-modern productions where he also played women (Charley’s Aunt, Mucedorus). Over the pandemic he started a YouTube Live art project (@storytimewithisto) exploring tarot, mixology, and folk tales, which is ongoing – Join him!
IG: @istofacto
Jack Dryden
Jack Dryden is an actor, director and musician based in New York City. He is a founding member of the Garret Theatre Company, directed The Maids by Jean Genet, their inaugural production, and will direct and act in their upcoming production, Isaac’s Eye By Lucas Hnath. He is currently working on a selection of songs about men he thinks he doesn’t like as well as a radio program with his longtime collaborator William Hazard titled Snowflake Music.
Hannah Adrian (Claire)
Credits: Oliver; Balm in Gilead; 10,000 Moore (The New School) Young Gods (Performing Garage) Hamlet (Present Company Theater) Macbeth (The Offshoot) Henry IV Pt. 1; Two Gentlemen of Verona (Something for Nothing) Mr. Marmalade (The Broccoli Project) Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (Foot in the Door) TV: American Dynasty (Fox) www.hannahadrian.com
IG: @hannahadrian
Philip Lopez Jr
Philip Lopez Jr is a Queens native, New School graduate, and Marine veteran
IG: @philiplopezjr
Dan Fisher
Dan Fisher is a musician and audio engineer currently residing in Astoria, Queens. He has 2 webbed toes and can swim like the dickens, and so some call him Fish. Dan recently fell into a glacial crevasse in Switzerland, which ultimately compelled him to start playing music in front of audiences again.
Bobbie Johnston
“Music and sound is our friend, just listen to it, and play with it”
IG: @earyogaensemble / @dragonflyraga
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