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BCKSEET Productions: Now a repertory company in Philadelphia
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BCKSEET Productions proudly announces its first-ever Repertory Company Season.
Sixteen artists will be working on BCKSEET's Repertory Company Season, making not only the acting company,
but the production design team, a repertory company as well. Our ensemble will
include eight actors portraying nineteen roles over four productions throughout the year, and an additional
eight-person design team who will provide direction, lighting, costumes, and sound design for the entire
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BCKSEET'S Repertory Acting Company |
BCKSEET'S Repertory Design Company |
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Pictured: (standing, l to r) Catherine Palfenier, Brendan Norton, Catherine Rush, Paul Felder, Michael Byrne, James iJames; (seated, l to r) G DeCandia, Kate Brennan.
For full actors bios, see below. |
Pictured: Andrew Morris, Jennifer Staffenberg, Maura Roche, Peggy Walsh; not pictured: Steve Heitz
For full design team bios, click here. |
| BCKSEET Productions's 2008-09 Repertory Acting
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Kate Brennan
(Co-Artistic Director & Casting) A Philadelphia native, Kate received her MFA in Acting from the University
of Virginia. Graduate credits: Hedda Gabler (Hedda), Songs for a New World (Woman 2),
Hair (Jeanie), Arms & the Man (Louka), and Truth & Beauty. Philadelphia credits:
Angels in America (Harper, BCKSEET Productions), A Year with Frog & Toad (Turtle/ Snail
u/s, Arden Theatre Co.), Tooth & Claw (Ana u/s, Arden), Yank! (GLTF), and Annie Warbucks
(Miss Clark u/s, Walnut Street Theatre). Kate will reprise her role as Dancer in The Eight and will
star as Bernadette in Raised in Captivity. Kate teaches voice lessons and is piloting the
BCKSEET’s new education program, BCKSEET Ignition, this fall. Look for the workshop of her original
musical, Some Assembly Required, in 2009! |
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Gregory
DeCandia holds a BFA in Acting from Emerson College. Directing Credits: Boys' Life by Howard Koder
(Boston), Lake Street Extension by Lee Blessing (Boston), Glengarry Glen Ross (Guate),
Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet (NH), the musical Little Shop of Horrors (Guate), and
Angels in America by Tony Kushner; The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Philly). Acting Credits:
Mark/Roger US in the 1st National Tour of RENT, Othello in Othello (Guate), Jesus in Jesus
Christ Superstar (Guate), Raleigh in The Last Train to Nibroc (Boston), Riff Raff in The Rocky
Horror Show (NH), Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (NH; NHTA Best Actor Award), and Pink in Pink
Floyd's The Wall (NH), and most recently reprising that role in Philadelphia for BCKSEET. Scenic Design:
PVT. Wars (Philly), Little Shop of Horrors (Guate), Giovanni's Room (Boston). Greg
designed and taught Colegio Interamericano's Theater Department K-12 in Guatemala City (2003/2004) and designed and refurbished the school's first black box theater. |
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Andrew
Borthwick-Leslie is on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Desales University
theater departments. He has also taught at Emerson College, the University of Maryland, and Catholic University
among others. He has been an active member of Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, MA for over fifteen years. ”. Most
recent roles include Nathan in JT Rogers “Madagascar” (Isis Productions) Nightingale in William’s “Vieux Carre”
(Egopo) and Alonso in “The Tempest” (Philadelphia Shakespeare Co.). Recent directing credits include Shanley’s
“Where’s My Money”, LaBute’s “The Shape of Things”, and Frank McGuiness’ “Someone Who’ll Watch over Me” for
Intrepid Theater and “the Two Gentelemen of Verona” for the Maryland Shakespeare Festival.. He has directed over a
dozen educational productions of Shakespeare at many Universities and High Schools from “King John” to “Pericles
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| BCKSEET 2008-09 Repertory Creative and Design Team:
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Tara Gruber (Production Manager/Production Stage Manager): Tara earned her BFA in
Communication and Theatre at Messiah College in Harrisburg, PA. Some of her stage management credits include
BCKSEET’s The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (2007) and Three Tall Women, The Ritz Theatre’s
Blood Brothers, Much Ado About Nothing, Lost In Yonkers, and independent productions of Joined at the Head, Museum, and the original pieces: Jailbirds and Small Shorts. She’s also
served as Assistant Director for the Growden Theatre and spent three years as Production Stage Manager of the
Philadelphia production of Tony N Tina’s Wedding. Her greatest loves are theatre, film, running light
boards, and U2…”Who’s to say where the wind will take you?” |
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Steven Heitz holds a BFA in design from Temple University's Theater Department.
Recent designs include Temple's production of Our Lady of 121st Street, Keith Antar Mason's For Black
Boys who have Considered Homicide when the Streets were too Much, as well as Ntozake Shange's For
Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow was Enough, both on main stage at the Adrienne.
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BCKSEET Productions, in residence at the Red Room of the Society Hill Playhouse is the South Street District's only
resident theatre company, and the only repertory company in the city of Philadelphia. |