After successful runs in New York City as part of the season of War and Peace at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, and in Dublin, Ireland as part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, The Baby Monitor will be going to Serbia!
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"Just as Stallings’ drama boldly taps into the feelings of its well-written, multi-faceted characters, it challenges the audience to do the same."
"A fascinating examination of how quickly intimates can resort to self-serving, backstabbing deception just when their loyalty is most needed."
"Although billed as a “workshop” of the play, the production is over-qualified to be called such."
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Who's Who
RACHEL DENISE APRIL (She/Her/Hers) (Production Stage Manager) has studied Theatrical Design and Stage Management at the City College of New York. Select Credits include: The Hole (Zhailon Levingston), Neptune (Timothy DuWhite), The Genesis Plays (The In[heir]itance Project), Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (MTWorks), Macbeth (of the Oppressed) (Fab Marquee Productions), and The Fire This Time Festival 2015 (The Kraine Theater).
LEO GOODMAN (He/Him/His) (Josh) is delighted to be making his premier with Different Translation. He has been seen most recently as Shylock in Merchant of Venice with Hamlet Isn’t Dead, and as Bennie in Getting out with the Seeing Place Theatre, and his play The Last was a finalist in the Network Theatre’s Short Play Festival. Having recently become a father himself, he is excited to help bring this play to life.
MEL HOUSE (She/Her/Hers) (Shelly) has played roles from Shakespeare to Ibsen, working Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally, as well as originating roles for the web, film, and TV. She recently played a contemporary Lady M in the series Stratford Falls, and a mother with SMA in the award-winning short Marina (Cannes 2018). After producing Meir Ribalow’s Shrunken Heads at Playwrights Horizons, Mel co-founded a lab for playwrights, screenwriters and actors. She directed Break Like You, a short documentary about Hip Hop influencer and activist Emile Jansen in Cape Town, South Africa. And recently worked with Per Brahe doing mask-based performance in Bali, Indonesia. She is a member of the Actors Center Company and is currently developing a darkly comedic digital series called Hot Angry Mom. Follow @hotangrymom and www.melhouse.com.
AMANDA JONES (She/Her/Hers) (Claire) New York: Walking Down Broadway at the Mint Theatre; Anais Nin Goes to Hell with Manhattan Theatre Works; Cymbeline with Boomerang Theatre Company; Marie Antoinette: Color of Flesh with Earl Productions; Alison’s House, The House of Mirth, Nowadays, Under the Gaslight and The Contrast with Metropolitan Playhouse; Cyrano with Hudson Warehouse; five seasons with Jean Cocteau Repertory including Candida, The Maids, Uncle Vanya, and Dona Rosita the Spinster. Regional: Engaged and Arsenic and Old Lace at the Depot Theatre; Bell, Book and Candle and Picnic at Sierra Repertory; The Magnificent Ambersons at Oldcastle Theatre. Amanda is thrilled to be working with David and Antonio again. She is also a voiceover artist and a talented and/or enthusiastic water color artist and knitter. More at www.amandajones.biz
GRETA QUISPE (She/Her/Hers) (Soledad) is a SAG/AFTRA/AEA actress of Peruvian descent who was raised in Brooklyn, NY. Ms. Quispe has studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute as well as at Stella Adler's Studio of Acting. She has had co star as well as recurring roles in both cable and network television shows. Amongst some of her most recent credits are supportive roles in two feature films, Son of Shaft with Samuel L. Jackson and After the Wedding with Julianne Moore. Ms. Quispe is eternally grateful to all who have helped her along her journey. She is also a woman of faith who gives God all the glory for her many blessings.
JACOB SUBOTNICK (He/Him/His) (Sound Design) is an NYC based composer and sound designer who has designed over 100 Off and Off-Off Broadway productions. Selected Off-Broadway: A Midsummers Night Dream (Masterworks Theater); Donkey Punch (SOHO Playhouse); InnerVoices 2014 (TBG Theater); Any Given Monday (59E59). Selected Off-Off-Broadway: The Elephant Man (Nominated: Outstanding Original Music NYITA 218); The Ballad of Rodrigo (Nominated: Outstanding Original Music NYITA 2015); Virus Attacks Heart (Nominated: Outstanding Sound Design PCTF 2014); Tulpa or Anne and Me (Winner: Outstanding Sound Design PCTF 2011); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Nominated: Outstanding Sound Design PCTF 2010. Selected Regional: Hair (Mount Washington Valley Theater: Nominated for Outstanding Sound Design NHTA 2010). www.jacobsubotnick.com
ANTONIO MINIÑO (My Pronoun Is My Name) (Director, Phillip) International directing credits include Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and Rafael Morla’s Joan. New York directing credits include Gabrielle Fox’s Hooters (with Donna Vivino - PFAC), Richard S. Sargent’s Coffee at Compton’s (Box Wine), David Stallings’ Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (MTWorks), Riti Sachdeva’s Scene/Unseen (Midnite’s cHild - Outstanding Director Nominee, PCTF Awards), David Stallings’ The Family Shakespeare (MTWorks), Desi Moreno-Penson’s Devil Land (Parsnip Ship) and Bodega Cat (Step 1); and solo shows The Shadow Project and Moon Child (APAP). He was assistant director to Mark Brokaw for Signature Theatre Company’s revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train. Other assistant directing credits include Paul Zindel’s And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little (Shay Gines, Retro Productions), and Slawonir Mzoret’s Emigrantes (Gabriel Paulino, Teatro Nacional). He is a publicist at Kampfire PR, writes the #PersonOfChange series on Medium, and for New York Phoenix News. Two-time SDCF Observer, and alumnus of Directors Lab North (Canada). Member SDC, SAG-AFTRA. Antoniominino.com | @AntonioMinino
ANN MARIE YALI (She/Her/Hers) (Associate Producer/Community Outreach) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York, where she teaches social, health, and positive psychology. She served as chair of the board of directors for MTWorks (2010-2016) and co-presented their flagship festival of new plays The National Newborn Festival. She produced and conceived Cabaret, A Hair-Raising Event, a benefit for Wigs for Kids at Teatro LATEA. Film: Where We Danced: The Story of American Social Dance (associate producer). She has previously performed and choreographed aerial silks, hammock, and static trapeze.
LEO GOODMAN (He/Him/His) (Josh) is delighted to be making his premier with Different Translation. He has been seen most recently as Shylock in Merchant of Venice with Hamlet Isn’t Dead, and as Bennie in Getting out with the Seeing Place Theatre, and his play The Last was a finalist in the Network Theatre’s Short Play Festival. Having recently become a father himself, he is excited to help bring this play to life.
MEL HOUSE (She/Her/Hers) (Shelly) has played roles from Shakespeare to Ibsen, working Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally, as well as originating roles for the web, film, and TV. She recently played a contemporary Lady M in the series Stratford Falls, and a mother with SMA in the award-winning short Marina (Cannes 2018). After producing Meir Ribalow’s Shrunken Heads at Playwrights Horizons, Mel co-founded a lab for playwrights, screenwriters and actors. She directed Break Like You, a short documentary about Hip Hop influencer and activist Emile Jansen in Cape Town, South Africa. And recently worked with Per Brahe doing mask-based performance in Bali, Indonesia. She is a member of the Actors Center Company and is currently developing a darkly comedic digital series called Hot Angry Mom. Follow @hotangrymom and www.melhouse.com.
AMANDA JONES (She/Her/Hers) (Claire) New York: Walking Down Broadway at the Mint Theatre; Anais Nin Goes to Hell with Manhattan Theatre Works; Cymbeline with Boomerang Theatre Company; Marie Antoinette: Color of Flesh with Earl Productions; Alison’s House, The House of Mirth, Nowadays, Under the Gaslight and The Contrast with Metropolitan Playhouse; Cyrano with Hudson Warehouse; five seasons with Jean Cocteau Repertory including Candida, The Maids, Uncle Vanya, and Dona Rosita the Spinster. Regional: Engaged and Arsenic and Old Lace at the Depot Theatre; Bell, Book and Candle and Picnic at Sierra Repertory; The Magnificent Ambersons at Oldcastle Theatre. Amanda is thrilled to be working with David and Antonio again. She is also a voiceover artist and a talented and/or enthusiastic water color artist and knitter. More at www.amandajones.biz
GRETA QUISPE (She/Her/Hers) (Soledad) is a SAG/AFTRA/AEA actress of Peruvian descent who was raised in Brooklyn, NY. Ms. Quispe has studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute as well as at Stella Adler's Studio of Acting. She has had co star as well as recurring roles in both cable and network television shows. Amongst some of her most recent credits are supportive roles in two feature films, Son of Shaft with Samuel L. Jackson and After the Wedding with Julianne Moore. Ms. Quispe is eternally grateful to all who have helped her along her journey. She is also a woman of faith who gives God all the glory for her many blessings.
JACOB SUBOTNICK (He/Him/His) (Sound Design) is an NYC based composer and sound designer who has designed over 100 Off and Off-Off Broadway productions. Selected Off-Broadway: A Midsummers Night Dream (Masterworks Theater); Donkey Punch (SOHO Playhouse); InnerVoices 2014 (TBG Theater); Any Given Monday (59E59). Selected Off-Off-Broadway: The Elephant Man (Nominated: Outstanding Original Music NYITA 218); The Ballad of Rodrigo (Nominated: Outstanding Original Music NYITA 2015); Virus Attacks Heart (Nominated: Outstanding Sound Design PCTF 2014); Tulpa or Anne and Me (Winner: Outstanding Sound Design PCTF 2011); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Nominated: Outstanding Sound Design PCTF 2010. Selected Regional: Hair (Mount Washington Valley Theater: Nominated for Outstanding Sound Design NHTA 2010). www.jacobsubotnick.com
ANTONIO MINIÑO (My Pronoun Is My Name) (Director, Phillip) International directing credits include Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and Rafael Morla’s Joan. New York directing credits include Gabrielle Fox’s Hooters (with Donna Vivino - PFAC), Richard S. Sargent’s Coffee at Compton’s (Box Wine), David Stallings’ Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (MTWorks), Riti Sachdeva’s Scene/Unseen (Midnite’s cHild - Outstanding Director Nominee, PCTF Awards), David Stallings’ The Family Shakespeare (MTWorks), Desi Moreno-Penson’s Devil Land (Parsnip Ship) and Bodega Cat (Step 1); and solo shows The Shadow Project and Moon Child (APAP). He was assistant director to Mark Brokaw for Signature Theatre Company’s revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train. Other assistant directing credits include Paul Zindel’s And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little (Shay Gines, Retro Productions), and Slawonir Mzoret’s Emigrantes (Gabriel Paulino, Teatro Nacional). He is a publicist at Kampfire PR, writes the #PersonOfChange series on Medium, and for New York Phoenix News. Two-time SDCF Observer, and alumnus of Directors Lab North (Canada). Member SDC, SAG-AFTRA. Antoniominino.com | @AntonioMinino
ANN MARIE YALI (She/Her/Hers) (Associate Producer/Community Outreach) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York, where she teaches social, health, and positive psychology. She served as chair of the board of directors for MTWorks (2010-2016) and co-presented their flagship festival of new plays The National Newborn Festival. She produced and conceived Cabaret, A Hair-Raising Event, a benefit for Wigs for Kids at Teatro LATEA. Film: Where We Danced: The Story of American Social Dance (associate producer). She has previously performed and choreographed aerial silks, hammock, and static trapeze.