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Different Translation and The Theater at the 14th Street Y,
are pleased to present a workshop of: THE BABY MONITOR Written by David Stallings Directed by Antonio Miniño November 29 - December 16, 2018 The Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 E 14th St at 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003) When Claire’s concerns over the welfare of her two-year-old cousin are dangerously validated, she begins to question the family's principles and ability to parent. A crucial new play exploring same-sex parenting and cis family values in today’s America. With Leo Goodman (Dystopia), Mel House* (Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell; NY IT Awards Outstanding Actress for In the Bones), Amanda Jones* (Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell; Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh), Hector Matias (Premios Soberano Outstanding Actor Nominee - Bony y Kin), Greta Quispe* (The Blacklist, Rescue Me), and David Stallings (Ripcord - Shadowland Theatre). Lighting Design by Kia Rogers; Sound Design by Jacob Subotnick; Stage Managed by Rachel Denise April; Assistant Direction by Ty Autry; Press representation by Kampfire PR. Associate Producer: Ann Marie Yali. Tickets $25 (Students & Seniors $22) available by calling 646-395-4310 or online. Neighborhood Rush: $5.00 tickets will be available 15 minutes before showtime at the box office to residents of zip codes 10003 and 10009 with valid local ID (Neighbor Rush tickets are cash-only and subject to availability). Running Time: 100 Minutes with no intermission. This show contains partial nudity. Suitable for ages 16+ The Baby Monitor will perform in repertory with The Rebel Playhouse’s production of The Fantastical Dangerous Journey of Q. *Actors will appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. |
Who's Who
RACHEL DENISE APRIL (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 (Josh) is an actor from Long Island, now living in Queens with his wife and infant son. He holds a BFA from Boston University, and was recently seen as Bennie in Getting Out with The Seeing Place Theatre Company, and as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice with Hamlet Isn't Dead.
MEL HOUSE (Shelly) a classically trained award-winning actress, 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, screening at Cannes in 2018.
Her desire to deepen her craft, led Mel to become a company member with the Actors Center, where she works with Master Teachers Ron Van Lieu, Becky Guy, Michele Shay, Fay Simpson, Dakin Matthews, and Grace Zandarski. She is a graduate of the William Esper Studio, and holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Exeter’s School of Drama in the UK.
Mel is a prolific creator, capable of actualizing elaborate visions. After producing the Off-Broadway production of Meir Ribalow’s Shrunken Heads at Playwrights Horizons, Mel co-founded The Drawing Board--a lab for playwrights, screenwriters and actors. Mel co-directed, filmed and edited 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 work at Balerung Stage, in Bali, Indonesia. Mel is currently creating a darkly comedic digital series called HOT ANGRY MOM.
Mel is also the proud mother of a NYC teenager, which may explain her recent need to run and do Stand Up Comedy. This year Mel ran her third marathon in Paris, crushed her first triathlon, and can be seen telling jokes at The Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground, Broadway Comedy Club, and Dangerfield’s.
AMANDA JONES (Claire) is thrilled to be working with David and Antonio again—their first collaboration was a production of David’s beautiful play Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell. New York: Walking Down Broadway at the Mint Theatre; Cymbeline and Love’s Labour’s Lost 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; And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little with Retro Productions; 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 also a film and TV actor and voiceover artist.
HÉCTOR MATÍAS (Phillip) award nominated Dominican actor and singer (Actor of the Year 2018 at the Premios Soberano, the most renowned national awards in the Dominican Republic, for his interpretation of the leading role Kin in Bony and Kin). Has also played leading roles in the sitcom Juanita’s Gran Salón y Spa (winner of a Casandra Award for best TV series), the musical Perfectus Quorum (winner for Best Musical in the Premios Soberano; his performance received the critical acclaim of the most important journalists of the country), and in the play La Cuarta Mariposa in the Dominican Republic.
Héctor completed a diploma course in Acting with the acclaimed Dominican teacher, actress, producer, and director María Castillo; as well as one in Performing Arts and another one in Direction. He also studied acting with the late Enrique Chao, Josué Guerrero, and Waddys Jaquez, to name a few. Most recently he graduated from the Summer Conservatory Program at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York, with teachers such as Joe Goscinski (Voice and Speech), Alice Saltzman (Scene Study), and Ian Hersey (Shakespeare).
Héctor also performed in musicals like RENT, in which he played Paul and others; the musical In the Heights, for which he translated the libretto, worked as assistant director to Waddys Jaquez, and performed backing vocals. Also worked as assistant director to the award winning play La Residencia, Banco de Parque, Pareja Abierta, and La Otra Orilla.
In 2016, Héctor wrote, produced, directed, and played the leading role in the short film Cordones Necios, which won the award for Best Romantic Comedy – Short at the Mexico International Film Festival; the film was also featured in many others festivals around the world. Héctor can play the guitar and has written many songs; has traveled to countries including Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, and Turkey. He speaks fluent English and Spanish. He also has a passion for cooking and can play tennis on wii pretty well.
ANTONIO MINIÑO (Director) An award-winning theatre maker, Antonio Miniño is a native of the Dominican Republic, where he studied theatre at the School of Dramatic Arts, co-hosted/produced and directed for the award-winning television show FashionTV, was a contributing writer for national magazines, an art director for various fashion campaigns, and a director/performer for national productions.
He is a two-time Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observer, and was the Assistant Director for Signature Theatre Company's Lucille Lortel award-winning production of Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis' Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, directed by Obie award-winner Mark Brokaw.
Select directing credits include Gabrielle Fox's Hooters (with Broadway's Donna Vivino, as part of PFAC), Desi Moreno-Penson's Bodega Cat (Step 1) and Devil Land (Parsnip Ship), Richard S. Sargent's Coffee at Compton's, David Stallings’ Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (Outstanding Costume Design: Izzy Fields - NY IT Awards), Riti Sachdeva’s Scene/Unseen (Nominated Outstanding Director, PCTF Awards), David Stallings’ The Family Shakespeare; and his solo shows The Shadow Project and Moon Child. International directing credits include Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and Rafael Morla's Joan. He was the assistant director to Shay Gines for Paul Zindel’s And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little (Retro Productions), and to Gabriel Paulino for Slawonir Mzoret’s Emigrantes (Teatro Nacional).
Select NYC acting credits include: Suddenly a Knock at the Door at Theater for the New City, The Colonel's Wife (Outstanding Actor - PCTF Awards), the title character in Macbeth with Fab Marquee Productions, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Original Binding Productions; Dark Water with Manhattan Theatre Works; Men in Towels, Adrift, Andy@62, Confessions of a Cuban Sex Addict, Triptych and The Garcia Trilogy (All About Meat, All About Sex, All About Power) at the Duo Multicultural Arts Center; Limelight (Access Theater), The Other Day (Wild Project), Parts of Parts & Stitches (The Theater at the 14th St Y), The Stranger to Kindness (Robert Moss Theater; Best Actor Nominee), The Empress of Sex (Audience Favorite National NewBorn Festival), Arpeggio (45th St Theatre), Intermission (HERE), Trojan Women (MHS), Elevation (Payan Theatre), OOPS! (Manhattan Theatre Source), 4 Variations of Mee (Manhattan Children's Theatre), Ilka's Dream (Payan Theatre). Film and TV credits include Snuff the Movie, Open Mike, Destiny, Ocean's 8, The Amazing Spiderman 2, The Get Down, The Interestings, Madam Secretary, Person of Interest, and The Americans.
His play The Surprise Stocking Stuffer was a finalist for the 2013 Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) New Play Development Workshop. An excerpt of his solo show Moon Child (Hijo de la Luna) was presented as part of the 14th Street Y 2016 APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) Showcase.
As a singer he has performed at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart, The Town Hall of NY, Symphony Space NY, The Time Out Lounge, The Triad NYC and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
His photography has been featured in the NY Times, NY Post, Backstage, Show Business Weekly, among others.
He is the owner and curator of Different Translation (formerly known as Fab Marquee Productions), and former founding member, company actor and co-artistic director at Manhattan Theatre Works (2006-16). He is the writer of the #PersonOfChange series on Medium.com, showcasing persons of color and/or persons who identify as non-binary. He is an #ArtistWithADayJob and works as an Entertainment publicist at Kampfire PR, one of New York's premiere Marketing & Public Relations agencies specializing in the Performing Arts. He is a proud associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a member of SAG-AFTRA, and an alumnus of Directors Lab North (Toronto). www.antoniominino.com
GRETA QUISPE (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 experience in theater, television and film. 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 also has a recurring role in the HBO drama SUCCESSION and has appeared as the role of Nurse Sabrina in NBC's New Amsterdam. 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.
DAVID STALLINGS (Playwright / Damon) is the Associate Artistic Director at the Theater at the 14th Street Y in Manhattan. He migrated from the South to NYC over fifteen years ago and has been working consistently as a playwright, actor, and producer both in the city and regionally. The author of 15 full length plays and numerous shorts, David's plays focus on diversity and marginalized voices and have reached audiences across the US. His play Barrier Island received its regional debut at Acadiana Repertory Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana. His play about the Louisiana oil spill, Dark Water, received its World Premiere in NYC in March 2014 with MTWorks at the 14th Street Y and was the proud recipient of the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Original Full Length Script.
As a writer, David is influenced by his Southern roots and contemporary politics. He focuses on female protagonists and relationships within family dynamics. As a theater artist, he has worked with several theater companies including La MaMa, The Culture Project, Prospect Theater Company, Boo-Arts, and Oberon Theater Company as well as having had productions and readings of his work across the country from Las Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma and Boston, Massachusetts.
Acting credits include: An Ideal Husband (Lord Goring), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lord Henry), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Ripcord, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, Sweet Sweet Spirit, Big Love, and A Home Across the Ocean among others.
In 2006, he co-founded Manhattan Theatre Works (MTWorks) with his play Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs as their inaugural production. The company was focused on original work that inspired social change. He served as the Artistic Director for MTWorks for ten years before moving to the 14th Street Y.
LEO GOODMAN (Josh) is an actor from Long Island, now living in Queens with his wife and infant son. He holds a BFA from Boston University, and was recently seen as Bennie in Getting Out with The Seeing Place Theatre Company, and as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice with Hamlet Isn't Dead.
MEL HOUSE (Shelly) a classically trained award-winning actress, 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, screening at Cannes in 2018.
Her desire to deepen her craft, led Mel to become a company member with the Actors Center, where she works with Master Teachers Ron Van Lieu, Becky Guy, Michele Shay, Fay Simpson, Dakin Matthews, and Grace Zandarski. She is a graduate of the William Esper Studio, and holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Exeter’s School of Drama in the UK.
Mel is a prolific creator, capable of actualizing elaborate visions. After producing the Off-Broadway production of Meir Ribalow’s Shrunken Heads at Playwrights Horizons, Mel co-founded The Drawing Board--a lab for playwrights, screenwriters and actors. Mel co-directed, filmed and edited 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 work at Balerung Stage, in Bali, Indonesia. Mel is currently creating a darkly comedic digital series called HOT ANGRY MOM.
Mel is also the proud mother of a NYC teenager, which may explain her recent need to run and do Stand Up Comedy. This year Mel ran her third marathon in Paris, crushed her first triathlon, and can be seen telling jokes at The Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground, Broadway Comedy Club, and Dangerfield’s.
AMANDA JONES (Claire) is thrilled to be working with David and Antonio again—their first collaboration was a production of David’s beautiful play Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell. New York: Walking Down Broadway at the Mint Theatre; Cymbeline and Love’s Labour’s Lost 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; And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little with Retro Productions; 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 also a film and TV actor and voiceover artist.
HÉCTOR MATÍAS (Phillip) award nominated Dominican actor and singer (Actor of the Year 2018 at the Premios Soberano, the most renowned national awards in the Dominican Republic, for his interpretation of the leading role Kin in Bony and Kin). Has also played leading roles in the sitcom Juanita’s Gran Salón y Spa (winner of a Casandra Award for best TV series), the musical Perfectus Quorum (winner for Best Musical in the Premios Soberano; his performance received the critical acclaim of the most important journalists of the country), and in the play La Cuarta Mariposa in the Dominican Republic.
Héctor completed a diploma course in Acting with the acclaimed Dominican teacher, actress, producer, and director María Castillo; as well as one in Performing Arts and another one in Direction. He also studied acting with the late Enrique Chao, Josué Guerrero, and Waddys Jaquez, to name a few. Most recently he graduated from the Summer Conservatory Program at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York, with teachers such as Joe Goscinski (Voice and Speech), Alice Saltzman (Scene Study), and Ian Hersey (Shakespeare).
Héctor also performed in musicals like RENT, in which he played Paul and others; the musical In the Heights, for which he translated the libretto, worked as assistant director to Waddys Jaquez, and performed backing vocals. Also worked as assistant director to the award winning play La Residencia, Banco de Parque, Pareja Abierta, and La Otra Orilla.
In 2016, Héctor wrote, produced, directed, and played the leading role in the short film Cordones Necios, which won the award for Best Romantic Comedy – Short at the Mexico International Film Festival; the film was also featured in many others festivals around the world. Héctor can play the guitar and has written many songs; has traveled to countries including Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, and Turkey. He speaks fluent English and Spanish. He also has a passion for cooking and can play tennis on wii pretty well.
ANTONIO MINIÑO (Director) An award-winning theatre maker, Antonio Miniño is a native of the Dominican Republic, where he studied theatre at the School of Dramatic Arts, co-hosted/produced and directed for the award-winning television show FashionTV, was a contributing writer for national magazines, an art director for various fashion campaigns, and a director/performer for national productions.
He is a two-time Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observer, and was the Assistant Director for Signature Theatre Company's Lucille Lortel award-winning production of Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis' Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, directed by Obie award-winner Mark Brokaw.
Select directing credits include Gabrielle Fox's Hooters (with Broadway's Donna Vivino, as part of PFAC), Desi Moreno-Penson's Bodega Cat (Step 1) and Devil Land (Parsnip Ship), Richard S. Sargent's Coffee at Compton's, David Stallings’ Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (Outstanding Costume Design: Izzy Fields - NY IT Awards), Riti Sachdeva’s Scene/Unseen (Nominated Outstanding Director, PCTF Awards), David Stallings’ The Family Shakespeare; and his solo shows The Shadow Project and Moon Child. International directing credits include Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and Rafael Morla's Joan. He was the assistant director to Shay Gines for Paul Zindel’s And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little (Retro Productions), and to Gabriel Paulino for Slawonir Mzoret’s Emigrantes (Teatro Nacional).
Select NYC acting credits include: Suddenly a Knock at the Door at Theater for the New City, The Colonel's Wife (Outstanding Actor - PCTF Awards), the title character in Macbeth with Fab Marquee Productions, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Original Binding Productions; Dark Water with Manhattan Theatre Works; Men in Towels, Adrift, Andy@62, Confessions of a Cuban Sex Addict, Triptych and The Garcia Trilogy (All About Meat, All About Sex, All About Power) at the Duo Multicultural Arts Center; Limelight (Access Theater), The Other Day (Wild Project), Parts of Parts & Stitches (The Theater at the 14th St Y), The Stranger to Kindness (Robert Moss Theater; Best Actor Nominee), The Empress of Sex (Audience Favorite National NewBorn Festival), Arpeggio (45th St Theatre), Intermission (HERE), Trojan Women (MHS), Elevation (Payan Theatre), OOPS! (Manhattan Theatre Source), 4 Variations of Mee (Manhattan Children's Theatre), Ilka's Dream (Payan Theatre). Film and TV credits include Snuff the Movie, Open Mike, Destiny, Ocean's 8, The Amazing Spiderman 2, The Get Down, The Interestings, Madam Secretary, Person of Interest, and The Americans.
His play The Surprise Stocking Stuffer was a finalist for the 2013 Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) New Play Development Workshop. An excerpt of his solo show Moon Child (Hijo de la Luna) was presented as part of the 14th Street Y 2016 APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) Showcase.
As a singer he has performed at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart, The Town Hall of NY, Symphony Space NY, The Time Out Lounge, The Triad NYC and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
His photography has been featured in the NY Times, NY Post, Backstage, Show Business Weekly, among others.
He is the owner and curator of Different Translation (formerly known as Fab Marquee Productions), and former founding member, company actor and co-artistic director at Manhattan Theatre Works (2006-16). He is the writer of the #PersonOfChange series on Medium.com, showcasing persons of color and/or persons who identify as non-binary. He is an #ArtistWithADayJob and works as an Entertainment publicist at Kampfire PR, one of New York's premiere Marketing & Public Relations agencies specializing in the Performing Arts. He is a proud associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a member of SAG-AFTRA, and an alumnus of Directors Lab North (Toronto). www.antoniominino.com
GRETA QUISPE (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 experience in theater, television and film. 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 also has a recurring role in the HBO drama SUCCESSION and has appeared as the role of Nurse Sabrina in NBC's New Amsterdam. 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.
DAVID STALLINGS (Playwright / Damon) is the Associate Artistic Director at the Theater at the 14th Street Y in Manhattan. He migrated from the South to NYC over fifteen years ago and has been working consistently as a playwright, actor, and producer both in the city and regionally. The author of 15 full length plays and numerous shorts, David's plays focus on diversity and marginalized voices and have reached audiences across the US. His play Barrier Island received its regional debut at Acadiana Repertory Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana. His play about the Louisiana oil spill, Dark Water, received its World Premiere in NYC in March 2014 with MTWorks at the 14th Street Y and was the proud recipient of the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Original Full Length Script.
As a writer, David is influenced by his Southern roots and contemporary politics. He focuses on female protagonists and relationships within family dynamics. As a theater artist, he has worked with several theater companies including La MaMa, The Culture Project, Prospect Theater Company, Boo-Arts, and Oberon Theater Company as well as having had productions and readings of his work across the country from Las Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma and Boston, Massachusetts.
Acting credits include: An Ideal Husband (Lord Goring), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lord Henry), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Ripcord, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, Sweet Sweet Spirit, Big Love, and A Home Across the Ocean among others.
In 2006, he co-founded Manhattan Theatre Works (MTWorks) with his play Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs as their inaugural production. The company was focused on original work that inspired social change. He served as the Artistic Director for MTWorks for ten years before moving to the 14th Street Y.