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After a successful December run, The Baby Monitor will return to the stage in Spring 2019. Come back soon for more details!
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Different Translation and The Theater at the 14th Street Y,
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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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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 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 (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).
TY AUTRY (He/Him/His) (Assistant Director/Community Outreach) is an award-winning actor and dancer from Georgia that has recently moved to New York to pursue his career further. He is a recent graduate from Atlantic Acting School's evening conservatory program after the premiere of His Bedroom Is Eden by Danny Rocco. He recently wrote and performed in a one-man show, A Southern Fairytale, at The Hudson Guild Theatre. Catch a reading of his next play, Third, on December 11th at 8 PM right here! Regional credits include Adam in The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Out Front Theatre Company), The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (Arís Theatre), 9 to 5: The Musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Addams Family (OnStage Atlanta), On The Verge, S.T.E.A.M. Team, Junie B. Jones: The Musical, Calendar Girls (Georgia Ensemble Theatre). Thank you, Antonio and David, for having me be a part of this magic. All my love for Cameron. tyautry.com | @JTyAutry.
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
HECTOR MATIAS (He/Him/His) (Phillip) Dominican actor and singer (2018 Premios Soberano Actor of the Year nominee for 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), and in the play La Cuarta Mariposa in the Dominican Republic. Héctor completed several diploma courses (Acting, Performing Arts, and Direction) with the acclaimed Dominican teacher, actress, producer, and director María Castillo. He also studied acting with the late Enrique Chao, 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).
ANTONIO MINIÑO (He/Him/His/They) (Director) 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
KIA ROGERS (She/Her/Hers) (Lighting Design) is a New York City based lighting designer for Theatre and Dance. Recent designs: 3LD Art & Technology Center, BAM Fisher, Cherry Lane Studio, Gural theatre at ART/NY, Gym at Judson, and Theatre 511 at ARS NOVA. International credits: Associate Lighting Designer for Slutforart/98.6 in Gothenburg, Sweden with Muna Tseng. West coast designs: El Portal's Monroe Forum Theatre, Los Angeles and Z Space, San Francisco. Dance designs: Flamenco Vivo National tours, Forward Motion, Kinesis Project Dance Theatre. Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design for Jane The Plain with the NYITA, 2014 and nominated in 2016 for Rizing. MITF 2016 Outstanding Lighting Design for Mr. Toole. Kia is a member of Rising Phoenix Repertory and a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble.
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.
TY AUTRY (He/Him/His) (Assistant Director/Community Outreach) is an award-winning actor and dancer from Georgia that has recently moved to New York to pursue his career further. He is a recent graduate from Atlantic Acting School's evening conservatory program after the premiere of His Bedroom Is Eden by Danny Rocco. He recently wrote and performed in a one-man show, A Southern Fairytale, at The Hudson Guild Theatre. Catch a reading of his next play, Third, on December 11th at 8 PM right here! Regional credits include Adam in The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Out Front Theatre Company), The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (Arís Theatre), 9 to 5: The Musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Addams Family (OnStage Atlanta), On The Verge, S.T.E.A.M. Team, Junie B. Jones: The Musical, Calendar Girls (Georgia Ensemble Theatre). Thank you, Antonio and David, for having me be a part of this magic. All my love for Cameron. tyautry.com | @JTyAutry.
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
HECTOR MATIAS (He/Him/His) (Phillip) Dominican actor and singer (2018 Premios Soberano Actor of the Year nominee for 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), and in the play La Cuarta Mariposa in the Dominican Republic. Héctor completed several diploma courses (Acting, Performing Arts, and Direction) with the acclaimed Dominican teacher, actress, producer, and director María Castillo. He also studied acting with the late Enrique Chao, 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).
ANTONIO MINIÑO (He/Him/His/They) (Director) 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
KIA ROGERS (She/Her/Hers) (Lighting Design) is a New York City based lighting designer for Theatre and Dance. Recent designs: 3LD Art & Technology Center, BAM Fisher, Cherry Lane Studio, Gural theatre at ART/NY, Gym at Judson, and Theatre 511 at ARS NOVA. International credits: Associate Lighting Designer for Slutforart/98.6 in Gothenburg, Sweden with Muna Tseng. West coast designs: El Portal's Monroe Forum Theatre, Los Angeles and Z Space, San Francisco. Dance designs: Flamenco Vivo National tours, Forward Motion, Kinesis Project Dance Theatre. Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design for Jane The Plain with the NYITA, 2014 and nominated in 2016 for Rizing. MITF 2016 Outstanding Lighting Design for Mr. Toole. Kia is a member of Rising Phoenix Repertory and a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble.
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.