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Annie Rutherford Lutz
(Performer)
Annie Rutherford Lutz (JOJO) since graduating from Rutgers University, Annie has been seen on stages throughout New York and New Jersey, including George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, The Growing Stage in Netcong, and Don’t Tell Mama in NYC. She recently returned from playing Dorothy in a National Tour of The Wizard of Oz, and is currently a Teaching Artist with George Street Playhouse’s Theatre Academy. For more info, photos, and videos check out AnnieRutherfordLutz.com
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Artem Yatsunov
(Director)
Artem Yatsunov (DIRECTOR) received his B.F.A. in Theater from Montclair State University, NJ in May of 2008. He is the director and organizer of numerous full-length play productions, short-play evenings and mixed discipline events, and is the co-founder and resident director of the StrangeDog. Theatre Company. Some favorites projects: Ben Clawson’s Omnivores, The Virilogy, The StrangeDog Eat Dog and Pony Show, and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; Noah Hidle’s Kitty Kitty Kitty; Shakespeare’s Richard
III.
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Ben Clawson
(Playwright)
Ben Clawson (PLAYWRIGHT)received his B.F.A. in Theater from Montclair State University in May of 2007. He is the author of numerous full length and one act plays that have had professional productions, readings and workshops in New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and New Orleans. He has written commissioned works for the Luna Stage Company, The Montclair State University School of the Arts, and the Contagious Drama Theatre Workshop. He has been an evening winner and finalist in the Samuel French Short Play festival, national finalist for the American College Theater Festival's John Cauble One-Act Award, finalist for the Princess Grace Award in playwriting, and recipient of the Kennedy Center's David Mark Cohen award. He is a founding member of the StrangeDog. Theater Company, with whom he has produced many of his plays.
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Brian Parks
(Performer)
Brian Parks (SAM PATCH) Brian is a graduate of Montclair State University with a BFA in Acting. Credits: Dawson - A Few Good Men; George Schneider - Chapter Two; Clyde – Omnivores; Host and Sam Patch – New.Tricks!; Jerry the Night Shift Bartender – Things That Happen In Bars; as well as several re-incarnations of the incorrigibly fraudulent businessman Mr.Tolan – The Right Of The Decimal, Platinum-Never-Die!, Post-pre-pre-Nupt . An avid film-maker, his short featute "The Lemonade Stand" won best comedy short film at the Purple Violet Film Festival. Along with his brother Chris, he’s made several Laurel & Hardy inspired short films, including “Oh Baby!” which was a hit at The First Annual Friars Club Comedy Film Festival in New York. Brian also co-created and performed in Take Care Now, a StrangeDog sketch comedy show. More at strangedogtheatre.com
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Chris Caporlingua
(Technical Director)
Chris Caporlingua (TECH DIRECTOR, GRAPHIC DESIGNER) Chris is a co-founder of StrangeDog Theatre. He has maintained the company's web site and has done much of the graphic design for StrangeDog's since its very inception. In addition, Chris has worked as stage manager on SubUrbia andBootstraps, sound and lighting for New.Tricks!, Bootstraps, and SubUrbia. He has worked on graphic and set design for StrangeDog./Rhesus production of The Montana Ranch for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Since 2004, Chris has been creative director of The Spectrum, an independent student newspaper in Buffalo. In April 2009, he won the Mary Louise White Grand Prize at the first SUNY-Wide film festival for his short film Gates, Doors which was also featured in the 2009 Topanga Film Festival.
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Dean Preston
(Assistant Director)
Dean Preston (AD, BOARD OP) is an NYC based playwright. At 17, his play "Selling Arnold" had been performed on both coasts of the United States, and Dean has been writing ever since. His plays have since appeared at the American Theatre of Actors, the Manhattan Repertory Theatre, the LABA Theatre at the 14st Y, and The Complex on Theatre Row in Los Angeles. He is also a writer of fiction, a director, a dramaturge and a drum teacher.
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Joe Drechsel
(Performer)
Joe Drechsel (EL) A graduate of Montclair State University with a BA in Theatre, and a StrangeDog Theatre company member. His favorite acting credits include Richard-Richard III(Alliance Repertory Theatre), Nasty/Interesting Man-Eurydice(MSU), and Skipper-Bootstraps;
he’s performed with Pig Iron Theatre Company in their original
production of PAY UP! as well as the world premiere of The Meadowlands
Project by Rogelio Martinez. His StrangeDog performance credits include Things That Happen in Bars, Cave/Men, New Tricks, Old Tricks,
Strangedog Eat Dog and Pony Show, Kitty Kitty Kitty, and The St. Valentines Day Massacre.He's also one third of the three man sketch comedy group, Take Care Now.
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Malachy Orozco
(Sound Designer)
Malachy Orozco (SOUND DESIGNER) Living in London for the past two and a half years, Malachy has been expanding on the performance and technical skills he picked up at Montclair State with Artem and Ben. As a performer, Malachy has worked at the Workshop Theatre, the Tank and the Public Theatre in New York; V22, the Roundhouse Theatre, the Institute for Contemporary Art, Chelsea Space, the British Museum and Tate Britain in London. As a technician, he has worked in various capacities at the City Literary Institute & the Bush Theatre in London and HBO's "The Sopranos". Some short stories and music of his can be found at soundcloud.com/malachyorozco.
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Ming Peiffer
(Performer)
Ming Peiffer (CAROL, JESSICA, LAURIE) is the Co-Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of Spookfish Theatre Company, and a working actress based in NYC. Currently 1 of 6 playwrights selected for NPTC's Women's Work Project, Ming is the author of numerous works including: WABI SABI! Not Wasabi (NY TIMES Pick), RELAX! ALICE, Pornography For The People, TELLMEYOULOVEME, CEREAL, and HOMELESS KITTY (an ongoing public puppet show aimed at raising the awareness of homelessness in NYC). She is a co-author of the play, The Privilege of Death: or how everything went from bad to good. Upcoming plays include: ADVANCE GUARD, and The ABC's Guide to Getting Famous (Co-produced by Horse Trade Theater Group), Aokigahara/don't look for me and she is currently working on her trio of plays entitled Netizens. As an actress, Ming has extensive regional and NYC stage credits. She can be seen in the upcoming films, Tomorrow Comes Today (WILLWORKFORFOOD) and OFF SEASON (Cold Hands Productions).
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Philip Corso
(Performer)
Phil Corso (BINGER) a BFA graduate of Montclair State University. Lastest credits: short film Wedding Day (dir. Peter Sterling), film Girls Against Boys (dir. Austin Chick), and multimedia play "Degeneration X" (dir. Meredith Edwards)
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Rose Bochner
(Assistant Director)
Rose Bochner (AD, LIGHT DESIGNER, BOARD OP) is a student in the Department of Dramatic Writing of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her freshman year at NYU, after two summers at the American Shakespeare Center, she co-founded Shakespeare in the Square, a student-run Shakespeare company that puts on free productions in Washington Square Park. She has co-directed all the productions, and acts as Artistic Director. She’ll be stage managing Tisch NewTheatre’s West Side Story. She works at Richards/Climan Inc., a Broadway general management firm and has worked with or at Sirius XM Radio, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, the Dramatists Guild of America, and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players.
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Sara Sciabbarrrasi
(Mask Designer)
Sara Sciabbarrasi (MASK DESIGNER) This is Sara's third show as StrangeDog's scenic designer. Although having graduated with a BFA in sculpture, she can't seem to tear herself from grips of this company's T. Rex-esque jaw clench, and has no intention of ever doing so. Note: Sciabbarrasi looks strikingly like Kristen Schaal. Sara has previously worked with StrangeDog as crew on Eric Bogosian's subUrbia and Ben Clawson's Bootstraps, as well as designer of MSU back-drops and scenery for We'll See Tomorrow, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and most recently Claire Went To France at Under St. Marks.
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Scott Cagney
(Performer)
Scott Cagney (CHARLIE, WILL, CLINT, DUKE) is a New York/New Jersey area actor with a BA in Theatre from Montclair State University and while there also served as Artistic Director/ President of a student run theatre group, called Players, for two years. Credits: Kaffee - A Few Good Men, Bottom -A Midsummer Night's Dream, Heinz -Clothes Encounters and Attention Span of a Fly (Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ). Scott is a founding member of The StrangeDog Theatre Company and has performed in many of their productions, including: Buff - SubUrbia, Loudjack -Bootstraps, Ray - Spilling Stuff and Breaking Things, Lewis -Omnivores, Brian - The Virilogy, Dog - Claire Went to France; Charlie, Will and Clint - New. Tricks. Scott also co-created and performed in Take Care Now, a StrangeDog sketch comedy show. More at strangedogtheatre.com
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