WRITTEN BY WRECKIO ENSEMBLE & THE AUDIENCE
DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER BAMONTE

Wreckio is bringing back the one night stand that ends with sandpaper, the tale of a week’s worth of cross-gender sex, the Russian mail-order bride looking for love, and possibly your own dirty little secret.

WRECKIO ENSEMBLE produces original and innovative works on social issues through their developing movement technique. Wreckio integrates the body, mind, and voice in storytelling to stimulate thought, creating a symbiotic relationship between audience and ensemble.

“Best irony in an off-off Broadway theater.”
Darron Cardosa, Theatre Is Easy (Bail Out: The Musical)

“This is an extraordinary piece of work; go check it out.”
Duncan Pflaster, Broadway World (Rooftops)

“I believe these young artists show immense promise, and I believe they can make an important contribution to American theater.”
Richard Foreman

“With abundant physical humor and a generous social idea at its core, the Wreckio Ensemble proves itself more than a flush in the pan”
Helen Shaw

“Solid ensemble work…Their individual strengths maintain the integrity of the whole.”
Gregg Bellon, nytheater.com

Christopher Bamonte (Director) Is the director and co-creator of Based on a True Story. He has also directed Perry Souchuk’s Happiness Island, at the late night theatre comedy show Tim’s Loft, and occasional works at New Dramatists as a director and stage manager. He was the Assistant to the Director for Holderness Theater Company’s production of Twelfth Night. He has been seen working with Bill Irwin and Nancy Harrington in the ridiculous romps through the clown realm assisting them in their show, A Clown Lecture.

Dechelle Damien (Performer) Dechelle is a founding member & co-Artistic Director of Wreckio Ensemble. She was last seen as Cecelia in Bail Out The Musical which she co-wrote and Jackett in Karly Maurer’s Rooftops. Other Wreckio roles include various characters in The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture which was part of the chashama residency program and toured to Dublin, Ireland, various characters Naked and in the Based on a True Story series, Gravedigger 1 in Gravediggers, Cecy in Wrestling Porcelain which she co-wrote, Lysistrata in Lysistrata, Number Two in The Corner which ran in the NY International Fringe Festival at PS 122, Oldie Mama in Gint and Anna in The Virtuous Burglar. She wrote & co-directed Me, Myself, I and the Others , October 2007.Other credits include Harriet in Sandwich (2007 Wonderland Festival, nominated for Best Actress), Lyubov in The Cherry Orchard, Isa in Isadora Libre (American Living Room Festival 1999), Gertrude in OverFaust (Florida Dance Festival 1999) Lady Fanciful in The Provok’d Wife, Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa Smith in Three Penny Opera and Linda/Sammy in storming the kingdom – an original one-woman show. She toured Germany with The Sisters You (2000) and Fat Peggy’s Sober Property at the TAT Depot (2001). Dechelle is a graduate of New World School of the Arts.

Karly Maurer (Performer) Karly is a founding member & co-Artistic Director of Wreckio Ensemble. She has written two original plays that have been produced and performed by Wreckio: Rooftops (2009) in the Milagro Theater at CSV Cultural Center and Gravediggers (2005, directed) in the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. She co-wrote Bail Out The Musical, The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture (2008) and Wrestling Porcelain (2003) with fellow Wreckio members. She has had the pleasure of playing ‘Various Characters’ in Wreckio productions: The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture presented at chashama in NYC and Thisisnotashop gallery in Dublin, Ireland, Based on a True Story… (2006-2008) in bars around the Lower East Side, and Wrestling Porcelain (2003-2004) at Access Theater, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and Snug Harbor. Two Wreckio acting credits where she researched numerological meanings to help define her characters were in: Michelle Diaz’ The Corner as Number One (2008 & 2002) at the Red Room and P.S. 122 and Dechelle Damien’s Me, Myself, I and the Others as Eye the Third (2007) at Wings Theater. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 2007 Wonderland Festival for her portrayal of Helen in Jessamyn Fiore’s Sandwich. Karly has also written and directed her one-person show, Three Doors (2000).

Randi Berry (Performer) Randi is a founding member & co-Artistic Director of Wreckio Ensemble. She was last seen as September in Bail Out The Musical which she co-wrote and Pixie in Karly Maurer’s Rooftops. She was also seen in and co-wrote Wreckio’s production of The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture. Other Wreckio roles include Day Fantasist-BOB in Me, Myself, I and the Others, various characters in the Based on a True Story series, Mother in Gravediggers, various characters in Wrestling Porcelain which she co-wrote, Myrenie in Lysistrata, Number Four in The Corner which ran in the NY International Fringe Festival at PS 122, various characters in Gint and The Burglar’s Wife in The Virtuous Burglar. Randi has also been seen as Agave in U.R Faust, a movement theater piece performed in Athens, Greece, Wendy in 27 – an original one woman show, Agnes in A Bright Room Called Day, Du in Keely and Du, Paulina in A Winter’s Tale and Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard. Directing credits include Betrayal and My Mother Said I Never Should.