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Amanda Brooklyn
(Performer)
Amanda Brooklyn (Jenni) is a New York actor and LTR company member currently in her final semester as a theatre major at Fordham University. Born and raised in Vermont she has performed at various regional theatres throughout New England. Favorite roles include Izzy in Rabbit Hole, Shen Te in Good Person of Szechwan, Nora in Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Abigail Williams in The Crucible directed by James Presson. New York film and television credits include featured roles in HBO’s Girls, ABC’s Pan Am and Guillaume Canet’s new film Blood Ties. Amanda is also a musician and singer and performs around the city with Less Than Rent member Emma Barash in their band Westchester Stabwounds.
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Ben Diersens
(Performer)
Ben Diersens (Danny Everett) is an actor/playwright from San Francisco and a graduate of Fordham University. New York Credits: A Keltic Cross (Playwright, Staged Reading at The Wild Project) Fordham Credits: The Crucible (dir. by James Presson) Go Down Into Silence (by Ariadne Blayde, dir. by James Presson), The Marriage of Figaro (dir. by Matthew Maguire), The Good Person of Szechwan (dir. by Elizabeth Margid) Sticks and Bones (dir. by Dan Durkin), Mrs. Packard (dir. by May Adrales). Ben is also writing the upcoming Less Than Rent production Beckett in Benghazi. Love and thanks, as always, to Mum, Dad (recent US citizen), Jack and Sam.
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Cory Asinofsky
(Performer)
Cory Asinofsky (Ryan) LTR: Friends Don't Let Friends (George), Little Town Blues (Lee), Richard 3 (Fight Choreographer) NYC: Puppet Hamlet (puppet Shakespeare players) The Works (Good Mood Ent.) Grey or what you do... (Good Mood Ent.) College: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cascando, Bringing it All Back Home, Springtime. Cory is a recent graduate from Marymount Manhattan College.
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Dean Acree
(Performer)
Dean Acree (Aaron) is a native of Baltimore, MD. After leaving Baltimore, he went abroad to study and perform in the Scotland Fringe Festival. After returning he enrolled at The American Musical & Dramatic Academy. Dean is very excited to be working with a group with such enormous talent in his first production with the LTR!
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Emma Barash
(Performer)
Emma Barash (Ashley) is a Less Than Rent company member. LTR: Songs with Julie Workshop (Christine), Friends Don’t Let Friends (Ellie). New York: Stop the Virgens at St. Anne’s Warehouse. University: Eurydice; Wiseblood. Film: College Musical. Emma is a graduate of Yale University. She is also one third of the Spooky-Wop-Folk-Pop band Westchester Stabwounds.
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Jackie Hansen
(Performer)
Jackie Hansen (Sydney) is thrilled to be making her NY stage debut with Less than Rent Theatre company. A recent graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, some of her favorite roles include Zan in the Little Foxes and Alice in You Can't Take it With You. Since graduating she has been featured in 2 national commercials. Jackie would like to thank LTR for their generosity of spirit, dedication, and amazing work! Lastly, she would like to thank her loving and ever supportive mother.
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Jacob Presson
(Performer)
Jacob Presson (Matty Pags) is currently working towards his BFA in Acting with a minor in Arts for Communities at Marymount Manhattan College. LTR: Desire! [A Varsouviana] (Assistant Director, Under St. Marks). REGIONAL: Comedy of Errors, Breath and Shadow (New York Stage and Film), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare on the Sound, Director: Joanna Settle), Black Ice (New York Stage and Film – workshop). UNIVERSITY: Winners. His newest play Fly in the Ointment, was recently workshopped at Marymount Manhattan College.
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Jenna Grossano
(Performer)
Jenna Grossano (Taylor) is a company member of LTR. Credits include: LTR: Desire! [A Varsouviana] (Director), Family Affairs (Workshop, director), Richard 3 (Asst. Director), Friends Don’t Let Friends (Jules), Little Town Blues (Anna). University: The Way of The World, The Crucible, Go Down Into Silence, Lucid, Happy-ish, Mud. Jenna received a BA in theatre from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and is a graduate of the Bergen County Academies Performing Arts Program.
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Patrick Dooley
(Performer)
Patrick Dooley (Nick) Fordham University: For A Barbarian Woman by Saviana Stanescu, dir. Niegel Smith (Ovid), The Language Archive, dir. Tamilla Woodard, (Resten, others), Winners (Director), The Crucible (Danforth), The Love Song of J Robert Oppenheimer (Oppenheimer), Sticks and Bones (Father Donald), eulogy to a hell of a dame (Asst. Director/Set Design), Yellow Eyed Creatures (Asst. Set Design), Winners (Director) New York: High Upon the Gallows Tree (The Magistrate) at Manhattan Rep. Regional: Everybody Loves Opal at the Montgomery Theatre, dir. Tony Braithwaite (Asst. Director). Deep gratitude to my family, friends, & AXB. Also to James, Jake, and Sammee. Patrick is a company member and Literary Manager of Less Than Rent Theatre. Age Quod Agis.
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RJ Vaillancourt
(Performer)
RJ Vaillancourt (Ryan) is a New York City based actor and writer from Rockland County, New York. He recently played Myron in the world premiere of Gilad Cohen's 15-minute musical Healthy Start at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall as a part of Princeton University's Sound Kitchen Concert Series. As a member of Less Than Rent Theatre, he has performed in Richard 3 (Fringe NYC '10) and Little Town Blues (The Wild Project), both directed by James Presson. He workshopped and helped devise Songs and Julie at Tenement Street Workshop (Snowballs '12), and his play Family Affairs was workshopped by Less Than Rent at The Gene Frankel Theatre last fall. Select New York credits include The Other Room (45th Street Theatre), Panormania (Fringe NYC '12), Cow Play (Fringe NYC '11), The Way of the World (FCLC, Dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel), No Refuge Could Save the Hireling (FCLC, Dir. Shira Milikowsky), The Day Room (FCLC, Dir. Matthew Maguire), The Good Person of Szechwan (FCLC, Dir. Elizabeth Margid), The Birthday Girl (FCLC, Dir. Dan Winerman). Fordham College at Lincoln Center: BA Theatre.
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Sean Patrick Monahan
(Performer)
Sean Patrick Monahan (Joseph) is a junior at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, currently pursuing a major in Theatre with a double concentration in Performance and Playwriting and a Less Than Rent Company Member. LTR: Little Town Blues (Chet), Though Soft You Tread Above Me (Playwright). NY: High Upon the Gallows Tree (Playwright, Winner of Best Play - Manhattan Repertory Theatre 2012), Times Square Angel (Jimmy, Theatre for the New City w/ Charles Busch, Julie Halston, Carl Andress), Broadway Broadcasts Hope (Soloist, New World Stages w/ Karen Olivo, Robin De Jesus), A Stoop On Orchard Street (Benny, Mazer Theater), The Turn of the Screw (Miles, Fordham Alumni Theatre Co.). University: The Crucible (Giles Corey), The Verse Play (Playwright), The Front Porch Play (Playwright), Thank You, Fifteen (Playwright). TV: Law & Order: CI, Saturday Night Live. Thanks to James and Jake for the opportunity to play this incredible part, to cast and crew for their hard work, and to Emma for being so fearless and fun to work with. Special thanks to friends and family, especially to Sarah Hegarty.
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Tom Sanchez
(Performer)
Tom Sanchez (Greg) is excited to back in his second Less Than Rent production! Although originally from Gilbert, AZ but now he calls Astoria home. A recent graduate of Yale University, Tom Sanchez was a member of the Yale Dramatic Association and the Yale Exit Players. He was recently seen in Desire! [A Varsouviana] (Less Than Rent) and Independents (2012 Fringe Festival Best Overall Production winner, New York Times Critics Pick). He would like to thank Less Than Rent for putting up with him again, his friends for putting up with him again, and his family for being so supportive!
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