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Aliee Chan
(Performer)
ALIEE CHAN (Real Girl) previously appeared in StrangeDog’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Pavlov was an A**hole, Existence and the Public Library). She will be playing both Mallory and Valerie in Mallory/Valerie and just Aliee in Aliee and Bettina’s (sort of) Grown Up Sleepover this August in The New York International Fringe Festival.
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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 StrangeDogTheatre 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. He headsup StrangeDog Theatre’s initiative to collaborate with and support the local live music scene. Through his series of so called Live Music BASHs, StrangeDog Theatre has successfully showcased the rhythmic styling’s of such acts as the unofficial StrangeDog House Band The MICKS, Squeeze Rock, Amanda Duncan, BlackWater, Joanna Burns, and The One&Nines – just to name a few.
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Ben Clawson
(Playwright)
BEN CLAWSON (Playwright) received his B.F.A. in Theater fromMontclair State University, NJ in May of 2007. He is the author of numerousfull length and one act plays that have had professional productions, readingsand workshops in New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and New Orleans. His full-lengthplays include Spilling Stuff and BreakingThings, Bootstraps, Omnivores andmost recently The Dangers of ElectricLighting. He has also written several evenings of short comedies including The Virilogy, We’ll See Tomorrow, Cave/Men,Things that Happen in Bars, New Tricks, and Attention Span of a Fly which reopened the historic ParamountTheater in Asbury Park in Summer 2007. He has written commissioned works forthe Luna Stage Company, The Montclair State University School of the Arts, andthe Contagious Drama Theatre Workshop. He has been an evening winner andfinalist in the Samuel French Short Play festival, national finalist for theAmerican College Theater Festival's John Cauble One-Act Award, finalist for thePrincess Grace Award in playwriting, and recipient of the Kennedy Center'sDavid Mark Cohen award. He is a founding member of the StrangeDog TheatreCompany, with whom he has produced many of his plays.
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Gary Martin
(Performer)
GARY MARTINS’ (Grandpa) most recent N.Y. appearance was in The Famous Ghost Monologues, at the Abdingdon Theatre, and prior to that, in Meeting, a finalist for the Samuel French Festival. A long time member of 12 Miles West Theatre Co. in Montclair, he was Dimitri in the New Jersey premiere of The Brothers Karamozov, and part of the award-winning trio in A Complete History of America: Abridged. He has appeared with Alliance Rep as Ross in A Few Good Men and with Strange Dog Theatre, most recently playing Buzz in Things That Happen in Bars. Other credits include Search and Destroy, All The Rage, A Good Kid, Italian American Reconciliation, Four Dogs and a Bone, and I Hate Hamlet to name a few. As a director, Gary has helmed everything from musical comedy to the classics, with several hailed on "Best of Season" lists. Gary recently lent his voice to narrate the independent film The Accord.
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Jessica Parks
(Scenic Designer)
JESSICA PARKS (Scenic Designer/Prop Master) has been the resident scenic designer at New Jersey Repertory Company since 2010. Previous credits include: Poetic License for The Director’s Company and The Housewives of Mannheim for NJ Repertory Company at 59E59 St. Theater in NYC and Hound of the Baskervilles at NJ Repertory Company.
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Sara Sciabbarrasi
(Scenic Designer)
SARA SCIABBARRASI (Scenic Artist) This is Sciabbarrasi'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 back-drops and scenery for We'll See Tomorrow and most recently The St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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Sarah Abigail Hoke-Brady
(Lighting Designer)
SARAH ABIGAIL HOKE-BRADY (SM, Light Design) A graduate of Drew University, Sarah is a free-lance lighting designer and stage manager based in New York. She has most recently worked as the master electrician of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theatre for the New City and Hand to God at Ensemble Studio Theater, the lighting designer of Random Access Theatre’s Rope and Union City High School’s West Side Story, and is currently designing and stage managing for both The Secret Theatre and Original Intent Theater, among several other projects. She would like to thank StrangeDog for the opportunity to work with them again.
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Scott Cagney
(Performer)
SCOTT CAGNEY (Dog) is a New Jersey area actor with a BA in Theatre from Montclair State University and 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. Scott was last seen in StrangeDog's production of Take Care Now, a sketch comedy show that he co-wrote.
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Shannon Sullivan
(Performer)
SHANNON SULLIVAN (Ex-Girlfriend) is currently studying at Montclair State University getting her BFA in Acting. This is her first production with StrangeDog but she is not a stranger when it comes to working with the writer Ben Clawson. Some of Shannon's past credits include Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Tuesdays (Lu), and The Crucible (Mary Warren).
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The MiCKS
(Musicians)
The MiCKS are musicians and composers who live in Jersey City.... mostly. Matt McMickle - guitar/vocals, Sam McMickle -drums/vocals, Henry Pol - bass/vocals. Performing rock, Americana, folk, everything in between, original tunes as well as song covers. They are currently getting ready to release their first album!
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Tony Knotts
(Performer)
TONY KNOTTS (Johnathon) is a recent graduate of Montclair State University and has also studied at the New York Film Academy. Past credits include Romeo, Konstantin (The Seagull), Silvius (As You Like It), Keith (Stage Door), Walker Evans in the world premiere of Rachel Chavkin's The Agee Project, Charles Cooper in the New Jersey premiere of 8, and, last but certainly not least, Ed in StrangeDog's Bottles, Barrels, and the Slow Crawl Toward Last Call.
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