The Aporia Theatre Group is a collective of artists dedicated to creating
theater by cross-pollinating different artistic mediums. Borrowing from
the Greeks, "aporia" represents a dead-end to a line of thought,
which calls for the mediation of new ideas or even the reformulation
of questions asked. In regards to theatre, the central question that
we are constantly reformulating is: What else can theatre be? To answer
that question, our company has dedicated itself to creating and performing
works that lie outside convention, outside the limits of traditional,
fourth-wall, psychological realism. The Aporia Theatre Group is committed
to creating productions that are both innovative and form-breaking,
as well as enjoyable and entertaining. We seek to develop ever new and
surprising relationships between performer and audience, and we frequently
employ alternative artistic forms (music, visual arts, dance, etc.)
to develop our own unique theatrical aesthetic, one that is constantly
finding new ways to ask and answer the same question: What else can
theatre be?
Paul Stancato
Paul hails from Chicago where he worked as an actor musician. He was
seen in the Lyric Opera’s production of Candide, directed by Harold
Prince and studied improvisation with Mick Napier at Second City. In
the music world, Paul was the drummer for popular local band, Voodoo
Buss. New York theatre credits include BLUE MAN GROUP and the original
New York cast of De La Guarda. He has done the National tour of Buddy:
The Buddy Holly Story. Other favorite roles include Mercutio (Romeo
and Juliet) Lee (True West) and Slim (Of Mice and Men) Mr. Stancato
adapted and directed Einstein’s
Dreams, which garnered the Best Direction award for the 2001 Fringe
Festival, and is also the author of ROCKSHOW.
He is the recipient of the Paul Newman Excellence in Theatre Fellowship,
a Resident Artist with the Horse Trade
Theater Group and a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.
He Co-Founded Aporia Theatre Group with friend and colleague, Brian
Rhinehart.
Brian Rhinehart
Brian has an M.F.A. in Directing from The Actors Studio Drama School,
and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida--his dissertation
will soon be published under the title, All Joking Aside: A Handbook
of Comedy Acting. In New York City he has directed productions at the
Wings Theatre, The Kraine Theater, The Trilogy Theatre; Musical Theatre
Works, The Paradise Theatre, HERE Performance Space; The Duplex Cabaret
Theatre, Collective Unconscious, The 78th St. Theatre Lab, and the old
Circle in the Square (Bleeker St.) Theatre. Brian has performed in numerous
productions all over the city, and he has taught or is currently teaching
Acting, Directing, and Playwriting at such schools as the City University
of New York (Baruch College), Marymount Manhattan College, New School
University (Eugene Lang College), Kean University, and the University
of Florida. He is a member of Actor's Equity, and an associate member
of The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Lisa Deo
Lisa is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
and holds an MFA in directing from New School University. As a visiting
artist, she taught acting and designed and directed several productions,
including The Ghost Sonata, for Walden Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.
Recently she's directed Reading Zimbabwe and When a Storm Comes Off-Broadway
at the DR2 Theatre, Some of My Parts at PSNBC/HERE, and an outdoor New
York City park tour of Hamlet for Boomerang Theatre Company. She has
also directed plays for Kean University, where she was an adjunct professor
in the department of theatre and received the Director's Award for The
Bald Soprano. Lisa is currently directing Immortality for the NYC International
Fringe Festival.
David Homan
David's composition Lost at a Gallop was premiered by the American Symphony
Orchestra for his graduation from Bard College (Music and Drama/Dance,
2001). Works such as City Treks and Flashing Darkness were created for
his Masters work in Music at New York University (2002). His score for
the play Einstein's Dreams, which was premiered by the Colorado String
Quartet, was heard at the 2001 New York Fringe Festival, with the production's
receiving an extended run at the Kraine Theatre (NYC), and winning Best
Director in the Festival. At the Edge was premiered by flutist Sean
Schulich at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, in February 2002. Mr. Homan produced
on February 12, 2004 a concert of premieres at Merkin Concert Hall (NYC),
including the world premiere of his five movement suite, All Our Yesterdays.
The Da Capo Chamber Players and the IMNC players have also performed
his works. Dedicated to live composition for theatre, dance, chamber
music, and musical theatre. Mr. Homan's current projects emphasize collaboration
in live performance and communication between performers and creators
in various fields. He has also toured Europe (Florence and Budapest)
as a playwright/composer/actor, and written theatrical scores for As
You Like It, Mars Bars, Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead, Orwell's 1984, and Great Expectations, among
others. He recently completed the score for a new play, The Jesus Spiders
of Central Park, written by director/playwright Caroline Thomas. New
projects include Send, a musical, written with his brother Daniel; creating
the score for a modern dance work by Renata Celichowska; as well as
developing a new play with co-writer Brian Rhinehart based on Jack Kevorkian.
