Featuring original music by Helmet guitarist Dan Beeman

THE BAND: Navarre. THE PACT: no women, no food, no sleep. THE PROBLEM: the French King’s daughter.

Nate Faust & Aimée Cucchiaro

Horse Trade Theater Group presents a play about punks (and those who love them) with original music by Dan Beeman of the influential, post-hardcore band HELMET. A cover of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.

L-R: Folake Olowofoyeku, Neil Manguson,Tommy Day Carey,
Courtney Shaw, Nate Faust & Aimée Cucchiaro,
Zak Risinger & Rashmi

Featuring:

J.Stephen Brantley is a writer and performer whose work has been commissioned by Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and Performance Space 122 where his Distortion Taco was named a Village Voice Pick of the Year. J.Stephen has performed with Big Dance Theatre, Cucaracha, EAT and Lucky Artists, and has appeared at venues including the Sanford Meisner, Soho Rep, HERE, and The Palladium. He is a graduate of NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, a student-volunteer for Kabbalah Centre International, and a member of Emerging Artists Theatre. He lives with his partner in New York City and Southampton Village.

Tommy Day Carey New York credits include:  The Summer Winds at Family Tree Theatre Company, The Armageddon Dance Party at the New York Fringe Festival, Five Worst Words at the Emerging Artist Theatre EAT-fest 2009.  Regional credits include:  John in The Art Room at Wellfleet Harbor Actor's Theatre;  At the New Repertory Theatre Tommy appeared as Joe Rock in Stonewall Jackson's House, Seigfried in Das Bar-b-cue, and Billy in The Real Thing;  At the Merrimack Repertory Theatre Tommy played Eddie in King of the Moon, Kruger in the Front Page, Jimmy in Rainmaker, and the visitor in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. At the Vineyard Playhouse: Hal in Henry IV parts 1&2 and Sparky Watts in Far East.  Other credits include Hamlet (Boston Theatre Works,) Laertes in Hamlet(Publick Theatre Boston) Sebastian in Twelfth Night(Commonwealth Shakespeare Company,) Adam in Shape of Things (Speakeasy Stage Company,)  Film credits include Something Sweet and Natural Selection.  Along with television appearances on NBC's Providence,  Tommy is featured both domestically and internationally in commercials and has been seem in more than 40 national and regional television commercials.  He received his BFA in Theatre from Midwestern State University and an MFA Acting from Brandeis University.

Aimée Cucchiaro is very excited to be part of this production!  She loves Shakespeare and she loves rock music.  Romeo and Juliet(Juliet), Rocky Horror Picture Show (Magenta), A Midsummer Night's Dream(Hippolyta/First Fairy).  She is currently working on a webisode series and part of the band THE BENJEES.  Much love and gratitude to my family and friends.  Dream, then create.

Folake Olowofoyeku is a Nigerian-born actress who grew up between London and Nigeria and has now settled in New York City.  In a short time she has not only pursued an acting career but has successfully obtained a BA in Theatre from The City College of New  York(with Honors) and a Diploma in Audio Engeineering from The Institue of Audio Engineering. Since Folake's move she has had the honor of working with theater directors such as Alfred Preisser of The Classical Theater of Harlem in their production of 'Trojan Women', Rob Barron of TheaterWorks/USA in 'Angels In America', and Harland Meltzer of The Colonial Theatre in 'The Vagina Monologues'. She also played the lead role of Sally Bowels in 'Cabaret' at the Aaron Davis Hall Theatre in Harlem.

Rashmi is an actress/singer/songwriter/screenwriter.  She was most recently seen in RON HOWARD'S ANGELS AND DEMONS . As an actress working in Los Angeles and New York City, her strong theatrical background includes The Skin of Our Teeth at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park, Zabina/Zenocrate in Target Margin's Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I/II; Tiresias in Antigone for the New York Fringe Festival, With Strings with Africa Arts for which she was nominated for an AUDELCO award. In Los Angeles, she was a member of the prestigious Classical Theatre Lab doing Summer Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor.  She premiered the successful West Coast production of Painted Alice,in which she played Alice.  She has a strong commercial car eer and you can always catch her in one on television. As a singer/songwriter, Rashmi has played on both coasts and her music is available on itunes, cdbaby and on her website, www.rashmisingh.com. ; She is playing at THE BITTER END at 147 Bleeker Street on September 10th at 7:30 pm.  Rashmi would like to thank her incredible friends and family for their constant support.

Zak Risinger is pumped to be a part of PRLS!   He was born and bred where the wind comes sweeping down the plain and graduated from the University of Oklahoma.  New York Credits: Merry Wives of Windsor, Don Juan Does New Jersey, Iron Curtain: The Musical, and Summer and Smoke.  Zak has performed regionally in over a dozen states.  Favorite credits: Metamophoses, Julius Caesar, Man of LaMancha , Treasure Island, Fiddler on the Roof, Italian American Reconciliation, Idols of the King, HONK!, and The Underpants.  No stranger to playing characters down on their luck, Zak originated th e role of homeless eccentric, Crazy Bike Guy, in the world premiere of Drive-In America performed at The Kennedy Center.  Thanks to anyone here who came to see me.  You Rock.  Look Mom, I'm Homeless!!

Courtney Shaw is a recent graduate of Circle in the Square's acting and musical theatre program here in NYC.  She was most recently seen as Little Sally in their production of Urinetown, as well as Doris in Arthur Miller's The American Clock.  Hailing from Connecticut, Courtney has worked with two of their equity theatre companies.  With The River Rep  she was seen as Daphne in Noel Coward's Present Laughter and in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing/Beatrice and A Midsummer Night's Dream/First Fairy.  With the Ivoryton Playhouse she played Sheila in An Inspector Calls and Lilly/Katie in Quilters.  Courtney is also a graduate of the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts where she played Ado Annie in Oklahoma! and the title role in Evita.  She's delighted to have the opportunity to tackle Shakespeare again, this time to music!