The Cast and Crew |
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Nicole Lee Aiossa (Julie Marvis - Porcelain & Pink) is a singer, actor, dancer, director, producer, choreographer, artist, AD, SM, ASM, prop designer, prop master, Halloween enthusiast, costume mistress, secretary, deck hand, gamer, model, lighting assistant, child wrangler, housekeeper, cat sitter, rehearsal director, personal assistant, carnivore, theater teacher, dance teacher, singing teacher, temp, fashionista, voice coach, drama coach, movement coach,referee, make-up artist, hair-stylist, personal shopper,composer, guitarist, lyricist, chorister, soloist, principle, cover, lead, grant winner, and anything else you might pay her to do except wait tables. This is her first show with Dysfunctional Theater, and she thanks Rob Brown for being cute to her. |
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Rob Brown* (F. Scott Fitzgerald – Porcelain & Pink, County Attorney – Trifles, Director – Two Slatterns & a King) is very pleased to be returning for his fourth trip to the North Pole. His previous incarnations have included Cupid ('05), Comet ('06), and Dasher ('07). His most recent trip to the boards was this past summer, where he had the thrill of playing one of his dream roles (Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace with Dysfunctional Theatre. He also had the honor of playing Andrew Rally in I Hate Hamlet this past summer as well with the Fire Island Shakespeare Rep. He would like to thank his friends and family for their support. And he would especially like to thank Nicole for all her love. Rob is a board member and secretary for Dysfunctional Theatre. Yeah, that's right. Secretary. |
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Danaher Dempsey (Ghost – Purgatory, Hale – Trifles) is pleased to be working with Dysfunctional. He has previously been seen as Cupid in The 8: Reindeer Monologues, as "The Big Fella" in Chosenand as Little Ike Johnson in Untitled Farce. |
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Greg Engbrecht (Boy – Purgatory) has worked in New York City as an actor, director, and stage manager for almost three years. Greg was previously seen as Mr. Gibbs in Dysfunctional’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace. He has a BA in Theater from Ithaca College, and his recent credits include Mountain Jews (Isaac) Off-Broadway, King O'Neil (Major De Burgh), and the New York Premier of The Tragedy of John (Ben) at Theatre Row Studios. |
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Jennifer Gill (Lois Marvis – Porcelain & Pink, Ghost – Purgatory, Mrs. Peters - Trifles) has been performing with Dysfunctional Theatre since 2003. She became an official company member in 2004. In that time she's appeared in: Arsenic & Old Lace (Elaine), The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss and Passionate Hot Romance (Ensemble) , Orange Murder Suit (Lynn), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Hollywood 2009, Vixen 2007, Blitzen 2006, Dancer 2005), Bite (Annabelle), Hoover: A Love Story (Jackie Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, a Japanese Warplane and others), Please Please Please Love Me (Nina), and Untitled Farce (Ms. Guest). Other favorite performances include Emelia in Comedy of Errors, Beatrice in The Voysey Inheritance and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Jennifer has a BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. You can find her at www.jennygill.com and also on Twitter.com as nycjenny. |
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Kurt Kingsley* (King – Two Slatterns & a King) is glad to be working with the Dysfunctional Theater Company after appearing as Reverend Harper & Mr. Witherspoon in last summer’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace. His NYC credits include Foreign Bodies, Woman with Coffee, Someplace Warm (winner of the Samuel French Competition) all with Emerging Artists Theatre; PIG with The New Ensemble Theater; Camp Holocaust and Midsummer Night’s Dream with the LITE Theatre Company and Selling Out at the New York Fringe Festival. Regionally, he has worked frequently with The Northeast Theatre Company in Scranton, PA, in their productions of Kringle’s Window, Three Tales forWinter (three Chekhov one-acts) and Lackawanna Rails, a series of original radio plays performed live and broadcast on WVIA-FM. Mr. Kingsley is a graduate of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s MFA/PAT Program. |
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Tom O’Connor (Old Man - Purgatory, Sheriff Peters – Trifles) was born in Brooklyn in the latter part of the20th Century, which seemed like a good idea at the time. He has appeared in numerous off-off Broadway productions, and performed original monologues as an opening act for Brother Theodore for 15 years. He is the only person he knows who has been on Law & Order only once. In a review of one of his monologues for the New York Times Jennifer Dunning called him “disturbing to the point of being repulsive.” |
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Amy Overman (Tidy – Two Slatterns & a King, Director – Trifles) has been performing & producing with Dysfunctional since 2001. Most recently she was seen onstage as part of TheaterRats’ Chester A. Horn Short Play Festival and as the Model in Blood on the Cat’s Neck at The Brick. She appeared in the Dysfunctional productions: The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss & Passionate Hot Romance (actress/writer/producer), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Comet 2007, Dancer 2006, Vixen 2005), Bite (Millie/Barbarella), Please Please Please Love Me (Linda), Whispers in the Wood (Lucy), Real Live Sex on Stage (Maggie), I Am Star Trek (Paramount) and How to Have the Ultimate Orgasm Each and Every Time (The Redhead). Other NYC credits include: Clue - Live on Stage (Miss Scarlet) for Flying Blind Productions, several staged readings with W-WOW Radio and the touring children's show, On the Road to Reading. Amy has a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University. |
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Peter Schuyler (Chance – Two Slatterns & a King, director - Purgatory) A proud company member of Dysfunctional, Pete was most recently seen as Comet in The 8: Reindeer Monologues (he appeared in previous productions as Dasher, Donner, & Cupid). Recent credits include a (very brief) appearance in DMTheatrics production of Titus Andronicus as Quintus, one of the idiot sons who crawls into a hole with a corpse, Teddy Brewster in Dysfunctional’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace, and Captain Phaidrig O’Neill in TheatreRats revival of the completely unheard of King O’Neill, where he lived out a lifelong fantasy of being a drunken Irish soldier in a skirt for two hours. In NYC: Titus X (Titus Andronicus, NYIT nominee), Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist (Strom’s Father, NYIT nominee), Brew of The Dead (Craig), Romeo & Juliet (Nurse), Orestes 2.0 (Menelaus), The Front Page (Endicott), and Frankenstein (Clerval). Peter is a staff writer for NYtheatre.com and a director/producer for their Cable Access TV show Indie Theatre Now!. He is also a raconteur for the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl ( www.bakerloo.org). Peter has a BS in Theatre Performance from Northern Arizona University. |
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Amy Beth Sherman* (Slut – Two Slatterns & a King) is very pleased performing with Dysfunctional theater. Past company credits include The 8: Reindeer Monologues (Blitzen), The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss & Passionate Hot Romance (actress/writer), Brew of the Dead (Nexus), Chosen (Chancellor/Ensemble), Vampire Stewardesses From Hell (Tatiana), and Sodom (Swivia). Other favorite roles include Irina in Three Sisters, Nina in The Seagull and Abby in the independent film Desperation, for which she won Best Actress at Microcinemafest 2006 and Best Acting Performance at Shriekfest 2006. She has a BA in theatre from American University and has been kicking about New York for the past decade. |
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Theresa Unfried has been working with Dysfunctional since she first moved to New York in 2001. She has been seen in The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss & Passionate Hot Romance (actress/writer), Chosen (Bernadette), Orange Murder Suit in the first-ever Frigid Festival (Joy), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Blitzen, Vixen, Dancer), Bite (Natalie O'Reilly/ Mistress Corbeaux), Please Please Please Love Me (Def girl and various roles), Untitled Farce (Angie Conroy), Whispers in the Wood (Jude Ascot) and I Am Star Trek (DC Fontana and various roles). Her other New York credits includes Clue - Live on Stage (Mrs. White) with Flying Blind Productions.
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Justin Plowman (Director – Porcelain & Pink) previously directed the horror comedy Brew of the Dead. As an actor he has appeared in the Dysfunctional shows The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Donner), Bite (Dr. Bruce Marone), Untitled Farce, How to Have the Ultimate Orgasm Each and Every Time, We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay (Luigi), Mr. Rogers' Y2K (Neil), Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery (The Prince), Il Duce: The Rudy Giuliani Story, and Princess Di's Brain Kept Alive in Graceland. He has also appeared in and co-produced Clue - Live on Stage (Wadsworth the Butler), appeared in the 2008 production of Mastiphicus Megladon (MacDonald), and was a troupe member on the show BlackHole Television. Justin is Dysfunctional Theatre’s Director of Development. |
