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Ricardo Pérez-Gonzalez (Joe Bonham):
Recent projects include the Padre in Man of La Mancha (Duo Theatre), Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem), an originating role in Suzan-Lori Park's celebrated 365 Days/365 Plays at the New York Public, the role of Juan Gonzalez in Migrants! (Teatro Pregones), Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Tom in Un ballo in maschera, Schaunard in La bohème (Burgas Opera House, Bulgaria) and El Dancaïro in Carmen (Hradek Kralove Opera Festival, CR). His favorite role is Joe in the one-man show Johnny Got His Gun (FringeNYC), for which CurtainUp and nytheatre.com hailed him as “remarkable” and “utterly compelling.” He is also responsible for the Spanish translation of said play and is working on mounting a university tour.
NY credits: Salerio/Solanio in Merchant of Venice, The Murderer/Mentieth in Macbeth (Dreamscape Theatre), co-creator and ensemble member of The Burning Cities Project (FringeNYC), Mr. Jackson Heights in Jackson Heights the Musical (Interborough Repertory Theatre), Paul in Company (CMTS) and Renfield in Dracula. Ricardo is a member of The Dreamscape Theatre, and Big Apple Playback Theatre (www.bigappleplayback.com). He studies voice with Lenora Eve and Dorothy Stone and dance with Jim Cooney and Beverly Brown.
Gerritt Turner (Director):
NY directing credits include Anemone: Post-Tiger (Peter J. Sharp Theater), Self-Portrait as Schiele, Fay-Lindsey Jones Story and Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (FringeNYC), Simulacra: a modern myth (Spring Fever Festival), and Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth (Dreamscape Theatre Company). Readings include The Vigil or the Guided Cradle and Neighborhood 3 with the HotINK International Play Reading Festival. Gerritt teaches on the directing faculty at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and is also a member of the Epiphany Theater Company's Reactionary: Directors Program. He studied Balinese theater and masked dance at director Per Brahe's Bali Acting Conservatory, and has created and performed original work with The Dell Arte School of Physical Theater, The Drama League Director's Festival, and the Hangar Theater's Lab Company. He holds a BFA in drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received the Robert H. Moss Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Director.
Laura Moss (Producer):
A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Laura is the current artistic director of Quo Vadimus Arts, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to cross-cultural exchange. After college, she lived in Jerusalem and served as tour manager for the Palestinian National Theatre. With QVArts, she has produced The Rwanda Folk Tales project in Butare, Rwanda and the ID America Festival in New York City.
Directing credits include: Women and Wallace (Ambitious Theatre Co.), Death and the Maiden (Meisner Theater), Dreamboy (Manhattan Theatre Source), Diagnosis Jew Pain (w/ Michael Feldman NY, SF Fringe), Descent (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, AD). She just completed her first film, 'Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement' (Director, co-writer), which will be touring the festival circuit this summer and fall. She will be directing Duncan Pflaster's Ore or Or, with the Theatre of the Expendable, this spring.
Eve Wolff (Educational Producer):
An arts education administrator and frequent theater producer in NYC, she most recently produced Self-Portrait As Schiele in the New York International Fringe Festival, and the ID America Festival with the company Quo Vadimus Arts, of which she is a founding member. She currently works as the Associate Director of Programming at Young Audiences New York, helping to develop and implement arts programming for New York City Public School children in all grades and arts disciplines. In addition to her work with Young Audiences she has served as a producer and administrator for several projects with Studio 42 from 2003-2007, including Agony in the Garden (ReCycle Plays), Giants (HERE), the ongoing series's Trials & Errors and Studio Sessions, as well as administering the Starving Artist Award (2005, 2006). Eve is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
Jared M. Silver (Sound Design):
Jared is an animator/designer who also dabbles in the dark arts of the theatre. He is founding member of Quo Vadimus Arts. Credits include sound design for Women and Wallace and Death and the Maiden (Ambitious Theatre Co.), Goonies! The Musical (Rash! Theatre); propsmaster for Julius Caesar and Zastrozzi: Master of Melodrama (The 7th Sign) and roughly a hundred million various things for the ID America Festival (Quo Vadimus Arts). Jared is a graduate of the Tisch Film & Television program, who can be visited online at www.jaredmsilver.com.
Denise Maroney (Sets):
Denise Maroney is a senior studying design at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Favorite design credits include costumes for The Sandbox, Deadwood & The Animal Project, hats for Far Away and sets for Brothel. Much love to Turner and the rest of this
wonderful team.
Sarah Walker (Web Mistress):
Sarah is excited to be doing the web design for such a fabulous production! She is a recent graduate of Emerson College in Boston, MA and now works in the marketing field coordinating mobile marketing efforts for Starbucks. Sarah has loved taking a break from the "working world" to work with a very organized and dedicated production team on Johnny.
Sleepless Theatre Company:
In 1998, Jeff Ray, a drama teacher at Mira Loma High School (Sacramento, CA), formed a community based theatre as a forum for his students to expand their theatrical talents outside the confines of the educational system. Sadly, Jeff Ray passed away on June 3, 2002. However, before his unfortunate passing, Ray inspired a core group of young adults to continue what he started for them four years earlier. After successfully mounting and closing two shows without Ray's guidance (an original work written by Matthew Craggs called I Think I'll Have A Sarsaparilla! and All In The Timing by David Ives), the cast and crew, all between the ages of 15 and 23, were more determined than ever to continue bringing quality community theatre to Sacramento. The result was making LOOKOUT! an officially incorporated non-profit company in the fall of 2002. Two more successful productions shortly followed their incorporation: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard and Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang.
In the summer of 2004, LOOKOUT! was privileged to produce Dalton Trumbo's monumental work, Johnny Got His Gun, written for the stage by Bradley Rand Smith. Ricardo Pérez-Gonzalez brought this one-man show to its first Sacramento showing.
The goal of LOOKOUT! Players has always been to perform quality theatre in the Sacramento area while providing unique opportunities for hopeful thespians that have not had chances for community theatre experience. The members of LOOKOUT! want to give other people the chance they were given: to come into a community theatre with little to no experience but lots of passion, and help to put on a show. Sleepless Theatre Company is the recent East Coast addition to the LOOKOUT! Players’ community. Functioning as the New York division of LOOKOUT!, Sleepless Theatre Company hopes to achieve that same sense of community and passion that LOOKOUT! inspires in Sacramento. Brought to New York by a Sacramento native, the Sleepless Division is based around a cadre of fresh graduates of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, who are here launching their professional careers.