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THE GALLERIST

by Fengar Gael
Directed by Catherine Tripp
Featuring Company Member Scott McCormick with Sara Barker, Blair Bowers, Megan Reichelt, Louise Schlegel, Matthew Schleigh, David Winkler

Designed by Company Member David C. Ghatan (Set Designer) with Brian S. Allard (Lighting Designer), Lauren Cucarola (Costume Design), Veronica J. Lancaster (Sound Designer) and Justin Titley (Props Designer).

World Premiere
January 23 - February 19, 2012
The Rorshach Theatre at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC 20002
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While discovering some forgotten paintings, a Manhattan gallery owner unearths a sordid family history of repressed passions and animal possession set against the backdrop of London between the Wars.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
“Gael has impressively woven together The Gallerist’s far-fetched premise, along with multiple intersecting timelines, to create an unconventional and suspenseful tale. Director Catherine Tripp’s production is further heightened by an impeccably cast ensemble of performers.”
- Washingtonian

“Gothic thrillers, The Picture of Dorian Gray and movies like “Rebecca” send you swooning, alight from the Victorian fainting couch and get on over to the Atlas Performing Arts Center for this world premiere production under the imaginative direction of Catherine Tripp. It’s freaky good fun.”
–DC Theatre Scene

“A fusion of gothic horror, Freudian intrigue and lesbian romance, Fengar Gael’s drama, in a world premiere by Rorschach Theatre, is tantalizingly oddball.”
-- Washington Post

“:A disturbing high tea, with evil animal spirits and a hot lady who gets possessed by a monkey… What you see will most certainly be a surprise…you can trust Rorschach to give you a night of something new, and you can trust that they will do it like pros.”
–The Pink Line Project

“Rorschach Theatre continues to maintain a standard of excellence among its artists with their wonderful production of The Gallerist. With this production Rorschach will surely see it rise as one of the top tier theaters in DC. Catherine Tripp molds a wonderful cast with mastery and wit. The production is entertaining and the conceits are fun. The cast is just delightful and each perform several bits of emotional and sometimes physical acrobatics as they switch from character to character.”
– MD Theatre Guide

Resonance Ensemble invites you to join us for 
a Fall Reading Series next week.

This is your opportunity to hear some of the exciting new plays
under consideration for our upcoming season
and be a part of the development process!

All readings take place at 7:00pm at:
The Directors Company Studio, 311 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor 

Wednesday, October 26th:
My Romeo... by Vincent Sessa
Directed by Alberto Bonilla
(inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)

Thursday, October 27th:
The Gallerist by Fengar Gael
Directed by Deborah Savadge
(inspired by Shakespeare's Othello)
with Olivia Horton, Jed Peterson, David Crommett, Miguel Govea
Irene Sofia Lucio, Kendall Rileigh, Kathryn Velvel Jones, Stephanie Batchelder

Friday, October 28th:
False Prophets by James Ross
Directed by Christine Cirker
(inspired by Ben Jonson's The Silent Woman)

Seating is VERY limited, so please rsvp to info@ResonanceEnsemble.org.

Our Fall Reading Series is made possible in part by
The Nancy Quinn Fund (a project of ART/ New York),
The Edith Meiser Foundation,
and the Dramatist Guild Fund.

Coming in 2012

MultiStages NEW WORKS CONTEST FESTIVAL AND WINNER

¡CENOTE! 
REMEMBRANCE
LITTLE VOICES
THE ISLAND OF NO TOMORROWS

W inner of MultiStages 2011 New Works Contest is Fengar Gael’s THE ISLAND OF NO TOMORROWS ,   a  Utopian Musical Fantasia. October 2012 world premiere.

And the Finalists are … Isabella Russell-Ides' ¡CENOTE!, a Mayan Historical Fantasy that Transcends Time; Jeffrey Harper’s REMEMBRANCE, an Imaginative Meditation on Memory and Enduring Love In Stalinist Russia; and Chris Longo’s LITTLE VOICES, An Evening of Dreams and Poetry with the Absolutely Fabulous Katherine Mansfield.  

THE WILL GREER THEATRICUM BOTANICUM

WOMEN WRITERS NURTURED BY "BOTANICUM SEEDLINGS"

READINGS OF NEW PLAYS ON JUNE 5, 12 & 19

"Botanicum Seedlings," The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's development series for playwrights, will showcase three diverse female writers as part of its 2011 Spring Playreadings: Fengar Gael's The Gallerist on Sunday, June 5; The Versailles by Erica Jones on Sunday, June 12; and Lucile Lichtblau's The English Bride on Sunday, June 19. All readings begin at 11 am, and admission is free.

"We don't intentionally look for female playwrights," says Theatricum playwright-in-residence Jennie Webb. "But as it turns out, over half of the plays we support are written by women - this at a time when only 20% of the works on Los Angeles stages are female-authored. We're glad we can do our part to help get fresh voices and unheard stories out there."

Initiated in the fall of 2002, the Botanicum Seedlings series acts as an adjunct to Theatricum Botanicum's Summer Repertory Season, commencing each year before the summer activities are underway, continuing with spring playreadings as the season opens, then culminating after the season winds down with a fall workshop production or playreadings.

"BOTANICUM SEEDLINGS"

SPRING PLAYREADINGS

• Sunday, June 5 at 11 am - The Gallerist by Fengar Gael, directed by Sara Israel

The story of a demonic monkey's ability to wreck havoc through generations, The Gallerist travels in and out of the past for a wonderfully macabre look at sordid family history and repressed passions, artistic and otherwise.

• Sunday, June 5 at 11 am -  The Versailles by Erica Jones, directed by William Dennis Hunt

A comic tale of yuppie paradise lost, The Versailles charts the lives of five condominium owners as they fight for their survival and their honor in the aftermath of the real estate boom and bust.

• Sunday, June 19 at 11 am - The English Bride by Lucile Lichtblau, directed by Julie Retzlaff

Part thriller, part love story, The English Bride explores an aborted terrorist attempt from the point of view of its three characters: a Mossad agent, an English woman and an Arab Israeli man.

The Botanicum Seedlings Spring Playreadings take place in Theatricum's intimate S. Mark Taper Foundation Pavilion. Admission to the playreadings is free and open to the public; donations to support this series will be gratefully accepted

The Cantor's Tale was produced at the Hunger Artists Theatre Company of Fullerton, California in January 2011, directed by Jill Johnson.

MORPHOGENESIS

by Fengar Gael, directed by Lorca Peress
March 7, 2011 at 8PM
In the LPTW New Play Festival!
A futuristic female Frankenstein employs her womb to incubate a new aquatic species.  Is it a genetic experiment gone tragically awry or the solution to our survival?
Featuring: Richarda Abrams* Kathryn Layng* Jed Peterson*
Taleen Dersdepanian
Music by Anika Paris – Choreograph y, Jennifer Chin - Director’s Asst. Julian Sapala
Festival Producers:  Rachel Reiner, DeVida Jenkins
Festival Staff:  Anita Ross* PSM - Joyce Liao, Lighting - Kina Park, Sets

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* members of AEA

The Ushers' Ball

Picture from the show, below. A great review if you click here.

by Fengar Gael
Original Music by Dennis McCarthy
Directed by Michael Barakiva

The Usher invites his guests to be swept into a ghostly tale of love and loss during World War One. The play explores the futility of war and the psychological repercussions on a young soldier and the woman who loves him more than life.

May 6-8, 11-15, 18-22, & 25-27 | 8PM
The Shop Theater @ CAP21 | 18 W. 18th St, 6th Floor
$18 | www.cap21.org
Acting Ensemble:
Lawrence Arancio*, Jennifer Joan Thompson*, Gene Gillette*,Curzon Dobell*, Linda Larson*, Bonnie Black*, Michael Hicks*, Stephen Bel Davies*, Nick Cianfrogna*, Adam Covalt, Jake Green, Ronan Babbitt

Stage Manager: Beth Stegman*
Production Manager: Jackee Terbay

Creative Team:
Scenic Design: Shoko Kambara
Costume Design: Arnulfo Maldonado
Lighting Design: Greg Goff
Incidental Music and Sound Design by Shane Rettig
Assistant Director: Tim Chaffee
Music Director: Will Aronson
Dialects: Susan Cameron
*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. Equity Approved Showcase

The number to call for tickets: 212-352- 3101. Or order electronically at the following link: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/66/1272756600000/prm/

This forthcoming January 2012, The Gallerist (A Tale of Desecration and Desire) will be produced at the Rorschach Theatre in Washington D. C. and The Island of No Tomorrows, the winner of the MultiStages New PlayCompetition, will be produced in New York in October of 2012.

Updated: 01/07/2011