Charlie's waiting by mêlisa annis
|
March 29th - April 14th
Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30PM Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00PM Monday, April 8th at 7:30PM Buy tickets here Theaterlab 357 West 36th Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10018 TLab Shares Hosts. SYNOPSIS: Charlie’s Waiting, a world premiere by 2017 Parity Commission winner Mêlisa Annis, follows two women the night before their wedding. A very pregnant Louise is busy with all the planning while her fiancée Kelly busies herself feeding the goats. Everything is going to plan, that is until Louise is forced to confront questions of trust and intimacy, and she discovers how quickly plans can get derailed.
|
Tony Nominee Xanthe Elbrick to Lead Cast of Mêlisa Annis' Charlie's Waiting
by Olivia Clement, Playbill, December 21, 2018
Xanthe Elbrick to Lead Cast In Parity Productions's World Premiere of Charlie's Waiting by Mêlisa Annis
BWW News Desk, Broadway World, December 14, 2018
by Olivia Clement, Playbill, December 21, 2018
Xanthe Elbrick to Lead Cast In Parity Productions's World Premiere of Charlie's Waiting by Mêlisa Annis
BWW News Desk, Broadway World, December 14, 2018
|
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Mêlisa Annis’ work has been seen at or developed by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Lark with Dorset Theatre Festival at the Theresa Rebeck Writers Colony, The New School, Primary Stages, ESPA*Drills, Tangent Theater, About Face Theatre (Ireland), RAL Productions and her play United Front was a finalist for the Lark’s Playwrights Week. She won the Margaret Lamb Creative Writing Prize, and was the recipient of the Fordham Summer Fellowship while studying for her MFA in playwriting at Fordham/Primary Stages. Mêlisa has written for new children’s show Jessy and Nessy for Amazon Studios, and is currently working with Conde Nast on creative content for an upcoming puppet driven campaign. Mêlisa’s play Aberfan was published in Clockhouse Literary Magazine (Goddard University) and her play Fit for a King was illustrated and published in Fourth Wall Magazine. Mêlisa has also worked as a dramaturg for Primary Stages (A Walk With Heifetz) and loves working with new writers to help develop their work. As a director Mêlisa has worked at The Arcola Theater (UK), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Shadowland Stages and Primary Stages to name a few select theater companies. Mêlisa is a frequent contributor to BBC Wales factual programming, and has written personal essays for The Western Mail (UK) and BBC Online. Mêlisa also teaches at the Dramatic Writing department at NYU. Mêlisa Annis is a 2017 winner of our Annual Parity Commission. |
|
|
Xanthe Elbrick (Louise)
Broadway: Coram Boy (Tony Award, Drama Desk Nom, Theatre World Award Winner) Off-Broadway: Candida (Drama Desk Award), Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Leaves of Glass, The Alice Complex, Peter And The Starcatcher (original workshop cast). Sith Inquisitor: STAR WARS The Old Republic, Body Of Lies (dir. Ridley Scott), Igraine The Brave (Parents’ Choice Award). Trained Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art, Actors Studio MFA. |
|
Stephanie Heitman (Kelly)
Stephanie trained at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Shakespeare & Company and UCB and is a current member of THE BATS; resident acting company of The Flea Theatre. Recent work includes A Snowfall in Berlin directed by Shaun Peknic at Teatro Latea and The Cutthroat Series: Grand Guignol at The Flea Theatre. In the U.K. Stephanie worked extensively with Castle Theatre Company and performed in regional tours of Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing and Arcadia. Voiceover work includes spots for MTV and Kindle. |
|
Amy Scanlon (Annie)
Amy is thrilled to be joining Parity Productions for Charlie’s Waiting. Training includes: Film and Theatre BA, Musical Theatre RADA, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Theatre credits include: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, It Runs in the family, Midsummer Nights Dream, Blithe Spirit (Gallery Players), For Now (NYFringe), The Rental (The Secret Theatre), Scenes of a Sexual Nature (Water People Theatre), Balladeers Play to the Moon (Joe’s Pub). www.amy-scanlon.com |
|
Meganne George (Production Designer)
Broadway: A Wonderful Life (Actor’s Fund Benefit). Off-Broadway: She Calls Me Firefly, The Brightness of Heaven (Cherry Lane) For mabou mines: Glass Guignol (CS 122 inaugural production), Medea, Finn (NYSCA commission grant), DollHouse (2012 Elliot Norton Nomination-Design); Red Beads, Cara Lucia (ATW Hewes Nomination, Best Design 1st Irish Fest 2011); Superpowers, Orpheus and Eurydice, Children of Ararat, Hurray for Iceboy. John Goldfarb Please Come Home (FringeNY Best Costume Design 2007) Regional/International: For Heaven’s Sake (Buffalo), Grey Gardens, As Bees in Honey Drown, No Way to Treat A Lady, Radio Gals, Choeophorae (Patras), Lucia’s Chapters and A Prelude to a Death in Venice (Kilkenney Arts Festival), Jihad, Peola’s Passing and God Don’t Exist for Girls from Brooklyn, Code Blue and Sublet (NPTC at Sala Seki Sano, Bogota) Bronx Opera (14 seasons) Film/Industrial: mabou mines’ Dollhouse (Arte, France); Don’t Nobody Love the Game (PBS Independent Lens); Sesame Street Celebration Parade, (Beaches Resorts). |
|
|
Calvin Anderson (Lighting Designer)
Calvin Anderson is a lighting and projection designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Select local projects have been at BAM, The Joyce, NYLA, Symphony Space, and others. Outside of NYC, highlights have been Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, Mixed Blood (Minneapolis), City Theater (Pittsburgh), and Perseverance Theatre (Alaska). Calvin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and production manager with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret (Philadelphia, PA). Calvin is a member of Wingspace Design Collective and USA Local 829. |
|
Parity Productions 2018 Developmental Readings. Pictured clockwise from top left: Xanthe Elbrick, Mêlisa Annis, Xanthe Elbrick, Stephanie Heitman, and Amy Scanlon. Photos by Ashley Garrett.
|
Left Pictured: Annual Parity Gala, October 2017.
Anna Frankl-Duval and Liz Jasicki. Photography by Carlotta Brentan. Right Pictured: Annual Parity Gala, September 2018. Maggie Mason and Liz Jasicki. Photos by Ashley Garrett. |
