KAOS

KAOS Company
1st row, from left to right: Sophie Bortolussi, Julia Wilkins, Gabrielle Malone, Daria Deflorian, Cristina Spina.

2nd row, from left to right: Jim Iorio, Vito Di Bella, John T. La Barbera, Irving Grossman, Felix Blaska, Richard Sosinksy, Rocco Sisto, George De La Pena, Lorenzo Iacona.

3rd row, from left to right: Robert Wersinger, Rebecca Wender, Matthew Mohr.

FELIX BLASKA
NYTW: Workshops of THE PIRANDELLO PROJECT (dir. Martha Clarke). Theatre: VERS LA FLAMME (dir. Martha Clarke, Lincoln Center Theater), SOULS OF NAPLES (TFANA). Dance: MEN DANCERS (produced by Pilobolus at Jacob’s Pillow). Film: Romance and Cigarettes.

SOPHIE BORTOLUSSI
NYTW debut. Workshops of ANN THE WORD (Lincoln Center, dir. Martha Clarke), Martha Graham Dance Company (dir. Terese Capuccilli, Christine Dakin), Martha Graham Dance Ensemble (dir. Kenneth Topping), Drastic Action (dir. Aviva Geismar), AMDaT (dir. Andrea Haenggi), Tysan Dance.

GEORGE DE LA PENA
NYTW: VIENNA: LUSTHAUS (REVISITED). Broadway: THE RED SHOES, ON YOUR TOES, WOMAN OF THE YEAR. Off-Broadway: BEAUTY OF THE FATHER (Ma-nhattan Theatre Club). Film: Nijinsky, Kuffs, Brain Donors, One Last Dance.

DARIA DEFLORIAN
NYTW debut. As an actor: THE MISANTHROPE, ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE (Santarcangelo International Festival); OEDIPUS REX, OEDIPUS AT COLONUS (Teatro Argentina, Rome, dir. Mario Martone); IN SEARCH OF TRUE WORDS (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). As creator and director: HAND TO HAND FIGHTING (texts by John Cassavetes and Dorothy Porter, Teatro India, Rome); TORPIGNATTARA (texts by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Teatro Mercadante, Naples).

VITO DI BELLA
NYTW debut. Theatre: 70 ANGELS FOR A FAÇADE, THE GIORGIO ARMANI STORY, T.S. ELIOT: SHADOW OF…(dir. Robert Wilson); MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Festival el Greco-Barcelona); HAMLET (Festival d’Automne of Odeon Paris). TV: Series regular on “Un Posto al Sole.” Training: Theatrical School of Turin with Luca Ronconi.

LORENZO IACONA
NYTW debut. NYC theatre: TAP DANCE (TFANA), SOCIAL SECURITY. Italy: LIFE IS A DREAM, DEVIL’S MIRROR, WAR PLAYS (dir. L. Ronconi); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (dir. M. Dioume); THE WELL-BEING; LYSISTRATA (dir. M. Avogadro). Film and TV: Now and Forever (dir. V. Verdecchi), Under the Black Sun (dir. E. Verra), Soccer Never Stops (dir. D. Nogueira), “The Seasons of the Heart” (dir. A. Grimaldi).

JIM IORIO
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: A STONE CARVER (SoHo Playhouse). Regional theatre: THE VENETIAN TWINS (the Guthrie), Benedick in MUCH ADO (Portland Center Stage), Leontes in A WINTER’S TALE (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Arizona Theatre, San Jose Rep, Missouri Rep, Geva Theatre, Asolo Theatre. Film and TV: Petty Crimes, “Law & Order:CI,” “Law & Order:SVU,” “Queens Supreme,” “One Life To Live.”

GABRIELLE MALONE
NYTW: VIENNA: LUSTHAUS (revisited). Off-Broadway: BELLE EPOQUE (Lincoln Center Theater). Opera: CUNNING LITTLE VIXON (San Francisco Opera); MERRY WIDOW, MOSES AND ARON, Le Sacre du Printemp (Metropolitan Opera). Dance Companies: Twyla Tharp, Stephen Petronio, Irene Hultman, Lar Lubovitch.

MATTHEW MOHR
NYTW debut. Dance Training: The Juilliard School, BFA from SUNY Purchase. As dancer: The Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1994 to 2001). As designer: sets for Dance As Ever since 1996 and interior design for “Rapture Cafe” opening December 2006.

ROCCO SISTO
NYTW: QUILLS (Obie Award), TALE OF THE TIGER. Broadway: AMADEUS, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Off-Broadway: THE WINTER’S TALE (Obie Award, Public Theater), IN THE MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEI-MER (Keen Co.), ANAIS NIN (Beckett Theatre). Film and TV: Donnie Brasco, Eraser, Lorenzo’s Oil, The American Astronaut, “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order,” “CSI: Las Vegas,” “JAG,” “Jordan’s Crossing,” “Star Trek: TNG.”

CRISTINA SPINA
NYTW debut. Theatre: Cassandra in THE TROJAN WOMEN (Greek Theatre of Siracuse, dir. Mario Gas); Isabel in MEASURE FOR MEASURE; IL CANDELAIO, THAT TERRIBLE MESS IN VIA MERULANA (dir. Luca Ronconi); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE WEDDING (dir. Carlo Cecchi); ORGY, THE TRILOGY OF VILLEGGIATURA (dir. Massimo Castri). Film: La Via Degli Angeli (dir. Pupi Avati), Ecuba (dir. Irena Papas).

REBECCA WENDER
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: BELLE EPOQUE (Lincoln Center Theater). Dance: Marisa Beatty, Alexandra Beller, Christian Canciani, Juliette Mapp, Parker Pracjek. Film: Romance and Cigarettes.

ROBERT WERSINGER
NYTW debut. Broadway: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, CONTACT. Off-Broadway: BELLE EPOQUE (Lincoln Center Theater); CAN-CAN, BLOOMER GIRL (Encores!). Regional: WEST SIDE STORY, BRIGA-DOON. Film and TV: The Producers, Centerstage, The Nutcracker, “All My Children,” “Live from Lincoln Center.” NFAA award recipient.

JULIA WILKINS
NYTW: VIENNA: LUSTHAUS (REVISITED). New York City Opera: ORFEO ED EURIDICE. Dance: THE SLEEPING BEA-UTY NOTEBOOK (Donald Byrd), RED SQUALS II (Gus Solomons, Jr.), 82 DECIBELS (Larry Keigwin), dass dance (4 seasons). Film: Across the Universe, Untitled Woods Project, Petrouchka.

IRVING GROSSMAN
Trumpet
NYTW debut. Training: University of Miami (Bachelor’s degree), Manhattan School of Music (Master’s degree). Recordings: David Berger and the Sultans of Swing. Performs at Birdland every Tuesday night.

JOHN T. LA BARBERA
Mandolin/Guitar/Co-Music Director
NYTW debut. Theatre composer: SOULS OF NAPLES, RETZACH, YERMA. Folk Opera: Voyage of the Black Madonna, Don Giovanni and Pulcinella, La Lupa, Stabat Mater. Film composer: Chidren of Fate (Academy Award nomination); Sacco and Vanzetti; Tarantella; What’s Up, Scarlet?; Neapol-itan Heart. Awards: The Italian Oral History Institute Award, John Lennon Songwriters Award, ASCAP, NYSCA. Author: upcoming Southern Italian Mandolin Tunes. Founder of I Giullari di Piazza Italian Music and Theater Company.

RICHARD SOSINSKY
Contrabass
NYTW debut. Training: Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School. Orchestras: principal bass of New York Grand Opera; assistant principal bass of Riverside Symphony; Brooklyn Philhar-monic; American Composers Orchestra; New York City Opera; American Ballet Theater; and Glimmerglass Opera.

MARTHA CLARKE
Conceiver/Director/Choreographer
NYTW: VIENNA: LUSTHAUS (REVISITED). Other selected works: Theatre: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (A.R.T), BELLE EPOQUE (Lincoln Center Theater), The Garden of Earthly Delights, Vienna: LusthauS, Miracolo d'am-ore, Endangered species, Alice'sAdventures UndergrounD, An Uncertain Hour, THE HUNGER ART-IST, Vers la flamme. Opera: The Magic Flute (Glimmerglass Opera, Canadian Opera Company), Cosi fan tutte (Glimmerglass Opera), Marco Polo (Munich Biennale, Hong Kong Festival, New York City Opera), Orpheus and Euridice (English National Opera, New York City Opera). Co-founder: Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Choreography performed by: Nederlands Dans Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, The Martha Graham Company. Recipient of a MacArthur Award and grants from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations.

FRANK PUGLIESE
Text Adaptor
Off-Broadway: Aven’U Boys (The Houseman, Obie Award); HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS (Drama Dept.); The King of Connecticut, THE Talk, The Alarm (Naked Angels). Regional: THE CRAZY GIRL (New York Stage & Film, Gloucester Stage). Film and TV: Born to Run, Undefeated, Shot in the Heart, “Homicide,” “Fallen Angels,” “Street-time,” “The Beat,” “Law and Order.” Teacher at Columbia University and The New School. Member: Naked Angels, Drama Dept.

GIOVANNI PAPOTTO
Dramaturg/Assistant Director
Author: POINTLESS (in development), a play on string theory (Teatro Metastasio, Italy and Teatro Nacional, Portugal); SHOOT OUT; A EST (Teatro Mercadante, Italy); OUT OF JOINT (with Enrico Grezzi, RAI Radio 3 Italy), various radiodramas and documentaries for the Italian national radio broadcaster RAI. Assistant director: SILENCE OF COMMUNISTS (dir. Luca Ronconi) in the framework of “Domani,” the cultural program of the Winter Olympics in Torino 2006; also in Russia (Baltiski Dom, St. Petersburg) and Germany (Zimmertheater, Tuebingen).

SCOTT PASK
Scenic Designer
NYTW: The Gimmick, Slanguage, Love’s Fowl. Broadway: The Pillowman (Tony Award), THE VERTICAL HOUR, The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, The Wedding Singer, Urinetown, Sweet Charity, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, Nine (Roundabout Theatre Company), Take Me Out, Amour. Lucille Lortel Award, Hewes Design Award, Bessie Award.

DONNA ZAKOWSKA
Costume Designer
Off-Broadway: BOYS’ LIFE, COOKING THE WORLD (Lincoln Center Theater); EL GRECO, THE RED MADONNA (INTAR); THE END OF THE WORLD (Public Theater); SOULS OF NAPLES (Duke on 42nd Street); ARTURO UI (CSC). Opera: L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (Juill-iard), SALOME (Virginia Opera). Big Apple Circus (9 seasons). Film: Harriet the Spy, The Pallbearer, Polish Wedding, Forces of Nature, Empire Falls, Romance and Cigarettes.

CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND
Lighting Designer
NYTW: EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, FIRST LOVE, SLAVS!, THE REZ SISTERS, BLOWN SIDEWAYS THROUGH LIFE, TRAPS, OWNERS, MAD FOREST, LOVE AND ANGER. Broadway: SHINING CITY, WELL, AWAKE AND SING! (Tony nom.), RABBIT HOLE, IN MY LIFE, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards), SEVEN GUITARS (Tony nom.), among others. Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

TAL YARDEN
Projection Designer
With Ivo van Hove: Wagner’s RING CYCLE (Vlaamse Opera), Shakespeare’s ROMAN PLAYS, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), RENT (Joop van den Ende). Off-Broadway: NIXON’S NIXON, DENNIS CLEVELAND, THE KING IS DEAD, NOT GARDEN, TIGHT RIGHT WHITE, QUOTATIONS FROM A RUINED CITY.

JILL JAFFE
Music Director
NYTW: VIENNA: LUSTHAUS (REVISITED). As Music Director: BELLE EPOQUE (Lincoln Center Theater), CASANOVA (Public) As composer and music director: PERICLES (NYSF); MARISOL (Public); VIENNA: LUSTHAUS; HUNGER ARTIST (MTG); TRIUMPH OF LOVE (CSC); MISSING PERSONS (Atlantic Theatre Co.); SLAVS! (La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum); CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, MISSISSIPPI NUDE (BTF); GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUAN (Yale). Numerous ASCAP Awards. Violinist and violist for concerts and recordings internationally.

ANITA ROSS
Production Stage Manager
Broadway: JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, NIGHT MUST FALL, THE SUNSHINE BOYS, THE GIN GAME, STATE FAIR, SHE LOVES ME. Off-Broadway: THE PERSIANS, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU THINK YOU ARE (National Actors Theatre); ALL IN THE TIMING; THE RIVER; SHAKESPEARE’S CABARET II. National Tours: THE GIN GAME, STATE FAIR, A FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, BABY.

CYRILLE BLACKBURN
Assistant Stage Manager
Broadway: AWAKE AND SING!, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, BLONDE IN THE THUNDERBIRD, SLY FOX, JEROME ROBBINS’ BROADWAY. Off-Broadway: TOUCH; ANTIGONE PROJECT (WPP); RIGHT YOU ARE, PERSIANS, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (National Actors Theatre). Workshops: SAVING AIMEE, THE NIGHT-INGALE.

TONY RANDALL
THEATRICAL FUND
The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund was founded after his passing in 2004. The Fund aims to carry on Tony’s commitment to the theatre and to the performing arts by funding arts organizations around the country for the production of live performance and for the education of the students in their respective communities. KAOS is the recipient of the 2006 Tony Randall Grant.

For more information on the Tony Randall Theatrical Fund, please visit http://www.tonyrandalltheatricalfund.org/

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