JESSIE RUANE (Jess) is thrilled to be working with White Horse Theater Company! NY Credits: The Good Life (Manhattan Theatre Festival), and the ongoing Tuff Boys 24 Hour Musical (The People’s Improv Theatre). TV/Film: Brooklyn Moving Company (Winner Best Comedy Pilot at SeriesFest 2019), Scream Live!( MTV), Aleppo, NY84 (Winner Paris International Film Festival). www.jessieruane.com @JessieRuane
JOANNA PARSON (Jane)NY Theatre includes: In Love with the Arrow Collar Man; A Man of No Importance and The Wild Party for B-Side Productions; The Audience and All the Way Home with Transport Group; Thicker Than Water (EST), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (Gallery Players). Original work includes two co-created cabarets: Not Helpful: pretty songs and feminine harms, and Reddy or Not, a comedy tribute to Helen Reddy. National Tour: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Regional includes: Weston Playhouse, Depot Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Human Race, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival (founding member). TV/Film includes Law and Order: SVU and Amazon’s Red Oaks.
AMY FULGHAM (Darby) is making her debut with White Horse Theater. Other notable NYC productions include: Evie in Tongue of a Birddirected by Linda S. Nelson, The Black Gloveand Kristina(August Strindberg Rep), Women Playing Hamlet (Tongue in Cheek Productions), 8 Reindeer Monologues (Artistic Pride Productions), and the Ross Howard Festival at New Light Theater. She has created characters in original shows at New Dance Theater, Metropolitan Playhouse, Theater Uzume in the NY Fringe, Cosmic Orchid, New Perspectives, and Art House Productions in Jersey City. Before moving to NYC, she worked regionally in Chicago, Michigan, North and South Carolina, and Texas as well as the East coast tour of A Christmas Carolwith Nebraska Theater Caravan. She holds an MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama. Proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA. www.amyfulgham.com.
JOSEPH CASSESE(Kip) is very pleased to perform again with The White Horse Theater Company. He was previously seen in the WHTC production of I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow at The Players. Stage credits include: The Lepers at Ensemble Studio Theatre One Act Marathon Dir. By Matthew Penn, Kaffee-A Few Good Men, McMurphy-One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Run For Your Wife, Waiting for Lefty, Frankie & Johnny In The Claire De Lune. Film: A. Marinelli’s Acoustic Spaceand Marital Arts, two short films that were featured at Cannes Film Festival, Riding in Cars With Boysand many indie shorts & features. www.josephcassese.com.
ROD SWEITZER (Eddie) is the Founding Artistic Director of White Horse Theater Company. WHTC stage credits include: Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Small Craft Warnings, Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, States of Shock, A Lie of the Mind and True West. Other NYC: Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry (PRTT). LA credits include: A View from the Bridge (PRT), Foote Notes (Open fist) The Idiot Box (Open Fist), Out in the Woods (Zeitgeist Theater Company), The Gun (Electric Lodge). Film credits include: Christ Rising, They Want Dick Dickster, A Hooker and a Dirt Road End, Daddy's Little Girl, and Psycho Cop II. TV Credits include: Rent an Elf, House of Deadly Secrets, Married with Secrets, Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion, Guiding Light, The Bold and The Beautiful, As The World Turns.
CYNDY A. MARION (Writer/Director) is the Producing Artistic Director of White Horse Theater Company. A native New Yorker, Cyndy was named one of nytheatre.com's “People of the Year” for 2007. She directed the world premiere of her first play You Are Perfectfor WHTC as well as the recent Los Angeles production. Other WHTC directing credits include: A Cavalier For Milady, A Perfect AnalysisGiven ByA Parrot, Eyes For Consuela, I Can't Imagine Tomorrow, 'night, Mother, Suddenly Last Summer, Clothes For A Summer Hotel, Small Craft Warnings, In The Bar of A Tokyo Hotel, Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, States of Shock, A Lie Of The Mind, True West and the workshop productions of HALF andFreezer Dreams. Other directing credits include: the world premieres of The Book of Lambertand Mina by Obie-winner Leslie Lee (La MaMa E.T.C.), PB&J(NYC International Fringe Festival), La Turistaand Red Cross(Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.), Twister With An Octopusand Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry(The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre), Fool ForLove and Mud(Brooklyn College), Last Train To Nibroc(American Theatre of Actors), 12 Angry Men andFighting the Gorilla (Riant Theatre) and The Mandala(The White Heron Inc.). She has directed readings of new plays for WHTC, La MaMa E.T.C., New Dramatists, Theater for the New City, and PRTT. Cyndy holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College where she was the 2001 recipient of the Joel Zwick Scholarship in directing. She is Member of the Board of Directors of The Players, a Co-Founder of The Producers Circle, and a member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and The Dramatists Guild.
ANDIS GJONI (Resident Set Designer) WHTC set design credits include: Eyes forConsuela and HALF. Recent successes include: the set and costume design of the opera The Consul,the production of Is He Deadby Mark Twain (sets, costumes & directing), La Serva Padrona(sets & directing),Destination: Opera Festivalin Ocean Grove NJ, Hansel & Grettel(NJ State Opera), Porgy & Bess(co-directing, costumes and sets), West Side Storyand Kiss Me Kate(sets and costumes at the National Opera Theater of Albania). Other design credits include Mina(La MaMa), Uncle Vanya(Sonet Repertory), The Open Couple,PB&J (NY Fringe Festival) The Higher Education ofKhalid Amir (NY Midtown Festival), The Book of Lambert (La MaMa), The Star Without Name, Outside it Snows,Miss Julie,The Servants,and the set design of the opera VillaDiodati (45th Street Theater) for which in 2008 he received honorific mentioning for the set design at NY Musical Festival. He has participated in many international theater festivals in the U.S. and Europe. His achievements include also solo exhibitions of art works and installations in different countries. Andis just published his book about his theater creations entitled The Passion for the Stage. He is a director of the board of the not for profit organization Albanian Excellence, which promotes Albanian culture and heritage and is a great supporter of the performing arts community.
BRIAN ALDOUS(Lighting Designer) has been lighting in NYC for over 25 years, beginning with En Garde Arts (Crowbar in the then-ruinous Victory Theatre), Circle Rep (Regina Taylor’s Escape from Paradise) and the Blue Man Group (Tubes, still at Astor Place).Designs since then include: A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer and John Guare’s Marco Polo Sings a Solo for Signature, Mr. Gurney’s Crazy Mary at Playwrights’ Horizons, Russell Lees’ Nixon’s Nixon for MCC and Peggy Stafford’s Motel Cherry at HERE. His latest design was for The Invention of Tragedy by Mac Wellman at the Flea. He is Lighting Director for Symphony Space and teaches at CCNY.
DEREK NYE LOCKWOOD (Resident Costume Designer) is excited to be designing for White Horse Theater once again! Other White Horse Productions include: You Are Perfect, A Perfect Analysis Given by A Parrot, Eyes For Consuela, Night Mother, and A Cavalier For Milady. Other credits include; Legally Blonde the international tour, South Pacific, Mary Poppins, Titanic, Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me Kate, andWhite Christmas directed by Randy Skinner. He is currently Coordinating costumes for William Ivy Long’s Dreamgirls going to Shanghai and Tokyo. Derek also enjoys designing for Film, and TV.
JOE GIANONO (Resident Composer/Arranger/Incidental Music) Joe composes and produces music for all media. The music of Broken Story,You Are Perfect and his latest cds, Story Teller, On The “B” Side of Life and Cinematic Orchestral Musicamong others are available on iTunes, Amazon, Cdbaby and all major digital distributors and can be heard on YouTube. Please visit: www.joegianono.com
ANDY EVAN COHEN(Resident Sound Designer) is excited to work again with WHTC. Previous credits include You Are Perfect, Eyes for Consuela, and 'night, Mother. Other credits include off-Broadway's God Shows Up, My Parsifal Conductor, Imagining Madoff, and Pushkin; off-off-Broadway work includes Basement at the Gene Frankel and over 50 productions with Animus, Aquila, Boomerang, New Light, Nylon Fusion, Red Fern, Strindberg Rep., T. Schreiber, and others. www.rolypolyproductions.com
VANESSA R. BOMBARDIERI(Associate Director / Video Producer) is the Managing Director of White Horse Theater Company. She produced the video for WHTC’s LA production of You Are Perfect. Recent directing credits include: staged readings of Cyndy A. Marion's Broken Story(WHTC) and Mary Goggin’s solo show Runaway Princess (PIT’s SOLOCOM.). Other WHTC credits include: Assoc. Producer for Hedy!at The Players, Assoc. Director for A Cavalier for Milady & Dramaturg: You Are Perfect(NYC Premiere & Toronto). Vanessa worked as Assistant Director on Cyndy A. Marion’s production of Mina(by Obie-winner Leslie Lee at LaMaMa) and PB&J(NYC Fringe Festival). She also worked as an Associate Producer for Crossing Jamaica Avenue's production of Thousand YearsWaitingat PS 122. Regional and Summer stock credits include: The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival and The New Repertory Theatre. She holds a BA in Theatre Directing from Bard College.
JEN WIENER (Resident Production Stage Manager) Jen is thrilled to be working on Broken Storywith such an extraordinary group of people. Past White Horse Productions include: A Cavalier For Milady, A Perfect Analysis Given By A Parrot, You Are Perfect and Eyes For Consuela. Other notable works include Your Alice (BAM, Edinburgh Fringe), The Sisters (Soho Shakes), Richard III, (Scranton Shakes), Gilded (BAM workshop) and Gemini (Theatre Row, KOY Productions). Thanks to her friends & family for the support and special thanks to Mike for helping to keep her fed and rested through countless tech weeks!
KRISTINA VOZNICK (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be a part of her first show with White Horse Theater! Other theatre credits include Painted Alice (Long Island City Artists), Crushing Baby Animals (Dirt [Contained]), Into the Woods andThe Cradle Will Rock (Theater 2020).
SYDNEY DENNISON (Assistant Director) as a first timer with White Horse Theater, she is ecstatic to be on board! Sydney is a Brooklyn based Director and Dramaturg. Past directing credits include The Tempest(Thespienne), Thinner Than Water, (Marymount Manhattan College), and The Concept of Women(The Secret Theatre).
ROCIO MENDEZ(Intimacy Director) is an actor/fight director/teacher from Hell’s Kitchen, NYC. Fight | Intimacy Direction credits include: The Secret Life of Bees(Atlantic), Leap and The Net Will Appear(New Georges), The Royale(Geva Theater), Southern Promises, Good Friday(The Flea Theater), Marian; and The True Tale of RobinHood, Hearts Like Fists(Flux Theater Ensemble). Film credits include Bad Writing, Clandestiny,Tied Up, Hurt Filling. Nominee for two New York Innovative Theater Arts Award - Outstanding Choreography and Movement, Winner for Artemis Women InAction Film Festival. Rocio is a Team Member of Unkle Dave’s Fight House. www.rociomendez.com.
LINDA S. NELSON(Dramaturgical Consultant) also an actor, director, producer, as dramaturge, she works with dozens of writers, including playwright/novelist, Cailin Heffernan; Screenwriter, Michael Lee Stever; and playwrights, Roman Feeser, Bob Ost, and Phil Olson on his popular series,Don’t Hug Me. She is the dramaturge for Vietnam…through my lens, a solo piece written and performed by Stu Richel which she now tours nationwide as its producer/director, vietnamthroughmylens.com. As an actor, Ms. Nelson has been seen in three White Horse productions: Small Craft Warnings, A Perfect Analysis Given By A Parrot, andA Cavalier For Milady. SSD, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, NJ Rep, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, TRU, CTI Graduate.
LAURA SINER, Muse Studio Consulting(Marketing Strategy) As a business strategist, Laura assists dynamic organizations in developing clear direction to support superior performance. She helps with marketing strategy, organizational excellence and creativity/innovation initiatives. Laura is also an actress and has performed in ’night, Mother and In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel with White Horse Theater as well as roles in several other NYC productions.
EMILY OWENS PR (Press Agent) is a bicoastal media relations agency specializing in new plays premiering in NYC and LA. Her clients include The Tank, The League of Professional Theatre Women, The She NYC/LA Arts Theater Festival, Project Y's Women in Theatre Festival, The Hearth, and The Kilroys. www.emilyowenspr.com
