Meet the Actor
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Meet the Actor – Steven Azzaro
We caught up with Steven Azzaro, who plays corporate bad-guy Jeffrey Skilling’s lawyer in our current production of Enron, running Fridays and Saturdays this weekend and next. Azzaro does a fantastic job of portraying a man who defends the corrupt Skilling with a sort of bored wittiness – the perfect foil to Skilling’s rising sense…
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Meet the Actor – Stephanie Chernoff
On the morn of our Pay-What-You-Can performance of Enron, we want you to meet Stephanie Chernoff. Last seen at Hole in the Wall in The Madwoman of Chaillot, where she played a bumbling policewoman, Stephanie is undertaking the role of Sheryl Sloman, Lucy Prebble’s fictional analyst who, although she doesn’t comprehend how the scheme can…
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Meet the Actor – Rebecca Meakin as Claudia Roe
The last time Rebecca graced the Hole in the Wall stage, she was Trish, a champagne-poisoning, thieving accountant in Craig Lucas’ Reckless. This time, she’s playing Claudia Roe, Enron author Lucy Prebble’s fictional amalgam of many key female players in the Enron scandal, and a voice of reason and conscience. Kinda the opposite of Trish.…
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MEET THE DIRECTOR: KELLEY MOUNTZOURES
“In society nowadays, when are hysteria, reputation, race, empowerment, adultery and religion not relevant?” said The Crucible Director Kelley Mountzoures. “The answer is never!” Kelley mounted Arthur Miller’s mammoth masterpiece because of the universal themes, strong characters and complex story. “Although the story takes place hundreds of years ago, sadly, the themes are still…
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MEET THE ACTOR – BEN McLAUGHLIN
“The Crucible is a staple of the American theater,” said Ben McLaughlin. “Kate Bunce, an acquaintance of mine, told me she was costuming it at Hole in the Wall (HITW). It is a very well-known play. I felt that I should at least audition for it.” He auditioned and was cast as “Reverend John Hale”. …
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MEET THE ACTRESS – KATE BUNCE
“Abigail Williams starts the whole hysteria of crying witch on people,” said Kate Bunce, on her love-to-hate character in HITW’s upcoming The Crucible. “She had an affair with upstanding citizen (and married man) John Proctor while working in his house.” Being a teenage girl, Abigail doesn’t respond well when John 1.) doesn’t return her affections and 2.)…
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MEET THE ACTOR: TONY PALMIERI
photo caption: Tony with Kate Bunce as “John Proctor” and “Abigail Williams” (photo credit: Arienne Davey) One would be hard pressed to look at a Hole in the Wall (HITW) production and not see any association by Tony Palmieri. A longstanding member, he has been an actor, director, producer, set designer, graphic designer, board member…
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MEET THE ACTRESS – EMILY TRUDEAU
Photo Caption: Emily with Tony Palmieri as Elizabeth & John Proctor (photo credit: Arienne Davey) The Crucible’s Emily Trudeau sees beneath her character’s ice queen exterior. As Elizabeth Proctor, she runs a complicated gamut of emotions. “She is a wife, mother, and a person with exceptionally poor self-esteem,” said Emily. “She is deeply in…
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MEET THE ACTOR – JENNIFER MacPHERSON
As Fat Men in Skirts’ Phyllis Hogan, Jennifer MacPherson gets to play the gamut of emotions. Her character is placed in a number of high stakes situations ranging from the darkly comic to the tragic. Like many of the other characters in Nicky Silver’s controversial play, Phyllis is flawed, relatable and three-dimensional. Jennifer describes her…
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MEET THE ACTOR: ROY DONNELLY
Fat Men in Skirts opens this Friday (March 27th) at Hole in the Wall (HITW) and no one is more ready than Roy Donnelly. A HITW regular, he plays movie director and misguided father “Howard Hogan.” Roy describes him as someone “who is caught up in his own success. He puts up a…