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Blue Gum, Brooklyn

 

at Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre
 
 
Written and Directed
by
Laurie Rose Savage
Stage Managed
by
Eliana Gershon
 
Dialect Coaching
by
Olivia Vadnais
 
Starring
 
Christine Cartell
as
Jean Willow Singer
Maya Mills
as
Dolly Mirabelle Singer
Kat Donachie
as
Melanie Beatrice Singer
Frances Inés Rodriguez
as
Suzie Diane Cook
Understudies: Jamie Tincher as Jean Willow Singer and Melanie Beatrice Singer and Mel Mattos as Dolly Mirabelle Singer and Suzie Diane Cook
 

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Creative Team

Laurie Rose Savage

Writer/Director

Matthew Corozine

Producer

Stephanie Genito

Associate Producer

Kat Donachie

Producer

Tessa Faye Mossier

Casting Director

Sarah Faye Beard

Casting Associate

Eliana Gershon

Stage Manager

Olivia Vadnais

Dialect Coach

William Anderson

Production Design Consultant

Mellissa Mattos

Choreography and Movement Coordination

Garette Henson

Set Carpentry

Christopher Gilroy

Sound

Meet the Company

Christine Cartell

Jean Willow Singer
Christine Cartell - Jean Willow Singer

CHRISTINE CARTELL is a New York-based actress, writer, producer, host, and VO artist. TV: Law & Order: SVU, FBI, Manifest, Billions, Orange Is the New Black, God Friended Me, Person of Interest, The Blacklist. Film: a bunch of indies you've never seen. Commercials: toothpaste to car insurance. Theatre: not enough, most recently The Winchester Day School Production of The Wizard of Oz. Proud member SAG-AFTRA. Currently studying Strategic Communications at Western Michigan University. Mama to SKC. Love to family, always. www.christinecartell.com @christine.cartell

Kat Donachie

Melanie Beatrice Singer
Kat Donachie - Melanie Beatrice Singer

Kat Donachie is a NYC based actress, choreographer, and creative producer. She began her career in classical dance and has found her way to using words on stage. Theater: One..Two.Three (T4TP), The Dining Room (TDCNYC), Almost Maine (TDCNYC) TV: Law and Order SVU, Critically Ashamed. Film: Stuck, Acolyte, Ophiology. As a producer, she seeks to bring stories to life that speak to often under- represented perspectives and aspects of the female and human experience. Thank you to Laurie, Matt, My Family. Brilliant Talent - Posche Models @katdonachie katdonachie.com

Maya Mills

Dolly Mirabelle Singer
Maya Mills - Dolly Mirabelle Singer

Maya Mills is a NYC based actor, director and creative, born and raised in San Francisco! Past favorite credits include Homefront (A.C.T), One Way (Fred Ebb Award winner), and Twelfth Night (MCS Theatre). She is drawn to stories that cultivate compassion, frame joy as an act of resistance, and nourish our collective imagination. Maya is a proud grad of Manhattan School of Music. For Doug <3 @mayamillls

Frances Inés Rodriguez

Suzie Diane Cook
Frances Inés Rodriguez - Suzie Diane Cook

Frances Inés Rodríguez (They/Them) is “Scene-Stealing” - New York Times, Critics Pick. Credits include Fandango for Butterflies and Coyotes (La Jolla Playhouse), Coriolanus (La Mama), Street Theater (TOSO), FrikiNation (National Queer Theatre.) They studied and trained with Intar’s Unit52 Cohort, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Second City and meisner here at MCS. They are a singer-songwriter and play around the city with their group Son Papalotl. They want everyone to know, they are clearly Beth and need an agent real bad. 

Jamie Tincher

Understudy - Jean and Mel
Jamie Tincher - Understudy - Jean and Mel

Jamie Tincher is a NYC based actor, writer, and recovering Floridian. Past theater credits include Twilight of the Golds (Out/Play), Sick (Ted Wold Studio), and a workshop of her original piece The Modern Day Hunter S Thompson (MCS/dir Haley Rice.) Film: Bad Egg (dir. Sayfay Beard/Brittany Porter)

Mellissa Mattos

Understudy - Dolly and Suzie
Mellissa Mattos - Understudy - Dolly and Suzie

Born and raised in Brazil, Mel Mattos is a multi-faceted artist and proud immigrant who has been working as a professional actress, dancer and singer for the past 15 years. Some of her favorite theatre credits include Stupid F*cking Bird (Broadway World Nominated for Best Performance), In The Heights (Regional), SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical (Regional) and Eurydice (Off-Broadway). Every time she’s on stage or onscreen, she dedicates her performance to her familia and community back home.

Laurie Rose Savage

Writer/Director
Laurie Rose Savage’s writing contemplates family relationship, behaviors around loss, and themes of avoidance and secrecy. Recent works include the limited narrative podcast THE RAT KING (The Shrill Collective/ dir. Ashley Croce, Chelsea Feltman) and her play SILENT TREATMENT (Haley Rice’s New Works Series / dir. Mahina Bowyer). Her screenplay OFF BROADWAY was a finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest. As Resident Artist and longtime collaborator at MCS, she initiated the MCS Resident Writer Program as a dedicated structure for self-determined studio artists to cultivate original material. Previous stage works include WATCH OUT, BLOODFEATHERS (writer / director), FORMS OF FRACTURE: 4 short works (writer / director), DIFFERENT KINDS OF SHADOWS (writer / director). Writing from Brooklyn, New York—to which this play is, in part, a love letter.

Matthew Corozine

Producer

Stephanie Genito

Associate Producer

Kat Donachie

Producer

Tessa Faye Mossier

Casting Director
Tessa Faye Mossier - Casting Director

Sarah Faye Beard

Casting Associate

Eliana Gershon

Stage Manager

Olivia Vadnais

Dialect Coach

William Anderson

Production Design Consultant

Mellissa Mattos

Choreography and Movement Coordination

Garette Henson

Set Carpentry

Christopher Gilroy

Sound

Photos

Frances Ines Rodriguez at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie Saeugling
Frances Ines Rodriguez at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie SaeuglingMaya Mills at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie Saeugling
Maya Mills at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie SaeuglingChristine Bettes Cartell at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie Saeugling
Christine Bettes Cartell at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie SaeuglingKat Donachie at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie Saeuging
Kat Donachie at Blue Gum, Brooklyn Table Read photographed by Sonder Visuals/Annie Saeuging

Donors

The Producers Wish To Thank

Robert and Nancy Donachie

Rebecca Donachie

Brett Radek

Marcus Williams

Allison Lawi

Materials For the Arts

Trevor Markonovic

Garette Henson

Eliza Savage 

Alec Patchin

Lady Wilde's

 

The creative team wishes to thank the cast and creatives involved in the previous developmental readings of Blue Gum, Brooklyn. Thank you for your generous work helping build this world:

 

Michal Azulay

Matt Weinstein

Kimberly Michelle Thomas 

Elya Yerushalmy 

Erika Phoebus

Leah Heffington

Jo Lawrence

Alli Foss

Kelly Reader

Mahina Bowyer

Haley Rice

 

The Producers wish the thank the organizations and individuals who donated to our Fundraising Raffle. 

Dan Faber Vocal Studio

Kathy Deitch 

Alexis Di Gregorio

Wild Honey Poetry

Chris Russell Coaching

Matthew Corozine / MCS Acting Studio

Tessa Faye Talent

 

The playwright would like to thank her mother and father - Jane and Carroll Savage - and all of her beautiful family. 

 

This entire production has been a community effort. Every member of the cast and creative team, their assistants, our friends and neighbors have been instrumental in making this possible. To each person who attended our fundraiser, contributed labor, love, donations, and good energy to our little show....Thank You! Without community indie theater would not be possible. 

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