Blue Gum, Brooklyn

Blue Gum, Brooklyn

at Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre


Written by Laurie Rose Savage		Directed by Laurie Rose Savage

Starring

Christine Cartell Kat Donachie	Maya Mills Frankie Inés Rodriguez	Understudies: Jamie Tincher Mel Mattos

Cast

Christine Cartell

Jean Willow Singer

Kat Donachie

Melanie Beatrice Singer

Maya Mills

Dolly Mirabelle Singer

Frances Inés Rodriguez

Suzie Diane Cook

Jamie Tincher

Understudy - Jean and Mel

Mellissa Mattos

Understudy - Dolly and Suzie

Creative Team

Laurie Rose Savage

Writer/Director

Matthew Corozine

Producer

Stephanie Genito

Associate Producer

Kat Donachie

Producer

Olivia Vadnais

Dialect Coach

Eliana Gershon

Stage Manager

William Anderson

Production Design Consultant

Meet the Company

Christine Cartell

Jean Willow Singer

CHRISTINE CARTELL (she/her) is thrilled to be part of this production. 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. Writer, Producer, Host, VO artist. 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 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 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. @mayamillls

Frances Inés Rodriguez

Suzie Diane Cook

Frances Inés Rodríguez Credits include, Fandango for Butterflies and Coyotes (La Jolla Playhouse, PILI), Gold Status (Film - JAI) Coriolanus (La Mama - Brutus), Street Theater (The Flea- CB), FrikiNation ( Here Arts - Yali). They are a singer-song writer and they love to play music with the NYC Son Jarocho community. New York Times “ Scene stealing” Critics Pick

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

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.