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Stephanie Ngo-Hatchie LaTasha Steven |
Molly McKee |
Karina Dominguez Travis Bedard |
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Cast
Gabriel Luna
Orestes
Smaranda Ciceu
Helen
Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie
Iphigenia/Fury
Derek Kolluri
Agammenon/Fury
Karina Dominguez
Klytaimnestra/Fury
Elektra
Molly McKee
Menelaus
Travis Bedard
Voice of the People
LaTasha Stevens
Creative Team
Will Hollis Snider
Adapted and Directed
Travis Bedard
Scenic Design
Megan M. Reilly
Lighting Design
Adam Hilton
Sound Design
Samatha Saucedo
Costume Design
Amanda Gass
Stage Manager / Asst. Director
Meet the Company
Gabriel Luna
Orestes
is a native son of Austin, TX. Credits include: Romeo
and Juliet, The Kentucky Cycle, and c/o The Grove at the Mary Moody Northern
Theatre; La Pastorela, Manzi: The Adventures of Young Cesar Chavez for Teatro
Humanidad; and Tales of Shakespeare for Zach Scott’s Project Interact! He also
appeared in the award-winning film Fall to Grace, and featured on television’s
Prison Break, and can be seen in the upcoming months in the feature film Dance
with the One and the HBO film Temple Grandin. He is very proud to have been a
part of Tutto Theatre Company’s production of Ophelia, and was last seen in their
most recent production, the smash hit Black Snow. He would very much like to
thank Will and his wonderful cast and crew, and would like to say this to his family:
“You all are my reason, my purpose, and my drive. Everything i do, I do with the
hope that it makes you smile, and I love you all more than this world can contain.”
Smaranda Ciceu
Helen
is a third year MFA candidate in acting at UT Austin. She
could last be seen in Tutto Theatre’s production of Black Snow as Ivan Vasilievici
and in UT Austin’s production of The Idiot as Nastasya. Other credits include The
Clean House at Zach Scott Theatre, The Psyche Project, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Split, Big Love and Bad Penny at Ut Austin. She would like to thank Will
for this opportunity and the entire cast and crew for their support. And by the way...
Helen had a blast in Troy.
Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie
Iphigenia/Fury
is a theater performance major at St.
Edward’s University and will be graduating this May. She is also a voice student of
Michael McKelvey. Steffanie was last seen as Luisa in The Fantasticks at Austin
Playhouse. Steffanie has also performed in several productions at the Mary Moody
Northen Theater at St. Edward’s - Cyrano De Bergerac (Sister Claire/Ensemble),
Three Sisters (Irina), and Full Circle (Translator/Rock Singer). Look for Steffanie in
September on the MMNT stage in their production of bobrauschenbergamerica by
Charles Mee.
Derek Kolluri
Agammenon/Fury
a recent MFA graduate from the University of
Arkansas, is pleased to be working with Cambiare Productions. While new to the
Austin Theatre scene he is a veteran of the stage playing a vast array of roles
including Garcin in No Exit, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Robert in Betrayal and
Danny in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Derek is glad to be a part of the Austin
theatre community and plans to add to the landscape with the launch of his own
company, CO/LAB. Look forward to the inaugural production Jack & Jill by Jane
Martin coming in September.
Karina Dominguez
Klytaimnestra/Fury
is excited to be in her first dramatic role for stage. She knew
being weird and creepy would eventually pay off. She hopes to make it through the
performance run without severely mangling or injuring herself or fellow cast-mates.
Karina has mostly been involved in Austin film and can currently be seen nationally
on any Spanish-language television network station hawking burgers for Burger
King. You might also recognize her as the calm lady drinking coffee in the most
recent ad campaign for St. Edward’s University. Her two previous stage roles were
for Warpstar Sexysquad produced by Yellow Tape Construction where she sang
and danced while trying to save the universe from destruction by a disgruntled
former Warpstar crew member and a mutated cat; she most recently played the
role of the Hawaiian goddess Pele in Oceana produced and performed at the
Vortex Theater where she really got to step out of her comfort zone, stretch her
dancing chops and steal a couple of scenes. Karina moved to Austin from El Paso
to attend UT where she received a Bachelors degree in Magazine Journalism. She
lives in Austin with her husband Steven Smith.
Elektra
Molly McKee
graduated from Texas State University with a BFA in Acting. At
Texas State she was seen as Martine in Learned Ladies, Antigone in Antigone,
and received an Irene Ryan Nomination for her role of Valiera in The Rover. Her
professional credits include the lead in Dinosaur with Dallas Children’s Theater,
Lady Macduff in Troupe Texas’ Macbeth, Felicity in The Real Inspector Hound with
the Dallas HUB Theater, and Bianca in Desdemona, a Play about a Handkerchief
and Viola in Twelfth Night with Rory Gene Productions. Film credits include The
Soul Remains, In Front of You, Man of Empire and the web series CallCenter.
And her interests include yoga, questioning reality, the origin of existential thought
and laughing. A lot. She is having a really wonderful time working with Cambiare
Productions and would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work, talent
and sheer likeability. (Love.)
Menelaus
Travis Bedard
is the Artistic Director
of Cambiare Productions. He produced the B. Iden Payne nominated
Intermission and Austin Critic’s Circle nominated Nina Variations for Gobotrick
Theatre Company, as well as Megan Reilly’s Transformations for Cambiare
Productions. Most recently he produced and directed Caryl Churchill’s Seven
Jewish Children in partnership with Austin Circle of Theatres in celebration of
World Theatre Day. He was cited the Pure Theatre Award for Drama of Art and
Integrity by Michael Meigs of AustinLiveTheatre.com. He maintains an active
theatre blog at blog.cambiareproductions.com.
Voice of the People
LaTasha Stevens
is happy to be joining Cambiare
Productions, for their production of Orestes. She has really enjoyed working with
everyone involved, and hopes that creatively she will cross paths with them all
again. La Tasha is a New York native presently working towards her M.F.A. in
Acting at The University of Texas at Austin. Her future projects include Pride and
Prejudice at the University of Texas, where she will be playing the role of Mrs.
Bennett. Other engagements include a staged reading of a self-created piece
called the 7. the 7 was most recently produced in the 2009 Cohen New Works
Festival. La Tasha would like to send a heart felt THANK YOU out to everyone
who worked so hard in making it a success. She loves you all. La Tasha’s past
productions include Seussical The Musical (Wickersham), The Idiot (Nina/Princess
Belekonsky), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Big Love (Mama), Canterbury
Tales (Hostess), A Raisin in the Sun (Mama), Cabaret (Kost), Alcestis (Maid),
Betty’s Summer Vacation (Voices).
Will Hollis Snider
Adapted and Directed
is the Producing Director of
Cambiare Productions, and a director, writer, producer, photographer, graphic
artist, and web designer. Some of his past directing credits include The
Nina Variations (Gobotrick Theatre Company), Sonata Escondida (HBMG
Foundation), Intermission (Gobotrick Theatre Company), Elektra (Gobotrick
Theatre Company), Searching... (ArtSpark Festival) Autobahn (Fronterafest),
and Equus (Texas State University).
Travis Bedard
Scenic Design
is the Artistic Director
of Cambiare Productions. He produced the B. Iden Payne nominated
Intermission and Austin Critic’s Circle nominated Nina Variations for Gobotrick
Theatre Company, as well as Megan Reilly’s Transformations for Cambiare
Productions. Most recently he produced and directed Caryl Churchill’s Seven
Jewish Children in partnership with Austin Circle of Theatres in celebration of
World Theatre Day. He was cited the Pure Theatre Award for Drama of Art and
Integrity by Michael Meigs of AustinLiveTheatre.com. He maintains an active
theatre blog at blog.cambiareproductions.com.
Megan M. Reilly
Lighting Design
Previous designs seen in Austin include:
Mister Z Loves Company (Rubber Rep), Black Snow, Ophelia (Tutto Theatre
Company), Trouble in Tahiti (Butler Opera Center), Well Suited (Kathy Dunn
Hamrick Dance Company), The King & I (Forklift Danceworks), Portrait, (David
Mark Cohen New Works Festival), Minus Tide (Bayou Radio Theatre), Flesh
and the Desert (UT Austin). Her work has also been seen at Lakes Region
Summer Theatre (Meredith, NH), The University of New Hampshire (Durham,
NH), The Actor’s Collective, New Conservatory Theatre, the San Francisco
Fringe Festival and the EXIT Theatre (all in San Francisco), and Austin’s
Fusebox Festival.
Adam Hilton
Sound Design
is a media designer, musician, audio engineer,
and writer currently freelancing in Austin. Since moving here in 2005, he has
composed music and designed sound and video for numerous live productions,
focusing largely on theatre and comedy. He also freelances as a writer for
interactive educational software. Adam’s recent credits include sound design for
Capital T Theatre’s Killer Joe, and The Bird and the Bee, live audio engineering
for Faster than the Speed of Light! The Musical and Cambiare Productions’
webcast of Seven Jewish Children, and sound design and composition for The
Love Sonatas cycle.
Samatha Saucedo
Costume Design
is a recent graduate from Texas State
University – San Marcos, with a B.F.A. in Theatre. She will be moving to Dallas
for a year long internship with Theatre Three. She has been first hand on Austin
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Texas State University’s The Importance of Being
Earnest. She would like to thank her mother, Carolina Flores, and grandfather,
Ovidio De La Fuente, Jr, for always pushing her to be better. She would also
like to thank Thomas Meche and her Cocker Spaniel, Orion, for always making
momma feel better.
Amanda Gass
Stage Manager / Asst. Director
is pleased to have
joined the ranks of Cambiare Productions as the company’s Production Stage
Manager. Her recent stage management credits include Zach Scott’s The Grapes
of Wrath (Asst. Stage Manager), Gobotrick’s The Nina Variations, Intermission, and
Elektra, Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s The Taming of the Shrew, and Cambiare
Productions’ Transformations (Asst. Stage Manager). Amanda’s directing credits
include Frame 312, W;t, Proof, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon
Marigolds and Hamlet. She graduated from Texas State University in 2007 with a
Masters in Directing and has studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company and
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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