The International Human Rights Art Movement presents
A Kitty Williams Production
Oud Player on the Tel |
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A play about one Palestinian's hope |
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November 8 - 24, 2024 | ||
PERFORMANCE LENGHT: 2 Hours with intermission | ||
Tom Block |
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Mark Peters * |
Jennifer G. R. Tulchin * |
Hala Shah * |
*Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, the International Human Right Arts Movement, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. | ||
Palestinian olive farmer, Amir, welcomes a family of Jewish refugees and envisions a future that can never be. A story about how 1948 could have been a catalyst for peace, and instead became 75 years of conflict, into the war of today. | ||
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Cast
Mark J. Quiles
Amir
Mark Peters
Melke
Isaiah Stavchansky
Moritz
Meet the Company
Mark J. Quiles
Amir
Former Resident Set Designer and Scenic Carpenter, Mark now focuses solely on acting for stage, film and television. Recent television credits: Secretary of Beth Midrash (Recurring) in The Chosen; Mr. Fishman, AppleTV Series' WeCrashed; and recurring role of Tamas in TV Series Émigré. Regional Theater: VetRep Theater: Ardley (Dunkirk), Dr. Rance (What the Butler Saw), Howard (Central Park West). Shakespeare Radio Dramas: Willoughby / Abbot of Westminster in Richard II and Flavius in Julius Caesar with Keith Hamilton Cobb, Jamie Bellard, and Patrick Page; Juror 11 in 12 Angry Men (Company Theater Group) and the Ghost/ 1st Player/ Gravedigger in The Curtain's inaugural production of Hamlet. New York: Salesman in Ah Wilderness and Harry, Milt and Melvin in World Premiere of The Fight (Storm Theatre/Sheen Center); Zeno, the Isaurian in Romulus The Great (Yangtze Repertory Company). Proud member of Actors Equity, AGVA and SAG-AFTRA! Grateful for his supportive family and every Kairos moment! www.markjquiles.com Instagram: @markjquiles
Mark Peters
Melke
Mark Peters recently played The Count in a new translation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde, staged at IRT in Manhattan. He was King Lear in A Fool’s Lear, an original adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, and in Duck by Tom Block at the same theatre. Favorite roles include DeGuiche in Cyrano with Gabriel Barre at St. Clement’s, produced by Resonance Ensemble; Sharky in The Seafarer at John Shea’s Theatre Workshop of Nantucket; Frank in The Country Girl at New Rochelle’s Fleetwood Stage; Vanya in Uncle Vanya at Columbia; Doc in Come Back, Little Sheba (musical), Lucille Lortel’s White Barn Theatre opposite Donna McKechnie (cast album Footlights Records); Emile in South Pacific, Forestburgh Playhouse; Perón in Evita (thrice), including four month’s at the Westchester Broadway Dinner Theatre, Elmsford, NY; Ahab in Moby-Dick (musical by Doug Katsaros and Mark St. Germain), Boston’s New Rep Theatre; the Phantom in Phantom, the ‘other’ musical version by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston; Gaston in Gigi, Allenberry Playhouse; Matt in Talley’s Folly; the revues Side by Side by Sondheim and Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill. Mr. Peters is a professional violist, violinist, orchestrator and arranger (available for gigs), he’s a member of the Queer Urban Orchestra. As a classical singer, he’s performed a half dozen full-length concert recitals in addition to performing several dozen operatic roles. With the Brooklyn Symphony, he performed his own orchestration of Mussorgsky’s cycle Songs and Dances of Death. Mr. Peters has numerous film, TV, industrial and commercial camera credits.
Isaiah Stavchansky
Moritz
Isaiah Stavchansky is an actor and writer. Regional credits include: Indecent (Chautauqua Theater Company), Before the Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). He is the editor of "What This Place Makes Me: A Collection of 21st Century American Plays on Immigration," forthcoming from Restless Books in 2025.