The SoHo Playhouse
Presents
Sept 26 - Oct 5, 2014
Adam Samtur
Stage Manager
Nikolay Sviridchik
Set Designer
The Crew
Adam Samtur (Stage Manager) is an actor/playwright
by nature, but Stage Managing does give him that
feeling of unbridled power he so longs for. Recent/Favorite SM Credits: Dangersparkle & The Lion (Planet Connections Best Musical winner), The Skype Show (NY Fringe), 3 WEEKS the Opera (14th St. Y), Sex Good; Money Bad (Broken Watch Theater Co.), Twin Towers (Planets Connections), Raya and Sag-In (Golden Fleece, Ltd.), Sweeter Dreams (Cross-Eyed Bear Productions), and the Woodstock Fringe Festival. Adam is Co-Artistic Director of Just ASK Productions (justaskproductions.tumblr.com).
Nikolay Sviridchik (Set Designer) graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School with an MFA in scenic design. He worked as a principal assistant to the chief designer of the Bolshoi Theater and as the scenic and costume designer for numerous productions in Russia, Europe and US. His credits include set and costume design for Friends and In The Neighbourhood We Live for the Moscow Art Theater, costume design for the Bolshoi Theater production of Bayadere by Minkus and Moliere by Mikhail Bulgakov for the Gesher Theater in Tel Aviv. At Fordham University he designed Threepenny Opera and Cabaret. At the Yale dramatic association he designed set for The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
George Port (Special Effects Designer; Light/Sound Technician) is originally from New Zealand where he worked both behind and in front of the cameras. He was involved in a variety of film and television projects including Xena Warrior Princess, Power Rangers, Braindead, Meet the Feebles, Forgotten Silver and The Frighteners. He is currently in New York performing improv, acting in plays, directing, writing, and acting in short films.
George Port
Special Effects Designer/
Light & Sound Technician
A.J. Dobbs
Lighting Designer
A.J. Dobbs (Lighting Designer) has been stage-managing in New York for over five years, and she has stage-managed and assisted in over sixty productions - ranging from festival shows to Off-Broadway musicals - and she is grateful for every moment of it, every opportunity, and every memory. She has recently finished a production of Don Pasquale at Opera Memphis and It's On at NYMF. She is currently the Stage Manager and technician for the HB Studio.
Isaiah Tanenbaum
FringeNYC Liaison
Isaiah Tanenbaum (FringeNYC Liaison) is a creative partner at Flux Theatre Ensemble, where he serves as Marketing Director and has performed in ten productions, most recently as Leonard in Jane the Plain. Isaiah’s full-length plays developed with Flux include The Transcendental Etudes and ¡Viva Fidel!. Isaiah has worked with many indie theater companies all over the city, including Gideon Productions, Boomerang Theater Company, EBE Ensemble, Theatre-Studio, Inc., The NY Fringe Festival, The Queens Players, and the Jekyll & Hyde Club, doing everything from classical work to improv comedy to musicals to vaudeville to futuristic dystopic sci-fi. Outside of New York City, he has worked with the NY Renaissance Faire, Vassar Powerhouse Theater, Catskills’ IDEA, and Forestburgh Regional Playhouse and has been selected to perform at PAX EAST twice. Film work has included Stateside, Window Shopping, Shooting Vegetarians, Zelimo, and Troma‘s Poultrygeist. Isaiah holds a B.A. in Theater and Music from Amherst College. When he isn't acting or teaching, Isaiah is a working photographer specializing in theatrical photography. Acting: www.isaiaht.info // Photography: www.isaiahtpd.info'
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