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Breathe by Brian C. Petti
directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga
When an autistic woman, after a strange encounter with a county fair clown, wakes up the next morning without autism, she and her parents have to come to grips with this new reality. As both father and mother get to know their non-autistic daughter and her excitement they must come to grips with redefining everyone’s roles in this family. Breathe is about the nature of parenthood and redefining oneself in the face of ever-changing familial relationships. Brian C. Petti is an award-winning playwright who has been produced Next Year in Jerusalem was the winner of the Humboldt State University National Play Contest in California. Heroines, On the Expectation of White Christmases, Like Drowning, The Love Song of Sidney J Stein, and Banshee are published by Next Stage Press. Echoes of Ireland was produced in County Cork, Ireland by the Skibbereen Theatre Society and is published through Eldridge Plays and Musicals. Ten Seconds was produced by Motivational Theatre as winner of the Carlton E. Spitzer Excellence in Playwrighting Award. Love Song was part of the NYC Fresh Fruit Festival and it was the winner of Las Vegas Little Theatre New Works Competition. Heroines had its world premiere at Cornerstone Theatre Arts in Goshen, NY.
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Sydnie Grosberg Ronga is Co-Artistic Director of Round the Bend Theatre in the Hudson Valley and is planning for a fourth season of reading and developing new plays. Sydnie was awarded Best Director of a Comedy for Max & Louie’s Production of Souvenir, a company she co-founded; New Jewish Theatre’s Driving Miss Daisy & Bad Jews (best director nomination); NYC premiers of World of Sinatras & Exquisite Potential for Project Rushmore Theatre Company; Rosendale Theatre March Mysteries (Radio Plays), Love is Love and Lifespan of a Fact; Bluff City Theatre Vincent, Trying, the original musical, Madam, My Name is Asher Lev, and The Glass Menagerie. Sydnie has adapted and directed Gotham Radio Theatre’s productions including collaborations with Lincoln Center Library and The Schoolhouse Theatre. She was Associate Artistic Director of The Phoenix Theatre Company, NY. Sydnie has created theatre arts programing for all grades and taught and coached professional actors for decades.
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CAST:
Pete/Doctor: Jared Reinmuth
Jenny: Erin Hebert
Katy: Alexandra Angeloch
Clown: Matthew Kuriloff
Soothsayer/Therapist: Lora Lee Ecobelli
Jared Reinmuth has worked as an actor, writer, teacher, director, and songwriter. He made his acting debut at the 1994 Dionysian International Theatre Festival in Veroli, Italy in Karen Malpede’s The Beekeeper’s Daughter. Reinmuth made his directorial debut in 2016 at the Theater for the New City’s Dream UP Festival with Andrea J. Fulton’s Roof-Top Joy. His adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ seminal masterpiece, Monte Cristo, debuted at the Hackensack Cultural Arts Center, and was then produced in NYC in 2016 by the New Light Theater Project. He began his writing collaboration with Frank “Big Black” Smith in 1997, while assisting his father, famed Attica attorney Dan Meyers. In 2017, at the suggestion of his friend and colleague, Patrick Kennedy, Reinmuth joined forces with co-creator and artist Améziane, and Frank Smith’s wife Pearl Battle Smith to fully realize the work he initially started with Frank as the graphic novel BIG Black: Stand at Attica (2020, BOOM! Studios / Arcaia; Eisner Nominee: Best Reality Based Book). Jared’s latest collaboration with Ameziane reimagines his earlier theatrical exploration Monte Cristo in graphic novel form. It will be released this month in its original French, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (Editions du Rocher, 2024).
Erin Hebert is an actress, singer, voice actress, and fight choreographer based in Poughkeepsie. Originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts, Erin graduated from Yale in 2018 before moving to the Hudson Valley, and she's been hooked on the area ever since. Favorite stage roles include Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda, Natalie in Next to Normal, Jenny in Boy, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, and Shakespeare in Something Rotten. Her most prominent voice acting role featured her as FBI agent Alexandria Thoman in the New York Times podcast "The Daily," acting alongside Broadway alum Stephen Pasquale. She is excited to expand her menagerie of voices in this show.
Alexandra Angeloch is a writer and actor. Plays produced include A Day of Wonderful (Axial Theater), Bottom Buddies, Cliche Ghost, Beer (Howl Playwrights), Making Whoopee, Plan Not 9, Spittin’ Devil (Half Moon Theater), Old Single Female White (Great Barrington Public Theater) Sexy Plexy (ESPA). Readings : Siren’s Whisper, (Abingdon Theater), HERstory (Howl Playwrights). Published works include A Day of Wonderful (Clockhouse, Goddard College), Butterfly, Breathing Underwater (Knight Publishing) Acting: Film: Night of the Living Jews(Mama Jones), Figments of Freedom (Susan) dir. Mark Webber. Theatre: Remembering Olanna(Alex) Ancram Opera House, Season’s Greetings( Rachel) VoiceTheater, Heartbreak House (Mrs. Utterword,)/RTS. www.ahowlofplaywrights.org
Matthew Kuriloff began his theatrical career at a young age in the New York City Opera children’s chorus at Lincoln Center. As a theatre major at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, Matthew’s horizons expanded to include directing, writing, designing and producing shows. Matthew served five seasons as Props Master, Scenic Artist and Assistant Set Designer Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Matthew is a graduate of New Actors Workshop in New York City where he was taught by Mike Nichols, George Morrison and Diane Paulus. Matthew co-founded a performing arts program that teaches life skills to actors with intellectual and developmental disabilities for the non-profit agency East End Disability Associates (EEDA). Matthew’s Hudson Valley debut was playing Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre’s Woodstock Shakespeare Festival.
Lora Lee Ecobelli is an Actress, Filmaker, Writer, Director and Teacher. As a filmmaker, she is committed to telling personal women’s stories. Her experimental film La Transazione (The Transaction) which she wrote and directed recently won Best Picture at five International film festivals. La Transazione tells the true story of three Italian sisters who travel to America in 1910 for arranged marriages. Her newest film, Laurina, co-written with her brother Tom Ecobelli is currently in post- production and will be released to the festival circuit this spring. Set in 1920, Laurina is based on her grandmother’s journal. Raped and impregnated by her stepfather at age 13, Laurina defied the odds and successfully put her abuser behind bars. As a actress, Lora Lee has performed both On and Off-Broadway and in regional theatre’s throughout the country. She can also be seen in many independent films and television. She is the recipient of the Harold Clurman award for best leading actress in an off-broadway show for her performance in The Vice by Luigi Pirandello. Favorite roles include, Jocasta in Antigone at the West End Theatre, Andromache in The Trojan Women for Cypreco Greek Theatre Company and Lady Waldermar in Aurora Leigh at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Favorite regional roles include, Madame Ravenskya in The Cherry Orchard for Walking the Dog Theatre, Margaret in Good People for Performing Arts of Woodstock and Nettie in The Subject Was Roses for Bridge Street Theatre. Lora Lee is the Artistic director of The Blue Horse Repertory Company, a Hudson Valley Theatre Collective. She also teaches an adult acting program at The Theatre Institute at Sage College. Lora Lee is a member of Actors Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA.
