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Martin Jason Asprey, director. 25-year company member of Shakespeare & Co. Senior text coach and fight choreographer. Taught and directed at UMass, Boston College, Skidmore College, Mass College of Liberal Arts and M.I.T.
He has played Hamlet, (Edgar) King Lear, (Puck) Midsummer Night's Dream, (Mercutio) Romeo & Juliet and many more roles. He has twice won Best Actor in the Berkshires. |
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Jeannine Haas* (Stage Manager and Founding Producing Artistic Director of Pauline Productions) has been a member of Actor's Equity Association since 1982. She spent her 20's working in NYC theatre in the 1980's which included a year as an actor-in-residence at LaMama ETC. At age 28, she relocated to Western Massachusetts as an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College where she received a BA in Theatre ('86) and a Doctoral Degree from Umass, Amherst (’96). In 2006, she founded Pauline Productions Theatre Company, now celebrating its 11th Season. The Company's mission is producing and creating theatre with a focus on strong roles for women onstage and behind the scenes. Jeannine directs and acts with other theatre companies in MA and NY besides Paulie Pro, including Real Live Theatre, Hubbard Hall Theater Co., New Century Theatre and Silverthorne Theater. Upcoming: Jeannine will play Hannah in Strident Theatre's THE FINAL SAY by Meryl Cohn at Hallie Flanagan Theater in the Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts on Smith College Campus.
2018
Cast of The Roommate
 Jeannine Haas*
Jeannine Haas* (Robyn) most recently appeared as Helen in Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard at Silverthorne Theater. She has been acting and directing for over 30 years in NYC and regionally. Favorite roles include Vivian Bearing (Wit), Ruth (Collected Stories), The Poet (An Iliad), Sister Aloysius (Doubt), Solo (O Yes I Will), Multiple Characters (Mystery of Irma Vep with Kelsey Flynn) and Multiple Characters (Parallel Lives with Julie Waggoner). As an Associate Member of Real Live Theatre, she played multiple roles in The Life and Death of Queen Margaret. She has been a member of Actors Equity Association since 1982. She Founded Pauline Productions in 2006, named after her deceased mother.
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 Lisa Abend*
Lisa Abend (Sharon)
Set Design: Amy Putnam
Lighting Design: Kelsey Book
Stage Management: Kaylee Pomelow
Toby Vera Bercovici (Director) is a freelance director and teacher. In New York City, she has directed at Theater for the New City, the Looking Glass Theatre, and the Circus Warehouse, and assistant directed at La Mama E.T.C. and Classic Stage Company. Her Western Massachusetts productions include Stupid Fucking Bird and The Skin of Our Teeth (Silverthorne Theater), Blind Dreamers and Of Turlygods & Time: The Tale of King Lear (Serious Play!), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Ashfield Community Theater), Our Town (Northampton Center for the Arts), and The Life and Death of Queen Margaret (Real Live Theatre). For Pauline Productions, she has directed O Yes I Will (I will remember the spirit and texture of this conversation), Red State of Marriage, and 4,000 Miles, as well as this summer's production of The Roommate. She has taught theater at Colby College, Smith College, Holyoke Community College, American International College, and UMass Amherst. She holds a BA in Theater from Smith College and an MFA in Directing from UMASS Amherst. She has pursued additional training at Shakespeare & Company and with the Michael Chekhov Association. She is a 2018-2019 Directing Fellow at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, FL.
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Cast of I am My Own Wife
Rylan Morsbach is thrilled to help bring this story to his native Valley! Past credits include Pauline Productions: Scaramouche Jones. Berkshire Theatre Group: The Music Man, A Christmas Carol, Fiorello! (Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Co), The Homecoming, Mary Poppins, A Hatful of Rain, Peter Pan, Oklahoma. Shakespeare & Co: Love’s Labors Lost (opens July ‘18), Christmas at Pemberley (staged reading). WAM: The Old Mezzo. Hubbard Hall: You Can’t Take It With You. Suffield Players: As You Like It. Rylan is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School.
Trey is Artistic Director of MoB in Wilmington, North Carolina. Recent directing credits include Hamlet, The Diary Play, and Blue/Orange. Trey has worked as assistant director with South Coast Repertory (in Costa Mesa, CA), New Swan Shakespeare (in Irvine, CA), and Burning Coal Theater (Raliegh, NC). Trey is an alumni of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Critics Institute, a former student artist of WordBRIDGE Playwright Lab, and a 2012 graduate of UNC Wilmington.
Cast of Wayward Home, 2018
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MAIZY BRODERICK SCARPA (playwright) is a playwright, director, and performer from New England. She loves tea, breaking the fourth wall, and children's books. Her plays CIRQUE DU DISMAY: A Fairly Short Play (WAM Theatre) and PANDORA SHAKES THINGS UP (Shakespeare&Co.
Fringe) are Berkshire Playwrights Lab Radius New Play Festival finalists. Other plays include ADULTS (Women's Shorts); STRANGE NEW PLANET: A Live Book- on-Tape (NYU/Tisch/ETW), and A PLAY WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS (Shakespeare&Co. Fringe). An NYU/Tisch graduate with degrees in drama and creative writing, Maizy trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and the Experimental Theatre Wing. She's performed in NYC (La Mama E.T.C., The Sidewalk Cafe, The High Line Park) and regionally (Berkshire Theater Festival, Capital Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, WAM Theatre, Nutshell Playhouse, Hubbard Hall, Shakespeare & Company). Her voice can be heard on several episodes of WBUR's storytelling podcast Circle Round. A passionate Education Artist, Maizy has directed in Shakespeare & Company's award-winning Fall Festival of Shakespeare, and piloted an English as a Second Language program for Kurdish Regional Government employees in Erbil, Kurdistan. She is co-founder of the theatre company Emergent Ensemble. maizyscarpa.com. |
CLARA STRAUCH (composer/Anna) is an actor and singer-songwriter with a BFA from NYU Tisch. She was nominated for Outstanding Original Music at The New York Innovative Theatre Awards for her score for The Tempest (Smith Street Stage), and received a STIM songwriting prize for her
upcoming album Persephone. Her solo music has been featured in publications such as AXS, and she has toured internationally. Theatre acting/composing credits include: Love's Labour's Lost (Romateatern); No Time Like The Present (Joe's Pub at The Public); The Caucasian Chalk
Circle (Stella Adler Studio). Voice acting: SVRVIVE (no.1 world bestseller VR-game). TV acting: German series The Inspector and the Sea; Swedish series Maria Wern. Clara has taught and created
theatre with refugees and teens in Sweden, children in Peru, and inmates at Rikers Island. clarastrauch.com
upcoming album Persephone. Her solo music has been featured in publications such as AXS, and she has toured internationally. Theatre acting/composing credits include: Love's Labour's Lost (Romateatern); No Time Like The Present (Joe's Pub at The Public); The Caucasian Chalk
Circle (Stella Adler Studio). Voice acting: SVRVIVE (no.1 world bestseller VR-game). TV acting: German series The Inspector and the Sea; Swedish series Maria Wern. Clara has taught and created
theatre with refugees and teens in Sweden, children in Peru, and inmates at Rikers Island. clarastrauch.com
Beards Webseries
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ABOUT DAN AND LISHA: Dan Robert and Lisha Brooks are Valley natives who met at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School, aka PVPA. There they developed their first original play, Mayflower Plantation, which would go on to have its professional debut with Pauline Productions at Historic Northampton. They are both graduates of Emerson College, where they continued to make theater together and began creating sketches with Handsome Lady Comedy. Their original series BEARDS marks their first full collaboration on film. Episodes of BEARDS have played Miami Web Fest, DC Web Fest (Gold Winner), Brooklyn Web Fest (Best Actor: Dan Robert) and Outfest in Los Angeles among others. |
ABOUT BEARDS:
BEARDS is a darkly comedic series that explores larger-than-life married couples living in different eras, in which one or both of the members of the marriage is struggling with their sexuality. It's now featured on Zooey Dechanel's media platform Hello Giggles.
BEARDS is a darkly comedic series that explores larger-than-life married couples living in different eras, in which one or both of the members of the marriage is struggling with their sexuality. It's now featured on Zooey Dechanel's media platform Hello Giggles.
Haas & Waggoner are the moms
ABOUT THE ANTS:
Directed by Elisha Yaffe, The Ants tells the story of two creative but directionless teenage twins, Bobby (Dan Robert) and Lu (Tony Award nominated Emily Skeggs of Fun Home), who are forced to face the realities of growing up the winter break of their senior year of high school. Featuring Valley favorites Jeannine Haas, Julie Waggoner and Bill Dwight.
Directed by Elisha Yaffe, The Ants tells the story of two creative but directionless teenage twins, Bobby (Dan Robert) and Lu (Tony Award nominated Emily Skeggs of Fun Home), who are forced to face the realities of growing up the winter break of their senior year of high school. Featuring Valley favorites Jeannine Haas, Julie Waggoner and Bill Dwight.
Associate artists of Pauline'S past Seasons
(Musician and Composer for An Iliad)John Sheldon is the definition of a life lived in music. A guitar prodigy who was working professionally at age 14, including a stint as Van Morrison's lead guitarist at 17, John has gone on to write hundreds of songs, including 'September Grass' which appeared on a platinum album by James Taylor. John has also composed for film and theater, conducted workshops in songwriting and composition, and taught private lessons for 30 years.
“A great player.” - Jimi Hendrix
“An amazing songwriter... really wonderful songs.” - James Taylor
“A guitar genius.” - The Valley Advocate
“One of the great guitarists of our time.” - National Public Radio
“An uncanny gift for conjuring the wild spirit.” - Huffington Post
“A great player.” - Jimi Hendrix
“An amazing songwriter... really wonderful songs.” - James Taylor
“A guitar genius.” - The Valley Advocate
“One of the great guitarists of our time.” - National Public Radio
“An uncanny gift for conjuring the wild spirit.” - Huffington Post