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CAST
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JENNIFER
LOIA ALEXANDER (Lady Macduff) moved to Oklahoma
to drill for oil upon completion of Macbeth-The Comedy. When
she's up to it, she also teaches theater on the side. |
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CHRISTOPHER
BRIGGS (Southern Sister) is a North
Carolina native, so the accent came easily. Chris has a pleasant baritone
voice and has performed in many musicals, including Godspell,
Pirates of Penzance, and Hamlet: The Musical. He has
performed in Richard II, gone on national tour with A Christmas
Carol, and played a drag queen in a little ditty about Andy Warhol. |
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GARY
BROWNLEE (Kilmarnock) has worked at theatres
all over the country. He recently performed in New Georges production
of the holy mother of hadley new york at the Ohio Theater
on Wooster Street. Other performances include The Importance
of Being Earnest, Dr. Faustus, and The Cherry Orchard.
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BRYAN
BRUDEN (Drunken Guard) is a proud employee
of the U.S. Postal Service. He is the manager for The Mad Daddies,
a New Jersey band, and hosts his own radio show on WRSU. His fascination
with show biz stems from his being the middle child. He needs the
attention. |
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ERIKA
BURKE (Macbeth) grew up in Hong Kong and Taiwan
where she took the Best Actress Award in the IASIS competition for
her portrayal of Maggie in Brian Freil's Lovers. She attended
the Juilliad School Dance division and completed her training in Theater
at New York University's Tisch School. Her professional roles to date
are Let It Be Me, with Patrick Stewart, Campbell Scott, and
Leslie Caron; Another World on NBC; and an Off-Off Broadway
production of the original play Cross Your Heart. Erika currently
resides in Los Angeles.
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| PHILLIP
CHRISTIAN (Scary Sister) is the lead singer
of the band de
Lux, has worked at many regional theatres, and is a graduate
of The Yale School of Drama. A few months before shooting Macbeth-The
Comedy, the director saw him in a hilarious perfomance as the
Moroccan Prince in The Merchant of Venice and knew he had to
play one of the Weird Sisters. |
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MATT
DANIELS (Bloody Captain) is an actor, director,
producer, teacher, and coach. As an actor he has appeared in various
media including the upcoming film, Icarus and Aria; on television
in Guiding Light and As the World Turns. He recently
directed The Tempest in Tompkins Sq. Park for 2texans
Theatre Co. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division.
Matt was also the verse coach for Macbeth-The
Comedy.
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TED
deCHATELET (Macduff) has appeared in numerous
regional theatres around the country, most recently at A Contemporary
Theatre in Seattle where he played Jaisu in the world premiere of
David Ives' Polish Joke. He can also be seen (with a lot
less hair) in the award winning short film Hamlet and His Problems,
also from Tristan Films. email
Ted
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GERALD
DOWNEY (Donalbain) landed a national beer commercial
after his famous "Irish pub scene" in Macbeth-The Comedy.
Coincidence? You be the judge. |
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SEAN
ELIAS-REYES (Angus) flew to London immediately
upon wrapping Macbeth-The Comedy to perform in Anthony Pennino's
Survivors. New York stage work includes Macduff in Macbeth,
As You Like It, Cymbeline, and Washington Square
Dreams. He recently played the title role in The Death of King
Arthur, a new play written in verse. He and Michael (Sassy Sister)
have started a new production company called The
Local in NYC. |
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SHANNON
EMERICK (Porter) various television, film,
and theatre roles; National Winner of the English-Speaking Union's
National Shakespeare Recitation Competition; Presidential Scholar
in the Performing Arts; Yale University (B.A.).
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DUDLEY
FINDLAY, JR (Banquo) has appeared in numerous
films, including Sidestreets, Stringers, Sleepers,
and Chocolate Babies. On television, he has been seen on
Lateline, New York Undercover, DellaVentura,
and Now and Again. In addition to acting, Dudley is a writer,
director, and producer. His company, FindKind Productions, has staged
a number of shows, including Sometimes You Gotta Let the People
Know with his sister Traci Lynne Kindell.
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JULIET
FURNESS (Lady Macbeth) hails from New Zealand
where she performed in both contemporary and classical works. She
has since played the romantic lead in Outskirts (Venice Film
Festival). Her television work includes NBC's Law and Order,
Dream Street (pilot), and Ray Bradbury (Canadian TV).
Juliet has also appeared in many New York theatre productions, including
Women of Troy and Camille Paglia/Larry Flynt Together
Again.
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SCOTT
GALBRAITH (Ross) recently returned to New York
from a stint with BlueJacket Theater in Ohio. He's now an honorary
Clevelander. |
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BEN
HODGES (Murderer 1) was recently seen in the
Wendy Macleod's Things Being What They Are, which his Visionary
Works Theatre Company co-produced with the Drama Desk Award-winning
Barrow Group Theatre Company. He was an original member of the ground-breaking
cable soap opera Sixth Floor Harrison and is currently the
Director of Development for FatChance
Productions, a theatrical/film production company developing their
successful all-girl rock stage musical Prey for Rock and Roll
into a soon to be released feature film. email
Ben
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DAVID
HUBER (Lennox) has worked at many regional
theatres accross the country. Being classically trained, this film
marks the fourth production of Macbeth that David has been
in, and by far the funniest. Originally from Arizona, he now lives
in New York, and was most recently seen in Romeo & Juliet
at Pittsburgh Public Theatre. David received his MFA degree from the
Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. |
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LORENZO
HUGHES (Fleance) has apeared in recurring roles
on One Life To Live and Loving, and has been featured
on New York Undercover and The Cosby Show. Theater includes
A Matter of Color for the American Theatre of Actors and the
lead role in Passing for the Towne Street Theater. |
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MICHAEL
COLBY JONES (Sassy Sister) having played the
Scot himself, and trained at LAMDA, had a ball spinning the bard's
Weird Sister into a NYC Salon Stylist. Indie and Short fans that know
Michael as Captain Karl in Andrew Fleisher's The Pledge will
get a kick out of him here. Recently, Michael received rave reviews
for his portrayal of Lancelot in Gorilla Rep's production of Matthew
Freeman's Death of King Arthur. He
and Sean (Angus) have started a new production company called The
Local in NYC. |
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HUGH
KELLY (Malcolm) has performed on the New York
stage in Street Scene, All's Well that Ends Well (Judith
Shakespeare Co.), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Manhattan
Playhouse), among others. Regionally, he played Romeo for Shakespeare
in Delaware Park and spent a season with American Players Theatre.
TV work includes All My Children. Visit
Hugh's website. |
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JOHN
LITTLE (Duncan) relied on his Yale training
to play the stupidest British king since George III said "I'm
a little short of cash. Run out to the American colonies and get
me a few bob."
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DOUG
LOCKWOOD (Murderer 2) favorite acting roles
include Jack in the 1989 Edinburgh Festival Production of Jack
and Jill Went up the Hill to Fetch Their Sexuality; Evil Sylvesterious
in The Hussy Chronicles which was performed in the Go-Go Room
at Show World in Times Square and his recent role as Chet Rockman
in Bob the Dragon with the 52nd Street Project in New York
City. Doug is a very proud uncle of seven. He is also quite tall. |
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| BRIAN
MURRAY and DANIEL MURRAY (Macduff's sons) are
the grateful beneficiaries of nepotism. When not playing hockey, Daniel
has performed with New Jersey-based Summer Stage (most recently in
The Wizard of Oz). Brian performs at home to the delight of
his family and dog. |
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LISA
REZAC (Elizabeth) has played Fleance and Ross
in stage versions of Macbeth. She also played the title role
in Miss Julie for Theater Studio Inc. Film and TV work include
Bad Hair Day and Melrose Place. |
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FLORENCE
STURGEON (Doctor) may be known to many as "Alice"
in the Off-Off-Broadway staging and national tour of The Brady
Bunch (the complete TV series). Her extensive training with the
AMA pays off in this hilarious turn as Lady Macbeth's attending physician. |
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CREW
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ALLISON
L. LiCALSI (Writer/Director) is a New York based
filmmaker. Her Aegis Award-winning short film, Hamlet and His
Problems, appeared on Ifilm.com for two years and was screened
at the 1998 Long Island Film Festival, where it received notice
for the direction and depth of characters. She is currently in post-production
on 415 Monroe Street, a feature length documentary she directed
about a group of Italian-American families who lived in the same
Hoboken, New Jersey tenement house as Frank Sinatra. Allison studied
film making at Film/Video Arts in New York City where her student
film Waiting for Dave was recognized for its dreamlike quality.
Allison developed her film making skills at Motion Picture Pro in
New York and also studied independent film making with the Hollywood
Film Institute. Before turning to film, Allison was an art historian
who wrote and lectured on subjects such as Picasso and the Bloomsbury
circle. She also served on the editorial board of the international
Rutgers Art Review. In 1994, she decided to forego a promising
academic career as an art historian in order to pursue her aspiration
to write and direct films. It was a research trip to Kings College,
Cambridge University that led to the development of her first feature-length
screenplay, Soliloquy.
Her newest screenplay, Practically Virgins, is in development.
It is a contemporary romantic comedy about three college friends
set in New York. Macbeth - The Comedy is her feature directing
debut.
(Read the Asbury Park Press profile of Allison)
PATRICK MURRAY (Producer/Executive Producer/Editor)
worked in market research prior to film making. In 1997, he and
Allison LiCalsi formed their own production company, Tristan Films.
He is currently finishing production on 415 Monroe Street,
a documentary about six Italian-American families who lived in the
same Hoboken tenement house as Frank Sinatra. He is set to produce
a series of short films dramatizing the poetry of the Romantics,
to be directed by LiCalsi in late 2001.
ANDREW BELLWARE (Production Sound/Post Production Audio/Composer)
has been working as a sound designer and recordist for 10 years
and is the founder of Braidwood
Entertainment Group. In addition to free-lance film, television,
and industrial production work, he designed the sound for Apostasy,
a feature film he also wrote and directed (and which also starred
Juliet Furness as Lucipher). He is the resident composer and sound
designer for Manhattan Theatre Source. His musical group, Prague
Spring, has released four albums. (This guy is a true Renaissance
Man.)
RENATA KARR (Editor)
trained at the School for Visual Arts in New York. Since then she
has worked as assistant editor on a number of film and television
projects. Notable among these is the PBS special A Walk Down
42nd Street with David Hartman. Recently, she worked as first
assistant editor on Jump Tomorrow, the 2001 Sundance feature
which has been picked up for national distribution, and The Jimmy
Show, directed by Frank Whaley. Macbeth - The Comedy
is her first feature length project as editor.
ROBERT LENART (Assistant Producer/Grip/Best Boy)
was found working in the kitchen at a holiday party. He wasn't doing
anything for the following few weeks, so he came on board Macbeth
- The Comedy and proved to be the hardest working man in show
business. After that experience, Rob is now majoring in Film at
Rutgers University, much to his mother's chagrin.
ANNELIESE PAULL (Director of Photography)
received her BFA from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
at New York University in 2000. She has lensed more than a dozen
shorts on 35 mm, 16 mm, and DV. In 1999, she was awarded a grant
to shoot a 35 mm short in Prague. Macbeth - The Comedy is
her first feature length project.
MATT
DANIELS (Dialogue/Verse Coach),
in addition to what is listed in his cast bio, has worked Off-Off
Broadway with Kirk Wood Bromley's Inverse Theatre, for whom
he has created numerous roles, and Gorilla Rep. for whom
he has played many classical roles, including Bottom in the annual
A Midsummer Night's Dream in Washington Square Park. As Artistic
Director of Tyrannosaurus rep, he produced and directed acclaimed
versions of The Winter's Tale and Euripides' Elektra,
both of which starred the amazingly beautiful and talented Carrie
Grace Murphy. He is the Company Manager for Food
for Thought Productions, a series of One-Act play readings at
the National Arts Club. Matt is also the creator and director of
Cues &
All: the cutting edge verse workshop, a forum for actors
to hone their verse performance skills. (And he's damn good at it
too.)
Return
to the Macbeth-The Comedy
Home Page to watch the trailer
Contact
Tristan Films
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