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Daniel Berlingeri
"Caleb"

Daniel Berlingeri is delighted to make his debut on the Kitchen Stage.  Daniel hails from the small town of Newtown, CT.  He is a senior BFA Acting Major at Ithaca College, soon graduating and off on his way to NYC. Daniel’s Ithaca College credits include: Translations (Lieutenant Yolland), Measure for Measure (Angelo), How I Learned to Drive (Uncle Peck), Coram Boy (William Ashbrook). Just last summer Daniel debuted on the Hangar Theatre Stage in Lend Me a Tenor (Max), and in Junie B Jones (Mr. Scary), and on their second stage in This is Our Youth (Dennis), and in Anton Dudley’s The Empty Ocean (Paul). Daniel also performed with the Ithaca Shakespeare Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dreams (Oberon), and As You Like It (Oliver). Daniel is forever grateful to his loving and supportive family and friends Mom, Dad, Adam, and Gracie.

Darian Dauchan*
"John"

Darian Dauchan is an award winning solo performer, actor, and poet who has appeared on both Broadway (Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche) and Off Broadway theatre (Jean Cocteau Rep., Classical Theatre of Harlem). TV credits include Law and Order and Nickelodeon's Bet the House, as Darian the "SoundFX" Guy. He was a member of the 2006 National Poetry Slam Team for the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe, was crowned the 2007 Urbana Grand Slam Champion for the Bowery Poetry Club, was a 2008 Nuyorican Grand Slam Finalist, the 2009 New Word Artist for Urban Word NYC, and in 2012 was the winner of the Jerome Foundation's Stakeholder's Choice Award. In addition, his show Death Boogie, a multimedia Hip Hop Poetry Musical, won two Musical Theater Matters awards at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland for BEST Innovation of a Musical and BEST New Music with his band The Mighty Third Rail , a 3 man trio, which combines the elements of poetry, beat-boxing, violin, and upright bass. Death Boogie, the album, along with their debut album Classic is now available on iTunes.

Alexander Thomas*
"Simon"

This is Alexander's third appearance at the Kitchen Theatre in the last 12 months, having been in last seasons Broke-ology and earlier this season in Opus. Kitchen audiences also know him from After Ashley, Black Stuff (part of the Kitchen Counter Culture series) and his self-pinned solo show Throw Pitchfork fresh off its off-Broadway debut at New York Theater Workshop. Throw Pitchfork also went on to win a special honors award at the Thespis Mono Drama Festival in Kiel, Germany . He was in the award winning U.K. stage adaptation of On The Waterfront directed by Steven Berkoff, which played London's West End, The Edinburgh Festival, The Nottingham Playhouse and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. He currently lives in Berlin, Germany where he performed at the English Theater of Berlin in Utopia/Dystopia. And frequently participates in their staged reading series titled Color Blind? A draft his lastest play Schwartz Gemacht (How Klaus Found His Blackness and Outlived the Nazis), a piece influenced by his research into the lives of black German citizens during the 30s, just recieved a stage reading there as well. His training includes study at the Stella Adler Studio and the Miesner Technique with Richard Pinter (now head of the Neighborhood Playhouse). He is on the "Usual Suspect" list at New York Theatre Workshop.

Director
Jesse Bush*

Kitchen Theatre Company: The Brothers Size, Happy Days, The Drunken City, Bed, No Breakfast, The Santaland Diaries, Two Rooms, The Drawer Boy, Orphans, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. Hangar Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Once on This Island, columbinus, Wanna Hear a Scary Story? Free To Be You and Me and Les Miserables: School Edition. New York City: Down the Road (Creative Space Theater) Steel Kiss (Kraine
Theatre), Reaching Mercy and Sex and Imagining (American Theatre of Actors), T & T Music Factory (NY International Fringe Festival). As assistant director: Syracuse Stage, Second Stage Theatre, the Goodspeed Opera House and the Papermill Playhouse. Jesse is the Associate Artistic Director at the Hangar Theatre. He is an alumnus of Ithaca College where he received a BFA in Acting. His participation in this production would not be possible without the generous contribution of Celia, Harper and Lulu.

Scenic Designer
David L. Arsenault

KTC: Brian Dykstra Selling Out, Mrs. Mannerly, Broke-ology, Call Me Waldo, Circle Mirror Transformation, Mary’s Wedding, The Brothers Size. NYC: Broadway Bares XXII, Call Me Waldo (Working Theatre), As Wide As I Can See, A Charity Case, Friends & Relations, First Prize (Hewes Design Award Nomination), Brilliant Traces, Chekhovek, Baltimore in Black and White, How I Fell In Love, Lifeline, Brian Dykstra’s Ho!, among others. Ithaca College: Floyd Collins, Children of Eden, Metamorphoses (lighting). Running to Places: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Romeo & Juliet (lighting), ...Charlie Brown (lighting). Elsewhere: The Last Five Years (Winston-Salem, NC), After the Revolution (Williamstown), Positions 1956 (Arlington, VA). Recent: My Fair Lady (Merry Go Round), Urinetown (R2P). David has spent summers at the Barrington Stage Company and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is a graduate of Ithaca College. To view more of his work, please visit: www.davidarsenaultdesign.com

Lighting Designer
Tyler M. Perry

Tyler is a recent graduate of Ithaca College where he received a BFA in Theatrical Production Arts with concentration in Lighting and Scenic Design. Past Kitchen Theatre credits include: Opus (Scenic & Lighting Designer), Frankie and Johnny in... Lune, Waiting for Spring, The Mystery of Irma Vep, In the Company of Dancers (Lighting Designer), Broke-ology (Properties Designer), Bed and Sofa (Assistant Scenic Designer). Ithaca College credits include: The Magic Flute (Scenic Designer), The Light in the Piazza, How Learned to Drive (Lighting Designer), The Little Prince (Assistant Lighting Designer), among others. His work has also been seen with Running to Places Theatre Company where he spent the season as Resident Designer: A Christmas Carol, Hairspray, Joseph and...Dreamcoat (Scenic and Lighting Designer), Annie, Oklahoma, Noises Off, Oliver, Cinderella (Scenic Designer), Urinetown (Lighting Designer). He also has extensive work as an assistant/associate designer to Steve TenEyck with such companies as Ithaca College, Kitchen Theatre Co., Hangar Theatre, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Florida Grand Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, and the Herson Group Ltd.
www.tylermperrydesign.com

Costume Designer
Lisa Boquist

Lisa has designed and coordinated costumes for a number of previous productions at the Kitchen Theatre, includingthis season's Opus and Brian Dykstra Selling Out and last season’s Circle Mirror Transformation, Irma Vep, Red Light Winter, Broke-ology and Waiting For Spring. Also at the Kitchen she has designed Mary’s Wedding, Bed and Sofa, Last Train To Nibroc, I Become A Guitar, Nine Parts Of Desire, Precious Nonsense, and others. She runs her own studio, where she designs and constructs prototypes, mascots and custom clothing for film and public appearances. She has been the Textiles Coordinator and Design Associate for MacKenzie-Childs, Ltd., and presently runs the costume shop at Cornell University. There she is responsible for training students in all aspects of costume construction, and has designed costumes for Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Beat Box Bard, Bedroom Farce, and Drama, Dance And The Disco Of Desire, among others.

Sound Designer
Lesley Greene

Lesley has been a member of the Kitchen Theatre staff since 2003. She has degrees in physics, geology, and atmospheric science from Cornell University. It wasn't until a chance encounter with Rachel Lampert & Dancers in 1997 that she knew she was destined for a career in the arts. In addition to her producing responsibilities, Lesley’s work at the Kitchen has included composing music (Science Fair, Winter Tales, Emmett & Ella's Big Apple Escapade and others), playing flute, and acting. She also serves as the Kitchen Theatre's in-house sound and projections designer. Lesley is co-founder of Porchfest, a music festival held on the porches of Fall Creek. Her husband is Robbert van Renesse – Ithaca's only computer scientist/unicyclist/ukulele player. They have two wonderful daughters, Anneke and Tanya, and this year a Dutch exchange student named Bink as well!

Properties Designer
Megan Christine

Megan is currently serving as a production intern here at The Kitchen Theatre, and she is thrilled to be afforded the opportunity to design the properties for the upcoming season. Opus, here at with the Kitchen Theatre Company, was Megan’s first professional design, her previous props experiences include working as a prop artisan for the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA (Summer 2012) and filling the role of props master for 4 years at Whittier College from whence she graduated in 2010. Some of her Whittier College credits include Pride and Prejudice, Urinetown, and Wonder of the World, which earned her Meritorious Achievement honors from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Stage Manager
Jennifer Schilansky*