Today is the first day since I closed my show Camino Real!  Performing a Tennessee Williams play was a blessing from the Gods as I have always been a fan of his work.  Working with Matt Trucano a 3rd year MFA student from Columbia University (thru the Columbia Stages program), was a learning experience!  He is truly an Actor's Director and constantly challenged us to find more emotional depth than we could ever dream of.  Kevin Gilmartin played my leading man, Jacques and despite our age differences we created a relationship fraught with betrayal, anger and love.  It was the first time I made my father speechless and I am deeply humbled by this experience!  I can not wait for my next time on stage and theatre is definitely in the blood again!

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Official Press Release: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat_new/d.php?id=2362382

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Columbia Stages Site: http://www.columbiastages.org/season/2017/2_Directing%20Thesis%202/index.html

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Camino Real by Tennessee Williams Directed by Matt Trucano

In equal parts romance, farce, satire, and pagan ritual, Camino Real sketches a dreamscape of the lonely heart, a space for critical self-re ection and possible spiritual redemption. Tennessee’s richly textured imagery envelops the audience in a reverberating pageant of physical, emotional, and psychic landscapes which morph as in a dream: shockingly, kaleidoscopically, and inevitably. Williams warns, “The people in my play are romantics confronted by very real situations as they come to the end of the road. It is a real road.” 

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PRODUCTION TEAM: Director: Matt Trucano, Producer: Cary Bland Simpson, Set Designer: D’Vaughn Agu, Costume Designer: Joey Blaha, Sound Designer: Ryan Hopper, Production Stage Manager: Abraham Marlett, Lighting Designer: Peter W.Mitchell,  Production Designer: Brad Peterson, Fight Director: Cristina Ramos, Dramaturge: Erich Schrader, Company Manager: Mei Li Heman, Assistant Stage Managers: Jessica Emmanus, R. Christopher Maxwell, and Alexis Nalbandian 

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FEATURING: Odera Adimorah, Cecil Baldwin*, Alicia Ceron, Brenda 
Crawley, Cortney Gift, Kevin Gilmartin, Eric Hedund, Cheryl Horne*, Rachel Jarvis, Yasmeen Jawhar, Adam Kampouris, James Lewis, Anita Moreno, Luca Mosca, Ron Orlovsky, Frank Poon, Eddie Powers, Neil Redfield, Sultana Rizk, Sam Simone, Erica Slutsky, Tiffany Small, Lauren Wainwright, Memory Willis

* Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

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