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Mike Amato
Mr. Josiah Peachum
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Christiane Amorosia
Miss Polly Peachum
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Berto Colòn
Mr. Desmond Ditchdigger
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Kate Geller
A Doll
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Karen Grenke
A Doll
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Heather Helton
A Doll
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Natalie Pero
A Doll
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Liza Pross
A Doll
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Heather
Rogers
Miss Millicent Snitch
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Maria
Rusolo
Miss Lucy Lockit
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Kevin Schwab
Mr. Henry Macheath
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Sarah Stephens
Miss Jenny Diver
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Christopher
T. VanDijk
Brother Matthias
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Catherine Wronowski
Miss Persephone Snatch
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Mike Amato (Mr. Josiah Peachum)
Mike is an actor and a comedian whose credits range from Shakespeare
to the New York Comedy Festival. He was in a national tour of Romeo & Juliet, starred in Talk Show (Off-Broadway
and in LA), and has had roles on Saturday Night Live. As a
comedian, Mike was a featured performer in an ABC special about the New York
Comedy Festival, and can be seen at Caroline's Comedy Club in September, and Atlantic
City in the fall. Along with his classical theater
background, Mike trained under Gary Austin, the founder and original
director of The Groundlings, and at Second
City New York.
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Christiane Amorosia (Miss Polly Peachum)
Christiane is honored to be working with the amazing actors of Imminent Indeed. A graduate of England's
Guildford School of Acting, Christiane is a student of Kurt Peterson and
Michael Forman. NY theatre credits include New Perspective Theater. Co.'s Platinum
Travel Club, Curan Theater. Rep.'s Lifeguard,
Pulse Ensemble Theater.'s A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Reader for
Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie.
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Berto Colòn (Mr. Desmond Ditchdigger)
Berto was born
and raised in Puerto Rico. He attended Fordham University on an athletic scholarship,
but after injuries, his passion for acting began to take center stage. He
studied with Anthony Abeson and is presently studying at the Robert Patterson
Acting Studio. He also studies dance at Martha Graham Studio, movement and
Alexander with Tom Vasiliades, and speech with Susan Cameron. Favorite
theatre roles include Jack
in Aisling Aarts’ production of FORCE: Convergence and Armand in Phasis II’s adaptation of Camille by Alexander Dumas.
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Kate Geller (A Doll)
Kate is currently finishing her MFA in Acting from Mason Gross
School of the
Arts. She has most recently appeared in The Dentist at the Duplex, Approaching Lavendar, Much Ado About Nothing,
and Two Fools (playwright festival)
at MGSA. She is a founding member of the Improv/Sketch Troupe - Monkeys
in the Atrium which performs all over Manhattan,
LA and Fort Dix , supporting our troupes by making them laugh.
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Karen
Grenke (A Doll)
Karen has appeared in Force: Convergence and Twelfth Night with Aisling Arts. Her additional New York theatre credits include the
ongoing Blue Puppies Cycle and the current reading series, Polly
Frost’s Sex Scenes at Cornelia Street Cafe. Previous NY theatre credits include
performances at HERE; Women’s Project, the Ontological Theater, Theater for
the New City,
GAle GAtes. Regional credits include Hangar Theater. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College
and trains with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company.
Ms. Grenke is a founder of Cagey Productions, a NY production
company for emerging artists.
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Heather
Helton (A Doll)
Heather is
originally comes from Northern California where
she received her B.A. degree in Theatre Arts at UC Santa Cruz. Her resume includes both musicals and
straight plays along with some film work.
This is her second production with Aisling Arts, the first playing the
dual roles of Moth and Maria in Love's
Labour's Lost. Some other favorite
roles have been Mary Magdalene in Jesus
Christ Superstar, Sister Mary Leo in Nunsense,
Nelly in The Rimers of Eldritch and
Miss Wilkinson in Move Over, Mrs. Markham among others including
various children's shows and sketch comedy groups. She has also appeared in various industrial
films and has a principal commercial role to her credit.
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Natalie
Pero (A Doll)
Natalie is honored to be performing in her second Fringe Festival
Show, Imminent Indeed. It's
provocative surrealism is a true contrast to her most recent works including
the lead in Cracked Ray at The
Barrow Group Theatre, Desdemona in Othello
at NYU and the Jockey Referee in the film Crossover (coming out in theatres this August).
Natalie is currently working with Lenard Petit at The Michael Chekhov Acting
Studio, and is a graduate of New
York University
with majors in International Relations, Spanish and Theatre.
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Liza Pross (A Doll)
This is Liza's first time performing at the Fringe and her second with
Aisling Arts. She was last seen as
Sara in Aisling Art's production of FORCE:
Convergence at the New York Irish Center. Other past favorite roles include, Natalia
from John Van Druten's I am a Camera and Gail in a production of
George F. Walker's Escape from Happiness. Liza recieved her B.F.A. from Boston University
and studies with Tony Greco here in New
York City.
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Heather
Rogers (Miss Millicent Snitch)
Heather is thrilled to be performing with this amazing and insane
company. She has somehow been working
in plays non-stop since last September and hopes this luck never ends. Her current streak includes The Heist Project with Art House
Productions, As You Like It with
the Gallery Players, Othello
(Emilia) in a tour of schools in New
Jersey, and Andromache
with Illyria Theatre. Her next project
is a supporting role in the film Social
Work written by Cara Burdick.
Training: NYU/Tisch.
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Maria Rusolo (Miss Lucy Lockit)
A native New Yorker, Maria is an active member of SAG, AFTRA, and
Equity. Some of her favorite roles in NYC include Alex in On the Verge,
Hanna in A Shayna Maidel, and Anita in Sarah B Divine. Most
recently she has appeared as Sandy
in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Amateur Comedy
Club. Maria continues to study acting with David Epstein, Artistic
Director of Invisible City Theatre Co., while also pursuing her black belt in
TaeKwonDo, and studying Italian. For more information on Maria go to: www.mariarusolo.com.
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Kevin
Schwab (Mr. Henry Macheath)
Keving is thrilled to be working with Aisling Arts again after
playing roles in their previous productions of Love's Labour's Lost
and Life's A Dream. Kevin has been directing theatre throughout Manhattan and Queens
for high schools and community theatre groups for the past two years. He was
last seen on stage as DJ Hernando Pacheski in The Donkey Show
Off-Broadway at Club El Flamingo. Favorite projects include Godspell
at Queens College, The Sunshine Boys, The
Chairs and Dial M For Murder. Kevin
will return to his recurring role as a Special Education English teacher this
September in Long Island
City.
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Sarah
Stephens (Miss Jenny Diver)
Sarah’s theater credits include
FORCE:Convergence with Aisling Arts, Compression of a Casualty with Gallery
Players, Hardboiled and Madhouse
with RadiotheatreNYC; Independent Film: Absence
for Hasberry Films, Kingdom of Ultimate Power for
Pilotlight Pictures/2005 L.A. Short Film Festival. Sarah is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School. Before acting, Sarah reported for radio and
taught English in Japan.
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Christopher
T. VanDijk (Brother Matthias)
Christopher has been seen with Aisling Arts previously as Jack in FORCE: Wanderlust and FORCE: Threshold and as Don Armado/Dumain in Love's Labour's Lost. Chris has
also been seen with Project Theatre at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, Flying Fig
Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, and at LABrynth Theatre Company's summer
intensive. His first full length play, SIX, will be read this fall with Project Theatre at the 78th
Street Theatre Lab. Chris is a graduate of the William Esper Studio.
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Catherine
Wronowski (Miss Persephone Snatch)
Catherine’s favorite roles include Feste in Twelfth Night,
Chris in Dancing at Lughnasa, Ariel in The Tempest and Daysi
in The Winged Man. She has originated the following roles: Mattie in Fever
1793 at Gifford
Theater, Angelina in A Tale of Cinderella at New York State Theatre
Institute/Warner Brothers Home Video, Martha in the retelling of A
Christmas Carol at Capital Repertory Theatre. Most
recently Catherine has trained at Shakespeare & Co. and L'
Accademia della’Arte in Arezzo,
Italy. She holds a B.A. in English with a
concentration in Theatre from Le Moyne College.
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