NICOLAS GRECOACTOR
A classically trained actor and playwright, he received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Nicolas can be seen in the upcoming animated film A Tooth Fairy Tale. Prior film work includes Don Q, Guardians of Time, The Death of Pushkin and Park Sharks. His television work includes Food that Built America, Titans: The Rise of Hollywood, Punk'd, Akedo, Invincible, Homicide City and Into the Wild Frontier. Nic has appeared Off-Broadway in Love/Sick (59E59), Stiff (Fun House Theatre and Film at The Barrow Group), Men and Women Talking Love and Sex (Davenport Theatre), Blood Wedding (Barrow Group), Kaspar Hauser (Flea Theatre), The Dybbuk (Barrow Group).
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JOSEPH VITALEPLAYWRIGHT
A finalist for the 2020 Woodward-Newman drama prize, semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O’Neill Theater/National Playwrights Conference, and recipient of a 2021 New Jersey Council on the Arts fellowship in playwriting. The author of a number of plays, including Murrow, a one-man show about the life of Edward R. Murrow, which will be produced in April at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. His full-length and one-act plays have been performed in New York and throughout the country. His most recent play, Sunset Park, was performed in 2023 at The Theater Project in Maplewood, NJ.
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BREN RAPPPRODUCER
Has produced 50 staged works in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. She is no stranger to the one-man format having co-produced the hit I’m Not A Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce alongside its writer and star Ronnie Marmo, with direction by Tony Award winning and Emmy nominated actor, Joe Mantegna. The show ran for 115 performances in Los Angeles, nine months Off-Broadway and six months in Chicago (2018-2021). It is currently on national tour. As founder/president of one of the most highly awarded theaters in Dallas, Fun House Theatre and Film (2011-2017), she received a special citation from the DFW Critics Forum for her innovative producing of new works, with the theatre named best in the city (Dallas Observer 2014). Rapp was also a co-founder of The Classics Theatre Project, entering its fifth season in Dallas. She has recently launched a new independent theatre, American Chronicle Theatre Company, dedicated to non-fiction stories of America's Modern Era, which will debut with a regional premiere in Dallas of King Kirby, the story of the creator of Captain America, Jack Kirby.
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MONTGOMERY SUTTONDIRECTOR
A director, playwright, actor, and teacher. As a director, his work includes Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Changeling, Secret Shakespeare Hunt (Rude Grooms); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Atlantic Acting School/NYU Tisch School of the Arts); Othello, Ruins, Antigone, Oedipus (Gilbert Theater), Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing (Junior Players), The Soothsayer (Take Ten Festival - nominee, Best Director); The Tempest, The Shrew (Seven Stages Shakespeare Company). Films include Between the Lines (winner for Best Screenplay and nominee for Best Director, Sparrow Film Festival), Delivery Failed, Self-Love, and Death Takes a Leak. As a writer, his plays include Advent (semi-finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), Ruins, Broken Water, and original verse adaptations of Antigone and Oedipus for the Gilbert Theater. He is founder and Master of the Revels for Rude Grooms, a Queens-based theater company. As an actor he has appeared at Shakespeare’s Globe, New York Classical Theatre, Florida Studio Theater, Casa Manana, Shakespeare Dallas, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Trinity Shakespeare Festival, Seven Stages Shakespeare Company, Second Thought Theatre, Undermain Theatre, Uptown Players, Theater Three, and Dallas Children’s Theater. He serves on faculty for the Atlantic Acting School / NYU and has taught for the Shakespeare Theater Association, the World Shakespeare Congress, Shakespeare Dallas, the Gilbert Theatre, Junior Players, Dallas Children’s Theater, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, and Rude Grooms. He received his BFA from NYU (Atlantic Acting School, Commedia dell’Arte) and trained as a member of the International Actors Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe. montgomerysutton.com
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