| The New Ensemble Theatre Company, Inc. presents Walkie Talkie By Tom Noonan Saturday, December 1, 2001 With: Jay DiPietro, Rhonda Keyser, Steven McElroy and Grant James Varjas |
| Who's Who... Rhonda Keyser recently directed and starred in the short film an upredictable thing. Since the film's completion in January it has screened in The Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival, the Guerrilla Filmmaker Film Festival and in IFP's Buzz Cuts. an unpredictable thing is based on a monologue Tom Noonan wrote for her for the stage, and which she premiered in Noonan's When We Fall (1999) at The Paradise Theater. She played Marge in Noonan's Wake Up Now Go to Sleep (2000), also at the Paradise. Keyser has played on the regional stage in a variety of other starring roles, including Fefu in Maria Irene Fornes' Fefu and Her Friends and Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal. As Lanie in Lee Blessing's Two Rooms, she performed in the U.S. and in theatre festivals in Hungary and Romania. Steven McElroy New York credits include: Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (LITE), Lomov in The Proposal (LITE), Ed Bronstein in Camp Holocaust (LITE/Present Co.), Puppy in Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom (TNE/All Out Arts), the title role in Hamlet (TNE), The Cherry Orchard and The Jubilee (Chekhov Now! Festival), Hotbed (Miranda) and Michael John Garces' suits (Twilight). Also a director, he has directed New Ensemble productions of Romeo and Juliet, And The Skies Were Opened, PIG and Hostage. He is also a member of Emerging Artists Theatre Co and has directed their productions of Roller Coasting With Fabio, Someplace Warm (winner, 2001 Samuel French New Play Competition) and The Beast In Me. Other New York directing credits include Coyote Ugly, FLIES and Little Egypt (Sensurround, Inc.), Three Sisters (LITE/Chekhov Now!) and many others. His adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry plays, V: The Life of Henry Plantagenet, performed with TNE both in New York and at Theatre 99 in Charleston, SC, in May, 2001. Grant James Varjas Theater: Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom (New Ensemble and All Out Arts), Tesla's Letters, Sockdolager, and Killing Hand (by David Zellnik) all at Ensemble Studio Theater (EST); Twelve Dreams (Lincoln Center Theater). Television: Sex and the City (HBO). Film: The Laramie Project (HBO, March, 2002), Parallel Lives (Showtime), Paradise Framed. |