LABORATORIUM WEEK THREE PROJECTS 

VERY IMPORTANT DUE TO THE JAZZ AGE LAWN FESTIVAL ON GOVERNORS ISLAND THIS WEEKEND (AUGUST 26TH & 27TH)
WE ANTICIPATE LONG LINES FOR THE FERRY IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND TRAVEL EARLY!

KEEP THIS PROGRAMMING FREE

NO GROUND BEYOND THIS POINT
By Susan Goodell+
Directed by James Masciovecchio
Featuring Ronald Kitts+, James Masciavecchio, Amber Crawford*, Autumn Mirassou

Performance Times: 
Saturday August 26th @ 1:30PM
Sunday August 27th @ Noon & 3:30PM

With its tranquil streets and houses passed down through generations, Westbury always seemed like the near-perfect town. But now ground has started to give way as a major employer shutters, the infrastructure craters and one of the friendly town's residents presents a bizarre menace. Can security be restored? Should citizens put faith in the most unlikely person to lead them? When disintegration begins, sometimes the first casualty is the truth.

*denotes member of actors equity association
+denotes ensemble member

Creative Team Bios
Olivia Rose Barresi is an actor and theatre artist from the Tri-State area. Favorite recent roles include Henry V in Henry V (48 Hour Shakespeare at MTC), and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Easy Leap Theatre Company). Training: BU, LAMDA. Thanks to Rising Sun! oliviarosebarresi.com

Amber Crawford- SAGAFTRA AEA NY Theatre: A Light in the Dark @ Planet Connections *Best Supporting Actress 2016 award, Glockcoma @ Midtown International *Best Supporting Actress nomination, Lead in The Stronger with August Strindberg Repertory @ Gene Frankel Theatre. Film: Broken *rave review by Ebert, All The Beautiful Things *Sundance'14.
TV: ID Investigation Discovery "Scorned: Love Kills", Animal Planet "Monsters Inside Me", Oprah Winfrey Network "Betrayal". IMDb. Amber-Crawford.com

Autumn Mirassou: Recent credits include playing Daisy in Rhinoceros at the Lynne Redgrave Theater, Dr Burke in Two Conceive for the Hudson Guild Winter Festival, and Carolyn Bryant in A Whistle in Mississippi: the Lynching of Emmett Till in Harlem. She earned her masters in acting in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. When she's not acting, she can be found writing darkly comic plays or learning to play the ukulele.

Ronald Truman Kitts is an Actor, Dancer, and Producer. He specializes in physical theater and performance. He has a passion for new play development with most of his work focused around emerging playwrights. He currently works as the marketing associate for Womens Project Theater. Drew University CLA '16.

Susan Goodell is author of the full length plays HOPE THROWS HER HEART AWAY, (premiere at Chicago’s Genesis Theatrical Productions) and HEELS OVER HEAD, (Tri-State Actors Theatre, Rover Dramawerk’s Seconds Award). Her short plays appear in “Best American Short Plays 2014-2015” and “2016 the Best 10-Minute Plays.”
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James Masciovecchio is a Brooklyn Based Director. James is thrilled to be joining the NY Madness family. Recent credits include, Divorce Party, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Touch, & Row After Row all for Cave Theatre Co. where he serves as Artistic Director. He has also spent the past four years serving as Production Manager for the Obie Award Winning The Fire This Time Festival. He is a graduate of Point Park Universities Conservatory of the Performing Arts.

Tattoo On My Arm
Playwright: Inna Tsyrlin
Director: Stephan Schmidt
Actors: Elizabeth Berkman, Barbara Matovu, Matthew Hays & Jim Zukowski

Performance Times: 
Saturday August 26th Noon and 3:30PM
Sunday August 27th 1:30PM

After a supernatural occurrence in the Amazonian rainforest, Diana becomes determined to embrace her culture; far more than having it represented in her skin. With support from her fiancé she commences a campaign to protect the physical and spiritual home of a tribe living in the rainforest. Mixing conservation with corporate ideology sees Diana become entangled with a powerful financier. Now Diana has to decide if she is prepared to sacrifice all she’s ever known. 

Creative Team Bios 

Matthew Hays is delighted to be making his debut with the Rising Sun Theater Company. Born and raised in Hell's Kitchen he was trained at Ithaca College, studying theater and writing. Previous credits include CLOSER and DOG SEES GOD with THE ITHACA COLLEGE PLAYERS, as well as appearing in original works AFLIC with the BAD THEATER FESTIVAL and A SUDDEN FALL OF RAIN with VENUS AND ADONIS FESTIVAL.

Jim Zukowski appeared this past July in SOFT LANDING at the Midtown International Theatre Festival. He studies acting at HB Studio. His poetry appears in various magazines and journals.

Elizabeth Berkman is thrilled to be a part of Tattoo On My Arm! Originally from Dallas, she earned her BFA in Theatre from SMU. In the NYC area she's been seen in Everyday Inferno Theatre Company's workshop performance Gabriel (Gabriel), Hudson Shakespeare Company's Henry IV (Prince Hal) and Martyr'd Signs, A Titas Andronicus Adaptation (Demetrius), as well as the short film Nube (Nube). www.elizabethberkman.com!

Inna Tsyrlin is currently perusing her MFA in Playwriting at Ohio University, under the tutelage of Charles Smith and Erik Ramsey. Prior to that, she took classes in New York at HB Studio with Julie McKee, and at Primary Stages. She is the recipient of a regional KCACTF Award (2017) for her short play, Earth, and has had shorts performed in New York, including: I (heart) Subway and Happy Anniversary (2014, Emerging Artists Theater: New Works Series); My Wife (HB Playwrights Foundation); Principal’s Office (semi-finalist of Manhattan Repertory 2014 Competition); Fat (Mount Carmel Theater 2014). Her shorts, Coffee and Murakami (2014) and Bentley (2013) have had staged readings as part of the Jack & Julie Project at HB Studio. Readings of her shorts have featured at Lama Theatre Company, and a reading of Animals at HB Studio (2015). Apart from plays, Inna has written films (Derek is Funny 2017; Headcount 2016; Block, 2016; Eggs 2014), reviewed Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway plays for stagebuddy.com, and contributed to Australian lifestyle publications. She was born in St Petersburg, Russia, grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and lived in New York for several years. Her work explores darker and unusual aspects of relationships, and how these reflect in our current social, political, and natural environments; with attention to freedom and identity. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild.
 
Barbara Matovu is thrilled to be a part of Rising Sun Productions Reading Series. As a theater artist based in New York, Barbara works as an actress, assistant director, and teaching artist for various organizations that work in New York City schools and youth organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama and Minor in Spanish from the University of North Carolina at  Greensboro.