Monday, November 14, 2022 | 6:45p Doors / 7:30 Show | FREE!
Frogtown Brewery | 2931 Gilroy St, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Featuring BRSPLA Stakeholders: Brian Gene White (Captain), Katherine Bourne Taylor (First Mate), Kelly Lozo (Chief Engineer), Patrick Arter, Delia Baseman, Danny Bernardo; With: Taylor Bibat, Hadiyyah Noelle, Robert Paterno, Emme Perkins, Ann Sonneville, Chloe Baldwin, Heather Schmidt, Lillana Winkworth; Prompter: Cassidy Foust; Waiting in the Wings: Rizzy Fuentes, Sam Bianchini, Cassidy Foust, Jamie B. Cline, Jon Matteson, Sarah Bell
Espoused BRSP Values:
Velocity: Move forward at the speed of thought.
Clarity: Make us understand what you say.
Courage: Do not be afraid
Dramatis Personae
BRIAN GENE WHITE (he/him) “Benedick”
BRSP Projects: (LA) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Some days Horatio, some days Benedick
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: Hamlet (Ensemble Shakespeare Theatre; My play Future Tripping; Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Great River Shakespeare Festival)
Favorite BRSPLA Moment: Doing Malvolio’s letter scene in Twlefth Night, connecting with the audience during that show which was BRSPLA’s first show since Covid
KATHERINE BOURNE TAYLER (she/her) “Beatrice”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Macbeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night (Chicago) Macbeth, King Lear, A Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar; (Virtual) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: Rosalind in As You Like; It Grown Up Orphan Annie; Cool for Five Seconds
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Rosalind, As You Like It
Favorite BRSP Moment: In Chicago, we ended King Lear with Nick Harazin singing Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt”. When he started singing, the audience laughed, but as the song kept on, it turned into a moving reflection on Lear’s life, and the whole audience and cast ended up joining in.
Post Script: “So much love to DJ!”
KELLY LOZO (she/her) “Hero”
BRSP Projects: (LA) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
Favorite BRSP Moment: It was the end of the “All the world’s a stage” speech and I was playing Jacque. The audience was raucously enjoying the humor of the speech. However, as I neared the end, I was afraid the sad mortality of the speech was getting lost. I paused and they sensed it, grew silent and reflective for: “Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivious; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” It fills me with wonder every time I think about it.
Connect: Instagram
PATRICK ARTER (he/him) “Claudio”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Two Gentlemen of Verona (twice!), Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Malvolio: a guy who tries way too hard to look smart, who tries way too hard to impress women, and who tries way too hard to find just the right outfit.
Favorite BRSPLA Moment: Seeing everybody’s hilarious Halloween costumes for the banquet scene in Macbeth: detectives sitting next to newsies sitting next to a wizard from Hogwarts. Just as the bard intended!
DELIA BASEMAN (she/her) “Verges/Margaret”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentleman of Verona, MacBeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; (Chicago) Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentleman of Verona, MacBeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Ceaser, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, King John, Othello, Merchant of Venice; (Virtual) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen (Steppenwolf Garage/Best in Fringe NYC); The Diary of Anne Frank (Writers Theater); ctrl alt delete (Emmy nominated series)
Favorite Shakespeare quote: Today it is: “Hold thy piece, I pray thee hold thy piece.”
DANNY BERNARDO (he/him) “Don Pedro”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Twelfth Night, Macbeth, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Equal parts Olivia (Twelfth Night), Hal (Henry IV, parts 1 & 2), and Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); best served shaken, not stirred.
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: “Harry Bright” in Mamma Mia (2019 East West Players, 2021 La Mirada/McCoy Rigby); Jerky (screenings: Cannes Court Metrage, OutFest Fusion, Reeling); My play Mahal
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “The course of true love never did run smooth” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
TAYLOR BIBAT (she/her) “Antonia”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
HADIYYAH NOELLE (she/her) “Dogberry/Ursula”
BRSP Projects: (LA) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: “Mwongozo” in Disneyland’s Tale of the Lion King, “Fluellen” in Henry V, and “Ursula” in The Little Mermaid
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “My words fly up my thoughts remain below words without thoughts to heaven never go.”
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Fluellen – 100%
ROBERT PATERNO (he/him) “Leonato”
BSRPLA projects: (LA) As You Like It – Silvius A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Egeus/Fairy
Three roles/projects that epitomize me: Teaching Artist, Filipinx Actors Barkada member, Son to Bella and Roberto Paterno
Favorite Shakespearean quote: “All’s one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!” – Desdemona, IV iii, Othello
EMME PERKINS (she/her) “Don John/Sexton”
BRSPLA projects: (LA) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Shakespeare character I’m most like: Brutus, in an honorable way not in a plotting-to-assassinate way
Favorite Shakespearean quote: “Come on, tune: if you can penetrate her with your fingering, so; we’ll try with tongue too.” -Cymbeline
Connect: Website
ANN SONNEVILLE (she/they) “Conrade”
BRSPLA projects: (LA) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Three roles/projects that epitomize me: Monsieur D’Eon is A Woman (Elizabeth I, Lord Halifax, Marie Antoinette, etc), Frankenstein (V. Frankenstein), Miriam is Going To Mars (Miriam Johnson)
Favorite Shakespearean quote: Lately – “…but thou dost breathe; hast heavy substance; bleed’st not; speak’st; art sound…Thy life’s a miracle. Speak yet again.” – King Lear
The Shakespearean character I’m most like is: Gravedigger
Connect: Website
CHLOE BALDWIN (she/her) “Balthazar”
BRSP Projects: (Chicago) Captain of Macbeth (Banquo), Lady Percy in Henry IV Part 1, Musician in Titus Andronicus, etc
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: -“Rosalind” in As You Like It. I’ve played her onstage twice and I adapted AYLI into a web series with my best friend. Just played the lead in a comedic heist film who is really bad a heisting, which feels apt. One time I played a very excited boxer in an Anheuser Busch commercial.
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Rosalind or Romeo
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “All days are nights till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me”
Connect: Instagram
HEATHER SCHMIDT (she/her) “The Watch”
BRSPLA projects: Debut!
The Shakespeare character I’m most like: A lil Mercutio, a lil Rosalind, a lil Puck in that Shakespeare soup
The three roles/projects that epitomize me as a person are: Maddy – Future Tripping, Babe – Crimes of the Heart, Ophelia – Hamlet
Favorite Shakespearean quote: “Boldness be my friend!”
Connect: Website
LILLIANA WINKWORTH (she/her) “Friar Francis”
BRSPLA projects: Debut!
The Shakespeare character I’m most like: Malvolio
The three roles/projects that epitomize me as a person are: Liquor with Lilli (original sketch), The Bachelor Party (original sketch), This wine commercial I was in that was me, being me, totally improvised.
Favorite Shakespearean quote: “Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.”
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