Monday, October 23, 2023 | 6:30p Doors / 7pShow | FREE!
Frogtown Brewery | 2931 Gilroy St, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Featuring BRSPLA Stakeholders: Ann Sonneville (Captain), Katherine Bourne Taylor (First Mate), Brian Gene White (Chief Engineer), Danny Bernardo, Robert Paterno, Patrick Arter; With: Hadiyyah Noelle Smith, Emme Perkins, Miguel Perez, Jobeth Wagner, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Aurora Culver ,Carli Wright, Michael McDonald, Julie Marchiano, Veronica Rosas. Fight Coordinator: Zach Livingston. Prompter: Robyn Heller
Espoused BRSP Values:
CLARITY – Make us understand what you say. Take responsibility for the detail in your language
VELOCITY – Move forward at the speed of thought.
AUTHENTICITY – Say it in your own voice. (No. Really.)
Dramatis Personae
ANN SONNEVILLE (she/they) “Brutus”
BRSPLA projects: Measure for Measure, Much Ado ABout Nothing, 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
KATHERINE BOURNE TAYLER (she/her) “Mark Antony”
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!”
BRIAN GENE WHITE (he/him) “Cassius”
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
DANNY BERNARDO (he/him) “Julius Caesar”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Much Ado About Nothing, 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); “Joe” in the world premiere of Lauren Yee’s Young Americans
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “The course of true love never did run smooth” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
ROBERT PATERNO (he/him) “Casca”
BSRPLA projects: (LA) Measure for Measure-Friar, 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
PATRICK ARTER (he/him) “Soothsayer et al”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Two Gentlemen of Verona (twice!), Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure
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!
HADIYYAH NOELLE SMITH (she/her) “Cinna et a;”
BRSP Projects: (LA) Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: “Mwongozo” in Disneyland’s Tale of the Lion King, “Ursula” in The Little Mermaid, “Shug Avery” in The Color Purple
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 in Henry V
MICHAEL MCDONALD (he/him) “Calpurnia, Octavius, et al”
BRSP Projects: Debut!
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: Ken in RED, Sir Galahad in SPAMALOT, Mercutio- R&J
Favorite Shakespeare quote: ““t is required you do awake your faith”-WT
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Casca-. I’m a blunt fellow, but the rudeness is a sauce to my good wit
Connect: Website
JULIE MARCHIANO (she/her) “Flavius, Cinna the Poet, et al”
BRSPLA projects: Debut!
The Shakespeare character I’m most like: Hermia (I’m 5’ tall).
Favorite Shakespearean quote: “Come on, tune: if you can penetrate her with your fingering, so; we’ll try with tongue too.” -Cymbeline
EMME PERKINS (she/her) “Trebonious et al”
BRSPLA projects: Much Ado About Nothing, 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
JOBETH WAGNER (she/her) “Metellus Brutus et al”
BRSP Projects: Debut!
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Hopefully, none of them. They all make terrible choices.
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: 1. Mercenary Mandalorian in The Mandalorian 2. Demogorgon in the Stranger Things Drive Through Event 3.The Bride of Frankenstein (various appearances)
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
TAMIKA KATON-DONEGAL (she/her) “Portia, Lepidus, et al”
BRSP Projects: Debut!
Shakespearean character I’m most like: A Weird Sister from the Scottish Play
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
Connect: Instagram
MIGUEL PEREZ (he/him) “Decius Brutus et al”
BRSP Projects: Debut!
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Hopefully, none of them. They all make terrible choices.
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: “Petruchio” in Taming of the Shrew at the South Florida Shakespeare Company in Miami, “The Ghost” and “the Player King” in Hamlet at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge MA, “Belarius” in Cymbeline at the Public Theatre, NYC
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back wherein he puts alms for Oblivion.” Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida
AURORA CULVER (she/her) “Lucius et al”
BRSP Projects: Debut!
Shakespearean character I’m most like: Rosalind
The three roles/projects that epitomize me: Beatrice in Much Ado with BS Theatre; producing and directing Taming of the Shrew: Reversed spring of 2020 ; directing Pride and Prejudice at Long Beach Playhouse
Favorite Shakespeare quote: “Words, words, words”
Connect: Instagram
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