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JILL MAYNARD - Actor and playwright, graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in theater. Her film and TV credits include “Purple Rose of Cairo”, Falling In Love”, “As The World Turns”, and One Life To Live. She has appeared off-off Broadway in Major Barbara (title role), The Maids (Madame) and Lovers and Other Strangers (Susan). Summer stock and regional theater roles include Celia in As You Like It, Diana Trapes in The Beggars’ Opera and Susan in Stop the World, I Want to Get Off. Most recently, Jill appeared as Mavis Davis in the long-running TV series “DOC” and as Taffy in the Blueberry Pond Theater premiere of Jean-Paul DeVellard’s Through November Moonlight. As a writer, Jill’s plays have been performed from New York to Los Angeles, where her drama CAFFEINE SOCIETY garnered a prestigious LA Dramalogue award. Jill is happy to be affiliated with Blueberry Pond Theatre and is currently at work on a new play set in Westchester. Jill is also Blueberry Pond Theatre Ensemble’s Media-Press Rep., blueberrypond@earthlink.net.  



SUZANNE MIGNANELLI--most recent Blueberry appearance in HONG KONG, Staged Reading Series 2006-07

Suzanne most recently portrayed Marieke in THE RUB (2006 Samuel French Finalist).  NY credits include Clara in the premiere of IN THE AIR at Theatre 315, Soloist in THE END for the Women's Stage Festival at Culture Project, and Janie in PAST GRAND KNIGHT (Stageplays).  Suzanne was previously a company member at the Cleveland Play House, where her roles included Lise in FRANK LANGELLA'S CYRANO, Escalus/Mariana in MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Drudge in THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, and several appearances for the Next Stage Festival. Other faves: Amnesia in NUNSENSE, Patricia in SIGHT UNSEEN, and Rose of Sharon in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Suzanne is also a drama workshop teacher for elementary school children. AEA




(914) 419-7658 cell
skmigs@gmail.com


MICHAEL J. MULDOON - Has acted in and directed several BPTE samplers and played Mark in Blueberry’s production of Jeffrey Sweet’s With and Without.  NY credits include performances with The Living Theater, Theatre for the New City and Manhattan Repertory. Regionally, he has acted in NJ, PA, KY, GA, CT and upstate NY.  On Television, Michael has been seen several times on the popular soap opera “One Life to Live”, as well as having had a recurring role on the USA Network's show “Up All Night”.  Recently Michael had a featured role in the Italian film: “Natale” in New York.  Favorite roles include Michael in Dancing at Lughnasa, Gary Essendine in Present Laughter, Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night and Scapino in Scapino.  Michael is the Executive V.P. of M&M Productions, on the YCP TheaterWorks Board of
Directors and a member of NYU’s First Look Theatre.  AEA, AFTRA. 





914-316-9296
Thespis61@hotmail.com

CATHERINE NASTASI-most recent Blueberry appearance in HONG KONG, Staged Reading Series 2006-07

Catherine also appeared for Blueberry in CADILLAC, Staged Reading Series 2005-06.  She started her acting career at a performing arts high school on Long Island. Catherine attended Brooklyn College where she studied with Academy Award Winner F. Murray Abraham. Some of her credits include REPETITION COMPULSION (by Gayle Hudson) which was a finalist in the Samuel French Festival 2003, FAMILY ADVICE in the Samuel French 2004, FAMILY VALUES, VIC LANUDI'S DAUGHTERS, ARMS AND THE MAN, VERONICA'S ROOM and AUDITION FOR MURDER. Catherine is also an acting teacher for young people and she directs and produces childrens shows. She lives in South Salem with her husband Anthony and her 2 sons. AEA




914 217 0383 (cell)
cnastasi@optonline.net

JANE O'LEARY--most recent Blueberry appearance as Vivienne in SUBURBAN LEGEND, Fall 2005.

Jane can be seen in the new independent film WELCOME TO EARTH, currently on the festival circuit, playing Rachel. She has recently appeared as Bunny in HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES and Lenny in CRIMES OF THE HEART at T. Schreiber Studio, where she currently studies. You can also see her as an expert on NYCTV's SECRETS OF NY. Favorite NYC roles include Lady Macbeth with the People’s Theater and Isabella in MEASURE FOR MEASURE with Hudson Shakespeare. She has performed in many improv and sketch comedy shows, most notably at Gotham City Improv, where she also teaches improvisation. Her training was at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at Stella Adler Studios. Jane lives in Manhattan with her husband Myles.
www.janeoleary.biz

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janeoleary@earthlink.net
212-252-2034(S)
917-597-5983(C)

Jack Pace is a high school student participating in the Performing Arts Curriculum Experience at Mamaroneck High School.  He has been seen at Blueberry in Gayle Hudson’s HEARTBEATS and in Gabrielle Fox’s THE TALK.  On the technical side, Jack has run lights and sound for the Sampler series, Jocelyn Beard’s WHITEOUT and for M & M Production’s presentations of HAVING OUR SAY and THE ART OF MURDER. Jack also plays guitar.  On film, Jack appeared in a public service video for The National Alcohol Addiction Council.

(914)-815-3637
jackcpace@gmail.com

NICK RAIO - has worked leading stage roles, Cal in J.P. DeVellard's Through November Moonlight and Phillip Bradley in Lloyd Pace's Hong Kong, for Blueberry Pond's 2006 and 2007 seasons. Two excerpts of his play,  Sheila and Angelo, received their first readings at Blueberry Samplers. He's a Bronx born New York based actor/writer and  member of SAG, AEA, AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild. Nick will be on the season premier of Rescue Me as the AA group leader. Other TV credits include The Sopranos,  Law & Order: C.I., America's Most Wanted, numerous soap operas and commercials. Films presently available on DVD include One-Third, Invitation to a Suicide, Mob Queen and Unsavory Characters.  Nick is frequently cast as law enforcement or a gangster but is also very adept at comedy. He is Nick of Nick's Commercials and Guile in Street Fighter :The Later Years on the College Humor website. For links to Nick's work go to www.nickraio.com 

212-842-1773
nickraio@rcn.com

ADAM RAYNEN--most recently for Blueberry, George in CADILLAC, 2005-06 Staged Reading Series.

Adam is a New York based actor with a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Since graduating, he has appeared in numerous Off-Off Broadway productions including Doric Wilson's STREET THEATER, STRAIGHT JACKET (13th St. Rep.), and ANTONY & CLEOPATRA (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble). He's also toured around the country with several educational theatre companies, and been featured in a handful of independent films and primetime television shows. A member of AEA, and originally from Baltimore, he's thrilled to be involved with Blueberry Pond.

917-575-6057
adamraynen@yahoo.com

SHARON ROWE--most recent Blueberry appearance, Spring Sampler 2006

Awards include an Emmy for MAD MATH, The Learning Channel. NYC theatre over the last twenty three years includes appearances at "Women in Film and Television Series," at Classic Stage Company, New Dramatists, Theatre for the New City, Westbank, Theatre at St. Peter's. Sharon has appeared at Pleasantville's Herbert Mark Newman Theatre in PERP and ACCEPTANCE, and at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack, NY performing lead roles in an evening of plays by Blueberry member Elaine Schloss. Multimedia, film and video include Nickelodeon DON'T JUST SIT THERE, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, projects for Harper Colllins Publishers and Addison Wesley Longman. Commercials/Infomercials for Discovery Channel, NYC Dept of Transportation, various corporate clients. Trained with Sande Shurin; Uta Hagen, HB Studio; Lloyd Richards; Paul Sills, Claude Kipnis, Living Stage Theatre/Arena Stage. Sharon is co-director of Ossining Arts, placing artists in the Ossining Schools and community, and co-director of the Noyes School of Rhythm summer family camp. SAG, AFTRA

914-944-4604
fax 914-944-4609

sharon@ecobags.com

LAUREN SEIKALY

Lauren grew up in Arlington, Virginia, received her BA in Theatre from the University of Virginia and currently resides in New York City. She appeared in THE BLUE DEMON at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, then spent her first years in New York in the downtown theatre scene where favorite productions included GOD OF VENGEANCE with Target Margin Theatre, THE HOUR WE KNEW NOTHING OF EACH OTHER directed by Phil Soltanoff, and the 2003 Fringe Festival hit POOP - A TRUE STORY, in which she played a Japanese Man. While her resume includes a spate of indies that may never see the light of day, she can be seen in NOISE starring Ally Sheedy, the upcoming thriller DISORDER, and the unscripted feature WHAT MEN TALK ABOUT, the stage version of which reopens this fall in New York City. She appears in the upcoming season of CHAPPELLE'S SHOW, improvising with the man himself.


917-880-6595
www.dragonchase.com

LIN SNIDER--most recent Blueberry appearance as Mom in FAMILY ADVICE, Samuel French Festival 2004

Lin's credits include cabaret, TV, film, regional theatres (LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC), Off-Broadway (PICNIC, GIGI, THE MUSIC MAN) and the national tour of ANYTHING GOES with Mitzi Gaynor. She most recently performed her cabaret act at DON'T TELL MAMA and THE SILVER TIPS TEAROOM. She has worked at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYU, SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville College, Westchester Conservatory of Music, the Horace Mann School, Concordia College, College of Mt. St. Vincent, TADA, Inside Broadway, Readers Theatre Workshop and the Westchester Arts Council as a musical director, director, and teacher of voice, acting, and musical theatre. Lin is originally from St. Louis and holds an MSW in Social Work from Columbia and an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. She also studied acting at HB Studio, Actors in Advertising, and the William Esper Studio; music at Manhattan School of Music; and dance and movement at the Alvin Ailey School and Actors Movement Studio. AEA SAG

BRIANA TRAUTMAN-MAIER--most recent Blueberry appearance as Joy in CADILLAC, 2005-06 Staged Reading Series. Brittany/Brianna, SUBURBAN LEGEND, Fall 2005.

Briana is thrilled to be a part of Blueberry Pond. She is also a member of the First Look Theatre Company in NYC, which performs works-in-progress written by graduate and undergraduate playwriting students at NYU. Since graduating from the University of Connecticut with a BFA in acting, she has performed in over 20 films, including one which will open a film festival in Chile in January, AGAINST DEATH. In NYC and regionally she originated roles in FEATHERLESS ANGELS, directed by David Esbjornson, Fiona in BOOK GROUP, and Hjordis in the US premiere of THE SEA. She currently studies with Larry Singer at Michael Howard Studios in NYC. www.briana.cl


(917) 653-5028
briana@ideabasin.com

ELENA ZAZANIS--is proud to have originated the role of Anne Bradley in “Hong Kong” at Blueberry Pond Theatre Ensemble! Other theater credits include Lally in Gerald Zipper’s Secrets off-Broadway (St. Luke’s); Vivian in Beautiful, the rock musical as part of the NY International Fringe Festival; Adriana in PJ Escobio’s Shakespeare Anyone?;  Mrs. Allonby in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance (Medicine Show); Delilah in The Almost & The Nothing (HERE Performance Arts Center and the Wings Theatre). Film: Robert Stock’s feature sequel Angel’s Blade: The Ascension as Mary opposite Corbin Bernsen; the Anchor Woman in Razan (Aslihan Unaldi/IFFR & San Francisco Festivals); Flora in Newfest winner Purge (Etienne Kallos); Voula in Beyond Baklava (Silvana Vienne/Int’l Panorama of Independent Film). Television: Rachel in the Dia Creative pilot PR; Hosted TV Road Trip to NY (Mary Belton/The Travel Channel), Featured in Rockin’ Clubs (Denise Gerardi/GNYC Time Warner). Training: Laura Esterman, Cliff Goodwin, Austin Pendelton, Michael Imperioli.

Andreadis Talent Agency 212-315-0303


 
 
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