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DIRTY WORKS
By JAMIE LINLEY
Directed
by KEVIN KITTLE
January 12 to 30, 2005 (Extended due to popular demand)
The Greenwich Street Theatre
547 Greenwich Street (between Charlton and Vandam)
New York, NY 10013
Pandemonium is loosed on a
council estate when a little girl is wantonly jabbed with dirty
works. A malignant comedy about the tortuous road to a dead end.
“If
you like your theater crime-ridden, foul-mouthed and drained of human
compassion, Dirty Works should be right up your very dark alley.” The New York Times
“Linley's writing is taut, clever and humane... While most of
us know how the other half lives Linley and Kittle provide a graphic
depiction of the bottom 1 percent.” TimeOut
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The
Cast
MICKY CAMPBELL (Screw/Carl)
Micky Campbell originally from Northern Ireland has lived in NYC
for the last eighteen years. His film and television credits
include Mick in Barry Levinson’s An
Everlasting Piece and James in the BBC’s I Shot The Law.
Micky has studied in NYC with Gene Frankel and Marcia Haufrecht.
MARTIN EWENS (Gary)
Martin Ewens is from
Birmingham, England. He has recently appeared in The
Poverty Row Horror Show, OBOE
Player, King John and The Man who Hated Shakespeare.
He has film and television credits here in the US and back home
in the UK.
MARTIN HILLIER (Tommo)
MArtin Hillier
was classically
trained at Webber Douglas Academy in London. Credits include;
Inspector LeStrade in The West
End Horror at Bay Street Theatre, Ged Murray in Comedians at La Mama. Simon in The Fox at the Here Arts Center. Antipholus of Ephesus in Comedy
of Errors for Vpstart Crow in Virginia. Gregory Lunn
in Overruled and Henry Apjohn
in How he Lied to her Husband at the King’s Head Theatre, London. Carbon Castell Jaloux
in Cyrano de Bergerac at
The Bridewell Theatre, London. Nicholas in One
for the Road at Theatre Clwyd, Wales. Ronnie Worthington
in Out of Order at the Theatre
Royal in Windsor, England and on tour worldwide. This is Martin's
first full production at 'The Greenwich' and he is delighted
to be part of the world premier of Dirty
Works; which he has been involved with since its first
reading at Greenwich Street over 2 years ago.
POLLY LEE (Tracey)
NY theatre
includes: Sally in Demon Baby (Ohio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, prod.), Isabel in With
a Hammer and a Nail (EST), Kimberly in Wednesday
is the Worst Day of the Week (DR II), Beatrice in Expat/Inferno (NY Int' Fringe Festival - Winner Overall Acheivement Award).
Regionally Polly has recently been seen at the Cleveland Playhouse
(OH), the O'Neill Playwrights Conference (CT) and the McCarter
Theatre (NJ). UK credits include the voice of Selina Cross in
BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Peyton Place, Cordelia in King
Lear (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury) and the Doctor in Woyzeck (Yvonne Arnaud,
Guildford). Upcoming: Ashley in Slag
Heap (World Premiere) at The Cherry Lane. Polly holds
an MFA in acting and is a member of the Actors Studio.
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JAMIE LINLEY (Lanky/Author)
This is Jamie's first full-length
play. He is currently working on his next, Lagerphrenia.
AIDAN REDMOND (Frank/Inmate)
Recent
engagements include performance readings of Blodeuwedd by Welsh playwright Saunders Lewis, at The Workshop Theatre
Main Stage for the 2004 Midtown Theatre Festival, at the Zipper
Theatre for the Stage One Reading of Slammed by Barry Alexander Brown and at the Greenwich Street Theatre
for The Third Option, by
Cat Bistransin, directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser. Aidan also
played Pitchfork in the inaugural Stiff Upper Lip production
of The Pitchfork Disney directed by Kevin Kittle at the Greenwich Street Theatre. In
his native Ireland, Aidan has toured extensively with leading
roles in Hamlet, Julius Caesar and a Midsummer Night’s Dream.
He made his television debut in 2001 on the popular BBC/RTE
series Bachelor’s Walk and has appeared in several TV commercials in the British Isles.
Aidan has a BFA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College,
Dublin.
CHRISTINE RENDEL (Mrs. B/Mum)
AEA-SAG-AFTRA has appeared in regional theaters throughout her
native Britain, the Middle East, and New York. New York credits
include Lettice in Lettice and
Lovage, Mrs.Lovett in Sweeney
Todd, Madame Arcati in Blithe
Spirit, Anna in Mind the Gap’s US premiere of the
acclaimed Under The Blue Sky,
Bea in Beholden, and Victoria
in The Education of Miss Ida.
She is a founding member of Mind The Gap Theatre, and has also
performed in a number of independent films, industrials and
voiceovers.
LOUISE
KARAGH TRAYNOR (Trisha)
Louise
is a native Glaswegian, living
in New York for the past six years. She studied for two years
with Marcia Haufrecht at the Common Basis Theatre in Hell's
Kitchen, and after several student graduate films, is making
her stage debut in New York.
VICTOR VILLAR-HAUSER (Darren)
Victor Villar-Hauser
most recently played
Darren in Stiff Upper Lip’s production of Dirty
Works at the Greenwich Street Theatre. Other theatre
credits include Robin in Sara Kane’s Cleansed
at the Ohio Theatre, the lead role of Presley Stray in Stiff
Upper Lip’s production of The
Pitchfork Disney, Ray in the Greenwich Street Theatre’s
production of Joe Penhall’s Some
Voices, and the Understudy for the lead role of John
Everett Millais in the Off-Broadway production of The
Countess at the Lambs Theatre.
His training has included the two-year Meisner program with
Maggie Flanigan at The William Esper Studio. He is also the
co-founder of the Leftfield Workshop reading series of new
works at the Greenwich Street Theatre and most recently is
a founding member of Stiff Upper Lip. His film roles include
Ham in Ham and the Hotspurs,
an NYU thesis film directed by Justin Nowell that will be
doing the festival routes shortly.
KEVIN KITTLE (Director)
Kevin Kittle
has worked as Joseph Chaikin’s
assistant director and with Arthur Miller and Sam Shepard
for the Signature Theater Company. He has directed numerous
productions in such New York City theaters as The Joseph Papp
Public Theater, The John Houseman, The Neighborhood Playhouse,
The Harold Clurman, Ensemble Studio Theater, Chashama, Sullivan
Street Playhouse, The Zipper, The Vital, Expanded Arts, and
Access Studio Theater, as well as regionally. His most recent
productions include Philip Ridley’s The
Pitchfork Disney with Stiff Upper Lip and Joe Penhall’s Some Voices with The Villar-
Hauser Development Fund, both at The Greenwich Street Theatre;
And Mirasaki Danced (starring
Michael Warren Powell) for Circle East; Burnt, which he co-developed
with Rhett Rossi at The Present Company Theatorium; The
Woolgatherer at The Flatiron Playhouse; the NYC premiere
of Carter Lewis’ Soft Click
of a Switch; and The House
of Yes at The Currican, Watching
and Waiting at The Judith Anderson, and Life
During Wartime with Aaron Stanford (2001 Off-Off Broadway
Review Award for Outstanding Production) all with Inertia
Productions, with whom he is resident director. As co-developer
and dramaturge/director, Kevin has worked on David Dannenfelser’s When Words Fail…
at the NY International Fringe Festival, the script of which
is published in Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium,
Vol. One and Peter Handy’s East
of the Sun and West of the Moon, which was a finalist
in the Samuel French One Act Festival and is published by
Samuel French. His Los Angeles production of Chet
Whell’s Economic Subterfuge, starring Jason Huber,
was nominated for an LA Weekly Award. Kevin is an associate
professor of Acting in the BFA program at Mason Gross School
of the Arts, Rutgers University and is an associate director
of the Youth Theater of New Jersey, where he teaches in their
Summer Theatre Institute in residence at Columbia University.
The Producers
ZETNA FUENTES
Zetna Fuentes is a director/producer working in theatre, televison and film.
This fall, Zetna will be co-directing Francine Volpe’s
Late Fragment with Michael
Imperioli at Studio Dante and is currently producing the UK
premiere of Jamie Linley’s Dirty
Works at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is
also currently working on several projects for the Independent
Film Channel (IFC) and Arco Films including producing, directing
and writing on-air promotions for IFC and co-producing The
DV Workshop, a series of short films airing on www.arcofilms.com.
Zetna is also currently co-directing and co-producing her
first independent feature production, Who
Runs the Dance, a documentary on reggae Sound System
culture.
Recently, Zetna produced the critically acclaimed World Premiere
of Dirty Works at The
Greenwich Street Theatre. She was also the Assistant Director
for several productions including Henry
Flamethrowa and Ponies,
both directed by Nick Sandow at Studio Dante, Bold
Girls, directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser and The
Pitchfork Disney, directed by Kevin Kittle. Zetna has
worked on several IFC original programs including IFC’s
Focus series, Beyond Borders,
a documentary on the filmmaker John Sayles, and several Making
Of programs, including producing The
Making of Casa de los Babys. Previously, Zetna worked
as an assistant to Faye Dunaway and began her career as an
assistant to Jane Rosenthal at Tribeca Productions. Zetna
is the Communications Co-Chair for the National Association
of Latino Independent Producers.
LUDOVICA VILLAR-HAUSER
Ludovica Villar-Hauser is a native of Wimbledon, England. She has an international
Baccalaureate Degree from Hammersmith and West London College
and a combined BA degree in Spanish and Drama from London
University and The Central School of Speech and Drama.
Ms. Villar-Hauser’s first professional production was
a revival of Long Day’s
Journey Into Night at the Arts Theatre in London, which
she produced and directed, and subsequently transferred to
the Westminster Theatre in the West End. Following the success
of that production, she produced and directed three productions
at the Edinburg Festival: The
Stronger (Strindberg), With
All My Love I Hate You (Lynda La Plante), and Mary
Stuart (Dacia Maraini).
In 1985 Ms. Villar-Hauser moved to the United States and began
pre-production work on the Archbishop’s
Ceiling (Arthur Miller) and Margaret
and Kit (Shirley Lauro). In addition, she raised the
capital to purchase and refurbish The Greenwich Street Theatre
in Tribeca, where she presented works by Common Ground Stage
and Film Company, The Flock Theatre Company, and Works by
Women; directed and produced The
Ghost Sonata (Strindberg), Godex
Has Come (Corneliu Mitrachi), and the premiere of Vacuums
and the Whistling Pig (Tom Vecchio); produced Some
Voices (Joe Penhall) and co-produced the New York premiere
of the musical Nellie Bly
(Bernice Lee and Jaz Dorsey); and co-produced and directed
Impropriety by Ron Elisha,
as well as the musical review Legendary
Ladies, which tranferred to La Place on the Park before
airing on QPTV in New York. She also founded The Villar-Hauser
Theatre Development Fund to find, develop and produce new
work by emerging playwrights through the Funds’s “New
Voices” program.
Ms. Villar-Hauser has been closely associated with Gregory
Murphy’s The Countess
since 1995 (almost from its inception). She produced and directed
The Countess at the Greenwich
Street Theatre in 1999. The play was an immediate success,
garnering critical praise in The
New York Times, TimeOut New York, and The New Yorker,
among others. She transferred the play Off-Broadway to the
Samuel Beckett Theatre, then to the much larger Lamb’s
Theatre.
Ms. Villar-Hauser is a member of The League of Off-Broadway
Theatres and Producers and The League of Professional Theatre
Women. She currently leaves in New York, but travels frequently
to London.
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