Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill

By Steph Del Rosso
Directed by Marina McClure
January 22 - March 4, 2018
Tickets: $15 - $35
The Siggy
85 minutes with no intermission

World Premiere

 

Breakups are hard. But Joni has taken hers to the next level, physically feeling holes all over her body. From acupuncture to threesomes, Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill asks how do we live fully in our own skin?

Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill was originally developed in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Sarah Benson, Artistic Director; Executive Director, Cynthia Flowers.

 

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Graphic Design: Eleanor Philips

Playwright

Steph Del Rosso

Steph Del Rosso’s plays include Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill, 53% Of, Are You There?, Machinalia, Flee, Sister Play, and Mean Well. Her work has been produced or developed at Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, JACK, The Flea, New York Stage and Film, Colt Coeur, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Judson Memorial Church, Caldera Arts, Theater Masters, The Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, and others. She is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. As an educator, she has taught creative writing classes and workshops all over New York City as well as in Chicago, Central Oregon, and at UCSD, Northwestern, and Yale University. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at UCSD, where she studies with Naomi Iizuka.

Director

Marina McClure

Marina McClure creates emotionally charged theater, opera, and spectacles by fusing striking visual design and physical work with performers. She collaborates with multicultural performers to bring diverse stories (including from Iraq, Cambodia, Ukraine, South Africa, China, and Afghanistan) to American and international audiences. She helms the multidisciplinary art lab The New Wild and is a resident director at The Flea Theater. Recent: Tear a Root from the Earth, a new musical for Afghanistan in collaboration with Qais Essar and Gramophonic (New Ohio’s Ice Factory; Kennedy Center); Kalean Ung’s Letters from Home (ISC in Los Angeles; UC San Diego); Leisure, Lust (Art House; The Mount). She collaborated on CasablancaBox (2017 Drama Desk Nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience) and directed Wing It! a giant puppet parade and large-scale community performance for the Tony-winning Handspring Puppet Company in celebration of South Africa’s National Day of Reconciliation. She is currently directing an episodic adaptation of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics as a part of The Flea’s new initiative for young audiences, Cereals, and is developing a performance for Caveat’s Talks Progress Administration series. Marina teaches directing at The National Theater Institute at the O’Neill and frequently directs at Dartmouth College and NYU-Tisch. MFA: CalArts. www.marinamcclure.com

Cast

Valeria Avina

Valeria Avina

Actor

Valeria A. Avina  (Lisa) is an actress, writer, producer and voice teacher based in NYC, originally from Durango, Mexico. MFA in Acting from the University of Iowa, Board Member of BBr Productions Inc. She was recently nominated for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play for her performance on Victory Girls by Kristina Poe at The Planet Connections Festivity 2017.

Valeria is a member of the Saudade Theatre Company, The Other Realm Theatre, INTAR Unit 52, Teatro SEA, The Flea (The Bats), Navigators Theatre Company, Rising Sun Theatre Company, VASTA Member ,and she is the Co-Founder of a Latino Web Series called “Hechas en Mexico”.

www.valeriaavina.com

Sarah Chalfie

Sarah Chalfie

Actor

Sarah Chalfie (Joni) is a New York based actor, thrilled to be making her Flea mainstage debut. She has helped develop new work at The Flea, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, HERE, the Playwrighting Collective, One Year Lease, and The Tank. Recent credits:The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown), Off the Main Road (Williamstown), Don’t Make Yourself Crazy (Two Headed Rep), Reclaiming my Time (EST), A Murder in Carroll Gardens (Serials @ The Flea).

Xandra Clark

Xandra Clark

Actor

Xandra Clark (u/s Lisa) is an actor/writer/creator who is excited to be making her Flea mainstage debut! NYC acting credits include at and with Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, Colt Coeur, The Dramatists Guild Fund, and The Public Theater. Her work has been featured at The Tank, Weeksville Heritage Center, Five Myles, Queer Abstract, Judson Church, Theaterlab, The Bowery Electric and Brooklyn College, and has been funded by NYSCA, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Community Foundation and a Stanford Young Alumni Arts Grant. She is also a company member of Poetic Theater Productions. BA: Theater, MA Journalism: Stanford University.

Adam Coy

Adam Coy

Actor

Adam Coy (u/s Noah/Todd) is a San Antonio born, New York based actor honored to be a part of The Flea Theater’s inaugural season on Thomas Street. Regional: Romeo and Juliet  (Westport Country Playhouse). Off-Off Broadway: Cosmicomics (The Flea Theater). Coy also serves as the Director of Development for The Egg & Spoon Theater Collective. Training: Syracuse University, BFA Acting ‘17

Philip Feldman

Philip Feldman

Actor

Philip Feldman (u/s Ray/Doug) Phil Feldman is a Native New Yorker, Actor, Singer and Pizza Enthusiast. He was last seen at The Flea in Inanimate.

Joseph Huffman

Joseph Huffman

Actor

Joseph Huffman (Ray) is a Colorado native currently living and working in New York City. Theater credits include: Off the Main Road (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Itch (Dixon Place), American Nightcap (INTAR Theater). Film and TV credits include: Boardwalk Empire, The Layover, and Stealing Cars. He has a BFA from NYU Tisch where he studied at the Atlantic Theater Company.

Tiffany Iris

Tiffany Iris

Actor

Tiffany Iris (u/s Kate/Young Joni) is a New York City based actress, born and raised in The Bronx and is enthusiastic to be in her first show at The Flea Theater. Theater credits include: Angels Among Us (American Theater for Actors), Who Am I (Manhattan Repertory Theater), Little Shop of Horrors (LPAC) in which she received a KCACTF nomination (Top 36). Film and TV credits include Evil Lives Here, The Black Mallow, IZAR and Vicki/Jon. Tiffany has received training from Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City.

Roland Lane

Roland Lane

Actor

Roland Lane (Jean-Baptiste) is a film and theatre actor that has been trained at the Wynn Handman Studios. Credits include, Film/TV: BET’s web original Brooklyn. Blue. Sky. by Dui Jarrod and Rhavynn Drummer. Iris by Diana Rodriguez. Theatre: Fill x 7 directed by Marina McClure. On Strivers Row directed by Timothy Johnson. www.RolandLaneacting.com

Maggie McCaffery

Maggie McCaffery

Actor

Maggie McCaffery (Young Joni, u/s Joni) is a brand new Bat, and Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill is her very first show at The Flea! She couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this wonderful company. Previous credits include The Second Girl (Vineyard Playhouse) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare on the Shoreline). Upcoming: ms. estrada (The Flea Theater) Education: BFA Boston University

Jonathon Ryan

Jonathon Ryan

Actor

Jonathon Ryan (Doug) is thrilled to kick off the Flea’s Season of Womyn! Off-Off-Broadway: Could This Meeting Have Been An Email (Spicy Witch Productions) Regional: A Chorus Line (Ordway Music Theater); The Little Pilot (Sandbox Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (The Public Theater of MN); Private Party (Red Eye Theater); Hauptmann (Candid Theater Co.) Upcoming: ms. estrada  (The Flea Theater).

Ben Schrager

Ben Schrager

Actor

Ben Schrager (Todd) became a member of The Bats in Erin Courtney and Liz Swados’ The Nomad. He’s also performed at The Flea in Serials, Every 28 Hours, and A 24-Decade History… Select New York/Regional: Robert Lopez’s 1001 Nights (Atlantic), Dancing Lessons (Lake Dillon Theater, Henry Award Nomination), and Man of La Mancha (Barrington Stage). Ben has performed in readings, workshops, and cabarets, working alongside artists such as William Finn, Elizabeth Stanley, Nora York, and Norm Lewis. In addition to Fill…, Ben is a co-producer of The Flea’s children’s theater initiative, Cereals, and will be seen in the upcoming Hip-Hop musical, ms. estrada.

www.benschrager.com

Monique St. Cyr

Monique St. Cyr

Actor

Monique St. Cyr (Kate) is excited to be in the first Flea show of 2018!  She loves new work and has collaborated with New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, The Barrow Group, and others on plays in various stages of development.  Favorite credits include: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park), You Do Not Look (Signature Theatre), Lunafest (The Duke Theater), Beardo (Pipeline Theatre Company), Playing Hot (Pipeline Theatre Company), Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Cortland Rep), and Syncing Ink at The Flea.  Film/TV credits: Long Goodbye, Ask for Jane, 195 Lewis, and upcoming series Astral.

moniquestcyr.com

Creative Team

Scenic Design

You-Shin Chen

You-Shin Chen

Scenic Design

You-Shin Chen (Scenic Design) You-Shin Chen is a USA-based Taiwanese scenic designer. As a theatre collaborator, she is committed to diversity and humanity. You-Shin centers humans, both the characters and the viewers, and their experiences in her process of creating a three-dimensional space. Her design works have been seen across the continental US and Europe. Some of her favorite credits include: How To Defend Yourself (NYTW); Wolf Play (SohoRep & MCC, Lortel Awards); Red Velvet (STC, DC); Dragon King’s Daughter (Kennedy Center, DC); Mlima’s Tale (St. Louis Rep); Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (ArsNova, Lortel Awards); Troy Anthony’s The Revival: It Is Our Duty (The Shed, NYC); Walden (TheaterWorks Hartford, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards). Collaborator with the feath3r theory. Assistant professor at Muhlenberg College. Local USA829, IASTE. www.youshinchen.com

Costume Design

Kate Fry

Kate Fry

Costume Design

Kate Fry is a costume designer and scenographer for theater, opera, dance, film, and theme parks. Off-Broadway credits include: TIMe (The Public Theater), Silent Voices (BAM Opera House), Half Life (SF MOMA), Latter Days (Ars Nova), Liederabend (Walt Disney Concert Hall), The Idiot (HERE Arts Center), I Will Look Forward to This Later (The New Ohio), and American Buffalo (Dorset Theater). Opera credits include: Thumbprint (LA Opera x REDCAT), The Little Matchgirl (Spoleto Opera Festival), and Angel’s Bone (3LD). This spring, Fry will premiere The Wreck (Opera Omaha) and Seagull Machine (La Mama’s Ellen Stewart Theatre). MFA: CalArts

www.katefry.com

Sound Design

Ben Vigus

Ben Vigus

Sound Design

Ben Vigus is a sound designer, actor and theater artist based in Brooklyn. Recent sound: The Trojan Women (The Flea), #liberated (IRT, ANT Fest). Recent performance: Ski End (Piehole), Empire Travel Agency (Woodshed Collective), Old Paper Houses (Piehole). Ben’s short play Naturalistic Commercials was a finalist in the 2015 Sam French OOB Festival. Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice 2012-2013, BA Wesleyan University.

benvigus.com

Assistant Director

Marylynne Anderson-Cooper

Marylynne Anderson-Cooper

Assistant Director

Marylynne “Mac” Anderson-Cooper is a freelance director working in Chicago, London and New York City. She is a graduate of Northwestern University. Assistant directing credits include Objects in the Mirror, Carlyle (Goodman Theatre), Moby Dick, Blood Wedding (Lookingglass Theatre), and Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Directing credits include Saint Joan (Greenhouse Theatre), The Twentieth Century Way (Jermyn Street Theatre), Take Flight (Theatre 503), Dream Ticket (NYC Fringe) and Hold On (Victory Gardens Theatre). Thanks always to Viv, Catlin, Mom & Dad!

Stage Manager

Kailie White

Kailie White

Stage Manager

Kailie White graduated from Binghamton University in 2017 with a degree in Theatre Design/Production. She has worked regionally at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Hangar Theatre, Summer Theatre of New Canaan, and The Hellen Hayes Youth Theater. Select New York credits include: Solstice Party (Live Source Theatre Group), The Marriage of Figaro (On Site Opera), The Miser (Brave New World Rep.), and Rhinoceros (Inwood Shakespeare Festival).

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