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Adam
Bock
actor & author
Adam
Bock is a Canadian with a green card living in the Mission.
His play Swimming in the Shallows was produced by Shotgun
Players, and won the 2000 Bay Area Theater Critics awards
for Best Production, Best Ensemble and Best Original Script.
He is hard at work on [The Fairy's Tail], to be produced in
December 2001. Oh, he is working hard on it, Patrick! He is!
Some of his other plays include A Roadside Garden,
produced in Boston; Medea Eats and Percy Stripped
Down, both produced in NYC, and The Gayboy Nutcracker,
which he created and directed annually for four years in Providence,
RI.
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Michael Cheng
Michael was born in 1969, grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, moved to California in 1990, graduated from U.C. Berkeley in Dramatic Arts in 1997, did his first Shotgun show in 2001, and became an associate artist in 2002. What more needs to be said? Oh - he's been in the Shotgun productions of There Will Be No Trojan War as Ajax, and Troilus and Cressida as Meneleus. He's worked with other theater companies in the Bay Area, including Campo Santo, Word for Word, Porchlight Theatre Company, Teatro Vision, Theater of Yugen, Central Works, and the Aurora. He's done several independent films, and has written, directed, photgraphed, and edited one himself, for less than $500. How about that? He's also a tutor and teacher, both in the San Francisco school district as well as teaching theater to kids in programs around Berkeley and San Francisco. Michael likes teaching, but likes making plays even more, and he loves being a Shotgun Player. He'd be lost without
them.
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Reid
Davis
education
director, actor & director
Reid
has directed locally at the CACT Advanced Training Program,
Eureka Theatre, Theatre Rhino, Signal Theatre, and Kudzu Theatre.
Reid was winner of the 1994 Dramalogue awards for Direction,
Actor and Actress; Actor's Theatre of Louisville (Jane Anderson's
Lyunette at 3 AM in the 1992 Humana Festival); and New
York (assistant to Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!).
He has acted in Shotgun's Henry V and A Midsummer
Night's Dream and directed Shotgun's production of Bent.
He teaches at ACT, California Shakespeare Festival, and Solano
College.
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Katie
Bales Frassinelli
actor & director
Katie
Bales Frasinelli received a BS
from Cornell University
and an MFA at Ohio University.
At Cornell, she acted
and directed in several
productions, both at
the Center for the Theatre
Arts and Risley Theatre.
While in Ithaca, Ms.
Bales also acted at
the Hangar Theatre under
the direction of Robert
Moss of Playwrights
Horizons in NYC. She
served as the Director
of Publicity at Ohio
University's School
of Theatre, where she
organized the New Playwright's
Festival. She has worked
as an actor in residence
at the Cleveland Playhouse
and spent a summer at
the Monomoy Theatre.
In the Bay Area, she
was nominated for a
Shellie Award for her
performance in Melrose
Stories at the Town
Hall Theatre. As an
actor, her Shotgun credits
include: Yelena in Uncle
Vanya, Sophie in
Baal, and Peter
Quince in A Midsummer
Night's Dream. She
has directed The
Maids, Dalliance,
Susan Wiegand's original
play Approach, The
Possum Play, and
Arrivals//Departures,
which she co-created
with playwrights Tania
Katan and Daniele Nathanson.
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Michael Frassinelli
set designer
Originally
from back East, Michael Frassinelli received a BFA from the
University of Connecticut in 1986 in Graphic Design. Afterwards
he studied and taught art at the Nantucket Island School of
Design and the Arts from 1986-88. From 1990 to 1995, Michael
worked as an artisan at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and
while there hooked up with the Shotgun Players in 1993 on their
production of American Buffalo. Since then has been the
resident set designer, working on over 30 shows including The
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (for which he received the
1995 Dramalog award for Set Design), more recently Swimming
in the Shallows and Skriker, and designs masks and
puppets for the Shotgun summer shows, such as last summer's
Jungle Book. Michael has designed for several other Bay
Area theatres and currently teaches technical theatre and design
at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco.
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Gina
Pulice
director &
actor
Gina is an actor, director, teacher,
and patron of your finer college loan institutions. She holds
a BFA in Acting from DePaul University. Favorite acting projects
include: The Yellow Boat, Desdemona, A Lie of the Mind,
The Leader, The Big Funk, and an adaptation of Julia
Alvarez's En el Tiempo de las Mariposas. Favorite
directing projects include: Under Milkwood, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, The Phoenix, and Raised in Captivity.
Shotgun credits include roles in The Bacchae and
Approach, and an assitant directorship for The
Jungle Book. Currently, Gina serves as impresario for
the Shotgun Theatre Lab, which sets original, experimental
work on LaVal's gritty little stage and lets the movement
of the kegs upstairs inform the internal life of the characte!
rs onstage. For the Lab, Gina created Seventh Veil,
a movement-based piece which looked at the life of Salome
and her earth-shatteringly erotic "Dance of the Seven
Veils" from a female perspective. She also directed
Blanco y Negro, an original translation by Aaron
Krasner of Virgilio Pinera's Estudio en Blanco y Negro.
Next season, Gina will co-direct Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood
with Patrick Dooley at the Eighth Street Studio. Yeow.
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