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Jason Adamo and Fiona Choi, |
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Leslie Anne Friedman, of the MITF production of The Street.  |
The Street Click here for the 2007 MITF Award nominees! Meet the company from the successful MITF production:
Lighting/Scenic Design HEIDI LAUREN DUKE |
The Cast
*JASON ADAMO (Nick) is originally from the Philadelphia area, where he appeared in Hamlet and As You Like It with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, Camila (Walnut Street Theatre), Brigadoon (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Cyrano and Evita (Fulton Opera House), Li'l Abner (Allenberry Playhouse) and Gershwin, By George (Wilmington Grand Opera House). In Manhattan, he has appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Manhattan Rep), Burial at Thebes (La MaMa E.T.C.), The Alzheimer's Monologues (Producers' Club), and the Off-Broadway musical, A Stoop on Orchard Street. |
 *Jason Adamo |
 Jen Percival |
JEN PERCIVAL (Dolores) a native of Brooklyn NY is excited to be back with THE STREET again. Jen graduated with a B.A. in international relations from Brown University and has furthered her music studies at the Juilliard School Evening Division. She is a lyric soprano currently studying with Heidi Skok and Masi Asare. She has appeared in productions of Once on this Island, Sweet Charity, Cabaret and Marisol |
FIONA CHOI (Tiki) is a return player on THE STREET again! She hails from Australia, and is a musical theatre graduate of WAAPA. Credits include Metamorphoses (dir: Mary Zimmerman), Rent (dir: Michael Greif), Mamma Mia! Australia (dir: Phylida Lloyd), Apathy – the GenX Musical (MITF 2005), The Tempest, Assassins, Follies, and Dirty Laundry (La Mama). Television credits include Law & Order, Criminal Intent , Neighbours and Blue Heelers. Recently Fiona has been cherishing her role as mummy to her little guy Anton. |
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 Theresa Rose |
THERESA ROSE (Jill) Theresa Rose is thrilled to be joining this cast & crew in which women rule. Favorite past credits include: Smitty in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Daddy Was The Biggest Stagemother In Texas at the NY International Fringe Festival, Blue Window, Spike Heels, Lysistrata, & Heartbreak House. Love and Class in Connecticut, an independent film, debuts this year. Her training includes SCSU, HB Studios, and coaches Doug Sliver and Steve Potfura. |
LESLIE ANNE FRIEDMAN (Whitney) has performed in Los Angeles in Cardinal Virtues and Deadly Sins at the Pico Playhouse, appeared as Lucy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and in Speedsicals' “Claire,” at Academy for New Musical Theatre. She was a backup vocalist for Fitz and Walloughs in the NYC Fringe Festival. Solo shows include “Singing in the New Year” and “My Roaring 20s” at M Bar, “Prime Time Debut” at The Gardenia and “Kevin Kennard’s Farewell Tour” also at The Gardenia. She is a member of the Academy for New Musical Theatre (ANMT) |
 Leslie Anne Friedman |
 Jonathan Whitton |
JONATHAN WHITTON (Hamilton) has appeared in regional productions of Thew Last Five Years (Jamie), Cabaret (2x as Emcee), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Hedwig), The Santaland Diaries (Crumpet), Greater Tuna (Various Roles), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Picasso), Visiting Mr. Green (Ross), and A New Brain (Gordon). His acclaimed solo cabaret Perfect Finite has played NYC engagements at The Triad, The Duplex, and West Bank Café (August 12). www.jonwhitton.com |
*RYAN HILLIARD (Brighton) has appeared off-Broadway in Grey Gardens, Ritual of Faith, The Uninvited Guest, Phillip Glass Buys A Loaf of Bread, Behind A Mask and Godspell. He was in the National tour of Annie w/ JoAnne Worley & John Schuck, and also toured in Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera, The Best Little Whore House In Texas and Boeing, Boeing w/ Nancy Kulp. His film and TV credits include Noise (w/Tim Robins &William Hurt), Ed, Kojak and the Cosby Mysteries. |
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Nicole |
NICOLE DALTO (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making her New York debut in THE STREET. She is currently a senior at New York University Steinhardt studying Music Theatre. Past cerdits include Jack's Mother in Into the Woods (NYU) Edges: A Song Cycle (NYU) and I Sing (NYU). She would like to thank her friends, family for their love and support. JOSHUA WALTER ( Ensemble) is very excited to be a member of THE STREET company. Though from Modesto, CA Joshua now calls NYC home and since arriving has appeared with The New York Vagabonds, a 4-part men's group that toured the east coast and also around the world via cruise ship engagements and performed with the Store Front Theatre at The Lucille Lortel. |
*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association.
RONNIE COHEN (Writer, Composer, Lyricist) has been fooling around in the theatre one way or another since forever. More recently, she and her pal Jane Beale wrote Correction, a finalist in the 2006 Sienna College International Playwright’s competition. Currently, she’s working on Quota, a serious drama about limits, self-imposed or otherwise. But her true labor of love remains THE STREET, a musical comedy about Wall Street shenanigans, the American Dream and ‘making it’ in the Big Apple. She credits her husband Larry and son Lee for helping her ‘make it’ every day. |
| HEIDI LAUREN DUKE (Director/Choreographer, Scenic/Lighting Design) is delighted to back with THE STREET and part of developing a new musical. Ms. Duke has worked for theater and opera companies in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Rochester and Europe. Most recently, she served two seasons as Artistic Associate for Azuriales Opera in Nice, France directing an international ensemble of singers. She has also directed Chekhov’s The Bear, a re-staging of The Bacchae, Handel’s Alcina, Porter’s Anything Goes and Richard III which just finished its engagement at the new home of Nicu’s Spoon Theatre in New York. |
DANIEL CATANEO (Musical Director) is an active pianist, composer, educator, author. Acclaimed for his teacher training seminars and clinics on Eurhythmics and its relationship to performance, he frequents universities, colleges and music institutions worldwide. He helped start the Northern NJ Conservatory -- in addition he teaches at Columbia and Juilliard. Daniel directs Cape May's festival Rhythm of the Sea, and is involved with several new musicals, including The Frog Prince, and of course, THE STREET. |
MICHAEL RODERICK (Producer) Originally from RI, Michael started Small Pond Entertainment 5 years ago after moving to NYC to teach at LaSalle Academy where he currently holds the position of English Dept. Chair and Drama Director. He graduated from Rhode Island College with a BA in Secondary Ed. English and Theatre performance and finished his Master's degree at NYU in Educational Theatre this past summer. Michael has produced 15 shows since he began writing and directing in his undergrad and now produces shows with LaSalle's Drama Club. He just finished a successful run of Edward Allan Baker’s North of Providence at Altered Stages. He also plans on eventually publishing a book about his first year teaching called "Stage Fright", as well as a young adult novel titled "Norin's Quest: Beyond the Gates of Lavender" |
| RACHEL RUDNICK (Stage Manager) is pleased to be stage managing at The Midtown International Theatre Festival again. Some shows she has also stage managed are Through Our Eyes the Musical, Jewish By Injection Only (last year at MITF) , The Diary of Anne Frank, Scarlet Pimpernel, and Noises Off. She has also co-directed Charlotte’s Web and The Truly Remarkable Puss-in-Boots. Rachel dedicates this show and all shows she works on to Rebecca. Rachel would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support. Break a leg THE STREET cast. |
PENNY LANDAU/Maya PR (Press Rep) saw her first Broadway show, West Side Story, when she was 9 years old. Since then, she has performed, stage managed, directed, teched, taught and, for the last 23 years, run her own PR firm. Maya PR has repped Renee Taylor & Joe Bologna; the multi-award winning Jelly Roll! starring Vernel Bagneris; Edge starring Angelica Torn as Sylvia Plath (NY, London & Australia); Third Eye Rep’s acclaimed Godspell; actors Natalie Cortez (currently on Broadway as Morales in A Chorus Line), Geri Jewell (“Deadwood”), BarBara Luna (“Star Trek”), France Nuyen (Joy Luck Club), Sal Richards (Out for Justice, “The Sopranos”), Karen Lynn Gorney (Saturday Night Fever); Kathy Garver (“Family Affair”); playwright Paul Alexander; singer Gennifer Flowers; vocalist Theo Bleckmann; actor/singer Franc D’Ambrosio (Phantom of the Opera, The Godfather, Part III); Stuart White Productions; musical comedian & impressionist Stephen Sorrentino; Artists Theatre Group; Twenty Feet Prods; The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs, The League of Professional Theatre Women, Big Apple Comic Book, Art & Sci-Fi Conventions & CabaretExchange.com. |
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