Cast
Jill Butterfield, Heidi
David Doumeng, Joe
Dan Pona, Dad
Rosalie Jackson, Sue
Lydia Darly, Tracy
Peter Dizozza, Ron
Stage Manager: Roy Chang
Maria Micheles work has appeared at Theater for the New City, Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Network Theatre, Gene Frankel Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, New School Drama School, Bowery Poetry Club, Gotham Arts, Galapagos, among other venues. She has read excerpts of her work at Cornelia Street Café. She has received acclaim for her writing, reviewer Martin Denton of nytheatre.com wrote, “…Maria Micheles is certainly a talent to keep an eye on. The Audience is the funniest and most successfully subversive work of the evening…high praise!” She has produced more than twenty one acts and full length plays and has also written articles on theatre and art for various publications. Maria holds an MFA in playwriting, studying with Romulus Linney, Jim Ryan and Jack Gelber at the New School Actors Studio Drama School and with Eduardo Machado at Columbia University. She is also one of the creators of Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, where she conceived along with Les Hunter and Will Cordeiro the Alphabet Playwrights Series, producing the Artaud, Brecht, Chekhov and Dante festivals. She has worked in education, academic administration to support her numerous theatre and other artistic endeavors, including photography and sketching. Currently she is working on a novel and numerous other plays, her favorite one, Photoplay: Photographic Thoughts and Remembering Diane Arbus.
Richard Vetere is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter, network television writer, actor, published poet, stage director and educator who wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Third Miracle published by Simon & Schuster. Publishers Weekly called the novel “suspenseful from start to finish,” and he co-wrote the screenplay adaptation starring Ed Harris, Anne Heche produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Agneiszka Holland and distributed by Sony Picture Classics. It was recently screened at MOMA. Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times wrote of his work, “Vetere demonstrates the ability to mix the poetic with the colloquial.” The novel is a Book of the Month Club Selection in Spain and Poland. His stage plays include One Shot, One Kill for Primary Stages nominated for a Pulitzer in 2002; Machiavelli Off Broadway at the Archlight Theater and Caravaggio at the Silk Road Theater in Chicago both in 2006. His most produced plays around the world are Gangster Apparel; The Vows of Penelope Corelli; The Engagement; A Coupla Bimbos Sitting Around Talkin’; and recently his two one act plays were named Best Short plays of the year 2009 – An Epic Story of Love and Sex Told in Ten Minutes: Chapter One and Meatball Hero. His plays are published by Dramatic Publishing and Smith and Kraus. Caravaggio has been translated into Italian and will be given its Italian premiere in Rome, Naples and Milano this summer for the 400th Anniversary of Caravaggio’s death. Mr. Vetere has written the books for the musicals Be My Love: The Mario Lanza Story commissioned by Phil Ramone and Sonny Grosso and he wrote the original book for the award winning 100 Years Into the Heart. His published books of poetry include Memories of Human Hands and A Dream of Angels. He has won numerous grants and awards including a Cultural Council Foundation Grant for Playwrighting and Poetry and he was a guest at the Chicago Humanities Festival for his stage play Caravaggio. His other feature films screenplays include the cult classic Vigilante starring Robert Forester and his own adaptation of his stage play into a movie How to Go Out on a Date in Queens starring Jason Alexander. He has written screenplays for Paramount, writing the screenplay adaptation of his stage play Gangster Apparel, for producer Mace Neufeld, and other work New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers. His TV work includes writing the teleplay adaptation of his stage play The Marriage Fool aka Love After Death for Grosbart/Barnet at CBS with Walter Matthau, Carol Burnet and John Stamos which was one of the most watched TV movie with over 25 million viewers. His other TV work includes Hale the Hero! for the General Motors Playwrights Theater an adaptation of his own published stage play on A&E starring Elisabeth Shue and Dellaventura for CBS starring Danny Aiello. He was Story Editor in 2003 for Threat Matrix on ABC and wrote the pilot The Wonder for CBS, Warner Brothers TV and his producer George Clooney. He has developed TV series for Fox Studio and Fox TV. He now has a TV pilot with Grosbart/Kent at Fox Studio TV. He has a major acting role in Debra Eisenstadt’s award winning film The Limbo Room and Jane Aienbender’s movie Nail Polish. He recently and co-produced and co-wrote the short film You & Me with director Eddie Sheih. He has directed his play Caravaggio at Manhattan Theater Source, his plays Meatball Hero and Epic Story of Love and Sex Told in Ten Minutes: Chapter One both at the Cherry Lane Theatre and Floanne Floah’s play The Gig at the Studio. His new historical novel Baroque was just published by Bordighera Press and is available on Amazon. It’s the story of Caravaggio and four people he painted and how their lives intersect in Rome in 1600. He lectures on film writing and playwriting at NYU, the New School, Montclair State and Queens College. He is a member of Poets & Writers, the Dramatist Guild, the New York Playwrights Lab and the Writer’s Guild of America East. He has a master’s degree from Columbia University in Comparative English Literature and lives in NYC. In 2005 Stony Brook University created the Richard Vetere Collection at the Frank Melville Library where all his work is now in archives. Mr. Vetere was born and lives in New York City and is a member of the WGA East where he was recently nominated for Council seat, Dramatist Guild, Author’s Guild and Poets & Writers.
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