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"Innocent Diversions is an absolute delight" nytheatre.com 
Written and Directed by Lynn Marie Macy November 16 - December 16, 2007 
Foreground left to right: Karen Eterovich, Judith Jarosz, Christopher Michael Todd Background left to right: Chelsea Jo Pattison, Denise Alessandria Hurd, Talaura Harms LAB Photography
Time & Location: December 1803, Manydown Park, Hampshire, England Running time 90 minutes, no intermission Staff Judith Jarosz (Producing Artistic Director) is an actor, producer, director, choreographer, writer, editor and theater geek, who is proud to be the current Producing Artistic Director for Theater Ten Ten at PACC, the longest consecutively operating Equity theater company, Off Broadway. Under her leadership ten shows have moved on to subsequent productions, and the company has received numerous nominations and awards. She is owner of Poor Yorick Productions, a commercial production entity, and a staff reviewer for nytheatre.com. She has served as a panelist for both the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and the Manhattan Com- munity Arts Fund (MCAF). Judith is pleased to have forged an ongoing relationship between Theater Ten Ten and the Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter, New York, and looks forward to producing there in the summer of 2008 for the sixth year! David Fuller (Executive Director/Set Designer) has been in the professional theatre for over thirty years and wears many hats: actor, director, producer, teacher, theater critic, arts advocate and designer. He has acted throughout the US, in London, and with many companies in NYC. Latest acting: Bottom in Midsummer and Montoni/ Tilney in Northanger Abbey (Theater Ten Ten). Latest directing: Happy End (Theater Ten Ten – 2006-07 NY Innovative Theatre Award Nomination, Outstanding Musical). He has been Co-Producing Artistic Director of Theater Ten Ten, Producing Artistic Director of Jean Cocteau Repertory and now serves as Executive Director of Theater Ten Ten. Producing highlights, among many others: Hollywood Pinafore and Park Avenue (Theater Ten Ten), The Threepenny Opera (Cocteau Rep.). David has taught stage combat, audition technique and acting at both high schools and universities, including CUNY and NYU. He is a staff reviewer for nytheatre.com, a past chair of AASC (Arts Advisors to the NYC Council) and was elected to the prestigious National Theater Conference in 2004. He studied scenic design with John Scheffl er at Brooklyn College and was tutored by designer Carolyn Ross at Dartmouth College. David is indebted to Lynn Marie Macy for letting him resurrect his latent abilities, such as they are. Additional heartfelt thanks go to his wife and partner Judith Jarosz without whom none of this would be possible. Lynn Marie Macy (Playwright, Adaptor, and Director) is a playwright, actor and director, and is proud to be the Resident Playwright at Theater 1010. Innocent Diversions, A Christmas Entertainment with Jane Austen and Friends originated and was developed in a workshop production at Theater 1010. The script was then produced by Distilled Spirits Theatre at New York's Trilogy Theatre space in December 1998. Last season at Theater 1010, Ms. Macy's play Northanger Abbey, A Romantic Gothic Comedy had a successful fall 2006 mainstage run, and was subsequently published in Playing With Canons; Explosive New Works from Americas Indie Playwrights. Her other scripts include, A Thousand Merry Conceits, A Private Audience with Nell Gwyn (Theater 1010; Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Crunching Numbers (published by NYTE in Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium), and a new adaptation/translation of Schiller's Intrigue & Love (Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, NYC). In 2004 she directed 1010,s production of Alls Well That Ends Well. Theater 1010 acting credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Comedy of Errors, Godspell, Loves Labours Lost, Arms And The Man and Playboy Of The Western World. As a performer, she also appeared in several productions at the Jean Cocteau Repertory including The Miser, The Threepenny Opera, Intrigue & Love, Pygmalion, Medea, and Mother Courage. Deborah Wright Houston (Costume Designer) Theater 1010 debut. Ms. Houston is the Founder & former Artistic Director of Brooklyn's twenty-four year old Kings County Shakespeare Company. A theater professional for over thirty years, Ms. Houston's acting credits include Thaisa/Marina (Pericles), Lady Macbeth, the Princess (Love's Labours Lost), Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Celia (As You Like It), Isabella (Measure for Measure), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Hermione (The Winter's Tale), Emilia (Othello) and Gertrude (Hamlet). Her directing credits include The Tempest, The Two Gentleman of Verona, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Changeling (Middleton & Rowley) and The Rivals (Richard Brinsley Sheridan). Currently, Ms. Houston teaches at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is an adjunct professor and director of student productions at St. Francis College. Great to be working with Theater 1010. Hajera Dehqanzada (LightingDesigner) Theater 1010 debut. Hajera is a recent graduate from Yale University, where she majored in Theatre Studies and worked on over 30 productions. Starting out as a crew member for both sets and electrics, she soon discovered her love for lighting design and has since LDed 17 shows, including dance shows, musicals such as Godspell and Little Shop of Horrors, and plays such as What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney, 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, and Quills by Doug Wright. In addition to lighting design, Hajera's interests include writing, dancing, choreographing, painting, and using power tools. Shauna Horn (Production Stage Manager) This is Shauna's 2nd season with Theater 1010. She worked as the PSM for Northanger Abbey: A Romantic Gothic Comedy, directed by David Scott, and PSM/Assistant Director/Sound Designer for A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Judith Jarosz. She has many production credits working on a variety of projects in television, radio, and film. Shauna appeared as a featured extra in "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story in 2005. She last appeared on stage in the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre's, It's a Grand Night for Singing. In addition to her theater directing and stage management credits, she is currently working as a staff writer for a new online magazine, Topcoat Magazine (www.topcoatmagazine.com). Aaron Diehl (Assistant Director) Aaron is proud to be returning to Theater 1010 after serving as Assistant Director and playing The Cop in the incredible production of Happy End (Innovative Theater Award nomination) directed by David Fuller last spring. Past credits include We Beat Whitey Ford, Blood and Rum, and the Benefit Concert for the United Faces of America. Aaron is also the founder and Artistic Director of the New York Paradox Theater, which focuses on a return to the core of theater, that being performance and text while at the same time combining classical and contemporary influences to create a new form of theater. Look for our radical version of Hamlet in August, 2008. For more information about Hamlet and other upcoming productions check out the website at www.nyparadox.org . Malizsha Then (ASM/Box offi ce) Theater 1010 debut. Malizsha is thrilled to be working at Theater 1010 as an ASM and box offi ce assistant. She has stage-managed To Kill a Mocking Bird at Fordham High School for the Arts, the New Plays Festival at the Producers Club /Vital Theatre and recently stage-managed a dinner theater at the Fordham High School for the Arts as a part of her drama program. By special invitation, Malizsha job shadowed stage manager Andrea Testani at the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Broadway. Malizsha is a drama major in her senior year at Fordham High School for the Arts and looks forward to stage-managing The Me Nobody Knows at the Theodore Roosevelt Campus this spring. She would like to give a special thanks to Judith for allowing her to work at Theater 1010 and also Ms. Marlene May, her current drama instructor for training her as a budding stage Manager. Annalisa Loeffler (Dialect Coach/Miss Martha Lloyd on Dec. 6 & 13) As a cast member of a previous production of Innocent Diversions, Annalisa is thrilled to return to work on this delightful script as dialect coach, which she also has done for the Theater 1010 productions of Northanger Abbey, and The Apple Cart. She is currently coaching a staged adaptation of Jane Eyre (opening 2008) and is a recurring player on the monthly 1940s "Radio Program" W-WOW! As an actress, she most recently appeared in Secrets Women Share at the Workshop Theater and as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theater 1010. Past Theater 1010 roles include Natalya Petrovna in, and Orinthia in The Apple Cart. Recent musical work includes Sluefoot Sue in Sam Shepard's one-act musical The Sad Lament Of Pecos Bill On The Eve Of Killing His Wife at BAM's Bric Studio in Brooklyn. Regionally she has appeared at the Alabama, Colorado and Texas Shakespeare Festivals in roles including Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Luciana in The Comedy of Errors, and Desdemona in Othello. Her voiceover work can be heard on Thirteen/WNET, WLIW and on numerous Scholastic websites including "Harry Potter" and "Clifford, The Big Red Dog". Love and thanks to Trade, Clark and Boo! Cast David Arthur Bachrach (Reverend George Austen). Previously with Theater Ten Ten: Jimmy Dexter aka The Reverend (!), Happy End; Sir Evelyn Estebrooke /The Mikado, The Singapore Mikado; and Autolycus, The Winter's Tale. Other: Jerry, Following, Chester Horn Short Play Festival, Medicine Show Theater; Gremio, The Taming Of The Shrew, ShakespeareNYC, Clurman Theater; Mr. Brayshaw, The Screwtape Letters, CornerGate; Benjamin Isaac Green, Sail Past Molokai, Artemis; Oberon, Midsummer in Mexico, True North; Basilos, VKTMS, Verse Theatre Manhattan; Pilate, The Passion Play - The Musical, PPAC; Joad (lead), Granola! The Musical, NYC Fringe; Petkoff, Arms and The Man, Pulse Ensemble; Old Gobbo, Merchant, Revolving Shakespeare; Hastings, Richard III, Genesis Rep; Socrates, Socrates On Trial, ESL Theatre; also: Boomerang, The Depot Theatre. David is a graduate of Harvard, Boston Conservatory and UNC-Chapel Hill and takes dance classes at Steps, Broadway Dance Center and Dance on 2. Esther David (Miss Martha Lloyd) Esther is delighted to be returning to Theater 1010, where she was fortunate to have been cast as ‘Mrs. Allen/Mme. Cheron' in last season's hit production of Lynn Marie Macy's Northanger Abbey, A Romantic Gothic Comedy, directed by David Scott. She sings regularly with the New York Choral Artists, the professional choral ensemble of the New York Philharmonic, and has had the great fortune to work with Paul McCartney, Sting, and last winter with Kelly O'Hara in the NY Philharmonic's production of My Fair Lady. She most recently played ‘Mme. Dubonnet' in the Musicals Tonight! production of The Boy Friend. Esther is exceedingly grateful to her family for their love, support, and tolerance of cereal for dinner. Karen Eterovich (Miss Jane Austen) Is thrilled to be back at Theater 1010 where she has previously portrayed Sarah Tansy in Playboy of the Western World, Sherry Larson in Twice Blest, various characters in Spoon River Anthology, and JaneAusten in Innocent Diversions (world premiere). She has just returned from Bath, England where she performed both her solo plays, Love Arm'd, Aphra Behn & Her Pen and Cheer from Chawton, a Jane Austen Family Theatrical. Love Arm'd has toured nationally and internationally for the last decade. Her new play Cheer from Chawton, about Jane Austen, had its American debut in New York City at the Players Club, and its UK debut at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath where it was proclaimed "the hit of the Festival" by Sue Hughes, Editor, Regency World Magazine. She holds an MFA in Acting from the University of South Carolina with an internship at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. Karen is currently Managing Director for Blue Roses Productions. Info at www.lovearmd.com. Heartfelt thanks to Lynn Marie, Judith, John and Arrow. Talaura Harms (Madam Anne Lefroy) Theater 1010 debut. Talaura hails from Oklahoma and has performed at Theatre at Tsa-La-Ghi and Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival in her home state. In New York, Talaura has been onstage as an actor and/or puppeteer with The Pearl Theatre, Adhesive Theater, Untitled Theatre #61, Messenger Theatre Company, The Puppet Company of Long Island, and, most recently, Drama of Works. Other credits include five seasons at Madcap Productions Puppet Theatre in Cincinnati, a hillbilly musical at Cody Stage in Wyoming, and puppeteering on the national tour of Bear in the Big Blue House Live! Denise Alessandria Hurd (Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcote) Is happy to return to Theater 1010 where she has appeared as Lady Fanciful in The Provok'd Wife, the Abbess in The Comedy of Errors, Baba in Behind the Mask, and Elizabeth Bigg in Innocent Diversions (World premiere). She is a company member of the Actor's Shakespeare Company where she appeared in King John as Lady Faulconbridge and the Count Meloune, plus Co-choreographed the Fights, and Romeo and Juliet as the Nurse and Choreographed the fights. She is also a founding member of the Lady Cavalier Theater Company and appeared as Birch and Donabella in the company's inaugural production of Gloria, which won a Genesius award. Other NYC roles include Mrs. Fainall in The Way Of The World, at King's County Shakespeare Festival, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (which she also choreographed) at Expanded Arts, and at The Public Theater in A Midsummer Nights Dream. Regional theaters work includes Desdemona in Othello at the Theater in Monmouth, Maine, Electra in Orestes and Tituba in The Crucible at Stagewest, Maria in Twelfth Night and Alice and Gower in Henry V at Orlando Shakespeare Festival. She wishes to thank her mother, Merlyn, for all her love and support and to remember her father, Hugh, for his loving heart and generous soul. Judith Jarosz (Miss Cassandra Austen) As a performer Judith has had leading or featured roles on Broadway, at the New York City Opera (Lincoln Center & on tour), regionally (including Goodspeed and BAM), as far Off Broadway as The Quester's Theater in London, England, and the National Theater in Taipei, Taiwan. She has been a principal soprano at The New York City Opera, and a resident actor at the Jean Cocteau Repertory. She has had the sublime luck of working with greats like Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Paul Gemingnani, Andrei Serban, Susan Stroman, Jack O'Brien, Scott Elllis, John Patrick Shanley, and Gabriel Barre, among many others. A handful of favorite roles include, Cassandra Austen in Innocent Diversions (world premiere), Olivia in Twelfth Night, Titania in Midsummer (BAM), Arsinoe in The Misanthrope, The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (NYCOpera), Mona in Dames at Sea (35th Anniversary Production), Paulina in The Winters Tale, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld (London) The Fortune Teller in Houdini, (Goodspeed & NYMTF) The Soprano in Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill (OOBR Award) and The Fly in Happy End (Innovative Theater Award nomination.) Christiana L. Kuczma (Miss Catherine Bigg) is delighted to make her Theater 1010 and New York Theater debut with Innocent Diversions. She has appeared in NY cabaret at Don't Tell Mama and at The Triad Club, and was honored to be a part of Live at the Lambs, the last concert recording made at the historical Lamb's Theater before its demolition. Her first stage role was that of little Marta, when a Tennessee high school needed local children for The Sound of Music. Although there have been several roles in college and community productions since then, she still intends to keep that same childlike heart to tell stories and sing songs just for the sheer joy of it! Other roles include: Anything Goes (Reno), Brigadoon (Meg), Steel Magnolias (Ouiser), Merrily We Roll Along (Beth), State Fair (Emily), H.M.S. Pinafore (Buttercup). She thanks her supportive friends and loving parents, and her gracious Creator. Rejoice Always! Vanessa Morosco (Miss Aleathea Bigg) Despite being the tallest actress working today, Vanessa Mandeville Morosco has been poisoned, strangled, and murdered as Gertrude Hamlet, Hippolyta 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and The Duchess of Malfi; she then gave birth a second time as Helena All's Well That Ends Well, and learned to serve tea as Gwendolyn The Importance of Being Earnest, all while at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse. Looking to expand her repetoire beyond death and labor, she performed the Courtesan in Comedy of Errors ... thrice. Growing toward modernity she appeared in Way of the World (Yale Rep), School For Scandal (Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre), and Blithe Spirit (Wayside Theatre). Chelsea Jo Pattison (Miss Fanny Austen) Theater 1010 debut. A native of the mid-west, Chelsea is fairly new to the Big Apple. She is so excited to be a part of Theater 1010 and celebrates her debut in New York City. Chelsea Jo recently completed the First National Tour of Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie, playing the title role. Other favorite roles include Peter in Peter Pan, Tina in Ruthless, Little Red in Into the Woods, Mary in The Secret Garden, Corrie in Barefoot in the Park, and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest. Many thanks and much love to her family and Danny, who have been constant pillars of strength and support. Eyal Sherf (Mr. Harris Bigg-Wither) Theater 1010 debut. Eyal performed the role of Frederick in the National Yiddish Theater's 2007 Drama Desk nominated revival of The Pirates of Penzance. Other NYC credits include: Tonight at 8:30, Ragtime, 5XWilder, Oh Lady! Lady! (Musicals Tonight!), Our Town, The Theory of the Leisure Class (first staged reading); for Connecticut's Award-Winning Ivoryton Playhouse - Cabaret (Ernst). With England's BSSD Theatre Company: Into The Woods, Women Beware Women, Three Sisters. Other UK work: Beguiled Again (European Premiere), Sondhiem Concerts (Birmingham Old Rep, Cleo Laine Theatre), and the Poel Festival of Shakespearian Drama. Training: NYU (Master's), Michael Chekhov Studio, England's Birmingham School of Speech and Drama (Bachelor's). Thanks to Diane, Michael, Lynn Marie, Judith, Annalisa, the cast and crew. In loving memory of my mother. Christopher Michael Todd (Captain Francis Austen) Theater Ten Ten debut. On the New York stage, Chris has appeared in works by playwrights as diverse as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Büchner, Mokuami, Chekhov, Ibsen, Wilde, Beckett, Pinter and Wellman. He has performed across the United States and around the world with The National Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre of the Deaf. Recent roles include Allmers in Little Eyolf with Fresh Look Theater, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew at North Shore Music Theater, and Graziano in a staged reading of Arnold Wesker's Shylock with Theodore Bikel at Theater J in Washington, DC. Thanks, always, to Kim, for love, support, and inspiration!
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