The Subjects Themselves
Rebellious Subjects Theatre was co-founded in May 2008 by Lauren Ferebee and Patrick Woodall. In a little over a year, the RST counts among its collaborators musicians, actors, directors, designers, bar owners, house curators, bloggers, and park officials. Every contributor has been an integral part of creating the Rebellious Subjects' grassroots variety of site-specific classic theatre - the ones we could wrestle pictures and information from are listed below.
Lauren Ferebee (Viola in Twelfth Night, Lilly Smalls/Bessie Bighead in Under Milk Wood, Masha in Three Sisters) is currently dancing in an untitled piece by Canadian choreographer Kate Hilliard, which will be performing in Canada in fall 2009. Recent non-RST credits include:, Elmire in Tartuffe (BTW Productions), Lauren in Roomies (Shotgun Theater Festival), and several readings at SecondStage. Lauren trained at NYU/Tisch, where she spent three years at the Stella Adler Studio.
Patrick Woodall (Feste in Twelfth Night, Second Voice in Under Milk Wood, Vershinin in Three Sisters, Chorus in the Henrys)is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, where he studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He has worked with the Workshop Theatre Company and the Shaw project. Recent non-RST theatre credits include: Martin in The Mission (Center Stage) and a handful of exciting readings that most people didn't see. He is proud to have a longer and more obnoxious biography than Lauren's.
Ben Friesen (Andrew Agucheeck in Twelfth Night, Ensemble in Under Milk Wood, and Kulygin in Three Sisters) is deliriously excited about being a Rebellious Subject. His recent theatrical exploits include: one acts at the Brooklyn Impact Theatre, Wikipedia Brown at the Tank in Tribeca, and a year-long apprenticeship at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville highlighted by acting in the 30th Humana Festival. Ben is a card-carrying member of the United States Origami Association and proud owner of a B.A. in Theatre and English from Goshen College. (It’s in Indiana).
Montgomery Sutton (Prince Hal in Henry IV, King Henry in Henry V) received his BFA from NYU, studying at the Atlantic Theater Company and Jim Calder's Commedia dell'Arte program. Favorite roles include: NYC: Measure for Measure (Claudio); The Good Person of Szechuan (Yang Sun); Generation Graffiti (Talib); EBE Ensemble: Russian Roulette (Lomov), Solitude (Arthur); DALLAS: Shakespeare Dallas: Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), The Tempest (Ferdiand); Dallas Children’s Theater: After Juliet (Valentine), dont u luv me? (CJ), The Hobbit (Bifur).
Paul Frazee (Vernon in Henry IV, Fluellen in Henry V) is an actor-writer-nerd from Texas and a recent graduate from the Hartt School. The Henrys will be Paul's first New York performance, but you may have seen him at the Indiana Lincoln Boyhood Memorial as Teen Abe, or perhaps at Hartford Stage as a dancing ghost and second solicitor in "A Christmas Carol." Visit his website!
Ben Rezendes (Henery IV, lancaster, Fight Choreographer; Henry V, Scroop, Gower, Fight Choreographer) is proud to make his NY stage and choreographer debut with RST. He is currently enrolled in the full time conservatory program at Stella Adler Studio of Acting and will be graduating in the fall of 2010. Previously he has trained at The Paradise Theater School in Chimicum Washington where he studied acting, directing and stage combat and is a Certified Combatant with Duelling Arts International. Some of his favorite recent roles include: Handy in The Banks of The Mariane (Paradise Theater), Sister Madame Esmerelda in A Very Lesbian Nutcraker (Paradise Theater), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Key City Players), and Darell in The Distance From Here (and again The Paradise Theater)
Steve Viola (Three Sisters, Chebutykin) has recently appeared as Declan Rourke in, Courting Mae West. Other stage roles include a Village Voice acclaimed performance as Iago in Othello, Dr Rank in Doll’s House, Capt Campbell/Arscott in Our Countrys’ Good, and Dr Rance in What the Butler Saw. Steve also performs old time radio mysteries with the Cranston & Spade Company at Partners & Crime Bookstore in Greenwich Village.
Julia Giolzetti (Three Sisters, Rhode) is originally from sunny San Diego and a recent NYU/Tisch grad who spent all of her college years in the Stella Adler Studio. Since graduating, she has played Viola for a directing class taught by Karen Kohlhaas at the Atlantic Theater Company, a sad lonely girl at a Tasti-D-Lite in a film, and has been murdered by a spirit who lives in a rare strain of marijuana (also in a film) to name a few. She was also in her first national network commercial this summer for Major League Baseball and Bank of America and has since been freelancing with the About Face Agency.
Sutton Crawford (Three Sisters, Irina) is thrilled to be part of Rebellious Subjects! Favorite performances include The One Minute Play Festival at the Barrow Group, Casting with The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Measure for Measure at the (Late but Great) Club El’ Flamingo. Sutton has worked with directors Diane Paulus, Judith Malina, and Elizabeth Swados. She is also a member of The Workshop Theater Company, where she played Cordelia (King Lear) and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), during their most recent, Will’s Way. Sutton graduated from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts with a BA in theatre.
Tiffany Abercrombie (Twelfth Night, Olivia; Under Milk Wood, Ensemble) is extremely pleased to be a part of the inaugural production of the Rebellious Subjects Theatre. Other credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Tempest, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Letters to the End of the World, Zombie Prom, The Chalk Garden, and When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder. Training: BFA NYU Tisch, RADA. Love to Mom.
Joie Bauer (Under Milk Wood, First Voice; Three Sisters, Tuzenbach) was born and raised on a farm in Morse Bluff, NE. He graduated from USD with a BFA in Acting in 2006 and moved to New York City last January. Recent NY credits: THE MAN OF LA MANCHA at the Duo Theatre, CONTROL at The Cherry Lane Studio, HERACLES at ETU in the Gene Frankel Theatre, and the most recent RST production UNDER MILK WOOD at The Cutting Room.
Joie is ecstatic to be working with RST again! He would like to thank God for the gifts he has been given, and his family and friends for their constant support.
Nathaniel Kent (Three Sisters, Solyony), originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, is a recent graduate from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a BFA in Drama. Some past credits include the new musicals ReWrites (Gene Frankel Theatre) and Bonfire Night (Playwrights Horizons), Torvald in Ingmar Bergman’s NORA (Playwrights Horizons), and Agamemnon in The Oresteia (Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin). He is thrilled to be making his debut at Rebellious Subjects in Three Sisters. Love to family and friends.
Daniel Smith (Three Sisters, Fedotik; Under Milkwood, Will Nilly, Sinbad Sailors, etc) has worked in the past at The American Globe on The Winter’s Tale, and Richard II. Other roles include Mercutio, Lady Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and The Prince (Shakespeare’s R&J), Oberon (Midsummer), Claudius (Hamlet), Hortensio (Taming of the Shrew), and Romeo (Romeo and Juliet), Gerhardt (Gerry), Maxamillian (Intelligent Design), Rochfort (Red Noses), Picasso (Lapin Agile), Lucifer (Dr. Faustus), Helen of Troy and Pylades (Orestes 2.0), Aeneas (Trojan Women 2.0), Aegesthis (The Orestia), The Aviator (Little Prince), and Himself in Compleat Wrks Abridged.
Lindsay Tanner (Three Sisters, Natasha) Recent credits include: When It Stands Still (world premier, Toy Box Theatre Company), As You Like It (Dark Lady Players, Midtown International Theatre Festival), Julius Caesar (Kraine Theatre), Top Girls (Stella Adler), Lysistrata (Ashberry Productions). Look for her in the new webseries, OH!, premiering this January. Training: NYU Tisch (BFA), RADA. Love and thanks to family, boyfriend, friends, and this great company of artists. Lindsay is ecstatic to be part of the Rebellion!
Simon Miller (Three Sisters, Andrey) was born on a dusty ranch in Elko, Nevada. His dad, a cowboy who looks like Clint Eastwood, told him from a very young age that he was too cosmopolitan for the ranch life. He went off to seek his fortune first at the University of Chicago to study philosophy and art. He then moved to New York and began working as a fashion photographer and co-owner of a small advertising agency. Simon then studied at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and has performed in these plays among many others: Turn of the Screw, Life and Limb, Light Up the Sky, and Golden Boy. He stars in the movie, Between Love and Goodbye which will open in NYC in select theaters on Jan 30th.
Stacy Jordan (Twelfth Night, Maria; Under Milk Wood, Ensemble) is a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is positively bursting! Hailing originally from Honolulu, Hawaii Stacy studied at Stella Adler. She was part of their first Student Organized Movement and Dance production (SOMAD) “Sins is in her Skirts,” and recently reinterpreted the role of Nora in an adaptation of Ibsen’s “Doll House” at Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing. Stacy is thrilled to be a Rebellious Subject and an artist!
Zak Kostro (Twelfth Night, Sebastian) is thrilled to make his debut with Rebellious Subjects. Recent theater: “Much Ado About Nothing” (New England Shakespeare Festival); “Perfidia” (Stephan Morrow, Dir.) “The Adventures of Don Quixote” (National Theater for Arts and Education, Spring ‘08 National Tour); “Stan and Illy Await the Coming” (Milk Can Theater Co.). Recent film: China Doll (A-Line Productions); “The Coffin” (SVA). Thanks to Rebellious Subjects, family, and friends.
Ed Malone (Twelfth Night, Malvolio) an irishman, moved to New York in August 07 after training for two years in Paris at Ecole Jacques Lecoq and with the great french clown Philippe Gaulier at Ecole Philippe Gaulier.Ed recently performed a sell-out run of his one man show “The Self-Obsessed Tragedy of Ed Malone” here in New York City.
Ed intends to spend the rest of his life in the United States of America.
Tommy Nelms (Twelfth Night, Orsino) has joined the rebellion! Entering his 3rd year at NYU Tisch, he studies with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and is excited to be part of this ambitious project. He wants to thank everyone working on Twelfth Night, especially Lauren and Patrick for their incredible vision for the company and show. He also wants to pay thanks to Tiff, the dudebros, and the beautiful MCS.
Miguel Pinzon (Tweflth Night, Antonio; Under Milk Wood, Ensemble) has been quoted saying “Shakespeare makes my heart beat faster.” Other theatre: Galileo (NYU), Romeo and Juliet (NYU). He can also be seen in the upcoming film Happy Life. Graduate of NYU, BFA in drama.
Kyle Williams (Twelfth Night, Sir Toby Belch; Under Milk Wood, Ensemble) is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, studying at the Stella Adler Studio, Experimental Theatre Wing, and the Stonestreet Studio for Film and Television. Originally from Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Kyle now resides in Brooklyn, New York. She also performs with two New York comedy groups, Brave Aunt Beth and BriTANick, at the Upright Citizens Brigade and The PIT. Kyle is proud to be a Rebellious Subject doing theatre for the rest of us.