“You won’t see anything like it anywhere else!”
Berkshire Edge
Raves for Amor & Psyche
From Berkshire Bright Star/ Berkshire Edge
“You won't see anything like it anywhere else!”
“Randolyn Zinn has created a modern world for the Greek gods to play in.”
Xingrong Chen brings life to Psyche and makes her precious. The strength and delicacy of her sweet performance is palpable. We feel her pain and cherish her love
Matt Dallal does a remarkable job and all of his roles and transforms from despicable to cherishable with charm and talent.
Valeri Mudek is gorgeous and brilliant and wickedly funny. She, alone, is worth the trip to North Bennington.
Everyone in the cast delivers hilarious characters when called upon to do so.
The costumes design by Cynthia Flynt are dynamite.”
From 518 Theatre Artists
“Do you want a one of a kind theater experience that you will talk about for generations to come? Amor and Psyche will surely fill the bill as one of the more delightful entries in your play going history.
Cupid is one of the more delectable creations in this box of bonbons. Matt Dallal scores again, again, again, and again but his baseball cap wearing, beatbox patois, French B-boy of a Cupid is a truly inspired character!
The evening flashes by and this epic journey ends in love. I was never less than entertained. I am more impressed by the ambition in the undertaking. It's like nothing I've seen the company do before, and I applaud Zinn and McCullough's inspired, romantic fancy.”
Photographs by Will Shields
Video by Emma Baiada and Angus McCullough
Music by Nicolas Snyder
With: Xingrong Chen, Matt Dallal, Valeri Mudek, Elizah Hill, Susanna MacLeod, Nicole Starrett, Afton Page Welch, Allen McCullough
CAST LIST AND BIOS
Xingrong Chen
For LRT Her Name Means Memory and Three Sisters. She is a graduate of the Circle in the Square Theater School who played the Nurse in the Chinese musical Murder Up in the Air at the Hudson Guild Theater. Besides acting, she enjoys working as an events singer in NYC.
Michael Chinworth
Michael Chinworth is an actor, composer and multi-disciplinary artist based in New York. As a music artist he has created and produced numerous albums/sound art/recorded work, and has toured nationally and internationally as a solo performer and bandmate. Stage credits include Constellations (Roland) at the Gene Frankel Theater, Teatro Belli, Teatro Garage, and Teatro Erba; Botch and Oyster (by Joe Diebes) at HERE Arts and Roulette; Time and Motion Study, Border Towns, Psychic Driving, The Breaks, 10 Transcendental Etudes (by Nick Brooke) at HERE Arts, Mass MoCA, Arete, and Coffey Street Studios; Serenade for tenor, horn and strings by Benjamin Britten (tenor) at Chapin Hall, Williams College.
Matt Dallal
For LRT Three Sisters, Adam and Evie . Off Broadway: Darling Grenadine (Roundabout), Saturday Night Concert (Second Stage); Regional: Fiasco Theater’s Measure for Measure (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Love’s Labor’s Lost (Folger Theatre); Borderline, Fountain(Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), The Puppet Cycle: Small World Stories (Phantom Limb), TV: “ Have You Seen This Man” (Hulu) “FBI” (CBS) “Emergence”(ABC). Training: Circle in the Square Theatre School.
Elizah Hill
For LRT Her Name Means Memory. She won the 2021 VT Regional Broadway Award for her performance in the titular role of Hamlet, and premiered the Vermont-based webseries Manage This! at the Manhattan Film Fest in June. Other credits include Nina (The Seagull), Alice Sycamore (You Can’t Take It With You), Helga (Cabaret). She is based out of NYC and a 2018 graduate of Circle in the Square’s Professional Theatre program.
Susannah MacLeod
Susannah MacLeod (she/they) for LRT Her Name Means Memory. Credits include: Pericles (Target Margin Theater); Aida (Metropolitan Opera); King Lear (Hamlet Isn’t Dead); Richard III, Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co); Twelfth Night (Verdi Square Arts Festival); Both/And: A Quantum Physics Play (Catalyst Collaborative with MIT); Once a Blue Moon, Shahrazad (Double Edge Theatre); and the titular role in Richard III (Emerson Stage). Susannah spent a year training with New York’s SITI Company as a Conservatory Artist, and holds a BA in Acting from Emerson College.
Allen McCullough
For LRT: Her Name Means Memory, Constellations, A Doll’s House Part 2, Three Sisters, Circle Mirror…, Men of Tortuga, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull. Film & TV; The Savant, Apple TV, Dead Ringers, Blue Bloods, FBI Most Wanted, The Marvelous Mrs Maizel, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Law and Order C.I. Recent –Our Brother’s Son, Signature NYC - Nixon in Frost/Nixon Palo Alto, Plays @ Roundabout, Folger Theatre: Baltimore Center Stage; 2nd Stage, Long Wharf, Westport, Williamstown, Pioneer, Irish Rep and others; Broadway tour of Twelve Angry Men. The Real Thing, Private Lives, All My Sons and Our Town at Hubbard Hall. With Randolyn Zinn, Allen is co-founder of LRT. allenmcc.com
Valeri Mudek
For LRT- Her Name Means Memory and Constellations and is thrilled to return to this beloved company. World Premiere productions of Tiny Kushner by Tony Kushner at the Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Tricycle Theater in London, as well as the World Premiere of The Carpenter, by Robert Askins (Hand to God) at Houston’s Alley Theatre. Select other theater includes Angels in America (St. Louis Repertory Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.), The Humans (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Hamlet, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), and multiple plays at the Guthrie Theater, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Time Stands Still and Uncle Vanya. Select TV and Film: The OA (Netflix), Law & Order SVU (NBC), Forever (ABC), The Mysteries of Laura (NBC), Above All Things (Choice Films).
Nicole Ruth Starrett
This is Nicole’s first LRT production, and she is thrilled and humbled to get to play! Stage: Animals Out of Paper - Village Barn Playhouse, Women of Enlightenment - All Roses, Lobby Hero - Atwater Village Playhouse, Medea and Romeo & Juliet - Trashcan Shakespeare, Pericles - SoHo Rep, Marat/Sade - Above Studio 54, Dog Sees God and Autobahn - ATA, Anton in Show Business and Other Peoples’ Money - Waterbury Festival Players, Twelfth Night - Circle in the Square. Film; Blood Wine - coming in 2025, The Mad Whale - with James Franco, Senior Love Triangle - Dow Jazz Films, Boonville Redemption - with Diane Ladd, Cavegirl II - House of Wax. Television and Streaming; 30 Rock - NBC, Big History - The History Channel, Unfaithful - OWN, Tattoo Nightmares - Spike TV, Unusual Suspects (Discovery). As a Producer; Terminus - coming in 2025, Little Brother - with JK Simmons, Poker Queens - Glamazon Productions, The Divisible and Sabina: Prey for the Hunter - for Jubilee Productions. With Marcus T. Thomas, Nicole is the co-founder of Jubilee Productions. www.NicoleStarrett.com, www.JubileeProd.com
Afton Paige Welch
Afton Paige Welch (she/her) is utterly delighted to make her LRT debut. Performer, intimacy coordinator, writer, and photographer. Afton has just completed a collaboration with Green Brain Theatre on their inaugural production of Test Drive. Her writing can be read on aftonwelch.substack.com and her photography can be seen on photosbyafton.com. Thank you to Randolyn, Allen, and my sweet Susannah.
Randolyn Zinn (Playwright/Director)
Last year’s script of Her Name Means Memory was nominated for the Sugarman Award and the national ATCA award. Her other plays have been produced in New York by New Georges, BACA Downtown, The Westbank Café, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, and LRT. She has directed plays by Lorca, Chekhov, Ionesco, Strindberg, and Chuck Mee. Her choreography has served productions at the Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, the NY Philharmonic, Juilliard, on three films coaching Harvey Keitel, and on Broadway for Sunday in the Park with George (a chapter on her work in that musical appears in the book Putting It Together, a soon-to-be HBO special). Her published fiction has won prizes, including New School's Fiction Prize, several grants, and a travel fellowship to Spain. As an actor she has appeared on Broadway, in regional theatre, New Georges in NYC, Lincoln Center, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and New York Theatre Workshop. For LRT she played Nora in LRT’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, Masha in Three Sisters, and in Constellations. With Allen McCullough, Randolyn is the co-founder and co-artistic director of LRT. MFA: The New School. Faculty: Juilliard, Pace University, Circle in the Square. randolynzinn.com
Cynthia Flynt (Costume Designer)
For LRT- Her Name Means Memory. Cynthia has designed costumes for over 30 years. Beginning with Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Passion Fish for John Sayles. Awakenings, A League of Their Own, The Preacher’s Wife, and Riding in Cars With Boys for Penny Marshall Most recently she has worked with Astute Films on An Interview With God, Queen Bees and Here Today. In between the films, there has been work in television, theater and commercials. She also taught Costume Arts at The Fiorello LaGuardia . High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan for 5 years
Elizabeth Kenney (Stage manager)
Elizabeth is thrilled to be returning to Living Room Theatre as a stage manager after working as an intern on its production of A Doll’s House, Part II. Additional stage management credits include Hurricane Diane (Interloper Rep), Creature (Bennington College), and Gloria (ASM, Bennington College). Acting credits include Glengarry Glen Ross (Boston University, Roma) and A Doll’s House, Part II (LRT, u/s Emmy). She graduated from Boston University this past spring.
Emma Baiada (Videographer)
makes films from life. Inspired (and troubled) by the traditions of observational documentary, her work relies on simple uses of video and audio to witness deep ways of being. She creates from a belief in the divine mundane, and, through an approach unconcerned with narrative convention, she aims to produce an atmosphere that exists somewhere between realities and dreams. Her debut feature film, “Song of Salt,” about the mining town of Trona, CA has screened at various international film festivals, won numerous awards, and received support from California Humanities and DOC NYC. In addition to her personal work, she’s worked for nearly a decade as a documentary producer with companies such as Academy Award-winning Tremolo Productions on projects like “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” “Shangri-La,” and “The Jewel Thief.” She currently lives in a community in Columbia County, New York where she enjoys jumping on the trampoline, collecting rocks in the woods, and learning about kelp.
Corwin Levi & Michelle Aldredge (Graphic Design)
Corwin and Michelle are thrilled to be collaborating again with Living Room Theatre (previously on Her Name Means Memory). Together they run Gwarlingo Studio, a design firm based in Harrisville, New Hampshire. Nestled in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, they create contemporary design for clients around the globe from a studio in an old mill building. Projects range from web, print, and book design to writing, illustration, and curation, with a special love for everything local. gwarlingostudio.com
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