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A Benefit
Performance for The
Actors Fund
Kimberly Faye
Greenberg
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Rachel Resheff
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St. Luke's Theatre
308
West 46th Street
Monday, December 12
7:00
PM
Tickets $25
Reserve by
emailing tickets@theatricalgems.org |
Tony Yazbeck
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Jim Brochu
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More Info
AUCTION
In addition to the performance,
tickets and
memorabilia for various past and present Broadway and Off-Broadway
shows will be sold in an auction that will begin online and will finish
during intermission.
Follies poster, signed by the original cast,
including Bernadette Peters
and Jan Maxwell
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Tickets
to The Fantasticks, starring Aaron Carter, plus a signed poster
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Hugh Jackman,
Back on Broadway poster, signed by Hugh Jackman
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How to Succeed... poster, signed by the original cast,
including Daniel Radcliffe and
John
Larroquette
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more auction
items here
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Theatrical Gems strives to
educate audiences about the past,
present, and future of theater. Through the entertaining and engaging
presentation of popular classics, new works, and underappreciated
relics, we hope to expand horizons and tastes with the goal of
preserving these works of art for future
generations of theatergoers.
If
that sounds like
something you're into, click the link below
to make a tax-deductible donation! Any amount is appreciated!
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Past Shows
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| Claudia
Stuart (Executive
Director) received her M.F.A. in
Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College in 2010. She produced
and managed a new play, Thirty Minutes or Less, in
the 2009 New York
International Fringe Festival that received four stars from Time
Out New York.
After graduating from Fordham University in 2006 with a minor in
theater, she spent two years stage managing off-off-Broadway, including
Saving the
Greeks and Marat/Sade with Push Productions and The
Frogs with Rising Sun Productions. While in graduate
school, she studied
under Dr. Tobie Stein; Harold Wolpert, managing director of Roundabout
Theatre Company;
Jennie Greer, Director of Advancement at New Dramatists; Marc Routh,
commercial producer behind The
Producers, Hairspray,
and A Little
Night Music; Andrew Flatt, Vice President of Marketing at Disney
Theatricals; and more. |
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Jacob
Shoesmith-Fox (Artistic Director) has directed full productions of Little Shop of Horrors and How to Succeed in Business Without Really
Trying as well as various readings and workshops and was the
Assistant Director of Are We Writing
Loud Enough
for the Vineyard Theatre. He worked as an actor for most of his
childhood at the Pocono Playhouse and other locations in his hometown
and also appeared in NYC in The Car
in the 2007 Short Attention Span Horror Festival and the film Wet Hot American Summer. In
2006 he began producing with The
Vagina Monologues
on Staten Island, which he continued for the following three years,
making him the only male V-Day producer in the region. Jacob
graduated
from Wagner College in 2009 with a B.S. in Arts Administration and
spent 5 months interning in development and education at the Vineyard
Theatre. Jacob
is excited to be producing lost Gems of the musical
theatre canon.
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| Jonathan
G Galvez (Artist in
Residence) is an actor, playwright, director, and certified
teacher. His produced pieces as a writer have included Thirty Minutes or Less in the 2009
New York International Fringe Festival, Crossing Lights in Manhattan
Repertory Theatre’s Amazing Play Festival, and has had his one-acts
premiere in The Shortened Attention Span festivals, Sundog Theatre’s
Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry, and the Strawberry One-Act
Festival. He is a performer and technical director for Stuff
Films Comedy troupe and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He
received his B.A. in Theatre Education from Wagner College and is a
M.F.A. Candidate for Playwrighting at Hollins University. |
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| Eliana Meira Rantz (Educational
Outreach Director) has performed in and worked on over thirty shows
starting at age four. Eliana received her B.A. in Theater Arts from
Rutgers University and her M.A. in Theater Education and English
Education from New York University. She is the drama director at
Shrewsbury Borough School and has directed several musical theater
productions there including Guys and
Dolls and Beauty and the Beast.
Some of her most esteemed accomplishments include directing Thirty Minutes or Less which
premiered in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival to rave
reviews and The Laramie Project
at George Street Playhouse. In addition, Eliana has written, directed,
and choreographed shows for children with special needs. |
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