Blogologues

Blogologues™ brings your favorite blog posts to the stage– as well as other wacky online material that probably shouldn’t be read out loud. Conceived by Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula, Blogologues gives voice to those texts from last night, what’s overheard in New York, and your missed connections. A hilarious, hour-long romp through the interwebs.

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“For those who think that the Internet and theater can never co-exist, you need to get your asses down to Blogologues” –Crushable

“Blogologues will turn the spigot and let Internet culture gush out at full flow.”  –The Local East Village

Blogologues is a trademark of Lively Productions, Inc.

BLOGOLOGUERS:

Jim Armstrong (stage manager - THE ABOMINABLEBLOGOLOGUES; BLOOD IS THICKER THAN BLOGOLOGUES; ROCKTOBER BLOGOLOGUES; ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, BLOGOLOGUES; I NEED A VOCATION; SEX, DRUGS & INTERWEBS) graduated from the University of South Carolina at Aiken with a B.A. in Fine Arts in 2009.  He spent 3 consecutive summers at The Lost Colony, first as props assistant, then as an electrician, and finally as an actor/technician. Since being in New York, he has worked as production manager for American Bard’s Four by Tenn and stage manager of Blogologues with Lively Productions.  He continues to study acting and movement.

Andrew Ash* (actor – THE ABOMINABLE BLOGOLOGUES: TOBOGGANING TO 2012 & ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, BLOGOLOGUES) is so happy to be working with Lively Productions again! New York: Lively Productions (Blogologues, The Rivals), Inwood Shakespeare Festival (Othello), TheatreWorks USA (Max & Ruby), Queens Players (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (A Christmas Carol, The Nina Variations, The Foreigner), Hangar Theatre (What Happened to Bill Viola?, Bluebeard, Two Donuts, The Wedding Reception). Film: The Cigar Collector, 101 Ways to Kill Yourself. Education: Yale University, Upright Citizens Brigade.

Andrea Biggs* (actor – BLOGOLOGUES: COME HERE OFTEN?, ROCKTOBER BLOGOLOGUES) performs every Saturday night at Webster Hall in the long-running, Off-Broadway interactive hit The Awesome 80s Prom (Awesome80sProm.com). Other local credits include the New York International Fringe Festival, Aisling Arts, Prism Players, Vital Children’s Theatre, Neurofest, Looking Glass, and Hudson Shakespeare Company. She’s a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The Ohio State University and has studied improv at UCB.

Collin Blackard (actor – ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, BLOGOLOGUES) has performed with Frog and Peach Theatre Co., Malisa Theatre Co., 13th Street Rep, and iO and Second City of Chicago.  He has studied with Second City, iO Chicago, UCB, The Strasberg Institute, and Malisa Theatre Academy.  He can currently be seen in Live In Theatre’s Lombardi Case: 1975.  He would love to thank Lively Productions for the opportunity to perform for you tonight!

Darren Bluestone (actor – I NEED A VOCATION) is excited to be a New Yorker now and part of Blogologues. Regional credits include: 25th… Spelling Bee, Footloose!, Godspell, and Full Monty. Recent Carnegie Mellon graduate of 2011.

 

Dave Thomas Brown (actor – THE ABOMINABLE BLOGOLOGUES: TOBOGGANING INTO 2012)  suffers from full blown Peter Pan syndrome and has absolutely no interest in a cure. Recent credits include: These Seven Sicknesses (The Flea), Asking for Trouble (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged (Royal Pretenders). He does voice over work for early education software programs and animated film. He is a proud graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, as well as a company member of The Flea Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Dave also acted as projection designer for Bloglogues: Come Here Often?

Jasmine Coles (actor – I NEED A VOCATION) is a proud graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance. She was most recently seen in Waiting for Anthony in the 15 minute play festival at American Globe Theatre and Shadow Box Theatre’s The African Drum and Little is Big. She is currently writing her third one woman show. She thanks God, Montres, the roommates, family and friends for their support. Jasmine was craving to be involved in a production such as Blogologues and hopes that everyone enjoys the show!

Matthew Cox (actor – BLOGOLOGUES: COME HERE OFTEN?, BLOOD IS THICKER THAN BLOGOLOGUES, ROCKTOBER BLOGOLOGUES & I NEED A VOCATION) is happy to be here. He is a graduate of Tarleton State University where he received a B.F.A in Theatre. Recent credits include: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Panch); Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters (Smeraldina); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Einstein); Major Barbara (Adolphus Cusins); The Misanthrope (Alceste); and Godspell (Jesus). Matthew also attended the 2011 Summer Conservatory at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center.

Amanda Dieli (actor – ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, BLOGOLOGUES) a Chicago native, has a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California. Since 2008, she’s performed with LAByrinth, UCB, the Abingdon, Zombie Joe’s Underground, and her sketch group Bummer and Lazarus.  She blogs and tweets as @wompcity and has contributed to blogologues as a writer in the past.  Love to M&D, LLD, and Z

 

Philip Emeott (actor – SEX, DRUGS & INTERWEBS) Credits include: Starship Astrov (Oberon Theatre Ensemble, MITF); lead role in The Foreigner (Hudson Rep., Perry Award nomination); A Butterfly on the Antenna (Havel Festival, featured in American Theatre); 365 Days/365 Plays (Public Theater, Boomerang Theatre Co.); Kryptonite Hearts (Theater for the New City); Road to Nirvana, Of Mice and Men, Measure for Measure, King Lear (Oberon); Rhinoceros (Novisi Productions); and Burning the Old Man (Boomerang, NYIT Award nomination). BA in Drama from Flagler College. Florida credits include Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Elephant Man (Limelight Theatre).

David Friedlander (actor – SEX, DRUGS & INTERWEBS) is delighted to be making his debut with Lively Productions. Previous credits include Twelfth Night (Mountain Playhouse), Stones in His Pockets (PlayMakers Repertory Company, The Majestic Theater), Romeo and Juliet, Cyrano de Bergerac, Amadeus, and The Little Prince (PlayMakers Repertory). He can also be seen as the young Don Most in Celebrity Ghost Stories on the Biography Channel. A graduate of Yale University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, David would like to thank Jen for inviting him to be a part of this project, our bloggers, Allison, our director Ben, and the rest of the cast for helping create this piece. Special thanks to Phoenix Artists Inc., Megan, my family and friends for your continuing love and support.

Samuel T. Gaines* (actor – ROCKTOBER BLOGOLOGUES) Credits: Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The HIVE Theatre Company @ the Cell), 167 Tongues (Queens Theatre in the Park), Detention (Primary Stages), Fly (The Vineyard Playhouse), King Lear (Kansas City Rep),Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s R &J, Cloud Nine and A Raisin in the Sun. Film: Smurfs: The Movie, NEXT! The Series (www.nexttheseries.com). BFA: University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. MFA: University of Missouri, Kansas City. Member of AEA/ SAG. Member of The HIVE Theatre Company. www.SamuelTGaines.com

Danny Gardner (actor – BLOGOLOGUES: COME HERE OFTEN?) was last seen as Frank in Goodspeed Opera House’s production of Show Boat.  Other favorite credits include: Parallel Exit’s Room 17B at 59E59th Street (Drama Desk Nom.), Time Step at the New Victory Theater, Chuck Baxter in Promises, Promises at Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Zoe in Superhero Clubhouse’s Mercury at The TANK, and Song & Dance with the New York Song & Dance Company’s trip to the Middle East. Love to Aleka.  More information at www.dannyjgardner.com

David Hilder (director – BLOGOLOGUES: COME HERE OFTEN?, ROCKTOBER BLOGOLOGUES) Broadway and Off: Associate on Death Takes a Holiday, The royal Family and Frozen. New York: Reverie Productions, Vital Theatre Co., theAtrainplays, EST, etc. Regional: Olney, Theatre J, Rep Stage, etc. A 2010 Person of the Year, nytheatre.com. David is also a playwright and a recovering actor. Twitter – @hilderthtrguy  Site – www.davidhilder.com

Julienne Jones (actor - THE ABOMINABLE BLOGOLOGUES: TOBOGGANING INTO 2012) is thrilled to be sharing the stage with so many people who get little asterisks beside their names in programs. Although she’s not entirely sure what it all means, she hopes one day she’ll get an asterisk too. As media designer for Lively Productions, she hopes she gets to make pretty things like business cards, press packets, and Lively videos forever and ever. No…. really. Julienne is pumped that Blogologues is her first NYC performance!! Wanna find out more about her? Sure you do! Visit: www.juliennejones.com

Wendy Joy  (actor – BLOOD IS THICKER THAN BLOGOLOGUES & ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, BLOGOLOGUES) is super psyched to be making her Blogologues debut!  She can be seen improvising in the revolving cast of Sunday Night Improv.  She is vice-president on the Board of Directors for Artist New Directions (AND) and studies improvisation with AND.  She hails from Florida, but is glad to be going on her third year of actually having seasons.  She would like to thank GOD, Spankie, and the hilarious cast that has enlightened her spiritually, mmmmmm, spiritually!

Benjamin Kamine (director – SEX, DRUGS & INTERWEBS) is a director and designer who recently moved to New York from Los Angeles. Recent directing credits include Boundaries (Short Play Lab); The Gift Horse (See Kay Theatre); Seascape with Sharks and Dancer (See Kay Theatre, StageSceneLA Award for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy-Drama); and Cheesesteak Latkes by Matt Ocks (Moth Theatre).  In June, Ben is directing Gutter Space by Keith Boynton in the Comic Book Theater Festival (Brick Theater).  Ben is a Resident Director at the Jewish Plays Project and has been accepted into the 2011 Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Adam Levinthal (actor - THE ABOMINABLE BLOGOLOGUES: TOBOGGANING INTO 2012) Recent NYC credits: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Sonnet Rep), Goodbadugly (Manhattan Rep). A graduate of the class of 2011 from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts, favorite roles at school include Sydney Black (Light Up The Sky) and Ben Hubbard (The Little Foxes). Adam made his professional debut at the age of 16 in a joint production of Lost in Yonkers with the Walnut Street Theatre and the Coconut Grove Playhouse. Much love to family and friends for all their support, and to Gerald Freedman, for teaching me how to act.

Megan Loughran (director – I NEED A VOCATION) is a director, actor, singer and improviser who is currently in a committed relationship with New York City. Megan graduated from Yale University where she double majored in Theatre and How to Not Get Mugged at Gunpoint. She can be seen performing weekly with ImprovNation. On the side, she designs scavenger hunts, professionally. (If you carefully unscramble the letters in this bio, you can spell something new.) Upcoming: A SECOND CHANCE at The Signature Theatre. Thanks to Alli, Jen, and our entire blog-tastically talented company! Feel free to contact Megan about any of the aforementioned disparate topics: Megan.Loughran@aya.yale.edu

Chad Anthony Miller (actor – BLOOD IS THICKER THAN BLOGOLOGUES & I NEED A VOCATION) is a lapsed academic who is returning to acting via film, television, theatre, and the Upright Citizens Brigade stage.  You can catch his mug on Celebrity Ghost Stories, PM Sports, CollegeHumor, as well as commercials for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Video Game, Allstate, and Heineken. He recently flew as the infamous Jet Blue flight attendant, Steven Slater, in Hyper Aware Theatre Company’s Wild Blue. Film projects include the collaborative movie An Ordinary Family, which made its premier at the LA Film Festival in June, as well as the indie feature Damned If you Do. His upcoming web series include Team Allies, This Is Art, Therapy, Realign’d, and BB ROO and Friends. He most recently wrapped a tv pilot in LA entitled Blowin’ Up. Find him at www.facebook.com/chadanthonymiller

Harry Poster (director - THE ABOMINABLE BLOGOLOGUES: TOBOGGANING INTO 2012) is proud to be directing this bizarre and titillating offspring of Allison Goldberg and Jennifer Jamula. Previous to these kids he directed actual children at the New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro VT. He is a recent graduate from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he directed Birdbath by Leonard Melfi, Hurlbyburly by David Rabe, Exes and O’s and The Steins Last Supper by Adam Levinthal. He is an intern of the CRY HAVOC Company and the Company Manager at SPACE on Ryder Farm.

Tai Verley (actor – SEX, DRUGS & INTERWEBS) is an avid lover of ferocious animals and Coca-Cola. Favorite theatre credits include: FEFU in Fefu & Her Friends (TinLily Productions, dir: Jillian Johnson), TERRI in You’re Invited (Old Vic, London, UK, dir: Jimmy Maize), THE GYPSY in Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (dir: Anders Cato), MADGE in A Sleeping Country (dir: Andreas Tselepos), TOOTIE in Generation Graffiti (Sam French Short Play Festival 2009, dir: Diana Basmajian & Malinda Sorci). She is also an M.F.A. Graduate of The New School for Drama.  Thanks to Jen Jamula, cast and crew for this fun experience! Check out her own blog: http://wheresmyspotlightbitches.blogspot.com/ or  taiverley.com for more hilarity.

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