Written by Itamar Moses
Directed by Michelle Tattenbaum
When a harried teaching assistant holds a series of online meetings with his students about their personal essays, his attempts to help them find meaning in their life stories gradually forces him to question the meaning of his own. A short film about the impossibility of making sense of what happens to us...and the necessity of trying to do
it anyway. CAST:
ERIN GANN (the TA) Select Credits: Stage: Ping Pong (The Public Theater); Scenes From a Marriage (New York Theatre Workshop)); We Are Proud To Present… (Soho Repertory Theatre); The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); The Cherry Orchard (Atlantic Theatre Company); Film: The Surrogate; The Hurt Locker. Recent transplant to Los Angeles from Tokyo. Favorite projects include The Laramie Project (various roles) and Romeo & Juliet (Montague and Balthasar). Grateful to be part of this project. (Instagram: ). LAMBERT TAMIN (Patrick) is a New Jersey native and Is currently pursuing his MFA in drama at the Juilliard School. Stage: Hero in the world premiere of The Fre by Taylor Mac (The Flea Theater), Third Man in Bad Penny by Mac Wellman (The Flea Theater), Southern Promises (The Flea Theater), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), Naisula (Guild Hall, John Drew Theater), In Mysterious Ways (Theater at St. Clements) Film: On The Floor, N.ot W.ithout A.lonzo, Paranoia, Vignettes, The Ballad of Bobby Carr. Website: www.lamberttaminactor.com. Instagram: lamtam21
ALEXANDRA CURRAN (Maura) is a NY based actor. TV: Maniac (Netflix), Hawaii 5-0 (CBS). NY Theater includes: Student Body (Michelle Tattenbaum/The Flea), Wolf in the River (Adam Rapp/The Flea), Marian or the True Tale of Robin Hood (Flux Theater Ensemble), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Joel Schumacher/The Flea), My Dead Friend’s P**n (NYTF), Look Me In The Eyes (ARTC), . She made her international debut in Pool Play at the Theater Festival of Kerala, India. www.alexandracurran.com
LAYLA KHOSHNOUDI (Reza) MFA, Brooklyn College. Select Theater: Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons); Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons); Bull in a China Shop (LCT3); Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theater); Wyoming (Lesser America); My Daughter Keeps our Hammer (Flea Theater). FILM: Closure (wrote & directed); Long Nights, Short Mornings; Nadia Jaan; Androgen; Bookends. ig:
ERIKA ROLFSRUD (Judy) BROADWAY: The Coast of Utopia, Rabbit Hole, more. OFF-BROADWAY: Electra In A One-Piece, Misalliance, Love’s Fire, more. REGIONAL: CATF, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Kevin Kline Award, Best Actress, Little Dog Laughed), Hartford Theaterworks (CCC Award, Best Actress, Good People), Old Globe Theatre, more. TV: Younger, Manifest, Law & Order: SVU, House of Cards, more. www.erikarolfsrud.com
PRODUCTION TEAM:
ITAMAR MOSES (writer/producer) is the Tony Award-winning author of the full-length plays OUTRAGE, BACH AT LEIPZIG, CELEBRITY ROW, THE FOUR OF US, YELLOWJACKETS, BACK BACK BACK, COMPLETENESS, THE WHISTLEBLOWER, and THE ALLY, the musicals NOBODY LOVES YOU (with Gaby Alter), FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (with Michael Friedman), and THE BAND’S VISIT (with David Yazbek), and the evening of short plays LOVE/STORIES (OR BUT YOU WILL GET USED TO IT). His work has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway and elsewhere in New York, at regional theatres across the country and internationally. Other awards include Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, and Obie awards in New York, as well as awards from the Portland, San Diego, Dallas, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circles. Television includes MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, OUTSIDERS and THE AFFAIR. MICHELLE TATTENBAUM (director/producer) Theater: NOBODY LOVES YOU at the Old Globe and Second Stage, plus new plays and musicals across the U.S. and internationally. New Media: Director of Production for Gen-Z Media and the web series BABYPROV. Member: SDC. Two-time Drama League Directing Fellow. www.michelletattenbaum.com
GINA SOLEBELLO (First Assistant Director/Associate Producer) is an AEA Stage Manager who has spent her time working primarily on Off-Broadway productions. Gina is also a Production Associate for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Marika Kent (Production Design) is a New York City based designer of new and classic plays, musical theater, opera, dance, experimental theater, puppetry and site-specific performance. Proud member of Wingspace Theatrical Design. www.marikakent.com
MARIKA KENT (Production Designer) is a New York City based designer of new and classic plays, musical theater, opera, dance, experimental theater, puppetry and site-specific performance. www.marikakent.com
MEGAN "DEETS" CULLEY (Sound Designer) is an NYC-based Sound Designer and Composer. Credits include: GROUNDED (Dobama Theatre). CULLUD WATTAH and THE LOOPHOLE (The Public Theater), TERMINUS (NYTW Next Door), PONY UP (The New School), THE COLOR PURPLE (Theatre Horizon), ROAN @ THE GATES (Luna Stage), and INANIMATE (the Flea Theater). www.meganculley.com
JENNA DIOGUARDI (Editor) is an actor, writer, storyteller & filmmaker. She originated the role of #13 in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, garnering both Obie & Drama Desk awards. She’s acted in several new & world-premiere works (La Jolla Playhouse, Ars Nova, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, The New Group) & can be found storytelling at dimly lit venues throughout NY. Jenna quite literally just beat breast cancer, her proudest credit yet. NEIL GINSBERG (Composer) recipient of numerous awards including Meet the Composer, the Temple Guild of Young Composers, New York City Fringe Festival Audience Choice Award and New Dramatists. Previously: staff composer at Musikvergnuegen in Los Angeles and silent movie accompanist at the Silent Movie Theater in LA. He is a former faculty member of the Juilliard School of Drama, 92nd Street Y, and the First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. Additionally, he has written music for Off Broadway productions and is a sought after conductor, orchestrator and pianist. www.NeilGinsberg.com
