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Written by Patrick Gabridge Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw The Factory Theatre February 1-16, 2013 *Post-Show Social following the Feb 2nd performance *Tootsie Pop Talkback following the Feb. 7th performance 1524. John Tewkesbury is a savvy trader and smuggler, smart enough to know William Tyndale's illegal translation of the Bible will be a hot commodity. But, to sell the good book, he must elude the spies of Sir Thomas More and escape the fires of the Catholic bishops. In this true story about the struggle between dangerous information and powerful knowledge, one man journeys from merchant to martyr. Watch the teaser video! |
Cast and Production Team
Cast
John Tewkesbury -- Omar Robinson
William Tyndale -- Bob Mussett
John Frith -- James Fay
Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall/Soldier -- Scot Colford
Bishop John Stokesley -- Brett Milanowski
Production Team
Director -- Rebecca Bradshaw
Dramaturg -- Jessie Baxter
Stage Manager -- Anthony F. Schiavo
Assistant Stage Manager -- Bethany Joy Kolenda
Set Design -- Natalie Laney
Lighting Design -- Chris Bocchiaro
Assistant Lighting Design -- Emily Crochetiere
Costume Design -- Kaitee Tredway
Sound Design -- Thomas Blanford
Graphic Design -- Melissa DeJesus
Marketing Manager -- Robyn Linden
John Tewkesbury -- Omar Robinson
William Tyndale -- Bob Mussett
John Frith -- James Fay
Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall/Soldier -- Scot Colford
Bishop John Stokesley -- Brett Milanowski
Production Team
Director -- Rebecca Bradshaw
Dramaturg -- Jessie Baxter
Stage Manager -- Anthony F. Schiavo
Assistant Stage Manager -- Bethany Joy Kolenda
Set Design -- Natalie Laney
Lighting Design -- Chris Bocchiaro
Assistant Lighting Design -- Emily Crochetiere
Costume Design -- Kaitee Tredway
Sound Design -- Thomas Blanford
Graphic Design -- Melissa DeJesus
Marketing Manager -- Robyn Linden
Cast and Creative Biographies
Jessie Baxter
(Dramaturg) is the Literary Director for Fresh Ink and has previously worked at
The Playwright’s Center, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, and Denver Center
Theatre Company. Her production dramaturgy credits include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Company One, Trog and Clay and Priscilla Dreams the Answer with Fresh Ink, and Incorruptible and Twelfth Night at Emerson College. She also does developmental
dramaturgy work with writers around Boston. Jessie holds a BA in Theatre
Studies from Emerson College, and was the recipient of the 2010 National
Dramaturgy Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
Thomas Blanford (Sound Design) joins Fresh Ink Theatre for the first time with this production of Fire on Earth. He is a Boston based sound designer and composer. Recent credits include The Merchant of Venice (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival), The Tempest (Footlight Club), and Grandma’s House (Wax Wings Productions). He also recently traveled to rural Kisii, Kenya with Boston’s folk trio Grimis to record and engineer I Am The One, an album featuring collaborations with Kenyan musicians.
Chris Bocchiaro (Lighting Design) is excited to be working with Fresh Ink for the first time! Recent lighting credits include The Savannah Disputation, Annie (The Company Theatre), A Feeble Mind (Brown Box Theatre Project), Cruel Botany, The Death of Tintagiles, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (imaginary beasts), Odd Fellows Dances (The Dance Complex), Man of La Mancha, Paint (Emerson Stage), Seascape (Rareworks Theatre Company), and The 29th Annual EVVY Awards (Emerson College) He has assisted Steven Rosen, Betsy Adams, and Scott Pinkney. Chris holds a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology from Emerson College where he graduated with honors. www.chrisbocchiaro.com
Rebecca Bradshaw (Director) has previously directed A Feeble Mind (Brown Box Theatre Project), Othello (Studio 7 Productions), scenes from Cosi Fan Tutte, The Magic Flute, and Turn of the Screw (New England Conservatory’s Undergraduate Opera Studio), Inner Serendippiness (Boston Playwright’s Platform - Best Direction), and for the Boston Theatre Marathon. Rebecca is a local producer and is currently working as Wax Wings Productions’ Casting Director. Rebecca has a BA from Emerson College in Theatre Studies.
Scot Colford (Bishop Tunstall/Soldier) received his B.F.A. in Acting from Wright State University and has performed with ImprovBoston, the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, OH, and Fort Peck Summer Theatre in Montana. He has recently been seen in several productions at the Footlight Club in Jamaica Plain: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Potiphar/Simeon), The Three Sisters (Solyony), Absurd Person Singular (Sidney), and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Rosencrantz). His favorite roles include Vladimir in Waiting for Godot and Lee Baum in Arthur Miller's The American Clock. In 2008, Scot was featured in a television ad for the Boston Public Library.
Emily Crochetiere (Assistant Lighting Designer) is a second semester senior at Emerson College, studying BFA Lighting Design. Some past credits include Lighting Design for Standardized Testing: The Musical!!!! (Emerson Stage) and In The Blood (Rareworks Theatre Company), and Associate Lighting Design for The How and the Why (NORA Theatre Co.), Cloud 9 (Emerson Stage) and Much Ado About Nothing (Emerson Shakespeare Society). This is her first production with Fresh Ink, and she is thrilled to be on board.
James Fay (John Frith) Graduated from the University of New Hampshire and the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. Since coming back to Boston he has been in shows such as FishnetNetworks.net, Blogoliloquy Boston, and Bye Bye Liver: The Boston Drinking Play. James would like to thank Fresh Ink. for the opportunity to work with them, as well as his family, friends and Emily for their constant support.
Patrick Gabridge (Playwright) has a passion for history and has worked on plays and books set in a wide range of time periods. His full-length plays include Flight, Fire on Earth, Constant State of Panic, Blinders, and Reading the Mind of God, and have been staged by theatres around the world. He’s the author two novels, Moving (a life in boxes) and Tornado Siren. His plays are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer, Smith & Kraus, and Original Works Publishers. Patrick has worked with dozens of theatres companies around Boston and has been a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and Boston’s New Rep. His radio plays have been broadcast on NPR, Playing on Air, and elsewhere. He has a habit of starting things: he helped start Boston’s Rhombus playwrights’ group, the publication Market InSight… for Playwrights, and the on-line Playwrights’ Submission Binge, as well as a few theatre companies in Denver and New York. In his spare time, he likes to farm. You can find out more about Patrick’s work at www.gabridge.com or www.penandpepperfarm.com.
Bethany Joy Kolenda (Assistant Stage Manager) is jazzed to be making her debut with Fresh Ink Theatre! She is studying theatre at Suffolk University and has been involved in many productions there. She is the co- founder of a children’s theatre company, ACT UP, located in her hometown. With ACT UP she has been able to teach middle and high school kids the art theatre since 2005. Favorite stage management credits include Damn Yankees (AP), On Golden Pond (AP), YAGMCB (TTSP), and The Odd Couple (AP).
Natalie Laney (Set Design) is excited to be working on her first production with Fresh Ink! She is a Boston-based set designer and scenic artist, with an MFA in Theatre Design from Brandeis University. Notable Set Design credits include: Trojan Women (Whistler in the Dark), Blood Rose Rising: Episode One (Honest Ghost Productions), Slasher (Apollinaire Theatre Company), Steel Magnolias (MA High School Drama Festival), Three Sisters (Brandeis Theatre Company), new play workshop Cocktail Time in Cuba (Primary Stages and Brandeis Theatre Company), The Game of Love and Chance (Brandeis Theatre Company).
Brett Milanowski (Bishop John Stokesley) After a ten year absence Brett has returned to the Boston theatre scene, first with Mill6 Collaborative’s The T Plays IV- Rush Hour and then with Titanic Theatre’s inaugural production of Charles Busch’s The Third Story. As well as filming commercials for TheLevelUp and Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Brett also completed work on the independent feature, “Fat.”
Bob Mussett (William Tyndale) was last seen with Fresh Ink in their inaugural production of Priscilla Dreams the Answerr, and is the roommate of IRNE-nominated actress Caroline Price. Other recent work includes The Zoo Story (New Theatre Company), Zombie Double Feature (New Exhibition Room), The Play About the Baby (Exquisite Corps), The Good Doctor and Glengary Glen Ross (Independent Drama Society), and The Mistakes Madeline Made (Holland Productions). Bob also works with new play development through WordBRIDGE Playwright's Laboratory, the O'Neill Young Playwrights' Festival, and numerous new play readings throughout Boston. Next up, From Denmark With Love with Vaquero Playground in May at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Omar Robinson (John Tewkesbury) received a BA in Acting and Television/Video Production from Emerson College. Regional credits include Superior Donuts (Lyric Stage Company - 2012 Elliot Norton Award Nominee, Outstanding Performance), Twelfth Night (Actors' Shakespeare Project - 2012 Elliot Norton Award Winner, Outstanding Production), The Nine Who Dared (Theatre Espresso), Zombie Double Feature (New Exhibition Room), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Summer Festival Theater), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare NOW!), Art (Parish Players Theatre), and Robin Hood (Emerson Stage).
Anthony F. Schiavo (Stage Manager) is a second semester senior studying theatre arts administration and stage management at Suffolk University. Fire On Earth marks his debut production with the Fresh Ink Theatre! Some of his favorite stage management credits include 99% Stone (The Theater Offensive), These Seven Sicknesses (Suffolk), At Ease (Suffolk), Anthony Rapp’s Without You (Suffolk), Doctor Faustus (Suffolk), and Forever, Briefly (Suffolk). Since 2007, Anthony has worked closely with the Broadway Company of The Phantom of the Opera in efforts to fundraise for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids Charity.
Kaitee Tredway (Costume Design) An actress, tap dancer, puppeteer, and costume designer, Kaitee has made her way around the Boston Theatre Scene in many different capacities. She appeared as Josie Pye in Anne of Green Gables (Wheelock Family Theatre), and puppet wrangled on Avenue Q (Lyric Stage Company of Boston). This spring, she will be playing Howard/Melodiuos in the 99% Stone workshop (The Theater Offensive) and Kalliope/Kelly in She Kills Monsters (Company One). She is currently the artistic intern at Puppet Showplace Theatre and a member of both Theatre Espresso and Fresh Ink Theatre. Costume credits include: The Embryos (Fresh Ink Theatre), Trog & Clay (Fresh Ink Theatre), Crave (Heart & Dagger Productions), Once Upon a Mattress (Stoneham Young Co), and Not a Box 1ppex 2011 (GAN-e-meed.) Crowning glory still may be the zombie fetus puppet she built this summer for Zombie Double Feature (NXR).
Thomas Blanford (Sound Design) joins Fresh Ink Theatre for the first time with this production of Fire on Earth. He is a Boston based sound designer and composer. Recent credits include The Merchant of Venice (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival), The Tempest (Footlight Club), and Grandma’s House (Wax Wings Productions). He also recently traveled to rural Kisii, Kenya with Boston’s folk trio Grimis to record and engineer I Am The One, an album featuring collaborations with Kenyan musicians.
Chris Bocchiaro (Lighting Design) is excited to be working with Fresh Ink for the first time! Recent lighting credits include The Savannah Disputation, Annie (The Company Theatre), A Feeble Mind (Brown Box Theatre Project), Cruel Botany, The Death of Tintagiles, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (imaginary beasts), Odd Fellows Dances (The Dance Complex), Man of La Mancha, Paint (Emerson Stage), Seascape (Rareworks Theatre Company), and The 29th Annual EVVY Awards (Emerson College) He has assisted Steven Rosen, Betsy Adams, and Scott Pinkney. Chris holds a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology from Emerson College where he graduated with honors. www.chrisbocchiaro.com
Rebecca Bradshaw (Director) has previously directed A Feeble Mind (Brown Box Theatre Project), Othello (Studio 7 Productions), scenes from Cosi Fan Tutte, The Magic Flute, and Turn of the Screw (New England Conservatory’s Undergraduate Opera Studio), Inner Serendippiness (Boston Playwright’s Platform - Best Direction), and for the Boston Theatre Marathon. Rebecca is a local producer and is currently working as Wax Wings Productions’ Casting Director. Rebecca has a BA from Emerson College in Theatre Studies.
Scot Colford (Bishop Tunstall/Soldier) received his B.F.A. in Acting from Wright State University and has performed with ImprovBoston, the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, OH, and Fort Peck Summer Theatre in Montana. He has recently been seen in several productions at the Footlight Club in Jamaica Plain: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Potiphar/Simeon), The Three Sisters (Solyony), Absurd Person Singular (Sidney), and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Rosencrantz). His favorite roles include Vladimir in Waiting for Godot and Lee Baum in Arthur Miller's The American Clock. In 2008, Scot was featured in a television ad for the Boston Public Library.
Emily Crochetiere (Assistant Lighting Designer) is a second semester senior at Emerson College, studying BFA Lighting Design. Some past credits include Lighting Design for Standardized Testing: The Musical!!!! (Emerson Stage) and In The Blood (Rareworks Theatre Company), and Associate Lighting Design for The How and the Why (NORA Theatre Co.), Cloud 9 (Emerson Stage) and Much Ado About Nothing (Emerson Shakespeare Society). This is her first production with Fresh Ink, and she is thrilled to be on board.
James Fay (John Frith) Graduated from the University of New Hampshire and the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. Since coming back to Boston he has been in shows such as FishnetNetworks.net, Blogoliloquy Boston, and Bye Bye Liver: The Boston Drinking Play. James would like to thank Fresh Ink. for the opportunity to work with them, as well as his family, friends and Emily for their constant support.
Patrick Gabridge (Playwright) has a passion for history and has worked on plays and books set in a wide range of time periods. His full-length plays include Flight, Fire on Earth, Constant State of Panic, Blinders, and Reading the Mind of God, and have been staged by theatres around the world. He’s the author two novels, Moving (a life in boxes) and Tornado Siren. His plays are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer, Smith & Kraus, and Original Works Publishers. Patrick has worked with dozens of theatres companies around Boston and has been a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and Boston’s New Rep. His radio plays have been broadcast on NPR, Playing on Air, and elsewhere. He has a habit of starting things: he helped start Boston’s Rhombus playwrights’ group, the publication Market InSight… for Playwrights, and the on-line Playwrights’ Submission Binge, as well as a few theatre companies in Denver and New York. In his spare time, he likes to farm. You can find out more about Patrick’s work at www.gabridge.com or www.penandpepperfarm.com.
Bethany Joy Kolenda (Assistant Stage Manager) is jazzed to be making her debut with Fresh Ink Theatre! She is studying theatre at Suffolk University and has been involved in many productions there. She is the co- founder of a children’s theatre company, ACT UP, located in her hometown. With ACT UP she has been able to teach middle and high school kids the art theatre since 2005. Favorite stage management credits include Damn Yankees (AP), On Golden Pond (AP), YAGMCB (TTSP), and The Odd Couple (AP).
Natalie Laney (Set Design) is excited to be working on her first production with Fresh Ink! She is a Boston-based set designer and scenic artist, with an MFA in Theatre Design from Brandeis University. Notable Set Design credits include: Trojan Women (Whistler in the Dark), Blood Rose Rising: Episode One (Honest Ghost Productions), Slasher (Apollinaire Theatre Company), Steel Magnolias (MA High School Drama Festival), Three Sisters (Brandeis Theatre Company), new play workshop Cocktail Time in Cuba (Primary Stages and Brandeis Theatre Company), The Game of Love and Chance (Brandeis Theatre Company).
Brett Milanowski (Bishop John Stokesley) After a ten year absence Brett has returned to the Boston theatre scene, first with Mill6 Collaborative’s The T Plays IV- Rush Hour and then with Titanic Theatre’s inaugural production of Charles Busch’s The Third Story. As well as filming commercials for TheLevelUp and Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Brett also completed work on the independent feature, “Fat.”
Bob Mussett (William Tyndale) was last seen with Fresh Ink in their inaugural production of Priscilla Dreams the Answerr, and is the roommate of IRNE-nominated actress Caroline Price. Other recent work includes The Zoo Story (New Theatre Company), Zombie Double Feature (New Exhibition Room), The Play About the Baby (Exquisite Corps), The Good Doctor and Glengary Glen Ross (Independent Drama Society), and The Mistakes Madeline Made (Holland Productions). Bob also works with new play development through WordBRIDGE Playwright's Laboratory, the O'Neill Young Playwrights' Festival, and numerous new play readings throughout Boston. Next up, From Denmark With Love with Vaquero Playground in May at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Omar Robinson (John Tewkesbury) received a BA in Acting and Television/Video Production from Emerson College. Regional credits include Superior Donuts (Lyric Stage Company - 2012 Elliot Norton Award Nominee, Outstanding Performance), Twelfth Night (Actors' Shakespeare Project - 2012 Elliot Norton Award Winner, Outstanding Production), The Nine Who Dared (Theatre Espresso), Zombie Double Feature (New Exhibition Room), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Summer Festival Theater), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare NOW!), Art (Parish Players Theatre), and Robin Hood (Emerson Stage).
Anthony F. Schiavo (Stage Manager) is a second semester senior studying theatre arts administration and stage management at Suffolk University. Fire On Earth marks his debut production with the Fresh Ink Theatre! Some of his favorite stage management credits include 99% Stone (The Theater Offensive), These Seven Sicknesses (Suffolk), At Ease (Suffolk), Anthony Rapp’s Without You (Suffolk), Doctor Faustus (Suffolk), and Forever, Briefly (Suffolk). Since 2007, Anthony has worked closely with the Broadway Company of The Phantom of the Opera in efforts to fundraise for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids Charity.
Kaitee Tredway (Costume Design) An actress, tap dancer, puppeteer, and costume designer, Kaitee has made her way around the Boston Theatre Scene in many different capacities. She appeared as Josie Pye in Anne of Green Gables (Wheelock Family Theatre), and puppet wrangled on Avenue Q (Lyric Stage Company of Boston). This spring, she will be playing Howard/Melodiuos in the 99% Stone workshop (The Theater Offensive) and Kalliope/Kelly in She Kills Monsters (Company One). She is currently the artistic intern at Puppet Showplace Theatre and a member of both Theatre Espresso and Fresh Ink Theatre. Costume credits include: The Embryos (Fresh Ink Theatre), Trog & Clay (Fresh Ink Theatre), Crave (Heart & Dagger Productions), Once Upon a Mattress (Stoneham Young Co), and Not a Box 1ppex 2011 (GAN-e-meed.) Crowning glory still may be the zombie fetus puppet she built this summer for Zombie Double Feature (NXR).
