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Cherry Smoke
By James McManus
July 9th to 24, 2010
Directed by Brett Marks
Disclaimer:
Cherry Smoke contains strong adult themes, violence, strong language, and adult imagery. This is not a play for children.
There will be smoking on-stage throughout the performance. The cigarettes used are not nicotine-based.
General admission, $15
Students (with ID), $13
**NOTE: PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN performances (minimum $5): Saturday, 7/10 @ 3pm and Wednesday, 7/14 @ 7:30pm. Cheapest shows we've got - tell your friends!
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After two years, GTP returns to the Boston theatre scene with an explosive new drama.
Winner of the Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and set among the abandoned steel mills on the outskirts of Pittsburgh,
CHERRY SMOKE is the story of Fish, a club fighter and ticking time bomb and his girlfriend Cherry,
a runaway fortune teller who has been on her own since the age of ten. Along with Fish's brother Duffy and Duffy's wife,
Bug, the couple struggles to balance their all-consuming passion for each other with the reality of their place in life.
Moving back and forth in time and spanning decades, the lives of four young souls are put to the test in this poetic and potent new work.
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Jackie McCoy (Cherry):
Jackie McCoy is thrilled to be performing for the first time with Gurnet Theater Project. She was most recently seen fighting Lex Luthor and seeking out the lost
Omegahedron as Supergirl in The Superheroine Monologues (Phoenix Theater Artists/Company One). Other Boston credits include Donna in Missed Exit (Boston Theater Marathon),
Jill/Debbie in The Heidi Chronicles (Longwood Players), and Hottie in Tenpinhighway (Boston Actor's Theater). She is a 2007 Boston College graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in
Theater Arts and Elementary Education. Favorite roles at Boston College include Lady Macbeth, Smeraldina in The King Stag, Beverly in The Shadowbox, Nuna in Necessary Targets,
and Thomasina in Arcadia. When she is not acting, she has her hands full as a 5th grade teacher to an amazing group of kids!
She was recently accepted to the Master's Program in Arts Administration at Boston University and will be starting classes this fall.
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Chris Graham (Fish):
is enthralled to launch his post-collegiate career with Gurnet Theatre Project. Chris graduated from Boston College in May with a B.A. in Theater Arts and Psychology.
His recent BC credits include Translations (2010), Sweet Charity (2009), and CodeMonkey (2009), an original musical written and directed by Dr. Luke Jorgensen.
Hailing from Feeding Hills, MA, Chris worked his summers through high school as a theme park actor at Six Flags New England.
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Joe Ruscio (Duffy):
is pumped to work with Gurnet Theatre Project for the first time. He is a native of Massachusetts and recent graduate of Emerson College's BFA acting studio.
He has most recently been seen in Moliere^2 (Ensemble) with Imaginary Beasts. Past roles at Emerson College include Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Tobias in Harold's Fall or King Will,
and B in Crave. Joe has also recently been working with friends to create a theatre/multimedia group called "Rough Week." The group is currently working on a webseries called With These Hands.
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Chelsea Schmidt (Bug):
is thrilled to be working with GTP for the first time. She has most recently been seen in Moliere^2 (Ensemble) with Imaginary Beasts. Since graduating from Emerson College she has appeared as
Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare NOW!), Lorna in Act a Lady (Theatre on Fire), and Hannah in What Cheer, Iowa? (Rough Week). She is also one of the
founding members of Rough Week Productions, a brand new theatre company that had it's debut performance last fall. Chelsea is also currently the creator of a new web series With These Hands
and can't wait for it to be online this summer!
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Brett Marks (Director):
recent directing credits include pieces in the Boston Theatre Marathon on behalf of Gurnet Theatre Project,
the Huntington Theatre Company, The Lyric Stage Company, and Orfeo Group. He is the Producing Associate at The Lyric Stage Company, and under the
Growing Voices New Play Development program there, has directed numerous readings of plays by local playwrights.
He is also an actor, having worked with Gurnet Theatre Project, Zeitgeist Stage, Company One, Way Theatre Artists, and Vokes Players.
Brett received his BA in Theatre Arts from Boston College.
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Vawnya Nichols (Stage Manager):
stage managing credits include The Diary of Anne Frank (Boston Children's Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Now!),
Carny Knowledge (Fort Point Theatre Channel), Boyce & Melinda's Investment Strategies for the Post-Money World (Magic Bean Productions),
Classics! National Tour (Chamber Theatre Productions), FeverFest 09 (Small Theatre Alliance of Boston), Present Imperfect (Fort Point Theatre Channel),
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls (Holland Productions) and Harvard University's FarceFest 2009.
Additional credits include work as Production Manager for Betrayal (Another Country Productions) and Assistant Stage Manager for Alcina (Boston Opera Collaborative), Voyeurs de Venus
(Company One), and Summer Play Festival (Boston Actors Theatre).
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Joa Stenning (Props Master):
graduated in May 2010 from Emerson College with a BA in Theater Studies (Performance and Set/Props Design). This is Joa's first production with Gurnet Theatre Project.
Recent credits include Props Master for Emerson Stage's Into the Woods, Props Master for Emerson Stage's Incorruptible, Props Master for Emerson Stage's Much Ado About Nothing,
and Props Master for An Ideal Husband with Bad Habit Productions. Joa's next project will be a set design for Bad Habit Productions' Quills this coming August.
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Matt Whiton (Scenic Designer):
is pleased to join the production team of Cherry Smoke for his first project with Gurnet Theatre Company.
Regionally Matt designs for The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, American Repertory Theatre Institute,
Plymouth State University and UMass Lowell. Other credits include Assistant Scenic Designer for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.
Matt received his MFA from the University of Georgia in 2007.
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Adam Garcia (Sound Designer):
is thrilled to be working with Gurnet Theater Project again. He would like to thank Brett and Brian for the opportunity,
and would like to commend them for their tireless efforts regarding risky and exciting theatrical production in the city of Boston.
Adam would also like to thank his parents, his brother, his Emily and The Wolfman for believing in him.
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Chris Fournier (Lighting Designer):
Chris Fournier is thrilled to return to Gurnet Theatre Project after designing lighting for Essential Self-Defense,
This is Our Youth, and Dog Sees God. Chris is a graduate of Boston College with a BA in Economics and currently works
for Philips Color Kinetics as an Applications Design Engineer. He specializes in lighting design consultation using LED
fixtures for architecture and entertainment. Notable installations that he has consulted on include the Eisenhower Executive Office Building,
Washington DC; Prudential Tower and Fan Pier, Boston MA; Sands Casino, Bethlehem PA; and Bloomingdales, New York NY.
Chris also works as a freelance theatrical lighting designer in the Boston area. Recent design work includes HPT162:
Commie Dearest, Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard College; Curtains, Triboro Musical Theatre/Wheaton College;
It's a Wonderful Life and A Year With Frog and Toad, Stoneham Theatre; Santaland Diaries, New Rep Theatre; Some Men,
SpeakEasy Stage Company; and Bus Stop, Worcester State College. In addition, Chris works as the lighting director for the Triboro Youth Theatre,
where he has designed over 60 musical productions in the past 10 years, and also as lighting director for Weston Drama Workshop for the past 2 years.
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James McManus (Playwright):
Plays include: Over/Under, Blood Potato, Underground, Cherry Smoke, Bulldog Whiskey and Dorothy 6.
His plays have been developed and performed at The Clockwork Theatre, Glass Umbrella Creative (Sydney), The Kennedy Center, New Dramatists, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company,
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Barebones Productions, Irish Repertory Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, The Inkwell, Diverse City Theater and the August Wilson Center for
African American Culture. James was the recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting for Cherry Smoke and is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
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Brian C. Fahey (Producer):
is co-founder and artistic director of Gurnet Theatre Project,
For GTP Brian has directed The Illusion, Miss Julie (MCC Gold Start Nomination), This is Our Youth (IRNE nomination),
as well as the Boston premieres of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead and Essential Self-Defense.
Additional directing credits include Free Will & Wanton Lust (Northeastern) and There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom (UT Austin).
Brian holds a BA in Theatre Performance from Northeastern University and an MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth from The University of Texas at Austin
where he recently defended his thesis, "Connecting Theatre for Young Audiences and Community Engagement: Allowing the Issue of School Bullying
in Louis Sachar's There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom to Ignite Dialogue and Inform Production."
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