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Theatre Row, 410 W 42nd Street, New York, NY
Strindberg’s Miss Julie, an exemplification of 19th century naturalism, has stood through the ages as an audacious commentary on gender, class, and agency. But what happens when it is read through the lens of contemporary culture? Canary Snuff Film, an entirely new play, infuses Strindberg’s origins of naturalism and earnest drama with a hearty dose of magical realism and an irreverent cheekiness, creating the lively and provocatively new: ‘Magical Naturalism’. In this re-imagination, Julie, Jean and Kristine flap their wings wanting to be seen both for what they represented in the past and who they have come to be now. Canary Snuff Film is, at its essence, an examination of how we confront issues from our history, to avoid repeating them.
Stripped Scripts brings together three writers, three directors, and three actors to deconstruct Strindberg’s classic, shake it up like a snow globe, and put it back together. In this 90 minute, three act, modern exploration of each character, we journey with them through their evolution, and reintroduction into modern society.
Meet The Cast
Allison Threadgold (Kristine)
Born in New York City, to a French mother and British father, she’s a trilingual, nurturing redhead - with a dark side. Allison Threadgold is a bicoastal actress, producer and alum of the Atlantic theater’s conservatory in New York as well as their LA semester led by David Mamet and Clark Gregg. She produced and starred in the award-winning web series, The Majestic Theater Co. and in 2014 founded the now bi-coastal, STRIPPED SCRIPTS®(Sx) Theater Company.
Recent and Favorite Credits:TV- Diabolical, Evil Lives Here, Homicide Hunter, and the pilot, Fluff. Film – The Killing on Poplar Tree Lane (in pre-production), The Place We’re Going, The Root of Perfection, and Seconds. Theater: Emma in the Innovative Theater Award winning production of Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner, Vickie in Noises Off, the Nurse in an educational production of Romeo and Juliet, and Jennifer in the New York premiere of Tomorrow in the Battle, an Ars Nova Fling. Allison’s passion for acting hails back to her British school girl days when she had her stage debut in her 2nd grade play. Swaying in the breeze as ‘The Tree’, brown tights and a green turtleneck stapled with leaves – there was no question – this was the life.
Jay William Thomas (Jean)
Jay is an actor, writer, and producer. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, Jay left the bluegrass behind and moved to NYC and has called the city his home ever since. At the beginning of 2019 Jay finished post production of his first film, For Hope, which has been selected to 7 festivals and in consideration for over 30 more. Jay can been seen on the big screen in NBC Universal’s remake of Dementia 13. NYC credits include Dev (Stupid Fucking Bird), Philip (Orphans), Actor 3 (The Dining Room), and Toby (Easy Laughter). Jay is currently in pre-production of a new short film, Aquae Vitae, slated to film this summer. Jay is a current company member of Stripped Scripts and is overwhelmingly thankful to Allison and Tana (and the whole team) for having the creative gumption to make this bold piece of art. Jwilliamthomas.com
Tana Sirois (Julie)
Tana Sirois is a NYC based actor, director and producer. She graduated from the Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts with a 1st class degree in Acting. This past year, she originated the role of “Alice” in the new musical Painted Alice.
Film credits: Alexis (Blue Bloods), Katie (For Hope). NYC theatre credits include Nina (Stupid Fucking Bird), Lais (Garden Of Delights), Tracy (Seascape With Sharks And Dancer) and Judy (Easy Laughter). Last year Tana co-wrote the play Crushing Baby Animals which was produced at The IRT Theatre and The Plaxall Gallery by Dirt [contained] Theatre Company, which she co-founded in 2011.
Tana is a proud company member in the feminist, musical comedy troupe, Broad Comedy, and can be found touring the country raising money for Planned Parenthood and The ACLU.
Meet The Writers
Elizabeth M. Kelly (Writer)
Elizabeth is a writer living in New York City. Her plays have been finalists and semi-finalists for: The Woodward/Newman Award, TheatreWorks New Works Festival, American Shakespeare Center, The O’Neill, Princess Grace Awards, Blue Ink Award and nominated for the Lark Venturous Playwright Fellowship. She is a member of The Actors Studio Playwright/Director’s Unit, José Rivera’s writers group, as well as Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artists Writing. Her work for the stage has been seen at LAByrinth Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark, The Actors Studio, New Neighborhood, Primary Stages, The Abingdon Theatre and The Drama League. She has written for the screen and contributed as an essayist. *Member Dramatists Guild of America. More information available at www.elizabethmkelly.com
Heidi Armbruster (Writer)
Heidi Armbruster is a New York based theater artist dedicated to creating new work and discovering new approaches to classical literature and theater. Heidi is a founding member and co-curator of Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Writing, a group dedicated to supporting actresses who are writing and cultivating the emergence of diverse theatrical voices. Heidi’s play “Mrs. Christie” received its world premiere at Dorset Theater Festival in the summer of 2019. “Mrs. Christie” was developed at Primary Stages, Dorset Theater Festival, at SPACE on Ryder Farm (as a member of the resident writer’s group The Working Farm), and multiple residencies at The Orchard Project. “Dairyland” received its world premiere in the fall of 2019 at Playmakers Repertory Company after having been read and workshopped as part of Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages ESPADrills, The Lark, Red Fern Theater, Luna Stage, and selected as the New Play Workshop at The Chautauqua Theater Festival in 2014. Heidi’s play “Murder Girl” was recently workshopped at Kansas City Rep as part of their new works series. “Every Good Girl Deserves Fun (and other misremembered things),” a commission from Clutch Productions, was produced as an Equity Showcase production in New York in the fall of 2015 at Walker Space. “Where the I Divides” received development by San Francisco’s ReACT. Heidi’s short play “Purgatory” was a part of Red Bull Theater’s inaugural 2011 Short Play Festival and subsequently published by Smith and Kraus in their “Best Ten Minute Plays of 2013” anthology and the recently released “Red Bull Shorts Anthology.”
Maggie Diaz Bofill (Writer)
Maggie Diaz Bofill is an actor/playwright. Founding member of LAByrinth Theater, Company member of Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), The Playwright Director's Unit at The Actor's Studio, and WAW, Women Artists Writers/DorsetTheaterFestival.
As a writer, (pen name Maggie Diaz Bofill) NYC Productions are: DEVIL OF CHOICE, LAByrinth Theater Co. Cherry Lane, WINNERS, Ensemble Studio Theater, (Special Drama Desk Award for season) , DRAWN AND QUARTERED, INTAR (New York Times Critics Pick), FACE CREAM, EST One Act Marathon. SWIPE, Musical commissioned by BMCC, Book, lyrics and Music written by Maggie. Internationally: DEVIL OF CHOICE at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, DRAWN AND QUARTERED, Edinburgh Fringe 2019, and King's Head Theater, London, 2019. She has also participated in various festivals of new work: Hear Her Call, One Minute Play Festival, New York Madness. As an actor: (acting name Maggie Bofill) Most has played Armida, in MOJADA; MEDEA IN LOS ANGELES, St. Louis Rep. Nora, in A DOLL'S HOUSE:PART TWO at The Longwharf Theater (Dir. Will Davis) Miriam in NYLON, (Dir. Knudd Adams) God in GOD SHOWS UP, (Dir. Christopher Scott) QUEEN LATINA (Capt. Maggie, LabyrinthTheaterCo @Cherry Lane) BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY (2ndStage), and several EST Asking4Troubles and Youngblood brunches.
Meet The Directors
Alfredo Narciso (Director)
Acting credits: has appeared at a number of theaters around the country, including: New York Theatre Workshop, Roundabout, The Public Theatre, Theatre For A New Audience, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, American Repertory Theatre, & The Huntington Theatre, among others. Directing credits: “Kitty, Cappy, Gypsy & Snake” by Elizabeth M. Kelly with Six Part Productions (Workshop prod.), The One Minute Play Festival at Intar Theatre, and numerous readings, including: The Lark Theatre’s US/Russia Exchange, LAByrinth Theater’s Barn Series, and The Actor’s Studio Playwrights/Director’s Unit. He is a company member of LAByrinth, EST, Partial Comfort, New Neighborhood & The Actor’s Studio. (www.alfredonarciso.com)
Michelle Bossy (Director)
Michelle Bossy is a Mexican-American director. Films Michelle has directed include Under the Lantern Lit Sky (feature), Friendly Neighborhood Coven, The Trespassed, Ladies Lounge, Miracle Baby, She Grinds Her Own Coffee, The New 35 and 18. She directed music videos for Yassou and Brooke Josephson, and the web series There’s a Special Place in Hell for Fashion Bloggers. Theater Michelle has directed includes There and Back, Lady MacBeth and Her Lover, Sex with Strangers, Every Good Girl Deserves Fun, Sex of the Baby, Cloven Tongues, Un Plugged In, South Beach Rapture, and Sarajevo’s Child. She co-created the musical High School Confidential for Primary Stages, where she was the Associate Artistic Director. She holds the first undergraduate directing degree from Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Michelle teaches for the Graduate Dramatic Writing Program at NYU, and Syracuse University. Member: Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and SDC. Recipient: Denham Fellowship. www.MichelleBossy.com
Meet The Creative Team
Born in Sydney Australia, Nanami Cowdroy has close bonds to her mixed Japanese / European heritage. Growing up with such contrasting cultures and surroundings has greatly influenced her style of art and the way she expresses her creativity.
By intertwining complex characters and highly detailed objects, her pieces reflect a juxtaposition between foreign and familiar entities and environments. Her imagination is illustrated through works which are both elaborate, intricate and exotic. She is drawn to subjects, which may on the surface seem delicate or fragile, but are given strength and depth through her pen and ink techniques, contrasting bold and fine lines, intricate hand illustrative style and mixed media compositions.
Her signature detailed style reflects a refined monochrome palette with her name ‘Nanami’ (meaning ‘Seven Seas’ in Japanese) stamped in red. Fluid line-work and watery creatures are some of her favourite subjects and distinctive forms which feature in her artworks.
Nanami has collaborated with various prominent local and international companies such as - SONY, Microsoft Xbox, Westfield, MTV, Asahi, Smirnoff, Harley Davidson, Arbor Skateboards, Nissan and Mini Cooper.
Her work has been featured and published in various noteworthy international and local creative, design and art publications including - Juxtapoz (USA), Gestalten (Germany), Harper’s Bazaar (AUS), Monsa (Spain), Curvy (AUS), Dazed & Confused (AUS/NZ) and DPI (Taiwan).
Poster Artist
Nanami Cowdroy
Jonathan Sanford is a Los Angeles-based composer, music producer, and multi- instrumentalist scoring music for films, television, and stage. He is known for bringing unique sounds and unexpected ideas to standard platforms through an almost-archaic analog exploration process. Sanford is the composer for the noir television drama Dare Me, based on the novel by Megan Abbott, currently airing on USA Network. He recently completed an upcoming Netflix Series from Tilted Productions (GLOW, Orange Is The New Black, Weeds) and is working on Play It As It Lies, starring Iliza Schlesinger and Margaret Cho and directed by Kimmy Gatewood. Sanford’s previous work includes That Moment When for PBSNews Hour/Facebook Watch, original songs for YouTube’s Weird City, score for the EKO interactive series Timeline, and Off-Broadway stage play Tomorrow In The Battle (Stripped Scripts). Sanford has also scored documentaries for Syracuse professor Richard Breyer, tracks for Run and Jump directed by Oscar- nominated Steph Green, and short films with premieres at Tribeca and Cannes Film Festivals.
Composer
Jonathan Sanford
Amanda Kai Newman, knew the career she wanted early on and decided to follow her path by interning her senior year of high school at the Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, Florida. While at the Asolo she was able to work closely with designers from all over the country and learn from their varied techniques. She enrolled at Cornell College in Iowa, during college she assisted in teaching a basic costume construction class and designed and worked on various productions, in multiple capacities. Also while at Cornell she was awarded the opprotunity to intern in New York City with William Ivey Long, where she jumped at the opprotunity to learn from one of the best and most influential Broadway Costume Designers of today.
Amanda received her MFA in Costume Design from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), a three year program on full scholarship and work study, from there she moved to New York to persue her career in film, tv and theater.
She most recently worked on the Madame X tour [Madonna] as the costume supervisor.
Other credits include - TV- NOS4A2; Almost Family; For Life; Emergence; Gotham (season4), Crisis in Six Scenes; Miss. Maisel; God Father of Harlem FILM-Greatest Showman; Wonder Wheel; Untitled Pete Davidson Project THEATER- (asst costume designer) Chick Flick; Red Eye of Love (Milliner) Color Purple; Aladdin; Aladdin -Japan; Elf National tour; Wicked; An American in Paris; Dr. Zhivago; Music Man(Asolo Rep/ Sarasota); Le Reve (Vegas); Utah Shakespeare for two summer stock seasons
Costume Designer
Amanda Kai Newman
![Kristina Voznick is excited to be a part of her first show with Stripped Scripts! Other theatre credits include Painted Alice (Long Island City Artists), Broken Story (White Hose Theater Company) Crushing Baby Animals (Dirt [Contained]), Into the Wo…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589e2ad9db29d6ccb2a9fab2/1583164294639-7RJYT5KKDEH1P6SZLPCP/DSC_1125.jpg)
Kristina Voznick is excited to be a part of her first show with Stripped Scripts! Other theatre credits include Painted Alice (Long Island City Artists), Broken Story (White Hose Theater Company) Crushing Baby Animals (Dirt [Contained]), Into the Woods and The Cradle Will Rock (Theater 2020).
Production Stage Manager
Kristina Voznick