The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival
PRESENTS
In This Place
BY
Molly Nevins
WITH
Nicole Palermo Erik Kochenberger
Lighting design by Diana Duecker
Sound design by Emma Mueller
Assistant Direction by KM Jones
DIRECTED BY
Susan Izatt
Cast
Nicole Palermo as Muriel
After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in theater, Nicole set her sights on the web both in front of and behind the camera. Her first Co-Written project, Bitch ’N Lisp, was featured at the Fusion Film Festival, Austin Web Fest, and two years in a row at ITV: The Independent Television Festival. In 2017, her Co-Creation Stem and The City earned her team a spot in the B-STEM Project Hall of Fame and in 2018, her acting role in The Magic Bomb was featured at numerous festivals across the country, winning the Audience Choice Award at Las Cruces International Film Festival. She can currently be seen in a Coors Seltzer commercial, but if you blink you might miss her.
Erik Kochenberger as Jake
Erik Kochenberger earned his BFA from NYU’s Tisch School for the Performing Arts. He is a member of the WorkShop Theater and has performed on television, in film, and theater regionally and in NYC. Credits include: Macbeth (DCPA), Other Desert Cities (HPAC), The Dudleys: A Family Gameshow (HERE Arts Center). Film/Television credits include FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), Rosie (Writing and Directorial Debut), Three Pregnant Men (3PM Productions), Against the Night (Ball Four Productions), and The First of our Friends to Get Married (Independent).
Creative Team
Molly Nevins, Playwright: Molly writes fiction, essays, screenplays, and plays. In This Place is her stage debut. You can learn more about her most recent projects at mollynevins.com.
Susan Izatt , Director and Dramaturg: Highlights include Fabulous Darshan, The Workshop Theatre; Jesus In A Beehive, The Duplex, Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival; Mona Lisa And The Cross, BBTF; Badger And Frame, Emerging Artists Theatre; The Home We Left Behind, BBTF; Chase Bank Corporate Industrials; Associate Artistic Director and Literary Associate, The Workshop Theater Company; Artistic Director, MoonSoup Productions, also producing CitiSchools Shakespeare; The Actor’s Studio’s Playwright Directors Workshop. Acting highlights: Julia, That Ilk, Hudson Guild Theater, director Jere Jacobs; Kathy, Northern Country, Henry Street Settlement, director Dorothy Lyman; Rita in Educating Rita, Main Street Theater, Quakertown (“Best Actress” award); Princess Ira, 1953, Verse Theatre, playwright Paul Raine, UK Poet/USA premiere; Duchess of Gloucester, Richard II, Tribeca Lab; Amanda, Composure, The Workshop Theater, (NYIT Award winner); Heather, Gideon’s Knot, The Seeing Place Theatre. SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, LPTW (Board).
KM Jones , Assistant Director: KM Jones is currently Associate Artistic Director of Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and is on The Board of Directors at LPTW (League of Professional Theatre Women). Recent Virtual Directing projects include "American Slavery 101" written by Nia Akilah Robinson (Awarded 2nd Place in The Nuyorican Poets Cafe 2021 Online Theatre Festival); "He Watered Plastic Plants", "84736", and "Emergency Kit" all written by Raymond Goode; and "Genesister" and "Monkey Mary" both written by Desi Moreno-Penson. KM is also an alumni of St. John's University and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts/NY.
Emma Mueller , Sound Designer: Emma is an actress, writer, sound designer, and teaching artist based in NYC. Emma holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a minor in Applied Theatre. Learn more about her and all of her artistic endeavors on her website at www.emmarosemueller.com.
Diana Duecker , Lighting Designer: Diana received her M.F.A. from University of Texas at Austin. Highlights from her resume include teaching at St. Edwards University and Texas State University, designing for Dance Umbrella, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Columbia University, Urban Stages, Up Theater, Mt. Gretna Theater, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and WorkShop Theatre. Diana has also served as Associate Lighting Designer for Big Apple Circus, Assistant Lighting Designer for Michigan Opera Theatre, and has worked with Fellowship for Performing Arts, Richmond Ballet, Spoleto Festival USA, Austin Film Society, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and Disney Cruise Lines.
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