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SISTER CITIES

by COLETTE FREEDMAN
directed by ELISE ROBERTSON
produced by JEANNINE STEHLIN and JACK STEHLN

Four sisters reunite to unravel the mystery surrounding their mother's death.

SISTER CITIES plays Tuesdays at 8pm, Now thru August 8!

CAST: Circus Theatricals members:
Strawn Bovee, Colette Freedman, Nickella Moschetti, Jade Sealey, Susan Ziegler.

Sets/Costumes/Sound: Kitty Rose
Lights: Derrick McDaniel

JILL GASCOINE - Mary

Circus Theatricals Associate Artist

JILL GASCOINE - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals, Jill most recently played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard. Other roles with Circus Theatricals include Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, for which she received an LA Weekly Award Nomination for "Supporting Female Performance," and Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet."

Born in London, Jill's vast theatre credits include "St. Joan," "Antigone," "Twelfth Night," "Uncle Vanya," "Arms & the Man," "Candida," "Anthony and Cleopatra," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Joan of Lorraine," "Night of the Iguana," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "Night Street", "42nd Street," "Destry Rides Again," and "Pal Joey." She starred in the long-running UK television series "The Gentle Touch" and then starred as the same character in its spin-off series "Cat's Eyes."

L.A. television/film credits include "Baseketball," Northern Exposure," and "Touched by an Angel." A published novelist,Jill is working on her foruth book. She is married to actor Alfred Molina, and recently became a United States citizen. Jill is a Circus Theatricals Associate Artist.

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COLETTE FREEDMAN - Playwright/Austin

Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble/ Playwright

NICKELLA MOSCHETTI - Dallas

Member of Circus Theatricals Studio for Actors

Odyssey Theatre/Circus Theatricals co-productions include: Ellipses (Circus Theatricals 7th Annual Festival of One Act Plays), Macbeth, Marianne in Tartuffe, Anya in The Cherry Orchard , and Young Prince in Richard III , Also for Circus Theatricals, she has played Irina in Three Sisters, , Celia in As You Like It, Abigail in The Crucible, Babe in Crimes of the Heart, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

JADE SEALEY - Baltimore

Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

Circus Theatricals credits include: Iphigenia in Iphigenia in Aulis, Coffee to Go (The Circus Theatricals 7th Annual Festival of New One Act Plays), The Circle, Deconstructing the Torah.

Recently relocated from New York, Jade Sealey’s latest stage credits include the roles of Cavale in Sam Sheperd’s Cowboy Mouth, Indra’s daughter in Strindberg’s A Dream Play, Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, The Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Constanze in Amadeus.

SUSAN ZIEGLER - Carolina

Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

For Circus Theatricals: Beatrice in Modigliani, The Circle, Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Rosalind in As You Like It, and What Went Wrong with the King and Queen of America.

Off-Broadway includes: Oona and Lurleen (The Public Theatre), Angel City, Suicide in B Flat, Hamlet, The Duchess of Malfi and the title character in Co-Dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (The Public Theate: W.O.W. Cafe.). LA theatre includes: the critically acclaimed Cheyenne (The Lillian), The American Way, Under My Thumb (as Marianne Faithfull), and Boiler Room (Actors Art Theatre). TV includes: “The West Wing,” “Silk Stalkings,” “Arrest & Trial,” "Passions," and “Days of Our Lives.” Recent film: “Lying in Wait (w/Rutger Hauer), and “Big Brother Trouble.” A graduate of NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing; member of Circus Theatricas Studio Ensemble, The Stevedore Conderacy, Actors Art Theatre and FirstStage.

ELISE ROBERTSON - Director

JACK STEHLIN - Producer

Artistic Director of Circus Theatricals

Notable Circus Theatricals productions include The Misanthrope, Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III, Tartuffe, True West, The Cheats of Scapin, The Job.

Other Los Angeles Theatre Salome (with Al Pacino), Speed-the-Plow (Los Angeles premiere), and Habitation of Dragons.

Notable NYC credits include Richard II (dir. Steven Berkoff), Henry V (w/Kevin Kline), Casanova (w/ Ethan Hawke, dir. by Michael Greif), Henry IV, I (w/Mandy Patinkin, dir by Des McAnuff), Julius Caesar (w/ Al Pacino and Martin Sheen),Timon of Athens (dir. by Brian Kulick), Richard Foreman’s Don Juan, and Romeo and Juliet (dir. by Les Waters).

TV and film credits include the film "Salomaybe?", and guest star roles on "Without A Trace," "NCIS," "JAG," (recurring), "Buffy" (recurring ), "Judging Amy," "The Practice," "Crossing Jordan," "NYPD Blue," "ER."

Jack Stehlin currently teaches a Monday Night Scene Study with Performance Showcase. He is also Visiting Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Theater for Winter 2005.

Jack founded Circus Theatricals in New York in 1983, and has produced over 40 plays in NYC and Los Angeles. An award-winning actor, Jack has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, and stages around the world. Jack is an alumnus of John Houseman's The Acting Company and a graduate of the Juilliard School.

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JEANNINE STEHLIN - Producer / Sound Design

Managing Director , Circus Theatricals

Produced over 40 plays for Circus Theatricals, including Iphigenia in Aulis, Macbeth, Tartuffe, The Cherry Orchard, Richard III, Hamlet and The Cheats of Scapin, (Odyssey Theatre/Circus Theatricals co-productions) and the award-winning The Job by Shem Bitterman (LA and Off-Broadway). Acting credits include: Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Job, Peer Gynt, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, Hippolytus, The Stronger, The Art of Success, Women and Wallace.

Film, “Watch It,” and “Rancho Cucamonga, " The Phlebotomist." Jeannine made her first television appearance at the tender age of four on "Romper Room" (KDKA Pittsburgh).

Jeannine holds a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Illinois, and an M.B.A. in Marketing from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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