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LATHEM PRINCE
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
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 CHRISTOPHER BONEWITZ* (PATIO FURTONELLI)
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Christopher has previously appeared in Hunger and Thirst’s Ivanov and The Misanthrope. Other New York stage credits include Shakespeare in the Park’s Hamlet, I Stand Corrected (reading) at The Public, directed by David Esbjornson, and The Bad Date Project  and Fallujah (reading) at Culture Project. Regional: Richard III and A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company; Return of the Prodigal at Peterborough Players. Film: Other Months (SXSW, New Orleans Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest) and February (Slamdance). Training: Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. program in Acting; Mimi Lieber; Magnet Theater Improv; Moscow Art Theatre School.

LAURA J. ECKELMAN (LIGHTING DESIGNER)
Triad Stage: Abundance, Snow Queen. New York: Hypocrites & Strippers(DUTF); Crave, Somewhere in the Pacific, Scenes from an Execution (PTP NYC). Regional: CARRIE the musical (Studio Theatre); Bitter Homes and Gardens (Bearded Ladies); Romeo and Juliet, Bossa Nova (Yale Rep), Animals Out of Paper (Perseverance), A Lifetime to Master (Generator). Other: Assistant Professor of Drama at Washington College; Lighting Designer & Associate Producer for Shakespeare on the Vine; Associate Lighting Designer for Asphalt Orchestra's Unpack the Elephant tour; 2012 S&R Washington Award winner. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama; BA, Middlebury College. www.laurajeckelman.com
AL FOOTE III (FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER)
Al has served as fight director for shows featuring epic battles to brawls in elevators. Musicals: Camelot (National Tour), Company, Cabaret, Down in the Valley and The Pirates of Penzance.  Twenty-five Shakespeare productions and counting, including: Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Henry V, Henry VI, Part 3, Coriolanus, etc. Other productions include Baal, Cloud 9, Mauritius, The HotHouse and True West.  Al has a BFA in Musical Theatre from New School University and is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors.  Next up, Al will be playing Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor with Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre. www.alfoote3.com
REGINA GIBSON* (GERTIE PRINCE)
(NY credits) A Man's World at Metropolitan Playhouse, The Apple Tree, or Penis no. 7 with NYC Fringe Festival, Macbeth with Pulse Ensemble, and The Sparking Object at Canal Park Playhouse. (Regional) As You Like It at Connecticut Shakespeare and Charlotte's Web with Theatreworks/USA. (International) Daughters of Lot in Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Readings with The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theater, and ArsNova. She also plays Amelia in her original comedy web series, 'Honestly, Amelia' inspired by a modern day Amelia Bedelia at www.honestlyamelia.com BFA NYU TISCH Stella Adler Studios. www.reginagibson.com
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MICHAEL HARDART* (WILLIAM PRINCE)
Michael Hardart appeared in Hunger and Thirst’s Contrafact of Freedom, D.C. Fringe ’14. In New York in The Henrietta,The Drunkard, Dodsworth, Power; Nowadays, Year One of the Empire, The Pioneer, The Octoroon, The Devil's   Disciple, Metamora, and The City (Metropolitan Playhouse); Run for Your Wife (Gallery Players); The Crucible (Sink or Swim Rep); Eleanor Rigby is Waiting (NY Fringe Festival); and Hurlyburly (Willie Bobo Productions).  Regionally he has appeared in On Golden Pond, A Month of Sundays (The Public Theater, ME); Moon Over Buffalo (Bristol Riverside Theatre); and The Rainmaker (Iowa Touring Theatre Company). Visit michaelhardart.com for more.
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PEYTON JAMILLE (SOUND DESIGNER)
Peyton Jamille is a sophomore at Fordham University studying Sound Design. Fordham Credits: The Swan (Asst. Sound Design), The Love of Don Perlimplin (Asst. Sound Design), How to Light a Fire (Sound Design), The Buck (Sound Design). Infinite gratitude to Hondo, Jessica and the rest of the cast and crew. Special thanks to Emily Auciello for believing in me. 
JORDAN KAPLAN* (LATHEM PRINCE)
With Hunger & Thirst: Ivanov, The Misanthrope, Contrafact of Freedom, The Animal Kingdom. Jordan has performed with many NYC companies including Prospect Theater Company, The Red Fern Theatre Company, Astoria Performing Arts Center, and the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project (where he is Development Director). Regional: American Conservatory Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Trinity Repertory Company, Stanford Summer Theater. Proud graduate of Stanford University and Brown/Trinity Rep. Coming Up Next: Hamlet in Hamlet at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre. He'd like to thank his friends and family for their unyielding support. www.jordankaplan.net
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PATRICIA LYNN* (LIA FURTONELLI/COSTUME DESIGNER)
With Hunger & Thirst: Ivanov, The Misanthrope, and The Animal Kingdom. Also with Hunger & Thirst, Patricia directed Ivanov, stage  managed Contrafact of Freedom, wrote and directed A Seagull Project, costume designed The Animal Kingdom and Lathem Prince and currently serves as Artistic Director.  Credits include: Charlotte in Charlotte's Web (TheaterworksUSA), Cunegonde in Optimisim! Or Voltaire's Candide (Spooky Action Theater--Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Ensemble), Rhonda in The Secret Rapture and Belle/Lucy in A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company), and many more! Proud graduate of Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program and University of Evansville. Much love to family, friends, and all who support Hunger & Thirst! 
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ERIC EMIL OLESON* (CLAUDE HUSIER)
D.C.: Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre); Our Town (Arena Stage); Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Studio Theatre). NYC: Tragedy of Arthur (Guerrilla Shakespeare Project); Lathe of Heaven, Iphigenia in Aulis, Velvet Oratorio, Rudolf II, and Scenes from a Misunderstanding (UTC#61).  Regional:  Spider’s Web and Gross Indecency (Cortland Rep); Bach at Leipzig (Cider Mill Playhouse); Julius Caesar, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Moliere’s Shorts (Actors’ Shakespeare Co.); Claire Z. (Sacred Fools).  T.V.: Damages.
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JESSICA PECHARSKY* (STAGE MANAGER)
Jessica Pecharsky  is a graduate of Hofstra University. She has been stage managing professionally since 2000.  She has held resident stage management positions with Streetlight Productions and The Jekyll and Hyde Club.  Other companies she has stage managed for include Classical Theatre of Harlem, Centenary Stage, Ma-Yi Theatre, Chester Theater Company, Boomerang Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Working Theater, Audax Theatre Group, Capacitor, Theatre LILA, Clubbed Thumb,  American Globe Theater, Heartists Productions,  and Moonwork.  Jessica is a member of Actors Equity Association (AEA).  She also teaches stage management as well as dance at York College. She is thrilled to again be working with Hunger and Thirst Theater Collective.
HONDO WEISS-RICHMOND (DIRECTOR)
Hondo Weiss-Richmond is a director of new plays. New York credits include 7 Lies of an Unbeliever by JT Rogers (‘Sticky’); The Scavengers by Eric John Meyer (IRT Theater); The Riverside Symphony by Michael Niederman (Planet Connections); The Mushroom Pickers by Jacqueline McCarrick (Alloy Theater); and Don’t Talk to Strangers by Daniel McCoy (Crosstown Playwrights).   His regional credits include The Fetishist by Michael Edison Hayden, Man Up and Away by Joe Tracz (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Much Ado About Nothing (Arts After Hours); and the 2015 Boston One Minute Play Festival.  Hondo is also a creator of devised works, including babyEarthcart / Panopticon (Art in Odd Places) and The Flowchart Plays. MFA in Directing, Boston University.
* Member of Actors' Equity
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