The Cherry Orchard! Jesse Edward Rosbrow

About This Show

Chekhov thought ‘The Cherry Orchard’ was a comedy. So do we. In just 75 minutes, seven actors will show you three quarters of Chekhov’s play—with no set, no costumes, no props, and with only a suitcase full of some stuff we found with which we’re going to make some sound effects and a few shadow puppets! How are we going to pull that off? Come see our script-in-hand staged workshop and find out! It’ll be funny, it’ll be fun, and it’ll be like no production of ‘The Cherry Orchard’ that you’ve ever seen before!

About the Artists

Jesse Edward Rosbrow founded and ran Theatre of the Expendable for five seasons. He directed the NY premiere of Vaclav Havel’s one-act trilogy ‘Audience, Unveiling, Protest’. Jesse’s revival of Conor McPherson’s ‘St Nicholas’ was nominated for three NY IT Awards, including Outstanding Production of a Play. He played the comically-villainous General in the world premiere of Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s last play, ‘The Story of Qu’, in the 2015 Milan World Expo.

Tim Cusack is the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew. For Askew he appeared in or directed ‘Bald Diva!’ (notable performance of the year Theater Mania and NYTheater.com), ‘i google myself’ (both GLAAD Media Award nominations Outstanding Off-off Broadway play), ‘Cornbury: The Queen’s Governor’, and ‘Horseplay, or the Fickle Mistress’ (Ellen Stewart Theatre). For his 6-part serial adaptation of ‘I, Claudius’, Next magazine named him a Future Legend. BFA NYU/TSOA. MA Hunter.

Patrice Miller is a director-choreographer. Recent credits include: ‘This Joint is Jumpin’ featuring Lillias White at The Other Palace, London; Brian Boone’s ‘The Testament of Josh…’; James Judd’s ‘Funny Stories’;  ‘In the Pines’ at AUSTRAL International Festival, Buenos Aires; Mad Jenny’s ‘Love und Greed’; Paul Auster’s ‘City of Glass’; and Vaclav Havel’s ‘The Pig….’. Her installation pieces have been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Prelude/CUNY GRAD, the COIL festival, and NYC Fashionweek.

FRI DEC 13 AT 10:00PM

General Admission
$17 in advance
$20 at the door

students / seniors / ID NYC
$15 in advance
$17 at the door

Estimated Runtime
75 minutes

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Credits

Producer
Malini Singh McDonald, Theatre Beyond Broadway
Director
Jesse Edward Rosbrow
Stage Manager
Patrick Talbot
Movement Director
Patrice Miller
Assistant Movement Director
Sophia Zukoski
Cast
roberto alexander
tim cusack
pj johnnie*
jordan ho
morgan mcguire
thanh ta
jenny vallancourt*

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

Photo Credit
Jesse Edward Rosbrow 

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