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ABOUT US
The Stage Company presents plays that are attractive to all audiences because of their dramatic value, the power of the story, the human dimension of the characters and their great music. Children, teens and adults , no matter their level of English, meet to share a truly theatrical experience, a quality production that everybody will be able to understand naturally. A group of resourceful actors convey meaning not only by speaking authentic everyday English but also by means of gestures, body language, and music. A unique experience to enjoy good theatre while being immersed in an atmosphere where genuine second language is at its best. |
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Alice Penn
Alice is not only the author of A Pirate Legend (2008) , Billy The Kid (1997 & 2006) and so many others, but also a talented actress and singer who has directed plays and taught musical comedy for several years.
Among the different roles she played in educational plays are Puss in Puss in Boots, Wendy, Morgana, Alice in Alice in Wonderland, Lady Marianne in Sandokan, Lady Macbeth and many roles in Shakespearience and she was Sally in the original staging of Billy The Kid in 1997 directed by Emilio G. Zapiola.
Her downtown career includes a nomination for the A.C.E. Prize giving for her performance in Broadway 2. Her acting teachers were Ma. Elena Rivera, Raul Serrano and Fernando Orecchio. She studied singing with Marta Sanchez and Elba Rotnisky and has a Degree in Art from Escuela Nacional de Arte Prilidiano Pueyrredon. Alice wrote and directed most of the plays staged by The Group such as Robin Hood, Elliot Ness, Treasure Hunt, Marco Polo, Leonardo ‘da musical’ , Jack and the Beanstalk, and is co-author of many others.
Alice coaches The Stage Company artistically and adds her special creative touch to every production.
Fernando Margenet
Our gifted musician is also a professional actor and experienced drama teacher.
He has composed the music and lyrics for many plays staged by The Group also taking part in them as an actor: He played The Mad Hatter, the White Knight and Lewis in Alice in Wonderland; Lord Brook in Sandokan; he was Robin Hood, and played the part of Pat Garret in the original staging of Billy The Kid in 1997.
He started acting in school productions in England but his professional career developed in Argentina and it includes important parts in Broadway II , Ricardo II, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and the leading role in Muleta!. He has also acted in the full length movie Mil Boomerangs.
He studied acting with Raul Serrano and was storyteller at the Disney Animation Festival.
He is currently acting in Reducción, staged in a real gents’ room, and he is drama teacher at St. Mark's School, Holy Cross, and Teatro Stella Maris.
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Javier Gimenez Zapiola
Javito has composed the music of every song in A Pirate Legend (2008) and in Frankenstein, Laugh at your Fears (2007) showing his great talent and creativity. He has also played the lovely guitars you can hear in all our plays.
He is currently working for the prestigious Buenos Aires Lirica Opera Company.
In the past he has composed music for important radio and TV shows and for many other plays, some of them staged by The Group such us Treasure Hunt, Eliot Ness, Marco Polo, Q Squad, Jack and The Beanstalk and Leonardo The Musical.
He is a professional musician and sound engineer who runs his own recording studio, equipped with the best and latest Apple Macintosh Sound Technology , where he works for many important firms, schools and instituitons making every melody sound at its best.
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Emilio Gimenez Zapiola
He was co founder of The Group where he successfully directed the original staging of Billy The Kid in 1997, Eliot Ness and many others. He worked together with Alice Penn and Javier Gimenez Zapiola being part of the creative staff of the company for many years. At
the British Arts Center he directed Hamlet and Richard III and he is currently teaching drama at Master College, Santa Ines School and San Juan el Precursor. Annually, he also stages several plays a year
with his adult students of drama in the Northern suburbs and downtown. He studied stage direction with Jaime Kogan and Jean Guy Lecat and took acting lessons with Mariano Caligaris.
Pico is a professional stage director and experienced drama teacher who knows exactly what it takes to make a play work.
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 Captain Donovan Dash
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| Billy the Kid |
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| Igor |
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Guillermo Jauregui
Our Billy The Kid has been committed to good theatre in English ever since he left school. He has performed in over a dozen plays in English and worked for several companies. He has played Shakespeare and Wilde among other great playwrights of the English language and has also acted extensively in Spanish as well. In 2006 he also took part in stage productions at the British Arts Centre having the leading role in "Our Country s Good" directed by Hugo Halbrich and was chosen later for the cast of Shakespeare s " Ricardo III" . During 2007 and performing as Igor in Frankenstein, Laugh at Your Fears , he has become one of the funniest characters ever seen on stage. He finished his acting studies with Agustin Alezzo and currently works for The Stage Company as actor, assistant director and English coach. His character in A Pirate Legend is the charming pirate Captain Donovan Dash.
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| Christian Fletcher |
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| Pat Garret |
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| Dr. Frankenstein |
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Andres Bagg
Andres has joined The Stage Company for our 2007 production: Frankenstein, Laugh at your Fears. After seeing him perform at the Suburban Players playhouse, he was called to the audition where he showed his acting, singing and dancing skills. He was chosen for the role of Dr Frankenstein and later the same year he was also offered the character of Pat Garrett for our 2007 performances of Billy The Kid . Now, in A Pirate Legend he becomes Christian Fletcher, the English scientific who falls inlove with Maimiti, a beautiful native girl. After several years performing in films, theatre plays and musical shows he was chosen to be one of the main characters in the awarded Broadway musical RENT currently on stage in Buenos Aires.
He learned English at school and while living with his parents in the United States. His passion for the stage is strong but he also manages to study at the university in order to become an architect.
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 Emily
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| Elizabeth |
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| Rose |
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Carla Calabrese
Actress and Director of both Billy The Kid (2006) and Frankenstein, Laugh at Your Fears (2007). She had done both things before during a previous staging of "Frankenstein" in 2004 and 2005 where she directed and also played the role of Emma. In the past while being a member of Compañía de Teatro del Bajo she took part and directed most of the company's productions. Among other plays, she directed Snow White, Romeo &Juliet, Hamlet, Frankenstein and Arthur Miller's The Crucible. She studied acting with Raul Serrano, Fernando Orecchio and Bruce Katzman and attended prestigious seminars with teachers from the London Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Stella Adler Academy of New York. She taught English, Literature and Drama at Sta Ines School, Colegio Marin and Chaltel College.
She played the role of Rose in Billy The Kid 2006 , Elizabeth in our 2007 staging of Frankenstein, and she is the whimsical Emily in our 2008 production, A Pirate Legend. She studied Stage Direction with Augusto Fernandes and teaches drama at Stella Maris Theatre in San Isidro. The staging of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's dream", performed by her teenager students, has been a production the theatre is especially proud of.
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| Maimiti |
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| Sally |
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| Miss Blotcher |
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Ana Vidal Bazterrica
Anita has shown her passion for theatre since she was very young. At the age of fourteen she started studying musical comedy with Alice Penn and Alejandra Rappazzini. She took part in important musical productions at Stella Maris Theatre and Teatro de la Cova . Some of them are “Pippin”, “Cats in concert”, “ Tony’s tonight”, “Little shop of Horrors” , “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “A touch of sin” and “ All this Jazz” . She completed her studies at Julio Bocca Theatre School where she also developed her dancing skills with Ricky Pashkus. At present she is attending ballet classes and working as an actress, dancer and singer for The Stage Company where she has performed one of Billy The Kid's main characters since 2006. During the 2007 staging of Frankenstein her professional acting and singing skills allow her to easily perform many different and demanding characters ,such as Miss Blotcher, the strange housekeeper of the castle, the crazy salesman in the cemetery and with just one week s notice, the beautiful Emma.
In our 2008 production A Pirate Legend her role is one of her favourites, the lovely native girl called Maimiti.
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 Morgan Black
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| Chisum |
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Nicolas Moldavsky
He started acting professionally with The Suburban Players during the 2004 season. His downtown career includes an important role in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much a Do about Nothing during the years 2004 and 2005 and a russian spoken monologue by Chekhov called “On the harm of tobacco” Since 2006 he has performed the role of Mr. Chisum in our Billy The Kid but has become one of the most popular actors of The Stage Company in 2007 while performing Dr. Frankenstein s Monster in Frankenstein, Laugh at Your Fears. His acting teachers were Alejandra Ramos, Norman Brisky ,Cristian Drut and Felisa Yeni.
The time for Nico to play the "really bad guy" has come along with A Pirate Legend where he becomes the greedy Captain Morgan Black.
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Sebastian Prada
Sebastian performs as Christian Fletcher in a A Pirate Legend during our 2008 Opening Nights. He loves acting but music is something he likes just as much. He plays the guitar and drums and also studied acting with Julio Chavez and dancing with Ricky Pashkus. After several years of leading roles in many plays and important musicals such as The Canterville Ghost and Dracula by Cibrian -Mahler, he has joined the prestigious De la Guarda Theatre Dance Company about to tour Europe during 2008. Sebas learnt most of his English while attending St Nicholas School in Olivos.
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 Emma
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Sofia Elliot
Sofía Elliot started studying musical theatre at St. Luke´s College performing as Abigail in Arthur Miller s The Crucible. She started her professional career In The Group directed by Alice Penn in many productions such as Marco Polo, Jack and the Beanstalk, Leonardo Da Musical and Eliot Ness. After all these important theatrical experiences she was selected for Escalera a la Fama Reality Show , which led her to Mexico where she became a professional stage singer for Sofa Entertainment Company. She studied at the Method Studio London and also took part in a short film called “America” which was exhibited at the British Film Festival in London and at the Barcelona Cinema Festival. She decided to continue her career in Argentina and in 2005 she was called by Polka TV Productions to become one of the students in the teenager programme “Media Falta” where she performed one of the leading roles: Zaida Mohamed. Since 2006 she has performed the role of Sally in our Billy The Kid and currently she manages to perform the lovely Emma in our Frankenstein while still taking part of the popular TV programmes "Romeo y Julieta "and ¨Casi Angeles¨ . Her favourite acting teachers have been Alice Penn, Guillermo Angelleli, Joy Morris and Raul Serrano.
After an important role for "TV por la Identidad " she was chosen for the 2008 TV production "Vidas Robadas".
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Tomas Bruckmann
Tomas Bruckmann is our youngest actor. He studied theatre at Teatro Stella Maris for several years and performed in many plays and musical comedies. A Pirate Legend produced by The Stage Company has become his debut as a professional actor. Ratpie, the evil indian assistant of Captain Morgan Black , gives him the chance to reveal many of his talents.
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Inés Alonso
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Yamil Chiappa
Chapa has studied acting with Emilio Giménez Zapiola, Mariano Caligaris and Cristina Moreira amongst others. He works as Drama teacher for children and has staged school plays twice a year since 1997. He has an extensive acting career which includes films and theatre. He has played Judas in the short film “Jesús de Longchapms” directed by Eduardo Peduto, which won several prizes at the Festival de Cine Independiente de Villa Gesell and at the UNICA Festival. He had leading role in “Caída Libre”, a short film directed by Yanina Saccani which was awarded prizes at the Festival Internacional de Mar del Plata and at the Festival de Cine de Montevideo. On stage he has taken part in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” directed by Eduardo Peduto, “Sueño de una noche de verano” directed by Yamil Ostrovsky at Teatro San Martín, and most recently in “La indolencia de los ambientes” directed by Nicolás Martini.
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Mariano Fabricante
Actor, singer and musician, Mariano is Pat Garrett in our staging of Billy The Kid. He is also performing in the award winning production “Vincent& Paul” and he still manages to keep playing with his non- conventional percussion band “Elemental”.
As a member of The Group he took part in several plays in English such as Marco Polo, Jack and the Beanstalk and Leonardo Da Musical. All of them under the direction of Alice Penn.
He starred in the Musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and played different characters in ” Snow White,” “El Sacrificio”, Circo Dibbuk” and the award-winning: “Cinderella” . He played a small part in the full length movie Plaza de Almas and his TV experience includes parts in TV shows such as “Son Amores” , “22 el Loco”, many commercials, and a videoclip. As singer he was leading voice of the Pink Floyd’s Tribute band “Ummagumma”.
His acting teachers were Ricardo Barthis, R. Szchumacher, Luisa Calcumil and E. Student.
In our 2008 production A Pirate Legend , Mariano performs as Christian Fletcher in most of our evening shows.
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More important members of the team |
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Diego Mariani
Diego Mariani is our Fencing Coach. He has trained the actors for all sword fighting scenes in A Pirate Legend. Actor, singer, fencing coach and musician, he performs as Ernst Ludwig in the musical "Cabaret" currently on stage at Teatro Astral. In the past he worked as actor in several important musicals and plays such as Sueño de Una Noche de Verano (Teatro San Martin). He also worked as fencing coach and actor as well in many soap operas and TV programmes ( Alma Pirata, Floricienta, La Niñera, and more). He has a degree in acting from Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramatico and studied singing at the Conservatorio Nacional. He learned his fencing from Fernando Lupiz, Juan Gavajda, L Saucedo and H. Martinez. Diego has succeeded in developing a unique skill for training the actors on stage which makes any sword fighting scene work as true as as a real one.
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Alex Matthews
Alex Matthews is one of the most experienced and talented make up artists in the world. He has been in charge of the make up and prosthestics of a very large number of important films,plays and TV commercials in Argentina and abroad. To name a few of them: Maria Luisa Bemberg s awarded film: Camila, He created the make up effects and prosthetics for Antonio Gasalla s unforgettable character, Mama Cora,in the famous classic Esperando la Carroza, other films were Highlander, Iluminados por el fuego, Tiempo de Revancha but there are still many others. Alex also teaches his professional skills and has his own make up lab and products. We met him in 2007 as he was in charge of the character make up and prosthestics for our 2007 production: Frankenstein, Laugh at Your Fears. His great work excels on stage, the results are amazing , and that makes all the difference.
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Vickie Krauss
Author of the activity books of Billy The Kid and Frankenstein, Vickie also works with the actors at the beginning of each play as phonetics coach making sure the pronunciation of every line in English in the script would sound native and natural.
She has two teaching degrees from INSP en Lenguas Vivas “J.R.Fernández” as a Primary and Secondary English teacher and a post-graduate degree from the same Institute as Teacher of British and American Literature of the 20th century.
She taught in primary and secondary levels in bilingual schools and was a British and American Literature Teacher at Lenguas Vivas Training College for Teachers of English. Since 1990 she has had leading positions as Coordinator and Head of Kindergarten and Primary levels at different bilingual and non-bilingual schools such as St Peter’s School, Greenwood College, Amapola and Tarbut.
Vickie is acquainted with the theatre as she herself took Musical Comedy classes with Alice Penn and Alejandra Rapazzini as well as singing lessons with several teachers. She was the English coach for the actors of The Group as well as the educational consultant and writer of the Resource Books for the productions of Billy the Kid, Robin Hood, Elliot Ness Cleans Up the Mess, Treasure Hunt, Marco Polo and Leonardo “da” Musical.
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Sebastián Salaberri (Shaka)
Shaka has worked for The Group for several years and has played a main role in every project since the very beginning as performance manager and stage technician dealing with the supervision and operation of sound and lights for each particular show. He loves working for children and has a passion for theatre which leads him to make every show sound at its best allowing excellent comprehension of the English language and the story while assuring our audience great entertainment and fun.
He also works as sound technician and supervisor in other very important productions such as the awarded "Objetos Maravillosos" by Hugo Midon.
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Christian Bravo
Our vocal coach for Billy The Kid has a degree in Music from the Universidad de Tucuman and is also a professional actor, dancer and singer. He also studied at the International Summer Dance-Point (Pittsburgh) and completed his studies in Buenos Aires at Julio Bocca & Ricky Pashkus Theatre School. He took part in many theatre productions such as "Barshow" (ACE Award 2004), TV shows (Los Roldan), short movies and as singer he performed for several audiences being the author and composer of his own music: the CD "Partes de mi".? He also won the "Iris Marga" award for best music when composing for Griselda Gambaro's famous play "La Malasangre".
Christian is also an experienced music and singing teacher, he taught at many schools and at seminars in Buenos Aires, the provinces and abroad.
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Jesús Fiori
Jesus is our experienced backstage manager. He is the first one to arrive wherever our performances take place and he is the last one to leave once everything is packed. He takes care of our scenery, props, costumes and makes sure everything is ready on time for the show. He has always worked backstage and has a passion for theatre. It is easy to see how much he enjoys his job as he is always smiling and willing to help. He is one of the most important members of our team.
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