Henry V

Shakespeare in the Square presented the Bard’s most thrilling history play on Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 7pm. In Hamilton NY, at Arts at the Palace. Directed by Dan Hasse.

Founded in 2010, Shakespeare in the Square is a company dedicated to performing classics to the hilt. SITS has produced ten of Shakespeare’s plays in Washington Square Park. SITS Company Members have worked on Broadway (The Heidi Chronicles, This is Our Youth), Off-Broadway (Punchdrunk, Theatre for a New Audience), TV (“Law and Order,” “The Affair” on Showtime), and Regional Theater (Signature Theatre, American Shakespeare Center).

“Washington Square Park is never more alive and enchanting than when these merry, nimble players are at work there. Shakespeare smiles.” – Terrence McNally

Cold Brook

Written by William Fichtner and Cain DeVore, Cold Brook is a forthcoming indie drama film co-produced by Roadrunner Inc., Anamorphic Media, and Trilight Entertainment. The drama was filmed in Buffalo and Cortland County, New York.

Fichtner directs and stars in the piece, which also features Sons of Anarchy's Kim Coates and Lost's Harold Perrineau. The executive producers are Cain DeVore and Sean HusVar. Edd Lukas is the Director of Photography.

You can see a clip of my work in the film on my Video page.

Henry V

1 Shakespeare play. 17 actors. 48 hours. And not much else. 48-Hour Shakespeare presents Henry V at the Spaces at Manhattan Theatre Club, on November 13th 2016. Produced by Matthew Minnicino. Featuring Olivia Rose Barresi as Henry V.

Executed in the style of Shakespeare's original companies, a motley crew of theatre makers will assemble for the first time on the morning of Saturday, November 13th, parts assigned and lines as well-memorized as can be, and put together a play in less than two full days - with no budget, no designers, and (somehow) no director.

Henry V is on thin ice. Newly crowned king of a divided England, with a rocky reputation thanks to the scandals of his youth and a lot to prove, our boy needs a miracle to unite a realm of disparate peoples with nothing in common into a band of brothers. But when a princely provocation arrives from the French Dauphin, England and its king finds their cause: the conquest of France. So what if the odds are 10 to 1?

Saving Throw

A staged reading of Corbin Went's play Saving Throw at the Tank. August 25th, 2016. Directed by Emma Rosa Went. Featuring Olivia Rose Barresi, Maybe Burke, Gerard Courtney Chamberlain, Harrison Densmore, Emily Hooper, Julia Larsen, Finn Kilgore, and Ethan Nguyen.

The fantasy world of Lothgrad provides Emory and his friends an escape from the crushing reality of adolescence. While they find solace in a world with rules that can be double-checked against a handbook, real life -- and real people -- are not always so simple. As Summer vacation approaches, the small stresses of life begin to test the tight-knit community of outcasts and nerds. Small stresses become big fractures, and it will take more than online personality quizzes and Super Nintendo to keep the fellowship together; it will take true bravery. A heartfelt drama, Saving Throw takes an understated look at how we keep each other safe in our darkest hours.

Richard II

1 Shakespeare play. 17 actors. 48 hours. And not much else. 48-Hour Shakespeare presents The Tragedy of King Richard II at Simple Syrup in Brooklyn, on August 14th 2016. Produced by Matthew Minnicino. Featuring Olivia Rose Barresi as Henry Bolingbroke.

Executed in the style of Shakespeare's original companies, a motley crew of theatre makers will assemble for the first time on the morning of the Saturday before performance, parts assigned and lines as well-memorized as can be, and put together a play in less than two full days - with no budget, no designers, and (somehow) no director.

Richard is King of England, and he likes it that way. But all suns that rise eventually set. When, in the fallout from his uncle's death, he decides to banish from England his powerful and popular cousin Henry Bolingbroke, the dominoes of dissent start to fall. As the weeds of rebellion creep through the garden of Richard's kingdom, a nation is divided, and a king learns the true price of his crown.

Much Ado About Nothing

Easy Leap Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Brick, August 3rd through 5th, 2016. 

Directed by Emma Went. Featuring Hailey Bachrach, Olivia Rose Barresi, Simoné Elizabeth Bart, Natasha Cole, Isabella Dawis, Zoe Goslin, Elissa Levitt, Irina Kaplan, Ashley Morton, and Jaine Ye.

Much Ado About Nothing, often billed as a "battle of the sexes," is here produced with an all-woman cast and explores masculinity and the performance of gender in Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy. With Olivia Rose Barresi as Benedick, and Ashley Morton as Beatrice.

Visit this website's Video page for a performance clip of the gulling scene.

The Winstons

Fundamental Theatre Project presents three staged readings of Andrea Ciannavei's The Winstons, as a part of their Mass Rhetoric: New Works Festival. June 28th-30th 2016, at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space.

Directed by Valorie Curry. Featuring Natalia Escobar, Chinasa Ogbuagu, Alison Blair, Julia Hochner and Olivia Rose Barresi.

The Winstons are five women in an industrial kitchen in Brooklyn in the final hour before they incinerate the Wall Street Bull. As they prepare, internal conflicts, suspicions, and racial and class tensions within the group threaten to tear them and their plan apart.

Boxcar

The Tank in NYC presents Corbin Went's Boxcar, January 21st through 30th 2016. Directed by Emma Rosa Went. Featuring Olivia Rose Barresi, Sarah Keyes, Finn Kilgore, and Travis Staton-Morrero.

Firefly and Ida, cosmic couple, and Geraldo, a burnout musician, lead a life on the rails. From an early age, Firefly and Ida have hopped trains across the country - but as the couple realize they have been traveling longer than they have ever stayed put, Ida finds herself searching for the meaning of this life she has written and rewritten. Teen runaway Alexis jumps onto the train late one night, and reignites Ida's chaotic passion.

The train rattles westward, towards the Pacific and a tiny town on the cliffs above the ocean, and all the travelers must contend with the selfishness of liberty. Boxcar blends intimacy and poetry, gender and power, truth and more than truth, all set against the vastness of the American landscape.

Watch a clip of Boxcar's opening scene on this website's Video page.

The Michigan Assassin

A reading from Ridley Creek Productions. Written by Matt McKenna, and directed by Ed Renninger. Presented at the John Desotelle Studio in NYC on 18th, 19th and 20th of December, 2015.

An epic about the life and times of turn-of-the-century boxer Stanley Ketchel, so nicknamed "The Michigan Assassin" over the course of his fighting career. Featuring Austin Archer*, Mike Backes*, Amanda Bailey*, Greg Bell, Alexander D Carney*, Carl Clemons-Hopkins*, Mark A. Keeton*, Caitlin McColl*, Michael Brian Ogden*, Jon L Peacock, Tom Paolino, Alana Rader*, Brandon Alan Smith, Edward Tolve*, Matthew Tyler, Michelle Vezlij*, and Olivia Rose Barresi.

Censored On Final Approach

Infinite Variety Productions presents Phylis Ravel's play at the Gym At Judson. August 18th - 26th, 2014. Directed by Colleen Britt. Featuring Ashley Adelman, Kaitlyn Huczko, Elizabeth McNellis, Jessica Smith, Olivia Rose Barresi, Ross Alden, Greg McGovern and William Sturek.

Censored On Final Approach is based on the true stories of four WASPs (Women Air Force Service Pilots) - a group of roughly one thousand women hired by the United States Air Force during WWII to fly military aircraft and tow targets for live anti-aircraft artillery practice, thereby freeing male pilots for combat missions. It was not until 1977 that these women were given military status, over 30 years after the war had ended; their stories were secret until then. Ravel's play is a story of strength, courage, identity, and the close-knit friendships formed during a decisive period in American history.