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Bianca Crudo
(Performer)
Bianca Crudo (Eunice) NEW YORK: Count of Monte Cristo (Sage Theater), Little Town Blues (LTR, Wild Project), Family Affairs (LTR, workshop). REGIONAL: Les Miserables (Ridgefield Playhouse). UNIVERSITY: The Good Person of Szechwan; Go Down Into Silence; The Front Porch Play; The Crucible. FILM: Julie Walking Home/The Healer (dir. Agnieszka Holland).
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Cory Asinofsky
(Performer)
Cory Asinofsky (Mitch) LTR: Friends Don't Let Friends (George), Little Town Blues (Lee), Richard 3 (Fight Choreographer) NYC: Puppet Hamlet (puppet Shakespeare players) The Works (Good Mood Ent.) Grey or what you do... (Good Mood Ent.) College: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cascando, Bringing it All Back Home, Springtime. Cory is a recent graduate from Marymount Manhattan College.
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Daniel Geggatt
(DJ)
Daniel Geggatt (DJ) is a New York based scenic designer/DJ. His work has been seen at Rattlestick Theatre, Cherry Lane, Dixon Place, The Wild Project, Theater for the New City, The New Ohio, INTAR, and Fordham University. He started his DJ business in Boston in 2007 and relocated to New York in 2010. Dan also works as a freelance set designer in New York City. He is a company member of Less Than Rent Theatre where he also serves as Events Manager.
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Emily Auciello
(Sound Designer)
Emily Auciello (Sound Designer) NEW YORK: Two Rooms (co-design, The Lion at Theatre Row); Pop Dies In Vegas (Drilling Company); Suns Are Suns (Los Kabyitos); A Thick Description of Harry Smith (associate sound design, p73); Animals (Ars Nova); Adapting (Planet Connections Festivity); High Upon the Gallows Tree (Manhattan Repertory Theatre); TALA (asst. sound design, Mabou Mines); Hand to God (asst. sound design, Ensemble Studio Theatre); UNFILTERED 2012 (Ensemble Studio Theatre). REGIONAL: The North Pool (Assoc. Design, Barrington Stage Company); MacBeth (Allentown Shakespeare in the Park); The Sound of Music (Surflight Theatre). UNIVERSITY: Yellow Eyed Creatures; The Crucible; We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!; The Death of the Father of Psychoanalysis (& Anna); The Devil and Billy Markham; Thank You Fifteen; Go Down Into Silence; Bulrusher (co-design with Jill BC Du Boff); Mud (asst. sound design); Sticks and Bones; Melancholy Play; Cowboy Mouth; The Maids; The Zoo Story; Rabbit Hole.
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Jacob Presson
(Assistant Director)
Jacob Presson (Assistant Director) is currently a sophomore at Marymount Manhattan College where he is working towards his B.F.A. in Acting. Regional credits include Comedy of Errors & Breath and Shadow (New York Stage and Film), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare on the Sound), and Black Ice (New York Stage and Film – workshop). He has appeared in numerous student films including “The Downfall” (Dir. Kayla Murphy) and “The Essence” (Dir. Jill Moody). His new and yet-to-be-titled play will be workshopped at Marymount Manhattan College this February.
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James Presson
(Co-Writer - Performer)
James Presson (co-writer, actor) is a playwright, actor, and director based in NYC. He also serves as the co-artistic director of Less Than Rent Theatre. His self-directed adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III won awards for best director and best actor (Jake Ahlquist) at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010. Other plays include Little Town Blues (an adaptation of Three Sisters that premiered at The Wild Project), Friends Don’t Let Friends (an adaptation of Hedda Gabler), and Words, Razors, and the Wounded Heart (a Jacobean tragedy set in modern-day Connecticut). He also acted as a co-writer on Voices in Conflict, a docudrama about the War on Terror in 2007. It had a limited run at the Vineyard Theatre and gave single-night performances at the Public Theatre, Culture Project, and Provincetown Playhouse. It was later adapted into a film for PBS. He was granted a special award from Music Theatre International as well as citations from the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and Iraq Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).
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Jennifer Delac
(Choreographer)
Jennifer Delac (Choreographer): Is happy to be making her debut with LTR! Fordham: Centaur Battle of San Jacinto (PSM), Marriage of Figaro (ASM), The Crucible (AD, Choreographer), The Front Porch Play (PSM), Go Down Into Silence (PSM/AD/Choreographer), Learn How to Sleep (AD), Game Day (ASM), Happy-ish (Choreographer), Rubber Room (CD), Entangled (CD), Poodle (Dancer). Regional: Texas Musical Drama (Principal Dancer), Tempest (Miranda),Macbeth (Witch 3, Choreographer), As You Like It (Celia), Romeo and Juliet (Lady Montague) in Palo Duro Canyon Theatre Other: Company member of Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theatre (several ballets), Choreography performed at the Kennedy Center, and Many local SM and performance credits . Thanks to Jenna, Michelle and the amazing cast and crew. Love to 17B/F and my family.
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Marissa Parkes
(Set Designer)
Marissa Parkes (Set Design) is a recent graduate of Fordham University. She focuses on direction, design, and movement as a vehicle for theatre. Some recent credits include: New York Fringe: Richard 3 (Costume, Makeup, Set Design). Fordham University: Metamorphoses (Director), Anonymous (Asst. Director to Sonoko Kawahara), Three Days of Rain (Asst. Director), Drawn and Quartered (Costume Design), Letterpress (Costume Design), Dog Act (Makeup Design), MUD (Makeup Design), Groundwork of the Metaphysic… (Stage Manager).
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Megan Lang
(Lighting Designer)
Megan Lang (Lighting Designer) is currently a senior studying lighting design at Fordham University. Fordham studio lighting design credits include: Poor Ellen Smith (dir. Lauren Keating), Technodoulia Dot Com (dir. Kate Gagnon), Poodle With Guitar and Dark Glasses (dir. James Presson), Waiting for Godot (dir. Jacob Sexton). Assistant lighting design credits: Swoony Planet (LD Peter West, dir. Mia Katigbak), Life of Galileo (LD Jim Szekely, dir. Ian Crawford), The Way of the World (LD Matthew Richards, dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel), INVASION! (LD Matthew Richards, dir. Erica Schmidt).
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Michelle Thomas
(Assistant Stage Manager)
Michelle Thomas (Assistant Stage Manager) is a Junior at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. Past credits include: Go Down Into Silence-Fordham (Orderly), The Front Porch Play-Fordham (ASM), The Crucible-Fordham (ASM, Dance Captain), and Though Soft You Tread Above Me-LTR Reading Workshop (Prod. Asst.). Michelle would like to thank the entire LTR Company for this wonderful opportunity.
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Natalie Kropf
(Performer)
Natalie Kropf (Ensemble) earned her Bachelor's degree in Theatre from Cornell College and is now working as an actor in NYC. This is her first show with Less Than Rent. Some New York credits include The Three Sisters (Onomatopoeia Theater Co.), As You Like It (Inwood Shakespeare Festival), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (Looking Glass Theatre), Frankenstein (Theater In Asylum) and Voices in Conflict (The Public). Other professional credits include Atlas of Mud (Working Group Theatre), The Diary of Anne Frank (Riverside Theatre), and The Long Christmas Ride Home (Riverside Theatre).
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Nicole Ventura
(Performer)
Nicole Ventura (Stella) is a Jersey-born actress based in NYC. She recently graduated from Fordham University with a BA in Theatre Performance. University credits include Anon(ymous) (dir. Sonoko Kawahara), The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, For a Barbarian Woman (dir. Niegel Smith), Melancholy Play, Hamlet, No Good Woman (dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel), DIG and Dog Act. She has proudly completed Improv 101, 201, and 301 at the Upright Citizens Brigade and plans on continuing her study there. She is also a member of DreamLab (dir. Niegel Smith). This is Nicole’s third show with LTR and she is thrilled to be working with such a great group of people. Thanks to the cast and crew for making this possible, and to my family for their ongoing love and support.
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Nora McNally
(General Manager)
Nora McNally (General Manager) is the Executive Director of Less Than Rent Theatre. Past credits: LTR: Little Town Blues, The Private Sector, Cow Play. New York: The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (NYU Strasberg), Independents (FringeNYC), Dust (Tenement Street workshop), Toymaker (NYMF). University Stage Management: Yellow Eyed Creatures (Dir. Lee Sunday Evans), Mrs. Packard (Dir. May Adreles), Senior Showcase 2012 (Dir. Mortiz von Stuelpnagel), Anon(ymous) (Sonoko Kwahara). She has interned at the Atlantic Theater Company and Joey Parnes Productions, and studied theater design & production at Fordham University.
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Patrick Fleury
(Co-Writer - Performer)
Patrick Fleury (Co-Writer/Stanley) is a native Virginian and recent graduate of Fordham University where he obtained his BA in Theatre Performance. He recently portrayed the Reverend Hale in Witches of Salem, a deconstructed look at The Crucible, at Fordham University. He has also performed in Little Town Blues (Vernon) and Richard 3 (Hastings) with Less Than Rent Theatre. He recently played the part of BearBear in the NYU thesis film So You've Grown Attached and appeared on the TV show I Killed My BFFon the Biography Channel. Patrick is a company member of Less Than Rent Theatre.
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Rachel Buethe
(Co-Writer - Performer)
Rachel Buethe (co-writer, actor) serves as one of the artistic directors of LTR. As an actor, she has performed in and workshopped shows at La MaMa, Dixon Place, Wild Project, Under St. Marks, New Georges, Lincoln Center, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has directed for LTR at Walkerspace and the Wild Project, and has assisted at Carnegie Hall. Her original play Little Town Blues, co-written with James Presson, was produced in the July 2011. She is a graduate of Fordham University.
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Sofia Montgomery
(Production Stage Manager)
Sofia Montgomery (Production Stage Manager) Less Than Rent Theatre: Cow Play (PSM), Little Town Blues (PSM), Off-Broadway: Mari Meade Dance Collective: Community: Ratio with the Lincoln Center Institute (PSM), The Toymaker at NYMF (PA), Blue Sky Somewhere at Manhattan Repertory Theater Festival (ASM). Fordham University: Swoony Planet (PSM), The Way of the World (ASM), Sarita (ASM). Does This Woman Have a Name? (PSM), Poodle With Guitar and Dark Glasses (PSM) Thornwilde (PSM), No Refuge Could Save the Hireling (PSM) and Mud (Props). Sofia is thrilled to be doing another show with Less Than Rent!
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Tom Sanchez
(Performer)
Tom Sanchez (Ensemble) is very excited to be a part of "Desire"! He is a recent graduate of Yale University. While at Yale he was a member of the Yale Dramatic Association and the Yale Exit Players improv comedy troupe. He was most recently seen playing JT in "Independents" at the New York Fringe Festival. Other recent roles include Claudius in "Hamlet" and Father Donnally in Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo".
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