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Alejandro Hernandez
(Performer)
ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ (Quinn) is very excited to be making his NYC stage debut with StrangeDog Theater Company in The Virilogy. He is currently going into his senior year of the BFA Acting program at Montclair State University. Past stage credits include Medvedenko in The Seagull (Fox Theater at MSU), Uncle John in The Grapes of Wrath (Alexander Kasser Theater), Possum in Tuesdays, a one-act play written by StrangeDog’s Ben Clawson, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Fox Theater at MSU) for which he received a Kennedy Center Irene Ryan Award nomination. He would like to thank Ben Clawson for the opportunity, Artem for all his guidance, his cast mates for welcoming him into the play, and of course his loving family for their unending support.
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Artem Yatsunov
(Director)
ARTEM YATSUNOV (Director) received his B.F.A. in Theater from Montclair State University, NJ in May of 2008. He is the director and organizer of numerous full-length play productions, short-play evenings and mixed discipline events, and is the co-founder and resident director of the StrangeDogTheatre Company. Some favorites projects: Ben Clawson’s Omnivores, The Virilogy, The StrangeDog Eat Dog and Pony Show,and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; Noah Hidle’s Kitty Kitty Kitty; Shakespeare’s Richard III. He heads up StrangeDog Theatre’s initiative to collaborate with and support the locallive music scene. Through his series of so called Live Music BASHs, StrangeDog Theatre has successfully showcased the rhythmic styling’s of such acts as the unofficial StrangeDog House Band The MICKS,Squeeze Rock, Amanda Duncan, Black Water, Joanna Burns, and The One&Nines –just to name a few.
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Ben Clawson
(Playwright)
BEN CLAWSON (Playwright) received his B.F.A. in Theater from Montclair State University, NJ in May of 2007. He is the author of numerous full length and one act plays that have had professional productions, readings and workshops in New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and New Orleans. Hisfull-length plays include Spilling Stuffand Breaking Things, Bootstraps, Omnivores and most recently TheDangers of Electric Lighting. He has also written several evenings of short comedies including The Virilogy, We’ll See Tomorrow, Cave/Men, Things that Happen in Bars, New Tricks, and Attention Span of a Fly which reopened the historic Paramount Theater in Asbury Park in Summer 2007. He has written commissioned works for the Luna Stage Company, The Montclair State University School of the Arts, and the Contagious Drama Theatre Workshop. He has been an evening winner and finalist in the Samuel French Short Play festival, national finalist for the American College Theater Festival's John Cauble One-Act Award,finalist for the Princess Grace Award in playwriting, and recipient of the Kennedy Center's David Mark Cohen award. He is a founding member of the StrangeDog Theatre Company, with whom he has produced many of his plays.
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David Murgittroyd
(Performer)
DAVID MURGITTROYD (Stu) is a founding member of StrangeDog Theatre Company, and proud to return to the role of Stu in The Virilogy. David has performed in New York ,regionally, in Scotland, in several films, as well as on television on A&E and in several commercials. Currently you can find one running on NBC for a political iPad app. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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Scott Cagney
(Performer)
SCOTT CAGNEY (Brian) is a New York/New Jersey area actor with a BA in Theatre from Montclair State University and while there also served as Artistic Director/ President of a student run theatre group, called Players, for two years. Credits: Kaffee - A Few Good Men, Bottom -A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Heinz -Clothes Encounters and Attention Span of a Fly (Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ). Scott is a founding member of The StrangeDog Theatre Company and has performed in many of their productions, including: Buff - SubUrbia, Loudjack - Bootstraps, Ray - Spilling Stuff and Breaking Things, Lewis -Omnivores, Brian - The Virilogy, Dog - Claire Went to France. Scott also co-created and performed in Take Care Now, a StrangeDog sketch comedy show. More at strangedogtheatre.com
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