WHO IS Going To Tahiti Productions?
THE COMPANY
Jessica Ammirati – Founder, Executive and Artistic Director
Jessica has been a director all her life, though her actual directing career didn’t begin until after college. She has directed over 15 productions, the majority of them original works, off off Broadway, including 2 productions on Theatre Row. Several of the productions she directed, she was also co-producer on. Some of the theaters Jessica has directed at are Expanded Arts, Pulse Ensemble Theater, The John Houseman Theater and the American Theater of Actors, to name a few. Recently Jessica completed her first short film, a 20 minute piece that is actually the opening of a feature she hopes to direct in the not too distant future. Although she still is working a day job to pay the bills, Jessica plans to pay her soul by directing until the day they nail her coffin closed… And who knows, St. Peter might need someone to give blocking direction to new arrivals.
Laura Bultman – Stage Manager, Company Member
Laura Bultman has been a children’s librarian and a stage manager and finds the skills surprisinglytransferrable. Past productions include BC/EFA Gypsy of the Year, The Desert Song, Gods at the End of the World, and The International Cringe Festival for 2009 and 2010. She also served as resident stage manager for the Village Light Opera Group for four years (The Music Man, The Mikado, Fiddler on the Roof, HMS Pinafore, Scrooge and Gilbert and Sullivan, Kiss Me Kate). Dreamers of the Day was her first show with Going to Tahiti Productions and she was thrilled to spend time visiting Egypt with such a talented group of people. Here’s to many more!
Kiwi Callahan – Actor, Company Member
After having grown up in Colorado and spending lots of time in Chicago, Kiwi is now happy to call Queens home. She was most recently seen in GTTP’s production of Dreamers of the Day (Lillian). National Tour: Sesame Street Live! (Sam/Oscar the Grouch) Off-Off Broadway: Flanagan’s Wake (Fiona Finn), Booth! A New Musical. Regional: Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman), The Student Prince (Kathie). Kiwi is a graduate of Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and genuinely believes that the Cubs will take it all next year. She spends her spare time as an avid reader and diet beverage enthusiast. Love and thanks to husband Matt and the zillion other people who make her life amazing every day. www.KiwiCallahan.com.
Patrick Metzger – Sound Designer, Company Member
Patrick is a freelance composer and sound designer living in New York City. He has designed sound for Future Anxiety (The Flea Theater), Trixie and Monkey: All or Nothing (Ars Nova), Dreamers of the Day (GTTP), and Billy Carver and the Children in Mind (Manhattan Theatre Source. He was assistant sound designer for Middletown (Vineyard Theatre) and Divine Sister (Soho Playouse). His original music has been featured in A Doctor In Spite of Himself (Bet Quill Players), Motherhood Out Loud (Hartford Stage), Alice Sit By the Fire (Adaptive Arts at IRT Theater), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Adaptive Arts), Universal Robots, and Roar of the Crowd (both at Manhattan Theatre Source). Recently he started sound designing The Tahiti Dispatches (GTTP’s monthly podcast which also features Patrick’s music as it’s theme). Visit http://www.ilike.com/artist/Patrick+Metzger/
Becky Sagen – Technical Director, Ensemble Member
Becky Sagen is a freelance technician and the Technical Director of the Secret Theater in Queens. After receiving her BA in Technical Theater from Oswego State University, Becky spent several years in Baltimore as the ATD at Centerstage, the Technical Director at Baltimore School for the Arts, a welder for Wholly Terra Studios and as a freelance faux painter. After spending time in Greenville, SC as the Technical Director for the Warehouse Theater in 2008, she decided to move to NYC where she has far too much fun working and enjoying the city.
Maria Silverman – Actor, Company Member
Maria Silverman made her professional debut on Broadway in Michael Mayer’s Tony Award-winning revival of A View From the Bridge. Off-Broadway: Tales From The Tunnel; Beachwood Drive. New York: Macbeth, Uncle Vanya, The Contrast, Galileo, S/HE (dir. Jose Zayas), As You Like It, The Seagull, No Place to Be Somebody (dir.Woodie King Jr.), Cclit (Atlantic Theater Second Stage), Expressing Willie, and Embracing Freedom (Ellis Island). Regional: Shining City, Trio Sonata, Darkness to Light, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Camino Real, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Educated at Yale University and LAMDA. Maria can next be seen in the Off-Broadway hit The Fabulous Lies of Hollywood Whores.
THE ENSEMBLE
Camilla Ammirati – Playwright, Musician, Ensemble Member
Camilla has been writing since she was 7 years old. She is currently getting her PhD in English from the University of Virginia. Her senior year at Carleton College she won a prestigious Watson Fellowship which allowed her to spend a year in Europe studying the indigenous folk music of several different countries. It was during her Watson travels that many of the ideas for In the Ebb began to form. In addition to writing fiction and poetry, she is also a singer/songwriter and one half of the duo The Don’t Tell Darlings. Their newly released first cd, Fix Your Wagon, which is a mix of traditional and original tunes, (a “depression era mix tape”), is available here: cdbaby.com. When Camilla’s not up to her ears in grading her students’ term papers, she can be found performing at The Blue Moon Diner in Charlottesville, VA. You can hear more about The Don’t Tell Darlings here: myspace.com.
David Eiduks – Actor, Ensemble Member
David Eiduks – Regional: A Christmas Carol (Kansas City Rep), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Huntington Theatre Co.), East Village Chronicles (Metropolitan Playhouse), Broadway with a Twist, (with Kristen Chenoweth), My Fair Lady (Cape Rep), The Mikado (North Shore Music Theatre/Huntiongton Theatre Co.), The Lion in Winter (TheatreWorks), Annie (Kansas City Starlight Tour), The Miracle Worker (with Susan Saing James), The Last Hurrah (Huntington Theatre Co.) Film: Revolutionary Road. TV: Gelber and Manning In Pictures (current NYTVF pilot finalist and official selection of the Hollywood Television Festival.)
Sam Gordon – Lighting Designer, Ensemble Member
Sam is a freelance lighting designer and technician. Recent projects include In Vain, at RPI EMPAC; FringeNYC’s Heterosexuals, Get Rich Cheating, and Six Seconds in Charlack. The Last Five Years and If My Heart Were Enough with The Melancholy Players of Sarah Lawrence. He also develped the current repertory plot at Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall, and takes great pride in designing the hall’s Broadway Close Up series. When not in the theater Sam can be found figure skating in his nonexistent free time or playing with the ducks and geese. Education: BFA in Theatre: Production/Design, Montclair State University.
Rhonda Harrington – Actor, Ensemble Member
Rhonda Harrington – Off-Broadway: The Columbine Project (Mrs. Harris). Other NYC theater: Savage in Limbo (April), Tales of the Lost Formicans (Cathy) and Tony and Lou (Carol). Middle School Teacher on One Life to Live (recurring), Boardwalk Empire and several other television and film credits.
Adam Jonas Segaller – Actor, Ensemble Member
Adam Jonas Segaller New York: The Actors’ Studio Reading Series; Is The Vigorish Enough?, Midnight Lunch. The Workshop Theatre: Consecrated Ground, reading. New York City Opera: Margaret Garner. Gallery Players Brooklyn: Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, (Bob Cratchit). Abrons Arts Center: The Tempest (Prospero). DC: Washington Shakespeare Company; The Cherry Orchard (Lopakhin), Hedda Gabler (Lovborg). Rorschach Theater; Kit Marlowe (Kit). The Shakespeare Theatre: Hamlet. Theater J; The Rise And Fall of Annie Hall, reading (The Tortured Genius). Forum Theater; Drunk Enough To Say “I Love You”? (Sam, a Country). Studio Theatre, The Receptionist (Mr. Dart). Kennedy Center Page To Stage Festival; In The Shadow of the Raven (Gunther). Washington Stage Guild; The Dragon, reading (Henry). Regional and International: New Forest Films; Shakespeare Unlocks Elsinore (Shakespeare). Lost Colony Outdoor Drama, The Lost Colony (Sir Walter Raleigh). NJ Repertory: Exposure Time (Lewis Carroll), Virginia Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing (Don John), The Winter’s Tale (Autolycus). American Shakespeare Center: Julius Caesar (Brutus), A Christmas Carol (Ghost of Christmas Present).
