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The Tempest (2011)

8/14/2011

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After performing in several "cold" staged readings with the Instant Shakespeare Company, I was cast in a full production of The Tempest again, this time playing Ferdinand, the ship-wrecked prince. 

You can watch some clips from this 2011 show here: the girl singing at the beginning is Chrissy Sheehan, who went on to found the What Dreams May Co. (a Shakespeare group) with some other actors I know. Scroll down to read one of our several mentions in the New York Times.
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‘A Mini-Tempest’ (Saturday and Sunday) 
This time Prospero’s island is a small but lush part of Manhattan: the West Side Community Garden, which in association with DramaTune is presenting this one-hour version of Shakespeare’s play. Adapted by Morna Murphy Martell, “A Mini-Tempest” is part of the series Shakespeare in the Garden, intended to introduce the canon to children. Small theatergoers often come in costumes and participate in the tale, performed by members of the Instant Shakespeare Company. (Through Aug. 14.) At 5 p.m., West 89th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, (718) 815-8689, westsidecommunitygarden.org; free.
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Richard III (staged reading)

6/1/2011

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During the summer of 2011, I participated in several "cold" staged readings with the Instant Shakespeare Company. The plays we did included As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, Double Falshood, Edward III, and Richard III. I don't know the exact dates though.

You can watch a scene from Richard III here, or scroll down to read a blurb about Edward III, which was published on the NY Public Library's website.
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Time Limit! (clip version)

5/16/2011

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This is a clip from a staged reading of "Time Limit!" which I did at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum Complex on May 16, 2011. The venue was an actual battleship. Below, you can read the original ad for this reading, which was published on the Intrepid's website. The play is about Korean War prisoners and battlefield trauma. I play a soldier who gets caught lying by his superior officers. The clip presented here is the climax of the play.
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The Tempest (2010)

8/23/2010

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This is a Plaza Theatrical Production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" which was performed in August 2010 as part of a theater tour in Long Island, NY. It features Dennis O'Donovan as Prospero, Courtney Connolly as Antonia, Jim Cricchio as Ferdinand, Richard Fisher as Gonzalo, Brendan Hunt (me) as Caliban, Aleza Grosskreuz as Trinculo, Carrie Heffernan as Stephano, Lexiey Goldman as Boatswain, Jordyn Fisher as Miranda, and Callan McDermott as Ariel. Video edited by Brendan Hunt in 2014. Below you can download the entire show or check out some pics from a performance. Special thanks to Mark Goldman (Goldmanicus Productions) for providing this footage. I am eternally indebted to you Mark for taping these wonderful Shakespeare shows and saving the footage all these years!
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Marilyn Monroe: wouldn't it be fascinating

8/14/2010

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Written and Directed by Erik Zambrano. Lights and Costumes by Erik Zambrano and Lise Bachwitz. Music by Bleeding Cactus.

A Noh and Butoh inspired exploration of the dream world within relationships, Marilyn Monroe: wouldn’t it be fascinating, using sound and video integrated with live performance, follows baseball great, Joe DiMaggio, and glamorous movie star, Marilyn Monroe as they fall out of love and begin to chase their own dream-lovers while on honeymoon in Tokyo.

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Excerpt from Play - Scene VII

TV studio, Marilyn and a Japanese TV host are sitting in chairs about to go on air.  Joe is watching the TV from his room in the hotel.

TV Host
(in Japanese.  Marilyn only understands key words)
Ladies and Gentlemen it is my deep honor in presenting my next guest, Marilyn Monroe, wife of Yankee Clipper!

Marilyn
Hello.  It’s good to be here in Japan.

TV Host
We are honored to have you Mrs. DiMaggio.  Or is it Ms. Monroe?

Applause

Marilyn
Joe is my husband, yes.  I married him.  Or maybe he married me.  Anyways we awoke this morning apart.  And I spent the day alone in the lights of Shinjuku.  I thought of my life and at that moment I felt trapped in a corner, and the next, and the next and the next…

TV Host
I don’t understand what you are saying.  But without a doubt your career is most assuredly unpredictable.  Tell us, Ms. Monroe, have you taken a stroll through Tokyo’s wonderful gardens?

Marilyn
I don’t believe I understand what you are saying.  But I believe myself to be in another place I had not been before.  I feel myself thinking…terrible things.

TV Host
Any special message for our studio audience and anyone out there…
who might be watching?

Marilyn
That feeling
I try to swallow
That feeling

I know I get lost sometimes…in the quiet…
Trees

The Phone attached to a bus stop .  Marilyn gets up and answers.

Voice
Hello? Hello?

Silence.

Voice
(garbled noise)
 
Dark.

Off-Off Broadway Review

Posted by Clifford Lee Johnson III | Posted Aug. 17, 2010, 6:12 p.m.

Writer-director Erik Zambrano's rumination on the cost of fame, the loss of identity, and the mystery of desire loses itself in a nontraditional style of presentation that never connects with the audience. Melding Noh and Butoh staging techniques with an array of computerized projections and sound effects, he depicts Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio falling in love with real and imagined lovers while honeymooning in Japan. The result is an insular, mechanical production that seems uninterested in drama or entertainment. Zambrano clearly has ideas and a poetic voice, but he confines himself to a coterie by limiting his work's accessibility.

The projections are frequently haunting, and the choreography generates a few ethereal moments. Brian Walters' manic Japanese TV host provides a welcome dash of humor and humanity. But at the end, when Marilyn literally unplugs the show with the words "Wouldn't it be fascinating," the only honest answer I can give is no.

Presented by Zambrano Tomorrow as part of the New York International Fringe Festival at the New School for Drama Theatre, 151 Bank St., NYC. Aug. 14-26. Remaining performances: Wed., Aug. 18, 9:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Aug. 26, 6:30 p.m. (866) 468-7619 or www.fringenyc.org.

This article originally appeared in Backstage: http://www.backstage.com/review/ny-theater/off-off-broadway/marilyn-monroe-wouldnt-it-be-fascinating/
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