In the fall of 2010, curtains rose on Staples Players’ production of “Curtains.”
As always, media teacher Jim Honeycutt was there, to record the comedy, filled with great songs and talented dancers.
And as always, he shared this “nutshell” with our “06880” audience. Click here or below to relive the magic.
Many of the actors have gone on to careers in entertainment. Others have shifted careers. Among them:
Max Samuels (Lieutenant Frank Choffi) is a stage and screen actor known for his roles in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” He also appeared in “George Kaplan,” “Angry Young Man,” “The Winter’s Tale” and “The Brothers Karamazov.”
Eva Hendricks (Carmen Bernstein) is a lead singer in Charley Bliss, a successful New York band. Their current release is “Back There Now.”
Matthew Van Gessel (Christopher Belling, The Director) is an actor, director and writer. He played Isaac Goodenow in the “The Sudbury Devil,” appeared in the film “Bookworm,” was featured as an actor in the project RedDrop, and was cast as Father Rand in “The Vampires of New Orleans.”
Michelle Pauker (Georgia Hendricks) is a singer and actor. She has appeared in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Idaho Shakespeare Festival), “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (Great Lakes Theatre Company), and “Into The Woods (Forestburgh Playhouse).
Charlotte Weber (Niki Harris, The Ingenue) performed in many productions at Connecticut College. She then attended the International Culinary Center, and now works professionally as a pastry chef.
Sofia Ribolla (Niki Harris, The Ingenue) transitioned her focus from theater to to medicine while in college and is an optometrist at Greenwich Ophthalmology Associates in Stamford.
Whitney Andrews (The Stage Manager) is an actress, writer and educator with credits on TV, streaming services and Off-Broadway theater.
Matt Greenberg (Bobby Pepper, The Choreographer) is a tenure track assistant professor of theatre and dance at the University of Wyoming.
Jamie Yarmoff (Babi Berne, The Featured Dancer) is a renewable energy professional and chapter leader for Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy. She founded and established the WRISE Utah Chapter in Salt Lake City.
Madeline Seidman (Jessica Cranshaw, The Leading Lady) is an actor. Her off-Broadway credits include “Garside’s Career,” “Partnership” and “Becomes a Woman.” Regional credits include “Love, Love, Love” (Washington) and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Chautauqua, New York). She can be seen in the TV shows “Elsbeth” and “A League of Their Own.”g networks and television channels.
Charlie Greenwald (Harv Fremont) is an actor, voiceover artist, comedian, copywriter and children’s book author. He has appeared in the film “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and the TV special “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.”
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