DANIELA THOME
As a New York City based actress, she has focused mostly on new plays often in collaboration with playwrights. She has helped develop and workshop new work at The Barrow Group, The Lark, Identity Theater Company, The Fresh Fruit Festival, NYU, New School, Seeing Place Theater Company and Columbia University. Favorite roles include Olga in Three Sisters, Agua in Bea Carmina’s Tip of the Iceberg, as well as Maggie in Brett Epstein’s Life Without Joey. She formed part of the ensemble creating Oh de Sea!, playing the goddess Athena directed by Tamilla Woodard with The Internationalists. She also acted in Nicholas Linnehan’s Erosion, and sang her first public musical theater solos as the Blue Fairy Godmother in Identity Theater’s Cinderella. She has also performed with the Gallery Players, The One Minute Play Festival and The Stella Adler Studio, where she trained for two years. Daniela produced and acted in Anton Dudley’s play BOB, and directed a short play with Working Theater Director’s Salon. Keep an eye out for her in the independent feature Saudade?, and on You Tube as a tech tard, in The TechTard Show. She recently had the opportunity to work in her home state Wisconsin, while acting as the lead in the independent short film Church N State. You can also catch her sometimes at INTAR’s Salon nights on Monday nights, and will be performing with INTAR's ensemble group Unit 52 at the end of June. For more information visit www.intartheatre.org. She is very excited to be performing her solo piece The Just Play Project, which she first started working on four years ago! Thanks to Noé for encouraging her to make it all happen!
As a New York City based actress, she has focused mostly on new plays often in collaboration with playwrights. She has helped develop and workshop new work at The Barrow Group, The Lark, Identity Theater Company, The Fresh Fruit Festival, NYU, New School, Seeing Place Theater Company and Columbia University. Favorite roles include Olga in Three Sisters, Agua in Bea Carmina’s Tip of the Iceberg, as well as Maggie in Brett Epstein’s Life Without Joey. She formed part of the ensemble creating Oh de Sea!, playing the goddess Athena directed by Tamilla Woodard with The Internationalists. She also acted in Nicholas Linnehan’s Erosion, and sang her first public musical theater solos as the Blue Fairy Godmother in Identity Theater’s Cinderella. She has also performed with the Gallery Players, The One Minute Play Festival and The Stella Adler Studio, where she trained for two years. Daniela produced and acted in Anton Dudley’s play BOB, and directed a short play with Working Theater Director’s Salon. Keep an eye out for her in the independent feature Saudade?, and on You Tube as a tech tard, in The TechTard Show. She recently had the opportunity to work in her home state Wisconsin, while acting as the lead in the independent short film Church N State. You can also catch her sometimes at INTAR’s Salon nights on Monday nights, and will be performing with INTAR's ensemble group Unit 52 at the end of June. For more information visit www.intartheatre.org. She is very excited to be performing her solo piece The Just Play Project, which she first started working on four years ago! Thanks to Noé for encouraging her to make it all happen!
NOÉ MORALES MUÑOZ (MEXICO CITY, 1977)
His activities have developed mainly as a playwright, dramatist, theatre critic, teacher, translator and literary essayist. He has received artistic development grants from the Mexican Foundation for Young Writers, the National Fund for Culture and Arts, and the Royal Court Theatre of London. He took part in the 2009 edition of The Word Exchange, a 15 day – residency at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City in November, 2009. He also participated in the February 2013 NY Madness Summertime in Winter cycle as a playwright, with the short piece Out Of Time, and contributed to the 2013 Around-The-Globe-Chain-Play, a collaborative work with playwrights from all over the world written for the celebration of the International Theatre Day in New York City. He has received two awards for his work. The first was the 2007 National Theatrical Essay Award, convoked by the National Institute for Fine Arts and PasodeGato magazine. The second was the 2010 Chilango – fmx Scenic Arts Award, promoted by Editorial Expansión and the Festival del Centro Histórico of Mexico City. He has had seventeen of his plays produced throughout México, and has developed collaborative scenic works as playwright, dramatist, stage manager, producer, director and assistant director with some of the most outstanding Mexican theatre and dance companies.
His activities have developed mainly as a playwright, dramatist, theatre critic, teacher, translator and literary essayist. He has received artistic development grants from the Mexican Foundation for Young Writers, the National Fund for Culture and Arts, and the Royal Court Theatre of London. He took part in the 2009 edition of The Word Exchange, a 15 day – residency at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City in November, 2009. He also participated in the February 2013 NY Madness Summertime in Winter cycle as a playwright, with the short piece Out Of Time, and contributed to the 2013 Around-The-Globe-Chain-Play, a collaborative work with playwrights from all over the world written for the celebration of the International Theatre Day in New York City. He has received two awards for his work. The first was the 2007 National Theatrical Essay Award, convoked by the National Institute for Fine Arts and PasodeGato magazine. The second was the 2010 Chilango – fmx Scenic Arts Award, promoted by Editorial Expansión and the Festival del Centro Histórico of Mexico City. He has had seventeen of his plays produced throughout México, and has developed collaborative scenic works as playwright, dramatist, stage manager, producer, director and assistant director with some of the most outstanding Mexican theatre and dance companies.
Development of the piece:
Some of the stories and ideas in this show, about play as a child, and my travels to Mexico during college, I have been working on and writing about for years. I first started thinking about turning some of these stories into a performance piece in the spring of 2008, and first developed a 10 minute piece during the course of a wonderful solo workshop class with Seth Barrish at The Barrow Group that Fall. Then it was on hold until I started sharing my stories with Noé last year. He decided to help me develop this piece, and more ideas and stories came out of rehearsals together.
The Just Play Project was first performed as a work in progress at INTAR Theater in December of 2012, which Noé also directed. This workshop performance would not have been possible without the support of many people and organizations including Lou Moreno, José Sanchez and INTAR Theatre, as well as The Mexican Cultural Institute.
Some of the stories and ideas in this show, about play as a child, and my travels to Mexico during college, I have been working on and writing about for years. I first started thinking about turning some of these stories into a performance piece in the spring of 2008, and first developed a 10 minute piece during the course of a wonderful solo workshop class with Seth Barrish at The Barrow Group that Fall. Then it was on hold until I started sharing my stories with Noé last year. He decided to help me develop this piece, and more ideas and stories came out of rehearsals together.
The Just Play Project was first performed as a work in progress at INTAR Theater in December of 2012, which Noé also directed. This workshop performance would not have been possible without the support of many people and organizations including Lou Moreno, José Sanchez and INTAR Theatre, as well as The Mexican Cultural Institute.