PERFORMERS & PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED FOR BOUNDLESS THEATER GALA

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PERFORMERS & PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE

BOUNDLESS THEATER
(A STAGE WITHOUT BORDERS)

GALA

BOUNDLESS THEATER AMBASSADORS
JENN COLELLA, POOYA MOHSENI, & JACOPO RAMPINI
SET TO PRESENT

HADIZA DOCKERAY, ROBERT DRIEMEYER, HELEN FARMER,
 JAMIE JOHNSON, JACQUELINE SYDNEY, ASHLEY KRISTEEN VEGA,

AND MORE SET TO PERFORM


EXCLUSIVE ART CREATED BY MARCO GALLOTTA

CATERING BY ETCETERA ETCETERA


MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2022
LUXUNY ATELIER AT BRYANT PARK STUDIOS

VISUAL ASSETS AVAILABLE HERE


New York, NY (February 24, 2022) – Creative Point-On (Daniela Pavan & Tommaso Cartia, Founders) is thrilled to announced performers and presenters for the inaugural Boundless Theater (A Stage Without Borders) Gala on Monday, March 21st at LUXUNY Atelier at Bryant Park Studios (80 West 40th Street).

The Gala will by hosted by actor, writer, filmmaker, transgender activist, and Boundless Theater Ambassador Pooya Mohseni. The evening will also feature Boundless Theater’s additional Ambassadors: Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Jenn Colella, and screen star Jacopo Rampini. Performances include a musical act by singer-songwriter Hadiza Dockeray and an excerpt from David James Parr’s anthology play Eleanor Rigby Is Waiting, featuring a cast including Robert Driemeyer, Helen Farmer, Jamie Johnson, Jacqueline Sydney, and Ashley Kristeen Vega. The night will also be the occasion to unveil, for the first time ever, the work of art that International artist Marco Gallotta has created and conceived, exclusively for Boundless Theater. The event will be catered by the exquisite Italian restaurant Etcetera Etcetera.

This Gala marks the debut of Boundless Theater (A Stage Without Borders), launching this Spring with their inaugural installation series Boundless Tuesdays, which also features performances by singer-songwriter Hadiza Dockeray and excerpts from David James Parr’s anthology play Eleanor Rigby Is Waiting. Boundless Tuesdays will take place at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre Space (61 Christopher Street) on April 19, April 26, May 3, and May 10. Tickets, starting at $25, are now available and can be purchased at BoundlessTheater.com.

Boundless Theater (A Stage Without Borders) is a theatrical installation series returning the spotlight to the underground scene of the performing arts by presenting exclusively curated, boutique performances from indie playwrights, actors, musicians, and dancers in unconventional spaces, starting from speakeasy-styled cabaret locations throughout New York City.

For more information, please visit BoundlessTheater.com.

Eleanor Rigby is Waiting (24 strangers. 24 hours. 1 chance to connect) by award-winning author David James Parr is a kaleidoscopic romantic comedy-drama consisting of a mosaic of interconnected vignettes, exploring different shades of human emotion. A boundless experience combined with an evocative live music performance by singer-songwriter Hadiza Dockeray invites the audience each night on a unique date with surprising characters and one chance to connect with an array of strangers, played by a group of versatile powerhouse actors in an interconnected portrait of love, lust, and longing in our modern world.

The show was initially inspired by the lyrics of the popular song by The Beatles: “Ah, look at all the lonely people. Where did they all come from?” Edward Albee famously got his cryptic title for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from a bathroom mirror in a West Village restaurant where these words were scrawled. A central character in Parr’s play similarly sees the phrase Eleanor Rigby Is Waiting written in lipstick on a bathroom mirror and begins to ruminate about its origin. Is it about loneliness? Is it about hope? And how long, exactly, can you keep a person waiting before they break?

For more information, and to purchase tickets, please visit BoundlessTheater.com.


BOUNDLESS THEATER MANIFESTO

“Welcome to Boundless Theater, a safe space where imagination makes the creative soul quiver and muses turn humans into dreamers. This stage tonight is for us, for all of us who have been locked down for too long in a still life trembling for motion, for emotions. Tonight, we are boundless, limitless, fearless. Tonight, let’s speak-easy, let’s breathe easy, let’s sing easy, let’s dance easy, let’s embrace each other, easily. Let’s live dreams and let’s dream of lives…” (Tommaso Cartia)



BIOGRAPHIES

POOYA MOHSENI (Gala Host & Boundless Theater Ambassador) is an Iranian-American actor, writer, and transgender activist. She won Best Performance and Best Actress award at OUTFEST and Film OUT San Diego for See You Then, by Mari Walker, premiering at South By Southwest this March and having its theatrical release in 2022. She is currently appearing in Atlantic Theater's production of English by Sanaz Toosi. Her other stage performances  include She, He, Me for National Queer Theater, Our Town in Pride Plays, Hamlet in Play On Shakespeare festival, Galatea for the WP Pipeline festival as well as an Audible production of Chonburi Hotel & The Butterfly Club for Williamstown Theater Festival. She has guest starred on “Law & Order: SVU“ , “Falling Water" (USA), “Madam Secretary” and "Big Dogs" (Amazon Prime).

JENN COLELLA (Boundless Theater Ambassador) recently starred in the Tony Award-winning smash hit musical Come From Away as 'Beverley/Annette and others,' in a performance that garnered her 2017 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards and a 2017 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, as well as Craig Noel, Helen Hayes and Dora Awards for pre-Broadway productions of Come From Away. Jenn won a Grammy Award for her work on the Dear Evan Hansen cast recording. She has been previously seen on Broadway in If/Then, Chaplin, High Fidelity, and Urban Cowboy (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Off-Broadway in Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Lucky Guy, Slut, and Closer Than Ever. Jenn's select regional credits include Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Toronto), Peter Pan (Sacramento Music Circus & PCLO) and Side Show (Kennedy Center). TV credits include "Feed the Beast," "Elementary," "All My Children," "Rescue Me," "The Good Wife," “The Code,” “Madam Secretary,” and “Evil.” She has been seen on film in Uncertainty with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and stars in the live capture film of Come From Away on Apple Plus, streaming now. Jenn Colella is an MFA Acting graduate of UC Irvine.

JACOPO RAMPINI (Boundless Theater Ambassador) is an Italian and American actor based between NYC and Europe. He grew up in Italy, France, and the United States, and speaks fluent Italian and French. Rampini is known for “The World Wars” (2014), “Medici” (2016), “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (1999), “Catch-22” (2019), “FBI” (2018), and “Halston” (2021). He attended Sorbonne University in Paris and Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He trained in theatre at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

HADIZA DOCKERAY (Musical Performer) is a vocalist and songwriter from New York City. She grew up in St. Albans, Queens and moved to France after college. While working as a backing vocalist and dancer in Paris, Hadiza formed her first band, performing blues and jazz standards and r&b covers. Upon her return to New York, she began writing her own songs and quickly gained notice for her mellifluous voice, thought-provoking lyrics and high-energy performance style. Hadiza and her band have performed in New York City venues including The Cutting Room, Triad NYC, Metropolitan Room and The Bitter End. She also enjoys the opportunity to sing jazz and popular standards, having recorded with Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill, Jr., founder of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. Hadiza has performed solo concerts with composer, arranger and jazz pianist John Di Martino, guitarist, composer and arranger Steven Bargonnetti, and her longtime accompanist and Music Director, pianist David Pearl. She continues to record and release new music in collaboration with David and her band mates, including bassist Jason DiMatteo and drummer Jarrett Walser.

ROBERT DRIEMEYER (Performer) is the content creator of the growing YouTube channel “Broadway Barfly” where he explores cocktails and pairs them with conversations about Broadway musicals. As an actor he appeared in David Parr's Slap & Tickle in New York and Provincetown. He has appeared in over 20 musicals. Some favorite roles include Albin in La Cage Aux Folles and Bert Berry in 42nd Street. As a stand-up comic, Robert has appeared at nearly every comedy club in New York City. He was featured on the “Laughing Liberally” lineup, was a regular on the popular, long-running, variety show “The Poole Party” at Don’t Tell Mama, and was a member of Gotham City Improv's main performing company. As a producer he was an Associate Producer of the 2010 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles. Off-broadway he was a lead producer of the critically acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Two-Character Play starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif, and Party Face starring Hayley Mills, directed by Amanda Bearse. He was also a co-producer of Shear Madness and Forbidden Broadway.


HELEN FARMER (Performer) is an actor and teacher, originally from Canada now based in Jersey city. New York theater includes: Project Y Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional theater includes: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Crossroads Theatre, Dorset Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Second City Toronto and The Stratford Festival. She holds an MFA in acting from Rutgers, where she is currently on faculty. Helen is also a certified Alexander technique teacher and mother to an amazing five year old.

JAMIE JOHNSON (Performer) is a Maryland raised, Brooklyn-based performance artist, technician, and coordinator. He's been an international corporate live events and theatrical professional for a decade. In short; Jamie's practice centers on the subtle joys of curiosity coupled with the power found in sincerity and vulnerability.

JACQUELINE SYDNEY (Performer). Theatre: Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit... (MCC). Other NY theatre credits: Dear Harvey (NY Fringe – Best Ensemble Winner), The Kitchen Table (NYIT Award Best Supporting Actress Nominee), and work with TOSOS, Astoria Perf Arts Ctr, NY Fringe, Planet Connections, Target Margin, YIVO among years of others. Film: She was nominated for Best Female Actor at Queens World Film Festival for her leading role in the feature Pamela which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Other recent film and TV: Eleanor, Filmic Achievement, Finding Distance, “The President Show” (Comedy Central), “Seven Seconds” (Netflix), and lots of others.



ASHLEY KRISTEEN VEGA (Performer) has lent her talents to various online readings with several reputable theatre companies including the League of Professional Theatre Women, The National Women’s Theatre Festival, The Skeleton Rep(resents), and Company of Fools, to name a few. She also starred in the world premiere of the New Ohio Theatre's Journey Around My Bedroom, which received a New York Times’ Critics’ Pick. Ashley also starred in Crystal Skillman's Open to rave reviews. Her film Psychasthenia - which she assistant directed, co-produced, and starred in - won Best Thriller at the Golden State Film Festival during the film's Hollywood premiere. She also co-created and starred in the digital series Well, Ashley... which was a finalist in the NYC Women’s Fund and an Official Selection of the NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival. Ashley received acclaim for her run as Beth March in Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre's Little Women, where she is an Associated Artist. In addition, she is also a well-established director and co-founder of Party Claw Productions, a theatre & film production company specializing in feminist works with fellow NYC artist Laura Kay Clark.


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