Theater 72: The Telephone Box
Writer: Karen McKivitt
Karen McKivitt began treading the boards as a child. Her first creative love has always been singing. She has sung lead Soprano roles in Gilbert and Sullivan collaborations and other operettas including the title role in The Merry Widow. Karen has sung many Mozart roles including Suzanna (four times) and The Countess (just the once) in The Marriage of Figaro. She has, however, a particular passion for Puccini and has sung Floria Tosca in Tosca plus Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme. Other operatic roles include works by Bizet, Verdi and Rossini. In 2000 Karen sang at The Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert to mark the centenary of Sullivan’s death. In 2006 she was invited to sing at the celebrations for the formation of The Labour Party 100 years previously. She enjoys many other aspects of the theatre including, acting and directing Karen also writes the occasional radio play...just for fun!
Director: Rachel Berney Needleman
Rachel Berney Needleman is a director and dramaturg for new plays and classical work. As a director: 4 Minutes by DJ Hills (MeetCute LA 2022), Playground-LA (2021-22 Season), Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against (Pacific Resident Theatre Co-op), Cabaret Noel with Gigi Bermingham (Antaeus Theatre Co. and Skylight Theatre), Five Second Chances by Mattie Brickman (PRT Co-op), Cowgirls by Mildred Lewis (EST-LA), The Space Between (The Braid). Rachel has directed new play readings and workshops at The Blank, EST-LA, Skylight and Theatricum Botanicum. Her dramaturg credits include Antaeus (Diana of Dobson’s, Cloud 9, Henry IV) and Arizona Theatre Company (At Wit’s End). Rachel is also a co-author of the LA Anti-Racist Theatre Standards.
Rachel Berney Needleman
CAST:
Natalie Eleftheriadis (Faye)
Natalie graduated with a BA in Theater Performance; Arts Academy, Federation University of Australia. Starring as M in Birthday (Chapel off Chapel, The Bakehouse Theatre), Natalie received rave-reviews later reprising the role on screen, winning Best Actor (Cannes Independent Film Festival); and nominated Best Actress (12th Melbourne Underground Film Festival). Recent theatre credits include Eve St.Croix in Lyman (El Portal Theatre); Vera in And Then There Were None (Morgan-Wixson Theatre); Ruby in The Powers That Be (Premiere the Play Podcast). Recent film credits include; Rose in Not Today Dir. Mingjun Zheng; Elise in Indie Feature I’ll Be Around Dir. Michael Cuenca (BEST INDEPENDENT FILM Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival 2020).
Natalie Eleftheriadis
Mae Aswell (Rowan)
With a career starting in radio, spreading 2 voiceovers, standup, writing/producing/directing/acting in a sketch comedy show, guest starring in a Spanish TV crime drama w/serious novela overtones (but when does anything occurring in Tijuana not have serious novela overtones??), plus a couple o’ films actually making it 2 Sundance, she’s a veritable Pandora’s box of random access talent. That’s OK with her; a moving target never sleeps.
Career goals: living 2C the demise of Reality TV (unless they can figure out how to do it w/out housewives, hoarders, chefs, pawn shops, ghost hunters, castaways, baby daddy revealers, families known only 4 being notoriously known, or contestants), starring in “Police Academy 2112: The Prophecy,” & playing her own grandma.
Mae Aswell
Sound Production:
Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.
