ABOUT

KERMIT DUNKELBERG     Ensemble Actor

Acting with Serious Play and collaborating with director Sheryl Stoodley since 2009, Kermit Dunkelberg has often led Serious Play Ensemble’s vocal training, drawing on techniques from his extensive Grotowski background and his passionate interest in music and singing. He has been an important contributor to devised production research and dramaturgy. In the study of theatre, Kermit holds a B.F.A from Drake University, a M.A. from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. from New York University.  

He created the role of Slobodan Milosevic in the original production of Milan Dragicevich’s MILOSEVIC AT THE HAGUE. Dunkelberg toured with Serious Play to the JoakimInterfest in Kragujevac Serbia, writing an article about this production & tour, published in American Theatre magazine.  He created the role of Clov in Serious Play's inspired production, an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME, titled ENDGAME PROJECT, which toward to the Academy of Music and Gateway City Arts. He has performed in Serious Play’s staged readings of new plays, including WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT by Nassim Soleimanpour.  

Dunkelberg is also a co-founder of Pilgrim Theatre Research & Performance Collaborative with Kim Mancuso. Pilgrim was founded while he was training and performing, immersed in Jerzy Grotowski’s work in Poland with actors from the Polish Laboratory Theatre. He has co-created and performed in many projects with Pilgrim Theatre, including Letters from Sarajevo, N(Bonaparte), Moon Over Dark Street, an original cabaret of songs and scenes by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill, with singer/actor Bellen Linda Halpern and pianist Ron Roy. He is interested in the nexuses between movement, acting and story-making, and the sung and spoken word. 

STEPHANIE REYES Ensemble Actor

Stephanie (Steph) Reyes is an actress, theatre maker, and dancer. She was born in Manati, Puerto Rico. She studied at the Ballet School of Puerto Rico /Julian E. Blanco. She holds a BA in Dance from the Instituto de Danza Alicia Alonso, Madrid, and an MFA in Devised Theatre Performance from Columbia College, Chicago. Steph also trained in the international theatre school "Arthaus Berlin" in 2019 as part of her MFA. During the winter of 2017, she participated in the Gaga Winter Workshop in Israel, taught by the Batsheva Company and Ohad Naharin. Steph has been a part of recognized companies like – Ballet the Camara de Madrid, Taller de Andanza, and Guateque Ballet Folklorico. Her most recent work includes the devised piece Mira and the Liminal Dimension with Human Agenda Theatre. She also devised and performed a solo piece called Colonized Imagination, which talks about the colonizing repercussions on the Puerto Rican people. She was part of How do we stop enduring directed by Jonathan Berry, and she choreographed the piece Into the, which won the 2018 Contemporary Dance Artistic Creation of the Year at Instituto de Danza Alicia Alonso. She is interested in collaborative and multimedia performance work that incorporates visual art, movement, text, installations, music, and more.

MARCUS NEVERSON Ensemble Actor

Marcus Neverson hails from Northampton MA. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), holding a B.A. in Fine and Performing Arts with a concentration in Physical Theatre and Shakespearean Performance. He was nominated twice for the Irene Ryan Acting Award by the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival for his performance of Romeo in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and as Alcippe in Pierre Corneille’s The Liar. He has performed at the Academy of Music as Avery in The Flick, and with Hampshire Shakespeare in: Othello, Julius Caesar, and Merry Wives of Windsor. While at MCLA, Marcus appeared in many productions including: Noises Off, A Doll’s House, Catch Me If You Can, Angels In America and more. He is skilled in stage combat/ hand to hand, rapier and dagger. This June, he appeared at the Academy of Music as Count Orsino in Shakespeare Stage’s adaptation of Twelfth Night directed by Julian Findlay.

MUSICIAN / COMPOSER

Jonny Rodgers hails from Oregon and is a renowned tuned glass musician, composer and performer.  He toured for years as an indie musician, writing songs that blend neoclassical, indie-folk and electronic music. Jonny’s recent composing commissions and performances include: “Who Is In The Room?” for The Echo Society, FAMILY, “Practicing Awe” at Grace Farms with Guggenheim fellow Andrea Miller & Gallim Dance and The Yale Voxtet, The Ferus Festival at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, with Sxip Shirey, “Under The Overpass” for Austin’s EAST festival with Dance Waterloo, NYC’s Ecstatic Music Festival, and The Counter Current Festival in Houston. Jonny’s recent film work includes composing for or performing on the films: Bono and Eugene Peterson, The Psalms, Don Jon, The Brothers Bloom, The Day I Saw Your Heart, My Brother Jack, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, and Season Three of Mr. Robot. Jonny has partnered with, and composed for, many brands including: New York Life, Cointreau, The Atlantic, Toyota, Issey Miyake, Chick-fil-A, Sur La Table, Persil, Optimum, and Pepto Bismol. He is composing and creating the soundscape and music for MOVING WATER. He shares with the ensemble his exploratory work using PLAYTRONICA, creating sounds triggered by the conductivity of water between actors and on-stage elements.  www.cindertalk.com

PLAYWRIGHT

Eric Henry Sanders' plays and films include Recently, Long Ago, Reservoir, Maybe Probably, The Prince Among Men, The Heliopause, and many others. His writing has been produced and developed in theatres across the country and abroad, including the Goodman Theatre (Chicago), the Union Theatre (London), Theatre89 (Berlin), New Group (NY), The Drilling Company (NY), Primary Stages (NY), Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (NY), Cherry Lane Alternative (NY), Florida Repertory Theatre (Fort Myers), The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago). Awards include: the Artist Fellowship in Playwriting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Edward Poole Lay Fellowship in Playwriting from Amherst College. A Brooklyn native, he teaches narrative and screenwriting at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA) and Mt Holyoke College. He is a Lark Playwrights Fellow, an Associate Artist at Chester Theatre, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. As collaborating playwright working with Serious Play on MOVING WATER, he helps create and shape the dramatic story.  www.erichsanders.com