W.A.G.G.
(Writers-A-Go-Go)

One Act Festival, March 22 & 23, 2025, at 2pm
at The Field House

Susane Lee, Founder & Supervising Director of W.A.G.G.
Whitney Dearden, Director of Public Programming
at Riverside Park Conservancy

Plays in order of appearance

The Bill
by D. Lee Miller
Directed by David Palmer Brown
Cast: Kate Konigisor* as Peggy
Virginia Thomas* as Cheryl


The Man from West New York, NJ
by Matthew J. Kaplan
Directed by Susane Lee
Cast: Jennifer Tulchin* as Beverly
Eric Alexander as Paul


On Ice
by Jerry Slaff
Directed by Joe Hamel
Cast: Ian Gould* as Bill
Marianne Ferrari* as Maggie
Nicholas Martin-Smith as Weather Reporter



Past Creep
by Louise Schwarz
Directed by Nicholas Martin-Smith
Cast: Sarah McAfee* as Rachel
Natalie Pernick* as Ellen
Fever Hawk Browne* as Man
 


Flaco
by Dakota Silvey
Directed by David Palmer Brown
Cast: Bryan Bryk* as Phil
Aya Ibaraki* as Andrea


Burger Death
by Bob Laine
Directed by Nicholas Martin-Smith
Cast: Dominic D Williamson as Bart
China Pharr* as Lisa


Crush
by Quinn Warren
Directed by Susane Lee
Cast: Katrina Dykstra* as Sally
Seth Thompson as Stranger
 


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sobriety
by Dan Fiorella
Directed by Annette Fox
Cast: Peter Sullivan as Dr. Jekyll
Linda Elizabeth* as Mrs. Bennett
Brendan Kane as Mr. Bennett
Sarah McAfee* as Mary


*Denotes Equity Member appearing with permission of Actor’s Equity Association (AEA) without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off‑Off Broadway production.

Introducing WAGG Playwrights

The Bill

D. Lee MillerD. Lee Miller has authored numerous plays/monologues presented in the US and abroad for stage and radio. Her work’s been produced at The Pittsburgh New Works Festival (The Ferris Wheel), The Secret Theatre (Love Locks Bridge), B3 in Phoenix (The Tempestuous) and Shenandoah Valley International Playwrights Retreat among other theatres. George Floyd was performed at the International Human Rights Arts Festival 2021. Origami Tears is published in Facing Forward (Broadway Play Publishing). Additional plays are published by Smith & Kraus. Ball and Chain is published in Frozen Women/Flowing Thoughts. Miller is a member of HONOR ROLL and the Dramatists Guild.

The Man from West New York, NJ

Matthew J. KaplanMatthew J. Kaplan is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer, filmmaker, musician, and actor. He wrote, produced, and directed the award-winning, internationally-screened short film “It’s Time For Tea”. He wrote the screenplay for the shorts “You Can Trust Your Neighbor” and “The Trial Of Billy Feral”, both currently in pre- production. Matthew's one-act plays Copy and Paste, The Invincible Eddie Vincent, A Haunting Melody, and This Is What Doctor Shapiro Was Talking About have been staged at seven New York City theatre festivals. His full-length play The Shomer is currently in development. Matthew is a songwriter and bass player for the indie-rock band The Bright Spots. His short play The Man from West New York, NJ will debut at The Writers-A-Go-Go One-Act Festival.

On Ice

Jerry SlaffJerry Slaff’s award-winning play Lies will be produced this fall at Center Stage in Santa Barbara, California. It was the grand prize winner of the 88th annual Writers Digest competition in 2020, and has had readings and productions around the country. He had his first play produced professionally when he was 20 and has been writing ever since. He is currently working on a novel and a new play. A native of Brooklyn before it was a brand, he is currently in exile in Washington, DC, with his wife, Susan and the other joy of his life, Zoë the Wonder Cat.

Past Creep

Louise SchwarzLouise Schwarz is a New York-based, Virginia-raised playwright, whose award- winning plays have been produced and developed by Mark Taper Forum, Horizon Theatre, Stage Left Theatre, Cherry Lane Alternative, New York International Fringe Festival, Playwrights’ Round Table, Shakespeare on the Sound, Primary Stages/ESPA, and New Perspectives Theatre, to name a few. Her ten-minute plays have also been seen at dozens of festivals, and her new one-act play Goat Coaster is published with Next Stage Press. Fellowships and residencies include the Edward Albee Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Hambidge Center. M.F.A. Columbia University, M.A. NYU, B.A. University of Georgia.

Flaco

Dakota SilveyDakota Silvey is a playwright, EMT, wildland firefighter, and Air Force veteran. Dakota recently made his Off-Broadway debut with The Maker (AMT Theater). He is a Cut Edge Experimental Theatre Writing Collective member and a 2024 Sewannee Writers’ Conference Fellow. His selected plays include Torito (Premiering at ASDS Rep Spring 2025), Flight Risk (Gene Frankel Theatre), and Wildfire (Semi-finalist; O’Neill NPC, AITAF Bridge Award, VetRep), based on his 5 years as a wildland firefighter. He is thrilled to be participating in the inaugural W.A.G.G. 1 Act play festival!

Burger Death

Bob LaineBob Laine is a playwright, published poet and award-winning actor. His plays include What's That Buzz?, Cocaine Faggot, and Inventions. He was a member of the celebrated Inverse Theater Company and currently works with the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research and is just finishing acclaimed runs as Uncle Vanya in Uncle Vanya on Huron Street, and as Chris in the New York Times dubbed underground hit Dimes Square by Matthew Gasda. He also performs monthly in the long-running live on-stage soap opera It's Getting Tired Mildred by Roger Nasser which just had its 78h episode!

Crush

Quinn WarrenQuinn Warren is primarily an actor and is so proud that her play is a part of the W.A.G.G Festival! Select acting credits include-Off Broadway: Ionesco’s The Killer (Theatre for a New Audience, directed by Tony Award winner Darko Tresnjak, starring Michael Shannon). Regional: Rear Window (world premiere, Hartford Stage, Darko Tresnjak Dir., starring Kevin Bacon); Emily Mann’s Mrs. Packard (world premiere, McCarter Theatre & Kennedy Center, Emily Mann Dir.). Proud AEA member. BFA in Theatre Arts from Stephens College.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sobriety

Dan FiorellaDan Fiorella lives in New York. Downtown New York. Very downtown New York. Okay, he lives in Staten Island. His credits include; “Prairie Home Companion”, MAD, and Cracked magazines, “The Start of Something Big” with Steve Allen, “The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers” animated series and the “Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 2” video game. He co-wrote the horror/comedy short, “Steamed,” with horror icon Beverly Bonner. Dan has been a writer/member for various stage comedy troupes, including Style Without Substance, Generation Sketch and TMI: Hollywood. He’s a contributing writer for Weekly Humorist. He does his websiting at www.DanFiorella.com and enjoys writing about himself in the third person.

CAST (in order of appearance)

The Bill

Kate Konigsor* as Peggy

Kate KonigisorKate Konigisor is very excited to be working with Hudson Classical Theatre. She can be seen as Emma Thomas in the film “Shorecliff” (Lifetime). She has appeared in several of NYC’s Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s acclaimed productions including Anna Akmotova at BAM. Favorite Roles: Janine in The Niceties (Shadowland Stages), the title role in Macbeth (all –female, Katharine Cornell Award - Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Buffalo, NY); Aida in Over the River and Through the Woods (Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, FL) Valeria in The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective (Shaker Bridge Theatre, VT). Emilia in Othello (opposite Austin Pendleton, West End Theatre, NYC), Shirley Valentine (Gretna Theatre), Ellen in Last Mass at St. Casimir’s (Lake George Theatre), Eleanor in The Lion in Winter, and Kate in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound (Surflight Theatre). Kate is the founder and Artistic Director of the Killington Shakespeare Retreat and Shakespeare with Benefits.


Virginia Thomas*as Cheryl

Virginia ThomasVirginia Thomas is thrilled to be returning to the world of professional acting after years away. Her favorite theater roles include Helen Brasher in Liberty Calling (American Place Theater) and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Crown Theater). Most fun in film and TV: Mom in “Vibes” and shooting a brief scene (ended up on the cutting room floor) with Tina Fey in “30 Rock”.Virginia is also very proud of and grateful for her continuing work with Stand Up Shakespeare/Shakespeare With Benefits, a non-profit group of professional actors that performs Bard based variety shows for good causes.


The Man from West New York, NJ

Jennifer Tulchin* as Beverly

Jennifer TulchinJennifer Tulchin is a classically-trained NYC actor who took a FT parenting-hiatus, she always knew she’d return to the spotlight once her three children became young adults:“The Singing Telegram”/Angela;Readings:Zebulun, Rose Quartz, Marilyn & Emily, Apologies;NY Theater Highlights:The House of Blue Leaves/Bananas/Arc Stages;The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time/Judy Boone/Arc Stages;Coriolanus/Lady Valeria/Tamara/Portia/Hudson Classical Theater Co. & NY Combat for Stage and Screen;Oud Player on the TelShoshana/HERE Arts Center;Tufts BA (Drama & French);Brandeis MFA-Acting;Certified Yoga InstructorAEA/SAG-AFTRA;Avanti Talent Management;www.jennifertulchin.com


Eric Alexander as Paul

Eric AlexanderEric Alexander - Eric was last seen as Sir Toby Belch in Hudson Classical's production of Twelfth Night. He'd like to thank the cast and crew for their dedication.


On Ice

Ian Gould* as Bill

Ian GouldIan Gould is making his Hudson Classical debut. Off-Broadway credits include Henry IV,Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, and Measure for Measure (New York Classical Theatre) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Connecticut Yankee…(The Acting Company), The Show-Off (Peccadillo Theatre Company). Regional appearances include the Guthrie Theater, The Public Theatre of Maine, Shakespeare on the Sound, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Baltimore Center Stage, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater, Luna Stage. International: Shooter (Theatre Konstanz, Germany/TAK, Liechtenstein). Film: “Off Book”. Training: MFA,Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy, BFA, NYU/Tisch. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.


Marianne Ferrari* as Maggie

Marianne FerrariMarianne Ferrari is making their Hudson Classical debut. 60+ stage credits including three seasons - Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), Edinburgh Festival, U.K. Highlights: Guido Girl Ascending (multi-character solo play - playwright/actor ) - New Circle Theatre Company, Breaking Legs (Angie) - Pasadena Playhouse, God of Carnage (Annette) - Theater By The Sea; At WTF: American Clock (Lucille), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Dockdaisy); Italian-American Reconciliation (Janet) - Zephyr Theatre, An Ideal Husband (Mrs. Cheveley) - Met Theatre, Company (Marta) - Little Theater. Some TV: “FBI Most Wanted”, “Elementary”, “Younger”. Recent Film: “The Many Saints of Newark” (David Chase, Alan Taylor) “Date Night” (Sean Carlo Martini), “La Thespian” (directorial debut) - by Christopher D. White) - Palermo IFF 2024 (award), Nyack IFF 2024, Inwood FF 2023, Stories FF 2021).


Nicholas Martin-Smith as Weather Reporter

Nicholas Martin-SmithNicholas Martin-Smith founded Hudson Classical Theater Company in 2004 and served as its Artistic Director for 18 years. For Hudson Classical Theater Company, he has directed, among other plays, an original adaptation of Cyrano adapted by Joseph Hamel, Romeo and Juliet (twice), as well as the award winning MARGARET: Shakespeare’s Warrior Queen, an adaptation he created from Shakespeare’s Henry IV trilogy. Mr. Martin-Smith also had the pleasure of directing the world premiere of a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The D’Artagnan Romances which includes The Three Musketeers, The Three Musketeers: Twenty Years Later, and The Man in the Iron Mask, all adapted by his long-time collaborator Susane Lee.


Past Creep

Sarah McAfee* as Rachel

Sarah McAfeeSarah McAfee is making her first appearance with Writers A Go Go. Previous Hudson Classical Theatre Company credits include Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest and Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Off-Broadway: People of the Book (Urban Stages). NYC Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnestly LGBTQ+ (Gatehouse Entertainment); XIMER (WriteAct Repertory). Regional: Robin Hood (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Tanya in the Getaway Van (New Harmony Project). Sarah is also a voice actress, regularly voicing ads on the Spotify Podcast Network. She made her screen debut in the short film Blondie Boy, which recently premiered at the North Film Festival, with accolades. @itssarahmcafee


Natalie Pernick* as Ellen

Natalie PernickNatalie Pernick is an NYC-based actor and singer, and is pleased to be returning to Hudson Classical for a second time! Recent credits include: After the Revolution (Morningside Theater Co); Encore! Nat’l Tour (Chamber Theatre); Pride & Prejudice (Hudson Classical); New World Radio (Columbia University); Proboscis (NY Theater Festival); Godspell (St. Bart’s Players); and Love’s a Bitch (University of Virginia). She is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. You can catch her gigging regularly around the city with her covers duo, howabout. Thank you to her one true love, Sam! @natpernick; www.nataliepernick.com.


Fever Hawk Browne* as Man

Fever Hawk BrowneFever Hawk Browne is a New York based actor with but one goal in mind and that is to build an impressive body of work. He is thankful for his family, friends and all those who practice the craft of acting in all of its many wonderful forms. Fever is currently in production in the Dennis Mitchell television series "Pressure" slated for release later this year. He was in Hudson Classical Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus in 2024. Member of AEA.


Flaco

Aya Ibaraki* as Andrea

Aya IbarakiAya Ibaraki is grateful and excited to be a part of WAGG! Aya is an Artist in Residence with Hudson Classical and most recently played Maria in Twelfth Night. Her other Hudson Classical credits include: The School for Scandal, Richard II, Same River Twice, Pride and Prejudice, Trojan Women, Many Faces of Love and the documentary “What They Said.” As a puppeteer, she performs for children in treatment in hospitals across the U.S. with Broadway Hearts. Training: Wynn Handman Studio, Shakespeare and Co., AMDA, The New School (BFA in Musical Theatre).


Bryan Bryk* as Phil

Bryan BrykBryan Bryk is a New York based actor, singer, voiceover artist, and Company Member of Hudson Classical Theater Company. Most recently he was seen playing Sebastian in Twelfth Night and Young Richard in Margaret. He also recently became an audiobook narrator with AudioBee Productions.


Burger Death

Dominic D. Williamson as Bart

Dominic D WilliamsonDominic D Williamson is an American actor, based in New York. He graduated from Texas A&M Corpus Christi with a major in Theatre: Acting/Directing and a minor in Communication. In 2016 he studied street performance and theater in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2018 he moved to New York to train at the Stella Adler Professional Conservatory (class of 22). Some of his Credits include Treyvon in Stay (Stella Adler Studio), Lennox in Macbeth (Hudson Classical Theater), Henry Bolingbroke in Richard II (Hudson Classical), Panos in What Reality? (Origins Theater) Laertes in Hamlet (Stella Adler Studio), Phillip in The Shape of Things (Stella Adler Studio), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), Marquis De Sade in Marat/Sade (Warren Theatre), Joseph Surface in School for Scandal (Wilson Theatre), Tiphy's in Argonautica (Warren Theatre), Norman in moonchildren (CC Theatre), Yang Sun in Good Woman of Szechuan (Warren Theatre).


China Pharr* as Lisa

China PharrChina Pharr is an NYC actress by way of Long Beach, CA. She went to Long Beach Renaissance High School for the Arts and was a Creative Writing major and Art History minor at UC Davis. She completed the Stella Adler Studio of Acting Day Conservatory in 2023 where she starred as Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra, Eliza in new work Stay, and Ama in Lynn Nottage’s, Mud, River, Stone. China understudied at the Great River Shakespeare Festival in summer 2023. She loves any chance to get on stage and do her stuff. She is a member of AEA.


Crush

Katrina Dykstra as Sally

Katrina DykstraKatrina Dykstra is an NYC-based actor and musician. She has appeared onstage as Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest with the Hudson Classical Theater Company, Adelpha in Nothing But Thunder at Theater for the New City, and at The Tank in All at Once (40th Anniversary Remaster)


Seth Thompson as Stranger

Seth ThompsonSeth Thompson is an NYC-based actor that is delighted to take part in this festival. Previous credits include Coriolanus, The Christians, Marisol, "Street Burrito," "The Playboy Murders," and "The Wandering Earth 2." He extends his thanks to the production team, family-n-friends, and all the audience members that keep this work alive.


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sobriety

Peter Sullivan as Dr. Jekyll

Peter SullivanPeter Sulllivan is an actor, singer, tour guide and occasional comedian. He has originated roles in Surviving the Rosenthals (Andrea Andresakis), Bloody Brains in a Jukebox (Sideshow by the Seashore), Airport and the Strange Package (William Roudebush) and The Tiny Mustache (Playlight Theatre Co). Other shows include School for Scandal, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Man in the Iron Mask, and Romeo and Juliet with Hudson Classical Theatre Company, as well as Sweeney Todd (Miles Sternfeld), The Little Black Fish (Maaa) and Pinkalicious (Plaza Theatricals). Film: “Pain and Suffering,” “Directions,” “Murmur,” “I Feel Like I’m Sick,” “Brief Exchanges.” TV/Other Series: “Infomercials: Wet Shapes,” “You,” “Hoodman: The Projects Rising.” www.PeterAct.com


Linda Elizabeth* as Mrs. Bennett

Linda ElizabethLinda is thrilled to return to Riverside Park for Hudson Classical Theater Company's WAGG One-Act Play Festival! Select Hudson Classical credits include Antony & Cleopatra (Caesar), Merry Wives (Fenton), and Love’s Labor’s Lost (Maria). Select acting and production credits include: Off Broadway: Imagining Madoff (Theatre Row, NLTP); Off-Off Broadway: Miranda in The Tempest (Theater2020), Hermia in Midsummer (Gene Frankel Theatre); Regional: Elma in Bus Stop (Bristol Riverside Theatre). Film/TV: “Gossip Girl”, “The Perfect Murder”, national Super Bowl commercial for Chevrolet, national internet campaign for eBay, and award winning web series “Plant”. Training: SUNY Geneseo College; Oxford University; The Barrow Group. Thank you to Anette, Hudson, and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sobriety team! To KoDee, “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”


Brendan Kane as Mr. Bennett

Brendan KaneBrendan Kane is honored to help bring Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sobriety to life, and had such a positive experience working with such a talented and collaborative team. This is his fourth production with The Hudson Classical Theatre Company. He previously worked on Macbeth, The School for Scandal, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).


Sarah McAfee* as Mary

Sarah McAfeeSarah McAfee is making her first appearance with Writers A Go Go. Previous Hudson Classical Theatre Company credits include Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest and Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Off-Broadway: People of the Book (Urban Stages). NYC Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnestly LGBTQ+ (Gatehouse Entertainment); XIMER (WriteAct Repertory). Regional: Robin Hood (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Tanya in the Getaway Van (New Harmony Project). Sarah is also a voice actress, regularly voicing ads on the Spotify Podcast Network. She made her screen debut in the short film Blondie Boy, which recently premiered at the North Film Festival, with accolades. @itssarahmcafee


DIRECTORS

David Palmer BrownDavid Palmer Brown, The Bill and Flaco

David Palmer Brown is a proud company member of Hudson Classical Theater Company. Appearing in many roles with the Company, these include Junius Brutus in Coriolanus; Duncan and Siward in Macbeth; Porthos in The Three Musketeers 20 Years Later and The Man in the Iron Mask; the title roles in King Lear and King John; Polonius in Hamlet; de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac; Sorin in The Seagull; Capulet in Romeo & Juliet; and Camillo in The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere in New York he has appeared as Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler; Sir George Crofts in Mrs. Warren’s Profession; and Pugachov in The German Bitch; among others. This is the second time he has directed for the Company.


Annette FoxAnnette Fox, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Sobriety

Annette Fox is excited to direct Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sobriety by Dan Fiorella. As an actor, her favorite recent roles are Sicinius Volutus in Coriolanus for Hudson Classical Theater Company, Mrs. Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility for Hudson Classical Theater Company, Dr. Gina Presson in Heroes of the Fourth Turning at The Chain Theater; Hannah, in American Mu$cle, by Fred Jay Gordon, at Teatro Latea; Louise in Call Me by Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky for the Gallery Players Annual New Play Festival; Storyteller at Joe’s Pub, for Generation Women.us, www.annettefoxactor.com, @annettefoxactor
SAG-AFTRA, AEA


Joseph HamelJoseph Hamel, On Ice

Joe Hamel has acted (mostly) and also adapted text and directed and co-directed for HCTC, off and on, for 20 years. Selected other credits include Off Broadway: Machiavelli’s The Mandrake at the Pearl Theatre. Regional: Our Town, Henry VIII, Love’s Labour’s Lost at Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Other NYC: Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow directed by Taibi Magar at Queens Theatre, and the title role of Cyrano in his own adaptation for Hudson Classical Theater. His modern verse adaptation of Tartuffe was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference and he directed Chekhov’s Three Sisters for Modern Theater Project. He is the author of a book of poems entitled “The Gate of Play.”@hamelhistory


Susane LeeSusane Lee, The Man from West New York, NJ and Crush

Susane Lee is the Executive Artistic Director of Hudson Classical Theater Company and founder of W.A.G.G. (Writers-A-Go-Go). She has adapted & directed several productions for HCTC, including Pride & Prejudice, Lysisarah, and co-directed Emma. She has also directed for 365 Women a Year Playwrights Festival and received Best Director Finalist, twice, for the Take Ten Theater Festival. She most recently directed Lucy Wang’s one-woman show, The Silver Menace. Susane has adapted many classics for the stage, including six Alexandre Dumas novels, and three Jane Austen novels. Susane began her career in television where she was at WGBH/NOVA series for several years, then at Channel 13 where she traveled to more than 100 cities across the US., producing and writing one hour documentaries for 12 years. She’s a Lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, East and a member of SAG/AFTRA. She has received numerous grants for her writing & published a memoir in MORE Magazine. Susane was a Finalist for the Artistic Achievement Award given by the League of Independent Theater in the fall of 2024.


Nicholas Martin-Smith, Past Creep and Burger Death

Nicholas Martin-SmithNicholas Martin-Smith founded Hudson Classical Theater Company in 2004 and served as its Artistic Director for 18 years. For Hudson Classical Theater Company, he has directed, among other plays, an original adaptation of Cyrano adapted by Joseph Hamel, Romeo and Juliet (twice), as well as the award winning MARGARET: Shakespeare’s Warrior Queen, an adaptation he created from Shakespeare’s Henry IV trilogy. Mr. Martin-Smith also had the pleasure of directing the world premiere of a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The D’Artagnan Romances which includes The Three Musketeers, The Three Musketeers: Twenty Years Later, and The Man in the Iron Mask, all adapted by his long-time collaborator Susane Lee.


Roger Stude

Roger Stude, Director of 'Writers-a-Go-Go' Roger Stude Roger Stude studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and apprenticed at the Kings County Shakespeare Company, appearing in their productions of The Beaux Stratagem, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Rover, The Rivals, and Romeo and Juliet. Roger also worked for the Pearl Theatre as an understudy in their productions of Mirandolina, The Phantom Lady, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
He began with Hudson Classical Theater Company 2008 as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, and following up with the Hudson Classical in, among others, Hamlet, Cyrano, The Seagull, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, The Triumph of Love, Romeo and Juliet, and as Falstaff in Henry 4.1 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Since 2017, Roger has been Director of Writers-a-Go-Go. He co-produced the 2018 Valentine's Day program at the Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center. He has also written, acted, and directed as part of this annual festival.

Thank you Whitney Dearden, Director of Public Programming at Riverside Park Conservancy, for giving us the opportunity to be a part of your arts vision at The Field House.

A huge thank you to our fantastic W.A.G.G. Readers: Bruce Barton, David Palmer Brown, Bryan Bryk, Ben Farmer, Annette Fox, Tanuka Ghosh, Aya Ibaraki, Roxann Kraemer, Susane Lee, Katie Lerner-Lam, Nathan Mattingly, Paul Singleton, and Roger Stude.

W.A.G.G. (Writers-A-Go-Go) was created in 2011 to workshop & showcase the plays of our contemporary playwrights. To date, we have had 9 play readings, a full production, & produced several Valentine’s Day Monologue Festivals. Company member Roger Stude has served as director since 2017. This is our first One-Act Play Festival.

Hudson Classical Theater Company's 22nd Summer Season

Julius Caesar (May 29 - June 22)
by Wm. Shakespeare
adapted by Paul Singleton and Nicholas Martin-Smith

Sense & Sensibility (June 26 - July 20)
by Jane Austen
adapted by Susane Lee

The Lady from the Sea (July 24 - Aug 17)
by Henrik Ibsen
adapted by Susane Lee

Thurs-Sun at 6:30pm, no tickets required. Show up by 6:10pm for a seat.

Riverside Park, Behind The Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument on W 89th & Riverside Drive.

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