Create Your Own Work

CAKE PRODUCTIONS

Founded in 2009 by Francesca Day Larson and Marta Kuersten, Cake Productions raised the curtain on its inaugural show, Modern Dance for Beginners by Sarah Phelps (directed by Atlantic faculty member Alison Beatty) at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre. Following this debut endeavor, the company doubled in size to include Brooke Berry and Sarah Brill. The quartet then went on to produce Psych by Evan Smith and Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell on the Fourth Arts Block in the East Village, as well as Swimming in the Shallows by Adam Bock at The West 52nd Street Theatre.  In the fall of 2011, the company expanded to include four additional members. Cake’s efforts in 2012 included a New York premiere, In the Company of Jane Doe by Tiffany Antone (directed by Atlantic faculty member Paul Urcioli) at New York Theatre Workshop’s 4^th Street Theatre in May and a staged reading of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play by Joe Landry around the holidays.

Winner of the 2010 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Featured Actor (Amir Darvish)

Nominated for 2010 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Costume Design (Brooke Berry and Mark Mears)

WEBSITE
cakeproductions.org

FACEBOOK
facebook.com/pages/Cake-Productions

TWITTER
twitter.com/CakeOnStage

STORYTIME HOUR WITH ERICA & JOLENTA

Storytime Hour is a podcast created by Atlantic Alums Jolenta Greenberg and Erica Smith.

Storytime Hour with Erica & Jolenta is a grassroots storytelling podcast recorded inside a closet in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The podcast has already reached no. 5 in the iTunes store’s Performing Arts category, and has been recently featured in both the ‘What’s Hot’ and ‘New and Noteworthy’ sections on iTunes. Storytime Hour features stories of all shapes and sizes; ranging from personal essays, rhyming poems, interviews, documentaries and more. We don’t care if the stories are true, made up, simple, or operatic. We don’t care if they’re told through gritted teeth, muffled tears or with the stony control of a public radio announcer. It’s a variety show for your ears!

Includes Atlantic Alumni Contributors
Colby Day, John Early, Janna Emig, Sharone Halevy, Jenna Krasowski, Brad Mielke, Andy Schneeflock, Griffin Sherbert, Jordan Douglas Smith, and Eric Williams.

WEBSITE
storytimehour.wordpress.com

FACEBOOK
facebook.com/StorytimeHour

TWITTER
twitter.com/StorytimeHour

DAMON CARDASIS AND SHANNON WALKER

Damon Cardasis:
Damon Cardasis is a NY- based writer, director and producer as well as a Co-Creator of The LES* Film Festival.  Prior to The LES* Film Festival he directed and produced the feature mockumentary MARCH! and worked on the films THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE, DOUBT and STOP LOSS.  His 10 episode web series VICKY & LYSANDER, was sold to the network LOGO, after having originally played as a  sold out show in downtown NYC for 3 months.  He is currently heading director Rebecca Miller’s production company, Round Films, where they are working on a variety of new projects. Damon has also finished writing his own dark comedic feature.

Shannon Walker:

Shannon Walker is a Writer, Producer, and Actor living in New York City. She most recently sold the comedic web series “Vicky & Lysander” to LOGO. Other Credits include writing and acting in the feature film, “MARCH,” the Lower East Side’s Acclaimed Dinner Party “Vicky & Lysander,” and numerous independent films and Off-Broadway shows. She is also the co-creator of the L.E.S* Film Festival, an annual extravaganza in Manhattan’s Lower East Side that features the work of bold independent filmmakers.

http://lesfilmfestival.com.

Shannon Walker and Damon Cardasis currently have numerous scripts and series in development.

HARVARD SAILING TEAM

Includes Atlantic Acting School alumni:
Adam Lustick, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Sara Taylor, Clayton Early, Rebecca Delgado Smith, Faryn Einhorn, Jen Curran, Katie Larsen

Harvard Sailing Team has been featured on the CBS Early Show, MTV Comedy Awards, Funny or Die, Comedy Central.com, College Humor, VH1′s Best Week Ever, New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Andrew Sullivan’s blog, Sesame Street, Cosmo Magazine, Jezebel, Gawker, Tosh.O, and TimeOut NY, among others.

Winners of the 2011 Nightlife Award, the 2010 Friar’s Club Film Festival Competition, and the 2007 ECNY Award for Best Sketch Group, they’ve performed live at Town Hall, the Kennedy Center, Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, UCB NY and UCB LA, Caroline’s, Gotham Comedy Club, The PIT, Largo, Second City Toronto, Chicago Sketch Fest, SketchFest New York, and the Charleston Comedy Festival.

WEBSITE
harvardsailingteam.com

YOUTUBE
youtube.com/user/hstsketchcomedy

TWITTER
twitter.com/HSTsketchcomedy

PIPELINE THEATER COMPANY

PIPELINE makes theater of the imagination. Our company thrives on adventure and believes no story is worth telling without a little risk. We love our villains as much as our heroes, especially in those troubling moments when we can’t quite tell them apart. Above all, we aim to leave you with stories that stick somewhere in your heart, your brain, or your guts.

The company is comprised of over twenty emerging actors, directors, writers, and designers. A one-time Company Class project at the Atlantic Acting School, Pipeline has now established a strong foothold in the New York theater community with three seasons of mainstage productions, a fourth underway, and a thriving Second Stage program of readings, workshops and even art exhibitions.

PRODUCTIONS
The Love of the Nightingale (Atlantic Company Class production), Sleepless City (World Premiere), Psycho Beach Party, Shakespeare the Dead (World Premiere), Bekah Brunstetter’s Fat Kids on Fire (directed by Tony-nominee Peter Frechette), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Winner of the 2011 NY IT Award for “Best Original Music” by Cormac Bluestone), Bubble & Squeak (Finalist in the 35th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival), Felix & The Diligence (World Premiere), The Ash Girl, and Giant Killer Slugs (World Premiere).

ATLANTIC ALUMNI MEMBERS
Seth Clayton, Fernando Contreras, Sam Dash, Jenny Donheiser, Caitlin Gaspar, Zackary Grady, Daniel Johnsen, Meagan Kensil, Megan Linde, Katelyn Manfre, Sydney Matthews, Brian Maxsween, Kelsey Mills, Heather Morris, Mia Pinchoff, Edward Raube-Wilson, Ari Schrier, Arielle Siegel, Allison Smith, Nicole Spiezio, and Mike Steinmetz

WEBSITE
www.pipelinetheatre.org

FACEBOOK
facebook.com/pipelinetheatre

TWITTER
twitter.com/pipelinetheatre

Photo Credit: Ahron R. Foster
The Ash Girl, 2012