DÍA Y NOCHE
March 18 - April 15
Written by David Anzuelo
Directed by Carlos Armesto
With Freddy Acevedo, Peter Collier, Sean Fletcher Griffin, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Joe Quintero, Emma Ramos, And Viviana Valeria
Danny is a lower middle-class chicano punk-rock kid covered in bruises who thinks he might be an artist. Martin is a black upper-middle class band nerd kid who is gay and in the closet. Racism, sex, drugs, and music provide the harsh terrain of 1984 border city life in el paso as these two youngsters attempt to make the leap towards adulthood.
FREDDY ACEVEDO (Danny) is Chicano theatre artist from Fort Worth, TX. He is pumped to be making his Off-Broadway debut with LAByrinth Theater Co. Freddy was a recipient of Kansas City Theatre Community Fund's inaugural Crescendo Award for his one-act play La Intrevista. Recent theatre credits: Twelfth Night, Ghost Light '22 (KCRep), Clyde's (Unicorn Theatre), Dolores Huerta: Crusader for Workers (Theatre for Young America), Romeo & Juliet (HASF), Jack & the Bean Mágico (Coterie Theatre), Octavio Solis Tribute (William Inge Theatre Festival), & 'Pachakutec' (Tour, Bolivia). La Intrevista (Playwright, Producer, Grant winner), Justice Delayed (Playwright, A Call to Conscience theatre for social change). Freddy was part of Labyrinth Theater Company's Intensive Ensemble 2020. Education: MFA Acting, UMKC. Instagram: @freddyacevedo.
EMMA RAMOS (Edna). Off-Broadway: Scenes From a Marriage (Dir. Ivo Van Hove), Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater Mobile Unit), There’s Always the Hudson (Sundance Theater Lab) Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), The Collision / The Martyrdom (59E59 Theaters), House Plant (NYTW Next Door), peerless (Cherry Lane Theater), Comfort of Numbers (Dir. Danya Taymor). Regional: Espejos (Hartford Stage, Syracuse Stage & Aspen Theater), Luna Gale (Actors Theater of Louisville), Water by the Spoonful (Premiere Stages). Film: Seven Cemeteries, Gringa, Barbie, Seneca, Bendecidas y Afortunadas, Exeunt, 3rd Street Blackout el Cielo es Azul, Sunbelt Express. Television: “Endgame,” “New Amsterdam,” “Law & Order,” “Valentina,” “Marisol,” and “Perfect Murder.” Education/Training: MFA The New School for Drama. Professional Positions: Staff writer for Nickelodeon’s reboot of “Dora the Explorer,” “Sonica For Frederator,” and “Braven.” Film Awards: Best Audience Award for “Valentina” (played sold-out screenings along the festival circuit before being acquired by HBO), Best Actress Award for “Marisol” (nominated along with Olivia Thereby and Jennifer Morrison), Award-Winning Web Series for “BUTS” (Emerging Voices Award, NBC Finals 2018 Best Comedy Award, Imagen 2016 & 2017), NYLFF Official Selection. “Emma is a revelation, linguistically acrobatic, and piercingly funny” -- New York Magazine.
JOE QUINTERO* (Roger) is an actor, known for Shaft, The Absolution of Anthony, I Like it Like That, and Jacob’s Ladder. Other film credits include Redstone, Sunny & Share Love You, Cuco Gomez-Gomez Is Dead!, Boys Briefs, and Sax and Violins. Television credits include CBS’s “Numb3rs,” ABC’s “NYPD Blue,” CBS’s “As the World Turns” and NBC’s “Law & Order.” Theatre credits include Diego in Spread Eagle (WPA Theatre), Sammy D in Washington Square Moves (Primary Stages), and Anthony in The Boiler Room (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre); and regionally, as Undertaker/Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (South Coast Repertory) and Gustavito in Clean (Hartford Stage).
PETER COLLIER* (Jeff) is an actor, writer, and funny man based in New York. He is one half of the sketch duo Hey Roommate Comedy (@heyroommatecomedy) and a founding member of Better on Paper sketch group (@betteronpapercomedy). Peter has spent years doing theater at spaces you’ve probably never heard of, with people or groups you probably have heard of. For more on his work, talk to him! He’s very approachable. Peter is thrilled to be making his Off-Broadway debut with LAByrinth, of which he is a proud member. @petercollierjr
VIVIANA VALERIA* (Jessica) recently made her Broadway debut understudying for Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Second Stage Theater, Dir. Austin Pendleton). Other credits include Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater Company, NYT Critic’s Pick), In Place (The Juilliard School), The Motherf**ker With the Hat (T. Schreiber Studio). TV: “Jessica Jones” (Dir. Krysten Ritter). Training: AMDA NY, T. Schreiber Studio. Proud member of the LAByrinth Theater Company.
NEIL TYRONE PRITCHARD* (Martin) is a Liberian-American, New York City-based actor/singer/teaching artist. Credits include: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater/LAByrinth Theater Company), The Berlin Electric (Park Avenue Armory), The Prizefighter of P.S. 217 (New Victory LabWorks), The Stowaway (Classic Stage Company), Clover (La MaMa), Queen Latina and Her Power Posse (Cherry Lane Theater), The Mendelssohn Electric (Park Avenue Armory), AT BUFFALO (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and workshops at Tectonic Theater Project, Sundance Theater LAB, Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Dorset Theater Festival, Lincoln Center Theater, and Primary Stages. He is currently on staff at The Park Avenue Armory where he brings Arts Education to public schools throughout the five boroughs. He is A Proud New York City Public School Kid, A Member of LAByrinth Theater Company and Actors Equity. For Mommy and Daddy.
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DAVID ANZUELO (Playwright). Member: LAByrinth Theater Company. Plays include Killing/Play (published: Cafe Cino Anthology, Issue 2, 2018), MinotaurRomance (LAByrinth Workshop, The Public Theater), Estrellita/Luminaria; Camino/Montaña. (INTAR), Queen Latina & The Power Posse (Labyrinth, HERE Arts Center). Queen Latina: The Reboot (Presented by LAByrinth members/Cherry Lane), The One-Minute Play Festival (INTAR), Monologues: Driver’s Project (Labyrinth), The America Installation (Labyrinth), and the 24-Hour Viral Monologue series. Other writing: SDC Journal article (Spring 2022 issue). Music: “Jody Christopherson’s Green Card Wedding: The Skype Show” (Innovative Theater Award nomination, Outstanding Original Music). Theater Acting: Shared Sentences (Houses On The Moon Company); Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Labyrinth/Atlantic); Intimacy (New Group); Stand-Up Tragedy (Apple Tree Theater, Jeff Award winner). Film/TV Acting: “A Walk Among The Tombstones;” "A NY Christmas Wedding,” “Remember Me;” “The Americans;” “Elementary;” “Blue Bloods;” “White Collar;” “Deadbeat;” “Person of Interest.” Founder: UnkleDave’s Fight-House fight-directors collective. Broadway Fight-Direction: Bad Cinderella; Ain’t No Mo; Kimberly Akimbo; The Girl From The North Country; The Great Society; An American in Paris and Disgraced. Off-Broadway: Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Drama Desk Nom); Oedipus El Rey (Drama Desk Nom). TV: “Annie Live!”
MARIANA CARREÑO* (Dramaturg) Her plays include Truckers (LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Barn Series), Sasha’s House of Love, The Red Gene (workshopped at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Barn Series), Miss 744890 (2014 Winner, MetLife Nuestras Voces, Repertorio Español, 2016; picked for publication in Italian as part of the American Playwrights Project); Patience, Fortitude and Other Antidepressants (commissioned by Intar Theatre and produced as part of Encuentro 2014, at the LATC); Dance for a Dollar (a dance-theatre collaboration, Miracle Theatre, Portland, OR); Ofelia’s Lovers (Mabou Mines Residencies); Rare Encounters, Darkroom, The Wake and Fool’s Journey (Intar’s NewWorksLabs); and Adela (Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico), among others. She has directed and helped develop work at Intar, The Lark, Stages Repertory Theatre (Houston), La MaMa, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, IATI Theatre, Teatro Círculo, and The Atlantic, among others; and translated from Spanish to English many plays, a book of short stories and a non-fiction book, essays and character profiles for the Criterion Collection, and lot of commercial stuff. She has also worked as an actress at Intar, Brava (San Francisco), Mabou Mines, LAByrinth, and PRTT. Member of LAByrinth Theatre Company, Associate Artist with Boundless Theatre, Humanitas Play LA resident (2018-2019) and Alumna, Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Lab (HPRL) at Intar and The Lark Play Development Center. She teaches Playwriting at SUNY Purchase College.
GERMÁN MARTINEZ (Sound Designer). A proud son of immigrant parents, Germán Martínez is a Honduran-American Sound Designer based in NY/NJ. Germán is a Montclair State University alum (2018), holding a degree in Theatrical Production and Design with a Concentration in Sound. Germán is the current Eastern Representative for the TSDCA (Theatrical Sound Designer and Composers Association), an organization compiled of professional sound designers and composers seeking to advance the craft of Sound Design through advocacy, mentorship, and outreach in order to strengthen their standing as collaborative artists in the theatre community. His work has been featured at: Theaterworks Hartford, Women's Project, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playhouse 46, MCC, American Repertory Theatre, Repertorio Español, GALA Hispanic, George Street Playhouse, Two River Theater, and Trinity Rep. Broadway credits include associating on: "Into The Woods" (St. James Theatre) "The Piano Lesson" (Barrymore Theatre), and "Ohio State Murders" (James Earl Jones Theatre). As a designer, he seeks work that will uplift and support BIPOC, queer, and immigrant stories in innovative and beautiful ways. Germán would like to thank Carlos and David for bringing him on this incredible piece. He invites any like-minded artists to collaborate. You can keep up with his work on Instagram: @GermanTheSoundDesigner.
JAMIE ROSE BUKOWSKI (Production Stage Manager) graduated from Pace University's School of Performing Arts with a B.A. in Stage Management. She's very excited to be working with LAByrinth for the first time! Some other credits include The Immigrant (George Street Playhouse), You Will Remember Me (Hudson Stage Company). US tour: A Charlie Brown Christmas Live on Stage, Rockin' Road to Dublin. NYC: Shared Sentences, The Santa Closet, De Novo, The Assignment (Houses On The Moon Theatre Company). Pound (Theatre Row), Pillowtalk (The Tank), SOLSTICE PARTY! (Live Source Theatre Group), Otello and Macbeth (LoftOpera), and DISENCHANTED! (Theatre at St. Clement's). She has also PSMed for Drunk Shakespeare, Live In Theater, AMDA, and Quisisana Musical Theatre Resort.
ADRIAN WATTENMAKER (Production Manager) is an actor, director, dramaturg, and educator. Currently, he is Associate Director for the Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's Between Riverside and Crazy. LAByrinth Theater Company credits include Through The Fire and The Barn Series. As the Associate Artistic Director of Hudson Theatre Works (Weekhawken, NJ), recent credits include Eugene O'Neill's Hughie (actor), the world premiere of Neil LaBute’s A Good Thing (director), and the world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s A Wake (producer). Adrian has worked in association with Atlantic Theater Company, Second Stage, HB Playwrights Foundation, Theatre Row, and Baltimore's Center Stage, where he was an associate dramaturg. He has taught at Lafayette College, Brooklyn College, University of Nevada - Reno, New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and School of Creative and Performing Arts. Adrian is a member of The Actors Studio Playwrights / Directors Unit and served on the Drama Desk Awards Nominating Committee. He earned his BA in Theatre Arts from Towson University and his MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College.
CARLOS ARMESTO (Director) is the Producing Artistic Director of theatreC, a company dedicated to creating unique theatrical experiences, as well as the CEO/Co-Executive Artistic Director of PITCHBLACK Immersive Experiences, an international company that creates sensory theatre in complete darkness. He has worked as a director and producer on festivals, plays, musicals, concerts, and events around the country. Carlos was an Associate Curator at the inaugural Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts and Associate Artistic Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Through theatreC, which celebrated its 13th anniversary last November, he has created over 50 theatrical works. Notable credits include The Who's Tommy (Best Director, Star Ledger's NJ Tonys 2010), Binding (Best Choreography, Solo Performance and Performance Art Piece - Innovative Theatre Awards 2010), Echoes of Etta at Joe's Pub (MAC Award for Outstanding Cabaret Act 2014), and Odd Man Out (The Flea Theater, NY Times Weekend Pick). He has directed, taught, and consulted for several university programs, including Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, Fordham, NYU Tisch and Sarah Lawrence. Currently projects: Odd Man Out (with Pitchblack) and Martian Chronicles. He is also Creative Director for theatreC's LGBTQ+ Party Series Retro Factory. MFA Directing Carnegie Mellon. BS Chemical Engineering & Theatre MIT. SDC. Princess Grace Award.
Creative Team
KIA ROGERS* (Lighting Design, she/her) is a New York City-based lighting designer for theatre and dance. International credits: Lighting Designer for The Baby Monitor, Rome and Cagliari, Italy 2021, and Belgrade, Serbia for the Belgrade Pride Festival. Associate Lighting Designer for Slutforart/98.6 inGothenburg, Sweden with Muna Tseng. West coast designs: El Portal's Monroe Forum Theatre, Los Angeles and Z Space, San Francisco. Film credits: Georgia & Me, Happy Days, and Hot Angry Mom web series. Dance designs: Flamenco Vivo National tours, Forward Motion, Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, Lighting Designer and mentor for Ethical Culture Fieldston High School Dance Company since 2015. Guest Lighting Designer: Lafayette College, Easton PA, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and for the South Carolina Governors School of the Arts, Greenville, SC. Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design for Real, 2019 and Jane The Plain, 2014 by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards, Outstanding Lighting Design for Mr. Toole, 2016 by the Midtown International Theatre Festival Nominations: Operating Systems, 2019, Rizing, 2016 and The Gin Baby, 2014 by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. Kia has been a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble since 2012, and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company.
BLEU ZEPHRA SANTIAGO (Assistant Stage Manager). Pronouns: they/them. Bleu is a Latine NYC-based Jack-of-all-trades theater artist. Bleu is excited and grateful to be part of the Dia y Noche Team. Their credits include: Shared Sentences, ASM (houses on the moon, Mabou Mines); high functioning x.0, SM (HERE); GUMIHO, SM (moxiearts, 2022); Micro-face: a podcast musical, SM (Planet Money x NPR, 2022); In the Name of the Mother Tree, PSM (Double Edge Theater, 2021); Twelfth Night, SM (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, 2021); Mad Deep BK: QPOC Drag Kings and Burlesque show, SM (The Cell Theater, 2021); Girl of Glass, SM (American Theatre of Actors, 2018); Jack of Cups, PSM (The Flea, 2018); Infinite Love Party, SM(The Bushwick Starr, 2018) ;The Old Settler, ASM (Billie Holiday Theatre, 2017); In Theory: Notes on Home, Love, Diaspora, and Failing Adulthood, ASM (WOW Cafe Theatre, New Ohio Theatre, 2016).
ROCIO MENDEZ (Fight and Intimacy Coordinator). Fight Direction (UnkleDave’s Fight-House): UnkleDave’s Fight-House is an LGBTQ team of fight/intimacy coordinators. LAByrinth credits include Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Drama Desk nom); Radiance; The Muscles In Our Toes; Paradox Of The Urban Cliche; Guinea Pig Solo; Dutch Heart Of Man. Broadway: Bad Cinderella; Ain’t No Mo; Kimberly Akimbo; Girl From The North Country; Tuck Everlasting; Escape To Margaritaville; The Great Society; An American In Paris; Disgraced. Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (NYTW); On Sugarland (NYTW); soft (MCC); Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (LAByrinth/Atlantic, Drama Desk Nom.); Oedipus El Rey (The Public, Drama Desk Nom.) Film: “Poor Behavior;” “Emoticon.” TV: “Annie Live!”
HARRY NADAL (Set and Costume Design). Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. New York: Lincoln Center Institute, Atlantic Theater Co., Brooklyn Academy of Music, Juilliard, INTAR, WP Theater, Pregones/PRTT, Boundless Theater, HERE, Theater for the New City, and others. Regional: Arena Stage (Washington, DC), Chicago Opera Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford, Des Moines Metro Opera, Zach Theatre (Austin, TX), George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, NJ), UrbanArias (Arlington, VA), Baltimore Center Stage, Boise Contemporary Theater, People’s Light Theater (Malvern, PA), Open Stage (Harrisburg, PA), Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble and Danza del Alma (Cuba) among many. Faculty member at Pratt Institute's Film School. MFA: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. harrynadal.com
ORIANA SOPHIA (Assistant Costume Designer) is a costume designer, stylist, and actress from the Dominican Republic. Her design credits include Mercado Libre (Boundless Theatre), Aloha Boricua, Harlem Hellfighters (Pregones PRTT) Luciernagas (NQT). She has assisted Harry on multiple productions and is excited to join him again for this production of Dia Y Noche. To follow more of Oriana's work check out her Instagram @0rianasophia.
TONY ANDREA (Associate Set Designer) has been focusing on his art-making for the past four years, receiving notable success. He is happy to work with Harry again and with the LAByrinth Theater Company on Día y Noche.
VINCENT GUNN (Assistant Set Designer). Recent design credits: Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road (co-design with James Morgan, York Theatre Company), She Loves Me (New London Barn Playhouse), Guys and Dolls (Educational Theatre Collaborative), Urinetown (Hoboken High School), Lost Girl (Immaculate Heart Academy). Vincent has also assisted designers at venues such as Irish Repertory Theatre, BAM Fischer, La Mama ETC, Roundabout Blackbox, and the New York Philharmonic. Thanks to Harry for the opportunity to work on this production. @vincentgunndesign vincentgunn.com
*denotes LAByrinth Company Member
SEAN FLETCHER GRIFFIN (White Guy, he/him) is excited to be making his LAByrinth debut. Off-Broadway: Rhinoceros (New Yiddish Rep). NY: Queen Latina: The Reboot (LAB/Cherry Lane); Tennessee on Hudson (ATNYC); After Tartuffe (Wild Project); Rose’s War (Velez); In The Beginning (Duplex); Broken Moments (FringeNYC); Under The Greenwood Tree (Flea); Necklace of the Dove (Velez); Juliet and Romeo (Tank); American English (Frost); Princess Particular (Secret Theatre); How Now, Hamlet? (Strut & Frett); Variations on Romeo; Variations on Hamlet (Frost). REGIONAL: Happy Days: The Musical (Booth); Romeo & Juliet; Comedy of Error; Midsummer Night’s Dream (Maine Stage); Chicago (Quincy); Pinocchio; The Playmakers; Under Six (FST); The Producers; Titanic (TLT). TV - The Elevator (ATNYC); Merce: Web Series (S1&2). FILM: Wanna Make Out? (Dir. Lincoln Anderson). RADIO PLAY: Goodbye England’s Rose. He is also a writer as well as a fight/intimacy director with UnkleDave’s Fight-House. www.sean-fletcher.com.