spit&vigor
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SARA FELLINI (Artistic Director) is an award-winning playwright, director, actress, and skilled artisan. Her first play, HAZARD A LITTLE DEATH, was nominated for six awards at the 2014 Planet Connections Theater Festivity including Best Production of a New Play and Best Lead Actress (Sara Fellini), winning Best New Script. She performed in the monodrama THE OTHER MOZART by Sylvia Milo at The Players Theatre in NYC and toured with the production (winning Cat5 magazine’s Best Theater Production of 2015, “the voice of a crystal bell, Fellini is captivating” –NOLA Defender), and created the role of Maeve Shourd in a site-specific production of IN VESTMENTS, a play of her own writing and winner of two NYIT awards, nominated for Outstanding New Full-Length Script, earning her theater company the Donn Russell grant, and acclaimed by the NYTimes as "wrenching and visually eloquent". She has appeared in another play of her own writing, THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON (called "darkly humorous" and "deliciously ghoulish" by the NYTimes) as part of IRT Theater's 3B Residency. She played Mary Shelley in MARY’S LITTLE MONSTER by Thomas Kee at the mudlark public theatre in NOLA, The Davenport Theatre in NYC as part of the Davenport space grant, at at Torn Page, the historic home of Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. She played Artemisia Gentileschi in her play NEC SPE / NEC METU at The Tank’s July 2017 DarkFest, at Theater Row as part of United Solo Festival, and by special invitation at The Glitter Box in Pittsburgh, PA. She played Asia Booth Clarke in THE BRUTES ("irresistibly dramatic, legitimately upsetting" - The NYTimes) by Casey Wimpee at The Flamboyan as part of The 10th Anniversary Planet Connections Festivity, nominated for 8 awards including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Costume Design (both Sara Fellini). During quarantine, she wrote and directed LUNA ECLIPSE, a one-shot livestream film, chosen as one of TIME OUT's Best Online Theater Productions, and she recently made her off-broadway in THE WAKE OF DORCAS KELLY at The Players Theatre, a play she both wrote and directed, chosen as one of The Observer's Best Summer Theater of 2021.
ADAM BELVO (Executive Producer) is a Brooklyn based actor and theater producer. Recent New York acting work includes Edwin Booth in THE BRUTES (2019 NYIT Outstanding Lead Actor Nominee), John Polidori in MARY's LITTLE MONSTER, Azra Todd in THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON, Danny in DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, Father Nathan Shourd in the NYIT Award winning IN VESTMENTS, K.Bus and Muskie in Aztec Economy's BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME (NYIT 2016 Outstanding Lead Actor nominee), Jack in OVER, Georges in HAZARD A LITTLE DEATH (Planet Connections Festival 2014: Best Actor Award Winner), Jaques in AS YOU LIKE IT, El Spectro in COLOR TVs IN TIJUANA, Ryszard in PONTIAC FIREBIRD VARIATIONS (Ice Factory 2011) and Vanya in UNCLE VANYA. Regionally, Adam has toured and performed as K.Bus in BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME (Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2013, New Orleans Fringe Festival 2013, Out-of-the-Loop Festival 2014-Dallas, Revolutions 2016-Albuquerque, NM, Hollywood Fringe 2019, others), he has worked with MTB productions to produce and star in HELPLESS DOORKNOBS (New Orleans Fringe 2012) and as The Stranger in MY AIM IS TRUE (New Orleans Fringe 2011). He is Executive Producer of the Brooklyn based theater company spit&vigor (www.spitnvigor.com), and a collaborating member of Working Man's Clothes Productions and Aztec Economy. His work has been showcased at The 14th Street Y, The Tank, 3LD, The Ohio Theater, The New Ohio Theatre, The Davenport Theater, WestPark Presbyterian Church, The Abingdon Theater (Dorothy Strelsin and the June Havoc,) American Place Theater, Under St. Marks, and IRT Theater, among others.
NICHOLAS THOMAS (Associate Producer) is an actor, writer and director from Melbourne, Australia. As an actor/producer he has studied at HB Studios. His sketch comedy troupe has produced two web series and multiple television shows at MNN Studios. He also writes, produces and directs original online content with his company Blunderbuss. Phoenix Reign: Nominated Best Dark Comedy Screenplay, Oregon Short Film Festival (2019); Nominated Best Comedy Television Episode Screenplay, Portland Comedy Film Festival(2018).Return Of the Green Dragon: Semi Finalist The Comedy World Network International Film Festival, (Las Vegas 2018) Businessman ShowdownNominated New York Indie Film Fest 2016. He was a performer and teacher at the Peoples’ Improv Theatre (The PIT).
XANDRA LEIGH PARKER (Company Member) studied at Maggie Flanigan Studio Conservatory, Colorado State University and Perry Mansfield. She has appeared in Mary’s Little Monster, The Brutes, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Pizza Man, Italian American Reconciliation, Three Penny Opera, La Llorona, As You Like It, as well as many others. She also has worked on many independent films, cabarets and is the lead singer of Just Fabulous.
PETER OLIVER (Company Member) Peter is a NYC-based actor, musician and educator. Theater credits include Handsome in THE BRUTES, Dionysus in THE BACCHAE, Brandon in SLAUGHTER CITY, Jack in IN VESTMENTS and Richard in RICHARD III. Film and TV credits include Marriage Story, The Boy Downstairs, Law & Order: SVU, The Deuce, and Blue Bloods. He holds a BA from Hamilton College where he graduated Phi Beta Crappa. He has studied under Wynn Handman, Anthony Abeson and Norman Taylor.
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KYRA JACKSON is a very soulful actor with a strong command of herself and any character she inhabits. Her electric passion and thoughtful nature has arrested audiences, while her comical light and deliberate timing delights them. Kyra Jackson is primarily an actor but also often directs and writes for stage and film as well as finding a hobby in post production editing. She promotes herself as a “well rounded artist” expressing herself creatively though photography, painting, spoken word, and song as well as many other means of visual / performative art. After having graduated from Hamilton College, where she majored in Theater and minored in Psychology and foreign languages, she got her M.F.A from Arizona State University where she cultivated her love of teaching the craft. When not on the stage or in front of the camera Kyra enjoys laughing loudly, taking photos whilst walking in no particular direction around NYC, learning new people, and reading well written works on long flights to anywhere she can travel to. Due to her insatiable wanderlust, Kyra has done quite a lot of traveling in her young life and doesn’t plan to stop until she has seen everything the world has to offer. Her bright energy is palpable in every room she finds herself in and is second only to her wonderfully meticulous mind. (Association of Theatre in Higher Education ATHE, presenter/teacher)
IRINA KAPLAN Irina is delighted to work with spit&vigor. What a joy to be back in the theatre, with such an exciting collaborative team. Big thanks to Sara Fellini, Joe Biden, and Tsu Tsu Stanton. Irina-Kaplan.com @tangirina_k
DUOER JIA is a recent graduate from Cornell University, where she majored in Theatre and Information Science. On stage, she has appeared in The Wolves (#00), Night Returns from the North Country (Girl), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (Victoria). Her film credits include Off-Campus/On-Screen, Barrier, and Incident. She has directed Asiamnesia, Rumors, and various theatre festival projects at Cornell.
CLARA KUNDIN is a theater-maker and educator. She received her B.A. in theater from St. Olaf College and continued her studies in physical theater at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She is a current MFA candidate in Theater for Youth and Communities at Arizona State University. New York Theater: Luna Eclipse (spit&vigor), The Jewish King Lear (Metropolitan Playhouse), Doomocracy (Creative Time), {my lingerie play} (Rattlestick Theater), Helena in The Rover and The Naked Tempest (Torn Out Theater), Lake Victory (GYM at Judson), The Lysistrata Project (Irondale Center). Regional: Nancy in Oliver! (Lawrence Arts Center), The Sunshine Boys (Guthrie Theater). She served as the Founding Executive Director of Rebel Playhouse from 2016-2019. www.clarakundin.com
CAIT MURPHY is a Brooklyn-based performer, producer, and production manager. She has performed onstage with Aretha Franklin a L’Oréal industrial and Kathleen Turner in Gloria Feldt's Take the Lead. She played the title character in HAPPY HAMSTER BIRTHDAY at the the Leela Theater Festival, and was featured in ZUCCOTTI PARK in the 2016 NY Fringe and as a faceless nun in the site-specific production IN VESTMENTS - called "wrenching and visually eloquent" by The New York Times. Cait has worked in production for programs on Netflix, NBC, MTV, Travel Channel, and truTV. She is thrilled to be a part of the company of spit&vigor!
EAMON MURPHY has appeared as Grant in Agnes Borinsky’s Ulysses S. Grant in the New New World (PAM Residencies); Theseus/Titania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Little Flame); Jaques, As You Like It (Columbia School of the Arts); the Ghost, The Brutes (spit&vigor), Camillo, The Winter’s Tale (South Brooklyn Shakespeare); Orsino, Twelfth Night (Old Hat); Donald Rumsfeld, Oh What a Lovely War on Terror (Edinburgh Fringe); King Henry, 1 Henry IV (Clare College Cambridge); and Prince Edward, Richard III (PA Shakespeare Fest).
CAEDEN MUSSER (she/they) An Austin, Texas transplant, they primarily identify as a Shakespeare nerd, budding verse playwright, fight human, musician, and aerialist. Favorite roles include Agravaine, (The Table Round and The Seige Perilous, Turn to Flesh), Iilyan (Damned, Dixon Place), Bardolph/Westmoreland (Henry V, Occupy Verona), Launce (Two [gentlemen] of Verona, Monsterpiece Theatre), Fontaine (The Brutes, spit&vigor), Cressida (Troilus and Cressida, Rosedale Theater), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet, Rosedale Theater), and Cassandra (The Trojan Women, The Baron’s Men). Since moving to NYC, they've trained with Dylan Hintz of SAGA Action Arts, Jared Kirby/NYCSS, Turn to Flesh, Shakespeare & Company, and The Humanist Project. See their writing in 2021 when their full length play The Lifted Instants Before the Fall will be performed as part of Turn to Flesh’s staged reading series.