Agony Productions

NY,U.S.A.

Christopher Heath

“An innovative play in which two adults discover a love for their inner halves while searching for their other halves. Two adults. Four Quarters. Working, pushing and struggling to connect, trying to be one whole.”

60min

The Kraine Theater

Wed 2/24,10:30,Fri 2/26,7:00,Tue 3/02,9:00,Thu 3/04,7:30,Sat 3/06,2:30

$16.00,$15.00

A “very interesting shell game as four people play two,” (Stage Press Weekly) Four Quarters is a play in which two adults discover a love for their inner halves while searching for their other halves. Unique in style, this fast-paced play opened at the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival to critical acclaim. Elias Stimac from Back Stage called the play a “sexy, savvy…intriguing, if not altogether enlightening, examination of the elusive emotion called love.”

Photos courtesy of Carl Zetterstrom

“A very entertaining and compelling play.” (nytheatre.com)

Christopher Heath received critical acclaim for his plays Four Quarters at the New York International Fringe Festival and Wally and Jesus at Emerging Artists Theatre’s EATFest. Other plays include Truth Is (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2008), Big Boy Two Scoop; Delays on the Weekend; …digressions…; In Stereotype, Where Available; Marshall and JB; Norma; Out and About; and Who Art In. He has also written the screenplays Consistent Inconsistencies (WordsFromHere Top 50), and The Ice Cream Papi. He has reached the halfway point of his series of 175 short plays, entitled Over the Table and Under the Bar. As the artistic director and co-founder of Agony Productions, he has produced Crash Comedy I and II, for which he wrote Soap Dissed, Stalls, and the musical parodies A Corky’s Line, Little Morphine Annie, and The Sound of Mucus. With Agony, he has also facilitated four short screenplay competitions, two roundtable discussions on filmmaking, and the Writers in Agony Workshop Series, which gave writers of all levels the opportunity to learn and utilize techniques and theories of today’s leading experts. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Carl.

Four Quarters Bios

Omer Barnea (Terry) has had the good fortune of acting professionally from a very young age both on screen and on stage, mainly in my home land, Israel. From soap operas to various TV dramas, feature films and theater productions. He is very excited about this project and feels curious, hesitant, joyous, painful and many more things as he stands on the edge of its great unknown.
Margo Brooke Pellmar (Jo) studied acting at Circle in the Square Theatre School, Sarah Lawrence College, and with the British Academy of Dramatic Arts in Oxford. It was at Circle in the Square where she met Tamar and Solomon and they brought along Omer. This play came together after Margo met Christopher at an audition in 2008. They wanted to collaborate and are excited to do so with Four Quarters. When Margo is not acting, she is singing, teaching at the Spence School, working with MacGuffin Films, finishing a degree at Sarah Lawrence College, and loving her friends and family. Check out Margo at http://margobrooke.wordpress.com/.

Tamar Pelzig (Teri) was last seen in The Second Studio’s Production of Independence, directed by John Anthony. Other Off & Off Off Broadway credits include: Turkey Day at the Strawberry Festival, for which Tamar was honored with the festival’s best actress award, Café Sutainable (440 Studios) Dina & Alba, Timber, Missed Exit, Street Theater (Turtle Shell Productions), Harry The Dirty Dog (Manhattan Children’s Theatre), The Witches (Red Door Theater Company), Touch Me (Center Stage), The Crucible (Circle in the Square PW). On screen, Tamar will soon be seen as Lucy Blair in Adolfo Doring’s feature Thinly Veiled (Thinlyveiledmovie.com) and in the TV Pilot Dreams. Tamar is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School and currently studies with John Anthony. A member of The Second Studio and Turtle Shell Productions, Tamar is very excited and thankful to be part of ‘Four Quarters’. Peace. resumes.actorsaccess.com/tamarpelzig, imdb.com/name/nm2066744//

Solomon Shiv (Joe) is: ~happy to be alive, happy he is in New York, happy he has his family, happy he has his ongoing acting coach—John Anthony, happy he has a great actress for a GF(!!!), happy he has the friends he’s got, happy he finally went ice-skating again-happy for the spirit of adventure!, happy for his dreams, happy to be part of this cast, happy to have this director guy—CHRIS, happy to be a part of this show, happy he can see, smell, hear, speak, feeeeeeel and taste, happy he laughed today, happy he got up today, happy he has food on the table, happy for this audience, happy that he can be happy.~

Christopher Heath (Playwright, Director) received critical acclaim for his plays Four Quarters at the New York International Fringe Festival and Wally and Jesus at Emerging Artists Theatre’s EATFest. Other plays include Truth Is (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2008), Big Boy Two Scoop; Delays on the Weekend; …digressions…; In Stereotype, Where Available; Marshall and JB; Norma; Out and About; and Who Art In. He has also written the screenplays Consistent Inconsistencies (WordsFromHere Top 50), and The Ice Cream Papi. He has reached the halfway point of his series of 175 short plays, entitled Over the Table and Under the Bar. As the artistic director and co-founder of Agony Productions, he has produced Crash Comedy I and II, for which he wrote Soap Dissed, Stalls, and the musical parodies A Corky’s Line, Little Morphine Annie, and The Sound of Mucus. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and serves on the Board of Directors of the League of Independent Theater. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Carl.