Are We Freaks?

Cast and Crew
	Bricken Sparacino (Writer, producer, co-director and Wonder-ful Twin) Bricken was selected to be on of the “People of the Year ‘08” by nytheatre.com for her directing work on American Badass, Mother May I and Those Whistling Lads and for co-creating Until Midnight. Bricken producing credits include: Medication (FringeNYC) BACKSTAGE's theatre gem of '03 and the Time Out NY highly recommended, 10:17 Comedy Night. She is also an award winning/nominated director including the soon to be published American Badass by Chris Harcum for last years Frigid Festival. She has performed sketch and other original works all over NYC including work with her all female comedy troupe Comedy Period. The seeds of Are We Freaks were planted during Groove MaMa Ink’s Plays in a Day series and a few fevered dreams.
	Joy Gabriel (Abby) grew up all over the United States, the daughter of Mormon gypsies. She finally settled in New York where she was trained at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. She wrote and starred in an acclaimed solo show about her Jesus-loving, swindling Mormon momma at the Midtown Theater Festival. She recently appeared in the short films "Regeneration" and "Sex, Drugs, and Jazz" and the original play "Wikipedia Brown and the Accidental Occidental." When not performing, Joy does lifestyle modeling and is completing her BA at Hunter College. She resides in Long Island City where she develops and produces film projects with her husband, a cinematographer.
	Uma Incrocci (Liz) was last seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the new comedy Attack of the Soccer Moms. Regional: Catherine in Proof at Barnstormers Theatre, Celia in As You Like It and the Princess in Love's Labor's Lost at Connecticut Free Shakespeare, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Mill Mountain Theatre. New York Stage: Off-Broadway production of Fairytales of the Absurd, 365 Plays/365 Days at the Public Theater, Fringe Festival, Havel Festival, Ionesco Festival, American Globe Theatre. She has appeared on Lipstick Jungle, Chappelle's Show, and in a wide variety of indie projects, including the pilot Living in Captivity which she co-wrote and co-produced. www.umaincrocci.com
	Jennie Inchausti (Wonder-ful Twin) is a cast member of Comedy Period and has been working with Bricken for over 2 years now. She has portrayed a variety of sketch characters including Angelina Jolie, and a singing Ashley Dupree. She has performed at The Zipper Theatre, Gotham City Improv and much more. She can be seen around the city performing with Wildlife Theater based out of the Central Park Zoo.
	Annalyse McCoy's NY credits include: Sheila in Love Jerry (NYMF 2008); Woman 2 in Those Whistling Lads! (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2008). Other credits include: Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank (Greenbrier Valley Theatre); Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Ginger in The 1940's Radio Hour (Highlands Playhouse); Darlene in The Honky Tonk Angels (Clarence Brown Theatre, Little Theatre on the Square); Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Jenny Wiley Theatre). She received her BFA from Northern Kentucky University. Annalyse is a member of 2/3 Goat, a folk-blues-rock band who can be heard at myspace.com/twothirdsgoat.
	Kara M. Tyler (Leslie the Lobster Girl) is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NY) and Temple University. She has worked as an actress with various theatre companies in New York and Pennsylvania including Kings County Shakespeare Company, terraNova Collective, Fulton Opera House, and The Billie Holiday Theatre. She has also taught as a teaching artist with MCC, Gilgamesh, Shakespeare’s Playground and others. Some of her favorite directing credits include “Vagina Monologues” at Temple University, “Feeding the Moonfish” and “The Foundling”. She is the Artistic Director and the founding member of Groove MaMa Ink LLC.
	Melanie Wehrmacher's recent credits include: Over the Moon (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center/Turnip Festival), Animal Farm: The Puppet Musical (Synapse Productions, National Tour), Oil City Symphony (Door Off Broadway), Twentyone (Spring Theatreworks), Manfest Cabaret (New Georges), Trip (Provincetown Playhouse), and countless productions with Science Theatre at the New York Hall of Science and Wildlife Theatre at the Central Park Zoo. Melanie is a graduate of Drake University and the National Theater Institute, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
	Hannah Wolfe (Pam) is currently performing with the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ’s “Shakespeare LIVE!” as Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and as one of the witches in “Macbeth”. Recent NY credits: “Those Whistling Lads” (Midtown Intl. Theatre Festival) directed by Bricken Sparacino, “Hamlet” (Castle Shakespeare Repertory), “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Henry V”, “Love’s Labors Lost” (IL Shakespeare Festival), “HER KIND: The Life & Poetry of Anne Sexton” (New York Intl & San Francisco Fringe Festivals), “The Laramie Project” (Prism Players), “It’s Called the Sugar Plum” (Beckmann Theatre). Hannah has toured with the Ntl. Theatre for Children and the Obie-award winning Paper Bag Players.
	Lori Kee (Director) appears in two independent films that are currently on the festival circuit; Moving Mike and Jump Start, and can be seen as the female lead, St. Birgitta, in Parables (2 seasons-EWTN). She won Best Actress for her performance in Holy Hell (Medicine Show Theatre). She directed Through the Hourglass at Borough of Manhattan Community College ( Fall 08). Other NYC directing credits include: short plays for Groove Mama, and fall (07) she received honors for her direction of Male Man (3rd Annual Chester Horn Festival.)
Kim Braun (Stage Manager) Kim graduated from Temple University with a BA in Theater. She worked steadily behind-the-scenes in Philadelphia and New Jersey before moving to New York two years ago. In New York, Kim has worked at the Gene Frankel Underground, 59 on 59, Under St Marks and on Until Midnight at the Zipper Theatre. She is happy to be back working with Bricken
Maryvel Bergen (light designer) Maryvel has been designing lights for Bricken Sparacino for some time now. Including last years soon to be published "American Badass" that was a part of Frigid 2008! She is happy to be back at the festival and working with Bricken.

Cast and Crew

Bricken Sparacino (Writer, producer, co-director and Wonder-ful Twin) Bricken was selected to be on of the “People of the Year ‘08” by nytheatre.com for her directing work on American Badass, Mother May I and Those Whistling Lads and for co-creating Until Midnight. Bricken producing credits include: Medication (FringeNYC) BACKSTAGE's theatre gem of '03 and the Time Out NY highly recommended, 10:17 Comedy Night. She is also an award winning/nominated director including the soon to be published American Badass by Chris Harcum for last years Frigid Festival. She has performed sketch and other original works all over NYC including work with her all female comedy troupe Comedy Period. The seeds of Are We Freaks were planted during Groove MaMa Ink’s Plays in a Day series and a few fevered dreams.

Joy Gabriel (Abby) grew up all over the United States, the daughter of Mormon gypsies. She finally settled in New York where she was trained at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. She wrote and starred in an acclaimed solo show about her Jesus-loving, swindling Mormon momma at the Midtown Theater Festival. She recently appeared in the short films "Regeneration" and "Sex, Drugs, and Jazz" and the original play "Wikipedia Brown and the Accidental Occidental." When not performing, Joy does lifestyle modeling and is completing her BA at Hunter College. She resides in Long Island City where she develops and produces film projects with her husband, a cinematographer.

Uma Incrocci (Liz) was last seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the new comedy Attack of the Soccer Moms. Regional: Catherine in Proof at Barnstormers Theatre, Celia in As You Like It and the Princess in Love's Labor's Lost at Connecticut Free Shakespeare, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Mill Mountain Theatre. New York Stage: Off-Broadway production of Fairytales of the Absurd, 365 Plays/365 Days at the Public Theater, Fringe Festival, Havel Festival, Ionesco Festival, American Globe Theatre. She has appeared on Lipstick Jungle, Chappelle's Show, and in a wide variety of indie projects, including the pilot Living in Captivity which she co-wrote and co-produced. www.umaincrocci.com

Jennie Inchausti (Wonder-ful Twin) is a cast member of Comedy Period and has been working with Bricken for over 2 years now. She has portrayed a variety of sketch characters including Angelina Jolie, and a singing Ashley Dupree. She has performed at The Zipper Theatre, Gotham City Improv and much more. She can be seen around the city performing with Wildlife Theater based out of the Central Park Zoo.

Annalyse McCoy's NY credits include: Sheila in Love Jerry (NYMF 2008); Woman 2 in Those Whistling Lads! (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2008). Other credits include: Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank (Greenbrier Valley Theatre); Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Ginger in The 1940's Radio Hour (Highlands Playhouse); Darlene in The Honky Tonk Angels (Clarence Brown Theatre, Little Theatre on the Square); Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Jenny Wiley Theatre). She received her BFA from Northern Kentucky University. Annalyse is a member of 2/3 Goat, a folk-blues-rock band who can be heard at myspace.com/twothirdsgoat.

Kara M. Tyler (Leslie the Lobster Girl) is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NY) and Temple University. She has worked as an actress with various theatre companies in New York and Pennsylvania including Kings County Shakespeare Company, terraNova Collective, Fulton Opera House, and The Billie Holiday Theatre. She has also taught as a teaching artist with MCC, Gilgamesh, Shakespeare’s Playground and others. Some of her favorite directing credits include “Vagina Monologues” at Temple University, “Feeding the Moonfish” and “The Foundling”. She is the Artistic Director and the founding member of Groove MaMa Ink LLC.

Melanie Wehrmacher's recent credits include: Over the Moon (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center/Turnip Festival), Animal Farm: The Puppet Musical (Synapse Productions, National Tour), Oil City Symphony (Door Off Broadway), Twentyone (Spring Theatreworks), Manfest Cabaret (New Georges), Trip (Provincetown Playhouse), and countless productions with Science Theatre at the New York Hall of Science and Wildlife Theatre at the Central Park Zoo. Melanie is a graduate of Drake University and the National Theater Institute, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Hannah Wolfe (Pam) is currently performing with the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ’s “Shakespeare LIVE!” as Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and as one of the witches in “Macbeth”. Recent NY credits: “Those Whistling Lads” (Midtown Intl. Theatre Festival) directed by Bricken Sparacino, “Hamlet” (Castle Shakespeare Repertory), “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Henry V”, “Love’s Labors Lost” (IL Shakespeare Festival), “HER KIND: The Life & Poetry of Anne Sexton” (New York Intl & San Francisco Fringe Festivals), “The Laramie Project” (Prism Players), “It’s Called the Sugar Plum” (Beckmann Theatre). Hannah has toured with the Ntl. Theatre for Children and the Obie-award winning Paper Bag Players.

Lori Kee (Director) appears in two independent films that are currently on the festival circuit; Moving Mike and Jump Start, and can be seen as the female lead, St. Birgitta, in Parables (2 seasons-EWTN). She won Best Actress for her performance in Holy Hell (Medicine Show Theatre).
She directed Through the Hourglass at Borough of Manhattan Community College ( Fall 08). Other NYC directing credits include: short plays for Groove Mama, and fall (07) she received honors for her direction of Male Man (3rd Annual Chester Horn Festival.)

Kim Braun (Stage Manager) Kim graduated from Temple University with a BA in Theater. She worked steadily behind-the-scenes in Philadelphia and New Jersey before moving to New York two years ago. In New York, Kim has worked at the Gene Frankel Underground, 59 on 59, Under St Marks and on Until Midnight at the Zipper Theatre. She is happy to be back working with Bricken

Maryvel Bergen (light designer) Maryvel has been designing lights for Bricken Sparacino for some time now. Including last years soon to be published "American Badass" that was a part of Frigid 2008! She is happy to be back at the festival and working with Bricken.