Buffalo Heights
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By Adam Harrell
Directed by Jake Lipman A comedy about sex, smokes, and suckers for the American Dream When Fran leaves France to take a teaching job at Buffalo Heights High, she never dreamed of the lessons she'd learn from friends and foes in small town America. The Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios 244 West 54th Street, NYC Company-created with the help of a grant from the Puffin Foundation. |
"Tongue in Cheek's production is a funny look at what can happen in a small town when heads butt, egos, careers, and even lives, are damaged by rumors. ... A sign of nice things to come from TIC."
StageBuddy.com
"With an ensemble of talent and a wealth of resources at its fingertips, TIC should continue to commission new and entertaining work. Buffalo Heights can be best summed up by Principal Jean's description of the cafeteria meatballs: 'They're factory irregulars. I think they're delicious. Who cares if they're not perfectly round?'"
Tracy's New York Life
StageBuddy.com
"With an ensemble of talent and a wealth of resources at its fingertips, TIC should continue to commission new and entertaining work. Buffalo Heights can be best summed up by Principal Jean's description of the cafeteria meatballs: 'They're factory irregulars. I think they're delicious. Who cares if they're not perfectly round?'"
Tracy's New York Life
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Cast
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Production Team
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NINA LEESE (Diane Matthews)
New York: Oy Vey! The Play (Theatre Row), Our Town (TIC), Going Too Far (Samuel French One Act Festival), The House of Yes (Meisner Theater), Still (ATA), Sonny Love (Thirteenth Street Rep), Nothing’s Impossible (Lincoln Center/92nd Street Y). Film/TV: Bound, 107th Street, Walt, Slim Goodbody’s Galactic Health Adventure (PBS). BFA, Adelphi University. ALISON LEMEL (Piper Matthews)
Recent TIC credits: Author and actor in solo show production of Places, Please; assistant director for The Mistakes Madeline Made and Our Town and has stage managed 14 productions for TIC, including Books on Tape (FringeNYC 2011), The Drunken City, and Proof. Other New York credits: SHIK- SAPPEAL (Fringe 2012), Dances in Funny (FringeNYC 2009), and Against Her Better Judgment at the Drilling Company Theatre. SHELLEY LITTLE (Jean Washington)
New York: How I Learned to Drive, The Mistakes Madeline Made, Our Town, The Drunken City (TIC), Alice Sit by the Fire and Good Woman of Szechwan (Adap- tive Arts), A Midsummer Night's Dream and The American Clock (Circle in the Square), Blood Bond (3 Roads). Trained at Circle in the Square Theater School. |
JAKE LIPMAN* (Francoise Favre)
NY Theater: company-devised The Buffalo Project/first workshop of Buffalo Heights (2014 grant recipient, The Puffin Foundation Ltd), Rapture, Blister, Burn, Women Playing Hamlet, How I Learned to Drive, Our Town, Proof, Books on Tape (FringeNYC), The Inn at Lake Devine. TV: A Crime to Remember, Six Degrees of Murder. Film: Endo, Solo, Gary from Accounting, The Clown. BA, Smith College; MFA, Actors Studio Drama School. www.JakeLipman.com JOE MULLEN (Mike Hobbes)
Training at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (Atlantic Acting Stu- dio). Off and Off-Off Broadway: The Mistakes Madeline Made (TIC), EBE Ensemble's Ele- phants on Parade One Act Festival, How and Why I Robbed My First Cheese Store (La MaMa Rep), Companions (Soho Rep, Walkerspace); The Cherry Orchard (Atlantic 2nd Stage). MATTHEW WHITFIELD (Conner Smith)
Theater: Brave New Worlds (The Tempest), Footloose, "8", YELLOWF ACE, Romeo and Juliet, Urinetown, Bent and Oklahoma, and at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dracula, HEIST!, Important People, and The Talent. BS in Expressive Art Forms, University of Idaho; Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice. *actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association
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SHELBY ARNOLD (Stage Manager)
Recent New York credits include Public Service, Bedtime Stories (Lust and Liberty Productions), and Twelfth Night (Lovecreek Productions). Prior to moving to NYC, Shelby directed a number of shows at Wesleyan University including Black Comedy and How I Learned to Drive. ADAM HARRELL (Playwright)
Adam's plays have been produced throughout the country at various venues, including Theater Artists Olympia (WA), Las Vegas Fringe (NV), Homegrown Theater (ID), Three Leaches (CO), and Blank Canvas Theater (OH). He co-developed and premiered Buffalo Heights with Tongue in Cheek Theater in NYC. His play, Birds of Paradise, won the NPA New Play Award, the Three Leaches One-Act Competition, and was a runner-up for the Georgia Arts & Letters Prize, along with being an official selection of FringeNYC. MFA in playwriting from the University of Idaho. He is thrilled and charmed to be reunited with Tongue in Cheek! JAKE LIPMAN (Producing Artistic Director)
Since founding Tongue in Cheek in 2006, Jake has produced 33 productions, including 14 Plus 1 Solo Show Festivals. She appears onstage in many TIC shows, occasionally directs (the devising and first workshop of Buffalo Heights, Our Town, How I Learned to Drive, Places, Please and How to Behave), and in 2015, adapted The Inn at Lake Devine into a play with music, based on the best-selling novel of the same name. TIC's 2014 production of Buffalo Heights was the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Ltd grant for the development of new work. www.JakeLipman.com MICHAEL LOUNSBERY (Technical Advisor)
Our Town (TIC), A Streetcar Named Desire (Vermont Stage), Arms and the Man and Sylvia (Pioneer Valley Summer Theatre), Lobby Hero (New Century Theatre), and All Fall Down (The Tank). Founder, Bingo Pajamas Productions. MFA in Theatre Design, University of Memphis. https://www.michaellounsbery.com/ PHILIP ROTHMAN (Sound Designer)
In addition to working with TIC since its inception, on musical arrangements and choral direction for The Inn at Lake Devine and Our Town, Rothman's compositions have been performed by the Utah Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, United States Military Academy band. Awards: ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, a Renee B. Fisher Foundation Award, the Brian M. Israel Prize, and a fellowship from the League of American Orchestras. Film Orchestrations: Our Kind of Traitor, Too Big to Fail, You Don't Know Jack, and Teddy: In His Own Words. Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude from Rice University and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he was awarded a full scholarship. |