Taste of Pompeii
Taste of Pompeii Menu
I Course
Goat cheese and kalamata olive stuffed peppadew peppers with a balsamic glaze II Course
Lamb or vegetarian sliders on hawaiian rolls with sweet pickles and feta dill cream sauce III Course
Ricotta Cheesecake bites with berry compote
Cover: Laura Mansoori, Photo By Rose Flores
CAST & CREW PRODUCTION TEAM Producer..................................................................... Alyssa Will Zegers Director........................................................... Monica Long Tamborello Fight Choreographer/Director..................................Roberta Emerson Movement Choreographer...............................................Rebekah Lane Design Consultant...................................................... Alex Whittenberg Props Master..............................................................................Lisa Buck Costume Designer............................................................. Kat Henwood Light Designer & Operator................................................ Aaron Frank Sound Operator............................................................Anthony Narciso Sound Design...................................................................... Kevin Becker Music Composer....................................................................Bobbie Bell Stage Manager.......................................................................Blue Estrella
CAST Ensemble.............................................................................. Katie DeBari Ensemble........................................................................... Sarah Lockard Ensemble................................................................Sissy Anne Quaranta Ensemble............................................................................. Amy Sullivan Ensemble................................................................................ Justin Ortiz Ensemble......................................................................Annabell Mizrahi Host....................................................................................... Krista Miller Amazon...................................................................................... Ema Pava Achillia............................................................................Edmarie Montes Empress Poppaea........................................................... Laura Mansoori Slave Girl Gaia............................................... Monica Long Tamborello Eumachia..........................................................................Sarah Mathews -3-
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Katie De Bari (Ensemble) is an actor, writer, and lifelong acrobat and dancer native to Orlando. She graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama, and is so proud and lucky to keep working with Becky Lane, Alyssa Will Zegers, and Mad Cow Theatre. Her latest piece was Dark Skies, produced in collaboration with her former castmates and stage manager, the women of Mad Cow’s Men On Boats. Her Napolitano ancestors are proud that she is a Woman of Pompeii! Katie is represented by 22Talent. Roberta Emerson(Fight Choreographer/ Director) is a Director, Actor and Producer, and teacher among many other hats she proudly wears. She is a graduate of both the University of Minnesota with a BFA in Acting and Theatre Management and New York University with an MFA in Acting. She has worked as an actor and director in many regional theaters around the country, has done extensive voice-over commercial and film work, and has been a teaching artist both stateside and in Europe. She is currently the Director of Theatre
for Montverde Academy’s Theatre Conservatory and is repped by Lock Talent. Blue Estrella (Stage Manager) graduated from Stetson University and began her theatre career at SAK Comedy Lab as the House Manager and lighting/sound improviser for the live shows. She is currently the Resident SM for Beth Marshall Presents and Play-In-A-Day. She has stage managed for Wanzie Presents, Garden Theatre, Theater West End, Mad Cow Theatre, and the Orlando Fringe. Besides stage managing, she is also a color guard performer! She performed in the 2019 Macy’s Day Parade and has been directing/choreographing the Ocoee High Knights Visual Ensemble since 2016. IG: #ocoeeknightsvisualensemble #ocoeehsband REBEKAH LANE (Director ) is thankful to work with Mad Cow! Her most recent projects with the herd include director for Men on Boats and choreographer for the musical Once!. Favorite projects include puppetry coaching for Mad Cow Theatre’s production of Hand to
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God and directing off-Broadway production of Rebel Girls for NTSA. Rebekah earned her MFA at Towson University. She is the Director of Puppetry for Phantasmagoria Orlando and the Director for the School of Arts and Entertainment at Valencia College. www.rebekahlane.com Sarah Lockard (Ensemble) is grateful to be back with the in the pasture and to join these incredible cast mates in Pompeii! Previous Mad Cow shows include Recent shows include Pericles, Major Barbara, The Lion in Winter, Amadeus, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, All-Female 1776, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Pride and Prejudice. She has also recently appeared in The Birds and 1984 at the Garden Theatre, an all-female Twelfth Night directed by Chris Rushing, The Bacchae directed by Jeremy Seghers, and Everyone Wants to Love Your Beating Heart with Playlist Seattle. She also dances with Voci Dance and works for Valencia College. Lots of love and thanks to her family, Stephen, and the puppies.
Laura Mansoori (Empress Poppaea) is an accomplished actor, choreographer, yogi & teaching artist. She currently teaches for Theatre South Playhouse’s Conservatory Program. A graduate of Bradley University, Laura has performed in Illinois, New York and all over Central Florida. She loves being a part of play readings and new works. Favorite credits include: West Side Story, Singin’ in the Rain, A Christmas Story, Hello Dolly!, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical, The Royal Family, Grinchmas & Boeing, Boeing. www.lauramansoori.com Sarah E. Mathews (Eumachia) is delighted to perform with Mad Cow Theatre again; her previous credits include Gloria, The Laramie Project, Candida and Anton in Show Business, to name a few. She’s also had the pleasure of performing in shows at Orlando Shakes, Orlando REP, CFCArts and Theatre Downtown. She spent a decade in NYC, performing as an actor and improvisor, and now calls Florida home. To see her skits, cartoons and ugly face cakes,
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follow her @sarahemesss on IG. As always, for my family. Krista Miller (Host) has been a performer in Orlando for over 30 years. This includes 16 years at Disneys Comedy Warehouse and Disenchanted at the Orlando Fringe Festival. Thanks go out to her husband Mark, her boys and Mad Cow. Annabell Mizrahi (Ensemble) feels incredibly blessed to be a part of this project alongside this stellar cast and production team. You may have seen her in In the Heights at Osceola Arts as Camila, or Mrs. Crachit in A Fringemas Carol at Loch Haven Park. She thanks the team endlessly for the opportunity and for a memorable experience. EdmarIE Montes (Achillia) is thrilled to be joining Women of Pompeii as a fighter. From Orlando, FL, Edmarie is a graduate Theatre UCF with her BFA in Acting. Previous credits include: We Carry The Dream (Dream
Keeper), As You Like It (Pheobe), Tecumseh! Outdoor Drama (Tecumapese), Romeo and Juliet: Dos Familias (Prince), The Music Man (Eulalie Shinn), Extremities (Marjorie). Justin Ortiz (Ensemble) performed in the Orlando theatre community for a few years. Justin has done Billy Elliot at the Garden Theatre, Westside Story as Chino at Theatre West End, A Christmas Story the musical, and most recently American Idiot the musical at Theatre West End. Justin is very excited to be part of this project and event. Ema Pava (Amazon) is thrilled to return to Mad Cow with the cast of Women of Pompeii! You can catch Ema next at her UCF senior voice recital and at events year-round with Phantasmagoria Orlando. Favorite roles include a Bachant in the Bacchae and Albany in King Lear. Ema is currently pursuing her BM in voice performance at UCF in Orlando, FL. You can find her online as EmaPavaDiaz on FB and IG.
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Sissy Anne Quaranta (Ensemble) BA in Theatre, Music/ Dance Minors KSU. Improv: Second City Conservatory, iO Harold Ensemble, CIC House Ensemble. Chicago Credits: Audrey O’Connor (U/S) Redtwist Theatre’s “Between Riverside and Crazy;” Nini, Prop Thtr’s Neverland; Sissay, Surging Theatrics American Idiot the Musical; Ester (Daphne Moon) Star Spangled Sitcoms; President Tomo, The Annoyance’s Dank Tank; Regional: Dirty Gertie Teatro Martini; Missy Sissy Elf SeaWorld; Female Rehearsal U/S, Jurassic World Live; Stage Manager Oh Hi Johnny: The Roomsical; Wongette Host/Swing, Wild Women of Planet Wongo; Jordan Baker, Theatre Lawrence’s The Great Gatsby; Park Vocal Swing, Busch Gardens.” Web Series: Robin “Merry Maidens.” Instagram: MissSissyQ. Amy L. Sullivan (Ensemble) is delighted to make her Mad Cow debut with Women of Pompeii! Recent credits include OA’s White Christmas (Ensemble); Monarch (Demon/ Angel); Summit Church’s Jonah and the Wave Breakers (Dander), Godspell (Disciple); FBCO’s Singing
Christmas Trees (Dancer); and The Light Princess (Princess) at Orlando Fringe. Amy also directs high school theatre & Troupe 8346 while teaching history and English at International Community School. She is thankful for this unique opportunity to tell a powerful and momentous story- especially during such a tumultuous year. Amy is also thankful for the support and love from her husband and family. Monica Long Tamborello (Slave Girl/Director) is a director, actor, and teaching artist who has worked in the Orlando theatre community for over twenty years. Directing credits include The Woodstock Tontine, My Life As You and Eggs on Ice with the Women’s Voices Play Festival, The 19th Amendment Project, Rapture Blister Burn, Grounded, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (Mad Cow Theatre); After Orlando (ATHE Conference 2019); Othello, Henry V, The Winter’s Tale, As you Like It, Macbeth, and Hamlet (TYC/ Orlando Shakes); and Number the Stars, A Little Princess (Young Actors Theatre, Tallahassee). Acting credits include Lena/ Leviticus (Orlando Fringe); Olga/ You Can’t Take It With You (Mad
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Cow Theatre); M’Lynn/Steel Magnolias (CFCA); and Dickens by Candlelight (RSC Productions). ALYSSA WILL ZEGERS (Producer) is excited to be working at Mad Cow full time after stage-managing Men on Boats earlier this year. Her recent credits include stage-managing Orlando Shakes’ productions of Snow White, Miss Nelson is Missing, and the world premiere of Jack and the Beanstalk. Special thanks to her husband and family for putting up with her schedule. Mad Cow Theatre now in our 23rd season, is downtown Orlando’s destination for professional theatre. MCT was founded on the belief that the theatre is a dynamic and powerful means of social understanding, as well as a hugely entertaining art form.Through the combinationof passionate, skillful acting and compelling, insightful writing, nurtured by an attentive and ever-changing process, Mad Cow presents entertaining works of theatre to an ever-widening audience — promoting, enhancing,
and celebrating the human condition through art. With a passion for both classic and contemporary plays representing the best of American and world literature, MCT is committed to story-telling with no boundaries, to a wide range of audiences. MCT attracts the area’s most talented performers, designers, and directors. A mainstay of the company is its dedication to the process of creating theatre, incorporating in-depth rehearsaland research periods along with a nurturing collaborative process. Awards include Arts Innovator of the Year (United Arts of Central Florida), Best Place to See a Play,Orlando Sentinel Best Live Theatre, Orlando Weekly, Best Local Theatre Company, Orlando Magazine, and Best Performance Theatre, Orlando Business Journal.
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Mad Cow Theatre Staff Executive Director Mitzi Maxwell Director of Operations Audrey McGowen Producer Alyssa Zegers Ashley Ahr Manager of Art and Design Lisa Buck
Development and Marketing Coordinator Alletta Gentry
Patron Experience Manager Maddie Stroud Patron Services Assistant Brent Lane Max Pinsky Charis Walter
Director of Special Projects Jessica Kaschube
Photographer Tom Hurst
Production Coordinator Kat Henwood
Founding Members Rus Blackwell Trudy Bruner Alan Bruun Dennis Neal Board Members Bill Boles Meredith Egan Kathy Godfrey Mitzi Maxwell Susi Rivera Karenna Senors
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Stacy Barton • Rose Flores • Monica McCown Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra/Carl Rendek Orlando Science Center • Universal Orlando
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