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REBECCA SCHADE > executive director

is an internationally award-winning designer who has worked in two- & three - dimensional design for over 25 years. Her studio, French Curve Design, specializes in film, video, media and installation.

Her works have garnered over 40 major national and international awards and appeared in such shows as > Graphis / Switzerland, The One Show / NYC, Creativity / NYC, the New York, Boston, and Houston Art Directors Clubs. Her film projects have won Best of Show at the International Festival for Multi-Image.

Rebecca's works for the stage have ranged from international productions to regional Equity Theater.

Rebecca is a songwriter and playwright. She is the author of a new screenplay, Taganka Blues. Rebecca is co-founder of culture*park.

 

SYLVIA ANN SOARES > actor

CCRI; 93/Brown

Recently appeared in The Sound and the Fury at Perishable Theatre playing Dilsey and Mrs. Compson simultaneously and the Narrator.

Other credits: Session 9 . American Playhouse: Three Sovereigns for Sarah (Tituba), Baretta, Kojak, Police Story, Good Times, Hardy Boys, Dr.Hospital, Delvecchio Public Theater (Black Terror); Imamu Baraka Slaveship; LA Shakespeare Festival (Lady Capulet), as an original member worked with Adrian Hall / Trinity Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum; founding member of Garrick Players (DC) performing mainstage/schools and State Department Tour/Germany, Brown Summer Theatre, Rites and Reasons Created: The Madame/Gentleman Caller in Woodie King, Jr Black Quartet; title role in Sister Son/ji (Negro Ensemble Company). National Tours: No Place To Be Somebody, The River Niger (NEC).Has played opposite Lou Gosset, Jr., Roger Mosely, Vanessa Redgrave and others.

 

PAULO A. PEREIRA > playwright

was born and raised in New Bedford, MA. He graduated from Bishop Stang High School and earned a degree in Theater Arts and Computer Science from MIT in Cambridge, MA. He was involved in numerous productions, on- and off-campus, as an actor, a director, a producer, and a playwright. Amarelo, his first full-length play, opened in New York City in 1998. More recently, he co-produced the first-ever MIT Theater Arts Alumni production. For the last eight years, Paulo has worked as a customer support engineer for Teloquent Communications in Billerica, MA, which is also where he currently resides with his wife Leah (and, very soon, their first child).

Paulo would like to thank Patty Thomas and the cast and crew for their dedication, his family and friends for their love and support, and Leah because none of this would matter without her.

CHRISTOPHER PERROTTI > actor

Ishmael et al has been acting within the New England theatre scene since 1987. He has performed with the Cumberland Company, Perishable Theatre, Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre, Rhode Island Theatre Ensemble, Westerley Shakespeare, among others. Some favorite roles include: Cyramo, in Cyrano de Bergerac; Valmont, in Dangerous Liasons; and the Douglass, in Henry IV part I. Chris can be seen in Providence as Caliban in The Tempest with the Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre, and will be on tour with Culture*Park's The Everlasting Itch in Fall/Spring 2001-2002.

FRED CABRAL > actor /playwright

is a native of New Bedford who has lived and worked in New York as a theater professional for the past 17 years.

He has appeared off Broadway in dozens of productions, most recently in �Widow�s Blind Date�, with the March Theater Group in Chelsea. A graduate of Trinity Rep Conservatory, Fred also has a degree in music education from U Mass Lowell and has taught theater and music in New York, New Bedford, and Switzerland.

JOAN THOMAS-MELLO > dancer

is founder and artistic director of the New Bedford based childrens dance company, Kids on the Move, Joan Thomas-Mello is a dancer, choreographer and teacher who has taught dance, choreographed and produced performances with hundreds of New Bedford school children. She received her formal dance training at the School of the Hartford Ballet, where she earned her teachers certification in dance education. Further studies have included American Dance Festival, Duke University; Ramon de los Reyes Spanish Dance Company of Boston; and La China in Madrid, Spain. From 1987 to 1997, Ms. Thomas-Mello was an instructor for the School of the New Bedford Ballet, and director of its childrens program from 1991-1997.