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Anora Oscar-winnner Albert Rudnitsky directs Crimes of the Heart at Jersey
City Theater Center
March 21-March 30
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We are so proud of everyone who worked on Anora and the director of our next
production at JCTC, Crimes of the Heart, Albert Rudnitsky. Albert is a very
talented and innovative director. Get your tickets before they are all gone!
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Meet the Cast of CRIMES OF THE HEART coming to Jersey City Theater Center March 21-March 30
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AUDREY ROSE ARNOLD
Audrey is an actor, writer, producer, and teaching artist
from Mobile, Alabama. She is a Neighborhood Playhouse graduate and
co-founder of Motherfather Productions. Recently she finished production on
a short film she co-wrote, produced, and acted in called ‘A Clown Story’
(co-starring Andrey Burkovskiy)—an absurd New York subway
meet-cute-gone-wrong that takes place entirely in a moving train car.
Audrey has acted in a slew of Off-Off and
so-Off-they’re-On-again theater productions since moving to New York. Some
of her favorites include To Tread Among Serpents (HB Playwrights), Miss
Julie (Culture Lab), and The Green Zone (ACME Studios). She is a NYC Artist
Corps grantee and teaches at the Atlantic Theater Acting School.
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ALBERT RUDNITSKY
Albert Rudnitsky is a Moscow Art Theater & Academy of
Theater Arts (GITIS) graduate and an international theater and film
director. Before emigrating from Russia, Albert worked as the Main Director
of the International Stanislavsky Foundation and Artistic Director of Sound
Media Kids School, a prestigious theater arts program for children with
campuses in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. His background working with
renowned theater artists such as Pyotr Fomenko and Eimuntas Nekrošius has
greatly informed his aesthetic and approach to directing both theater and
film. His theater productions have appeared in the Theater of Nations,
Taganka Theater, and Mayakovsky Theater He and his short films and music
videos have received acclaim from international and Oscar-qualifying
festivals. He recently worked as the Russian Language consultant and Script
Supervisor on Sean Baker’s Oscar-nominated film, Anora. He is a co-founder
of Motherfather Productions.
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RACHEL COSTER
Rachel Coster is a comedian, actress and filmmaker living in
Brooklyn, New York. She’s best known for hosting the short-form web series
“Boy Room.” She has performed stand-up comedy all over the country and
recently premiered as a panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. She is
over the moon to be entering the theater as an actor for the first time
since high school in this production of Crimes
of the Heart!
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BEN PETER
Ben Peter is thrilled to return to Motherfather Productions’
Crimes of the Heart
and continue working on ol’ Doc Porter. Originally from Reston, Virginia,
he now lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful girlfriend and three cats.
He would like to offer a huge thanks to everyone who gave him a place to
crash so he could make some theatre. Upcoming: Mr. and Mrs. Death.
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SABRINA FREIDMAN-SEITZ
Sabina Friedman-Seitz is an actor and producer. Acting film
and TV credits include Edge of Everything, Fingers,
Lorelei, The Florida Project, and The Boy Downstairs.
Producing credits include recent Sundance selects: Oh,
Hi! and Good One.
Sabina wrote, co-directed and starred in the short film Hundreds (Hollyshorts
2024). Stage credits include the world premiere of "Of the
woman...," written by Lily Houghton and directed by Kylie Brown. She
holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the Actor's Studio
Drama School.
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NATALIE AUSTIN
Natalie Austin is an actress, writer, and theater director.
She is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse and is the co-founder and
co-artistic director of These Are Real Tears (TART), a theater company in
New York City. Natalie co-wrote Nowhere Girls, a psychological horror
currently in development with Replica Productions.
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SHELDON DONENEBERG
Sheldon Donenebrg is an actor, generative artist, and
babysitter. Happy to be back with Motherfather for this exciting
production! Upcoming: Birding for Beginners, The
Tank. The
Jew of Malta, Red Bull Theatre. Upcoming: Three
Sisters, The Actors Studio.
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Thank you to all
our donors and sponsors!
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SUPPORTED
BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE JERSEY CITY ARTS AND CULTURE TRUST FUND.
These
events are made possible by numerous supporters, including the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the division of the Department of State,
the NJ Cultural Trust, the Hudson County Office of Cultural &
Heritage Affairs partner agency to NJ Council on the Arts,
Thomas Denise, Hudson County Executive and the Hudson County Board of
Commissioners, Jersey City Arts Council through the National Endowments for
the Arts. Thank you to the JCTC's dedicated board members and all of you
for supporting the arts.
For
those who are interested in attending any of the performances, sponsoring
any of the upcoming productions, rent the facilities, or purchasing tickets
for large groups, please email: info@jctcenter.org
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