Joann Young (Ellen in Mitch Mikinos) performed in plays and piano recitals as a young girl and was a member of the Yale Dramatic Association in college.  In her twenties, she published a non-fiction book and two children's books and had a play produced off-off Broadway.  For the next two decades she pursued a career in marketing and public relations in Los Angeles, where she coached actors and produced TV commercials and talk shows.  Since relocating in the Bay Area two years ago, she re-discovered her first love, acting, and has credits in film, video, modeling and theater. Joann teaches high school English. 

Jay Smith (Mitch in Mitch Mikinos)  is an acting veteran of over 30 years in various venues worldwide.  Jay began with an extensive professional radio and television broadcasting career in Washington DC at the ripe old age of 15 and continued it throughout the world during his 20 years in the U.S. Navy.  Upon retirement, Jay spent the next 14 years in the corporate world before becoming a full time actor, model, singer and voice talent.  His credits include several stage productions, television programs and commercials, feature films, short films and returns to the stage with Catchy Name.

Alexandra Frankel (Jennifer in Mitch Mikinos) comes to the Bay Area theatre scene from New York, where she performed at such venues as PS122, La MaMa ETC, George Street Playhouse and Crossroads Theatre.  Locally, she has worked with Thin Man Theatre, Subterranean Shakespeare, Arclight Repertory Theatre, …And Still…Theatre Company, and Bay Area Writers Launch.  Alex’s most recent credits include Thin Man Theatre’s A Little Time (Denise) and two short plays in the San Francisco Theater Festival.  Alex holds a BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Mark Samuel (Brendan in Mitch Mikinos) appeared in CatchyName's Corned Beef SF Fringe 2003 as well as Walk Like a Man and Tragedy of MacBush.  Film credits include Picnic by Allen White, Canvas by Kerry Gudjohnsen and Phoenix Rising by Miriam Schalit.  Mark has trained with Phil Bennett, Ed Hooks, Amy Freed, John Howard Swain and currently with Nancy Berwid at First Take.

Leer Relleum (Russell in Mitch Mikinos) is delighted to be back at work with Catchy Name. His previous work with the ensemble was in Evil Hamlet in April and Mitch for the SF Fringe Festival. Leer has worked locally with No Nude Men Ensemble for Heist a Crow. He is on screen in the dramatic short Mute, which is taking festivals by storm (www.mutethemovie.com).  As well as other indie feature length films The Four Twenty-One, SF Stories, and Silent Anna. Leer greatly thanks all who support, critique and take care of him! Check him out at http://talent.sfcasting.com/leerrelleum This is for Lloyd Sr. 

Belle Borovik (Cassandra in Mitch Mikinos) started her career as a teenage Joan of Arc on the stage of Moscow’s Lenkom Theater. A San Francisco local, Belle has worked in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, appearing as Margaret in Faust, Katharina in The Taming of The Shrew, Jerry in Too Bad..So Sad, Carmen in Tango La Melodia and Roma B. in Garbage, City and Death. Belle seeks character work on film as well as stage, with such roles as Clotho Eribus in the animation-filled Jinx, Audrey Jives in a comic book adaptation of the Templetons and Czeslawa Gor’ka/Officer Gor’ka in a full feature film Good Neighbors, based on Jan T. Gross’s best seller Neighbors. This is Belle’s first (and hopefully one of many) collaborations with Catchy Name.

Irving Schulman (Director of Mitch Mikinos) directed Catchy Name's Mitch SF Fringe festival 2008 and Evil Hamlet. Irving acted in I remember Mama (Papa, Madame Beauchamp), Street Car Named Desire (Steve Hubbell), Catchy Name's Playing in the Dark fringe Festival 2006, Romeo and Juliet Capulet, Othello, (Brabantio), Moon over Buffalo (Richard), School for Scandal (Master Rowley), The Lady is Not for Burning (Humphrey Divize), Lead role On the Razzle  (Herr Zangler), Twilight Zone episodes S.F. darkroom and what a crime Garcia Lorca (Antonio, Friar, Captain Nesteras). 

Carlo Matteucci (understudy for Brendan  in Mitch Mikinos, Front of House) is a Bay Area native Software Designer and actor. Universal Pictures You Don't Mess with the Zohan independent films and theater in Los Angeles and SF, multiple stints with the off-Broadway show hit Tony 'N Tina's Wedding as well as runway/print modeling for the fashion industry, most recently for Paul Mitchell. Carlo has studied under Marcia Kimmell's The Next Stage, Glorinda Marie of Get Bizzzy/SF Indieclub and Scott Sedita's Acting Studio in  Los Angeles. This is Carlo's first show with Catchy Name.  

Doug Marshall (Lights) studied theater arts at  Saddleback College,  Mission Viejo , under Dr. Patrick Fennell and performed in My Fair Lady, South Pacific and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Driving Miss Daisy and In Splendid Error, a play about John Brown and Frederick Douglas. He directed Pauline Macaulay's dark comedy Monica  and has worked with Multi-Ethnic Theater under Lewis Campbell in Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Twelve Angry Jurors, No Place to Be Somebody and in William Saroyan's The Time Of Your Life. He is also a singer-songwriter and bassist and co-wrote the libretto for the opera Smoke Times Seven. 

Jim Strope (Writer, Producer) is a playwright, poet, philosopher, wilderness backpacker and software developer living in San Francisco.  He wrote and produced Something You Might Want, Corned Beef, Playing in the Dark, and Mitch with the San Francisco Fringe Festival and produced Evil Hamlet at the StageWerx, 2009.  

 

Phyllis Holliday (speech coach) Theatre major at Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon. Played Pegeen in Playboy of the Western World and Bottom in an all-girl version of The Midsummer Night's Dream. translated Morality plays and acted for the Greengrocers of Norwich at the Renaissance Faire. speech coach for Rey Carolino's Midsummer Night's Dream. directed Medea. met Irving Schulman and Joann Young in I Remember Mama. Directed & acted in Doug Marshall's Miracle at Blaise. wrote a novel about photographing fairies in 1878 Oregon. 

The writing of 
Mitch Mikinos 
Jim Strope has written and produced Something You Might Want, Corned Beef, Playing in the Dark, and Mitch. He edited CatchyName's Evil Hamlet. He also wrote Weeping for Narcissus, a philosophical work, and Rags, a volume of poetry. WWW.SfSalvo.Com. jims@sfsalvo.com  Leer Relleum has appeared in CatchyName's Mitch and will play Polonius in Evil Hamlet. He has appeared in Heist A Crow and the feature length films Milk, The Four Twenty-One, and Silent Anna. He has a BFA in Painting and Illustration from the American Academy of Art, Chicago, and cherishes his yoko-geri kekomi. 
Irving Schulman has appeared in Street Car Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Moon over Buffalo, School for Scandal, The Lady is Not for Burning, On the Razzle, and What a Crime. He appeared in CatchyName's Playing in the Dark and directed CatchyName's Mitch. He is directing CatchyName's Evil Hamlet and digs graves drhook121157@gmail.com Abhi Katyal has appeared in CatchyName's Mitch and SF Free Civic's School for Scandal, Two Gentlemen of Sonoma, All's Well that Ends Well, and The Lady's Not for Burning. 
Joy Breed has appeared in CatchyName's Mitch. She is raising her two young boys Will and Fox.  Kirsten Solveig is a burlesque dancer with recent shows with Red Hots Burlesque, Hubba Hubba Revue, and Little Minskys Burlesque. She performed at the Sea of Dreams Festival on New Years Eve 2008. She appeared in CatchyName's Mitch.
Vonn Scott Bair has appeared in CatchyName's Mitch and will play Claudius in Evil Hamlet. He has appeared in four independent features, co-starred in two television series pilots, two plays and a television special broadcast worldwide by Channel 4 UK. Vonn has written many plays.  Paul Seliga lit up CatchyName's Mitch and will manage the stage for Evil Hamlet. Paul directed A Franciscan Tapestry and The Wolf of Gubbio.  He is a long-time member of the Mission Dolores Basilica Choir. Retired from work as a software engineer, he enjoys all aspects of community theatre.
CatchyName has put up four plays 
in the San Francisco Fringe Festival, is currently in rehearsal for our April production of Evil Hamlet at the Stage Werx Theatre in SF and has Mitch scheduled for September 2009 at the Phoenix Annex.  
CatchyName is a California Non Profit corporation.  Donations are tax-deductable.   		CatchyName is mounting 
Wm Shakespeare's Evil Hamlet at Stagewerx, 533 Sutter, SF, CA in April 2009.

Evil Hamlet

 

 

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Irving Schulman

Adapted by Jim Strope

 

 

You are nearest to our throne!
Cast and Crew

Matt Ingles (Hamlet) is thrilled to be performing as evil Hamlet. He lives in San Francisco with his beautiful, evil genius wife, two black cats, and his 7 month old son who is not at all evil. Raised amid the cornfields of Indiana , he always felt he would grow up to be evil and thanks Irving for giving him this opportunity to reach his full potential. Recent roles include Constantine in The Notebook of Trigorin and Jerry Lukowski in The Full Monty, both of which were, sadly, non-evil. In his spare time he enjoys performing such evil tasks as not separating his recycling, letting the water run while brushing his teeth, and driving an SUV.

 

Alex Plant (Laertes) splits his time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles .  Alex has starred in A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit), High School the Musical, Oklahoma and Paul in the Royal Underground's revival of Sondheim's Company.  Big screen credits include Shadow Conspiracy with Charlie Sheen, First Kid with Sinbad i the Movie, Divine Justice, and Milk. With Sean Penn as the son of Dermot McDuggan.  Alex has a minor in Theater from Vanderbilt University and loves bringing characters to life through song and dance. www.alexplant.com

   

Alexia Lodde (Ophelia) Attended The School of the Arts (SOTA), San Francisco , California and is training with Shelley Mitchell’s SF Actor’s Center.  She speaks Japanese and some Mandarin and has been training in theatre arts for 3 years.  This is Alexia’s first venture in community theatre and loves working with the cast and crew of Evil Hamlet!

 

 

  Charlotte Brockman (Queen Gertrude) is making her debut performance with CatchyName Productions at Stagewerx.  She is excited to be tackling Shakespeare again!  Relatively new to the Bay Area theatre scene, Charlotte has appeared onstage in San Rafael and has studied with Jean Shelton since venturing down from Oregon three years ago.  She is a survivor of the American Conservatory Theatre's Summer Training Congress. Favorite roles include Elaine in Arsenic and Old Lace, Marie in Woyzeck, Liz in The Water Children and Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona .  Charlotte would like to thank her fellow Evil Hamlet actors for a great experience and hopes to work with all of you again in the future!

   

Vonn Scott Bair (King Claudius) is an actor-playwright-screenwriter-director-cookie-baker based in San Francisco with 190 credits in his acting career.  Recent films to receive world premieres include Half-Life and Canary.  He has also played lead or co-lead roles in three plays, two television series pilots and four independent features. He thanks Jim Strope for bringing him onboard for his second adventure with CatchyName Theatre!

 

 

Leer Relleum (Polonius) has worked with Help Walrus Productions in the performance of Heist A Crow at Stage Werx Theatre. He can be seen in three feature length films: Milk, The Four Twenty-One, and Silent Anna. He has a BFA in Painting and Illustration from the American Academy of Art, Chicago , and cherishes his yoko-geri kekomi. Leer greatly appreciates all those who support, look after, critique, and criticize him.  Having appeared in Mitch, this is his second CatchyName production. 

Larry Rekow (Horatio) is excited to be working with Irving and Matt in his first CatchyName Theatre Co. production.  A San Francisco native, he studied music and theater at SF State University, SF City College and The New Conservatory Theatre Center.  Past productions include Oakland Opera Theater's Les Enfants Terribles (Narrator), NCTC's Pinocchio (Geppetto), and the Hillbarn Theatre's Man of La Mancha (the Barber and Anselmo) and The Notebook of Trigorin (Dr. Dorn). Thanks go out, as always, to his family for their unwavering support.

 

 

Irving Schulman (Director, Gravedigger) came from New York City to LA to do stand up comedy and to San Fracisco for community theatre.  He has appeared in Catchy Name’ s Playing in the Dark  and Mitch,  He has performed in I Remember Mama, Street Car Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet Capulet, Othello, Brabantio, Moon over Buffalo, School for Scandal, The Lady is Not for Burning, On the Razzle, Twilight Zone episodes at the Darkroom and What a Crime.  Hamlet is the 2nd play he has directed for CatchyName and will direct and appear as Petey Levine, a Jewish-Italian bagman, in the full-length version of Mitch in September 2009 at the Phoenix Annex in SF. 

 

 

 

Paul Seliga (Stage Manager) has worked backstage for with Living Miracle Productions and directed A Franciscan Tapestry and The Wolf of Gubbio.  He has volunteered at Pacifica Spindrift Players and executed lighting for Catchy Name Productions' Mitch.  He is a founding member of the Mission Dolores Theater Arts Group, where he will direct Bigger Than Life, their first production, in May. 

 

 

 

Doug Marshall (Lighting) studied theater arts at Saddleback College , Mission Viejo , under Dr. Patrick Fennell, and performed in My Fair Lady, South Pacific and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and directed Pauline Macaulay's one-act dark comedy Monica. For the Black Repertory Theater, he performed as Mr. Studevant in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy, and Chatham in In Splendid Error, a play about John Brown and Frederick Douglass. he has worked with Multi-Ethnic Theater under Lewis Campbell in Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Twelve Angry Jurors, No Place to Be Somebody and in William Saroyan's The Time Of Your Life. He is also a singer-songwriter and bassist, performing for clients of The Living Room, a senior citizen drop-in center in SF, and co-wrote the libretto for the opera Smoke Times Seven.

 

Maria graham (Costumes) is a self-confessed shopaholic, canvassing Bay Area thrift shops and flea markets in search of costume pieces evocative in nature.  Most recent productions include The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer for Custom Made Theatre, La Belle Helene for Pocket Opera, her goth fairytale All’s Well That Ends Well for the San Francisco Free Civic Theatre and Do I Hear a Waltz? for the Masquers Playhouse.  Next up will be a very glamorous Rumors at Pacifica Spindrift and Carmen, again for Pocket Opera.

 

Jim Strope (Script editor, Producer) is a playwright, poet, philosopher, wilderness backpacker and software developer living in San Francisco .  He wrote and produced Something You Might Want, Corned Beef, Playing in the Dark, and Mitch in association with the San Francisco Fringe Festival.

 

CatchyName Theatre Company has produced plays in San Francisco since 2002.  DVD’s of past shows are available at the concession stand. 

Our work is sharp, cultural criticism directed at the excesses of hedonism and greed in post-modern culture.  See our production history and on-line videos at www.CatchyNameTheatre.org

CatchyName Theatre Company is a California Non Profit corporation with tax-exempt status with the State of California and the US IRS.  Tax-deductable. donations can be made to CatchyName Theatre Company.  Please contact jims@sfsalvo.com

 

Coming soon: Mitch, a retelling of Agamemnon, by Jim Strope.