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ASPHALT JUNGLE SHORTS IV

David Antscherl	David Antscherl has been involved with theatre ever since he can remember. He was scripting and putting on shows with his sister for his long-suffering family, providing the lighting (only blowing the fuses once!) and makeup – all before the age of ten. A career in theatre was destined. David has been a professional set and costume designer for well over 100 shows in the past thirty years. He has also done makeup for stage, TV and film, stage managed, constructed and painted scenery and properties, and directed. Directing credits have included a number of comedies, an opera and, most recently, a one-act play by Charmian Christie in The Record NewWorks Festival. When not designing, David writes, cleans and conserves paintings, teaches and builds commissioned scale ship models. He is a member of Associated Designers of Canada, Theatre Ontario’s Talent Bank and is Adjunct Professor in the Theatre Arts Department of Redeemer University College in Ancaster. David lives in Waterloo with his indulgent wife Carol and the world’s friendliest watch-cat, Kit Kaboodle. David will be directing BRIDE ON THE RUN & QUEST.
Samuel Bentley	Samuel Liam Bentley is in Grade 11 and part of the tech crew at his school, which he loves.. He emerged from the womb looking for the stage. He had his first agent by five, much to the horror of his mum. He has been in several films and television shows. He has taken several drama courses, including a three week Shakespeare intensive with Prof. Leslie O’Dell, when he was eight. His favourite performances were in Due South (Paul Gross is really cool!), The Spreading Ground with Dennis Hopper and Witch Blade. His live performances include playing Puck and Macbeth in ‘A Midsummer’s Afternoon Nap’. But what he really wants to do is direct………………….film! Sam has been our Everything Man for Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II, III and She Speaks 2007 & 2008. Sam will be our Everything Man again.
William Bolden	William Borden's plays have won over 100 national playwriting competitions and have had over 300 productions, at Actors Theatre of Louisville and in New York, Los Angeles, India, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Germany, Norway, and elsewhere. The film adaptation of his play, The Last Prostitute, starring Sonia Braga and produced by Universal Studios, was shown on Lifetime Television and in Europe. His play Reunion, retitled I Remember You Now and starring Deborah Harry, was filmed for theatrical release by Darinka Productions and has been shown in New York, Paris, London, Croatia, Romania, and Wales. His plays have been published in Scenes and Monologues from the Best New International Plays, The Best Stage Scenes 1998, The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2007, The Playwrights' Center Monologues for Women, and many other anthologies. His novel, Dancing with Bears, is forthcoming from Livingston Press. His novel Superstoe, first published in the U.S. by Harper & Row and in England by Victor Gollancz, was reissued by Orloff Press. A Core Alumnus Playwright at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, he is a member of PEN, The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and the Authors Guild. William’s Website William’s play, QUARKS, will be performed.
Jennifer Cornish	JENNIFER CORNISH has most recently appeared as Martha in "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" (KWLT), Sally in the premiere production of Dianne Lococo's "Alien Guest", Penny in "Money and Friends" and Alexa in "As Bees In Honey Drown" (Galt LT).   You may also recognize her as the itinerant bongo player from "Asphalt Jungle Shorts III" with Flush Ink Productions, and her readings in She Speaks 2008. Jennifer’s play, PERMIT ME PLEASE will be performed. She will be performing in SPIT, YES-NO and QUARKS.
Nicholas Cumming	NICHOLAS CUMMING is a local theatre creator with a BA in Drama and English from the University of Waterloo. He has been a company member of the Multicultural Theatre Space since 2004. He has appeared in Exit Strategy, Yes or No!, Seasons of Immigration, Legion of Memory I + II, Me Here/Me Happy, Motio X Industria, and Three Legged Horse with the MT Space; Tennessee Williams’ I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow with Poor Tom Productions; Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II & III with Flush Ink; and Mimetic Flesh/Mimetic Hotel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Spring Awakening with UW Drama. He directed and wrote The Children’s Crusade for the UPStart Fringe 2007, and HE for UPStart 2004.  He is a poet and playwright currently working on several plays with Pat the Dog, KW’s professional playwrights’ development centre. He is also a member of the earthling collective, whose WARMER project is examining the environment and human dynamics in a local context. Nick will be directing TOTEM & MIS==CHARACTERIZATION.
Catherine Frid	Catherine Frid's one-act drama Greater Good was selected by 6^th@Penn Theatre in San Diego, California, for inclusion in the Human Rights Play Festival 2007. Her play Golden Door, a full-length drama, was read by Toronto's Praxis Theatre as part of its New Play Reading Series, in December 2006. She sits on the board of directors  of Aluna Theatre in Toronto, and Flush Ink Performing Arts. Catherine’s play, Quest, will be performed.
Paddy Gillard-Bentley	Paddy has been involved in one aspect of theatre or another since her Mother, Tessa, was four months pregnant with her performing in Time Out For Ginger. Her full-length play, Shaking the Dew from the Lilies, had its debut in Kitchener, Ont. Canada, in November 2002, and received its American premier in May - June, 2005, in Denver, Co. at The Playwright Theatre, directed by Cynthia Davies. One acts; White Noise, directed by Stuart Scadron-Wattles, and Sanguine Sonata, directed by Gary Kirkham, were produced with Theatre & Company, Comic Strip appeared in a festival of shorts in Toronto with The Cabbagetown Theatre Company, and Quantum Entanglement has been produced in Calgary AB and Philadelphia PA. Several ten minute and shorter plays have been produced including: One Tender Lie (Sacramento), In Tense City (North Dakota, Boston and Provincetown, Cynthia’s Story (Provincetown), Frailty Thy Name is Woe (Manhattan). Frailty Thy Name is Woe was published in 2008 in Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays #2, nicely situated between Arthur Miller’s bit from The Last Yankee and Steve Martin’s Underpants. Paddy is the Artistic Director for Flush Ink Performing Arts - the President of ICWP (International Centre for Women Playwrights), was in Writer's Bloc, a playwright's group affiliated with Theatre & Company for four years and was a member of The Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Paddy will be directing BACK TO BACK, GENES & QUARKS. Her play RING TONE will be performed.
Tom Jacob Ewles	Tom is an 18 year old student from the East End of London, UK. Gripped with a fascination for entertaining at a young age, he has aspired to become an actor or writer ever since. Or a fireman. The first acting role he can remember undertaking was a lamppost, but he’s moved onto more challenging things since then. As a writer he lists his influences as Harold Pinter, Philip Ridley, Steven Berkoff, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde and strange people he meets on the streets of London. He completes his current education courses in July and intends to take a year out before further education in order to sleep, write, act, eat, and play more videogames. Hopefully a drama school will take pity on him and let him enroll in 2009. Tom’s play, GENES, will be performed.
Yohanan Kaldi	Yohanan Kaldi born in Hungary, and has lived in Israel since 1968. He has three children, two dogs and an old Peugeot and lives with his wife Hagar in a village on the northern rim of the Negev Desert. Yohanan is a graduate of the "Mozarteum" Music Academy, Salzburg, worked as solo-repetitor, dramaturge, music editor for TV, script writer and producer of multimedia shows. He began to write for the theatre a short while ago, mainly libretti for operas: THE BIG BAKERY ROBBERY - based on two short stories by Haruki Murakami; winner of the 2007 International Libretto Competition of NetzZeit Vienna, The Luzerne Theatre (Switzerland) and OperaGenesis (ROH2, London). Music by Misato Mochizuki (Japan), for premieres in Luzerne and Vienna, January 2009. OPERATION MIDNIGHT (Operation Mitternacht) - music by Richard Farber (Israel), a comic mystery opera that was produced by the "bonn chance!" Music Theatre of Oper Bonn in 2002. MACHA'S DIARY - music by Emil Viklicky (Czech Republic), premiered at the Prague National Theatre's Kolowrat Auditorium in 2003, played for two seasons. WATCH YOUR PANTRY! - comic pocket opera, music: Zbynek Mateju (Czech Republic), after a short story by Karel Čapek. In negotiation towards premiere during the 2008/9 season. THE AXE (Die Axt) - music: Max E Keller (Switzerland), commissioned by the Swiss Pro Helvetia Foundation and the Komische Oper Berlin, a horror opera based upon Max Frisch's "Graf Öderland" for playhouse: ANOTHER TUNE – 3 short plays for a theater night and for two actors. "TOTEM" is one of the 3 pieces. Yohanan’s play, TOTEM, will be performed.
Brian Kelly	Brian Z. Kelly is the President of Jump Logistics, an international courier company based in Cambridge. If he wasn’t so busy doing that, he would be writing things from plays to lyrics, he would be acting, maybe even try his hand at directing, he would finish his short film, resume his photographic passion, play his guitar on every decent beach in the world and he would have a really cool puppet tv show. Brian excels at flying a stunt kite perched on top of a huge hay bale, while connecting deliveries across the country on his blackberry. He plays soccer, coaches soccer but more than all these things, he loves to hang out with his son, Liam. Aside from his company, Jump Logistics, being an official Flush Ink Sponsor, Brian has been our M.C. for She Speaks 2007 & 2008, and has done most of the promo shots for Asphalt Jungle Shorts. He is also on the Board of Flush Ink Performing Arts. Brian is our photographer.
Hank Kimmel	Hank Kimmel is a founding member and President of Working Title Plawywrights, an Atlanta-based theatre company dedicated to the development of playwrights and new plays – http://www.workingtitleplaywrights.com One of his goals is to have his work produced in 50 states, and he is more than halfway to his goal.  More info:  http://ww.hankkimmel.com Hank’s Play, MIS==CHARACTERIZATION, will be performed.
Gary Kirkham	Gary Kirkham is a playwright, actor, filmmaker, et al. His play, Queen Milli of Galt, won the Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Competition and will be part of the 2007 Blyth Festival Season. His one act play, Look, was adapted into a short film staring Mike Peng and Alan Sapp. His newest play, Falling: A Wake, will premiere at the Registry Theatre March 15-24, 2007! Gary is a member of Lost & Found Theatre. He has also acted with Theatre & Company and most recently, MT Space, touring in their version of The Season of Immigration. Gary spent years as an improviser with several comedy troupes including Mental Floss and was in The Second City’s Master class. And, if you didn’t blink, you might have seen him in several sketches on The Kids in the Hall. As a filmmaker, Gary filming Bard on the Street, a series of Shakespearean monologues performed on locations throughout the region. Gary will be directing A BIG FRONT PORCH & YES-NO.
Tracey Kenyon	Tracey has been involved in all AJS and both She Speaks. Last time, we were thrilled to add to her involvement, director. She is an active member in variety of community theatres, and performs regularly with The Mysterious Players - A theatre company that travels across Ontario performing Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. Some favourite shows include, Hello Dolly!! – Elmira Theatre Company, Devil’s Disciple – Galt Little Theatre, Funny Valentine – Theatre in the Trees and I Won’t Tell a Soul – Galt Little Theatre. Early in 2008, Tracey was nominated for a WODL Festival - best actress for her wonderful performance in Ten times Two. Tracey is the Secretary of Flush Ink Performing Arts. Tracey will be directing RING TONE, SPIT, PERMIT ME PLEASE & PIECES OF MIME, and will be performing in PIECES OF MIME, BACK TO BACK, GENES & BRIDE ON THE ROCKS.
Mark Kochut	MARK KOCHUT is coming out of retirement for this AJS – on many levels. Mark got a taste for theatre in high school in North Bay - the theatre hotbed of North America. During his summers, his involvement with The Unicorn Theatre honed such diverse skills as set-building to a role in Streetcar Named Desire – “Hot tamales! Get your red-hot tamales!” Since then, he’s embarked on a quest to find the perfect job, which may not exist. Mark enjoys ball hockey, stunt kite-flying and online poker. He is an amateur mycologist who most loves to spend time with his two favourite ladies – his wife and his daughter. Mark will be our Stage Manager and he will be performing in BRIDE ON THE ROCKS & QUARKS
Carol Lewis	CAROL LEWIS Carol Lewis is honoured to work with such talented people at Flush Ink Productions. She is indulging her lifelong passion for theatre by her recent plunge into acting. Carol has been active both backstage and onstage for various community theatres over the past few years. She has performed as narrator for Distler’s Dance of Death with the Menno Singers choir, and contributed as a reader for 'She Speaks' 2007. Carol lives in Waterloo with her indulgent hubby David and their lovable feline ʽKit Kaboodle Most recently Carol narrated the role of 'Death' in Distler’s ‘Dance of Death’ with the Menno Singers in Kitchener, and read for She Speaks, 2007. Carol will be performing in QUEST.
Katharine Mills	When she was recently asked what her "mode of creative expression" was, Katharine Mills responded, "chocolate." She writes, makes things, and dances whenever possible, and is known for being able to fall asleep anywhere and in any position. She has been acting since she was fifteen years old; recent appearances include "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow" and "Still Life in Leather" with Poor Tom Productions, and "The Children's Crusade" at UW's Upstart fringe festival. She was also in Asphalt Jungle Shorts II & III and read for She Speaks 2008. Katharine lives a vagabond downtown Kitchener with a posse of three cats. Katharine will perform in QUEST, TOTEM, MIS==CHARACTERIZATION & PERMIT ME PLEASE.
Douglas Morton	This is Douglas' third Asphalt Jungle Shorts, although she has been heavily involved in local theatre for many years. With KW Little Theatre, she has played the roles of Mort, Brutus, and most recently Guildenstern to Roger Sumner's Rosencrantz (and Kris Bowman's Hamlet) in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. When not acting, she's been doing puppet shows, science shows and modeling nude for Universities and local studios. Having recently realized that she's transgender, Douglas would like to thank the people of KW for being overall very Queer friendly. Yay diversity! Douglas will perform in TOTEM, SPIT & MIS==CHARACTERIZATION.
German Munoz	Tijuana, Mexico is where German Munoz will always call home. He wrote his first play when he was in junior high. Seeing it performed by the class caused him much exhilaration, but the thought of becoming a playwright didn’t materialize until much later when his mother dragged him to see Edward Albee’s “Three tall women” after her friend cancelled at the last minute. Seeing this play, performed in Spanish, made him realize how powerful and moving theater could be. He currently lives near Seattle, WA in the USA and misses Mexico every day. German’s play, YES-NO will be performed.
Francesca Sanders	Francesca Sanders is an award winning playwright who hails from Portland, Oregon. Since she began writing in 2000, she’s been the recipient of The Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama, Portland Civic Theatre Guild Fellowship for Theatrical Excellence, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation- Playwriting Grant, Women’s Work Residency- New Perspectives Theatre, New York; Commission- Portland Center Stage; Commission- Integrity Productions (8 Views Towards Center runs October- November 2007.) She has also been selected to participate in the Seven Devil’s Playwriting Conference. She’s been a Finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize, Seattle Rep’s New Work Festival, Ojai Playwriting Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, JAW (just add water/West,) New Harmony Project, Play Labs (Playwright’s Center Minneapolis) and has had readings or productions from Bangalore, India to North Dakota. “The juggling that Sanders does with reality and illusion is deft and skillful. A terrific piece of theatrical writing.” “A captivating new play.”- NY Theatre.com “A very talented playwright” The Oregonian Francesca’s monologue – A BIG FRONT PORCH – will be performed.
	Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He has published a novel, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (Pottersfield Press), nine short story collections, the previous three by Gaspereau Press — Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized?, Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown, and Would You Hide Me? — and a poetry collection, An Affection for Precipices (Serengeti Press). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over thirty of his one-act and full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States, including the full-length plays Acting Violently, The Franz Kafka Therapy Session, and The Golden Age of Monsters, and the one-act plays Godot’s Leafless Tree, The Waiting Ends, The Entrance-or-Not Barroom, No End in Sight, Flowers for the Vases, The Word-Lover, Laugh for Sanity, A Murderous Art, Back to Back, Freesias in Whiskey, The Heirloom: An Evidence Play, and God’s Work. J.J.’s play is BACK TO BACK
Roger Sumner	Roger is excited to be back on the street for his fourth consecutive AJS show. You may have seen him downtown recently with Warmer in the Living Earth Festival or on stage in KWLT's well-received "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead." He also just sort of turns up a lot. A dedicated dilettante and confirmed niobiumaddict, Roger likes to play with words, sharp objects, improvised musical instruments and gravity. Roger lives uptown in Waterloo with no cats, no rats, and an anthropomorphic crow. Roger will perform in RING TONE, GENES & QUARKS.
	Arlene R. Thomas is a local actor and producer and co-founder of Shadow Puppet Theatre. She is a graduate of the University of Windsor’s B.F.A-acting program and since then has appeared in numerous productions both in and outside Waterloo Region. Past productions include Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II and III, Zazztrozzi, and Shadow Puppet Theatre’s Macbeth for which she was both performer and producer. She is now hard at work on Shadow Puppet Theatre’s next project, Faust, which is being produced in conjunction with The Centre for German Studies and for which she has received a grant from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. Arlene is very pleased to be performing in the latest incarnation of Asphalt Jungle. Arlene will be performing in RING TONE, A BIG FRONT PORCH and YES-NO.
Werner Trieschmann	WERNER TRIESCHMANN, who lives somewhere in the wilds of Little Rock, Arkansas, has lived on the margins of the playwriting world so long he's forgotten how the whole sorry mess got started. Mind you, he's been fortunate and happy to see his plays performed on a lot different stages in a lot of different cities from Los Angeles to New York and (his favorite) Albuquerque. He's also had his plays published by Playscripts, Dramatic Publishing Company and Original Works Publishing. Anyway, Werner is just stupid enough to keep on going despite all the evidence to the contrary. For some reason, he seems to really dig it. If you would like to read more of his work, you can e-mail him at wtrieschmann@arkansasonline.com and he'll be more than willing to share scripts, stories, recipes, etc. Werner’s play, SPIT, will be performed.
David Wiener	David Wiener’s work has been performed in theatres across the U.S., London, and is slated for a production in India this summer. “An Honest Arrangement” won Best Play in the 2006 New York City 15 Minute Play Festival (American Globe Theatre) and was published in Smith & Kraus’s “Best Plays 2006 – 2 Characters.” “Bride on the Rocks” has also been performed in New York. He completed a literary internship at La Jolla Playhouse and then served as that theatre’s Dramaturgy Associate for the 2007-2008 season. He is also a performing arts writer and has been published in Cahiers du Cinema, The Journal of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, The Producers Guild Journal, American Cinematographer and is the author of Burns, Falls, and Crashes, a book on motion-picture stunt men, stunt women, and stunt pilots. (He can be reached at: dwiener@ucsd.edu) David’s play is BRIDE ON THE ROCKS.
Bruce Wolff	Bruce Wolff was more surprised than anyone to be among this group of actors in the first Asphalt Jungle Shorts. Since then, he’s participated as an actor in She Speaks, Asphalt Jungle II and now he is back again, and feeling quite at home on the stage, wherever the stage might be. He still holds a secret dreams of a return to the glory years of writing, producing and acting in high school productions.   Bruce has performed in AJS I, II, III and She Speaks 2007. He is the president of Flush Ink Performing Arts. His day job (which he won't be quitting anytime soon) at Wilfrid Laurier in the Biology Department gives him plenty of opportunity to practice his oratory skills. It is most likely that work, time with his kids and friends, and traveling will provide sufficient incentive to keep the stage an enjoyable avocation. Bruce will be performing PIECES OF MIME , RING TONE, BACK TO BACK & GENES.

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