People, Places and Things
a play by Duncan Mcmillan
directed by Amy Budd
featuring Andrew Elvis Miller, Sue Gisser, Hector Moreno, Sandra Cruze, Antonio Vaghi, Maggie Jane
produced by Sue Gisser
Artists:
Andrew Elvis Miller actor
A strong stage actor from New York, Andrew Elvis Miller was an early member of Blue Man Group and an active part of the budding downtown off and off-off Broadway theatre scene (having built and founded “currican, a theatre“, which devoted itself to emerging new playwrights). He has lived and studied in London, and currently resides both in NYC and LA.
Sue Gisser actor / producer
Sue trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Steppenwolf West, the Groundlings, iOWest, Second City, Antaeus Academy, Theatricum Botanicum, and Rutgers.
Film & TV credits include Shameless, Strangers with Candy, The Activist, and In the Air.
Recent Stage Work includes World Premieres of Slow Thunder, Bloodsuckers…a survival Guide” & Sandra Cruze’s The Tower
Voiceover work with Open Door Playhouse, Bernadette Armstrong’s pandemic-baby Theatre Company.
Sue’s forever grateful to Johnny Clark, VS Theatre Company, Gareth Williams, Detroit Street Films, all the gang at the Station D-Street Development Lab; to her family back east; to Amy, Elvis, Sandi, Antonio, Hector, Maggie, Rachel, and Cindy – thank you for trusting me, for coming on this journey with me, and for sharing your incredible talents, perspectives & time; and the late, great, Joe Hart – who’s magic, madness & methods of physical storytelling live forever in everything I do.
Hector Moreno actor
Hector Moreno, 19 year old from Baja California, Mexico. Born in San Diego, California, raised in Ensenada, Baja California he started acting on short films in Mexicali, Baja California at 17, appeared as Andres in Gris by Javier Vargas, before moving to Los Angeles a year later where he is now acting in theatre and making videos for Detroit Street Films.
Sandra Cruze actor
Sandra writes about women in danger and dangerous women. Co-founder of Housetheater.net with Kevin Micheal Moran, an incubator theater company with PlaygroundLA. She is a member of Dramatist Guild, WIF, ALAP & VS Theater. Little Sugar won SCREENCRAFT’s quarter finalist 2022 & 23. We’re Not Dead Yet, 15-episode web series co-written with Sarah Hunter-selected and wining 20 festival awards from 2023-2024. The Physics of Killing, a film adapted from her play, selected by the WOMEN’S TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 also winning festival awards 2024-25. LET’S ROLL, an Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge, won multiple awards 2024-2025.
Antonio Vaghi actor
Antonio is a versatile stage actor with a passion for character-driven storytelling. He recently starred as Max in The Sound of Music. Other notable roles include David in Alternate Endings with The Echo Theatre, and Brandon in Tabletop: The Musical. With a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theatre, Antonio thrives in collaborative environments and is drawn to roles that challenge and inspire.
Maggie Jane actor
Maggie Jane is an actress, artist, creative and co-founder of “Georgia Rose Productions”. Maggie is a lover of all things quirky, cool, and artistic and can’t wait for you to see this fun project! She also graduates on Saturday with a BFA in Acting! WOOHOO!!
Abby Budd director
Amy has worked as a theater artist and educator for nearly thirty years, telling stories with professionals, amateurs, and learners ages 4 to 70+. Amy earned an MFA in Directing from Purdue University in 2016. She spent three more years there as visiting faculty. She then taught at SUNY Oswego before landing at Goshen College. Now Associate Professor, Amy is overjoyed to serve a community that deeply values the spiritual impact of art making. Amy thanks Steve Lapuc for his endless support.
Directing projects include: Goshen College: Everybody (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), Rent, Orfeo ed Euridice (Glück, in Italian), Resistance! Revolution! Reconciliation! (ensemble developed musical revue). Other theaters: Stupid Fucking Bird (VS. Zoom reading, 2021), The Fantasticks (SUNY Oswego), As You Like It (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre), Clybourne Park, Cabaret, The Liar, and Failure, A Love Story (Purdue University). Writer and performer: The Thing That Ate My Brain…Almost.
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