TRANSFERENCE
by Debra Whitfield
Directed
by Debra Whitfield
Time: The present.
Place: Scenes 1 and 2: Jack’s living room.
Scene 3:
Clarice’s kitchen.
Characters
in order of appearance
Jack.............. Jay
Russell
Jillian............ Angela
Pierce
Jane.............. Leanne Cabrera
Clarice.......... Melissa
Hurst
All
actors are members of AEA.
Who’s
Who
Leanne
Cabrera (Jane)
was last seen as Nightingale in Pan Asian Rep’s production of The Emperor’s
Nightingale at Theatre Row. Other NY Theatre: Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature
at the Signature Theatre; Chatillion Stage Company (Tech Support); Pan Asian
Rep (No-No Boy, A Dream of Red Pavilions); Leviathan Lab (The Two Gentlemen of
Verona, As You Like It). Regional Theatre: The Fantasticks, The King and I,
Jewtopia, South Pacific. leannecabrera.com
Melissa
Hurst (Clarice)
New York premieres: Delta in the Sky with Diamonds (with Austin Pendleton), The
Houseguests by Harry Kondoleon (Obie Award, Best Play), Utility by Emily
Schwend at Rattlestick (Yale Drama Prize, NY Times Critic’s Pick), Antarabhava
by Jay Stull at The Brick, The Whale
Play by Kati Schwartz at Drama Book Shop, One Neck by Todd Alcott (with Allison
Janney) at Atlantic Theatre Company, Dark Ride by Len Jenkin at Soho Rep, and Cause
Celeb! (with Charles Busch) at Joe’s Pub. Regional theatre: Life in the Trees
(with Josh Brolin ) at GeVa, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Pittsburgh
Public, Goldstar, Ohio at Hartford Stage. TV: Law and Order, Guiding Light;
Film: Eternal Sunshine (2019). Numerous audiobook narrations. melissahurst.com
Angela
Pierce (Jillian) has
worked extensively in television, film and theatre, most recently wrapping The
Blacklist. She has a significant resumé off and on Broadway, which includes The
Great Society, and the Tony Award winning Oslo, for which she won an Obie
Award. Angela's varied and considerable career has taken her all over the
United States and England, where she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare
Company's The Complete Works Festival. She is widely recognized for her
achievements - Boston Film Festival Best Actress Winner for Delinquent, Best
Actress nominee by the Connecticut Critics Circle, the Seattle Times and the
Arizona Theatre Awards of Excellence. Angela is a graduate of The Juilliard
School, Drama Division Alumna and Board Member of The Acting Company. She is
delighted to be working with Debra Whitfield on her new play, Transference.
angelakpierce.com
Jay
Russell (Jack)
Broadway: End of the Rainbow, The Play What I Wrote. Off Broadway: Public,
Transport Group, Keen Company, Mint, Irish Rep, Barrow Street, MTC, & Debra
Whitfield’s Fire. National Tours: Wicked and Beauty & the Beast. Regional:
Guthrie, Arena Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory
Theatre of St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Utah Shakespeare,
Goodspeed, Alabama Shakespeare, Long Wharf, Westport, Vienna & Frankfurt
English Theatres. TV: Gotham, Ugly Betty, Mr Robot, The Plot Against America,
Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos, Louie, Seven Seconds, Law & Order(s). Film:
Morning Glory, Ride, In Lieu of Flowers. Carbonell Award Best Supporting Actor
Indecent at Palm Beach Drama Works. Jay wrote and directed the short film,
ruok, which has played at more than 30 Film Festivals all over the world,
winning many awards along the way. jay-russell.com
Debra Whitfield
(Playwright/Director) is an award-winning actress, director and playwright.
Credits include The Mint Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, Virginia Stage
Company, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Two River Theater,
Hartford TheaterWorks, the Depot Theatre, the Bickford Theatre, the Emelin
Theatre and the Amateur Comedy Club. Off Broadway, she has directed: Tech
Support (59E59), Olympics Über Alles (St. Luke’s) & The Banana Monologues
(Acorn). Other favorites: Blithe Spirit, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Rope.
Debra was named Best Director for Welcome to the Hard Luck Café at New York’s
Thespis Festival. Writing credits include Tech Support, Fire, The Man in the
Window, Champagne, and Duck Sauce Can Be Dangerous, all produced in NYC. Debra
won Best Actress awards for How I Learned to Drive, Relatively Speaking, and
The Adjustment. She is the Artistic Director of Chatillion Stage Company and is
on the Board of Directors for The Shaw Project.
debrawhitfield.net; chatillionstagecompany.com
The Strawberry One-Act Festival
Wednesday, February 12th at 6pm
Thursday, February 13th at 8:30pm
Thursday, February 13th at 8:30pm
Tickets: $25 Online; $27 at the Door (Cash Only)
At Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios & Theatres
244 West 54th Street, 12th Fl, NYC
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