Creators

DIVISED and PERFORMED BY
The LeRoy Sisters
Aimee German & Jenny Sargent
with consultation from

Eva Burgess, Michelle Seekamp, Eric Davis
MUSIC DIRECTED and COMPOSED BY
Tony Melone

Aimee German recently played a sold-out run at the 2008 Dublin Fringe with the award-winning "Bouffon Glass Menajoree." She studied dance at UCLA, Stanley Holden & the American Academy of Dance in Los Angeles where she assisted legendary Sadler's Wells dancer Margaret Hill. In London, she received a Post Graduate degree at Mountview Academy of Dramatic Art. Aimee also studied at Circus Space focusing on physical comedy and acrobatics. In 2004 she first met Ten Directions for their production of a Commedia Dell Arte show, “Saint Arlecchino at the Lucille Lortel.” She studied Clown and Bouffon with Sue Morrison, Giovanni Fusetti, and clown with David Shiner and Phillipe Gaulier. Currently she performs with the Animal Crackers, a zany mix of four lovely Eccentric Dancers. Goodbye Limits! She teaches gymnastic and circus skills in New York too!

Jenny Sargent has produced six original, full-length theater shows and many short works across the US and internationally. Her work has been described as "Beckett-meets-Fellini" by The Montreal Gazette and her current internaional show, Under the Skiff was called “one of the best shows in the [‘07] NY Clown Theatre Festival” -S.Sherman. From 2000-’07, Jenny co-directed Théâtre Déséquilibrium, an international ensemble that created absurd, physical work and toured six countries in Europe and North America. She has worked alternately as an actor, writer and/or director with various physical theater companies including Tuning Fork Theater, Les Tirors Noirs, and Matador Productions in Paris; and The LITE Company and SaBooge Theater in New York City. She completed the training program at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris as well as the Lecoq School’s scenography program (L.E.M.) and holds a BA from Oberlin College, OH. She also teaches movement-theater and circus skills.

Aimee German
as Gladys

Eva Burgess is the artistic director of TYNA collective. Her work has been seen in New York, Moscow, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Los Angeles. In New York she directed Largo Desolato by Vaclav Havel at the Ohio Theatre (with Havel in attendance). She was an Artist in Residence at HERE Arts Center where Angelina was presented as part of Culturemart. Eva was a member of the late Joe Chaikin workshop as a director focusing on the works of Beckett and Ionesco. She is also a member of the Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab where she directed the ‘cyber-opera’, Cyber Alice. Eva has collaborated with Russian playwright Ksenia Dragunskaya on A Feeling of a Beard (The American Living Room, HERE Arts Center, New York) and The Flood (DOC Theatre, Moscow). In New York her work has also been seen at Dixon Place and at Nicu’s Spoon Theater, amongst others. Before moving to New York, she lived and worked in Bosnia-Hercegovina, founding Rea Silvija, a women’s based theatre company, which devised two works for the stage, toured Bosnia and Ireland and performed in Geneva at the U.N. In Los Angeles, Eva was co-Artistic Director at Theatre of NOTE, which produces new short-form theatre. While at NOTE she was involved with producing new work by many Padua Hills Playwrights including Murray Mednick, John O’Keefe, Leon Martell, Ki Gottberg, Joe Goodrich and others. In Los Angeles she also studied with and worked for performance artist Rachel Rosenthal. Eva is also a theater teacher and acting coach.

“Aimee German and Jennifer Sargent are obviously mutant genius actors and clowns.”
- Prague TV

Canarsie Suite

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Tony Melone (tonymelone.com) is a pianist and composer who has spent the last decade collaborating with some of New York City's most interesting songwriters and musicians. He appears regularly with Likeness to Lily, the convertible jennifers, Aprille Goodman, and his own group the Tony Melone Trio. Sundays find him playing the organ at Bethel Temple Church in the Bronx, and he also produces recordings for other musicians and teaches privately. Some of his compositions appear on his 2001 trio recording Ground Level, and another CD to be released in 2009. He has composed incidental music for two plays, an off-Broadway production of Saint Joan (2003) and the Boston premier of Our Lady of 121st Street (2004), directed by his brother, Paul Melone for SpeakEasy Stage.