Re-watch Pride & Prejudice LIVE!

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About the Play

In recognition of National Write Your Story Day (March 14th) and World Storytelling Day (March 20th), The Community Cooperative has partnered with Re-Casting the Movies (RCtM) to present “Pride and Prejudice” originally by Jane Austen, adaptation by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin. Austen wrote the world she knew spun into a story of the layered characters that represented her life. With this performance, we encourage you to think about your stories, write them down, and share them with others. Listen, share, and discover the "follies and nonsense" of these beloved characters as we experience "Pride and Prejudice” together.

Jane Austen ($0)

Longbourn ($5)

Meryton ($10)

Mr. Darcy ($25)

Elizabeth Bennet ($50)

Pemberley ($100)

Rosings Park ($200)

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Lydia Bennet and Charlotte Lucas played by Sabrina Allen

Sabrina Allen is a British Jamaican actress based in Nottingham, UK. She currently studies with The Online Acting Training Studio. She is really excited about playing Lydia and Charlotte. Being part of this production has been an amazing experience for her. She is also the founder of SaSha’s Handmade Gifts and Botanical By Brina.

Instagram:

Personal: @the.life.of.sabrinaa

SaSha’s Handmade Gifts: @sashas.handmade.gifts

Botanical By Brina: @botanicalbybrina

Stage Manager fulfilled by Abi Anderson

Abi Anderson is a stage manager from Dallas, Texas. After graduating from Ouachita Baptist University with a B.A. in theatre education, she has been working as a freelance stage manager, production assistant, and teaching artist.

Jane Bennet played by Erica Burns

Erica Burns is an American Actress, who studied with Killian’s Workshop and the Archibald Studios. She has appeared in short films, TV series, and corporate videos. She wrote and produced the short, LA Living, back in 2019. Her most recent work has been in the narration of audiobooks, which can be found in Audible Audiobooks on Amazon. Burns also penned her own book, a memoir, during year one of COVID-19. She intends to publish it when the time feels most right.

Director and Producer fulfilled by Jessica Chen

JESSICA W. CHEN is a Taiwanese American screenwriter, producer, and actor based in New York City. Originally from Rockville, MD, Jess’s work combines elements of Western and Asian media and culture to explore themes of identity, love, womanhood, and becoming an adult.

After graduating with a double major in English and Asian Studies, Jess moved to Taipei, Taiwan, where she founded Lil Swimmers Productions, a Taipei-based film production company. After six years abroad, Jess returned to the U.S., where she founded Re-Casting the Movies, a non-profit that promotes diverse casting and media representation.

While at LIU Brooklyn pursuing a TV Writing and Producing MFA, Jess created Drama High, a romantic comedy series and a love letter to Asian dramas, The Legend of the Chow Chow Heroes, a superhero series about four teens who are reincarnated Chinese mythological figures, and Across Time, a romantic mystery about a pair of lovers reborn onto earth every 150 years to solve a pressing issue.

Mrs. Bennet played by Mame Cotter

Mame is very excited to be a part of the cast of Pride and Prejudice. She has acted in plays from the time she was a little girl and studied theater and film in Los Angeles. She got her bachelor’s degree in theater at CSUN in Northridge California. She also has a teaching certificate in Theatre Education from NCCU in Durham NC. She started the Phoenix Theatre(2012) in the triangle area. This company performed in retirement communities throughout Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. She recently moved to Virginia and hopes to continue to perform and pursue filmmaking and painting.

Kitty Bennet played by Beckie Echegaray

Beckie is a Peruvian Actress based in Virginia. She has appeared in short films, theater, and commercials. She studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida and has had acting training in Peru, Texas, and Virginia. She also likes to dance to different Latin genres.

Playwright fulfilled by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a writer, producer, performer, and educator. Plays include Tiger Beat (2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2021 Seven Devils Conference finalist), Harpers Ferry 2019 (2021 Kendeda Playwriting Award finalist, 2022 Know Theatre production), Call Out Culture: or, the unbearable whiteness of being (2021 NADIA Amplified Currents Festival, 2019 Ars Nova’s ANTFest), and The Well-Tempered Clavier (2020 BAPF finalist.) Garvin is the recipient of six Kennedy Center awards and is a member of The Coop’s Clusterf**k, Playground NY, and Pipeline Theater Company’s Playlab. Their plays have been developed with The Alliance Theater, Montana Repertory Theater, and College of the Holy Cross, and have been produced at New York venues including Dixon Place, the New Ohio, and Ars Nova. Garvin is the BAPF Season 45 Play Selection Advisor and a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new interdisciplinary art. They currently teach playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts. MFA, Indiana University; BFA, NYU. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com / @kaemeishing on IG, twitter

Elizabeth Bennet played by Hira Ismail

I am an actor, director, writer, dancer, and theatremaker. I trained with SITI Company in New York as one of 14 artists in their 1-year intensive conservatory, practicing and researching Viewpoints and Suzuki Method. Performances include ASU Theatre Lab's The Language of Hands, Southwest Shakespeare Company's Romeo & Juliet, and Small Dance Collective's Medea in Me. As a Core Artist with Creative Catalyst, I devised and directed in Luna City 2175, an immersive theatre imagining of a neighborhood on the moon. I directed a devised telling of Saadat Hasan Manto's short story Toba Tek Singh. I co-created and performed Birha: Separation from God. I co-directed and performed in Rabt, a live virtual movement theatre performance. My play All That Matters was featured in Bridge Initiative's Bechdel Test Fest. I wrote and performed Minute Decision, which was featured in Playbill's Virtual Theatre Festival. I first read Pride and Prejudice when I was 10 years old and many rereads later, I am so thrilled to be walking in the shoes of a Bennet sister. Thank you and I hope you enjoy the show!

Website: https://hiraismail.weebly.com/

Email: hirakismail@gmail.com

Lady played by Diane Keogh

Diane is an Australian Actress who studied with the Identity School of Acting in London.  She has appeared in short films, a short TV series, corporate videos and a national TV commercial.  Diane wrote and produced the short film ‘Not Enough Time’ in 2019 which received some international film festival awards. 

Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Agent: Agency 888 https://agency888.com.au/ 

Showcast:                    https://app.showcast.com.au/profile/FkabSxsN 

Castings Network:             https://app.castingnetworks.com/talent/public-profile/ded23c46-d44b-11eb-97eb-5df2a87e5b03

IMDb:                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11421115/ 

Star Now:                             https://www.starnow.com.au/dianekeogh/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-keogh-46902732/

Mr.Collins played by Michael Lake

MICHAEL LAKE is an actor and producer who has been working steadily in the film industry for several years and has over one hundred onscreen credits. His recent film “Edwin”, from Hollow Ground Pictures, has been circulating festivals the past year, garnering him a Best Actor award from the Alternative Film Festival, as well as numerous other nominations and recognitions. Other collaborations with Hollow Ground Pictures include “Days of Violence”, which is currently available on Amazon Prime, as well as “My Dying Heart” which has found similar success on the festival circuit. He will reteam with Hollow Ground Pictures for the upcoming movie “Mister E”. Other screen credits include “After Mum”, “Purgatory”, “Reel 2”, “Wildfire”, and the A&E docuseries “Waco: Madman or Messiah”. Upcoming projects include the historical film “The American Constitution”, and a feature film adaptation of “The Master and Margarita”. You can read more about him and his work at michaellakeofficial.com.

Mr. Darcy played by Jordan Mahr

Jordan Mahr is an actor based in Los Angeles and New York. Past credits include Revolutionary! (Theater for the New City), Hamlet (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), Peer Gynt (Columbia), and the world premiere of Town Hall (Columbia). jordanmahr.com.

Mr. Bingley played by Emeka Ukaga

Emeka Ukaga is a Nigerian-American actor based in Phoenix Arizona. He’s studied at Arizona Actors Academy since 2019 and has most recently starred as Dyami in the upcoming feature film Touch the Water. Ukaga has also starred as Ben in the 2021 short films The Way I See You, and as Trevor in the 2021 film Fight. In theatre, his most recent role was as Jason in the Now & Then Creative Company production of the play The Mall. Having first read Pride and Prejudice in high school and loving the story, Ukaga is excited to take up the role Mr. Bingley in the Recasting the Movies production. Outside of acting Ukaga works as an engineer, architect, and runs the fashion brand SENTI which recently showed its SS22 collection at Tempe Fashion Week in October 2021.

Executive Producer fulfilled by Clara Richards

Clara Richards is the founder and Director of The Community Cooperative. This is her 3rd experience as executive producer of a Zoom theatre performance and her 1,000th experience bringing people together in a community. She is so excited to be a part of the entertainment community in this creative way. She is also so excited to be working with Re-Casting the Movies on another awesome live zoom performance! Stay tuned for more.

Mr. Wickham and Caroline Bingley played by Julia Saunders

Julia Saunders (they/she) studied acting as well as directing at UCLA’s school of Theater, Film and Television where she graduated in 2015. Since then, they have performed in theaters on the West Coast and East Coast. She wrote and starred in a dark comedic play called Soiree D’Angst which premiered in the NYC Fringe Festival and then was performed at the Dixon Place salon. This is their first zoom production, as she spent the pandemic resisting zoom theater; they have obviously yielded to inevitable after getting thoroughly creatively frustrated and has thoroughly enjoyed the process of performing Pride and Prejudice on zoom.

Lady Catherine de Bourgh played by Judi Schindler

Judi Schindler is a Chicago actor who has appeared in numerous plays, commercials and independent films. Favorite roles include Roberta in “Admissions,” Toule in “Women of 4G” Hillary in “Hillary and Clinton” and the drunk passenger in “Hell Cab.” She can be seen in the lead role of Elena in the film “Headwaters,” which is scheduled for a Spring release. Judi is also the author of “Husbands: An Owner’s Manual,” which takes a humorous look at marriage and relationships, and performs a one-woman show of the same title. She is pleased to take part in the reading of this iconic book, playing one of its juiciest roles.

Mary Bennet and Georgiana Darcy played by Nishtha Singh

Nishtha Singh who goes by Nish, is an English Actress based in London. She’s worked in short films, feature films and also played a youth member in ‘The Crown’. She studied Broadcast Journalism at Nottingham Trent University and also trained as a dancer (Hip Hop and streetdance).

Mr.Bennet played by Jack Sinnot

Jack Sinnott (Mr. Bennet) has appeared in numerous productions over more than 45 years including two prior stagings of Pride & Prejudice (Mr. Bennet), Peter Pan (John), A Wrinkle in Time (Mrs. Which), Don Juan in Hell (Don Juan), Inherit the Wind (E. K. Hornbeck), Plaza Suite (Sam Nash), Music Man (Mayor Shinn), Peter & the Starcatcher (Lord Aster), The Life and Times of Walter Mitty (Walter Mitty), In The Next Room, or the vibrator play (Mr. Daldry), Gross Indecencies: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Marquess of Queensbury), I Hate Hamlet (John Barimore), The Audience (Anthony Eden), and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Marc Antony), among many, many others. When Jack isn't on stage, he is a dad who cooks Italian feasts, forgets to do the dishes, plays viola (badly) & dulcimer (also badly), and sings opera (terribadly), much to his children's chagrin.