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Evan Arnold Steve Chabon
Jason Duplissea Gibson Frazier
Ron Garcia Michael Goorjian
Erin Kaufman Brian Kite
Beth Kennedy
Jordan L. Gurner Jeff Maynard
Laurel Moglen Renée Ridgeley
Marco Sanchez
Lorin Shapiro
Maury Sterling
Kevin Weisman Ethan Lipton
Jami Rudofsky Sarah Hutchinson
Jennifer Lane Craig Pierce
Dick Magnanti Alanna Flanagan Diana Georger
Evie Peck
Karen Tucker
Kara Zediker
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Evan Arnold was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He has acted in seven Buffalo Nights Productions: Anatol, The Apollo of Bellac, The Madman and the Nun, Problem Child, The Firebugs, Salomé, and Incident at Vichy. He also works with the Troubadour Theatre Co. all over Southern California and has acted in numerous national television commercials (recently, IBM), on television (recently, The West Wing, Six Feet Under and Angel), and in film (recently, Garfield and Spiderman).
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Gibson Frazier has performed on stages regionally at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia, the Victoria Fringe Festival in Victoria, B.C., and with Buffalo Nights Theatre Company in Los Angeles. A founding member of Buffalo Nights, Mr. Frazier has performed in six mainstage productions with the company including Meat, Salomé, Incident at Vichy, and The Firebugs, for which he received a Drama-Logue Award. Mr. Frazier has been fortunate enough to have a long standing relationship with Buffalo Nights board member Jack Klugman.
Having been directed by Mr. Klugman in the world premiere of Adam Somers's play Asphalt, Mr. Frazier went on to perform with Mr. Klugman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre. Most recently, Mr. Frazier shared the stage with both Mr. Klugman and Tony Randall in Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing at the Coconut Grove Theatre in Florida and Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys in Texas. A graduate of the theatre department at UCLA, Mr. Frazier was awarded the esteemed Hugh O'Brien Award by Karl Malden for his work in The Actor's Nightmare, directed by Tony Award winner Mel Shapiro. Mr. Frazier's screen credits include Dear God, the upcoming True Rights, and Visas and Virtue, winner of the 1997 Academy Award for best live action short film. He also directed and starred in Fine Line release "Man of the Century", a film he co-wrote and co-produced with Adam Abraham which won the 1998 Audience award at Slamdance.
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Writer/Director/Actor Michael Goorjian is best known to television audiences for his role in the hit series Party of Five, in which he co-starred as "Justin," the best friend and romantic interest opposite Neve Campbell's "Julia." Michael just finished acting in Americana, which he also co-wrote with director James Merendino. Americana, produced by Zentropa films, is an offical Dogma 95 production. Another one of Michael's scripts, The Mesmerist, co-written with Ron Morasco, just finished principle photography.
Other recent big screen forays include starring roles in Sony Classic's SLC Punk!, The Invisibles (both Sundance award winners), and Here Lies Lonely. Also starred in Life in a Day (UPN) and Do Not Disturb, with William Hurt Denis Leary and Jennifer Tilley (will be released this year).
Goorjian's gripping title performance in the television movie David's Mother, opposite Kirstie Alley, as a young autistic boy, won him the 1994 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a category that placed him in competition with veteran actors, Alan Alda, Richard Gere, Matthew Broderick and Sir Ian McKellen.
Other film acting credits include the Oscar nominated Leaving Las Vegas, Hard Rain (with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater), Chaplin (with Robert Downey Jr.), Forever Young (with Mel Gibson) and Newsies. Television credits include Touched by An Angel, Chicago Hope, Sweet Justice, Under Suspicion and Life Goes On.
Goorjian is a founding member of award winning Buffalo Nights Theatre Company. Shows with the company include: the West Coast Premiere of Dennis McIntyre's powerful drama Modigliani, which earned him an L.A. Weekly Theatre Award Nomination for acting and show was winner for Revival Production of the Year. Jean Giraudoux's, The Apollo of Bellac (Garland Award-Production of the Year, nominated for six LA Weekly awards-ceremony April 22.)
Goorjian also wrote and directed the feature Oakland Underground, the shorts Liber Nox, Ron, and Call Waiting (winner best short film at the Arizona Film Festival, 1999.) Michael is currently directing and starring in the feature The Illusion, which is being filmed in and around the Bay Area.
Goorjian was born in Oakland, California and has been worked in the theatre since the seventh grade with such companies as Berkeley Shakespeare and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. In addition to being a founding member of the Buffalo Nights Theater Company in Los Angeles, Goorjian also sometimes teaches acting at Loyola Marymount University. He attended undergrad at UCLA.
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Beth has performed in the following Buffalo Nights' productions: Anatol, The Apollo of Bellac (2000 Back Stage West award: Best Production; 2000 LA Weekly award: Best Ensemble), The Madman and The Nun, and Firebugs. She also works regularly with Troubadour Theatre Co. and was most recently seen in their production of A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream at the Falcon Theatre and before that in Twelfth Dog Night. Beth has appeared in numerous commercials and television shows which include The Practice, Party of Five and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, among others. Her film credits include the Tomorrow Man, opposite Corbin Bernsen, Jerome, produced by David Spade, and Phenomenon with John Travolta. Beth is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts.
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Brian Kite has directed several Buffalo Nights' productions, including "J.B." by Archibald MacLeish and their first production, "Hope on the Range", over 14 years ago. He spent seven years as the Director of Theatre Programs at French Woods Festival in New York, where his credits include over 20 productions ranging from the New York debut of Steven Schwartz's "Children of Eden" to Jason Robert Brown's "Songs for a New World" and "Parade". He directed the Philadelphia production of Glenn Wein's "Grandma Sylvia's Funeral" and has directed in many Los Angeles theatres. Recent credits include the critically-acclaimed revival of "Proof" at La Mirada Theatre and "Cabaret," in Hamilton, Bermuda, under the patronage of the Queen's Governor. He worked with Tony Award winning director Daniel Sullivan on The Geffen Playhouse's production of "Hedda Gabler" starring Annette Bening and also worked on their production of "Wit" starring Kathleen Chalfant. Brian has served on the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles Stage Alliance. He is currently on the faculty of U.C.L.A.'s School of Theater, Film and Television, where he teaches Directing, is a member of the SSDC, and is the Associate Director of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. He is a founding member of Buffalo Nights.
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Jordan Leigh Gurner is a founding member of Buffalo Nights and a graduate of UCLA's School of Theatre, Film, and Television. BNTC shows include "Incident at Vichy" and "Salome". He is currently starring in the regional premiere of "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" at the Tony Award-Winning Denver Center for the Performing Arts directed by Broadway veteran and associate director to Susan Stroman, Ray Roderick. Other regional theatre credits include: "A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine", "Working", "The Gondoliers", and the regional premiere of "Young Man from Atlanta". His voice can be heard all over the radio dial as well as on the television series, "Warren Miller's Global Adventures". Film credits include "Men" starring Sean Young.
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Jeff Maynard was seen on Broadway, at the Ahmanson/Doolittle Theatre, and in the First National Tour of Neil Simon's Pulitzer prize winning Lost in Yonkers, directed by Gene Saks. Other theatre credits include Enter Laughing at the University of Judaism, Biloxi Blues at both the Court and Hudson Theatres and Michael Sargent's When Esther Saw the Light at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. Buffalo Nights shows include the world premiere of Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta at the Falcon Theatre, the Los Angeles Premiere of Sophistry and Incident at Vichy. Recent film and television credits include "Buffy the Vampire Slayer","Diagnosis Murder", "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", "Seinfeld", the ABC/DISNEY MOW "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" and the series "Madman of the People". Jeff is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater and proud to be a founding member of Buffalo Nights Theatre Company.
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Laurel Moglen attended UCLA and majored in History. Her several film credits include: Ron Howard's EdTV and the Sundance affiliated independent film, Kat and Allison. Her television appearances are numerous and include: the NBC miniseries- The 70's, Larry David's- Curb Your Enthusiasm, Chicago Hope, and JAG. Her short film, Call Waiting, in which she wrote, produced, and starred won "Best Short" at the Arizona Int'l Film Festival and placed in several others. Fellow company member, Michael Goorjian, directed it. She works with LA Theatreworks, starring in various radioplays broadcasted through KCRW including The Lucky Spot and The General from America. In addition to Buffalo Nights, she is a member of the award-winning theatre company, LA Women's Shakespeare company, in which she played Ophelia in Hamlet.
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Renée Ridgeley has performed in six BNTC productions: Problem Child (Suburban Motel), Firebugs, Salomé, The Froegle Dictum, the LA Weekly's 1996
Revival Production of the year Modigliani, and most recently played "the
nun," Sister Anna, in The Madman and the Nun.
Other theater credits include: The Country Club ( West Coast premiere of the
Douglas Carter Bean play); Ancient History at the Fountain Theater (LA
Premiere by David Ives, directed by Randee Trabitz); The Miss Firecracker
Contest, and Holiday (American Conservatory Theater). RenČe studied at UCLA and the graduate program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Film and television credits include: Rob Reiner's The Story of Us, Angel,
Judging Amy, The Ghosts of Fear Street, Everyday People, G vs. E and the
upcoming HBO film Gale Force (with Treat Williams). Renee is also the effervescent veterinarian that talks to all the doggies in the Frontline commercials.
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Raised in Palm Desert, CA, the son of Cuban immigrants, Marco received his B.A. in theater from UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, and also studied at the British-American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. A founding member of Buffalo Nights, he played the affable Argentine Rabbi,"Luis" in the company's debut show Hope On the Range, the misguided idealist, "Ex" in Sophistry, the devilish "Nickles" in Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize winning play J.B., and most recently played multiple roles in the Buffalo Nights world premiere production of Crazy Drunk at the John Anson Ford Theater.
His television work includes series regular roles on Steven Spielberg's SeaQuest DSV, and Walker,Texas Ranger, "Collie Whitebird" in the TV movie Gunsmoke:The Long Ride, and numerous guest and recurring appearances on shows such as 24, JAG, Providence, The Division, Party of Five, and ER. Film work includes Showtime's The Last Debate (directed by John Badham), The Illusion (written and directed by fellow company member, Michael Goorjian), The Rookie (with Dennis Quaid), and Edison (with Kevin Spacey, and Morgan Freeman).
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Lorin Shapiro was born and raised in New York where she started out as a
dancer. She has studied acting at Northwestern University, Oxford University
and Cornell University, from which she graduated with a major in theater.
Her New York credits include King Lear, Othello, The Foreigner, The Royal
Family, A...My Name Is Alice, Noises Off, and others. Since moving to LA,
Lorin has appeared on "Felicity", "The Practice", and in several independent
films. She was also a member of the sketch comedy group, "Thwank", for
several years. Her Buffalo Nights credits include "The Firebugs", "Madman
and the Nun", and "Apollo of Bellac". She likes chocolate.
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Maury Sterling was born and raised in Mill Valley, California, and is a founding member of Buffalo Nights Theatre Company. He has studied theatre at UCLA, ACT, and Circle in the Square Theatre in New York. BNTC shows include the character of "the madman, Alexander Walpurg" in The Madman and the Nun, Modigliani, Meat, Out at Sea, and Incident at Vichy. Film and television work includes Outbreak, Liber Nox, Cowgirl, Alright Already (series regular), The Pretender, Touched by an Angel, and G vs. E.
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Kevin Weisman was born in Los Angeles. He graduated with a BA from the School of Theatre, Film and Television at UCLA, and studied at the Circle in the Square Professional Workshop in New York. His theatre credits include shows with Buffalo Nights: Apollo of Bellac, Salome, The Firebugs, Froegle Dictum, Problem Child (Suburban Motel), Sophistry, Incident at Vichy, Hope on the Range,The Madman and the Nun, Apollo of Bellac. Also appeared at the Odyssey Theatre in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and The Greeks (1999 Production of the year- LA Weekly). Kevin has also worked at The Mark Taper Forum (The Goldoni Trilogy), and at LATC (White Noise Theatre Companyís Little Pictures). Television credits include Frasier, The X-Files, The Pretender, E.R., JAG, Just Shoot Me, The Drew Carey Show, Beverly Hills Family Robinson (MOW-ABC), series regular on Pauly and a recurring role on the series', Roswell, Felicity, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Film work includes Gone in 60 Seconds, More Dogs than Bones, with Whoopie Goldberg and Joe Montegna, company member Gibson Frazier's Man of the Century (1999 Audience Award Winner- Slamdance Film Festival) , and upcoming Robbers, Buying the Cow, Kat and Allison. Kevin currently plays Marshall on the ABC show Alias, and produced the feature The Illusion, directed by company member Michael Goorjian.
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Jami Rudofsky has been working with Buffalo Nights since 1994 mainly as a stagemanager. Last year she ventured into new territory and created masks and wigs for "The Apollo of Bellac." As a result she was nominated for a LA Weekly award. Aside from her foray into the design world, Jami spends her days working as a casting director. Currently she is casting the critically acclaimed "Gilmore Girls" with her partner Mara Casey.
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Dick Magnanti (Resident Costume Designer) is a graduate of The Fashion Institue of Design and Merchandising with degrees in both fashion and theater costume design. Mr. Magnanti has worked extensively on theatre productions around Los Angeles, most recently Buffalo Nights' The Madman and the Nun, King Levine (Odyssey Theater), Reefer Madness and Mamet Matters at the Hudson. Buffalo Nights productions also include The Firebugs (Drama-Logue Award), Modigliani, Featuring Loretta, and Problem Child (Suburban Motel at the Falcon theater). Mr Magnanti is currently on staff at UCLA as Sr. Wardrobe Technician in the theater department, and teaches period costume construction at F.I.D.M.
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Alanna Flanagan is a farm girl from New Hampshire who knows how to drive a tractor and sometimes sports pigtails. In an attempt to get out of the sticks, Alanna moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California where she majored in Theatre. Since graduating, she has appeared in television shows such as "Opposite Sex" and "The Naked Truth," a couple of commercials and some independent films. Anatol marked her first Buffalo Nights appearance. top |

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A UCLA Theater Department Graduate, Evie Peck is best remembered, by Buffalo Nights' audiences, as "Evelyn" the gazel in Ethan Lipton's MEAT. She is also a member of Tim Robbins' Actors' Gang Theater Company and has received three ovation award nominations for Gang shows HYSTERIA, EUPHORIA and FOUR ROSES. Other favorite roles include "Queen Marie" in EXIT THE KING with John C. Reilly and "Cinderella" in the Cornerstone/Actors' Gang Production of MEDIA/MACBETH/CINDERELLA. Evie has appeared in television and film including; SEINFELD, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, TENACIOUS D, THE BIG TEASE, MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM.
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Karen Tucker is from Greensboro, North Carolina. Favorite shows include:
Buffalo Nights Theatre Company's production of Jean Giraudoux's The Apollo
of Bellac, winner of a Garland Award for Production of the Year, and
nominated for six LA Weekly awards. Also, Tennessee Williams' American Blues
(Hudson Theatre), William Inge's Bus Riley's Back in Town (Lillian Theatre),
The Greeks (Odyssey Theatre, 1999 Production of the Year, LA Weekly), F.
Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon (Fountain Theatre) Mary Barnes (Odyssey),
Arthur Miller's All My Sons (Attic Theatre). Film/TV credits include Angel,
After Sex, indies Cowboys Christmas, Shooting Creek. Karen is currently working on the feature, The Illusion, directed by company member, Michael Goorjian.
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