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Topdog/Underdog |
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Paul J. Potenza
Jan. 26 - Feb. 12, 2006
Thu. - Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Single tickets: $16.50 - $21.50
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC
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Paul J. Potenza (Director) has worked as an actor and director in the Tampa bay area for the past 26 years. He has been a member of the original Actors Arena and Eckerd Theater Company at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Theatrical collaborations have included The Loft Theater Company, Tampa Players, Stageworks, American Stage and the Center Theater Company at TBPAC. Paul is most happy about his continuing artistic relationship with Jobsite. Paul has appeared in the Jobsite productions of Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, The Boys Next Door, American Buffalo and Dracula. He also directed their productions of subUrbia and The Beauty Queen of Leenane as well as served as artistic director over the fundraiser production of Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll. He is a goldsmith by trade and has owned and operated Design One Jewelers in Clearwater, now celebrating its 25th year in business. Paul shares his life with his wife Roz (the artist in the family) and their two dogs Ziti and Hoagie.
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Derek Lance Jefferson (Booth) Earlier this year, Derek worked on the following feature films: Lonely Hearts and Big Momma's House 2, scheduled to be released in 2006. He was last seen on stage as Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at the Douglass Theatre in Macon, GA. By day, he teaches 2nd Grade at Sulphur Springs Elementary School. Derek is a proud member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Derek is excited about making his Jobsite debut in Topdog/Underdog. He has a BA in Drama from Morehouse College and he has also studied at Spelman College, the University of Florida and The Juilliard School. He would like to thank God, his mother, his sisters and the folks in Fort Valley, Georgia.
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"ranney" (Lincoln) performed in The Bomb-itty of Errors productions in St. Pete (2002 & 2005), Chicago, Dublin, London's West End, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Stage Award for Best Ensemble). Notable Tampa Bay performances include Lucien in Jobsite's The Boys Next Door, Toledo in the USF production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Boy Willie in Center Theatre Company's The Piano Lesson. As a director-choreographer, "ranney" has successfully mounted challenging original work including Avant-Bard (Acrosstown Repertory Theater), MAXWELL - The New Rock Musical (Jobsite Theater), and The Birds, A Musical Adaptation (PCC Players). He is developing the one man show, Unsuitable: The Dark and Honest Comedy of Bill Hicks (starring David M. Jenkins) as a Jobsite Job-side project. "ranney" was the premier comedian at Laff Tuesdays at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in the 90's, has shared billing with such talents as Paul Mooney, Bill Bellamy, Ricky Harris and Martin Lawrence, and was chosen as one of the few comedians for the Apollo tribute to the late great Robin Harris. "ranney" has featured all over the East Coast, including Ybor City's The Improv, Coconuts Comedy Club, and Side Splitters, and he has headlined Greenbelt's The Comedy Connection, Dublin's The Comedy Cellar, London's The Comedy Store and Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms and Gilded Balloon Nightclub. "ranney" won the Universal Poets competition of Florida in 2000 and was nominated Best International Poet 2003 by the Farrago Poetry Group of London. He has returned to full time stand-up comedy and in 2005 opened for REO Speedwagon, Disco Inferno (Thelma Houston, Peaches & Herb, and The Sugar Hill Gang), and Eddie Griffin. "ranney's" debut spoken word & stand-up comedy CD, Rubbin' Two Sticks Together, will be released this spring. "ranney" is the stand-up comedy, spoken word, and hip-hop instructor for Patel Conservatory. He has presented eight one-man shows in the last seven years, including A Freakin' American, The Break of Dawn: Tracing the Origins of Speech, And the Horse You Rode In On, and Incendiary. The latest, Cufflinks and Jolly Ranchers for Dummies, is coming soon. Stay up @ itsranney.com.
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Erica S. Porch (Stage Manager) has been involved in local theater since 1996. She studied Stage Management and Lighting Design at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts. At USF she took a parallel course where she earned a bachelors degree in Psychology, all the while working at the Mahaffey Theater in Saint Petersburg. Erica has toured Florida with Stages Productions and worked at the Palladium and Coliseum in Saint Petersburg, Ruth Eckerd Hall, and the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. She is currently working as a Stage Manager at Busch Gardens and is excited about working with Jobsite for the first time. This season she also stage manages Phyro-Giants!.
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John Lott (Light Design) is an original founding member of Jobsite and a graduate of USF. He has worked at several Off Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theaters and at Julliard. He would like to thank his wife for all her love and support. This season he also designs lights for Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Phyro-Giants! and sets for We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!.
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Brian M. Smallheer (Set Design) received his education from Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Polk Community College (Visual Arts), and USF (Theatre Design). He is a board member and the Production Manager for Jobsite, where he is also a scenic and lighting designer whose designs have received critical acclaim for Delusion of Darkness, The Minneola Twins, Bloody Poetry, subUrbia, and Dracula. When not spending every waking moment with Jobsite, Brian is a freelance designer and technician working with a variety of companies including Hillsborough County Television, ESPN, and Walt Disney World where he worked with acts such as Jessica Simpson, Destiny's Child, DJ Scribble, New Found Glory and BB Mack. This season he also designs sets for Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Phyro-Giants!, lighting for We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and both sets and lighting for Grimm's Faery Tales.
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