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Laura Rohrman wrote her first play, The Miracle, while in college at UC Davis majoring in International Relations and French. After college, Laura pursued a career in marketing and in 2000 had the opportunity to move to NYC for a new job. Once in the Big Apple, Laura found her way to the theatre and LCP. Artistic Director Le Wilhelm not only cast her in plays, he produced her very first play, which changed her life.
In addition to working with LCP, Laura is a member of RCL Writers Group, Vital Theatre’s R&D Unit, Emerging Artists Theatre’s Playwriting Circle, and has her own production company called The Waverly Writers Collective, which has produced the work of many up-and-coming playwrights.
Laura’s plays have been produced or developed at the Actors Studio Drama School, EXIT Theatre in San Francisco, American Conservatory Theater, Vital Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Lost Theatre Company in London, England, and Second Stage Theatre in NYC.
Her short plays have been chosen as finalists (Without and Below 14th) in the Samuel French Festival, and her two completed full-length plays are garnering attention as well: My Life As You was a 2005 Finalist for the Playwrights First Award and received a very successful three-week production in NYC featuring Emmy-nominated “All My Children” star Jeff Branson. Her other full-length play REPORTER GIRL has received numerous accolades, including a 2005 Weissberger Award nomination and nods from the O’Neill Playwriting Conference, the Princess Grace Awards, Estrogeneous Festival, Diva Fest in San Francisco, and Second Stage Theatre in NYC, where the play received a reading in 2006.
In 2005, Laura graduated with an MFA in both playwriting and acting from the New School.
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Merry Beamer has directed extensively in New York, including last year's Off-Broadway production of DAPH! by Le Wilhelm at 59E59 Theaters. She has directed many other Wilhelm plays, including Floating Island, Peter, Banana Kiwi Murders, and The Power and The Glory, as well as the traveling production of Daphne, Daphne, Daphne and Daphne Does Christmas. She formerly served as Artistic Director of Bridge Theater Company in Washington Heights, where she directed their productions of Neil Simon's Fools and The Good Doctor; Jim Leonard Jr.'s The Diviners; John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; and their annual holiday show A Christmas Carol (adaptation) as a benefit for the local schools and community. Merry also co-directed the first New York revival of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead (Straight from the Heart Productions). Merry has directed productions for Workshop Theater Company, Beautiful Evening Productions, Lightning Strikes, and Performers at Work, as well as conducted a volunteer theater program for the West Bronx Recreation Center. Outside New York she has directed for Raleigh Ensemble Players in North Carolina and L'ACT in Los Altos, California.
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Paul Trupia is a lifelong New Yorker having grown up in Astoria, Queens. Since casting aside his background as a financial professional, Paul has contributed to many Off-Broadway shows as a writer, director, and actor. His written work includes several one-act plays performed through Love Creek and ETC productions. Recently, Paul‘s plays A Day At The Office and The Hired Hand appeared in the Strawberry Festival, and The Fourth Voice was performed at the Sam French Festival. Other written work includes Attitudes and Alternatives, Spirit Within, A Sip of Time, and the soon-to-be-performed Judgment Day. Contact Paul at PJT149@aol.com
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Paul Buzinski has been associated with Love Creek Productions since 1996 when his play Blinders was first produced as part of an evening of new works, and later by LCP in that year’s Samuel French Short Play Festival. Other LCP productions include Church Music, Waiting for the Rain, Resignation, and Blueberry Pancakes, all finalists in Sam French Festivals. Two of his full-lengths, On the Clock and Fiddlin’ N’ Burnin’, were produced by LCP in conjunction with Beautiful Evening Productions. His most recent play, Madrid, was published as part of the Best of the Strawberry Festival 2006. Paul is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild.
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John Borras is a repertory member of Love Creek and an actor/director/writer. He has been writing plays and screenplays for about the last six years. The first piece he ever wrote/performed was a comic monologue for a comedy/improv show. The monologue was titled "The Hair Club for Captains" and was a spoof on William Shatner/Captain Kirk's hairpiece. After getting loads of laughs he figured it was something he wanted to pursue. An actor first and foremost, he has acted in every play that he has written. Among them are the full-length A Beautiful Dreamer, The Cat Lady of Hull Avenue and the one-acts C-16A (2003 Samuel French finalist); The Manley Men (2004 Samuel French semi-finalist); Like Father, Like Son (2005 Samuel French finalist); Scarred (2007 Samuel French finalist); and Resolution (future Samuel French submission). He is also co-founder of The Heart Theatre Company and has collaborated with Love Creek Productions on several ETC projects. Thanks to Le Wilhelm and LCP for the opportunity and artistic freedom over the years. AEA, SAG
Contact: 914-760-9343 or jborras88@aol.com
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Le Wilhelm Le Wilhelm has been directing plays most of his life, having received his MA and MFA in Directing and Writing. Mr. Wilhelm trained under Dr. Leslie Irene Coger, and has extensive training in Chamber and Reader's Theatre. These two art forms are capable of bridging the gap between live performance and great literature. In recent years, there has been a lack of focus on Interpreters Theatre, Chamber Theatre and Reader's Theatre. Today many of our universities have chosen a path they call Performance Studies, and this is most unfortunate*.
Mr. Wilhelm has directed hundreds of plays, and has received awards for his productions of Long Day's Journey Into Night, Everyman (a musical version with '50s music set on the beach), Hot L Baltimore, House of Blue Leaves, and the original full-length Home in Illinois by Matt Swan. One of the first full-length productions he directed was The Owl and the Pussycat, starring the marvelously talented Kathleen Turner. Mr. Wilhelm was fortunate in attending Missouri State to work with some highly skilled performers. Besides the aforementioned Ms. Turner, others include the Oscar-nominated Tess Harper, who appeared in the wonderful film Tender Mercies, the award-winning actor John Goodman, Jack Laufer of numerous television performances, and George Cron, television and film performer. While attending Florida State University, Mr. Wilhelm had the privilege of seeing many of the skits and playlets of writer Alan Ball, who later went on to win the Oscar for best screenplay for American Beauty.
At LCP, Mr. Wilhelm has been fortunate enough to direct many talented performers, many of whom have highly successful careers, including: DeLane Matthews, John Haymes Newton, Carol Halstead, Dustye Winniford, Cynthia Granville, Philip Galbraith, Jon Oak, and Nancy McDoniel, who was most recently seen in the film United Flight 93.
In New York, Mr. Wilhelm has directed numerous Off-Off Broadway productions and has directed Off Broadway with Bill Elverman's The Mask, the bio drama concerning the kidnapping and sadistic murder of a Norwegian fashion model in the '80s.
Some of the plays besides original productions directed in New York regional theatre by Mr. Wilhelm are: House of Blue Leaves, Boys in the Band, The Children's Hour, Uncommon Women and Others, Hot L Baltimore, Geniuses, Say Good Night Gracie, The Seven Year Itch, See How They Run, The Star Spangled Girl, Trojan Women, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Owl and the Pussycat, Bent, Maranda, Tartuff, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Everyman, Six Characters in Search of an Author, I'm Dreaming but am I?, The Man With the Flower in his Mouth, The Lesson, Our Lord of the Ships, A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, Seahorse, The Sandbox, The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Sister Mary Ignetius, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, The Stronger, Different, Beyond Therapy, An Actor's Nightmare, When You Coming Back Red Ryder, Grease, Porno Stars at Home, Patio/Porch, Ms. Marguerite's Way, Seven Keys to Ball Pate, No Exit, And Ms. Reardon Drinks a Little, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Of Mice and Men, The Madness of Lady Bright, The Great Nebula in Orion, X-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills, The Tiny Closet, Bus Riley's Back in Town, Dracula, Dracula-la-la, Frau Dracula: That Prussian She-Bitch from Hell and many more.
*Performance Studies as it is taught in many universities is filled with political agendas, and fails to address the need of bringing great world literature to the masses. One can only hope that this is an unfortunate phase that will pass. Mr. Wilhelm was extremely disappointed when he discovered that Missouri State University (the theatre there is named after Dr. Coger) had allowed the Reader's Theatre, Interpreter's Theatre and Chamber Theatre classes to be usurped by questionable political agendas.
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