RHINOCEROS

SAT 10/18 @ 7:30PM

$15 General Admission ($20 @ the door)
$35 VIP RSVD FRONT Cafe Table Seat (Includes Drink Ticket)
$10 STUDENT Ticket (Valid Student ID Required)

The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theatre classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger, remains, unable to change his form and identity.

CAST:

Berenger - Vincent Cinque
Daisy - Kane Brown
Jean/Fireman - Charlie Reid
Dudard - Brian Esposito
Logician, Mr. Papillon - Josh Gladstone
Housewife - Lydia Franco Hodges
Old Gentleman/Mrs. Beouf - Kate Mueth
Grocer/Botard - John Kroft
Grocer’s Wife - Daniela Mastropietro
Waitress - Carly Cooper
Cafe Proprietor - Cameron Eastland

VINCENT CINQUE (Berenger/Director) is a Brooklyn based actor, director, and theater maker. He holds a BFA in Drama and Producing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He served as leading player and resident director of Cynthia von Buhler’s Immersive Theater Company Speakeasy Dollhouse (Credits include: Zeigfeld’s Midnight Frolic, The Bloody Beginning, The Illuminati Ball, The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini). He’s created new works alongside his contemporaries with companies such as Insomnium Theater Co., Rooftop Musical Society, A Little Light Collective, Camp Bedford, Cardboard Rocketship, Hampton Theatre Co., Guild Hall, Round Table Theater Co., and at the Southampton Parrish Arts Center. Many thanks to Felicia and Ana for patiently staying by my side and guiding this process, and Brian for his love and support. Please always continue to educate yourself on ways to help and advocate for vulnerable populations. IG: @vincentcinque (Michael Kushner Photo credit)

KANE L. BROWN (Daisy) is an actor, writer and creative based out of Brooklyn, NY. She attended Emerson College for drama then NYU Tisch where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She is a working actress, trained in theatre, with a focus in film and television. Some of her recent credits include Law&Order: SVU, FBI’s Most Wanted, as well as Survival of the Thickest on Netflix. She has worked with Vinny before and is very excited to join part of this production of Ionesco’s, Rhinoceros.

CHARLIE REID (Jean/Fireman) is an actor and painter from Trinidad and Tobago. Select theatre: Gemini (Off-Broadway revival, Theatre Row), See You (US premiere, New Ohio Theatre), True Art (world premiere, Dorset Theatre Festival and Westport Country Playhouse), Bent (OUT/PLAY NYC) and Five Steps To Transcendence written/directed by John Patrick Shanley, co-directed with Casey Stangl (North Fork Arts Center). @charliechoomacho

BRIAN ESPOSITO (Dudard) is thrilled to perform at LTV Studios! Theatre: BATSU!, The Rocky Horror Show, Golden Girls Live, Pippin. Singing server at Ellen’s Stardust Diner. Film/TV: A Crime to Remember, The Girl on the Train, Orange is the New Black. Graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Special thank you and endless love to my wonderful husband, Vinny.

IG: @hashtagbrianesposito

JOSH GLADSTONE (Logician/Mr. Papillon) serves as Executive and Creative DirEctor at LTV Studios in East Hampton where he produces several series: Hamptons Summer Songbook By The Sea, East End Underground Concerts, LTV’s World Voices, as well as reviving The Playwrights’ Theatre of East Hampton. He served as Artistic Director of the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall where he directed, acted and produced performing arts programming for 21 seasons. Josh co-founded Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, and prior to that attended Circle In The Square Conservatory where he met his wife Kate Mueth. They reside in Springs and work with Kate’s company The Neo-Political Cowgirls producing and performing site-specific work, including the outdoor immersive ZIMA! coming soon to East Hampton’s LongHouse Reserve for the Holidays.

Lydia Franco Hodges

Kate Mueth (Mrs. Beouf/Old Gentleman) founded the award-winning The Neo-Political Cowgirls (NPC)18 years ago to help fill the dearth of opportunities for and stories from the perspectives of women and the under- represented on our theater landscape. She conceives, writes, choreographs and directs new, site-specific theater and dance theater that is “Mind-bending, gorgeous, provocative and wild” in execution. Kate is an Equity actor, a proud Board Member and Officer Emeritus for The League of Professional Theatre Women, and co-founder of The East Hampton Arts Council. Kate has worked as actor/director/choreographer with luminaries as Blythe Danner, Cathy Curtin, Aida Turturro, Tony Walton, Peter Boyle, Laura Gomez, Florencia Lozano and more. She has performed and/or directed at Lincoln Center, Bay Street Theater, Guild Hall, in Berlin, Helsinki and in regional venues. The She Wolves was built with funding support from Suffolk Country Department of Economic Development and Planning, and The National Endowment for the Arts’and Arts Midwest’s grant Shakespeare in American Communities. The She-Wolves first look performance came in a summer 2024 run at LongHouse Reserve then visited local East End schools and now makes it’s NYC debut presented in it’s next exploratory iteration. NPC is the standing Performing Arts company in residence at LongHouse Reserve where in 2023 Kate created three performances to activate the gorgeous sculpture and garden grounds. NPC’s 2023 production, THE DREAMER (A Midsummer Night’s Dream Through The Eyes of a Young Girl,) was also awarded grant funding from The National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest and enjoyed four lives, among them an Off-Broadway run at HERE Arts, LTV Studios on the East End, and at LongHouse Reserve. Favorite acting roles include Lady M, Varya, and Mrs. Wadhurst in Tonight at 8:30 with Blythe Danner. History of new, devised works for NPC includes BAUBO, Wody Girtch Mama, Trojan Women Redux, ZIMA!, VOYEUR, EVE, B(e)RD and countless one- offs. HYSTERIA, a “surround fear experience” played to East End audiences as well as attendees at The Old South Church in Boston fall of 2019. The summers of 2016/17 her production of ANDROMEDA, a “Myth for the masses,"Gave voice to the universal refugee," in its performance on the hills of Montauk under the stars. EVE, a 13-room, immersive experience, enjoyed two seasons in the Hamptons then an Off-Broadway run in the fall of 2015 at The Gym at Judson. VOYEUR, a branded NPC site-specific experiential performance made in various unusual spaces, made its European debut in Berlin in July of 2015. Kate has a lengthy biography in theater arts teaching and curriculum building over the past 30 years. Her work in conceiving, developing, directing and teaching theater arts programs continue to annually serve and empower our community’s youth, at-risk, marginalized populations, and through creative programs for women. She has furthered her passion for Arts Education by training with the prestigious Arts Leadership program at Lincoln Center and trained with Jacob’s Pillow in their celebrated Curriculum In Motion Institute, and now serves on their advisory board. She centers her work around shifting American culture to become more invested in the performing arts as ignition for human connection, problem solving, and thriving. She is mother to August Gladstone, a 2022 Emerson College graduate now residing in Los Angeles working for 3Arts Entertainment as he builds towards becoming a show runner writing for film and television. She is proud to share her life with the talented Josh Gladstone, her favorite collaborator. Kate splits her time with work between East Hampton, NYC, nationally and internationally and loves working in college and university settings. www.npcowgirls.org *The Arts hold a profoundly important responsibility to hold the pen for our times, to contradict inhumane proclivities by those in power, and to put forward a bold vision of a better world.

JOHN KROFT (Botard/Grocer) is a New York based actor who has performed in many local productions such as: "The Pillowman" (LTV), “The Great Gatsby” (Bay Street), “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged” (Herrick Park), Multiple summers of Shakespeare at Sylvester Manor, and last spring he even made his directorial debut with “God of Carnage” (LTV). He has appeared in NYC in “Dan Cody’s Yacht” (MTC) and “The Weak and the Strong” (La Mama) and Regionally he has appeared in “Love All” (La Jolla Playhouse), “The Tempest” (The Guthrie), “Dutch Masters” (Northern Stage), “Lifespan of a Fact” (Pioneer Theater Company), “ and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” (Williamstown Theater festival). He’s appeared in TV shows such as: “Blue Bloods” (CBS), and “Red Oaks,” (Amazon); and in films such as: “Maestro” (NETFLIX) and “Master” (AMAZON). You can also find his work as a narrator in several audiobooks at Audible.com. John is a proud graduate of The Juilliard School Drama Division.

Cameron Eastland (Cafe Proprietor) is excited to be a part of such an important play at a time where it is so needed. Recent credits include Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Hampton Theater Company and X in The Encounter at Floor 13 Theatrical Laboratory. Special thanks to Vinny, Kate, Josh, Carly, and his family. PCPA 2017. USU 2020. Pace University 2024.

Carly Cooper (Waitress) is an actor and producer based in New York. She is thrilled to be returning to LTV in Rhinoceros, a play that could not be more relevant. Recent credits include Five times in One Night (LTV & 80G), No Light Lives Here (The Tank), Authorial Intent (80G). She has her MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School and a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Michigan SMTD. Many thanks to Vincent and Josh for the opportunity to be part of this special night!

Daniela Mastropietro (Grocer’s Wife) is a Brooklyn-based actor and thrilled to be a part of this reading at LTV. Favorite roles include Veronica in God of Carnage for LTV Theater; Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY and at The WaterTower Theatre in Dallas, TX; Lady Macbeth at Hudson Theatreworks, NJ; Lucia in For Worse at NJ Rep, Masha in Three Sisters at Columbia University, and the Ariel spirit in The Tempest for CSC Young Company in NY.