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Restoration

Claudia Shear as "Giulia" (left) and Natalija Nogulich as "Beatrice" in La Jolla Playhouse's world-premiere production of RESTORATION, photo by Craig Schwartz.

La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Restoration, written by and starring award-winning playwright/actress Claudia Shear (Dirty Blonde, Blown Sideways Through Life). Natalija Nogulich whose Hedda rocked the Playhouse in 1987 returns in the multiple roles of Marciante/Beatrice/Nonna. The show plays through July 19, 2009.

(L-R) Claudia Shear as "Giulia," Kate Shindle as "Daphne," Natalija Nogulich as "Marciante" and Alan Mandell as "Professor Williams, photo by Craig Schwartz.

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Bio

His play, "Café Depresso: Where Prozac, Caffeine and Black Leather Converge," premiered at San Diego’s Sushi Performance Art Gallery. In San Francisco, “Depresso” played a sold-out run at the Exit Theatre. He also appeared in the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival production of “King Lear" at the Gershwin Theatre.

Thom is proud of his apprenticeships in numerous summer stock theatres in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and the Middle West where he appeared with Ruby Keeler and Tammy Grimes.

Other credits include writing and directing "Friday Night Refugees" with words and music by Romanofsky and Phillips and directing assignments at Fritz Blitz, La Jolla Stage Co., Theatre Rhinoceros and others.

He produced Theatre Rhinoceros’ “The AIDS Show” at San Diego State University (1985) and founded Diversionary Theatre (1986). Thom is a graduate of the Acting program at Boston University, School of Fine Arts.

Most challenging performance: playing Valere in “The Miser” for Fairmount Theatre of the Deaf. The job required performing the role in sign language and “voicing” a deaf actor’s performance. Getting tongue tied sometimes took on a new meaning in that show.

A Brief History

by Kym Sawtelle
The central members of Not Man Apart - Physical Theatre Ensemble: group began as a training program ten years ago, Performing Arts Conservatory Carmel (PACC) was erected in the summer of 1999 by John Farmanesh-Bocca as an occupational/vocational performance program for aspiring teen theatre artists between the ages of 15 - 19 years of age. The curriculum was based on the physical theatre works of Jerzy Grotowski, Steve Wangh, Sanford Meisner, Wendell Beavers, Tadashi Suzuki, Joseph Chaikin, and the works of other Master Teachers of the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University. Over time specific physical theatre approaches developed by PACC became a vocabulary unique to the company. Many of these techniques are still employed by the former Company Members and John in his work at both NYU and The Juilliard School. After ten-years most of the members of PACC are degree holding professionals many of who comprise the members of the Not Man Apart Ensemble.

Photo: Michelle Magdalena

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