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Louis Lopardi
Artistic Director. Louis Lopardi came to the world of theatre through
music. An accomplished composer, he has been a guest conductor with the
Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and several opera companies. As a stage
director he has worked with opera and theatre companies on three
continents. Louis pioneered the use of Schenkerian analysis - hitherto used
for analyzing linear dynamics in music - to the spoken word, and adapted
it to some of Michael Chekhov's and Uta Hagen's theories on virtual
actors' space. He also originated the application of the classical
"Golden Section" of Greek architecture to all the creative arts
- music, poetry, and theatre inclusively.
Also a published poet and playwright, Louis recently premiered part 2 of his
ongoing and critically acclaimed Purgatory Project. 42nd Street saw
recent readings of his new
full length play: BOLT - The Frankenstein Journals. Louis has received
multiple awards in myriad disciplines: Lighting Design, Sound Design,
Photography, Original Music, Playwrighting,
and Direction. Associate, Society of Stage Directors &
Choreographers.
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The
Coaching Staff
Louis Lopardi
Ken
Bachtold
Teresa Fischer
Frank Calo
Steven Thornburg |
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Ken
Bachtold
Founding Director Ken Bachtold began A Company Of Players in 1979 in
Greenwich Village. He produced and
directed W. Somerset Maughm’s The
Breadwinner; G.B. Shaw’s You
Never Can Tell; J.B. Priestley’s Goodnight
Children; Booth Tarkington’s Clarence;
Jean Girardeau’s ‘Ring Around
The Moon; J.B. Priestley’s Dangerous
Corner; and J.M. Barrie’s Dear
Brutus in the years following. More
recently he has been associated with Frank Calo’s Spotlight On
Festivals, winning two best director awards for Jean Anouilh’s Antigone
and Edgar Lee Master’s
Spoor
River
Anthology.
He holds a Master Degree in Theatre from San Francisco State
University and favorite acting roles in include Salieri in Amadeus,
Gary Essendine in Noel Coward’s Present
Laughter, and Weller Martin in
The Gin Game. A
highlight was playing Henry Higgins in My
Fair Lady and directing Anything
Goes in the winter music festival at the Ahwahni Hotel in
Yosemite
National Park
. He is excited about this
new incarnation of his company.
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Teresa
Fischer
Teresa earned a Master's Degree in Theater Directing from the
University of South Carolina. She studied for 10 years at HB Studio with
Elizabeth Dillon, Edith Meeks and Jim Boerlin.
Teresa's New York directing credits include: Mystery School at
Raw Space, Forty Whacks for Playwrights and Actors Contemporary
Theatre, Marie at the American Theatre of Actors, Juliet and The
Mall at the Irish Arts Center, Bedtime Story and The
Loveliest Afternoon of the Year at Center Stage, The Old Beginning
and The Midlife Crisis of Dionysis for All Souls Players as well as
several showcase productions. Regional directing credits include: Avow,
The Speed of Darkness, The Lobster Reef, The Boys Next Door, The
Fantasticks, The Music Man, Graceland and The Lion In Winter.
Teresa was a special guest voice numerous times on Marie & Friends,
a syndicated national radio show hosted by the Marie Osmond.
Teresa has been focused recently on the cabaret world with her shows Lightening
My Load and So Many Tangents … So Little Time at Don't
Tell Mama. Other notable cabaret performances include: Touch Your
Soul, Tooth & Nail: A Cabaret Vaudeville , Three Broads Singing to
Beat the Blues, Three Broads Singing Naughty…Singing Nice! and Best
of the Broads: A Sentimental Journey at The Duplex and various
Spotlight On Productions venues. Most recently Teresa was featured as Andy Warhol's Secret Girlfriend
at the Theatre de Nesle in Paris.
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