THURSDAY DECEMBER 28th at 7 PM
SEX
SCENES
CELLAR 205
205
Anacapa Street
SANTA BARBARA, CA
(805)
962-5857
with:
Karen Grenke,
Catherine Anne Hayes,
John Bargiel, Jill Marie Burke,
Johnny
Haney,
Tania Israel, Traci Chevraux, Howard Leader, and David
Vining
NO
COVER CHARGE
THE
ACTORS
JILL MARIE BURKE is a full-time performer,
residing in Los Angeles. Her first professional work began
with the Walt Disney Company, portraying several famous
Disney princesses in their live stage shows. While
traveling the globe, she performed onstage with Norwegian
and Holland America Cruise Lines as their principal
vocalist. Her theater credits are numerous, including two
productions of Songs For A New World, one of which she was
nominated for a L.A. Ovation Award. She recently traveled
to Scotland to perform in a stage production for the
well-known Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006. Here at home,
she frequently can be seen singing our National Anthem for
teams such as the Anaheim Ducks and Angels. Check out her
website: www.jillmarieburke.com
CATHERINE ANNE HAYES is a NYC gal that has made Los
Angeles her home for the past 3 years. It has definitely
been an adventure!! She is a multi-talented
Actress/Singer/Writer who had appeared in many films,
television shows and commercialsand stage. Live performance
is her first love. She also is working on her CD and for
the past year and a half has been seriously writing and has
had 2 of her short stories and 6 of her poems published.
She is very excited to be a part of Sex Scenes.
DAVID
VINING is a
graduate of Santa Barbara High School, Sarah Lawrence
College and attended Wadham College at Oxford University.
He played the lead in Andrew Hurley’s short film Decidedly
French (written by Emmy Award winner Emily Kapnek)
performed in numerous shows while growing up in Santa
Barbara. In New York City he has performed in Tanya
Kane-Parry’s Gun in Mouth, Pen in Hand at the
Ontological/Hysteric Theater; and also with GAle GAtes et
al in Wine-Blue-Open-Water and Oh! A Fifty Year Dart...
Though he loves to perform, David is mostly a director and
writer. He just completed work on OFF Stage: The West
Village Fragments. Other NYC projects include Wuthering
High at 14th Street Y Theater; Cracked and The Last
Menagerie at HERE; The Curse of the Smart Kid and Blue
Puppies at the Ontological; and the premiere of Arthur
Sainer’s The Burning Out of ’82 at Theater for the New
City. David is an artist and producer for Cagey
Productions. His short play Angry Rants of the Disenchanted
Foreigners will be produced at BAX in spring 2007. David
will return to direct part of OFF Stage: The East Village
Fragments for Peculiar Works Project in June. He's married
to the actor, Karen Grenke. http://cageyproductions.com
KAREN
GRENKE was
recently in Convergence at Aisling Arts, The Blue Puppies
Cycle,Wuthering High at The 14th Street Y; And I Love You,
Little Red Riding Hood at Women's Project &
Productions, Angels and Accordions at Greenwood Cemetary;
Film: the upcoming indie film Love Like Blood, and Matt
Lambert's Rockville. Ms. Grenke is a founder of Cagey
Productions and is married to the director/playwright/actor
David Vining. For more about Karen click
here. http://cageyproductions.com
HOWARD
LEADER retired in 1989 after 22 years
with the Los Angeles Police Department to pursue his own
business as a Private Investigator. Sixteen years later in
2005, he decided to try something new. In August 2005, he
was reading a Ventura County Community College catalogue
while have his morning cup of coffee. One of the classes
offered caught his attention, Fundamentals of Acting. Hmm,
that should be interesting!!! He enrolled in Ventura
College's Theatre Arts program. Little did he know that it
was mandatory that he audition for a one-act play. Very
nervous, he was ready to bail out, but then thought, "No
one knows me, what’s the worse that can happen?" He was
cast as Mr. O'Toole, (a museum security guard) in The
Amazing Mrs. O'Shaugnessy and that is what started his
amazing new career. Since that audition, not two weeks has
gone by where he hasn't been rehearsing or performing.
Howard has since been cast as Vati, in an original play
called Leipzig by Wendy Graf at the Lee Strasberg Theatre,
(his first professional experience), Sheriff Ike Vallon and
Charlie the doorman in Showboat, performed at the Ojai Art
Center Theatre & Ocean View Pavillion in Port Huneme,
Boris Kolenkhov in You Can't Take It With You, Judge
William Heath in Ayn Rand's The Night of January 16th, and
Sasha Smirnoff in Room Service. He directed The Sin Eater
and also directed and performed as Judge Horace Haswell in
a Perry Mason play that he adapted for the stage from a
short story written by Erle Stanley Gardner entitled, The
Case of The Irate Witness. His next project is Fiddler on
the Roof in March 2007 in Ventura, California where he will
play Lazar Wolf, the butcher. Visit http://howardleader.com.