About the Cast & Crew of
I AM HAMLET
Scroll down to meet the intrepid two-some who made it
all possible...
 Brian
Morey
Actor/Singer/Musical Director
Brian Morey is a multi-level performer and
international singer and actor. His outstanding performance of Iago led to the
development of a challenging one-man show, I Am Hamlet,
where Brian plays: Hamlet, Horatio, Polonius, King Claudius, Ophelia, Derroch
Death (a gravedigger), the Gravedigger’s Companion, and an additional eight
roles in "the film within the play." I Am Hamlet
premiered the winter of 2009, and is currently on tour across North America.
He holds a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School
of the Arts, with a concentration at the CAP 21 Studio for musical theatre,
and the Stonestreet Studios for television and film. Brian has performed vocal
solos in shows at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Hammerstein Ballroom, St.
Paul’s Cathedral, and The Bottom Line. He has worked in Asia, French
Polynesia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and the West Indies. He has also
traveled around the globe, completing a 22-country, 6-continent international
tour with Hooray
for Hollywood.
He performed in the U.S. Tours of The Mystery of King Tut,
Illusions
and international tours of: Hooray For Hollywood.
His New York City credits include, Hollywood the Concert,
City
of Angels,
World
to Win,
Streets
of America,
and Ophelia. Brian has professionally
performed lead roles around the U.S. in Brigadoon,
Footloose,
On The
Twentieth Century,
West
Side Story,
Damn
Yankees,
Once
Upon A Mattress,
Forever
Plaid,
Joseph…,
The
Fantasticks,
and Big River. Mr. Morey has also
played leading characters in Animated Features: Knight Hunters,
Space
Pirate Mito,
Magic
Readers Club,
Sadamitsu
the Destroyer,
Slave
Master
(Anime Works, Media Blasters, New York Post, in NYC). He has recorded
commercial voiceovers for Acuvue Contact Lenses.
Brian Morey originated the lead role of
Iago in the dramatic, musical, adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello,
entitled Othello: Requiem for Desdemona. Aside from his acting career, Brian
is an accomplished musical director and music producer. He began producing
music in NYC by recording new Off-Broadway shows, independent vocalists and
recording artists. He produced numerous remixes for New York City shows and
tours. Brian recorded and produced the music and his vocals for I Am Hamlet, with
special contributions by Emmett Van Slyke of Black Lagoon Studios, and has
made the music available at http://iamhamlet.bandcamp.com.
 Joe
Siracusa, Director
"the Shakespeare
Guy"
Joe Siracusa is a theatre man. He has spent his
life directing, creating, and producing theatre for the benefit of those who
attend. Joe has always loved classic literature, and above all, the wonderful
works of William Shakespeare. Over the past few years students have started
calling him “the
Shakespeare Guy” because of his ability to help students overcome
their intimidation with the language and make the classic structure
understandable and clear.
He has written five Shakespeare adaptations: Double
Double,
The
Romeo & Juliet Duet, Desdemona,
Othello
(Requiem For Desdemona),
and is currently directing his latest adaptation; I
Am Hamlet.
Joe Siracusa directed shows in Europe for nearly a
decade. He worked extensively with several theatre groups including his own
theatre company, The Phone Booth, and his productions have played in over 200
cities and more than 300 international theatre festivals. Joe Siracusa has
directed the works of Sam Shepard, David Mamet, William Shakespeare, Moliere,
Aristophanes, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Fernando Arrabal, Michelle de
Ghelderode, Stravinsky, Brecht, Jean Claude Van Italie, Arthur Conan Doyle,
Oscar Wilde and more, as well as creating many original works and shows. He
has created theatre projects with many prominent organizations worldwide and
the governments of Holland, Germany, Italy, and Spain; the City of Berlin,
City of Cologne, City of Amsterdam, City of Dusseldorf, City of Barcelona,
City of Frankfurt, City of Atlanta, Bonn 2000, 750 Years of Berlin, the Goethe
Institute, Miami Dade County, the Bureau of Quebec, the State of New York, the
Belgian Consul General, and the Cultural Senate of Berlin. He put together a
large-scale open-air spectacle with Italy’s renowned director, Leo Bassi,
where the two directors were featured in collaboration between the USA, Italy
and Germany.
Joe Siracusa has directed theatre projects and
taught acting classes with leading Universities and prominent theatre schools
including Carnegie Mellon University, Miami International University of Art
& Design, New World School of the Arts, University of Miami, University of
South Florida, Ithaca College, Wells College, Cornell University,
International Fine Arts College, and The University of Fine Art (Berlin). He
also has conducted many theatre events and acting workshops with theatres in
Holland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States.
Joe Siracusa has also been working with Eddie
Foy III over the past ten years. Eddie Foy III is the most
respected casting director in the entertainment industry and part of the
oldest entertainment family in America. Eddie’s grandfather (Eddie Foy)
founded Actors Equity with John Barrymore. Joe Siracusa is the co-founder of
The Eddie Foy III Hollywood Pro Series. These workshops about casting for
television contain exclusive industry information from behind-the-scenes in
Los Angeles. The access to this experience is extremely limited and not
available to most people who are interested in a career in acting. Joe has
produced The Hollywood Pro Series in various places in the United States
including: Las Vegas, San Diego, Donna Reed Foundation, University of Miami,
New World School of the Arts, Miami International University, and Miami Beach
at The Shelborne Beach Resort. You can visit the web site at www.eddiefoy.com.
Joe Siracusa was one of six people selected in a
special guest director series in Berlin with Richard Schechner, Phillp Glass,
David Byrne, Robert Wilson, and Andre Wajda. Joe’s project on that series
received the highest acclaim from the leading cultural office in Germany and
was used as the foundation to change the approach of education in theatre for
young people. Joe was chosen to create an original American Musical to
represent American Culture for the year-long anniversary celebration, “750
Years of Berlin.” Joe also founded an open air Shakespeare series at Bedford
Thompson Vineyard near Santa Barbara, where he directed A Mid Summer Night's
Dream for the grand opening.
In the spring of 2001, Mr. Siracusa was the only
person selected (after a nation wide search by the National Endowment of the
Arts) to conduct a multiple discipline theatre project at the New World School
of the Arts conservatory. He created and directed a variety show as a parody
of a TV show called “Marty the Manatee” using theatre, music, dance,
puppets, masks, and other theatrical devices in a fast-paced farce. He
collaborated for years in Europe with playwright and founder of Sheer Madness,
George Isherwood, creating and directing their own adaptation of Napoleon
which was created for the Festival Of Fools, 1984, in Amsterdam. George
Isherwood and Joe Siracusa also created a spoof on Arthur Conan Doyle’s The
Hound of the Baskervilles - The Cow of the Basket Cases.
This outrageous farce sold out in Berlin and went on to play extended tours of
Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Malaga, Majorca, and the Canary Islands. Joe
played a spectrum of parts for Shakespeare's Greatest Hits,
an adaptation merging the most exciting scenes from Hamlet,
Macbeth,
Antony
& Cleopatra,
and Richard III. This production played
thousands of performances and won the Golden Bear Award
for best show in Berlin.
Other adaptations from classic literature Joe has
written or collaborated on that have been produced in Europe and the United
States are: Bacchae
Now
(Euripedes), Farce on Farce
(History of Farce), Dorian
(Oscar Wilde), Scapin
(Moliere), Ubu
Ray Gun
(Alfred Jarry), Suckers, A Vampoppera
(Bram Stoker).
Joe Siracusa used his background in theatre
festivals to produce WORLDFEST '89 and '90, two major performing arts
festivals in Atlanta where nearly 100 performances from 33 countries were
featured in three days at seven venues for over 130,000 people. He introduced
more than fifty international groups and artists to the United States.
WORLDFEST was covered by CNN Worldwide three times, ABC in L.A., MTV, and
Playboy Magazine featured the event in The Grapevine with the B52s and Twin
Peaks, in an article entitled What’s
Happening, Where It’s Happening, And Who's Making It Happen.
Joe was recently asked to direct a special
performance for the 25th anniversary of the passing of Tennessee Williams, Tennessee's
Final Curtain, at the Dramatists Guild of
America in The Frederick Loewe Room on Broadway. Joe also worked recently with
children ages seven to nine on scenes from Macbeth at Kendall Studios in
Miami. The work was noted for the clarity of the text, especially for young
people of this age.
He conducted classes on acting with a presentation
of Shakespeare scenes for the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Project, part of
the New York Dance Festival, hosted each year by the New York Institute of
Dance and Education. He is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Drama where he received a BFA in acting. He has an Associates of
Arts in English and also studied literature in London having been awarded a
Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship. Joe’s hobbies are photography, cooking,
and he loves motor racing and Latin Music. References, printed materials, and
DVDs available on request.
Joe Siracusa, Theatre Director
Phone 310. 463. 1231
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