barebones productions presents
this is our youth
by kenneth lonergan

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Dalla Andracchio (Jessica)
Dalla is a 2002 graduate of the Point Park College Conservatory. During her time there she performed with the Repertory Company (Ithaka), the Conservatory Company (Joined at the Head), Playhouse Junior (Anne of Green Gables), the Point Park Outreach Program (Bang Bang You're Dead), and several one-act festivals (Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll, ...Could have Been a Brilliant Career, yourlife.dream). Other credits include The Children's Hour for Immersion Theater, Rain in the Hollows (Pittsburgh New Play Festival), Ice Cream Stories and The Sweater Issue (New Works festival), and several independent films. Her next appearance will be in the City Theatre's Young Playwrights' Festival.

Jason Planitzer (Warren)
Jason Planitzer is pursuing a B.A. at the University of Pittsburgh studying film and theatre. Pitt Repertory credits include Eddie in Fool For Love, Radu in Mad Forest, Sam Fried in Coyote on a Fence, and most recently, and Charles in An Infinite Ache. Jason was last seen in the Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh's The Chosen, and the barebones productions inaugural outing, bash.

Patrick Jordan (Dennis)
Patrick is a 2002 graduate from the University of Pittsburgh and a founding member of barebones productions. A native of Pittsburgh, He has performed for City Theater (Momentum Fest. Gompers), Starlight (All My Sons, Desire Under The Elms), Pitt Rep (The Real Thing), Provoke (Corpus Christi), The Project in New York (Nin and Wonderbabe), Shristi (Karna and Kunti in Calcutta India), JTOP (I'm Not Rappaport), and barebones productions (bash). Patrick was last seen performing in Bricolague's Beiderman and the Firebugs and the Inecom television documentary Johnstown Flood with Richard Dreyfuss on PBS, next Patrick will be seen in the City Theatre's Young Playwrights' Festival followed by the Saints and Poets production of The Late Henry Moss.

Melanie Dreyer (Director)
Melanie Dreyer graduated from Northwestern University with an MFA in Directing, where she worked with Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati, Tina Landau and Bob Falls. She holds an MA in Dramatic Literature from Washington University and a BA in Theater from the University of Denver. She is the former Co-Artistic Director of ShatterMask Theater, a critically acclaimed Equity theatre specializing in exploring alternatives to traditional modes of production. Fluent in German, she specializes in the translation and direction of contemporary German plays. She is currently working toward producing bilingual productions (German and English) to tour both in the US and Germany. Directing credits include: The Arabian Night (her translation) for Quantum Theatre, She Stoops to Conquer for Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Ballad Hunter, Learned Ladies, and Silent Spring for Pitt Rep. Additional directing credits: Endgame, Der Ozeanflug (rehearsed and performed in German), Vieux Carre, Measure for Measure, The Physician in Spite of Himself, Action, Old Times , Dreams of Baby, The Love Talker, The Middle Kingdom, Cabaret, The Servant of Two Masters, The Endless Adventures of M.C. Kat, Blue Moon Rising, and Coyote Ugly. She works as a free-lance director and runs the undergraduate performance training program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Alicia DeMara (Stage Manager)
Alicia has most recently worked with the City Theatre for Cafe Puttanesca and String of Pearls as a sound operator and a spotlight operator. Other credits include Pittsburgh Playhouse Repertory Company: Hamlet, LaBete and Three Penny Opera (Assistant Stage Manager). Stage Manager Credits include amoung many others Pittsburgh Playhouse Conservatory Company's Nine, Arcadia, and Shakespeare Street. Alicia has also worked with Bricolage Theatre Company on Wild Signs.

Marissa Miskanin (Costume Designer)
Marissa Miskanin is a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. Recent design credits include: Mother Courage & her Children; Two Houses; Romeo & Juliet; Mad Forest; The Magdalene Project; Working: a Musical and The Real Thing. Her next project is co-designing the Young Playwrights' Festival at the City Theatre.

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