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goofy summer

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From before and after the show @americantheatreofactors

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More from the recent production of “Suppressed Desires” at the Serene Sargent Theatre in NYC @riffraff.nyc

🎭: @willdeanjaramillo / @colldegennaro / @ej_paras

💡: @staton_the_facts

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Kismet summer

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Stills from @riffraff.nyc’s 21st century twist on Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook‘s psychoanalysis satire one-act play “Suppressed Desires”

🎭: @willdeanjaramillo / @colldegennaro / @ej_paras

💡: @staton_the_facts

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Hey! We open a play this week and we’re very excited for these opportunities to share our work with you. We’ve been having such a fun time rehearsing for SUPPRESSED DESIRES. It’s funny that Vanya, Sonia, and Spike are back together again — the power-balances have shifted but that pining still remains.

We really hope you guys have a good time, have some laughs, and hang out with us after our shows. Suppressed Desires is a part of @riffraff.nyc’s one-act festival lineup for its summer programming and we’re so thrilled to be a part of it. Thank you to @staton_the_facts for running it and including us!

We’ll have four performances at The American Theatre of Actors which is at 314 W. 54th St in Manhattan. Ticket link is currently in my story. I’ll prob blast it some more. I’ll add it to my link in bio, too, for now.

Weds. 8/12 at 8pm
Thurs. 8/13 at 7pm
Sat. 8/15 at 2pm
Sun. 8/16 at 8pm

Let us know if you can make it. We’d love to see ya. And hey, sometimes it’s better to not suppress those desires. Just go for it. Take the leap of faith.

Cool 📸 by: @justin_acook

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🎭 SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE: SUPPRESSED DESIRES

As part of RiffRaff NYC’s and Rogue Theatre Festival's I’m In Love With An Immigrant Festival, we’re delighted to welcome Suppressed Desires — a witty 40-minute comedy exploring what happens when we start looking a little too deeply into the hidden meaning behind everything we say, dream and do.

As Freudian psychoanalysis becomes the latest craze, Henri becomes convinced that every dream, impulse and relationship conceals a deeper psychological meaning. Soon, his husband and sister are dragged into a hilarious spiral of over-analysis, suppressed impulses and increasingly absurd conclusions.
Beneath the comedy, Suppressed Desires asks what happens when we suppress our authentic desires and identities in favour of social expectations — and what we reveal when we finally stop.

PERFORMERS
William Dean Jaramillo
EJ Paras
Colleen DeGennaro

📍 American Theatre of Actors

📅 PERFORMANCES
Wednesday, August 12 — 8 PM
Thursday, August 13 — 7 PM
Saturday, August 15 — 2 PM
Sunday, August 16 — 8 PM

🎟️ Everyone participating in the I’m In Love With An Immigrant Festival is invited to attend Suppressed Desires FREE OF CHARGE!

And for our final night on August 16, we’re bringing the two audiences together: anyone with a ticket to the 7 PM festival short plays is welcome to stay for Suppressed Desires at 8 PM, and anyone with an 8 PM Suppressed Desires ticket is welcome to come early and see the festival performances at 7 PM. Two shows, one ticket!

🎟️ Tickets available through the link in RiffRaff NYC’s bio.
Come celebrate immigrant artists, identity, belonging, suppressed desires — and the wonderfully ridiculous things that happen when we try to psychoanalyse absolutely everything.

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To the greatest gift of all:

Thank you for making time stop outside these walls for 4 hours every evening. We’ve held each other’s hand through the good and the bad without even realizing it. That guaranteed laugh at 6:30pm that could make a whole week of bad news disappear with just one “ALL IS LOST!!” or “Yas giirll!” will surely be missed like hell. Or even sharing that one “oh fuck” look with someone when you too realized Nephelidia was due that day.. (Joe, if you’re reading this, no you’re not)
We’ve healed unspoken heartbreaks, silent loss of hope and sudden drops in self esteem in these walls without having to utter a (coherent) word about it.
In these 2 years we’ve seen what love, rage, despair, hope and desire looks like in the eyes of each of our peers. More than most people dare to share/express in half a lifetime with close friends.
THANK YOU for your vulnerability, your courage and uniqueness, for your kindness when most needed and for sauciness always! I will always see you all in the stars (afar but never apart) in Moscow and in the birds that fly up above all the things that matter on this earth!
Thank you @stellaadler , because to me this place will forever be more than just a school: its unmeasured support, its real human connection, its love all around and throughout, but most importantly; it’s a home.

Thank you 🎓❤️

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Thank you Stella Adler 🫀
My dear people, it was a blink of an eye but one that stays.

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falling into the trap of sentimentality

loved these times and love these people

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When I interviewed for the @stellaadler Conservatory two years ago, I said to Tom & Lou, “I have a marketing job right now and I’m doing okay, and I could do that the rest of my life. But I want to be more than okay.”  I had no idea how much I’d be affected by all of it. Every day was a blessing. Over-caffeinated at 6:30pm, still taking swigs at 8pm. Learning from & playing with people I admire. This talented bunch moved me daily. Some of the best theater you could see in NYC just had a few blocks under fluorescent lights in a dusty basement.  I wore my Angie McMahon shirt to Closing Night of VSMS. My new closing tradition, I’ve done it three times already. But if I never went to that show, never met Kristie and learned about Stella, maybe I never applied, and maybe I’d just be further along in my corporate career — maybe gotten another promotion. Sounds okay to me.  I graduated from college & business school eight years ago, and if it wasn’t for throwing myself into a corporate job right after, maybe it’d have hit me harder then. This one kinda hurts.  Noah Baumbach said in his recent commencement speech at Vassar, “look beside you, not in front of you.” The greatest thing I’ll probably ever get from this, even with everything I’ve experienced in & out of the classroom, is the people. My friends. My sisters. I loved every minute, even when it was fucking hard. From Celeste being my first teacher in the Intro program to her helping me ace my audition by working with me on Edmund from King Lear; Charlotte telling me that growth can sometimes feel like a spiral staircase — I’m higher than where I was before, even if the view feels familiar.  But it’s not over. It’s really just beginning. Dusting off old scripts, picturing my friends as the characters, embodying the souls. Maybe have an agent by the end of the month if all goes well there. I have no idea what I’m doing.   “I know I sound like a crank, but I’m afraid of change,” Vanya, I understand you. Bishop Sheen said to build your life on a strong foundation, and I’m so glad to have these people lifting me up when I feel like I’m falling backwards into the abyss. Just know I’ll lift you up when you need it, too.

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growth as a human being. thought of ha. that friday feeling. comedy comes in 3s. i am an actor i am an actor i am an actor

Feeling incredibly blessed that somehow life brought me to this place and to these people. Who knew 65 Broadway could hold so much love?

Pic creds to @andreparasjpeg , Fran’s CoolPix, and a bunch of other people who blew up my WhatsApp with the sheer volume of photos taken over the past 2 weeks

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