COCKFIGHT
written by Peter Gil-Sheridan
directed by Anna Brenner
musical guests Vicki Quintero & Nakul Agrawal
FEATURING
Jaunie.....................................................................Miles Gutierrez-Riley
Big Juan............................................................................David Anzuelo
Boozy Floozy.........................................................................Annie Henk
Putika..............................................................................Andrea Negrete
Tunero.............................................................................Alex Hernandez
The Voice...............................................................Kelley Rae O’Donnell
Peter Gil Sheridan’s work has been developed and/or produced by Keen Company, Page 73 Productions, Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, The New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, InterAct Theatre, The Guthrie, The Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Borderlands, Sundance, Ars Nova, The Millay Colony, Ucross Foundation, and The Playwrights Center (Jerome Fellowship.) Topsy Turvy Mouse was the winner of The Smith Prize awarded by the National New Play Network for political work. Peter is on the faculty at Vassar College. MFA: Iowa, BA: Fordham.
Anna Brenner (she/her) | has had the pleasure of working with Peter on Cockfight for nearly a decade! She has directed new plays and classics in New York and regionally, written and directed her own original work, and taught at SUNY Purchase and NYU. She is currently making her first feature film, The Karamazovs, adapted from her original play of the same title that opened at The New Ohio March 2020. Other work includes In This Hope: A Pericles Project (The Welders, DC), Peter Gil-Sheridan’s Cockfight (Fordham University), The Glass Menagerie (Theatreworks Colorado), Eliza Bent’s The Hotel Colors (Bushwick Starr), 3 Women (Columbia Stages), Terra Incognita (CPR), Disquiet (Living Theatre), Are We Here Yet? (PS122), Won’t Be A Ghost (Prelude), The Misanthrope (PS122, undergroundzero Audience Award). annabrenner.com
Vicki Quintero (she/her) & Nakul Agrawal (he/him) | Vicki & Nakul are lifelong musicians and both the children of immigrants. After building a friendship on a foundation of music, great food, similar cultural upbgrinings, and recovery, they began dating and are getting married this May! They write and record their original songs in their home studio, covering topics such as addiction, recovery, mental health, culture, and relationships. Fun fact: Peter Gil-Sheridan, the playwright of Cockfight, is Vicki's first cousin!
David Anzuelo (he/him) | is a Queer Chicano actor/playwright/fight-director who works in film/theater and television. He's a member of Labyrinth Theater Company and the founder of UnkleDave's Fight-House fight/intimacy team. Selected acting credits theater: Shared Sentences (Houses On The Moon Theater Co.); Mother Road (Arena); Halfway Bitches (Labyrinth/Atlantic); Fishmen (Intar). Selected TV credits: Succession; Elementary; The Americans; Deadbeat; Person Of Interest. Film acting credits: A NY Christmas Wedding; A Walk Among The Tombstones; Remember Me. davidanzuelo.com
Miles Gutierrez-Riley (he/him)| Miles Gutierrez-Riley is a Brooklyn-based actor, originally from Long Beach, California. He was previously a series regular on Prime Video’s The Wilds and played lead roles in Paramount Pictures’ On The Come Up, Wayfarer Studios’ The Moon and Back, and Tommy Dorfman’s directorial debut I Wish You All The Best. He was cast by Jeremy O. Harris to feature in his new play A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You at Playwrights Horizons. Upcoming: Marvel Studios’ Agatha: House of Harkness and The Farm, produced by Elliot Page. He is represented by Julia Rudolph at Soffer Entertainment and Ross Silver at A3 Artists Agency. Big thanks to The Parsnip Ship, Anna, and Peter; he is a longtime fan of this play and is so excited to help tell this beautiful story as Juanie. BA: Fordham University Theatre Program. ig: @milesgutierrezriley
Annie Henk (she/her/ella) | Off Broadway: World Premieres of Man Cave (Page73), Blink Alley (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre-NY debut), Pinkolandia, Lucy Loves Me (Intar), To The Bone (Cherry Lane), City of No Illusions (Talking Band), Cute Activist (New Saloon), The Rafa Play (The Flea), La Ruta (Working Theater), Enfrascada (Clubbed Thumb), Frank Dwyer, Sadly Missed (EST). Regional: Bad Dates (Portland Stage), Shape (Kitchen Theatre), Pinkolandia (Two River Theatre), Enfrascada (Renaissance Theaterworks). Voice: PBSkids Series Alma's Way (Mami), How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Sunstroke. Podcasts: Macbeth (Play On), The Bleeding Class (Geva Theatre), Junior Spacelords (Kennedy Center). TV Guest Roles: Bull (CBS), The Blacklist (NBC), Longmire (Netflix), Red Oaks (Amazon). Film: PonyBoi (2023), Entre Nos, That's Whay She Said. Member of the Actors Center. IG: anniehenkisme anniehenk.com
Alex Hernandez (he/him) | is a professional actor and amateur hooligan based out of Brooklyn, NY. He is delighted to collaborate once again with Peter Gil-Sheridan and to forge a relationship with the Parsnip Ship. You can catch him as Tommy Constantine on Amazon's sci-fi drama The Peripheral. Upcoming: Sugar (Apple TV).
Andrea Negrete (she/they) | is an actor, artist, and collaborative creator from the Rio Grande Valley. Recent credits include: a home what howls (Ojai Playwrights Conference) and Three Girls Never Learnt the Way Home (Cherry Lane + Dorset Theatre Festival) by Mathew Paul Olmos, The Opportunities of Extinction (Cherry Lane), Tell Me A Story (CBS), The Other Two (Comedy Central) and Saints Go Marching (Signature Theatre). She’s a graduate of Vassar College and is represented by Monica Villarreal at Anonymous Content.
Kelley Rae O'Donnell (she/her) | Producing Artistic Leadership and Member of New York's LAByrinth Theater Company and member of The Actors Center. Theater: Ushuaia Blue (CATF), The Wake (Premiere Stages), Occupied Territories (59E59 Theater), 10×10 (Barrington Stage Company), The Trouble with Nicole (Dorset Theatre Festival), Holy Laughter (Denver Center), The Discarded (BAM), Clown Bar (Pipeline Theatre), The Atmosphere of Memory (LAByrinth), Heal Me Television (Southern Rep.), Fight Girl Battle World (HERE NYC). Recent Film/TV: The Irishman (Netflix), Tommy (CBS), Invasion (Apple TV), The Blacklist (NBC), Shades of Blue (NBC), Like So Many Things (IFC), Signs of Aging (Amazon), Life After You, Will You Take This Dog? kellrod.com
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