LIMINAL

Rachele Facchini Ivers is blessed in many ways. She is proud to be a founder and member of Not An Original Theater Company, a company that prides itself on taking art that has been created, exploring it without shame of borrowing or stealing ideas and taking them to another level. With NaOTC she has produced/directed a workshop of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds at the Producers Club (all proceeds donated to Haiti) and staged a guerilla subway theater performance. She is grateful to have the opportunity to conceptualize, direct, produce, and work with an ensemble of fellow Manhattanville Alumni. Since graduating she has taken classes studying Michael Chekov technique, held free Chekov seminars, and is a proud member of The Public Theater’s Youth Partners Program. Rachele is thankful to be working and sharing Liminal with her friends, family, and colleagues.
 

Savanna is a lyrical/contemporary dancer who trained at The Dance Connection, a competitive studio in East Haven, CT. She has taught ballet, jazz and lyrical at Jump Dance Center in Pelham NY, Breaking Ground Dance Center in Pleasantville NY, and The Dance Connection in East Haven. She holds her B.A. in History from Manhattanville College. During her time there she was a featured dancer for many original student pieces and also worked with accomplished choreographers Nicholas Leichter, Arthur Fredrick, Doug Elkins, and Stacey Forsyth Mahan. She competed as part of the US Showdance Team for 3 years, and took home a Silver Medal in the Adult Group category in 2009.

Savanna has been dancing with Donofrio Dance Company since January 2011 and is a founding member of Not An Original Theater Company. She loves being a part of the collaborative process, even when Rachele makes her do things backwards. When she’s not dancing, she enjoys acting, reading, spending time with family and friends, going to the gym, the beach, and of course, Harry Potter.

Taylor Donofrio received a BA in Dance and Theater from Manhattanville College. She has since founded her own Modern dance company, Donofrio Dance Company, which has begun performing around NYC at such venues as Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research, The Tank, and the Jamaica Performing Arts Center. As a dancer, choreographer, and performer, Taylor creates and collaborates with many artists. Here most recent collaborations include performing and choreographing for Te Ilum Theatre Company as well as performing as a Magicianʼs Assistant (shh). When Taylor isnʼt performing, she teaches kids yoga and dance through out Manhattan and Brooklyn. She hopes she can spread her passion and creative pulse of dance and theater to everyone she works with and thus is grateful to be a part of the great minds of Not An Original Theatre Company.

Laura Pellegrini is thrilled beyond words to join a company that is willing to take extraordinary risks from the heart and venture into the unknown. Liminal will mark a year since her involvement in a theatre production, and is humbled to return to the stage. Past credits include Portia in Julius Caesar, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, and Claire in All Fall Down. She feels fortunate to start a company from the ground up with amazing and talented folks, and for pursuing an art form that allows the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful to come forth. In the words of Penny Lane, my R and -Jers: “It’s aaaall happening!”

DarrylLee VanOudenhove is oh-so-very pleased to be working with this company, spawned by her college alma mater! In NYC, she has stage managed Walled In at IRT Theater; Always Be Ready at the Midtown International Theatre Festival; King John, The Taming of the Shrew, and a reading of The Tragedy of Arthur at The Public Theater for The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project; Weekend at an English County Estate for the Ateh Theater Company; and i/o and with Phil Soltanoff and Mad Dog Experimental. In CT, she was assistant manager for two years for Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet with the Danbury Music Centre. Her last acting performance was in All Fall Down at The Tank in NYC. She graduated from Manhattanville College with a BA in Dance and Theatre, and English Literature in 2005.