Furious Theatre Company


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Company history

The critically acclaimed Furious Theatre Company are artists in residence at the Pasadena Playhouse committed to edgy, innovative and original works.
The company debuted in April 2002 after they were generously granted the company the use of a section of Armory Northwest, a former plastics factory in Pasadena, California. The company converted the raw warehouse into an alternative performance space. Risers were constructed, the lighting grid hung, and stage curtains built, all by the ensemble.
In that converted warehouse, they rapidly produced five plays in 12 months. These productions earned 6 NAACP Theatre Award nominations, two LA Weekly Theater Award nominations, and numerous critics’ picks from the Los Angeles media. The company also received the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award and The Debut Award from Backstage West. In September 2003, the City of Pasadena reclaimed the Armory Northwest and Furious needed to move.
After a 13-month search, the Pasadena Playhouse granted Furious a 4-year residency at its Balcony Theatre, the Playhouse's 99-seat second stage.
In two seasons at the Playhouse, Furious Theatre Company has produced seven premieres, including the Los Angeles Premieres of Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things, Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat and Craig Wright's Grace.

Ensemble

Nick Cernoch

Furious acting credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, ImMEDIAte Theatre, Tearing the Loom, Scenes from the Big Picture, Mojo
Furious production credits: ImMEDIAte Theatre, Tearing the Loom, The God Botherers, The Shape of Things, Mojo, The Playboy of the Western World, Chimps.
With other theatres: Androcles in Androcles and the Lion with Plano Rep. and Motherland, Pavlov\’s Dogs, .

Katie Davies

Furious acting credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, ImMEDIAte Theatre, Tearing the Loom, Scenes from the Big Picture
Furious production credits: Tearing the Loom, The God Botherers, The Shape of Things.
With other theatres: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Dark of the Moon, A Midsummer Night\’s Dream, On The Verge, Letters Home, Cahoot\’s Macbeth, Sex Starved Monkeys, The Stupid Shit We Do For Money, Freudian Slip Improvisational Comedy.

Sara Hennessy

Co-founder
Furious acting credits: The God Botherers, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, The Playboy of the Western World, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
Furious production credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, The Shape of Things, Mojo, Noise, Saturday Night at the Palace.
With other theatres: Another Part of the Forest at the Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Summer Readings, Hay Fever, Life is a Dream, A Christmas Carol and The Skin of our Teeth at A Noise Within; Ramblers, Genealogy, Looking for Love, Our Town, Othello, Welded, Feiffer\’s People, Seascape.

James C. Leary

Furious acting credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Scenes from the Big Picture, Mojo, Noise and Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
Furious production credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II
With other theatres: Road to Nirvana, The Babysitter, The Factory West\’s Attack of the Killer B\’s, Welded, Feiffer\’s People, Freudian Slip Improvisational Comedy, The Harold at ImprovOlympic.
Film and Television credits: The Comeback, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Los Beltran, Stunt C\*cks.

Shawn Lee

Co-founder
Furious acting credits: Canned Peaches in Syrup, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Tearing the Loom, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, Mojo, Saturday Night at the Palace, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
Furious production credits: Grace, The God Botherers, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, Mojo, Saturday Night at the Palace, Noise, The Playboy of the Western World.
With other theatres: Turnaround, Ramblers, Waiting For Godot, The Diviners, The Zoo Story, Dark of the Moon, Godspell, The Foreigner, Boy\’s Life, Henry IV Part I.

Vonessa Martin

Co-founder
Furious acting credits: Back of the Throat, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, ImMEDIAte Theatre, Tearing the Loom, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Noise, The Playboy of the Western World, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
Furious production credits: Tearing the Loom, The God Botherers, Scenes from the Big Picture, Mojo, Chimps, The Playboy of the Western World, Saturday Night at the Palace.
With other theatres: Dancing at Lughnasa, Ramblers, Front, Pride of Lions, Extremities, Ludlow Fair, Tartuffe, The Diviners.

Doug Newell

Furious acting credits: Impending Rupture of the Belly, Back of the Throat, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Scenes from the Big Picture.
Furious production credits: ImMEDIAte Theatre, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Tearing the Loom, The God Botherers, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, Mojo.
With other theatres: High Fife Comedy, The Underground, Pavlov’s Dog’s, Freudian Slip Improvisational Comedy.

Eric Pargac

Co-founder
Furious acting credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, ImMEDIAte Theatre, Tearing the Loom, Scenes from the Big Picture, Mojo, The Playboy of the Western World, Saturday Night at the Palace, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
Furious production credits: The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, Mojo, The Playboy of the Western World, Noise.
With other theatres: Turnaround, Glass Onion house team at ImprovOlympic, Of Mice and Men, Pygmalion, Freudian Slip Improvisational Comedy, Pirates of Penzance, The Fantasticks, Rimers of Eldritch.

Brad Price

Co-founder
Furious acting credits: The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Mojo, The Playboy of the Western World, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
Furious production credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Tearing the Loom, The God Botherers, Chimps, Saturday Night at the Palace, Mojo.
With other theatres: Another Part of the Forest at the Pasadena Playhouse, Into the Woods, Lend Me a Tenor, Boys Life, The Foreigner, Brilliant Traces, The Kentucky Cycle and an international tour of Cinderella.

Dámaso Rodriguez

Co-founder
Furious acting credits: Mojo, Noise, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular
Furious production credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, The God Botherers, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, Saturday Night at the Palace *, The Playboy of the Western World, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
With other theatres: Private Lives, Star Quality at the Pasadena Playhouse, Another Part of the Forest at the Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Summer Reading Series, Hay Fever, Pericles, Life is a Dream, A Christmas Carol and The Skin of our Teeth at A Noise Within; Daedalus at South Coast Repertory; Ramblers, The Harold at Improv Olympic, The Zoo Story, Freudian Slip Improvisational Comedy.
Furious production credits: Canned Peaches in Syrup, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Tearing the Loom, The God Botherers, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, Mojo, Playboy of the Western World, Noise, Saturday Night at the Palace.
With other theatres: Pericles, The Wild Duck and The Price at A Noise Within, Circumference of a Squirrel at Taper, Too, Substance of Fire at Theatre Forty, The Misanthrope and I Never Saw Another Butterfly at Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Westside Story, Death of a Salesman, The Barber of Seville, The Woman in Black, The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
Furious production credits: The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, The God Botherers, The Shape of Things, Scenes from the Big Picture, Chimps, Mojo, The Playboy of the Western World, Noise, Saturday Night at the Palace, Improv Stunt Show Spectacular.
With other theatres: Ramblers, Turnaround, Impossible Marriage at ACT, R&J at 450 Geary Studio, A Piece of my Heart at ArtRise Studio Theatre.

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