Jobsite Theater | (abridged) Cast & Crew

The (abridged) Cast & Crew

900-lb Gorillas	Jason Vaughan Evans
	David M. Jenkins
	Shawn Paonessa

Julie, your Tour Director	Katrina Stevenson

All three (abridged) shows are part of the Jobsite Theater Tour Program.

Jason Vaughan Evans is thrilled to return to the "land of abridged comedy" with his favorite desperadoes. All three are proud to be led by Katrina "will you guys stop touching each other" Stevenson, who in her divine wisdom sent them to three different corners of the globe after America (abridged). David slaved for a year in the Australian outback atop Ayers Rock. There he taught young aborigines the two things they need to survive the coming changes in the world: the infamous "Pete Townsend Windmill" and how to drink a Guinness without using your hands. Shawn lounged for a year as a Geisha in Okinawa. He tapped in to his feminine side, and is now the expert of the three on "Lifetime" and "Oxygen" programming. Jason single-handedly fought Don Rickles in a knife fight just outside a resort in the Pocono's. After losing handily he spent the next year sending challenges to Phyllis Diller for a Cage Match. He was just recently released from custody and is still on probation. After a tearful reunion, the three vowed never to again part, and have sworn to bring the American people nothing but Comedy Gold! Jason is a founding member of Jobsite who has directed the critically-acclaimed productions of American Buffalo and True West. Recently stage appearances include Playing With Fire: After Frankenstein, Machinal, The March of the Kitefliers, Bloody Poetry, Cloud Nine, Murder Ballads, MAXWELL and American Stage's Romeo and Juliet. Jason graduated from Florida School of the Arts with a degree in musical theatre.

David M. Jenkins is the Artistic Director and chair of Jobsite and was an original founding member of the company. He holds a BA in theater Performance from USF, an MFA in Acting from the University of Florida and has also studied with Moscow State University and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Local directing credits: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Playing With Fire: After Frankenstein, The Mineola Twins, Murder Ballads (co-directed), Titus Andronicus, Dracula, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The History of the Devil, Christie in Love and Lysistrata (co-directed). Selected local acting credits: The March of the Kitefliers, Bloody Poetry, Cloud 9, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the (abridged) plays (Shakespeare, Bible and America), subUrbia, MAXWELL and True West. David was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborou\gh County and was voted Best Actor by the readers of Weekly Planet in 2001. In 2003 David was honored as one of the 30 Under 30 by the Business Journal of Tampa Bay. He lives in Tampa Heights with his wife and their menagerie of animals.

Shawn Paonessa was discovered as a baby in a wicker basket, floating down the Everglades' river of grass. A family of blue tongue mango voles raised him and turned him over to Wink Martindale, who educated him in the arts of humor, politics, and beer. He has been acting, writing, directing, and troublemaking with Jobsite since he played Donkey in their second production, Brownbread. Recently, Ms. Stevenson called Shawn to save Jason and David, who had locked themselves in a van down by the river for two years with their sock puppets, Don and Phyllis. Lured out with tales of geishas, goats, and Pete Townsend, Paonessa got them to lay off the "ginseng cocktails" and told them his new idea: to tour the (abridged) trilogy. Notable performances include The March of the Kitefliers, Playing With Fire: After Frankenstein, A Girl's Guide to Chaos, The History of the Devil, The Ruins, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Cloud 9. Shawn has also written with Neil Gobioff for many Jobsite productions, including The March of the Kitefliers, Breathing Oblivion, The Curse of Millhaven and Learning Swerve, which earned Best Local Playwright - Reader's Choice, Weekly Planet 1999.

Katrina Stevenson (Director, Prop-wrangler, Duds maker) first appeared with Jobsite in 2000 and is an actor, director, costumer and proud member of the board. Tampa audiences have witnessed the wackiness that is Katrina in such shows as Laughing Wild, The Crucible, Shear Madness, subUrbia, Dracula, Murder Ballads, Cloud 9, Delusion of Darkness, The Mineola Twins, Machinal, A Girl's Guide to Chaos and The March of the Kitefliers. In 2004, Katrina was voted Best Actress by the readers of the Weekly Planet (she still can't believe it). Katrina directorial credits include Bloody Poetry, The Tibetan Book of the Dead and the sold-out, I-laughed-so-hard-I-peed (abridged) productions. Katrina's costumes have been seen for the last few years in everything from Bloody Poetry to The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Her fabulous duds have also garnered a Weekly Planet Best of the Bay award and an Individual Artist Grant from the Hillsborough County Arts Council. Ever since she started directing the (abridged) shows, she dreams one day of a vacation in a nice padded room.