Jobsite Theater | Phyro-Giants!

Phyro-Giants!

By Michael Blieden
Directed by Kari Keller
HELD OVER! Jan. 20 - Feb. 12, 2006 – See Specific Dates Here
Fri. - Sat. 10:30pm, Sun. 7pm
Single tickets: $18.50
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Director/Waitress:	Kari Keller

Alex:	Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins
Melvin:	Ryan McCarthy
Joey:	Shawn Paonessa
Sarah:	Katrina Stevenson

Stage Manager:	Erica Porch
Light Design:	John Lott
Set Design:	Brian Smallheer

If Kari Keller (Director/Waitress) could be any animal she would be a flying squirrel. Until that dream materializes, she surrounds herself with the best family in Tampa - Jobsite Theater. Since moving from LA, Kari has been a member of Jobsite since 2003 and artistic associate since 2004. Jobsite has given Kari the opportunity to perform in shows such as Bloody Poetry (Claire), A Girls Guide to Chaos (Cleo), and The Mineola Twins. Last season she directed the Job-side Project See Bob Run and the wildly successful The March of the Kitefliers. Next Kari will don her fairy clothes and cover herself with pixie dust to co-direct Grimm's Faery Tales with the sexy redhead known as Katrina Stevenson. Thanks to her incredibly talented and fun Phyro-Giants! cast for all of their hard work and support. When Kari isn't working with Jobsite, she mostly sits around the house with her two dogs, a cat and an overwhelming need to decoupage.

Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins (Alex) has worked in various capacities for Jobsite, including actress (The March of the Kitefliers, A Girl's Guide to Chaos, Delusion of Darkness, Bloody Poetry, Cloud 9, subUrbia, The Tibetan Book of the Dead), stage manager, assistant director and costume designer (American Buffalo, True West). By day, she is the director of marketing for the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. She lives with her husband and their zoo of bad animals.

Ryan McCarthy (Melvin) graduated from Harrison Arts Center and then went on to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC for a year. He then moved back to Florida and spent time at USF, where he met the founding members of Jobsite. He has performed all over the Bay area and was last seen onstage with Jobsite as Victor in Playing With Fire: After Frankenstein. Before that he was as Biff in Acorn Theatre's Death of a Salesman and Jobsite's production of American Buffalo. Other Jobsite credits: Dracula, subUrbia and Brownbread. Across the Bay, Mr. McCarthy performed in Romeo and Juliet at American Stage's Shakespeare in the Park and was in the hit School House Rock Live! also at American Stage. He was in the first production of Food and Shelter, a series of one-acts, and also Webb's City the Musical. One of his favorite gigs was touring the country with Bits and Pieces as a featured Puppeteer. Mr. McCarthy would to thank his family for their love and support and his baby girl, Ciara, for giving him a reason to laugh everyday.

Shawn Paonessa (Joey) has been acting, writing, directing, and troublemaking with Jobsite since he played Donkey in their second production, Brownbread. Notable performances include The History of the Devil, The Ruins..., the (abridged) shows, Cloud 9, Playing With Fire: After Frankenstein and A Girl's Guide to Chaos. He was last seen in the hit premiere The March of the Kitefliers, which he wrote with Neil Gobioff. In 2004, Shawn was honored as a 30 Under 30 by the Business Journal of Tampa Bay - ironic, because he's since been looking for a day job that applies the wealth of skills that he was honored for. Shawn would like to thank Amanda Henry, Marty Clear and of course you for knowing that 1) dessert is for those who come to dinner; and 2) the experience is the food and company and not the menu. Bon appétit. Shawn will next be seen acting/writing in Grimm's Faery Tales.

Katrina Stevenson (Sarah) is tickled pink to spend another year at the mercy of Jobsite. She 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 The Mineola Twins, The Crucible, Shear Madness, subUrbia, Dracula, Murder Ballads, Cloud 9, Delusion of Darkness and Laughing Wild. 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 productions of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), and The Complete History of America (abridged). 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. Katrina returns to the stage in June in We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and will co-direct, costume, and help write Grimm's Faery Tales in August.

Erica S. Porch (Stage Manager) has been involved in local theater since 1996. She studied Stage Management and Lighting Design at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts. At USF she took a parallel course where she earned a bachelors degree in Psychology, all the while working at the Mahaffey Theater in Saint Petersburg. Erica has toured Florida with Stages Productions and worked at the Palladium and Coliseum in Saint Petersburg, Ruth Eckerd Hall, and the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. She is currently working as a Stage Manager at Busch Gardens and is excited about working with Jobsite for the first time. This season she also stage manages Topdog/Underdog.

John Lott (Light Design) is an original founding member of Jobsite and a graduate of USF. He has worked at several Off Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theaters and at Julliard. He would like to thank his wife for all her love and support. This season he also designs lights for Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Topdog/Underdog and sets for We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!.

Brian M. Smallheer (Set Design) received his education from Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Polk Community College (Visual Arts), and USF (Theatre Design). He is a board member and the Production Manager for Jobsite, where he is also a scenic and lighting designer whose designs have received critical acclaim for Delusion of Darkness, The Minneola Twins, Bloody Poetry, subUrbia, and Dracula. When not spending every waking moment with Jobsite, Brian is a freelance designer and technician working with a variety of companies including Hillsborough County Television, ESPN, and Walt Disney World where he worked with acts such as Jessica Simpson, Destiny's Child, DJ Scribble, New Found Glory and BB Mack. This season he also designs sets for Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Topdog/Underdog, lighting for We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and both sets and lighting for Grimm's Faery Tales.