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Barefoot Theatre Company

Francisco Solorzano - Producing Artistic Director
Victoria Malvagno - Managing Director
Michael LoPorto - Associate Director
Christopher Whalen - Company Manager
Stephen Gracia - Literary Manager
Anika Solveig - Director of Development
Susanne Bruno - Director of Outreach
Mark Cisneros - Marketing Director

Founding Members
Nicole Haran
Michael LoPorto
Victoria Malvagno
Francisco Solorzano

Advisory Board
Pierre Dulaine
Mary Gallagher
Israel Horovitz
Yvonne Marceau
Austin Pendleton
Joe Pintauro

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bare·foot (bârft) With nothing on the feet: walking barefoot in the grass; without shoes and stockings; to dance barefoot; often express emotions, fears, vulnerability, a down-to-earth attitude, and/or familiarity.

the·a·ter or the·a·tre (th-tr) n. A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances. A room with tiers of seats used for lectures or demonstrations: an operating theater at a medical school. Dramatic literature or its performance; drama: the theater of Shakespeare and Marlowe. The milieu of actors and playwrights. The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production: good theater; awful theater. Dramatic material or the use of such material: “His summation was a great piece of courtroom theater” The audience assembled for a dramatic performance. A place that is the setting for dramatic events.

In 1999, Barefoot Theatre Company was founded by a group of multicultural artists in order to produce stimulating and thought provoking theatre for the public. Since then, we have stood by the principles of ensemble collaboration and artistic risks to develop and foster plays, new and existing, with a broad range of social relevance, striving to keep the vitality of American Theatre alive and vibrant. By creating a visceral, more provocative manner of storytelling through our ensemble commitment, we provide emerging artists with the opportunity to explore and take artistic risks while engaging audiences of all ages.
Since its inception, the Barefoot Theatre Company has successfully produced over thirty productions including original works, readings, as well as contemporary and classical plays.

Barefoot Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductable.

"I work with young theatre-troupes around the globe, and Barefoot Theatre Company is one of my favorites, at the very top of my list, along with Cie Hercub in France and Teatro Plastico in Portugal. Barefoot Theatre Company is a serious, talented, meticulous, thoroughly professional troupe, reflecting the sort of ethnic mix that makes NYC such a vibrant, delicious city. If you want to see authentic NYC theatre, skip Broadway...hop to Barefoot Theatre Company."
- World renowned playwright, Israel Horovitz

"I had the pleasure and privilege of working with the Barefoot Theatre Company in 2007 on Nine Short Plays by Israel Horovitz. It was a totally professional production, skillfully mounted, and exemplified what true theatre is about -- the bringing together of serious and committed actors to make challenging and innovative theatre. It is the life's blood of the future of our theatre. "
- Lynn Cohen (Speilberg's Munich, Sex and the City, Vanya on 42nd St.)

"One night in 2007,, I went to see a production, in an unprepossessing little theatre space in New York, of a stage version of the great film Dog Day Afternoon. I went to it because a very fine actress I know, Amanda Plant, was in it. Apart from the prospect of watching Amanda work, however, I held little hope for the experience. Dog Day Afternoon is of course one of the great movies, made by a master at one of the many peaks of his powers, and I wondered what a theatrical version of the story could possibly add to it, or indeed not subtract from it substantially. Then I saw the Barefoot Theatre production. I think it's the most exciting theatre I saw in the year of 2007, and one of the most exciting that I've seen in several years. The immediacy of it, and the awareness of how the theatre can uniquely create that immediacy, the raw and disciplined power of the acting, the sheer inventiveness of the staging, and the sense of how that inventiveness can arise from the most limited circumstances, in a way even because of those circumstances, was thrilling. And will be thrilling again when the show is put before us again. And I suspect will be thrilling in the future productions of this remarkable company. I feel refreshed just thinking about it. I wish them well, because to wish them well is to wish us all well."
– Austin Pendleton (My Cousin Vinny, Catch-22, HBO's OZ)

"I have great respect and affection for The Barefoot Theatre Company,which is committed to producing theatre that explores the humancharacter and condition in truthful, complex ways, and which creates the work with enormous respect for the artists and the working process."
- Award winning playwright Mary Gallagher

"…of all the companies I've worked for in the Showcase arena, Barefoot is the one I most respect, most enjoyed working with, and most expect to see as a full-throttle professional, Off-and-On-Broadway company in the future."
– Anna Chlumsky (Company Member, My Girl, 30 Rock)

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