Bela Lugosi Meets Edna St. Vincent Millay

Susanne Pinedo

LOCATION: New York City, New York

SYNOPSIS: Meet Susanne, a Latin from Manhattan by way of Miami, who spins a zany, improbable tale about Bela Lugosi, the iconic star of Dracula, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet—how the poster girl for Women’s Lib, who burns the candle at both ends as she sleeps her way through Greenwich Village in the Roaring ‘20s, meets up with (or does she?) the vampire player and political refugee from Hungary determined to leave his mark on the world, or at least on its neck.

GENRE: Theatre, One-Person Show, Drama, Original Script, Comedy, World Premiere

CONTENT RATING: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)

ARTIST BIO:

Susanne Pinedo (Actor/Co-Producer)

In 2011, Susanne drove from her home town of Miami, Florida, to have a love affair with NJ/NYC and the relationship is still going strong. She is an actor and writer and holds a BFA in Theatre from Florida International University. Some of her favorite credits include Lola in Ghosts of Bogota by Diana Burbano, the titular character in Sarita by Maria Irene Fornes, Simone in Caplata by Margo Rofe (The Covid Monologues), and Carmen in Have to Believe We Are Magic by Sara Guerrero. She can also be heard as the Spanish voice on several telephone systems for IT companies and medical offices. She continues to train for theatre and TV/film acting with Producer/Casting Director, Liz Ortiz, and with Edge Studio for voice over, and with Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Gotham Writers, and HOLA for playwriting and creative writing. Susanne’s family is originally from Colombia.

Jordan R. Young (Writer/Producer)

Jordan is a writer and performing arts historian and whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, travel guides, and online media. He is a native of Los Angeles whose plays have been produced Off Off Broadway (by Ticket 2 Eternity), in Hollywood for radio broadcast (California Artists Radio Theatre) and the Hollywood Fringe Festival, as well as the Kauai Shorts Festival, and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Kvetcher in the Wry will be presented at OC-centric New Play Festival in California this summer, with a monologue slated for publication in The Best Men's Monologues of 2021 (Smith & Kraus). His books include Acting Solo, The Beckett Actor, and Spike Jones Off the Record; his non-fiction has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. Jordan is a former travel writer for AAA and a board member of Orange County Playwrights Alliance. www.jordanryoung.com

Melinda Hall (Director/Editor/Videographer)

Melinda is a writer, director, actor, producer and acting teacher who lives in NYC for both theater and film/video. Her production company, Willful Pictures produces the online web series How Shakespeare Changed My Life.

For the past 11 years, Ms. Hall has created & produced the Annual Shakespeare's Birthday Sonnet Slam. She is a Reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library, DC and the Wertheim Study NYPL. She received her BA in Theater at UT Dallas, studied at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Assoc., and The Dramatist Guild. Credits: Mind F*xx (Playwright) for the 24 Hour Plays/End of Play series, O Feel Ya (Playwright/Director) for the Austin Fringe-Winner Best of the Week, the short films, Il Ritorno (Co-writer/Director), Cooties (Writer/Actor) for the L.A. Short Film Festival, The One Who Got Away (Co-Writer/Director), and Later, Alligator (Development/Director) for the Dramatist Guild Lab.

Twitter @willfulpictures

Malavika Nair (Publicist/Social Media Manager)

Malavika is an Asian artist studying and analyzing performance through the lens of theatre. Living on and through the stage since she was five, she left her homeland, India, and moved across the world in 2019 to New York. Since acquiring her Masters in Performance Studies at NYU, Malavika has been chasing her dreams of describing the marvels of theatre with words. She is an actor, writer, singer, and Indian classical dancer. She likes to call herself “The Jack-ass of all Trades.”

Christopher Gillard (Sound Editor)

WEBSITE: https://www.facebook.com/Bela-Lugosi-Meets-Edna-St-Vincent-Millay-106665044910674/?ref=page_internal