WHO IS ENDOME?
CATHERINE PAPPAS
Director ("Analyst")
Catherine A Pappas has been practicing theater for over 30 years in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Philadelphia. Locally, she has a number of directorial credits at The Stagecrafters Theater in Chestnut Hill, including: Ride Down Mount Morgan, A View From the Bridge, Room Service, Coyote on a Fence, Noises Off, Intimate Apparel, Almost Maine, The Fantasticks, Ruined, All My Sons, Clever Dick and a staged reading of The Churchbells All Were Broken. She directed Subdivision for the New Playwrights Festival at The Centre Theater in Norristown. She has also appeared as an actress in Book of Days, Ravenscroft, The Champagne Charlie Stakes, Red Herring, Plaza Suite and in staged readings of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Three Tall Women, Old Times and Marvin's Room. Cate holds a B.F.A. in Theater from the University of Wisconsin and is Project Manager at Ticket Philadelphia, which handles ticketing and customer services for The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Philly Pops, The Pennsylvania Ballet and Broadway Philadelphia. She has served as the Marketing Director and VP of Production on the board of The Stagecrafters and is currently their Box Office Manager. Cate would like to thank Holly and Tony for asking her to join this important project; and Pierlisa for coming along for the ride!
TONY McNICHOL
Actor ("Doctor" and "Dad")
When Tony isn't occupied with being chased by large granite balls and fighting Nazis during his day job as an archaeologist, he makes every effort to keep one foot in the arts. He is a veteran of the Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale and has performed in the Chestnut Hill Stagecrafters productions of The Fantasticks, and Mud, River, Stone, as well as the Delaware Valley Opera Company's production of Puccini’s Tosca. A devotee of the psychotherapeutic stylings of Carl Jung, Tony is currently working on the development of Prog Rock, Psyche-naut hero Astrum Lubular and his band, The Trenches of Praxis. Tony is thrilled to be part of this production.
Pierlisa’s acting credits include The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Tartuffe, Private Lives, The Little Foxes, Bus Stop Going to Saint Ives, Sideman, and The Ride Down Mount Morgan at The Stagecrafters Theater in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. She has also appeared on other local stages including Allens Lane Theater and Theater Center Philadelphia, as well as numerous off-Broadway productions in New York City. She holds a B. A. in Theater/Communications from Temple University.
PIERLISA CHIODO STEO
Actor ("Nurse" and "Mother")
Holly Bittner has been a poet since 1984 and is currently Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Moore College of Art & Design. She holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing and a B.A. in English, both from Temple University. This is her first time acting on stage since the 6th grade, when she played Glinda and a munchkin in Floyd R. Shafer Elementary School’s production of The Wizard of Oz in Nazareth, PA. She is grateful and honored to have collaborated with so many talented artists and technicians to bring her poetry manuscript to new life on stage. Holly has presented various short excerpts of her ENDOME manuscript at the following events:
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Widening the Cycle, a group art exhibition in conjunction with the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Boston, MA, June 2015
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Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts conference, Dallas, TX, October 2014
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“Identity · Memory · Testimony” multi-disciplinary conference hosted by the Maine Women Writers Collection and Maine Women’s Studies Consortium, University of New England, Portland, ME, March 2012
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“A Celebration of the Poetry and Criticism of Rachel Blau DuPlessis,” Temple University, October 2011
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Practice + Process: 2010 Faculty Triennial Exhibition, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA, October 2010 (with designer Heather Ujiie)
HOLLY BITTNER
Writer & Actor ("Holly")
Sept 11 - 13, 2015
Sedgwick Theater
Multimedia performance for Philly Fringe exploring
a woman's experience living
with endometriosis
