Series 6.2 : Paint On Canvas

Armed with words and paint, two artists engage in a playful battle on a life-sized canvas.

Tackling their greatest demons and joys, they bring new artwork to life with each unrestrained, paint slinging performance.

Do YOU human well?

0h 35m

Cast and Crew:

Presented by Julie Goldin with HumanWell Productions

Created and Performed by Becca Hackett and Katherine Randle
with Additional Material by Linnea Emigh
Directed by Ilana Becker

Scenic Design: Michele Spadaro 
Lighting Design: Alan Edwards  
Sound Design: Gregory Jacobs-Roseman
Production Stage Manager: Elizabeth Seldin
Graphic and Website Design: Badger & Bear
Photographer: Chris Chludenski

Artists' Bios:

Rebecca Hackett hails from Portland, ME and comes to NYC by way of Emerson College in Boston. As a visual artist, her portfolio includes expressive paintings, confusing collages, and screaming fabric sculptures as well as well as the design of jewelry, bags, and clothing. Most recent acting credits: Standing Clear (CoffeCup (a theatre co.), I,Kreon (NewMoon/Roust Theatre Co.). Favorite Roles include Germaine from Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Prospero in The Tempest, and Lady Macbeth/Hecate in Macbeth (UK/US). She has studied performance with Studio 5 (Aole T. Miller, Per Brahe), and Viewpoints with Julie Troost at the Monarch Theatre. She is currently developing a new piece entitled ‘Townie’ with playwright Aaron Wigdor Levy.

Katherine Randle has studied theatre with the Raleigh Little Theatre, Emerson College, and, most recently the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Her most recent acting credits include Madeline in Cooks in Hell, Molly in Defying Gravity, Constance in Exposure, and Columbina in A NY Slice (all at the Dell’Arte School); The Ghost and The Player in Hamlet, and Demetrius in Titus Andronicus (Bare Theatre Co.). Directing credits include Shrews (Wildfire Productions), Picasso At the Lapin Agile (Ay-Chrayn Theatre Co.), and Little Boy Love Goat (Emerson College). She was also a teacher-in-residence at Raleigh Charter High School, working with the students in Commedia Dell’ Arte. She has made masks for Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh Charter High School, and the Dell’Arte School, and also designs and builds puppets. She has written a few short plays, including Shrews, I Am America, and Cooks in Hell (co-author). Currently she is working on a graphic novel of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and a play about the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Ilana Becker: Directing credits include Jekyll & Hyde in Concert to benefit the NY Society of Ethical Culture, the Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and Erik Christian Hanson’s Sweetheart at TSI. She served as assistant director to Terry Kinney for both the Broadway and Off Broadway productions of Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty. Other AD and/or dramaturgy includes Tribute to Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach (Nick Corley, dir.), Character Studies (PBS), 45 Blows (Prospect Theater Dark Nights), The Cradle Will Rock (Emerson Stage). As an actor, Ilana has appeared in several readings including with The New Group, Project Y Theatre and WorkShop Theatre Co.; Productions include Hudson Shakespeare Theatre; Periwinkle National Theatre; and In Trousers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Tereus in Fragments. Ilana studied at Emerson College, Yale Drama Summer Program, National Theatre Institute and HB Studios.

Julie Goldin, Producer, HumanWell Productions: Since graduating with a BA in Theater Arts from Emerson College, Julie Goldin has worked and trained as a performer and director with several theater companies including The Ensemble Studio Theater, Prospect Theater Co., and Vital Theater Co. in NYC, and with Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts. She is psyched to be making her debut as producer with Series 6.2: Paint on Canvas. Julie founded HumanWell Productions in 2009 with Becca Hackett as a means to nurture and support exciting contemporary visual and performing artists and their projects. HumanWell aims to produce artistic events that are passionate, provocative and universally appealing for all of society to engage with. Series 6.2: Paint on Canvas in the New York International Fringe Festival will mark the NYC theatrical premiere of HumanWell Productions as a unified company.