Today a special new friend/enemy (definitely not a frenemy) joined the Hotel Suite gang. 

Name: Hurricane Sandy

Hometown:  The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, but I travel a lot.

Favorite Color: the color of destruction

Favorite Food:  whatever comes in my path

Superhero power: Shutting down the entire MTA and most methods of mass transportation

Role with Hotel Suite:  Show Cancelation Specialist
What inspires you:  Cold fronts from the west and high pressure systems from the north! 
  
Biggest challenge with Hotel Suite:  Those damn actors are so determined to put on a show even after I take out all ways of getting there. Talented bitches. 

Name:  Mark Cornell

Hometown:  Carmichael, CA

Favorite Color: Orange

Favorite Food:  Butternut squash ravioli

Superhero power:  Omniscience

Role with Hotel Suite:  Playwright, Tell Me You Love Me

What inspires you:  The open road.  

Biggest challenge with Hotel Suite:  Getting to see it.  I live in Chapel Hill, NC.

Our fearless leader...

Name: Akia

Hometown: Princeton, NJ 

Favorite Color: Purple 

Favorite Food: Anything with tomatoes

Superhero power: The Ability to stop time 

Role with Hotel Suite: Producer and Director of Bug

What inspires you: My fellow ensemble members, NYC 

Biggest challenge with Hotel Suite: Falling in Love with everyone on the project..That much love is exhausting

Two posts for today! Two of our directors for Room 128! Not too mention Jak is the man who transformed our lovely room into a viable theatre space!! Oh...and as I just learned there both from the distant land of New Jersey.

Name:  Jak Prince

Hometown:  Totowa, NJ    

Favorite Color: Blue    

Favorite Food:  Personal recipe Chicken Pockets

Superhero Power: Staying up all night!

Role in Hotel Suite: Director ("Just Another Sappy Slap Happy Face") Scenic

design and Technical Director

What inspires you:  Working with the very talented members of this ensemble

Biggest challenge with Hotel Suite:  Other than dealing with the randomness

of the NJ Transit bus schedule, my biggest challenge has been turning a

hotel room into a theatre which is supposed to look like a hotel room!

Juggling the needs of 8 very different scripts into one design that works

for everyone and keeping the blood off the floor!  But it is a labor of love

as I look forward to each meeting, rehearsal and performance with great

anticipation because of the wonderful people I work with.  

Name: Tim Errickson

Hometown: Vineland, NJ

Favorite Color: Blue

Favorite Food: Sushi

Superhero power: Unlimited daily calorie burnoff

Role with Hotel Suite: Director of GREENLIGHT by Angela C. Hall, part of Room 

128

What inspires you: Positive people, people who see that anything is possible. Also Jack Daniels, good music, and Friday Night Lights

Biggest challenge with Hotel Suite: Being open to what the Hostel would really be like while we were rehearsing. I've never directed a show in a hostel before (scratch that off the bucket list) so staying flexible enough to still find happy accidents and new things in the hostel while in tech.

The reviews are in for Bug! Check them out!

http://showbusinessweekly.com/article-2151-%E2%80%9Cbug%E2%80%9D-by-tracy-letts-directed-by-akia.html

http://nypress.com/doug-strasslers-west-side-theater-roundup/

He's pretty darn athletic.

Name: Carldinho (pronounced carleanyo) Fengler

Hometown: Burlington, VT

Favorite food: Wild grilled salmon and fresh mashed potatoes

Favorite color: ocean blue & forest green...I'm being so crunchy

Role in Hotel Suite: Leonard, the newly wed guy  in One Room Over and Dr. Sweet in Bug

What inspires you: two days ago when I was arriving for show call, I saw this Michael Jackson impersonator outside a random bodega and he was...awesome! His moves were sharp, laser focus, you could tell he had rehearsed hours and hours and was absorbed in the moment & enjoying sharing his enthusiasm. That was pretty inspiring.

Biggest challenge with hotel suite: the female lead opposite me was double cast so both have their own rhythms, energy & blocking. But they're both wonderful actors & our director did a great job creating a solid structure we could still have a lot of room to play in. So my biggest challenge is also a lot of fun.

AND... a special look backstage during Room 128. Starring Carl and Mike Burns

ANDDDDDD....It's our lovely stage management intern from the summer Louisa's birthday today! 

Louisa was originally stage managing all 8 shows for Hotel Suite! It took three people to replace her. She's pretty awesome!