GREEN MACHINE
Fri, July 15, 8:30pm
Sat, July 16, 1:30pm
Sun, July 17, 2:00pm
Fri, July 22, 7:45pm
Sat, July 23, 4:45pm
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Directed by Catherine Aselford
July 15 – July 23, 2022
Capital Fringe Home Rule Theater
3270 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
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Tickets $15
Runtime 60 minutes
In this dramatic comedy, a Black realtor, a White stoner and an aging hippie have just opened a weed shop in gentrifying DC. Now a mysterious weed magnate from Colorado is coming to invest. But is he an angel investor or a cannabiz vulture? As the shop’s partners clash over that question, they confront the larger questions haunting urban America. Can you lead a virtuous life in a venal city? Can you thrive, or even survive, if you lack dynastic wealth? And can we hold our neighborhoods together as market forces tear them apart?
Green Machine is presented as a part of the 2022 Capital Fringe Festival, a program of the Washington, DC non-profit Capital Fringe.
CAST MEMBERS
Terence Aselford* || Corbin
he/him Terence Aselford has appeared in previous Fringe Festival shows, including Cold as Death, Carry a Big Stick, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Isis & Vesco Investigate the Mysterious Death of Dr. Freud. Other stage credits include Gianni Schicchi for Guillotine Theatre Company, Coriolanus at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Magnificent Yankee at Ford’s Theatre, and productions with Taffety Punk, Rep Stage, The Kennedy Center, Theatre of the First Amendment, Source Theatre and The Virginia Shakespeare Festival. Non-stage work includes commercial voiceovers, and narration or character voices for over 400 audiobooks. He is delighted to be back at the Fringe, working with his wife Catherine.
Nick DePinto* || Mike
he/him Nick DePinto is a DC-based Actor who has appeared at Shakespeare Theater Company, The Kennedy Center, Olney Theatre Center, Constellation Theatre, Ally Theatre, 1st Stage and many other stages around town. He is a Wayne State Alum who has performed on three continents, including in London & Stratford Upon Avon. On Amazon Prime you can see him play Luke in Meant to Be Broken. He is a veteran of six National Tours. As a voiceover artist you can hear him as the X-Men’s Colossus in Graphic Audio’s Marvel Comics audio adaptations and he welcomes you at all major ports of entry into the U.S. as the host of “You’ve Arrived,” the U.S. Customs & Border Protection Service’s primary informational video for new entry into the United States. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer/guitar player for The Dusty Stars, the drummer for The Judith Hour, the bass player for Midwest Industrial, and the folklaureate of the College Park Farmer’s Market, playing under the name Mason McCormick. Nick is a friend to most and a constant foe of any darkness that seeks to oppress the human condition.
Anthony De Souza || Ignatius
they/he Anthony De Souza is proud to be making their Capital Fringe debut as Ignatius in Green Machine! They are a rising junior Musical Theatre major at the Catholic University of America from Fairfax, Va. Recent Catholic University mainstage credits include Henry in Next to Normal and Abel/Ham in Children of Eden. They would like to thank the Catholic University musical theatre staff and their mother for all the support that allowed them to get here.
James Lewis || Leon
he/him James Lewis is an award-winning voice and on-screen actor and producer, and the executive producer for Talktime Audio/Voiceover Productions. Lewis co-stars in the new HBO production We Own This City. He has also appeared on national TV on shows such as The Wire, America’s Most Wanted and hundreds of commercials including national campaigns for Ricola, Carmax, Airhead’s Bites Candy, Medicare, Rolaids and many more. As a voice actor, James has recorded hundreds of audio books and voiced characters for both Marvel and DC Comics such as the Black Panther, The Patriot Jack O’Lantern, Thunderball, Nightwing, Jimmy Olsen, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Black Manta, Clayface and more. As a video game voice actor, Lewis has voiced such iconic characters as Jericho, Mr. Brotch, Mex, Ismael Ashur, Goalie Ledux and Smiling Jack for Fallout 3 and Fallout The Pitt. Additional video projects have included Elder Scrolls and Street Hoops.
Shari L. Lewis || Mary
she/her Shari L. Lewis is happy to be back on stage, and happy to be back with so many friends from past Capital Fringe Festival shows. She’s worked locally directing and acting with The 90 Minute Shakespeare Company, Theatre Conspiracy, The District of Columbia Arts Center, and The Center Company. Outside the D.C. area, Shari has worked with the The Classic Theatre Company in Dallas, Texas, the Illinois Stage Company and New Harmony Theatre Company in New Harmony, Indiana. Film and Television: The Comey Rule, Runaway Bride, The Shadow Conspiracy, 12 Monkeys. Instagram: @Shari.L.Lewis
Natalie Graves Tucker || Officer Taylor
she/her Natalie Graves Tucker is an actor, voiceover artist and communications professional based between D.C. and New York. Some of her past roles were for colored girls (Theater Alliance), Passing Strange, Fucking A (Studio Theatre), The Old Settler (African Continuum Theatre), The Trojan Women (The Hegira) and The Violet Hour (1st Stage). She made her off-off Broadway debut in Face Divided (Theatre Under the Stairs), her film debut in Nocturnal Agony and is in the short film Hope Well. She appears in many training videos including for AARP, Aetna and the U.S. Postal Service, and in commercials for Pillpack, NFL Shop and America’s Best Eyewear.
Natalie is the Director of Marketing at the Vineyard Theatre in New York and the Executive Director for Artomatic, D.C.’s largest unjuried arts festival. She has a B.A. in Speech Communications from the University of Maryland at College Park and a master’s degree in Social Work/Social Service Administration from Howard University.
Stephen Patrick Martin* || u/s Corbin
he/him Stephen Patrick Martin (u/s Corbin) is very pleased to be a part of the Capital Fringe Festival again and to be a part of this talented cast. Martin is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and a graduate of The Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. He has performed in various theaters in the Baltimore/Washington area including ExPats Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Center Stage, Signature Theatre and Delaware Theatre Company. He is a 2013 recipient of The Helen Hayes Award for “Outstanding Ensemble/Resident Theatre” for his work in Glengarry Glen Ross at Round House Theatre.
CREATIVE TEAM
Catherine Aselford || Director
she/her Catherine Aselford began her career performing in Bus Stop at the Source in 1982, graduating with a B.F.A. from Catholic University two years later. She has acted or directed at Horizons Theatre, Cherry Red Productions, The Shakespeare Theatre, Adventure Theatre, The Center Company, New Works Theatre, Washington Theatre Wing, Notorious Women Productions, and now Guillotine Theatre, of which she is Artistic Director. She has appeared in John Waters’ A Dirty Shame, Cherry Red’s silent movie Trapped by the Mormons (Google it – it’s real!), West Wing, Unsolved Mysteries, America’s Most Wanted and numerous television commercials. Plays she has directed for The Georgetown Theatre Company include John Middleton’s The Changeling, Milan Kundera’s Jacques and His Master, Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, and John Morogiello’s BUSHWA, Jack the Ticket Ripper, and Gianni Schicchi. She has directed or produced at least one Capital Fringe Festival show each year from 2006-2018, and is delighted to be back at Fringe again!
Jim McNeill || Playwright
he/him Jim McNeill is a writer in Washington whose focus until now has been non-fiction. He wrote an essay about Mt. Pleasant, the Green Machine neighborhood, for The Baffler. He’s also written about politics and unions for the American Prospect, Dissent, Democracy, the Chicago Tribune and many other publications. In Chicago, he produced Aurora, a play by the writer and legendary labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan. A workshop with the EMP Collective in Baltimore finally forced McNeill to put his own work on stage. He is deeply grateful to the amazing creative team of Green Machine for helping him get there again.
Laura Schlachtmeyer || Stage Manager
she/her Laura is delighted to be back at Capital Fringe with Catherine and team, taking part in this fresh and shiny world premiere! In addition to stage managing around DC, Laura has produced several independent sci-fi feature films (stream them on Netflix and Amazon Prime) and the sci-fi audio drama Earthkiller. Proud recipient of the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Stage Manager.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, appearing under a Special Appearance Contract.