Miracle on South Division Street

• Only 20 $20 tickets are available for the April 14th and April 15th performances of Miracle on South Division Street. 
• All prices include service fees

Joe Brancato was a high school English and drama teacher in 1977 when he peered into an abandoned 1880’s hay barn in Stony Point, New York, and envisioned the space repurposed into a theatre. More than 40 years later, Penguin Rep – the theatre Brancato started with Francine Newman-McCarthy and runs with executive director Andrew M. Horn -- has grown from a summer theatre to become one of the Hudson Valley’s most influential nonprofit cultural institutions, reaching tens of thousands of theatergoers each year at its home, in New York City and beyond – with its work moving to Off Broadway and to stages across the country and around the world.

Penguin has presented 200 productions – over 150 directed by Brancato himself -- for more than 400,000 people from the lower Hudson Valley and beyond. And Mr. Brancato has brought together accomplished professional actors – David Canary, Michael Cullen, Tim De Kay, Ann Dowd, Gregg Edelman, Michael Esper, Barbara Feldon, Tovah Feldshuh, Beth Fowler, Deborah Hedwall, Celeste Holm, Richard Kline, Andrew McCarthy, Lizbeth Mackay, Michele Pawk, and Karen Ziemba, among others – to star in new and noteworthy plays by such playwrights as Lee Blessing, Ronald Harwood, Allan Knee, Arthur Laurents, Warren Leight, Jon Marans, William Mastrosimone, Lainie Robertson, James Sherman and Elizabeth Swados.

Joe Brancato 
Director
Cited by The New York Times as “one of America’s most insightful directors,” Joe is Artistic Director of Penguin Rep Theatre where he has staged nearly 200 theatrical productions. Joe has also directed Off-Broadway at the Public, Cherry Lane, 59 East 59, Primary Stages, Theatre at St. Clements, and Westside Theatre, and regionally at, among others, Houston’s Alley Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Capital Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Delaware Theater Center, George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Royal Manitoba Theatre Center, Seattle Rep, TheaterWorks Hartford, Westport Country Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Notable productions include Michael McKeever’s Daniel’s Husband and Mr. Parker, Cary Gitter’s Gene & Gilda, Gitter and Neil Berg’s musical The Sabbath Girl, Angelo Parra’s The Devil’s Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Audelco and Off Bway Alliance Award nominee), Erasmus Fenn’s Drop Dead Perfect (New York Times Critics Pick), Lee Blessing’s Cobb (Drama Desk winner) and Charles Smith’s Freed (Audelco Award nominee).

Grace Experience
Ruth
Select Credits: Centennial Casting (Penguin), Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, The Wolves, (Lyric Stage of Boston), Grounded (59E59), Zabel in Exile (BPT), Some People Hear Thunder (Capital Rep), Midwives, The Club (George Street), The 39 Steps (Greater Boston Stage), Ellis Island (Regional Tour), Beardo (Pipeline), Hundred Days, Constellations (MACo), Beauty and the Beast (Berkshire Theatre), The Jump Shot (Windhover), Dial M for Murder, Leading Ladies (Millbrook Playhouse). Grace tours with an ABBA Tribute band and is an award winning audiobook narrator for Penguin Random House and Audible. Unending gratitude to Joe and Tom for trusting me with amazing Ruthie. GraceExperience.com, @graceexperiences

Joey Pittorino
Jimmy
Joey Pittorino is thrilled to be returning to Miracle on South Division Street with Penguin Rep, especially because he gets to eat pepperoni on stage again. Recent theater: Macbeth with The Curtain. TV/Film: Law and Order SVU, Evil Lives Here, Over the Hill, HARBOR (upcoming), Hot Dog, and Truth. BFA in Acting from Pace University. For Mum, Dad, Anthony, Paige and Mooch. @joeypittorino

Liz McCartney
Clara
Liz was last seen on Broadway in the revival of Funny Girl, as well as the revivals of My Fair Lady, Sunday in the Park with George, Annie and South Pacific. Liz created the roles of Sue in the Boy George musical, Taboo, and Rebecca in Dance of the Vampires. At Encores Liz was part of Carnival, God Bless you Mr Rosewater, the Sunday in the Park with George concert and Road Show. Other Broadway productions include: Mamma Mia, The Phantom of the Opera, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Les Misérables. On tour and regionally, Liz has done Wicked, Cinderella, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Souvenir, Sweeney Todd, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Lend Me a Tenor and The Little Mermaid. TV credits include. The Gilded Age, That Damn Michael Che, The Blacklist, The Other Two, Annie-Live, and SNL.

Coryn Carson
Beverly
Coryn Carson (she/her) Theater: Miracle on South Division Street (Penguin Rep), Centennial Casting (Penguin Rep), Like No One's Watching (Miles Square Theater), American Steel (Working Theater). Coryn has performed and trained in improv and comedy at UCB and The PIT, and can be seen performing throughout the city, most recently at Brooklyn Comedy Collective. When she's not on stage, Coryn is the Marketing and Communication Director for Working Theater which is dedicated to making theater for, about, and with working people. www.coryncarson.com @coryn_rose theworkingtheater.org