Company One

DANNY BALEL

Danny is a writer/performer born and raised in Cambridge, MA. He has been published in The Albion Review, Ballard St. Poetry Journal, and Bloody Publishing. Danny has acted in and around Boston for three years now, and thinks it's pretty nifty. He is currently finishing up a Master's degree in English Education at Clark University. This is where his true passion lies. He has taught poetry workshops at several northeast colleges and many Boston area high schools and community programs. A staple of the Worcester slam scene, he traveled to San Francisco in 2005 to compete at the Youth National competition, before HBO bought it out. He is currently in a touring production of Gino DiIorio's The Key he would like to thank his parents, Emily, AJ, and pop tarts for getting him through the good times and the bad.

TORY BULLOCK

Tory was born in 1987 and was sent straight from heaven (by way of Mass General Hospital). He went from k1-12 without complications then when he got to grade twelve he decided to pursue different motivations like time traveling, rhyme javeling, something mind unraveling, he got down! Then somehow he started to teach kids from the dirtiest of dozens to the hungriest of gluttons. He uses his words to feed them. He loves captain crunch at 2am, loves video games, and thinks the greatest show ever made was. . . Dawsons Creek!

MICHAEL COGNATA

Mike has been involved in theatre and production since the 3rd grade, and has since majored in the art at Boston Arts Academy high school. Favorite performances include: touring in Soul Element Project, a play written by Michael and his peers, with the intent to break stereotypes of inner city youth, as well as orating excerpts from Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech at Symphony Hall. The piece that he is most proud of is A More Perfect Union by Kirsten Greenidge, a play inspired by a story of injustice towards a teacher at the Fenway High School. Michael and the rest of the cast were given the great honor of performing that protest play in Scotland for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Michael is also a member of Screen Actors Guild. Michael remains a stage actor at heart and is ecstatic to be working with the intelligent and talented cast of ARTiculation.

RUDY CABRERA

Born and Raised in Providence RI peaked his interest in acting in his freshmen year at Central high school where he performed a monologue from the short play Runaways. From there it wasn't till his junior year that he was introduced to Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and began working with Mixed Magic Theater performing in multiple shows including Productions of Taming of the Shrew, The Baghdad production of Romeo and Juliet, Spirit Warrior's Dream, The Tempest, Moby Dick: Then and Now, Misery's Fiend: Frankenstein, Comedy of Errors and even executive produced a live Hip Hop show called MC's Rhythm And Poetry Sessions. He currently assistant manages a Spoken Word event every first and third Wednesday called "From the RIP." Rudy also became a part of the Providence Black Repertory Theatre family when he performed in the production of The Etymology of Bird. He has performed at various venues including the Carriage House, Media Institute of Technology and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and with various groups like Just a Step Productions, In House Freestyle and is very excited about adding ARticulation crew to the list! "I fear nothing because I've overcome the biggest problem I had in my life which was my own self doubt! I represent the ghetto but I refuse to be just another teen statistic and I think that's really a big part of my drive!"

TERRI DELETETSKY

Terri Deletetsky has been a proud member of ARTiculation since day two and her life has revolved around this theatrical poetic revolution ever since. In her free time, She acquired her Bachelors in theatre arts as well as a Masters in education at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Her favorite theatrical roles include May in Clark University's production of Fool for Love by Sam Shepard and her role as "fan #4" in her debut as a baseball fan in Baker School’s production of Damn Yankees when she was four. She has traveled around the country competing in slam poetry competitions with The Clark Slam team, and is the lead singer of a Worcester/Boston based all girls band. She is overwhelmingly thrilled to be apart of this incredible team of ARTists.

JUDITH KALAORA

Judith is a professional actress and educator. She has performed on stages from London, to Montreal, and across the United States. Her career spans to the screen, where she has starred in many independent films, including the Museum of Fine Arts’ sponsored In Between, Drive-In Horrorshow, and the award winning United States NAVY documentary Partnership Runs Deep. Television credits include: American Experience, Brotherhood, Chronicle HD, and The Travel Channel. Judith’s theatrical endeavors have brought her to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England; the St. Amboise Fringe Festival in Montreal; national tours of the United States; and many Boston area theatres. She has been the spokeswoman for Guitar Hero: On Tour, AXE Body Detailer, and Asics Corporation, appearing in national training videos and tradeshows. Judith has incorporated her love of acting with her desire to educate as often as possible. She serves as a judge for the annual Massachusetts High School Drama Guild competitions and her company, History Through Dramatic Interpretation, constructs interactive dramatic presentations on a wide gamut of historical eras to present to schools all over the state. Her love of history has been fed by four years of experience as an historical interpreter for the Freedom Trail Foundation, conducting tours of American Revolutionary history in Downtown Boston. Judith holds a dual Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting and in Spanish Literature, Language, and Culture, graduating Magna cum Laude from Syracuse University.

MARVELYN McFARLANE

Marvelyn is soooo thankful to the Company One for constantly s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g her acting abilities and throwing her on stage with ARTiculation saying "Ok now be a poet". Originally from Ft. Myers Florida, Marvelyn came to the Bean Town scene to attend Eastern Nazarene College where she found herself, not only as a more conscious black female on The Journey, but also as an actress. She has been acting professionally here and there since 2007 and now there's no stopping her (unless she's presented with a life time supply of french fries or a one way ticket across the world). When she's not on stage she enjoys painting, watching movies that everyone else saw ten years ago, going out with friends, seeing free shows, roaming the city alone, or singing to show tunes while cleaning the house. (She really likes cleaning for some reason, I don't get it). For herself, she hopes that ARTiculation will help her become a better poet, more sensitive and conscious of current events, and help her influence the lives of all who see this presentation. For you, she hopes that you will be challenged and inspired by what you see us do on stage, and will in turn do the same by using your God given abilities to reach out to your own loved ones and communities.

NIK WALKER

Mr. Walker is proud to be one of the founding members of the ARTiculation crew, all the way back in August of 2005. That summer, Nik had gotten kicked out of a theater program-that-shall-remain-nameless for reasons-that-shall-remain-unheard (suffice it to say it involved whip cream, a linen shirt, a possible death threat and some good ol' inherent Chicago racism). Back in Boston and looking for work, he got a call from Mark Vanderzee, Educational Director of Company One and Nik's personal Gandalf. Vanderzee told Nik about a skinny-enough-to-look-muscular dude named Tory, apparently trying to get some theater artists together for a piece; Nik came and auditioned and the rest was history.  To Nik, ARTiculation and Company One are a second family, a home away from home. He looks at all his fellow artists as his surrogate older brothers and sisters...and they abuse him like they are, that helps too. Due to his NYU theater training and NYC smarts, ARTiculation and the C1 community have given him the name "Showtime". And as much as he protests, know that he loves it. Alongside his continued work with ARTiculation and C1, Walker recently started his own theatre company, The People's Theatre Lab, out in NYC. Their first original show, The Devil and Thomas Briggs (a blues/spoken word poetry piece penned by Walker himself) will be premiering Off Broadway in the Spring of 2010.  Feel free to contact Nik with any questions you have about making your own theater or poetry, he'd love to hear from you!