SETTING
Time...................Early 21st Century
Place.........Buenos Aires, Argentina
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RUNNING TIME
approximately 70 minutes without an intermission
CAST
BEN BECHER (Maximiliano) was born and raised in New York. He has appeared Off-Broadway in Tis Pity She's A Whore (dir. Louisa Proske) and Letters To Sala (dir. Eric Nightengale) as well as in Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class at the Long Wharf Theater. On screen you can see Ben in the Sundance hit Before You Know It and in the feature film American Thief, both on major streaming platforms. He is currently filming THE DOWN, a new feature film. Ben’s television credits include Law & Order SVU opposite Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T. His work often premieres at festivals both in the US and internationally.​
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ANA B. GABRIEL (Ursula) is an accomplished stage and screen actress playing roles such as Shakespeare's Adriana and William's Baby Doll. In Los Angeles she worked with the Actor's Gang and Indecent Proposal. There, she had the honor to work with Tony Torn for the first time 100 years ago. She also worked in film and TV including NYPD Blue, Wings and Everybody Loves Raymond. She received her formal training at Ithaca College and BHP. Having been born in Argentina, she is thrilled to be working in a production from Romina Paula.
LUCAS SALVAGNO (Lorenzo) returns for his third consecutive year in the role of Lorenzo in the acclaimed stage production THE WHOLE OF TIME. His television work includes appearances in Gotham, Royal Pains, Power, and White Collar, as well as the feature film Cruise, directed by Rob Siegel.​
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JOSEFINA SCARO (Antonia) is an Argentinian actress, dancer, and producer based in New York. Before moving to the U.S., she appeared in theater and film directed by established filmmakers from Argentina and Spain. Her work can be seen on the Argentinian streaming platforms CINEAR and TV Pública. Scaro made her North American film debut in American Thief (2021), which screened at major film festivals and is now available on Amazon Prime. She recently played lead roles in the feature films Farewell (dir. Teresa Constantini) and Legal (dir. Daniel Arango), both set to premiere in 2026. In collaboration with independent filmmaker Claire Torn, she developed the role of Sofia in Rent Control, a new series set to be released in fall 2025. Beyond her screen work, Scaro is active in New York’s independent theater scene. She collaborates regularly with the Segal Center at CUNY Graduate Center and Torn Page, a historic performance space in Chelsea, to foster cultural exchange between Latin America and New York City. She is currently working with Argentinian theater director Javier Daulte on his acclaimed play Are You There?, and developing a new play in New York with writer-director Romina Paula.
DESIGN & PRODUCTION
ROMINA PAULA (Playwright) is an Argentinean multidisciplinary artist: writer, actor, and director of theater and film. She studied playwriting at EMAD Drama School in Buenos Aires and trained as an actor with Alejandro Catalán, Ricardo Bartís, and Pompeyo Audivert. She is the author of three novels, Archivos de Word (Editorial Manslava), Agosto and Acá Todavia (Editorial Manslava); a volume of plays, Fauna, El tiempo todo entero, and Algo de ruido hace (Editorial Entropía); along with a collection of short stories (Editorial Manslava). Fauna and Other Plays by Romina Paula is forthcoming with the series In Performance, Seagull Press (Winter 2022). Paula has staged her plays across Latin America and Europe and she has appeared as an actor in numerous films and plays directed by notable Argentine directors. In 2019 she made her debut as filmmaker with De nuevo otra vez (Again Once Again), followed by Edición Ilimitada (Unlimited Edition) in 2020 produced by Varsovia Films.
TONY TORN (Director)​ is an actor, director and producer who has worked extensively for the past thirty years in theater, film and television, in both traditional and experimental projects. He was recently an original cast member and co-divisor of Emursive’s Life & Trust and had a featured role in Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s experimental feature film Invention. He was the founding director of Bill Talen's Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping (now in its 25th year) and created and starred in the absurdist theater/punk rock mash-up Ubu Sings Ubu with co-director Dan Safer. His experimental web series The Grand Inquisitor was featured in the Adobe Media Player launch at the 2008 SXSW Festival. Recent directing credits include The Reenactors by Juliana Francis Kelley, Try Try! by Frank O'Hara at the Judith Wilson Theater Center at Cambridge University, UK. Tony currently teaches Acting at Playwrights Horizons Theater School for NYU, and manages Torn Page, a private event space in New York City named in honor of his parents, the award-winning actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page.
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JEAN GRAHAM-JONES (Translator) is the Lucille Lortel Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. A trained actor and director, she is a scholar of Argentine theatre and performance and has translated over two dozen plays by contemporary Argentine playwrights. Recent books include Lola Arias: Re-Enacting Life and Evita, Inevitably: Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón. Her latest book project centers on contemporary performance translation.​​
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ANDROMACHE CHALFANT (Scenic Designer) is a New York City based designer. She most recently designed sets for Nadia Boulanger’s La Ville Morte at The Greek National Opera in Athens, Greece. Off-Broadway credits include productions at The Public Theater, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, BAM Fisher, The Atlantic and Second Stage Theater among others. Her ongoing generative projects fuse text, set design, performance and film with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration. She is co-founder of Coffey Street Studio, an artistic laboratory in Red Hook, Brooklyn for artists of all disciplines to experiment in new performance and new play development.
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REBECCA LORD-SURRATT (Scenic Designer) is a Brooklyn based Set Designer working in theater, film, and television. Recent film projects include A Complete Unknown, and Deliver Me From Nowhere (Searchlight Pictures). Her work for theater has been seen at 59e59, Northern Stage, Soho Playhouse, Theater Row, SOPAC, Ensemble Studio Theater, and as an Associate at Lincoln Center Theater, BAM, Chicago Shakespeare, Greek National Opera, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Two River Theater, Second Stage, Rattlestick, and New York Theater Workshop among others. Art Direction for television includes Billions (Showtime), City on Fire (Apple TV), and TRL (MTV). MFA, NYU Tisch. Member of USA 829 and the collective Coördinated Artists.
DONALD GALLAGHER (Scenic Backdrops) is happy to celebrate his 6th year in NY. He moved here in August of 1965. Even though he lives in Jersey City he still counts himself a New Yorker. He studied voice at Manhattan School of Music, still singing with Rev. Billy and the church of Stop Shopping, as well as the West Village Coral. He paints people's homes or apartments either just simple or very elaborate with lots of patterns and various finishes. One of his largest projects is just coming to a finish and can be seen on Instagram (@recreationgracechurch). His job is to make it look as it did in 1853 when it opened. It was a joy to do the backdrops for this marvelous play. Frida Kalo has always been a favorite. To do sky scapes from Storm to Tranquility as she so often has done was a joy. Happy the it can still be used.
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JOHN MURPHY (Head Carpenter) is an actor and a carpenter based in Brooklyn. He has built shows and/or served as deck carpenter at Coffey Street, the Bushwick Starr, Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, Park Ave Armory, Soho Rep, Target Margin, Manhattan School of Music, H.E.R.E. Arts, A.R.T. NY, Billie Holiday Theater and the Brick.
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JAY RYAN (Lighting Designer) is a frequent Torn Page collaborator. Jay was Nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for his lighting of Dancing Vs the Rat Experiment with WRC and was Awarded the Eva Adamson award for Excellence in Lighting Design in 2011. He is a Project Manager at Frost Productions in NYC designing lights for many high-end weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, fashion shows, corporate product launches, and private parties. He continues enjoying a variety of rich collaborations.
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LUKE SANTY (Audio / Video Consultant) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound and projection designer, and devised theater artist with an MFA in Sonic Arts from Brooklyn College. He is Co-Artistic Director and Musical Director of puppet-based theatre company Little Did Productions (littledidproductions.com), which has performed at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, GA), and at the National Puppetry Festival (Storrs, CT). Other Favorite Credits include “Lost and Found” (EMPAC), “Silent Sky” (Boise Contemporary Theater), and “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play” (TITAN Theatre Company). Luke is the recipient of the Wendy Carlos Award in Music from Brooklyn College and has taught multimedia and digital forms of storytelling at Lehman College, Williams College, NYU, and Boise State University.
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ZANE GAN (Costume Consultant) is a New York–based photographer & creative consultant with a background in dance and photography. He is also a partner at Alfargos, a vintage marketplace, where his eye for timeless style continues to inform his work in theatre.
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DAN SAFER (Movement Consultant) is the Artistic Director of dance/theater company Witness Relocation and has directed/ choreographed their shows all over the place, from the back rooms of bars in NYC to Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris to a giant leaky warehouse in Poland where a light fell off the grid halfway thru a show and almost killed him. WR is a resident company at LaMama Theater. Dan’s recent choreography includes Hoi Polloi’s productions of “Family” by Celine Song and “Winning Is Winning”; “Jedermann” starring Lars Eidinger at the Salzburg Festival; direction/ choreography for Chuck Mee’s “Aristotle Thinks Again” with Great Jones Rep. Other notable places he’s done shows include the Brooklyn Academy of Music and an opera house in Transylvania.He got kicked out of high school for a year, used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party. Dan is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Dance Programs at MIT.
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INÉS BRAUN (Associate Director / Dramaturg) is a stage and film director from Buenos Aires. She moved to New York City to study theater at Columbia University and received her MFA in Directing in 2017. Since graduating, she has worked as a director and writer for both theater and film. In 2021, Inés was selected as a finalist for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2021 Breakout Award and, in 2022, she was chosen to be an SDCF Observer for the Broadway production, How I Learned to Drive, directed by Mark Brokaw. In addition to being a partner with playwright-actor Liba Vaynberg in the Manhattan-based theater company Anna & Kitty, Inés’s theater credits include: Roundabout and All the Lonely Women (Rattlestick Theater); Classic Six (Powerstories: Voices of Truth Festival); Sing, Goddess! and Closing Night (HERE Arts Center); The Russian and the Jew (The Tank); Dumpster Fire (SheNYC Theater Festival); The Time of Your Life (Hunter College); Alkestis (Connelly
Theater); Trial by Fire and Eurydice (Columbia Stages). Regional theater credits include: Living Dead in Denmark (University of Arizona). Film credits include (as writer and director) the short films Ocean Mother; The Silence; Bajo Figuras; Melancholy: An Homage to Sarah Ruhl; and the feature film, La Ronda. www.inesbraun.com
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EVERYMAN AGENCY (Public Relations) is a communications firm promoting complex ideas, mostly in the arts. Founded by John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency builds awareness and provokes action for cultural organizations and individual artists by putting impactful storytelling, strategic thinking, and meaningful relationships at the heart of its work. Clients include Ars Nova, Axis Theatre Company, En Garde Arts, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Rattlestick Theater, Target Margin Theater, and TheaterWorks Hartford, among others. www.everymanagency.com
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JOHN DAVID WEST (Marketing Manager) is the founder of the social media marketing company JDW Social, working with various Off-Broadway shows including Clowns Like Us (Daryl Roth Theatre), Cracked Open (Theatre Row), Magdalene: I Am the Utterance of My Name (HERE), The Following Evening (PAC NYC), and Existentialism (La MaMa). As an actor, he is known for the award-winning short film series The Lessons by Alberto Ferreras and the comedy Hamlet in Harlem. @johndavidwest
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JACK DANIEL WOODS (Production Manager / Technical Director) is a NYC-based, international Director of Production and Technical and Producer, specializing in innovative and experimental performance. Jack has worked with arts organisations, creatives, theatres and festivals across the globe, including Winnipeg and Sydney Symphony orchestras, Soho Rep, The Builders Association, The Brick, NOoSphere Arts, The Hearth, and the Sydney Opera House. Jack co-founded The Department NYC, creating interdisciplinary performances focused on feminist and climate activism. Current projects include River2River with LMCC, SOHO REP’ Writer/Director Lab, Eisa Davis’ The Essentialisn’t at HERE Arts, and Calamity Jane at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Jack is stoked to be working on The Whole of Time. Allison Parker is one of Jack’s favourite people in NYC.
BERIT JOHNSON (Stage Manager) has been working in Indie Theater in NYC since 1996 as a stage manager and prop designer. They are a member of Untitled Theater Company #61 and co-director of Gemini CollisionWorks with their partner, Ian W. Hill. They are also the showrunner and head writer for GCW’s sci-fi audio sitcom, Life with Althaar, which is available wherever podcasts are streamed.
GERALD L. R. TORN (Production Assistant) is a multidisciplinary artist and performer born and based in New York City, specializing in multimedia paintings, sculpture, and dance. He is a co-founder of Golgonooza Collective, a new artist's collective championing the many faces of weird art.
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ALLISON PARKER (Line Producer) is a freelance stage manager as well as a freelance producer with her company, A/Park Productions. With A/Park, Allison has produced shows both in NYC, including La Musica Deuxième at Torn Page last year, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe with most recent Fringe credits including Do This One Thing for Me (Bedlam, 2024), Unseen (Zoo Playground, 2024), and Funny Guy (Greenside George Street, 2024). Allison took this year off from the Fringe to have a bébé but is excited to return to Edinburgh next year and introduce her new little one to the city and festival's magic! Allison is thrilled to join this talented group of artists for an unforgettable production of The Whole of Time at The Brick. Love to my boys: Stephen, Desmond and Parker the pup. www.a-parkproductions.com
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NORA ALEXANDER (Co-Producer / Company Manager) (she/her) is a stage manager, company manager, house manager, arts fundraiser, and, with the opening of The Whole of Time, a producer. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, she lives her multi-hyphenate life in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Nora primarily stage manages works in-development, with recent credits including The Brian Wilson Space Experiment (Staged Reading, 2025), Turning Page (2024), Olio (2024), 70.3 (Staged Reading, 2023), Cellino V. Barnes (2023), and Job (2022). During the day, Nora also works at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre in fundraising and development. She would like to thank her amazing family and friends for their love and support on this wild ride. To this beautiful cast and crew - I love you deep. Thank you for making my debut as a producer a complete and utter joy.
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THERESA BUCHHEISTER (Production Consultant) is a director, writer, producer, performer and curator. They currently reside in Lawrence, Kansas in order to teach at The University of Kansas and get some wild performance stuff going in the midwest. In NY they were Artistic Director of The Brick and AD/Founder of The Exponential Festival. They are the AD/Founder of Title:Point and they also founded and curated ?!:New Works and SalOn! for 10 years, as well as creating space at Vital Joint and Silent Barn. You can find them at www.theresabuchheister.com and www.staffpicks.fun.
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ZOE ZEIGHERMAN (Production Support) is a New York–based producer working across documentary, scripted film, and now theatre. She recently produced a new feature by Killer of Men director Tzvi. A graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in English, she is dedicated to realizing the creative vision of every project she works on.
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Associate Producers: DISTRACTED GLOBE FOUNDATION and BEACH​
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THE WHOLE OF TIME is co-presented by The Brick and A/Park Productions, and is created in association with Joben Studios and Torn Page, with support from *Necessary Digression and The Martin E. Segal Center for Theatre Research.
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THE WHOLE OF TIME is Fiscally Sponsored by PRODUCER HUB, INC.​
SPECIAL THANKS
The Brick​
Wendy Vanden Heuvel
Brandon Beachum
Scaro Veci Family
Mary Francina Golden & Kenneth V. Handal
Frank Hentschker
Gigantic Studios
Gray Schwartz LLP
Hugo Perez
Camila Dougall
Rafael Chamone
Michele Carlo
Leonardo Reyna
Judith de Haas
Keg & Lantern
Northern Bell
Two Boots​
Gabriela Basañez
Stella Adler
Addison Heeren
LifeWorld