Three Chickens Confront Existence
A Play
Audrey Rapoport never dreamed that being chased around the yard as a child by her brother's pet rooster PeePee would lead to this. Audrey has performed with the Groundlings, Acme Comedy Theatre, and at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, Woodstock Comedy Festival, and Austin's Big Stinkin' Festival. Theatre: The Anatasia Files; Sight Unseen; Good People; Hay Fever; The Supper Club of Lost Causes; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Some Girl(s); Kimberly Akimbo. TV/Film: Bull; Cheers; Bob (as in Newhart); Thirteen Days; Late Last Night; I Love You to Death; and many shorts, including the upcoming The Pink House. Audrey is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schaefer Award and several DRAMA-LOGUE and LA WEEKLY Drama Awards. She currently teaches at the School for Visual Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, and Improvolution NYC. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
Matthew Di Loreto is an actor and musician from Portland, Oregon, living in New York City. He spent years on the NYC stage in Blue Man Group and as a sketch comedian at Upright Citizens Brigade. Subsequently, he went on to star in multiple feature films including Sunday Brunch and as triplets in The Last 24. He is set to lead a new media series filming this summer entitled Gym Bros. He is broadly versed in clown and mask work and has studied extensively under the tutelage of various luminaries in the arts including Darrel Grant, Andrei Kitaev, and Jon Shear. He currently is finishing work on an album recorded earlier this year at Cheval Blanc Studios in France and is pleased to be returning to the stage as the plucky yet brooding Bronseman.
Eric Kirchberger has been seen as Defense Counselor Stephen Cryer on LAW & ORDER: SVU. He also wrote, composed, and performed the role of Dr. Fauci in Lisa Loeb's musical project TOGETHER APART. Eric's roles on stage include David in a festival-winning production of John Yarbrough's PETRA, and the title role in SANDMAN, directed by Chris Messina. Eric has performed stand-up on Comedy Central, HBO Comedy, and live in New York City. He is honored to be in this show and dedicates his performance to his beloved late parents and the late, great Tom Bozell and Lowry Marshall. May they all be laughing it up on the other side.
Bill Schaumberg is the playwright and director who also gets honorable mention as cast for voicing the invisible fourth chicken at somewhere around the 40-minute mark. Bill is also the writer of the audio play Mind Support, which won the Critics Choice Award at the 2022 Atlanta Fringe Festival and was awarded Silver at the 2023 Signal Awards. His one-act monologue, Death of a Log, has been performed at The Triad Theater, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Bowery Poetry Club, and was published by Epiphany Literary Magazine. He is eternally grateful for the support of Naked Angels Theater Company for providing a creative home for this play's development and for producing its first staged reading at Theater 80 in 2022.
Wolk Transfer Company is a Tony and Olivier nominated producer dedicated to the development and transfer of compelling shows that Inform, Inspire, Move and Matter. Broadway: The Hills of California, Job, Once Upon A Mattress, Prince of Broadway, Pacific Overtures. Lincoln Center: Musashi, Temple of the Golden Pavillion. Kennedy Center: Up In The Air.
U.K: Kenrex, Ballad Lines, Redcliffe, The Karate Kid — The Musical now touring 14 cities in the UK and concluding in Toronto, the musical adaptation of The Pianist coming to Southampton's Mayflower Studios and London's Park Theatre this Autumn, and Monsoon Season and My Name is Gideon at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Off-Broadway: Kenrex, and over 50 solo shows through Founder Michael Wolk's associated nonprofit, All For One Theater Company, including Crystal Skillman's Open and most recently, Eric Jaffe's The Jewish Question: A Comedic Lament.
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Ebony M. Burton (she/her) is an Oakland-born, Brooklyn-based designer for theater, dance, and live events. Projects include Have You Ever Thought About (Bushwick Starr); Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors, Hurricane Diane (People's Light); The Book Club (Theatre Squared); Flex, Loving and Loving (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Candide (SFSO); The Seven (Juilliard); Fences (NBPAC); Alicia Keys: An Evening With the Composer (Public Theater); P is for Pop, D is for Dip (PAC NYC); the end/the beginning (NYLA); Marie It's Time (HERE Arts Center); The Book of Lucy; Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Brown/Trinity); as well as various collaborations with choreographer Blaze Ferrer. Other projects include Ultramarine, an art installation presented in Lincoln Center's Hearst Plaza as part of their Social Sculpture Project. MFA in Design for Stage & Film, NYU Tisch. BA in Psychology, Oberlin College. www.ebonyburton.com IG: @thecolorcarmine
Sasha Richter offers her time, talents, and immense patience in wrangling feathers and crafting waddles, with credits in costume creation including: Boardwalk Empire, The Deuce, Gotham, The Get Down, Wormwood, and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. She's currently working as a costumer for HBO's The Gilded Age.
Daniel Moss is excited to be rejoining his favorite chickens on yet another exploration of existence. Designer and Carpenter working in New York City. Was lucky enough to work on the original Edinburgh Fringe Festival run in 2024/2025. Other Fringe credits include co-producer of DadGirl (2023). Daniel has worked on and off Broadway as a props carpenter and now spends his time building scenery for Film and TV on shows including Your Friends and Neighbors Season 3 The Beast in Me, and Project Runway Seasons 21/22. Broadway Props Carpenter Credits include Kinky Boots, An American in Paris, and Rocky the Musical. BFA in Scenic Design from Ithaca College. With four summers spent building props at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Supported by his hilarious and beautiful wife Emily Walsh, a very cuddly dog named Buckley, and an extremely energetic and incredible one year old daughter.
Producer Michael Wolk
"THREE CHICKENS CONFRONT EXISTENCE bravely, boldly, and hilariously strikes a resounding universal chord by holding up a mirror and showing us that when it comes to facing our mortality, we are all chicken.
Miraculously, it also uplifts and inspires us by demonstrating, to quote Emily Dickinson, 'hope is that thing with feathers.'"
— Michael Wolk, Wolk Transfer Company
Playwright Bill Schaumberg
"In a time of great fragmentation I felt drawn to a story that is universally human (despite the fact it doesn't contain a single human character). It feels as important as ever to come together in person and have a shared cathartic experience where we can laugh wildly at our human situation as presented by exquisitely feathered actors, and maybe cry a bit too."
— Bill Schaumberg, Playwright/Director