THE WHOLE OF TIME - BIOS
Cast photos by Charles McCain
Josefina Scaro is an Argentinian actress, dancer and producer based in New York. Before moving to the US, she appeared in theatre and film by established directors from Argentina and Spain. Examples of her work can be found on the Argentinian streaming platforms CINEAR and TvPublica. Josefina made her North American debut in the feature film American Thief (2021) which played in major festivals and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. She recently played the lead in the films “Halted” directed by Ilaria Malvezzi and “Farewell” directed by Teresa Constantini scheduled to premiere in 2024-25.. As a co-curator of events at Torn Page, Josefina is committed to bringing Argentinian and Latin American culture to the community. She is currently working with the internationally celebrated Argentinian theater director, Javier Daulte in his acclaimed play “Are you there?” as well starring in a new play with film and theater director Romina Paula.
Lucas Salvagno is a Native New Yorker raised in the East Village. He studied acting with Terry Knickerbocker at the Esper Studio. TV/Film Credits: Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, POWER, PLL: The Perfectionists, White Collar, Royal Pains, The Carries Diaries, Elementary and CRUISE (streaming free on Tubi.) Theater Credits: Dennis Ziegler in THIS IS OUR YOUTH at The Wild Project. Lucas would like to thank his friends and family for their love and support.
Ana B Gabriel is an actress and Director based in NYC. She has worked in film, television and the theatre mostly in Los Angeles and "The Whole of Time" marks her NYC debut. Other performances include "Club Termina" and "Harry Thaw Hates Everybody" which she acted in with Tony Torn (and who she is thrilled to be reunited with after 25 years.) Having been born in Argentina, Ana Gabriel is honored to be working on a play by Romina Paula
Ben Becher, a native New Yorker, has appeared Off-Broadway in Tis Pity She's A Whore (dir. Louisa Proske), Letters To Sala (dir. Eric Nightengale) and Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class at the Long Wharf Theater with Judith Ivey and Clark Middleton. While living in London, Ben spent time at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre where he worked with director Mike Alfred on his production of Cymbeline. On film. you can see Ben in the Sundance selection Before You Know It, alongside Mandy Patinkin, Judith Light and Alec Baldwin, and in the feature film American Thief, both on major streaming platforms. Recently Ben appeared on Law & Order SVU opposite Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T. Ben is grateful to co-curate events at the historic arts-space, Torn Page, with frequent collaborators Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown and Josefina Scaro, who recently premiered their short film A Simple Stone at the Woodstock Film Festival.
Romina Paula 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 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 the founding director of Bill Talen's Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping (now in its 20th year), and created and starred in the absurdist theater/punk rock mash-up Ubu Sings Ubu with co-director Dan Safer. His groundbreaking 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 and Famous People by Bernadette Mayer for The Boog Poets Theater Festival. 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.
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.
Donald Gallagher (Scenic Backdrops) is a Radical Faerie,a sister of perpetual Indulgence and a long time member of the Church of Stop Shopping. He sings in the West Village Coral as well. He went to Manhattan School of Music for Voice and ,Music History. Started painting in the Brownstone Neighborhood of Borrum Hill in the early 70's to make ends meet, liked the work and discovered some of the decorative styles buried in thoes buildings. Thought that would be a good way to present myself,as more than just a regular house painter, so learned how to recreated thoes looks as well as decorative plaster work, I still do that sort of work today. Happy to do this work for this plays set background. Thanks Tony Torn for the opportunity.
Jay Ryan (Lighting Design) Jay made some lights. Lights pretty. Jay happy!
Berit Johnson (Stage Manager) does a lot of this sort of thing.