Breathe by Brian C. Petti
directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga

When an autistic woman, after a strange encounter with a county fair clown, wakes up the
next morning without autism, she and her parents have to come to grips with this new reality.
As both father and mother get to know their non-autistic daughter and her excitement they
must come to grips with redefining everyone’s roles in this family. Breathe is about the nature
of parenthood and redefining oneself in the face of ever-changing familial relationships.
Brian C. Petti is an award-winning playwright who has been produced Next Year in
Jerusalem was the winner of the Humboldt State University National Play Contest in
California. Heroines, On the Expectation of White Christmases, Like Drowning, The Love
Song of Sidney J Stein, and Banshee are published by Next Stage Press. Echoes of Ireland
was produced in County Cork, Ireland by the Skibbereen Theatre Society and is published
through Eldridge Plays and Musicals. Ten Seconds was produced by Motivational Theatre as
winner of the Carlton E. Spitzer Excellence in Playwrighting Award. Love Song was part of
the NYC Fresh Fruit Festival and it was the winner of Las Vegas Little Theatre New Works
Competition. Heroines had its world premiere at Cornerstone Theatre Arts in Goshen, NY.

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Sydnie Grosberg Ronga is Co-Artistic Director of Round the Bend Theatre in
the Hudson Valley and is planning for a fourth season of reading and developing
new plays. Sydnie was awarded Best Director of a Comedy for Max & Louie’s
Production of Souvenir, a company she co-founded; New Jewish Theatre’s
Driving Miss Daisy & Bad Jews (best director nomination); NYC premiers of
World of Sinatras & Exquisite Potential for Project Rushmore Theatre Company;
Rosendale Theatre March Mysteries (Radio Plays), Love is Love and Lifespan
of a Fact; Bluff City Theatre Vincent, Trying, the original musical, Madam, My
Name is Asher Lev, and The Glass Menagerie. Sydnie has adapted and
directed Gotham Radio Theatre’s productions including collaborations with
Lincoln Center Library and The Schoolhouse Theatre. She was Associate
Artistic Director of The Phoenix Theatre Company, NY. Sydnie has created
theatre arts programing for all grades and taught and coached professional
actors for decades.
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CAST:
Pete/Doctor: Jared Reinmuth
Jenny: Erin Hebert
Katy: Alexandra Angeloch
Clown: Matthew Kuriloff
Soothsayer/Therapist: Lora Lee Ecobelli

Jared Reinmuth has worked as an actor, writer, teacher, director, and songwriter. He made
his acting debut at the 1994 Dionysian International Theatre Festival in Veroli, Italy in Karen
Malpede’s The Beekeeper’s Daughter. Reinmuth made his directorial debut in 2016 at the
Theater for the New City’s Dream UP Festival with Andrea J. Fulton’s Roof-Top Joy. His
adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ seminal masterpiece, Monte Cristo, debuted at the
Hackensack Cultural Arts Center, and was then produced in NYC in 2016 by the New Light
Theater Project. He began his writing collaboration with Frank “Big Black” Smith in 1997,
while assisting his father, famed Attica attorney Dan Meyers. In 2017, at the suggestion of his
friend and colleague, Patrick Kennedy, Reinmuth joined forces with co-creator and artist
Améziane, and Frank Smith’s wife Pearl Battle Smith to fully realize the work he initially
started with Frank as the graphic novel BIG Black: Stand at Attica (2020, BOOM! Studios /
Arcaia; Eisner Nominee: Best Reality Based Book). Jared’s latest collaboration with
Ameziane reimagines his earlier theatrical exploration Monte Cristo in graphic novel form. It
will be released this month in its original French, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (Editions du
Rocher, 2024).

Erin Hebert is an actress, singer, voice actress, and fight choreographer based in
Poughkeepsie. Originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts, Erin graduated from Yale in 2018
before moving to the Hudson Valley, and she's been hooked on the area ever since. Favorite
stage roles include Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda, Natalie in Next to
Normal, Jenny in Boy, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, and Shakespeare in Something Rotten.
Her most prominent voice acting role featured her as FBI agent Alexandria Thoman in the
New York Times podcast "The Daily," acting alongside Broadway alum Stephen Pasquale.
She is excited to expand her menagerie of voices in this show.
Alexandra Angeloch is a writer and actor. Plays produced include A Day of Wonderful (Axial
Theater), Bottom Buddies, Cliche Ghost, Beer (Howl Playwrights), Making Whoopee, Plan Not 9,
Spittin’ Devil (Half Moon Theater), Old Single Female White (Great Barrington Public Theater) Sexy
Plexy (ESPA). Readings : Siren’s Whisper, (Abingdon Theater), HERstory (Howl
Playwrights). Published works include A Day of Wonderful (Clockhouse, Goddard College), Butterfly,
Breathing Underwater (Knight Publishing)  Acting: Film: Night of the Living Jews(Mama
Jones), Figments of Freedom (Susan) dir. Mark Webber. Theatre: Remembering Olanna(Alex) Ancram
Opera House, Season’s Greetings( Rachel) VoiceTheater, Heartbreak House (Mrs.
Utterword,)/RTS. www.ahowlofplaywrights.org 

Matthew Kuriloff began his theatrical career at a young age in the New York City Opera
children’s chorus at Lincoln Center. As a theatre major at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA,
Matthew’s horizons expanded to include directing, writing, designing and producing shows.
Matthew served five seasons as Props Master, Scenic Artist and Assistant Set Designer
Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Matthew is a graduate of New Actors Workshop in
New York City where he was taught by Mike Nichols, George Morrison and Diane Paulus.
Matthew co-founded a performing arts program that teaches life skills to actors with
intellectual and developmental disabilities for the non-profit agency East End Disability
Associates (EEDA). Matthew’s Hudson Valley debut was playing Demetrius in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream with Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre’s Woodstock Shakespeare Festival.

Lora Lee Ecobelli is an Actress, Filmaker, Writer, Director and Teacher. As a filmmaker, she is
committed to telling personal women’s stories. Her experimental film La Transazione (The Transaction) 

which she wrote and directed recently won Best Picture at five International film festivals.
La Transazione tells the true story of three Italian sisters who travel to America in 1910 for arranged
marriages. Her newest film, Laurina, co-written with her brother Tom Ecobelli is currently in post-
production and will be released to the festival circuit this spring. Set in 1920, Laurina is based on her
grandmother’s journal. Raped and impregnated by her stepfather at age 13, Laurina defied the odds
and successfully put her abuser behind bars.
As a actress, Lora Lee has performed both On and Off-Broadway and in regional theatre’s throughout
the country. She can also be seen in many independent films and television. She is the recipient of
the Harold Clurman award for best leading actress in an off-broadway show for her performance in
The Vice by Luigi Pirandello. Favorite roles include, Jocasta in Antigone at the West End Theatre,
Andromache in The Trojan Women for Cypreco Greek Theatre Company and Lady Waldermar in
Aurora Leigh at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Favorite regional roles include, Madame Ravenskya in The
Cherry Orchard for Walking the Dog Theatre, Margaret in Good People for Performing Arts of
Woodstock and Nettie in The Subject Was Roses for Bridge Street Theatre.
Lora Lee is the Artistic director of The Blue Horse Repertory Company, a Hudson Valley Theatre
Collective. She also teaches an adult acting program at The Theatre Institute at Sage College. Lora
Lee is a member of Actors Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA.