Christine Cartafalsa - Author (The Bucket Cure), Eva (The Bucket Cure)
Christine is thrilled to be part of the 2012 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Her first experience came nearly 20 years ago during a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof. Since then, Christine has been part of community productions of My Fair Lady, Working and Me and My Gal. Christine has also graced the backgrounds of numerous television and movie productions including Hack, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Cold Case, National Treasure, Shooter and Invincible. For three years, she performed for Hewitt Productions and Without a Cue murder mystery dinner theaters and even wrote and starred in her own dinner theater productions in Philadelphia and Valley Forge. Christine is currently writing a short film for summertime production.
Philip Jacobson - Creator (Fringe Phobia)
Read all about Philip's vast theater, improv, teaching, coaching and film credits as well as The GiggleMill by visiting http://www.philipjacobson.com/!
Sean Toczydlowski - Director (The Bucket Cure), Dr. Allen, David (The Bucket Cure)
Sean is thrilled to be making his Fringe Festival debut with The Bucket Cure. Sean has long been involved in acting, participating in shows as varied as Sweeney Todd, Evita, Ten Little Indians, and many iterations of Guys and Dolls. He has also been responsible for writing, acting, and directing many one-act plays including The Diner, Club SJU, and Taco House No. 1. More recently he has been working with the Random Actors of Mischief, a unique murder mystery organization that fuses improv and whodunit to entertain audiences for two years. In addition, Sean has been an active member of the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus for five years. The organization has allowed him the opportunity to sing at the Citizen's Bank Park, the opening of the new home of the Barnes Foundation, and at the most recent GALA Festival in Denver. Sean would like to thank his parents, Michael, and friends for encouraging his artistic endeavors.
Eric Thompson - Greg (The Bucket Cure)
Now almost ten years into acting, Eric J Thompson is making his Fringe debut with The Bucket Cure. Eric started out doing background work on films such as Disney’s Invincible and other independent feature length and short film productions. He moved on to stage productions a few years later in an effort to expand his horizons by challenging his comfort zone and facing his fears of acting in front of a live audience. That began an upward spiral of seeking out the new, unknown, and feared in an effort to grow as an actor. Immediately after his stage debut, Eric took on a stage production of Shakespeare and immediately after that, his first musical. Since then he has gone on to perform multiple times at Steel River Theater in Pottstown and recently performed at Walnut Street Theater’s Studio 5. He is also Adam in R.O.D., a web series premiering this summer and will be in two independent films, My Father the Old Horse and Parallax. Having obtained his degree in Anthropology (with a theater minor) from West Chester Univeristy, Eric loves reading fiction and non-fiction. He loves to read and learn about culture and history past and present. Eric also enjoys script writing and short story writing. He loves the arts, and though he doesn’t fancy himself a painter, he does enjoy putting brush to canvas and pen/pencil/charcoal to paper. He also enjoys the art of photography, playing musical instruments, sculpting, and any other form art that he can tackle.
