Ginger Smith and Billy Gee_theatrical reading

Frances Barth
Is a painter and filmmaker.While an art student at Hunter College she also studied modern-dance, and began performing with Yvonne Rainer at Lincoln Center and the Billy Rose Theater in 1968-9, and with Joan Jonas in dance and video in 1970.
Video: During the last 14+ years she has also created two animations,two documentaries, and a short b&w film set in 1947 after the Japanese internment, while remaining focused on her painting.
Her most recent animation, "Jonnie in the Lake" won Best Animated Short in November 2016 at the New York Short Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Short Film at the Sunrise Film Festival in Nova Scotia. It now has Spanish subtitles and has been shown in Venezuela, Ecuador and Uruguay.
The animation "End of the Day, End of the Day" completed in 2007 was shown at the Atlanta Festival of the Moving Image in the Marcia Wood Gallery, and in New York at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in 2010 and was adapted into a performance with projected video at Triangle Artists Organization in 2018.
Her video documentary/portrait on the painter Regina Bogat, "Regina B" premiered at the New Renaissance Film Festival in Amsterdam in 2018 and was nominated for Best International Short Documentary; an earlier different short was shown at The Marfa Film Festival in 2014. Regina B was also shown at the New York Short Film Festival in November, 2018.
In 2017 she published her first graphic novel "Ginger Smith and Billy Gee" with settings derived from her paintings, and scripted a live theatrical reading from this book with 7 actors that premiered in NY in 2018.
Frances’ new documentary “The Audition” will premiere in Paris in April 2019.
Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, an Adolphe and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant, two American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase awards, the Anonymous Was a Woman grant and a Pollock-Krasner grant. She is Director Emeritus of the Mt. Royal School of Art, The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Ron Nakahara
is an actor/director, born in Honolulu and lives in New Jersey. He attended the University of Hawaii, where he studied at the University of Hawaii with acting teachers Glenn Cannon, and Terry Knapp from The Royal Shakespeare Co., as well as with Kikunobu Onoe (Kabuki acting and dance,) and National Treasure of Japan in Kyogen, Nomura Mansaku. In Hawaii, he also trained with noted voice teacher Kristen Linklater, and in New York for voice over with Steve Harris and Paul Liberti.
Ron has directed many theatre plays in New York and across the country.
As an actor:
Selected THEATER: NY–Ping Pong (The Public Theatre,) Ching Chong Chinaman, Rashomon (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre,) Earth and Sky (Second Stage,) The Three Sisters (Pan Asian,) Romeo And Juliet (NYSF/Public Theatre,) As You Like It (NYSF/Public Theatre,) Danton’s Death (LaMama E.T.C.,) The School for Wives (NATCO,) Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pan Asian) REGIONAL– Wild Swans (debut), (Young Vic, London, and A.R.T., Boston,) Snow Falling on Cedars, The Merchant of Venice (Hartford Stage Co.,) Comedy of Errors (The Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.,) The Screens (The Guthrie Theatre,) Othello (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta,) The Empress of China (Cincinnati Playhouse,) Cyrano (ACT, San Francisco,) Taming of the Shrew (ACT,) Diary of a Scoundrel (Hawaii Public Theatre) FILM/TV–The Wolf of Wall Street, Sleepwalk With Me, I Think I Love My Wife, College Road Trip, Daredevil, Elementary, NYC 22, The Good Wife, Fringe, 3 LBS., Whoopi, Cosby Mysteries, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, All My Children, Pearl, The Miniseries, Hawaii 5-O (the original).

Ron has more recently been working in Voice Over for the following projects: Skittles Superbowl commercial; Jonnie in the Lake, animation short/narrator; End of the Day, End of the Day, animation short, lead voice; Schwab national commercial, animation/lead voice; Grand Theft auto San Andreas, various characters; Symphony Space, radio broadcasts (2) short story readings.

www.ronnakahara.com