GETCHIE ARGETSINGER
Artistic Advisor
Getchie Argetsinger's acting career spans over 30 years in New York theatre, regional repertory and national tours as well as television and film. She played Kathy in the New York revival of Parallel Lives: The Kathy & Mo Show at the Greenwich Street Theatre and Meg in A Lie Of The Mind, as well as Queen Elinor in King John at the Present Company and Marina in Uncle Vanya with the Barrow Group. Noteworthy performances include The Molly Bloom Soliloquy, a one woman show excerpting Ulysses, for the New York Bloomsday Celebration and the female lead in Selections from Metamorphoses for The Hellenic Festival. Regional favorites include Mrs. Gill in See Rock City and Gulf View Drive at the New Main Street Theatre in Connecticut and Miss Prism in The Importance Of Being Earnest at the New Harmony Theatre in Indiana. Film appearances include a cameo on The Sopranos and the lead in the short film Broken. Getchie is also a professional storyteller, bringing to life timeless tales from around the world in libraries, schools and museums nationwide.
Erik K. Johnson, Scandanavian Photography LLC, theartofseeing.comDavid Hays
Artistic Advisor
David is best known for the set and lighting design of over fifty Broadway and off-Broadway plays and musicals. He was the designer for the Vivian Beaumont, the Metropolitan Opera Association and thirty George Balanchine ballets. He has won many awards for his work, including Tony nominations for The Tenth Man, All the Way Home, No Strings, Marco Millions, and Drat, the Cat!
David founded the National Theater of the Deaf in 1967 and directed there for thirty years. This groundbreaking company has performed in all fifty states as well as China and South Africa. The innovative company’s universal appeal speaks for itself. NTD has played on all seven continents.
David is also the author of several books including “My Old Man and The Sea,” which he wrote with his son Daniel, chronicling their journey around Cape Horn. The book, which reflects their passion for sailing and the adventure of life, was on the New York Times bestseller list. David currently spends his time writing, and occasionally designing for theater or ballet.
PETER WALKER
Artistic Advisor
Peter Walker is an actor, singer, and lyricist studied with the legendary Stella Adler. He has played the stages of the world from Asia to Europe and in every major city in North America. In Paris, he became the first American in 25 years to create a lead in French on “The Boulevard” (the City’s equivalent to Broadway). He spent five years there with George Voscovek’s American Theater. Then, under contract to Warner Brothers, he worked for ten years in Hollywood doing TV, film, and theater, after which he worked for 25 years doing Broadway and off Broadway plays and musicals, including two national tours, Hello Dolly and Into The Woods. Walker also wrote the lyrics for “Harrigan N’ Hart” which opened the Goodspeed at Chester, Norma Terris Theater and then played the Longacre Theater on Broadway. In his last production in New York, he co-starred with the beloved Imogene Coca in My Old Friends for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. For the past five years, he and actress, Scotty Bloch, have been performing “Love Letters” most recently for the Shoreline Arts Alliance and the Eugene O’Neil Theater Center. His last staged reading was for Margreta Stage as Sheridan Whiteside in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” at the Ivortyon Playhouse.
SCOTTY BLOCH
Artistic Advisor
Scotty has originated many roles in New York theatre, including Broadway productions of Children Of A Lesser God and The Price. Her extensive off-Broadway credits include Wedding Plays and Under The Bed at HB Studio Theatre written by Susan Sandler; Changing Of The Guard and What I Meant Was, written by Craig Lucas, The Gulf War And Lost Jazz by John Ford Noonan, all at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Saved Or Destroyed by Harry Kondolean and directed by Craig Lucas; The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan; The Goldberg Variations (Laurette Taylor Award); Scotland Road, The Brutality Of Facts and Madame Zelena, all at Primary Stages; Unexpected Tenderness, Other Peoples’ Money, Isn’t It Romantic, Lemon Sky, and Walking The Dead.
Regional favorites: The Hunger Education by Jessica Goldberg, at the O’Neill Theatre Center; Griller by Eric Bogosian, and Three Tall Women, at Baltimore’s Center Stage; Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher at Philadelphia Theatre Company (Barrymore Award); The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney, at the Philadelphia
Drama Guild; The Stand-In (Dramalogue Award); Neon Psalms, at American Place Theatre.
TV credits: Law And Order, Kate And Allie, and many more.
Film: Four of Woody Allen’s recent pictures, including Deconstructing Harry; IQ, Bonfire Of The Vanities, The King Of Comedy, and The Lunch Date (Academy Award - Best Short Film)
Scotty has done four productions of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, with her costar Peter Walker, and they both look forward to doing more.