‘A Streetcar Heart’s Desire’ Elizabeth Price Takes On Blanche DuBois

If you’re someone who spends a lot of time seeing theatre in South Florida, then you may have already run across the work of actress Elizabeth Price, who is also a proud ensemble member of New City Players. But though the Silver Palm winning and Carbonell nominated performer has no shortage of impressive credits, it’s only in the company’s current production of A Streetcar Named Desire that she’s finally gotten the chance to play her ultimate dream role: the fading southern belle Blanche Dubois.

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From the Midwest to the Big Apple with Heather Ayers

Heather Ayers is an actress with an impressive resume filled with Regional Theater, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Film, TV, and now a National Tour of Mean Girls. Other credits include; Broadway: Groundhog DayYoung Frankenstein, On a Clear Day…, A Little Night Music. Off-Broadway: Roundabout, Second Stage, Lucille Lortel, Minetta Lane. Regional: Goodspeed, Old Globe, Yale Rep, LaMirada…. TV: “American Vandal”, “The Affair”, “Brockmire”, “Scandal.” Ayers has done what many aspire to do, which is to work in all fields of the entertainment industry.

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Being More Than Enough With Florida Native Christian Thompson

Christian Thompson is a 30-year old actor, dancer, singer and writer from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Growing up, his mother moved them across the street from North Andrews Elementary School of the Arts in the hopes that he would be inspired. “Little did she know…” Thompson says with a smirk. He recalls seeing a touring production of Cats at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and that’s when he decided he wanted to be an actor at the young age of 8 years old. “I was sitting in the aisle and I saw an actor dressed as a cat and they get paid to do this?! I want to do that,” Thompson continues, “And that was all I needed, it was a wrap… so I set my mind to it.”

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The Jim Tyminski Story

If you scroll the internet, you’ll probably find lots of people named Jim Tyminski. But in South Florida, there’s only one with connections in the various fields of theater, music, real estate and computer software. With a measure of humility, articulate artisan Tyminski, a Floridian for 22 years, proclaims he has notched “the art and science of programming, the art of real estate and also theater, which covers all the other arts.”

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Promising New Playwright Eytan Derays Unique Road To A World Premiere Of Educating Asher

If you’re a regular in the South Florida theatre scene, you may know Eytan Deray from his appearances in plays and musicals with various local companies over the past six years, including a most recent turn as Eugene in MNM Theatre Company’s iteration of Grease. But what you may not yet be aware of is that the experienced actor also has a passion for playwriting—which he is eager to finally get a chance to share with the wider South Florida theatre community starting July 29th, when his full-length play Educating Asher is set to make its world premiere.

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The Patti Gardner Story

Talking over coffee with singer/actress/dancer Patti Gardner at a bagel shop in Boynton Beach is remarkably enjoyable – like chatting with a longtime friend. She speaks about her loving 43-year marriage to husband, Neal; their twin daughters who turned 40 years of age last November and the fact that after her interview, she planned on driving to Vero Beach to visit with her grandchildren.

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The Niki Fridh Story

Lots of people spend years wondering if they’ve chosen the right career path in life.

Niki Fridh isn’t one of them. “I’ve never questioned my decision to be an actor,” said the brown-eyed, brown-haired performing artist who has trod a vast expanse of proscenia since arriving in South Florida – with acting on her mind and in her heart — some 25 years. 

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The Elizabeth Price Story

Elizabeth Price has been an actor and director in theatre and film in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Dallas, Austin, Atlanta and New Mexico. But since earning her Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from Boca Raton’s Florida Atlantic University in 2014, she has called South Florida her home and main artistic venue.

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The Diane Tyminski Story

As a young girl growing up in Leavittown, N.Y., Diane Nardolillo Tyminski wasn’t outwardly expressive about her vocal talent. “I sang in secret. I was a frustrated singer,” said the woman who grew to be a frequent performer at community theaters in Lake Worth and Delray Beach, Florida. She moved to the Sunshine State 25 years ago, “alone,” she said. “My parents urged me to go on my own to get a start in school,” though they later followed.

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