Chekhov's Dog  is a theatre company in New York City dedicated to producing and performing stuff we like. We could ramble on at length about about our mission and our vision in an effort to make ourselves sound more important and professional, but who do we think we'd be fooling?

Chekhov's Dog Theatre Company presents a staged reading of This Is The Game That Changes As You Play at 7 pm on Thursday, March 22nd at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, NYC . Admission is free, but an rsvp is requred – reserve a seat now with an email to offbroadway@outlook.com

Please note that The Players does not allow shorts, sneakers, t-shirts or ripped jeans. That being said, bolero pants, black leather jackets, platform shoes, french cuffs and perfectly starched cravats are always welcome. 'nuff said. 

Chris can be seen starring opposite Golden Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan in the short film Care. Theatre:  M. Butterfly (Song), Monterey Mainstage, Confesion En El Barrio Chino (Camarrero) Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co *Latin ACE Award, In Perpetuity Thoughout The Universe (Dennis), Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, The Day On Which a Man Dies (Kunyoshi) directed by Arthur Storch at The White Barn Theatre *Tennessee Williams' World Premiere, The Manchurian Candidate (Corporal Melvin) w/ Academy Award nominee Carrie Snodgress at West Coast Ensemble, Bitter Cane (Kam Su) West Coast Ensemble, Exit The Dragon (Jun) produced by Ming-Na Wen at both the Estelle Harmon in LA and Julia Morgan in Berkeley, Native Speech (Johnny) Boomerang Theatre Co, Hedda Gabler (Luvborg) HB Ensemble, Valparaiso (Filmmaker) HB Ensemble.  Film/TV:  The Departed, Angels in America, One Life To Live, Kidnapped, The Unusuals, Saved By The Bell.

Favorite theater credits include Edna in Waiting For Lefty (John Desotelle Theatre), Geraldine Connelly in The House of Connelly (Re:Group Theatre Company), Jan in Saying Anything (with Susan Blackwell) at Manhattan Theater Source / Estrogenius, and Gin Chase in The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Medicine Show Theatre).  Favorite film and television credits include Speight’s Neighbor on The Knick (Cinemax), Liz’s Nurse on Louis C.K. (FX), narrator for Anatomy of a Scene (Independent Film Channel) and Rockstar Wife in the movie Thunderstruck. Libby also stars in the ongoing webisode series New York Libby (www.nyl.nyc). She has never been on Law & Order.

Jason Cruz will enjoy making you laugh when you see this, remember that. Other such things that have led to this moment include his recent marriage to Elizabeth (12/31/17). Theatre credits: Drop Dead Perfect (St. Clement's & Penguin Rep) A Few Good Men (PTC) The Tempest (Bermuda Arts Festival) Dark Play... (Amphibian Stage Productions) Jesus Hopped the "A" Train (Rutgers) TV/Film: Dietland (AMC), Law & Order: SVU, Important Things w/ Demitri Martin (Comedy Central), Last Day of Summer, Beneath the Rock (Best Narrative EHFF). His film work has screened at the NY HBO Latino Film Festival, PR Queer Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and SoHo International Film Festival (nom: Best Showcase Short) @jasonjcrz

Nichole Donjé is an actor and interdisciplinary artist. Nichole served for nine years as Founding Artistic Director of The Artists' Playground Theatre, bringing new and less-performed works to New York stages as a director, producer, and performer. Favorite roles: Julia in War & Therapy (Edmonton and Capital Fringes, and NYC limited run), Faith in Kindertransport (Newgate Theater, RI) and Pheobe in Romantic Comedy (City Nights Theater, RI). Recent favorite Staged Readings include original scripts World of Tomorrow (Ceil) by Bill McMahon and Isola Femina (Amelia) by Pamela Yaco. In addition to her extensive work on regional and NYC stages, her film credits include Jim and The Maltese Murder Mystery. Nichole is delighted to work with the talented and collaborative company of Chekov's Dog. 

https://nicholedonjeartist.wordpress.com/

Dean Imperial is a writer (and sometimes actor) living in New York City. He is currently a staff writer on “Imposters” — an hour-long dark comedy about con artists — airing on Bravo (season 2 premieres April 4th). He is a proud member of the CORE Artists Ensemble, a graduate of Fordham College at Lincoln Center and is repped by Olivia Blaustein at CAA.

Jodi is a New York-based actress who can currently be seen in the award-winning short film, Growing Up Fat and Albanian (Elza Zagredo production). Favorite theatre credits include Clue (4U players), Four Years Apart (NATC), Macbeth (NATC), Southern Reckonings (Three River Theatre Collective). Previous appearances in Truthfully Speaking (TV Movie) Deadly Sins (TV Series), Stalked (TV Series) and Lesson of the Evil (Feature Film). Thank you to Michael for including me in this very talented cast.

(Playwright) Author of the plays For the Love of Damien Hirst and Sweet, Sweet, Sweet Poison, Mr. Collins also writes and directs a ragtag collection of webisodes, many of which can be found at www.movies.film.  Awards: While in high school in Vadez, Alaska, Mr. Collins’ thick-crust ground beef pizza took top honors at  the Valdez Cooking Contest, narrowly beating out the pu-pu platter entered by the chef at the Pipeline Club. That shock victory remains controversial to this day. 

Chekhov doted on his two dachshunds, Brom and Khina, and was even known to occasionally stage comic plays starring the two of them at his country estate outside Moscow. Writing to fellow playwright Nikolai Leikin, Chekhov noted that ‘Brom is nimble and lithe, polite and sensitive. Khina is awkward, fat, idle, and sly.’ At Chekhov’s Dog Theatre Company, we strive to emulate Brom, but are all too keenly aware that we are in point of fact far more like Khina.

A sculpture of Brom and Khina by artist Alexander Rozhnikov outside Chekhov’s country house, now the Melikhovo museum. Clearly rubbing Khina’s nose is an essential part of any pilgrimage.

The staged reading of the This Is The Game That Changes As You Play will be performed on the main stage at The Players on 16 Gramercy Park South. One of the city’s most storied private clubs, The Players was established in 1888 by legendary Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth as a nexus for 'the promotion of social intercourse between the representative members of the dramatic profession...and the patrons of the arts.' Designed by Stanford White, The Players is the oldest club still in its original clubhouse in the United States. 

Please note that The Players does not allow shorts, sneakers, t-shirts or ripped jeans. That being said, bolero pants, black leather jackets, platform shoes, french cuffs and perfectly starched cravats are always welcome. 'nuff said. 

Home to Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Pushkin, Zinaida Gippius, Nestor Kukolnik, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, Ksenya Stepanycheva, Mikhail Artsybashev, Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Leonov, Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Dmitri Lipskerov, Grigori Gorin, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Osip Notovich, Isabella Grinevskaya and roughly a zillion other astonishing playwrights. We’re just sayin’.

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