Manhattan Adult Entertainment: The Canadian Stage Company Marks Black History Month with INTIMATE APPAREL
Alex Poch-Goldin plays Mr. Marks, an Orthodox Jewish textile merchant. An award-winning actor, playwright and librettist, he was recently nominated for the 2008 Siminovitch Award. Poch-Goldin starred in The Canadian Stage Company productions of Angels in America, Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Six Degrees of Separation, Wit, Anybody and Nobody and was a Canadian Stage OAC Playwright-in-Residence. Other credits include: Scorched (Tarragon Theatre/national tour), his opera The Shadow was produced by Tapestry New Opera, and his play The Right Road to Pontypool was produced by 4th Line Theatre and will enjoy a remount this summer. Film and television credits include The Untitled Work of Paul Sheppard, Traitor, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, Living in Your Car and Wonderland.
Lisa Berry makes her Canadian Stage debut as Mayme, a jazz singer who works as a prostitute. Theatre credits include: Doubt, a parable (The Neptune Theatre/The Globe Theatre); The Crucible (Shaw Festival); The Odyssey (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); Les Liasons Dangereuses (Annex Theatre); Anne of Green Gables (Bathurst Street Theatre); and the European Tour of Fame the …