Handcart Ensemble ~ Personnel

Management

J. Scott Reynolds

Artistic Director

Scott is a founding member of Handcart Ensemble. He directed and translated the company’s debut production of Racine’s Andromaque. He has also adapted and directed productions of Munk’s/Dreyer’s Ordet and Balzac’s The Wild Ass’s Skin. His verse adaptation of the novel which inspired the latter is anthologized in Plays & Playwrights 2002.

David D’Agostini

Managing Director

David is a resident actor with Handcart Ensemble, and holds an MFA in acting from the Old Globe Theatre. New York credits: The Cat and the Moon; The Only Jealousy of Emer. Regional credits: Old Globe: Julius Caesar (dir: Daniel Sullivan); The Taming of the Shrew (dir: John Rando); Pericles (dir: Darko Tresjnak). Sundance Theatre: Oliver!; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Old Globe / USD: The Misanthrope; The Winter’s Tale; Heartbreak House; The Two Gentlemen of Verona. TV: “Touched by an Angel.” David lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children.

Michael Mladineo

Executive Director

Mike is a graduate of Harvard College and currently is the Director of Financial Planning at IRMC, a debt collection firm. He is a Participation Chair for the Harvard College Fund and has been fundraising for this organization since 1997. As Executive Director, Mike’s focus is on development and marketing.

Javen Tanner

Associate Artistic Director

Javen graduated with an MFA in acting from the Old Globe in San Diego. In New York, he recently appeared in Creation, A Clown Show. At the Old Globe he appeared in All My Sons, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Heartbreak House, and others. His play Cold Pastoral was performed at the Old Globe / USD’s Studio Theatre. Javen has taught acting at Brigham Young University, and has conducted workshops in Utah, California and at New York University’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School.

About Us

Old Wine in New Bottles

Handcart Ensemble produces new adaptations, new translations, and new works for the theater, drawing primarily from classical sources. Read our mission statement for more information.

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From Odyssey.

Handcart's Horizon

Watch here for details on productions planned for the coming year and seasons, which include a reading of Racine's Iphigenia in a glorious new translation by poet Rachel Hadas, a full production of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by poet Simon Armitage, and a startlingly orginal version of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (for which a teaser will appear in our December benefit of A Child's Christmas in Wales: Stories and Poems by Dylan Thomas); all from a company described as "the city’s most reliable and interesting presenter of contemporary renditions of classic theatre texts (NYTheatre.com)."

Personnel