Charles Pasternak's Projects
Category
Feature Film
Positions
Tom
Synopsis
Six College students gain insight into their very souls when given the assignment of a lifetime.
Hamlet: Redux 2002
Category
Short Film
Positions
the Executer
Synopsis
The greatest story ever told. Now with handguns, zombies, and meteors.
Budget
$50
Abattoir 2004
Category
Short Film
Positions
Vinny
Synopsis
A police officer rushes to save her boyfriend and fellow officer from a drug deal gone bad.
Budget
$1,500
The Heist 2001
Category
Short
Positions
Charles Pasternak
Synopsis
It's like every heist movie you've ever seen... but with a little twist.
Category
Feature Play
Positions
Marc Antony, Director, The Soothsayer
Synopsis
Caesar Dies
Budget
$3,000
Jacked 2004
Category
Short TV Show
Positions
Charles
Synopsis
The funky new pilot JACKED centers on two fifteen year old skater boys, LEONARD and CARLTON, growing up in an Pacific Palisades, CA. This duo has plenty of money, curiosity and a total lack of street smarts or life experience. We watch as they embark on their many odd adventures with no apprehension and no clue how to handle the situations that arise…
Budget
$300
Category
Feature Play
Positions
Malvolio, Director, Set Designer, 'Come Away Death' Pianist
Synopsis
Shakespeare's comedy of madness, mistaken identity, love, lust, and yellow stockings (cross-gartered). Presented by The Porters of Hellsgate.
Budget
$3,500
Category
Feature Play
Positions
Director, Fight Coreographer
Synopsis
The vicious rise and fall of the Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, King of England.
Budget
$3,500
Titus Andronicus 2007
Category
Feature Play
Positions
Titus Andronicus
Synopsis
Titus is Shakespeare's first tragedy and by far his bloodiest. Set in fascist Italy, the production is filled with gruesome revenge plots, sardonic wit, lascivious affairs, and plenty of pretty poetry.
Directed by Natasha Vargas-Cooper.
Budget
$4,000
Category
Feature Play
Positions
Director, Valentine
Synopsis
THE PORTERS OF HELLSGATE Present
William Shakespeare's
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
"A promising young company with a fine handle on iambic pantameter..." -David C. Nichols, LA TIMES
WHAT: William Shakespeare’s ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ set in Edwardian England. The silliness and pomp of the time reflects the silliness and pomp of the play. It’s got all the necessaries, love, lust, mistaken identity, betrayal, redemption, and of course, ...a bit with a dog. Directed by Charles Pasternak. Produced by Eddie Castuera and Jack Leahy.
WHERE: The Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center, 11006 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood
WHEN: Opens Friday, December 21. Runs Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm and Sunday matinees at 3:30pm. Closes Sunday, January 13.
Tickets: $20, $15 for students and seniors.
FOR RESERVATIONS AND INFORMATION CALL EDDIE at (310) 497-2884
Budget
$3,000
King Richard II 2009
Category
Feature Play
Positions
Groom, Gardener, Director
Synopsis
The Porters of Hellsgate present King Richard II by William Shakespeare. Running Fri/Sat nights at 8pm, Sunday days at 3:30pm, from May 8 - 31. Performances at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center, 11006 Magnolia Blvd, NoHo. Tickets are $20, $15 for students/seniors/AEA. For reservations call (310) 497-2884.
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