Not Another Theater Company

Here you can learn a little bit more about our company and those
behind it. We are now entering our second season and we hope
you join us on our on-going adventure.

"Not Another Theater Company" started ironically as an off hand joke the Artistic Director made years ago.
Noticing the diverse and ever growing field of Syracuse theater companies he joked if he ever started a theater
company he would call it "Not Another Theater Company". Years passed and what started as a joke slowly turned into
a dream. Could there be room for something unique that would not just be another theater company in Syracuse?
When he decided to incorporate to accommodate the needs of his growing Improv Comedy troupe, Don't Feed the
Actors, he decided to formally found Not Another Theater Company LLC as the parent company in April of 2009.

DFtA was booking venues left and right, and things were going very well. They were then approached by Fred
Easterly of The Fire & Ice Banquet Hall about possibly starting a dinner theater. First we ran a couple of Improv
shows and after incredible success we decided to take a stab at doing dinner theater. With the help of many the
first season started in January of 2010.

About The Artistic Director and founder Dustin M. Czarny...

Sylvia, Twelve Angry Men, Love Letters. Into the Woods, & Reefer Madness for Not
Another Theater Company, The Wedding Singer, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the Forum, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1776, Prelude to a Kiss, Much Ado About
Nothing, & The Devil and Daniel Webster for Appleseed Productions and Taming of the Shrew
with the Syracuse Shakespeare Festival. On stage he has played "George" in You've Got Hate
Mail with NATC, "Menleaus" in The Trojan Women, "Capitano Fanfarone" in The Antics of
Romantics, "Senator Titus" in The Curious Savage, "The Executive & The Gas Man" in
Working, "Joe Stengle" in Dinner at Eight, and "Charles Goodfellow" in The Million Pound Bank
Note and "Ned Sprawling" in the Old Time Christmas Radio Hour (1998. 1999, & 2000) with
Appleseed Productions, "Polonius" in Hamlet, "Charles" in As You Like It, "Valentine" in
Twelfth Night, and "Oberon" in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Syracuse Shakespeare
Festival, "Brabantio" in Othello with Salt City Productions, "Detective Seargent Porterhouse"
in Run For Your Wife with Theater 90, "Hiram Keebler" in The Normal Heart with Theater
ala Carte, "Count Gregor Yousekevitch" in Fools, "Inspector Wilbur Yardley" in The Bride of
Brackenloch, "Charles Webb" in Our Town with Instant Drama...Just Add Water, and "The
Magistrate" in School for Husbands for The Onondaga Historical Society.

In 2010 Not Another Theater Company produced four shows.   The inaugural production, Run For Your Wife, premiered in January of 2010 directed by our
Artistic Director Dustin M. Czarny. In March we produced Sylvia also directed by our AD. In July the production Leading Ladies made its Syracuse area
premier on our stage and it was directed by Deborah Pearson. Finally in September we presented Twelve Angry Men once again directed by our ad Dustin
M. Czarny. All of our productions were met with critical praise as well as an ever growing audience base.

In 2011 NATC p roduced 7 shows, including 6 dinner theater shows at our home The Fire & Ice Banquet Hall at the Locker Room on Syracuse's north side,
including our first musical and 2 Syracuse area premiers.    To increase the variety NATC strives to offer we are also bringing in 6 other directors.
Opening the season was the Syracuse are premier of Unnecessary Farce directed by Meghan Pearson. In February we presented Love Letters and Hate
Mail a pairing of two one act plays AR Gurney's Love Letters directed by our AD Dustin M. Czarny and You've Got Hate Mail by Billy Van Zandt and Jane
Millmore directed by Greg Hipius. In keeping with the Valentine's Day theme the production will starred real life theater couples. In March we debuted
Neil Simon's The Odd Couple directed by the father and son team Daniel and Steve Rowlands. In July we produced our first musical and another Syracuse
area premier Reefer Madness directed by our Ad Dustin M. Czarny, music direction by Dan Williams, and choreographed by Stephfond Brunson took the
stage. A Few Good Men directed by Katie Lemos-Brown ushered in the fall with its debut in September. And Christmas spirit kicked off a little early
with A Tuna Christmas directed by Deborah Pearson. For the first time we offereed season ticket subscriptions to all 6 dinner theater productions.

However there was more to 2011. NATC is partnering with the Syracuse NewTimes event company to produce Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.   This
special production took place at the Syracuse NewTimes Theater at the NYS Fairgrounds in Syracuse. This collaborative production was directed by our
AD Dustin M. Czarny with music direction by Dan Williams, choreography by Meghan Pearson, and Set Design by Navroz Dabu.

We are also happy to announce that we have just announced our expanded 8 show 2012 season!

We are proud of the support that the Central NY theater going audiences have shown us. We hope that you will continue to join us on our quest to live up to
our name and truly become Not Another Theater Company.

Dustin also serves as producer for all of our shows, including the 2012 Season where 8 different theatrical shows will come to the Locker Room.
He has been blessed to be involved in several productions that have won or been nominated for area theatrical awards. His 2006 production of The
Taming of the Shrew was SALT nominated for Production of the Summer Season as well as 2 individual acting nominations. His 2007 production of 1776
was SALT nominated for Musical of the Year & People's Choice Production of the Year, he was nominated for Director of the Year of a Musical as well as
5 other individual SALT Nominations and 6 individual TANYS awards. His 2009 production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was nominated for 4
SALT nominations including Play of the Year and People's Choice Production of the Year as well as 2 individual acting nominations and 3 TANYS awards
including Excellence in Artistic Direction and Excellence in Ensemble Acting to the Entire Cast. His 2009 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum received 1 SALT acting nomination and 2 individual acting TANYS awards.

He has served on several theater boards including Appleseed Productions as well as a founding board member of the Syracuse Shakespeare Festival and
co-founder of Instant Drama...Just Add Water. He is also the founder of Don't Feed the Actors Improv Comedy Troupe and co-creator of the short lived
public access television series Off On a Tangent. Professionally he works for the City of Syracuse Finance Department and a member of many civic
organizations.

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