Crying on The Camino at Bergen County Players

Crying on the Camino:A one-woman show written and performed by Celeste Mancinelli .
A Special Bergen County Players Fundraiser Saturday May 7th 8PM Proceeds will aid BCP in pandemic recovery efforts.
Stage performer, Celeste Mancinelli has an extremely funny and deeply moving story to tell.Celeste's show recounts her 200-mile walk on the Portuguese Route to Santiago de Compostela.Her desire to share this experience brought her to the legendary teacher/director Wynn Handman, who helped her develop the show at his NYC studio.
Now Celeste embarks on a new "Camino," bringing this true account of her walk to the stage. This pieceis about minimalismand simplicity, self-reflection and honesty,says Mancinelli, a veteran stage actress. In sharing this piece my goal is to inspire others to take their own journey to fully live their own Caminos.
"What keeps the audience entranced is a lucid narrative, abundant humor and deft storytelling amidst a large spectrum of comedy in her physical comportment, and seriously arresting vocal technique that manifests into song at the drop of a walking stick."
CHARLES E. GERBER ENTERTAINMENT SPLASH MAGAZINE
For Tickets visit www.bcplayers.org or call 201-261-4200
More info : www.crycamino.com
Celeste Mancinelli has been performing professionally since the early 80s. Her NYC credits include the hit showNunsenseat the Douglas Fairbanks Theater, Cynthia Heimels long-running play A Girls Guide to Chaos at the American Place Theater (originating the character of Lurene) and Larry Gelbarts 1-2-3-4-5 at the Manhattan Theater Club. She has appeared as Mama in My Big Fat Gay Italian Wedding and its sequel (Funeral) at the St Lukes Theatre. Celeste has worked in numerous Off-Broadway, cabaret, stock, regional and national touring productions throughout the United States. Her most recent appearance was as Edith Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in West Virginia. Celeste has proudly enjoyed a second career as an ASHA certified Speech/Language Pathologist and earned the NJSHA Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award. In that capacity, she developed a unique program at Spectra Academy in Montclair, New Jersey. This program targeted children/adolescents with Aspergers/Autism/ADHD assisting them with the development of comedy scenes and scripts resulting in two full-scale stage and four film performances, all conceived by her students. This rewarding opportunity allowed her to mesh her two professional careers at the same time for the first time. During the COVID outbreak Celeste began writing/developing and performing her original, one-woman show,Crying on the Camino based on her 200 mile hike through Spain. Celeste is thrilled to share this experience with all of you.