DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 1 Sweet Talk Productions Presents The World Premiere Of Drama Queens from hell written by Peter Lefcourt directed by Terri Hanauer STARRING Chad Borden* Christopher Callen* Andrew Diego Dee Freeman* Paul Galliano Rick Podell* (Alternate Richard Sabine performs September 2nd and 4th) PRODUCER ASSOCIATE PRODUCER RACQUEL LEHRMAN, THEATRE PLANNERSVICTORIA WATSON, THEATRE PLANNERS SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER PROJECTION DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER Pete Hickok DONNY JACKSON YEE EUN NAM DINO HERRMANN COSTUME DESIGNER GRAPHIC DESIGNER CHOREOGRAPHY MYLETTE NORA NANCY NIMOY TRACY SILVER PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER CASTING ASSOCIATE ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER ED KRIEGER RICHIE FERRIS ASHLEY CLARK CASTING DIRECTOR PUBLICIST MICHAEL DONOVAN, CSA LUCY POLLAK PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER RITA COFIELD* *Denotes member, Actors Equity Association DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 2 CAST in order of appearance Paul Galliano Gerard Manville Christopher Callen* Maxine Zabar Rick Podell* Artie Paramecium Dee Freeman* Felicia Brown Chad Borden* Brianne McCauley Andrew Diego Raphael ACT ONE Sunset Boulevard, East of Normandie ----- more or less the present ACT TWO A Little Farther East ------ somewhat later There will be one fifteen-minute intermission DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 3 cast &crew CHAD BORDEN* (Brianne McCauley) As an Antaeus Company member: Cloud 9 and The Curse of Oedipus. World Premiere of Serrano at the Matrix. Other SoCal Theatre: South Coast Rep, Pasadena and Laguna Playhouses, Rubicon, Hollywood Bowl, Reprise, La Mirada, San Diego Music Theatre, Colony, Elephant, and Havok Theatre Company. Regional: Sacramento Music Circus, AMT of San Jose, Cincinnati Playhouse, Boston Merrimack Rep, and Chicago Marriott. National Tours: Camelot, Duke Ellington Songbook. FILM: “Hunky Dory” (Jury Acting Award, Slamdance 2016). TV: “The Cape”, “Girls Behaving Badly”, “General Hospital”, and “Bold/Beautiful”. Ovation Awards: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Havok), The Laramie Project (Colony), and five other nomina - tions (Lead, Supporting Actor, Producer). Education: Northwestern University. CHRISTOPHER CALLEN* (Maxine Zabar) Christopher Callen, aptly named for the Patron St. of Travelers, has starred in 12 shows on Broadway, including Maria - Lend Me A Tenor; Martha-1776; Hodel - Fiddler on the Roof (revival w/ Zero Mostel); Margaret -The Desert Song and Maggie - Over Here! (w/ The Andrews Sisters ). She has appeared on every major Equity stage in LA - Ahmanson, Mark Taper, Pantages, Geffen, Pasadena Playhouse and A Noise Within, etc. and is excited to have DQFH be her debut at the Odyssey. Television audiences will recognize her as Dr. Gail Dexter - “One Life to Live”, Ellie - "The Young and the Restless” and many regular and recurring guest star roles. Christopher has worked in more than 15 Independent films over the last 2 years alone, but fans still love to remind her of the "mouthy cocktail waitress” she played in the cult classic " Fear and Loathing in LV “, opposite Johnny Depp and Benicia Del Toro. She also has worked opposite John Travolta, Bruce Willis Scott Bakula, Treat Williams, Victor Garber, George Hearn and so many other fine actors. Ms. Callen ’s honors include: LA Weekly's Humanitarian Theatre Award, GLAAD, Who's Who In American Musical Theatre, Ovation,Backstage/Garland and Stage Scene Awards. She is also a recognized visual artist, poet, writer and member of Citizens Commission on Human Rights and Artists for Human Rights. For more about go to BroadwayWorld.com, Imdb.com and www.christophercallen/nowcasting.com. ANDREW DIEGO (Raphael) Andrew Diego is thrilled to be making his Odyssey Theatre debut! A native of Boston, Andrew holds a BFA in vocal performance from CalArts. Recent credits include Spring Awakening (Hänschen); JonBenét Ramsey: The Musical (John Mark Karr) at HFF 2016; The Christians (Choir) at Mark Taper Forum; DOMA's American Idiot (St. Jimmy), for which he won a BroadwayWorld LA Award for Leading Actor in a Musical; Jesus Christ Superstar (Caiaphas) and The Creaky Floor, a pantomime performance at The Complex with Ekaterina Pirogovskaya of Cirque du Soleil. In 2013, he sang Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the LA Philharmonic (under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel) at Shrine Auditorium. Screen credits include two very different pieces of work: zombie virus horror film "Contracted: Phase II" and Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River." Throughout October, he will be appearing as The Ringmaster at Queen Mary's Dark Harbor in Long Beach. Many thanks to Terri, Peter, Rita, Steven Dry, Michael Donovan, this entire cast and crew, and my dear friends and family! IG: @andrewhdiego DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 4 cast &crew DEE FREEMAN* (Felicia Brown) Dee was a Marine for 6 years. (Oorah) After leaving the Marines she moved to Japan and was the only American disc jockey working at an all Japanese radio station. In Washington D.C. she was Barbara Demarco in the long running classic “Shear Madness” at the Kennedy Center. She’s been nominated twice for the NAACP Image award for Homegirl at the Court theatre and The Last Street Play at The Colsac theater. She’s guest starred on some of the best and worst t.v, shows on the air...X- Files, Dexter, Shameless, Cold Case, and Crossing Jordan, to name a few. She just com - pleted a film “Marielle” and a pilot “Urban Teach Now.” Her kids are animal lovers...at one time they had 14 exotics...Dee says their ball python snakes kept most of her black relatives away. She will be performing her solo show late Sept/early October. PAUL GALLIANO ( Gerard Manville ) Originally from Birmingham, AL, Paul is a natural foodie, being Southern by birth and Italian by blood. He comes from a loving family in which he is the youngest of 4 siblings and an uncle to 7 nieces and nephews. He enjoys travel and hobbies such as drawing, cosplaying, and collecting high end comic statues. Paul thanks Terri, Peter, Racquel, Victoria, and Michael for this opportunity. Career high - lights include the following: playing opposite Daryl Dixon actor Norman Reedus in the feature "Until the Night;" lead roles in THE HISTORY CHANNEL's "Breaking Vegas: Card Count King," in the feature "The Rose of Sharon" which was filmed in Israel, and in "The Reggie Bush Project" playing opposite the titular athlete; recurring roles on The CW's "Veronica Mars," CBS's "The Young & the Restless," and ABC's "General Hospital;" a supporting role in "The Baytown Outlaws" which stars Eva Longoria and Billy Bob Thornton; and co- starring roles on ABC's "All My Children" and HBO's "Entourage" opposite Kevin Dillon and Michael Hitchcock. Visit facebook.com/thePaulGalliano for links to connect with Paul on Instagram, Twitter, and IMDb. Cheers! RICK PODELL* (Artie Paramecium) Rick’s theatre career began by being hired by Andrew Lloyd Webber to be the original narrator in the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Rick went on to do such Broadway shows as Evita, Company, Two by Two, Sugar, The Fantasticks, Chapter Two, and co-starred as one of the original Broadway cast members of Sunset Boulevard, opposite Glenn Close and Betty Buckley. Rick has starred in over 75 episodic television shows, including a year on “Days of Our Lives”, and has co-starred in movies opposite such stars as Anne Archer and Melanie Griffith. He also can be heard currently on “Family Guy”and “American Dad”. As a stand- up comedian, Rick has played Las Vegas and around the world, opening for stars including Cher, and Tina Turner. He was the first American comedian ever to perform in South Africa. His screenwriting break came when he co-wrote with Michael Preminger the script for “Nothing in Common”, starring Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason. Their CBS Movie,”Gleason” starring Brad Garrett was nominated for an Emmy. DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 5 cast &crew RICHARD SABINE (Brianne McCauley - Alt) Richard was born, raised and theatre trained in New York City. As part of his mid-life crisis, he relocated to Los Angeles in 2006 to pursue his dream of being an actor. His acting credits range from Shakespeare to stand–up comedy and from daytime soaps to award-winning independent films. His TV credits include: “House, M.D.”, “NIP/TUCK” and “Happily Divorced”. Richard can be seen on the new show “Better Things” this fall on FX. Richard is honored to be a part of this production of Drama Queens From Hell. Enjoy the show! PETER LEFCOURT (Playwright) This world premiere production of “Drama Queens From Hell” is Peter Lefcourt’s latest stage production. His other plays, produced locally and nationally, are “Café Society,” The Way You Look Tonight,” “The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: A Comedy,” “Mutually Assured Destruction,” “Only The Dead Know Burbank,” “La Ronde de Lunch,” “The Audit,” and “Sweet Talk,” which was adapted as a fea - ture film. His day job is writing and producing television, where he has won an Emmy, created and run the Showtime cult hit, “Beggars and Choosers,” and was Co-Executive Producer on “Desperate Housewives.” He has published ten novels, notably “The Deal” (adapted as a movie in 2008, which screened at Sundance); “The Dreyfus Affair,” his succès de scandale about gay baseball players; and, most recently, “Purgatory Gardens.” You can learn more about him than you want to know at his website: www.peterlefcourt.com. TERRI HANAUER (Director) A United States / Canadian citizen, Terri Hanauer graduated with an honors degree in Theater Arts from York University, Toronto. She has worked in both countries as an actress in film, television, commercials and theatre (appearing at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles and the Arena Stage, Washington D.C.). Her background as an actress and photographer led her to directing. She directed her first short film, “A Day in the Life, ” which screened at numerous festivals.