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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
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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
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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
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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. She was accepted into AFI’s DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN. Her second short film, “Recycling Flo,” was chosen by AFI to represent it at the Cannes Film Festival – International Short Film Corner. Along with being official selection in over 50 film festivals, “Recycling Flo” won two BEST SHORT FILM/JURY PRIZES at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Farmington Comedy Film Festival. She has co-directed 13 half-hour episodes of “Zane’s Chronicles” for HBO/Afterdark. She recently directed her first feature film, “Sweet Talk.” It is distributed by Gravitas Ventures and is available on Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, Vudu and iTunes. On stage, she directed Peter Lefcourt’s popular “Café Society” at the Odyssey Theatre where she received HON - ORABLE BEST DIRECTOR and the cast received BEST ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY AWARD from Stage Scene LA. She directed John Bishop’s “The Trip Back Down” at the Whitefire Theatre for which she was nominated by Broadway World for BEST DIRECTOR. She directed Peter Lefcourt’s play, “La Ronde de Lunch,” for the Katselas Theatre Company, which was Ovation Recommended and received 6 LA STAGE SCENE AWARDS including BEST DIRECTION. She directed Mitch Hara’s “Mutant Olive” at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, The Lounge Theatre, NY Solo Festival and Whitefire Theatre Solo Festival (BEST SOLO SHOW AWARD). At LA’s Odyssey Theatre, she directed the world premieres of Peter Lefcourt’s outrageous comedies, “The Way You Look Tonight,” “Mutually Assured Destruction” and “The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: A Comedy.” She directed Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ “Collected Stories,” at The Odyssey Theatre. It was invited to the EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL ’13 where it had a very successful run. She directed Thaao Penghlis’ touring solo show, “Places,” at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. She recently directed John Posey's critically acclaimed solo show, "Father, Son & Holy Coach" at the Odyssey. TerriHanauer.com DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 6
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RACQUEL LEHRMAN, THEATRE PLANNERS (Producer) Racquel is the founder and managing director of Theatre Planners, her own theatre production firm which has been serving the Los Angeles theatre scene for almost ten years. She graduated from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts and lived in NY for many years producing theatre. Theatre Planners has since developed into a very busy and successful outlet for actors, writers, pro - ducers and theatre companies. Doing everything from producing, consulting, marketing and more. Racquel loves to make productions a reality and help to keep the theatre scene in LA alive and strong. Racquel is also the owner of the LOUNGE THEATRES in Hollywood on Theatre Row. To learn more about Racquel and Theatre Planners, go to www.theatreplanners.com
VICTORIA WATSON, THEATRE PLANNERS (Associate Producer) Victoria joined Theatre Planners after a successful career in large theater and tours. She was previously Operations Manager and Associate Producer at Pasadena Playhouse and has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pasadena Symphony & Pops among others. A performer from an early age, Victoria turned to production at Tulane University, and brings that merger of artist and business to all of her producing work. To learn more about Victoria and Theatre Planners, please go to www.theatreplanners.com.
PETE HICKOK (Set Designer) Pete Hickok is a scenic designer, production designer, technical director, and sculptor based outof Los Angeles. His most recent projects include Awake and Sing!, Rio Hondo, “Medicare Mermaids”, “I Know Where Lizzie Is”, “Demon Foot Suckers From Hell”, and “Summer Sounds” at the Hollywood Bowl among his other ventures in the contemporary a rt world.
DONNY JACKSON (Lighting Designer) Design highlights include Father, Son & Holy Coach (Odyssey Theatre), Fat Pig (Hudson Theatre), Closely Related Keys (Lounge Theatre), the West Coast premiere of In the Heights (Casa 0101 Theatre), Blood, written and directed by Robert Allan Ackerman (The Complex Theatres), Spring Awakening (Long Beach Playhouse), and the NY premiere of Four Clowns (La Mama Experimental Theatre). Recent productions include A Singular They (The Blank Theatre) and The Archer From Malis (Getty Villa). Other work includes Blood From a Stone (Electric Lodge), Café Society (Odyssey Theatre), RENT (Hudson Theatre), Phenomenal, written and directed by Macy Gray (Ramon Cortines Performing Arts), A Chorus Line (Freud Playhouse), Sublimity (Lyric-Hyperion Theatre), Marat/Sade, The Glass Menagerie, Fiddler on the Roof, Raisin in the Sun and Death of a Salesman (Long Beach Playhouse). He is a theatre instructor at Cypress College and holds an MFA in Lighting from UCLA. www.DonnyJackson.com
DINO HERRMANN (Sound Designer) Dino Herrmann is a veteran of sound design, audio engineering and technical advisory based in Los Angeles, California. He leads a team of experts in sound and audio produc - tions for multimedia productions around the world. Dino graduated in Music Production and Engineering from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston with the honors of Magna Cum Laude. His versatile and innovative approach earned him many credits in films, TV’s commercials and art installations. Dino’s cre - ative strength draws from his dynamic music background that combined with his keen understanding of the sensitivity and uniqueness of each project. Dino has received Emmy and Grammy Awards in technical merits. DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 7
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MYLETTE NORA (Costume Designer) Mylette Nora has won the NAACP Theatre Award for best costumes and is listed in the honors edition of the Cambridge Registry of Who’s Who Among Executive and Professional Women. Her work, which consists of television, film, and stage, can be seen nightly on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. The famed artist Synthia St. James noted Mylette as being the inspiration for her world renowned painting "Ensemble" which graced the cover of the best selling novel "Waiting To Exhale" by Terry McMillan. Mylette’s talents continue with her creative line of heirloom dolls called "My Mind"s Eye" and a line of designer doggie wear called "From the Heart Doggie Wear ".www.FROMTHE - HEARTDOGGIEWEAR.COM.
MICHAEL DONOVAN, CSA (Casting Director) Michael is the recipient of six Artios awards, given by the Casting Society of America for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. His theatre credits include shows pro - duced at Pasadena Playhouse, the Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Geffen Playhouse, the Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, International City Theatre, Ebony Repertory Theatre, the Getty Villa, Laguna Playhouse, the Falcon Theatre, the Colony Theatre, The Theatre @ Boston Court, the 24th St. Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara, Arizona Theatre Company, Arkansas Rep, the Totem Pole Playhouse, and the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, as well as several national tours. Recent, current and upcoming shows include A CHORUS LINE (Hollywood Bowl), RECORDED IN HOLLYWOOD (Kirk Douglas), HAUNTED HOUSE PARTY (Getty Villa), DOUBT (I.C.T.), BARS & MEASURES (Boston Court), and FROZEN (Disneyland). Michael has cast numerous independent films, over 1,200 commercials, and his TV credits include the series Blood Relatives.
TRACY SILVER (Choreography) Drama Queens From Hell marks Tracy’s 5 th collaboration with Peter and Terri! Other projects include: LaRonde Due Lunch, Mutually Assured Destruction, The Way You Look Tonight, The Assassination Of Leon Trotsky and the feature film Sweet Talk. Tracy has worked as a dancer for chore - ographers including Jerome Robbins, Patricia Birch, Alan Johnson and Michael Peters and crossed over into the acting dimension when a dance job cross pollinated with ‘speaking words’. Some credits include: Fast Forward for Sidney Poitier, General Hospital, Friends, Law and Order, CSI: NY, MadMen, and most recently GoodGirls Revolt! Her one woman show , ‘Motion Cures’, was performed and chosen as one of the “best of the fest” for the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival 2015. Thank you Terri and Peter for always letting me play!!! THE ODYSSEY THEATRE AND STAFF NANCY NIMOY (Graphic Artist) Nancy is very happy to be working with Terri and Peter on yet another THE LOUNGE THEATRE super fun production here at the Odyssey. See more of Nancy’s work and her current #getyourpantsuiton THE ZEPHYR THEATRE campaign for #ArtistsForHillary on FB, IG, Etsy and on her website at www.nancynimoyart.com NICK PETRILLO ANNA ZAK MKP MK DramaQueensProgram_ChildrenProgramSinglePages 8/15/16 11:26 AM Page 8
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ASHLEY CLARK (Assistant Stage Manager) Ashley is a transplant from Indiana with a BS in Theatre Arts from the University of Indianapolis. A stage manager by trade, some of her recent credits include DeMystifying Magic produced and directed by Jon Armstrong of the Magic Castle, The Understudy, Tell Mr. Poulos, the Aquila Morong Studio’s Sibling Rivalry, TATS: The Experience, LOOPHOLES: A Pain in the IRS, Theatre 68’s Serial Killer Barbie: The Musical, Brooklyn Gallery Players’ Medea, the Non Nobis production Sans Merci, and the UIndy productions Little Shop of Horrors, Funny Valentines, There’s A Burglar in My Bed, and The Murder Room. Most recently she was deck captain for the world premiere of Marilyn! The Musical in association with Prospect House Entertainment and Glendale Arts at the historic Alex Theatre. Ashley has run 20+ shows in the past two years for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She is an Associate Artist for CHW Productions, a frequent run crew member for the Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts, and a graduate of the Disney College Program.
RITA COFIELD* (Production Stage Manager) Rita is a native of Los Angeles. She began her stage man - aging career over 12 years ago. Tiring of sitting behind a drafting table all day, she embarked on a search for a change by night. She went from helping to paint sets, to assisting backstage, and with much grace and ease, on to stage managing. She has stage managed with Actor's Co-op on over a dozen productions - from "GODSPELL" to "BOYS NEXT DOOR", Inkwell Theater Company on an original play, "MOMENT IN THE SUN", A Noise Within's production of "GHOSTS", and Theatre 40 for the remounting of "DRIVING MISS DAISY" down in Poway. She was deck leader for Antaeus' mounting of "TONIGHT AT EIGHT-THIRTY", has stage man - aged her favorite genre over at Academy of New Musical Theater, and gives her time to The Watts Village Theater Company playing the role of stage manager and artistic curator. She has gone from assistant direct - ing "KING LEAR" at Actor's Co-op to directing her first play, the world premiere of "MADAME PRESIDENT" at the historical El Portal. She has added historic preservation to her current endeavors but will always find time to manage the stage for any play written by Peter Lefcourt and directed by Terri Hanauer. Third time's
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