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Directed by Caryn Desai a Note from the Artistic Director/Producer, Caryn Desai Directed by caryn desai A Note from the Artistic Director/Producer, caryn desai Welcome to this virtual presentation of DAISY! We would much rather gather under one roof to share this play live on stage, but we had to take a different route in order to tell this important relevant story. The entire artistic team has been committed to this project and I want to offer them my sincere appreciation for taking this journey with me. I’m always grateful to my board and staff for standing by and supporting the work of International City Theatre – whatever it takes! We have announced our 2021 season. It is hard to plan for the unknown but we have to move forward with hope. Our 36th year is a season of Family, Friends, Fun and Food! The entire season is outlined in this program. You can always stay in touch by signing up for our weekly e-blasts or checking us out on line at www.ictlongbeach.org Subscribing benefits everyone – as a subscriber you grow by opening yourself to new thoughts and ideas while allowing ICT to invest in the further development of this art form and the communities we serve through main stage productions and six education programs. As we close this challenging year for all of us, I wish you and yours a wonderful healthy holiday season! We look forward to greeting you at the theatre! Thank you! 2020. This Video recording was produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service and Sean Devine. All rights reserved. This performance is authorized for non- commercial use only. By accepting this license, you agree not to authorize or permit the Video to be recorded, copied, distributed, broadcast, telecast or otherwise exploited, in whole or in part, in any media now known or hereafter developed. WARNING: Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition of copyrighted motion pictures, Audio & Videotapes or Audio & Videodiscs. Criminal copyright infringement is investigated by the FBI and may constitute a felony with a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and/or a $250,000.00 fine. THEATRETHEATRE SSTAFFTAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/PRODUCER : CARYN DESAI BOX OFFICE MANAGER : DENIS NIGOS EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT : JORDAN GOHARA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE : JESSICA PONCE ACCOUNTING : KETAN R. SHETH, AN ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION PUBLICIST : LUCY POLLAK PROGRAM DESIGNER : JORDAN GOHARA GRAPHIC DESIGNER : TRESSA REDDY ICTICT BOARDBOARD OOFF DDIRECTORSIRECTORS 22020020 BOARD EMERITUS: ANNE COOK, GARY R. FOX SHASHIN DESAI, FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/PRODUCER ICT SALUTES OUR PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS 2 PRODUCTION Director/Producer: caryn desai Resident Costume Designer: Kim DeShazo Sound Designer: Dave Mickey Resident Property Designers: Patty and Gordon Briles Resident Hair and Wig Designer: Anthony Gagliardi Video Design and Editing: Mike Bradecich Resident Casting Director: Michael Donovan, CSA Casting Associate: Richie Ferris, CSA Publicist: Lucy Pollak Stream Service: Virtual Venue Theatricals CAST Sid Myers: Alex Dabestani Clifford Lewis: Phillip J. Lewis Bill Bernbach: Ed F. Martin Aaron Ehrlich: Matthew Floyd Miller Tony Schwartz: David Nevell Louise Brown: Erin Anne Williams DAISY was first produced by ACT - A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Washington, John Langs, Artistic Director. DAISY was developed in part at the Icicle Creek New Play Festival, Allen Fitzpatrick, Artistic Director. DAISY was developed in part by Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre, Sean Devine, Artistic Director. Originally commisioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre/ Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project. 3 Sean Devine (Playwright) is a Canadian playwright, actor, and the artistic director of Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre. His plays include When There's Nothing Left to Burn, Daisy, Except in the Unlikely Event of War, and Re:Union. Daisy premiered at Seattle’s ACT Theatre in 2016, where it received a Gregory Award nomination for Outstanding New Play, and won the BroadwayWorld Seattle Critic’s Choice Award for Best New Play. Daisy is also published by Talon Books, and Re:Union is published by Scirocco Drama. Sean is a member of the Playwright’s Network at Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company. He lives in Ottawa with his wife Alexa and their four screaming kids. caryn desai (Artistic Director/ProdUcer) is an award-winning director with awards and nominations from LA Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Drama- LogUe, Robby, Ovation and NAACP for her prodUctions. Recent directing: Beast on the Moon, Cardboard Piano, Uncanny Valley, and Doubt. Selected credits: Other Desert Cities, Red, God of Carnage, Backwards in High Heels, Dinah Was (most L.A. Ovation award nominations) “Master Harold” … and the boys, A Shayna Maidel, Shakuntala (also adapted by her), Rashomon, Our Town, The Importance of Being Earnest, Contradictions (her original work), Antigone, and Oedipus. Selected musicals: Raisin (LADCC “Best ProdUction”), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Once on This Island, and Tapestry. caryn is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. She has an MFA in directing from UC Irvine, a BA from CSU, Long Beach in acting and directing, and a certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. She has certificates in Arts Administration, Marketing and Fundraising. With a full Fellowship, she completed an Executive Program at Stanford University’s GradUate School of Business as one of 50 arts leaders in the nation selected for the initial program. Additionally, she completed an Executive Coaching Program through the HUdson Institute, Santa Barbara. She has served on grant panels for the county and city and as a speaker/panelist for the SRO Theatre Conference at USC on Best Practices, the Technical Theatre Conference about the role of a director, and more. She represented ICT as a National Participant for the Listening Post Project with Johns Hopkins University and was named "Enterprising Woman in the Arts" in Long Beach. caryn was honored with the 4 “We Can Do It” Award from the Long Beach Rosie the Riveter Foundation and nominated as an Amazing Woman in the Arts. She taUght college for more than 25 years and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Long Beach City College. She served as a Dramaturgical Responder for the gradUate playwriting students at USC and served as Vice Chair for the LA ProdUcers LeagUe for Large Theatres. In 2016 she was the keynote speaker at the Disneyland Hotel for INTIX. That same year she accepted the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Season and was recognized as a 2016 Community Hero by the African American History & Culture Foundation. In 2018 caryn was named Distinguished Alumna from the College of the Arts at California State University, Long Beach. She recently returned to teaching a class in Nonprofit Arts Management at California State University, Fullerton. Alex Dabestani (Sid) a gradUate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he was a recipient of the Promising Artist Scholarship. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he continues working in film, television, commercials, and on stage. Credits include - THEATRE: The Understudy (Annenberg Theatre), Blueprint for Paradise (world premiere), ENRON (Los Angeles premiere) TV: Criminal Minds (CBS), Bones (Fox) FILM: Jurassic World - The Ride, American Dreamz, Marabou. Alex would like to thank Michael Donovan for consistently considering him for terrific roles like this and caryn desai for the opportunity to work on this incredible play. Phillip J. Lewis (Clifford) Favorite credits: Wizard of Oz National Tour (Tinman). Ragtime (Coalhouse), Seussical the Musical (Cat). Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph), Oklahoma! (Curly). Wouldn't be here without my amazing coaches and teachers at the Juilliard School and Baron Brown Studio. Special thank you to Natalie Kollar and the entire LA Talent Team! Also a big thank you to mom, the creative team, and all my friends and family for their continuous support. "Courage means willing to risk everything" - Sanford Meisner 5 Ed F. Martin (Bernbach) is proud to make his debut with ICT, even in these challenging times for live theatre. He was last seen as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace at La Mirada, and Barry in the Ovation nominated Daniel’s Husband at the Fountain Theatre in LA. He has worked in theatres all over the country including Westside Arts in New York, the Denver Center Theatre, The Arizona Theatre Company, Theatreworks in Palo Alto, and the Laguna Playhouse. LA credits include work at The Colony, The Fountain, Boston Court, The Odyssey and Theatre 40, where he was a member of their artistic committee. Ed is the recipient of the Ovation, Stage Raw, LA Weekly, DramalogUe and Robby Awards. TV and film credits include Angels and Demons, directed by Ron Howard, American Crime, Castle, Medium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and many others. Matthew Floyd Miller (Aaron) Broadway: Not About Nightingales (Circle in the Square); The Invention of Love (Lincoln Center Theatre) Off-Broadway: Another Part of the Forest (Peccadillo Theatre); Of Mice and Men (Urban Stages); Letters From Cuba (Signature Theatre); The Seagull (NYU Director’s Lab). Select regional: Stupid Fucking Bird (Theatre @ Boston Court, LADCC Award & Ovation nomination); Yes, Prime Minister (Geffen Playhouse); Oslo - LA premiere, national tour of Judgment at Nuremberg (LA Theatre Works); The Mystery of Irma Vep (The Falcon); The 39 Steps (Ensemble Theatre Co); critically acclaimed Private Lives (PA Shakespeare Festival); Noises Off (LaMirada); Macbeth co-directed by Aaron Posner and Teller, of Penn & Teller (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Tom Stoppard’s Rock‘n Roll (ACT-Seattle) A Prayer For Owen Meany (PlayMakers Rep, US premiere); Theophilus North (Arena Stage/Geva Theatre, world premiere); Desire Under The Elms (San Jose Rep, Dean Goodman Choice Bay Area Theatre Award); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe); TV/Film: Hand of God (Amazon); Colony (USA); Major Crimes (TNT); Criminal Minds (CBS); Law & Order (NBC); Stan the Man (Amazon), All Good Things.
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