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Death Becomes Us by R. J. Colleary
DEATH BECOMES US by R.J. COLLEARY is one of seven plays in the Los Angeles Playwrights Lab’s second production of original shorts: 7 CORPSES. In Colleary’s DEATH BECOMES US, Ted and Emma are cosmically doomed to spend eternity trapped in the bedroom where they once lived, loved – and died. But when Myles and Heather, current occupants of the house, get life-changing news, it opens old, long- buried wounds for Ted and Emma.
WHEN: Thurs, Fri, Sat, 8 pm, Sept 28-Nov 3, 2012.
WHERE: Ruby Theater at THE COMPLEX, 6476 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90038.
CHRIS BOUFFARD is very happy to be working on stage once again in Los Angeles, and especially pleased to be working with such great talents as Bob Colleary and Suzan Mikiel. A native of Michigan, Chris now lives with his two rescue dogs in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles where he makes his way as a Voice Over and Commercial actor with over one hundred national advertisements to his credit. His hobbies include Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and playing the guitar.
CAT LACOHIE (Emma) Cat LaCohie is LA’s most recent import from London, England. Since moving across the Atlantic earlier this year, she booked leads in three independent films and the PSA What If regarding women’s abortion rights. She currently plays the cynical roommate Leslie in the comedy web series Reach. On the theatre scene Cat played the challenging and highly enjoyable role of transexual Dick/Charlotte in comedy play, Missing Dick by Gordon Bressack, and in the stage version of Clue. Cat can also be seen performing as her alter ego: cabaret host and circus burlesque performer, Vixen DeVille - enjoying her downtime by playing with fire, lounging from an aerial hoop or relaxing on a bed of broken glass!
JENNIFER LYNN MALLOY (Heather) has had a wonderful time working with such a talented group! Jennifer graduated from Vassar, received an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School and is a member of the Actors Studio. She recently played a crazy online dater in God, Coffee & Gasoline and her film My Life as Abraham Lincoln just won the Audience Choice Award at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. Credits include I, Claudius with Theatre Askew, and Wildwood Park and Sweet Eros at Bleecker Street Theatre. She thanks acting coach John Kirby, friends and family, especially husband Chris and son Sebastian.
*JOHN RUSHING (Ted) thanks Suzan Mikiel and the cast of Death Becomes Us for the wonderful theater experience. Recent theater credits include: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (The Geffen Playhouse and original cast, Victory Gardens Theater), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Artist Colony of Chicago), Equus (Redtwist Theater), The Love of the Nightingale (Red Tape Theater), and Kingsville (original cast, Stage Left Theater). John can be seen in the film Gutshot Straight with George Eads and Stephen Lang, and is a series regular on the webseries Euston Prep. John is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actor’s Equity.
SUZAN MIKIEL (Director) would like to thank Bob Colleary for the opportunity to direct such a fantastic script for her LA directing debut, and her fantastic cast for bringing it to life. Last Spring at LAPL she played Newlywed in Katie Letien’s Summer House. Acting credits: Film: Sunset Hero (which she co-wrote with LAPL’s Katie Letien), The Dinner, Cat Scratch Fever, Upstate, and Children of Invention. TV: Law and Order, Strangers with Candy. Web Series: Saturday Special, Training: BFA Wayne State University, Actors Theater of Louisville Apprentice, The Barrow Group (NYC), Upright Citizen’s Brigade (NYC & LA), Rebecca Drysdale (Improv), Brian Finklestein (writing), Naked Angels Tuesdays@9.
R.J. COLLEARY (Playwright) is an LAPL rookie and recovering TV writer making his foray into the world of one-act plays after previous full-length productions of PUBLICITYVILLE (2009), CANNIBALS (2010), and ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION (2011). His 10-part comedic webseries, “Besties,” was described as “original,” “subversive,” and “frankly, troubling.” His next full-length play, :-) & :-( (yes, that’s the actual title; aka Happy Face Sad Face) will open at The Lillian in January 2013.
*DENOTES MEMBER OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
Boys’ Night by Michael Shaw Fisher
BOYS’ NIGHT by MICHAEL SHAW FISHER is one of seven plays in the Los Angeles Playwrights Lab’s second production of original shorts: 7 CORPSES. In Fisher’s BOYS’ NIGHT, Thursday night is boys’ night - the night when Scott and Derek can forget the rest of the world and just be themselves. Only, when Scott accidentally hits a dog on the way to work, it releases a flood of nightmarish childhood memories best forgotten and Scott learns that you can trust your best friend anything… Or can you?
WHEN: Thurs, Fri, Sat, 8 pm, Sept 28-Nov 3, 2012.
WHERE: Ruby Theater at THE COMPLEX, 6476 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90038.
BRYAN BELLOMO (Derek) performs, directs, writes, designs and teaches. Bryan does a lot of stuff. He loves it all, and almost all of the time. Recent acting credits include the indie feature A Big Love Story (Breakout Filmmaking, Newport Beach and Best Comedy, Manhattan Film Festival) and The Unknown with Frances Fisher on crackle.com. Many thanks to Robert and Yasmina for their trust, to Charls for his great playful spirit, and to you for taking a chance and supporting live theatre. More at bryanbellomo.com.
PAUL MAYLONE (Scott) Although Paul Maylone majored in theatre at the University of Maryland and the Interlochen Arts Academy, it’s been nearly fifteen years since he’s gone anywhere near the dramatic arts. He therefore has no film/stage credits worth mentioning. He lives in Ojai with his true love and adorable son and works in the solar industry.
BETHY POLUIKIS (Mindy) is thrilled to be a part of Boys Night. Originally from Dallas, TX, Bethy moved to Los Angeles by way of Chicago, where her theatre credits include Hedda Gabler, Twelfth Night, andDancing at Lughnasa, as well as a Jeff-nominated production of The Philadelphia Story. Bethy loves comedy and performs in various sketch and improv shows at Second City Hollywood. She has appeared in a series of sketches for Chelsea Lately, as well as the web series THE FAIRY TALES. Many thanks to David, Michael, and everyone involved with 7 Corpses.
DAVID HAVERTY (Director) is excited and honored to be directing Michael Shaw Fisher’s piece Boy’s Night, David’s Los Angeles Stage Directing Debut! Graduate of PCCA (FL), Musical Theatre Major, Artistic Director of Bravo Centre for the Arts (FL). Attended Marymount Manhattan College in NYC, Theatre Arts major, taught at the Children’s Acting Academy (NYC), SM/Entertainment Director at the Jekyll & Hyde Club (NYC), Tech Director for Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 25th Anniversary One Act Marathon (NYC). In LA David has worked in production in Film/TV from Producer to Prod Assistant. Assisted multiple shows at the Sacred Fools Theatre. Currently owner of ProduceYourReel (.com).
MICHAEL SHAW FISHER (Playwright) is a writer, actor and director who graduated with Thesis Distinction in 2008 from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Most recently Michael has performed in Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum 2011 season productions of Richard III and Rose Cottages. His original play the Barking Pig was workshopped at the LA Playwright’s Lab (of which he is a co-founder). The Barking Pig premiered at 2011’s Hollywood Fringe Festival and was selected to be part of the Best of the Fringe. Most recently, his original rock musical Doomsday Cabaret premiered in the 2012 Hollywood Fringe, which not only received Best of Fringe distinction, but also Best Musical. Michael is also a member of the Board of Directors for the upcoming Sonoma Theatre Company.
Mourning Story by June Carryl
MOURNING STORY by JUNE CARRYL is one of seven plays in the Los Angeles Playwrights Lab’s second production of original shorts: 7 CORPSES. In Carryl’s MOURNING STORY, in the days following the Fukushima disaster, an old couple combs the beach and finds a young man mourning his lost daughter.
WHEN: Thurs, Fri, Sat, 8 pm, Sept 28-Nov 3, 2012.
WHERE: Ruby Theater at THE COMPLEX, 6476 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90038.
ARTHUR KENG (Toichi) is excited to be a part of The Mourning Story team. Previous credits include King Lear at California Shakespeare Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at CenterRep, Take Me Out at the New Conservatory Theatre, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge! at SF Playhouse, Mr. Marmalade at Custom Made Theatre, and the world premiere of Ching Chong Chinaman at Impact Theatre. Arthur graduated this past summer with his MFA from the University of Southern California.
*EIJI INOUE (Yasuo) came from Gifu, Japan to pursue an international acting career in 1992. He has numerous credits in film, TV shows and plays. His credits include Click, The Last Samurai, Pearl Harbor, NCIS, and Gilmore Girls. He dedicates his performance to the tsunami victims and their families.
*MOMO YASHIMA (Setsuko) was born in New York City and moved to East Los Angeles when she was five. Her parents, artists Mitsu and Taro Yashima wrote award winning children’s books (3 time winner of Caldecott Honors) and her brother was the award winning actor, Mako. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner. In Los Angeles, she worked with the Music Center’s Improvisational Theater Project with Gordon Davidson and East West Players. Her work with the Resisters of Conscience (Men who fought the government’s internment of the Japanese Americans on the West Coast during WWII and questioned the legality of drafting the internees), entitled A DIVIDED COMMUNITY: 3 STORIES OF RESISTENCE and won the 2012 BEST CONCEPT AWARD. Momo is married and has 2 daughters. She is most always unemployed, so it’s a good thing she’s a great cook! She religiously goes to her Jazz Dance classes, taught by the Luigi disciple, Hama.
+NIKKI HEVESY (Director) +Nikki Hevesy is an award-winning director who works in theatre, TV, and film. She has directed and/or produced over 50 plays, musicals, comedies and original works and was Founding/Artistic director for five years of City Light Performing Arts Co. in San Francisco. She has worked with South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, VITA Shakespeare, Theatre Geo, Moving Arts, The Eureka Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Taper (New Works Festival) and the Nat’l Theatre of Uganda, where she wrote and directed a one-man musical. Nikki holds a BA in Theology and an MFA in Directing from USC. She is currently developing projects for film/ TV under Through the Glass Productions and directing a gang intervention documentary: A Violence Disrupted.
JUNE CARRYL (Playwright) is originally from Denver and a member of the Actors Studio and the Directors Lab in Los Angeles. Her plays include SEDUCER (Summerfest 2009, Black Box Theater), THE RINGS OF SATURN (The Living Room Series, Blank Theatre), GOD’S WIFE (Zephyr Theatre). THE ART OF YES (reading, Playbrokers). June has received commissions from the Magic Theater and Visual Artists Theater in New York. Her screenplay HARARE, HARARE was a finalist in the 2008 Page Screenwriting Awards. A budding director and performer as well, June has worked with the Blank (Young Playwrights Festival, The Living Room Series), Absolute Theater (The INSIDIOUS IMPACT OF ANTON), City Garage (THE TROJAN WOMEN), Mark Taper’s Taper, Too (SLIDE/GLIDE THE SLIPPERY SLOPE), Odyssey (THREE-PENNY OPERA), Berkeley Repertory theatre (CIVIL SEX, MACBETH), A.C.T. (INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY), and the Magic (PIECES OF THE QUILT).
*DENOTES MEMBERS OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
+ Assoc. Member of SDC - Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
