Connor and his boyfriend think they're ready to start a family;
Connor's recently widowed mother thinks she needs to re-start a family
herself. When a thirteen-year-old foster child and a poet from London
arrive into their lives, they'll find out exactly how ready they are. |
| Thursday, September 16th through Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm |
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| CODY DAIGLE (Playwright) is a playwright and journalist living in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is also a contributing blogger on LGBTQ issues for 365Gay.com and Our Big Gayborhood, a new LGBTQ online magazine. His plays include Last Night of the World (Riant Theatre, NYC), Guernica (Augusta State University, Georgia; UL-Lafayette, Louisiana), Life/Play (2007 FringeNYC), Providence (MTWorks, NYC; reading at New Jersey Repertory, NJ), and A Home Across the Ocean (MTWorks 2010 NewBorn Festival, NYC). DEV BONDARIN (Director) is pleased to return to MTWorks where she directed a reading of Slip/Shot in last season's National New Born Festival. Directing credits include: Romeo & Juliet (EBE Ensemble @ The Music Pagoda in Prospect Park), The House of Blue Leaves (Gallery Players), Snapshots and Map Quest (Prospect Theater Company), Thucydides (Samuel French Festival - Winner 2009), and Raised by Lesbians (FringeNYC). SDCF Observership recipient. MFA in Directing - Brooklyn College. Member: Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Associate Member: SDC and the League of Professional Theatre Women. www.devbondarin.com. ALEX BOND (Grethe) Most recently she appeared in MTWorks production of Barrier Island by David Stallings. Off-Broadway: Flamingo Court at New World Stages. Regional theatres: Provincetown Theatre, New Harmony Theatre, Depot Theatre, Buffalo Studio Arena, Virginia Stage Company, Theatre Virginia, Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre Three. Numerous national commercials. Stand-up comedy. Whenever she can, Ms. Bond promotes tolerance by reading selections from her novel Late Nights With The Boys: confessions of a leather bar chanteuse with David L. Carson. Their work has received the Producer’s Pick Award from the 2007 Dallas/Ft. Worth Fringe Festival, the Best Literary Staging from the 2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival, and Fruit of Distinction Awards from the 2009 Fresh Fruit Festival. MARK EMERSON (Daniel) was Carl in MTWorks’ Barrier Island earlier this year. Most recently he was seen in Viva Los Bastarditos! in the NYC Fringe Festival. He has also worked with such companies as New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, Opening Doors Theatre Co., Write Club NYC, and Prospect Theater Company where he performed the one-person show Hoaxocaust! at 59e59. Regional credits include Merton in Merton of the Movies at the Dorset Theatre Festival and The Wiz and Zhivago at La Jolla Playhouse (both directed by Des McAnuff) . He was Prior in the first major revival of Angels in America in London at the Lyric Hammersmith and received his M.F.A. in acting from UCSD. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, an artistic associate with About Face Theatre and a company member of MTWorks. LAVITA SHAURICE BURR (Penny) is a Philadelphia native and graduate of Temple University’s theater department. Favorite roles at Temple include, Mary (Something in the Basement) and The Apothecary (Romeo and Juliet). Lavita has also been seen Off-Off Broadway in The World Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s I Used to Write on Walls, and was recently seen as Alia in Working Man’s Clothes’ Production of She Like Girls, which earned the show a 2010 GLAAD award for Outstanding Theater Off-Off Broadway. DAVID STALLINGS (Connor) has been involved with New York theater for ten years as an actor and playwright. New York Theater: A Home Across The Ocean(Theatre Row), Folie A Deux (MTWorks), Big Love (Theater for a New City), Book of the Dun Cow (Prospect Theater Co.), Merry Wives of Windsor (Prospect Theater Co.), Romeo and Juliet (Wooden O Productions), The Maids(The Independent Theater), Love and Garbage (Blue Heron Theater), and many more. Favorite Regional Roles include: Tuzenback (Three Sisters), Jack (Into the Woods), and Joshua/Gerry (Cloud Nine). David also performed in The Santa Fe Opera's production of The Beggar's Opera, as Jimmy Twitcher. David is also an award winning playwright whose plays include: Barrier Island, Anais Nin Goes to Hell, The Reeducation of Arizona, A Daughter of Israel, and The Family Shakespeare. His play Barrier Island premiered at Center Stage in May 2010 and is having another production in November 2010 with Acadiana Rep in Lafayette, Louisiana. www.StallingsWrites.com. DATHAN B. WILLIAMS (Mhambi) Broadway and 1st National Tour of Show Boat. National Tours of: The Color of Justice, The Wind In The Willows and The King and I. Recent Credits include: Whatever The Weather (Mythic City), Macbeth (TWAS Classical Lab), West of The Willow Tree (New Professional Theater), Line In The Sand (Virginia Stage Company), Nathan The Wise (Pearl Theatre Company), Josephine Tonight! (Songbook Series), Buffalo Gal (Primary Stages), Show Boat (Carnegie Hall), Medea (TWAS), The Matchmaker (Winston Prep – Guest Artist), American Duet and Becoming Tennesse (both at Eugene O’Neill Theater Center). Also work with these New York Companies: AMAS, The Woman’s Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, York Theatre, MTC, SoHo Rep and 92nd St Y. Regional Theaters include: Prince Music Theater, California Music Theater, Bay Street Theater, Maine State Music Theater, The Cleveland Playhouse, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Madison Rep, Goodman Theater, Marriott-Lincolnshire Theater, Milwaukee Rep Festival/The Next Act Theater, Stage One, two seasons with The Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Guthrie Award) and Folger Shakespeare among others. This fall he can be seen as Captain Ross in the Web Sci-Fi Series, "The M Theory." |
*Appearing Courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
