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| Directed by: GARETH HENDEE |
| featuring: CHUCK McKINNEY JOANNA PARKER JOE PASSARO |
| Stage Manager TERRY MAC Scenic & Costume Design by JOSH ROTHENBERG Lights by JEFF TAPPER |
| Benefiting |
| BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS |
| COMMON BASIS THEATER 750 Eighth Ave. |
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A surreal study of the often bizarre byways which love between men and women can follow.
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Opened June 15, 1995 Closed July 2, 1995 |
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| NOTE: Biographies below are as they appeared in the showbill at the time of production. |
CHUCK McKINNEY (Tommy) after many appearances Off-Off-Broadway is very happy to be making his Off-Broadway debut in dreamer. He most recently appeared as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice. He has also starred in the short films In Time and Souls of Serenity as well as in several N.Y.U. films. Chuck dedicates this performance to the women in his life.
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JOANNA PARKER (Donna) makes her Off-Broadway debut in dreamer. She hails from Manhattan and has appeared in numerous NYC & university productions. Acting credits include: Lusia in A Shayna Maidel, Rena in Ten Little Indians, and the title roles in Antigone and Agnes of God. She also spent five months as Meryl, Julie, and Joan alternately in Dressing Room Divas, currently in its second year at the Duplex Cabaret. Joanna has appeared in many independent and student films & has been heard in various voiceovers. She holds a B.A. in Theatre from Barnard College.
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JOE PASSARO (Dad) reprises the role he played last summer at the Samuel Beckett. Other New York Stage credits include performances at the Westbeth, Sanford Meisner Theatre, the Duplex Cabaret, and the Trocadero. He has appeared in numerous independent films, including a principal role in Recipe For Disaster, to be released this Fall. Other film credits include Amateur (directed by Hal Hartley) and Die Hard III. He recently appeared in an episode of "Law & Order."
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JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright) is from the Bronx. His latest play, Four Dogs and A Bone, was produced at Manhattan Theatre Club and subsequently enjoyed a commercial run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Other full-length plays include The Big Funk at NYSF, Beggars in the House of Plenty and Italian American Reconciliation at MTC, the dreamer examines his pillow at the Double Image Theatre, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Powerhouse Theatre and Off-Broadway, Women of Manhattan at MTC and Welcome to the Moon at Ensemble Studio Theatre. He was selected for four consecutive seasons as a participant at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Theatre Center. In the arena of film, Mr. Shanley's Five Corners was awarded a Special Jury Prize for the screenplay by the Barcelona Film Festival and his screenplay for Moonstruck won both the Writers Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He made his debut as a feature film director with his script Joe Versus the Volcano. He wrote the screenplay for Alive. Next summer, his adaptation of Michael Crichton's Congo comes to the screen.
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GARETH HENDEE (Director) recently received his MFA in Directing from Columbia University, where he studied under Anne Bogart, Andrei Serban and George Ferenez. His work in New York has been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Tribeca Lab, The Village Gate, the Plex, and the Horace Mann Theatre. Gareth will direct Kipp Erante Cheng's Love Trilogy at EST in July. Thanks and love to Ida.
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