Theater 52: Yes Twinkie, There is a Santa Claus.
Summary
It’s time for the end of the year performance reviews at the North Pole, and the Head Elf of Personnel, Noelle Frost has saved the worst for last, Twinky, an Elf with a tragic past and a bad attitude who no longer believes in Santa Claus. Can Noelle help Twinky find his Christmas Spirit, or will it take a Christmas Miracle?
Writer
Don Goodrum
Don Goodrum is a stage veteran of almost 50 years. He was born in Tennessee and raised in Mississippi. He got his first taste of the spotlight as “The King of the Calendar” in his second-grade play and after that, he moved on to the church play circuit and managed to turn a Best Actor win in a One Act Play Festival into a theatre scholarship for Mississippi College. After college, he wound up on the radio, a career choice that kept sharpening his comedic and writing skills for the next 25 years. In 2006, he retired from radio and began teaching high school theatre, and started writing once again. He has seen productions of many of his plays throughout the US. He
Don Goodrum
Director
Sophie Goldstein
Sophie Goldstein is a Jewish Chicana from Los Angeles, California, who majored in Theatre Arts and Dance at Cal State Los Angeles, and received her MFA in Physical Theatre from the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. She has worked as a director/choregrapher for several theaters around LA. Learn more about her director and choreographer work profile by visiting her website.
Sophie Goldstein
Cast:
Chris Dorman (Twinky)
Chirs Droman is a comedic actor and voiceover artist whose latest projects include the Potter-based radio series podcast "The Great Wizarding War" and the upcoming sci-fi comedy series "Jump Leads". Chris's other voiceover works include the online game “Zombie Island", the animated short "Something Fishy" as Marley the surly blowfish, and can be seen in the gory splatterfest, "The Sunday Night Slaughter."
Elaine Mello
Julia Sanford as (Noelle)
Julia holds a B.A in Dance & Theatre from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles. Favorite theatre credits include The Crucible, The American Dream, To Kill A Mockingbird, C-Cup, Pirates Of Penzance, Steel Magnolias, Necessary Targets, Incorruptible, War Bride, and Inhale Harmonica. Favorite television credits include Artista Obscura, Harry’s Law, Mad Men, Melrose Place, Criminal Minds, Life, Monk, Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Dragnet, Dr. Vegas, Wings, General Hospital, Beyond Belief, and numerous commercials. Film credits include Music, Butterfly Caught, American Exit, Know Your Enemy, Transformers 4, The Prestige, Something’s Gotta Give, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Waning Moon, Dawn, and a number of other independent films. Web series include the comedy, Burt Paxton and the thriller, Undertow.
