Theater 101: She was Dick’s Tracie
Synopsis:
Red, a dynamite redhead is found lying in a pool of her own blood in a back alley. Senior Detective Harry his Assistant Jack and a coroner are all called to the scene to solve her murder: unknowingly each of them has a connection to the recently deceased.
Writer
Sandra Cruze
Acting in Films, TV and Stage, Sandra also creates her own content. "We're Not Dead Yet", a web series on YouTube which has received multiple awards and selections for both the series and the scripts, winning semifinalist for pilot script. Her short film, "Physics of Killing", was selected for the Toronto International Womens Film Festival 2022, and an IMDB writers credit. Her play, "Little Sugar", was a quarter finalist with ScreenCraft in 2022 and 2023. Further accomplishments for film and theater can be found on her IMDB or her website at sandracruze "I believe in the power of story, because if art can't save us we're screwed".
Sandra Cruze
Director
Bernadette Armstrong
Bernadette moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successful theater projects produced in No Hollywood. Her play The Reading Group was named Pick of the Week by LA Weekly Magazine and in 2017 her play Simple Lives was nominated for Outstanding Writing of an Original Play or Musical by the Valley Theater Awards (the only woman nominated.) Bernadette is also the producer and founder of Open Door Playhouse Podcast!
Bernadette Armstrong
Cast:
Harry - Gary Lamb
Gary B. Lamb has appeared as an actor in more than 50 plays and musicals as well as on TV and film. He recently completed a National Tour of EVITA as Juan Peron and the title role in MACBETH for Shakespeare @ The Castle in Ohio. He can be heard on the recently released podcast DREAMLAND as Bruce. He has also been behind the camera directing several films including; THE BOX (over 5 million hits on YouTube); THE BUG A CREEPY COMEDY; ROOMMATE RULES and most recently FITZWATER & MUTTON, A BUDDY FILM. His Voice-Over work includes several animated series and dubbing on several Columbian Novellas. Gary has been a stage actor/director/producer for most of his life. Repair at www.GBLambMusic.com. Available on iTunes and Amazon.
Gary Lamb
Coroner - David Purdham
As a professional actor and director, David Purdham has worked extensively in theatre on and off Broadway, in many of the great resident theatres in our country(including New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Globe- San Diego, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival) as well as a lot of television and film during the last 45 years. He is a member of NEW AMERICAN THEATRE and directs The Tempus Theatre Group’s Classical Play reading series (an exploration by professional actors of the evolution of theatre from the Greeks forward.) There is a nice Television Series on HBO - “Winning Time”, in which he plays Larry O’Brien, the commissioner of the NBA.
David Purdhan
Tracie - Maureen Davis
Writer/Producer A FALLING STAR AT BUZZARD'S ROOST - A Rock Musical in ( 4) Podcast Episodes; Original Cast Broadway's Tony-Winning INTO THE WOODS; Star of Amazon Prime's Webby Award-Winning CHATTERING ORDER OF ST. BERYL ( for Good Omens")
Maureen Davis
Jack - Peter Bonoff
Peter Bonoff is an actor and musician from Portland, Oregon. He received his B.F.A. in Acting from California Institute of the Arts (Calarts). He made his onscreen debut in the feature film adaptation of William Faulkner's classic novel The Sound and the Fury, directed by James Franco. Recently, he starred in the pilot episode of the upcoming series Influence, written and directed by Max Del Rio and Matt Reesing. He was last seen onstage playing Claudio in Measure for Measure at the New American Theatre. He is currently based in Los Angeles.
Peter Bonoff
Sound Production:
Recorded at Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.
Sound Editor: David Peters
