Theater 160: Speed Dating
Synopsis:
Two senior citizens, both windowed, meet at a senior citizen event at a Holiday Inn conference room. They engage in humorous banter and then discuss their former spouses, each deeply affected by their loss.
Writer
Curt Strickland
Curt Strickland is a playwright who recently received a masters degree in playwriting from Lesley University’s graduate program. Inspired by August Wilson, Curt is finishing his 5th play in a ten-play opus on American, each play set in a different decade. You can view other plays by Curt at the New Play Exchange:
https://newplayexchange.org/users/68843/curt-strickland and view his political and cultural essays at curtsview.com,
Curt is a landscape photographer, and a former owner at Great American Art, one of the largest commercial art corporations in the nation. Curt believes that Art should serve to heal, inspire, provoke, challenge, and offer hope – but most of all to connect, to remind us of our common humanity.
Curt recently was awarded the William Faulkner Literary Playwriting Prize for his full-length play, 1968, and Curt just published his book: Democracy Under Siege: (Essays on the Trump Years, 2017-2024).
In 2020, Curt received a double lung transplant, an event that had profound effects on both his writing and his life. This experience is the basis of a new play he is developing entitled Double Lung.
Curt Strickland
Director
Bernadette Armstrong
Bernadette Armstrong moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990’s 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 the founder of Open-Door Playhouse.
Bernadette Armstrong
Cast:
Gary Lamb as Jesse
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
Camille Ameen as Sara
Camille has acted on Broadway, off-Broadway & major regional theatres. Most recently, she appeared in Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Gilmore Girls. Other TV shows include ER, L.A. Law, Newhart, Roseanne, and Kate & Allie. She had the pleasure of performing in Othello, starring James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, Garland Wright's K-Impressions of Kafka's The Trial with Kathy Bates, Awake and Sing opposite Nancy Marchand, Miss Julie & The Stronger with Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, Pirandello's Chee-Chee with Actors Theatre of Louisville, and 2 productions each of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Three Sisters. She co-founded a theatre-based non-profit for underserved middle schoolers, which became so successful (she went to the White House to accept an award for the organization) that she had to let go of other passions. Now, she's thrilled to be acting again with Open-Door Playhouse. She's extremely grateful for the opportunities she's received.
Camille Ameen
Sound Production:
Recorded at Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.
Sound Editor: David Peters
