Dance On Productions in association with Linda Toliver and Gary Guidinger

Present

A STREETCAR

NAMED DESIRE by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Directed by Jack Heller

Starring

Susan Priver Max E. Williams

Melissa Sullivan Christopher Parker

Caroline Simone O’Brien Juan Sucre Sean Rose

Alejandro Bravo Kevin Ragsdale Nadejda Klein

Stage Manager - Sarah Dawn Lowry

TIME/PLACE

Spring, Summer, Early Fall 1947

French Quarter, New Orleans

There will be one 15 minute intermission.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York, on behalf of The

University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

A visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre

CAST

Blanche DuBois..................................... Susan Priver

Stanley Kowalski .................................. Max E. Williams

Stella Kowalski ..................................... Melissa Sullivan

Mitch ...................................................... Christopher Parker

Eunice .................................................... Caroline Simone O’Brien

Steve ....................................................... Alejandro Bravo

Pablo ...................................................... Juan Sucre

Collector ................................................ Sean Rose

Doctor .................................................... Kevin Ragsdale

Nurse...................................................... Nadejda Klein

PRODUCTION

Director .................................................. Jack Heller

Stage Manager ...................................... Sarah Dawn Lowry

Assistant Director ................................. Sean Rose

Scenic Design ......................................... Joel Daavid

Lighting Design ..................................... Derrick McDaniel

Costume Design .................................... Shon LeBlanc

Sound Design ......................................... Christopher Moscatiello

Charge Scenic Artist............................. Marine Walton

Prop Master .......................................... Shen Henkel

Graphic Design ..................................... Doug Haverty

Publicity ................................................. Lucy Pollack

Photography .......................................... Michael Lamont

Electrician ............................................. Keven Orellano

Fight Choreography ............................. Matt Franta

Movement Director .............................. Cate Caplin

Assistant Stage Manager ...................... Ryan Dohner

Assistant Stage Manager ...................... Carey Campbell

WHO’S WHO

Susan Priver (Blanche DuBois) Most recent forays in the theater have been at Theater 40 in Terrance Rattigan’s Sepa-rate Tables, directed by Jules Aaron, and Engaging Shaw, directed by Melanie McQueen. In 2016, Susan had the great opportunity to play Tennessee Williams’ down on her luck showgirl “Myrtle” in Kingdom of Earth, here at the Odyssey Theatre, directed by Michael Arabian. Other theater credits include: Ferenc Molnar’s The Guardsman, directed by Lillian Groag of South Coast Rep, The Diary of Anne Frank, Harold

Pinter’s The Lover (LA Weekly Best One-Act) and Pinter’s A Slight Ache, di-rected by Carol Reis. At the Lillian Theatre: The Great Sebastians, directed by Anthony Caldarella, George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra, Idiot’s Delight, and Twentieth Century, directed by Rick Sparks. Also, John Patrick Shanley’s Four Dogs and a Bone and Savage In Limbo, Edward Albee’s American Dream, David Mamet’s two-character, Reunion (Drama Logue award, performance), Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, William Inge’s People in the Wind and Incident at the Standish Arms, Sidney Kingsely’s Detective Story (Drama Logue Award, Best Revival, Best Ensemble), God of Vengeance, and Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, amongst others. TV and Film: Guest starred on HBO’s Lucky Louie and Fox’s Space: Above and Be-yond. Susan starred in the psychological thriller, Serving Up Richard AKA, The Guest Room, with Jude Ciccolella of 24 and Ross McCall of White Collar, written and directed by Henry Olek. She wrote and starred in the LGBT festi-val favorite What’s Up, Scarlet? with Sally Kirkland, Jere Burns and Musetta Vander. Other indies include leads in, My Brother Jack and Mafioso, and the shorts, Good, and Miss Dixie High. Susan recently filmed the indie feature, Year of the Detectives, and the shorts, Louis by the Sea, and The Game of Life. Thank you Jack Heller, Linda Toliver and Gary Guidinger for your amazing commitment to Tennessee Williams’ truth.

Max E. Williams (Stanley Kowalski), a citizen of both Canada and the United States, was the Lead, Gunter Vogler, in Alan Spencer’s Bullet in the Face, touted as, “The Most Violent Comedy in Television History.” Guest Starring roles include Castle, N.C.I.S., Rizzoli & Isles, Angie Tribeca, General Hospital and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, among others. Recent highlights include a featured role on CBC’s The Detectives, a multiple-award winning

Best Actor performance as The Monster in the film festival darling, For Old Times Sake, as well as a recurring role on ABC’s Agents of Shield. His theatre family for more than a dozen years in Hollywood was The Elephant. Perform-ing in intimate theatre again, his first love, and being afforded the opportunity to do so with a brave, jazzed group of fellow mavericks - in this masterpiece, nonetheless - is a dream coming true. Before embracing the arts, Max played professional ice hockey. At the time of his birth, Max’s father was Head Train-er for the Stanley Cup Champion Montreal Canadiens.

Melissa Sullivan (Stella Kowalski) was born and raised

on Air Force bases around the world from Wichita Falls,

Texas to Naha, Okinawa. Melissa received her Bachelor

of Fine Arts in theatrical studies at California Institute of

the Arts and is proud to be a lifetime member of The

Actors Studio. Her film credits include Finding Red

Cloud, Sunny and Share Luv You, Sweet Underground,

S.F.W, and the award-winning comedy, Follow the Bitch.

Her television credits include Shameless, Hawthorne, Dragnet and E.R. Sulli-

van is also an Executive Producer of the comedy web series, The Millionaires

(Amazon & IndieFlix). She has appeared on stage with the Actors Studio as

“The Girl” in Tennessee Williams’ Mr. Paradise, winning an L.A. Weekly

Best Ensemble Award, and Honey in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Other roles include Mary Jane in The Dead, Veronica in Susan Joseph’s The

Interview, Miss Julie in Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Karin in Fassbinder’s The

Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant, Sophie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal and Katrin in

Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children. Melissa received a best ensem-

ble Dramalogue Award for her portrayal of Marta in Waiting for the Parade.

Melissa is also a singer-songwriter. You can find her debut album "Late Last

Night" on iTunes, Spotify, and at melissa-sullivan.com

Christopher Parker (Mitch) acted with Gene Hackman

and Ellen Burstyn in the movie Twice in a Lifetime, played

the creepy caretaker “Sims” in the movie Abandoned Dead

and “Steve” the father in Inner Demons. He had the pleasure

of playing Ed Asner's son in The Good Life and played

Ralphie alongside Amy Madigan and Rebeca D'Mornay in

In the Boom Boom Room, directed by Lee Strasberg & Hedy

Sontag. Christopher has done various TV shows and is a

lifetime member of The Actors Studio and the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

where he performed some of Shakespeare's greatest characters under the di-

rection of Ellen Geer, Melora Marshal and Willow Geer. He is a player in the

improv group Abstracto helmed by Jeff G. Michalski. His most recent stage

performance was in Lone Star at the Zephyr with Christopher Jordan and Bri-

an Forster. This marks his second venture at the Odyssey theater in the old

"welding supply" building. His first one was 37 years ago as an understudy

when the theater was on Bundy and Santa Monica Boulevard in the old "Dime

store" building. Thank you all! Enjoy the show.

Caroline Simone O’Brien (Eunice) is beyond excited to join this team! An award-winning actor, director, puppeteer & writer, she’s worked across Australia, the UK & USA. She is a graduate of Actors Centre Australia, The Groundlings, Sec-ond City, UCB, Robert D’Avanzo and Ivana Chubbuck (where she is an accredited coach). Caroline worked for the United Nations (before coming out of the acting closet) and is still a keen human rights advocate, published by the European

Commission. She directs Shakespeare for inner city kids, tours with the Con-necting Cultures Mobile Museum which inspires cultural understanding and voices The Artist’s Way podcast. Rupert Holmes called her “spectacular, pow-erful & vibrant” in A Time to Kill, so she can die happy now. Credits include Dancing at Lughnasa, Puppet Life (Amazon), Locks of Love (Screen Austral-ia), Prime Possum (7Network), Deadly Women (ID), AWOLPAL and The Good Peoples (Web series). Her production company, Skithouse Production, is the home of kind humor.

Alejandro Bravo (Steve) is proud and honored to be working at the Odyssey Theatre in A Street Car Named Desire. Recent credits include Dominos Down with Lounge Theatre, Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight with Coeurage Theatre Company and As You Like It with Antaeus Theatre Company. Before acting, Alejandro was an electrical contractor and martial artist. He continues to study the craft of acting and produces films on a continuous basis. Alejandro’s

commitment to inspire people of all ages has taught him the importance of au-thenticity, creativity and kindness in all present endeavors. A native of Los An-geles, he now resides in Culver City.

Juan Sucre (Pablo) studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and later at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He is recently a final-ist at the Actors Studio and a recipient of the New York Film Academy’s Short Film Festival award for best actor in a sup-porting role in The Mechanics Will. Juan is humbled, honored, and excited to be a part of not only an amazing story, but an amazing cast of actors. He would like to thank the whole cast and ensemble, but especially Linda Toliver, Gary Guidinger,

and Jack Heller for giving him the opportunity to be a part of this production.

Sean Rose (Collector/Assistant Director) was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He has performed locally at The Pacific Resident Theater, Studio C, The Lonny Chapman Group Rep, the Greenway Court Theater and the Hudson Mainstage. He has studied at Circle in the Square in NY, and as a working-observer at The Actors Studio in NY/LA and is grateful to Ellen Burstyn and the late Martin Landau, both of whom he learned a great deal from by observing.

Sean worked briefly with the late Elizabeth Kemp, and has worked with Los Angeles based teacher Eric Morris. He has guest starred in se-ries CSI:NY, Veronica Mars, and commercial/print campaigns for McDon-alds, Belkin, American Eagle, etc. In January he directed for the Living Room Series at The Blank Theatre. He is currently directing Danny and the Deep Blue Sea for the Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Lounge Thea-ter, and is attached as lead opposite Malcolm McDowell in the fea-ture Criminality. He is grateful to Jack Heller and the wonderful cast and producers of this play. "The words of Tennessee Williams are eternal, and it is an honor to participate in bringing the poetry of A Streetcar Named Desire to life.”

Nadejda Klein (Nurse/Flower Lady) was born in Bul-garia. She studied with Lee Strasberg for ten years and played numerous roles at his theater including Lady McBeth. In the course of her long acting career, she has worked with many well-known directors: Blake Edwards (S.O.B.), George Peppard (Five Days from Home), Phil Leirness (The Story of O: Untold Pleasures) and Gil Cates (The Last Married Couple in America) among others.

Nadejda is thrilled to be working with Jack Heller on A Streetcar Named Desire.

Kevin Ragsdale (Doctor) is an actor, producer and musi-cian hailing from Nashville, TN. He studied at The Rus-kin School of Acting and the Westside Comedy Theater. His stage appearances include The Old Man in Fool for Love, Karl Linder in A Raisin in The Sun, George in John Daly’s Of Kings and Fools and Munce in The Alamo at the Ruskin Group Theater. Kevin has a production com-pany, KNR Productions, with his brother Rich and their

latest movie Ghost House can now be seen streaming on Netflix.

Jack Heller (Director) founded the Theater on Main in Ventura where, as co-artistic Director he presented Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, Three by Ten and A Comedy Tonight. As founder and the artistic director of the Laurelgrove, he debuted Joe Pintauro's The Dead Boy and Edward Allan Baker's Crying Rocks, as well as producing Jack Richardson's Gallows Humor. As a director he has staged nearly fifty productions throughout the U.S. and Canada, including LUV at the Geffen Playhouse. As an actor, Heller studied with Harold Clurman and Robert Lewis of the Group Thea-ter, starred in many stage and television productions on both coasts, in-cluding the Broadway and National tours of LUV, directed by Mike Nich-ols and won a Drama-Logue Award in the one man show Dr. Galley at Theater East.

Additionally, Heller travelled to Rome and Milan to recreate his role in the long-running production of Tamara and might be best remembered for his performance as the psychiatrist in the L.A. Stage Company's heralded pro-duction of Nuts at the Las Palmas Theater. Heller received critical acclaim, creating the role of Tennessee in Tennessee in the Summer at the Egyptian Arena in Hollywood. His theatre productions as an actor/director have won many critic's choices and critic's picks. His TV credits include directing sev-eral episodes of the TV classic Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Heller has held elected office as a councilor for Actors Equity and was pro-ducing director of Stage West, a for-profit theater in Canada. He has taught at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, both here and in New York, organized The Theater for the Forgotten, an outreach program implementing tours of East Coast prison systems, and worked for three years at Beit T'shvah, a half-way house for addicts, using theater techniques to aid in their recovery. Heller is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and would like to thank Sarah Dawn, his indispensable stage manager.

Sarah Dawn Lowry (Stage Manager) is a California transplant, originally from northern Utah. She got her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre and Business from Weber State University. As a young child, Sarah Dawn enjoyed per-forming on stage but when she took her first assistant stage manager position as a favor for a friend, she found her true calling. She has now stage managed in Utah, South Korea, and California for 18 years. A few of her California stage management highlights include Hype Man, Assassins, Cult of Love, Quartet, Cabaret, and Treasure Island. It is a true passion for her to help cre-ate inspirational works of live theatre. Sarah Dawn would like to thank the Los Angeles theatre community for making her feel at home. Spread love, not hate.

Joel Daavid (Scenic Design) A Texan /LA resident since 1993, Joel has be-come an award-winning set designer since attending the American Film Insti-tute for Cinematography. His career accomplishments include cinematog-raphy for film work as well as stage directing and design. Joel's most notable awards include the Ovation, LA Weekly, NAACP and LADCC Theater Awards. Joel directed/designed the award-winning production of The Miracle Worker at the Matrix and Edgemar Theatres and the new production of Ten-nessee Williams’ Baby Doll at the Lillian Theatre. Joel directed/designed the multi-award-winning Frankenstein for Theatre Tallahassee and the epic story of Camille (Claudel) at the Greenway Arts Alliance. www.jdaavid.com

Shon LeBlanc (Costume Design) Shon celebrates 34 years designing cos-tumes in California and across the country. He has designed shows for The Fountain Theatre, The Colony Theatre, 3D Theatricals, Odyssey, Matrix, Theatre 40, Hudson, No Ho Arts, The El Portal, Open Fist theatre co, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, Ogunquit Playhouse (ME), Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Rubicon, Actors Co-Op, Greenway Court, and Kentucky Shakespeare (KY) Kentucky Opera and Charlottesville Opera (VA) just to name a few. He designed costumes for the national tours of I Love Lucy, Live on Stage. Currently he is designing costume for the new TV show Encore. Most recently he designed Singing in the Rain for McCoy-Rigby and All My Sons at The Lounge Theatre. Shon has taught Costume Design at the Academy of Art in SFO, is a multi Award winning Costume Design-er, with multiple Ovation, Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly and Garland awards and nominations. He is the Owner of The Costume House, located in North Hollywood, California where the costumes for tonight’s show were created.

Derrick McDaniel (Lighting Design) has been working in the live theater arena for over 20 years, both in Los Angeles and New York. From Romeo and Juliet to Guys and Dolls, Derrick has designed lighting for many plays, musicals and events. A few of his lighting credits include Mercy Seat (2012 LA Weekly Award Winner) at the Inside the Ford Theater, Death House at the Road Theatre on Magnolia, Spring Awakening at the Whitefire Theatre, The Addams Family at the Madrid Theater, La Blanc (NAACP & Ovation Award Nominated) at the Rogue Theater, and many others. Derrick is an award-winning designer and has been nominated for several Ovation Awards, as well. He would like to thank the Producers and the Staff for providing the opportunity to create. And thanks to the patrons of live thea-ter. Enjoy!

Christopher Moscatiello (Sound Design) received the 2018 LADCC and 2015 Stage Raw awards for Sound Design. He is also a composer, sound editor/mixer and music director for theater, television and film. TV credits include The Walking Dead (AMC), Psych (USA), Eureka (Syfy), Human Target (Fox), The Cape (NBC), Caprica (Syfy), Trauma (NBC), and he has scored full series, specials and promos for HBO, BBC, NBC, Discovery, National Geographic and others. Theater highlights include The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Rogue Machine, The Wallis Annenberg, The Ahmanson Theatre, Antaeus, Skylight Theatre, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, The Fountain Theatre, and he served as assistant conductor on the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera. Before residing in LA, Chris was the Associate Artistic Director and Conductor of the Boston Chamber Ensemble, and wrote a ballet commissioned by the Kirov Ballet Academy that had its world prem-iere in Washington, DC.

Shen Heckel (Prop Master) Shen is an alumnus of both UCLA Theatre, Film and Television School and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He is pri-marily a theatre director and producer but finds his passion for creating and attention to detail the main factors in why he finds himself designing props. Shen has worked in many theaters around town including East West Players, The Fountain Theatre, Skylight Theatre, Center Theatre Group and The Ge-ffen Playhouse, to name a few. He also is the managing director of Afterhours Theatre Company which specializes in immersive and traditional theatre infu-sion. www.http://shenheckel.weebly.com

Doug Haverty (Graphic Design) has designed for theaters and performing arts centers across the U.S. and overseas. He has also created 450+ CD pack-ages for Universal, Warner Bros., EMI, Sony, etc. Doug has supplied event graphics for the Los Angeles Jazz Society, ASMAC, The Thalians, Associat-ed Television International, Hollywood Christmas Parade, LAPD, LAFD, the Grammys, baseball cards for Weird Al Yankovic’s world tour and co-designed the coffee table book: The Ukulele: A Visual History for Backbeat Books.

Michael Lamont (Photography) began his career shooting headshots and soon expanded into shooting theatre production. In 1989 he was sponsored by Universal Studios to join I.A.T.S.E. Local 600, International Cinematogra-phers Guild, and began shooting unit and publicity for the studios. In 1997, he again expanded his talent and vision, shooting his first feature film. As Direc-tor of Photography he has shot independent features, shorts, and pilots. From his No Ho studio, he continues to shoot celebrity portraits, CD covers, post-ers, marketing, publicity, and production video. His clients, past and present, include The Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Wallis Annenberg Cen-ter, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, The Old Globe, The Acting Company, West Coast Jewish Theatre, Deaf West Theatre, Colony Theatre, East West Players, No Ho Arts Center, Doma, Interact, Reprise, and Havok Theatre Companies. Cornerstone Theater, Getty Villa, Shakespeare Center/LA, and UCLA Department of Theatre Production.

Matt Franta (Fight Choreography) Off-Broadway: We Are the Tigers, Safeword, Eco Village, The Video Games. Other credits include work with the Guthrie Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Marin Shakespeare Company, Long Beach Playhouse, Four Clowns, and the National Theatre for Children. Matt holds a BA in Drama/Speech from Clarke University in Dubuque, IA, and is a graduate of the International Stunt School in Seattle. He currently teaches stage combat at the American Musical and Dramatics Academy in Los Angeles. www.MattFranta.com

Cate Caplin (Movement Director) has produced, directed and choreo-graphed over 200 productions and her work has been seen on television, in films, music videos, commercials and in theatrical venues worldwide. She is a 34 times Regional and International Theatrical Ballroom Dance Cham-pion, a published writer and a theatre/dance coach. Cate wrote and di-rected her first feature film, Mating Dance and she has been honored with a Garland Award, a Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award, multiple LA Stage Alliance Ovation, Eddon and Scenie Awards and an Award of Ex-cellence from the LA Film Commission for her work as a Writer, Director, Choreographer and Producer. Cate is an Associate Member of SDC, a Di-recting Member of the Actors Studio West and is delighted to be the 2019 recipient of Playwright Arena’s “Lee Melville Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles Theatre Community.”

Ryan Dohner (Assistant Stage Manager) has been loving his two years of sitting in LA traffic. In that short time he has helped out with produc-tions for Theatricum Botanicum, The Complex, Celebration Theatre (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), The Odyssey (Ashes to Ashes), Road The-atre Company, Lounge Theatre, and most recently JFI Productions (The Willows/ Creep LA). Ryan hopes to continue to put food on his plate and learn as much as possible! Huge thanks to his parents, mentors, and every-one involved in the show.

Carey Campbell (Assistant Stage Manager) is a playwright, screenwrit-er and photographer. Her passion for the arts has taken her from dresser, prop work and stage management for theatre productions in L.A. and New York, to working in the film industry, on-set in the wardrobe department and craft service. She worked for several years at Miramax in the servic-ing and distribution wing. Currently, she is helping develop new works with the Los Angeles based Loose Monsters writing group and recently had a staged reading in New York for her play Man of Their Dreams. She has always been drawn to the powerful medium of street photography, and the dramatic and purposeful lighting in classic film noir. Her love of story-telling as a writer has helped inform and inspire her as a photographer. Carey is delighted to be a part of this exciting production of Tennessee Williams’ theatrical masterwork, A Streetcar Named Desire.

Linda Toliver and Gary Guidinger (Producers) most recently pro-duced the rarely seen Tennessee Williams’ classic Kingdom of Earth, directed by Michael Arabian, starring Susan Priver, Daniel DeWel-don and Brian Burke. They were the producing directors of Los An-geles' Zephyr Theater for 25 years until moving on as independent producers. During that time they developed and produced many award-winning shows, including Justin Tanner’s standout hit, Voice Lessons, directed by Bart DeLorenzo, starring Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart and Maile Flanagan, later resulting in an Off-Broadway pro-duction and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre production; Teen Girl, starring Zoe Perry, directed by Matt Roth; Space Therapy, starring Mary Scheer, French Stewart and the Avenue 43 Ensemble. They presented the trio of Del Shores plays Sordid Lives, Southern Baptists Sissies and The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, starring Beth Grant, Octavia Spencer, Dale Dickey and Leslie Jordan. They also produced Jim Brochu and Steve Schlaclin's The Big Voice: God or Merman? and The Last Session, both of which went on to long-running hits Off-Broadway.

At the Odyssey Theater, Gary and Linda produced Tanner’s Day Drinkers, under Bart DeLorenzo’s direction; Elliot Shoeman’s After-math, directed by Mark Taylor, starring Annie Potts; Assisted Living starring Winnie Holtzman and Paul Dooley and with Jules Aaron di-recting, they produced Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn in Los Ange-les, and Ethel Sings at New York's Soho Rep, Walkerspace, both written by Joan Beber.

Special Thanks To:

Henry Olek, Mark Freeman, Brian Girard, John Giron,

Brian Foyster, Sam LaFrance and The New York Film Academy, Reparata Mazzola, Dai Mcdonald, Larry Mura

and Sean F. Gray from Long Beach Playhouse,

Beth Hogan and Ron Sossi

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

May 25—July 7, 2019

Odysseytheatre.com

DIRECTOR'S NOTE: I found this quote by an unknown author, but it represents quite deeply how I feel about the acting process and the dedication of my actors in this production: "Actors are some the most courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in an entire lifetime. Every day, actors face the fi-

nancial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fears that they'll never work again. Every day they have to ignore the possi-

bility that their vision to which they have dedicated their lives, is a pipe dream. With every role, they stretch themselves emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment. With every passing

year, many of them watch as other people their age achieve the pre-dictable milestones of normal lives...the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. But actors stay true to their dreams in spite of sacrifices. Why? Be-cause actors are willing to give their entire lives to the moment – to that line, that laugh, that gesture or that interpretation that will stir

the audiences soul. Actors are beings who have tasted life's nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirits and touched another's heart. In that instant, they are as close to

magic and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes." – Jack Heller

Oh, baby, never ever forget how

magical life can be, or is about

to be. Open your eyes, open your

heart. Things are coming. – Tennessee Williams