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Daisy in Disguise
Book & Lyrics by Stacie Lents
Music by Simon Gray
Directed by David Hilder

October 11th - November 16th
SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS at 11am & 1pm

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Special School Holiday Performances
October 13th at 2pm
November 11th at 2pm

VITAL THEATRE
2162 Broadway, 4th Fl. (at 76th St.)


Daisy doesn't seem to fit in at school.  Since boys aren’t interested in throwing a ball to anyone named after a flower, Daisy reinvents herself as “David” and embarks on a zany, outrageous journey.  Daisy eventually learns that she can be herself and doesn’t need to pretend to be somebody else.

 

Featured in the Cast

REBECCA LIEB WALSH, NORMAN PAYNE, STEPHANIE TORNS,
BETHANY JAMES, ANGIE PEREZ, ROSS HEWITT

Choreography by Vibecke Dahle
Production Stage Manager KARA TEOLIS
Stage Manager SHANI COLLEEN MURFIN
Sets by DAVID GEINOSKY
Costumes by ELIZABETH VASTOLA
Lighting by CHRISTINA WATANABE

 

STACIE LENTS is the author of Tidal Waves in the Neighborhood and Laugh Out Loud (cry quietly), which Peter Filichia of TheaterMania wrote “is the best comedy I’ve seen all year.” She will premiere another new play at Rutgers University in the spring, where she is on faculty. Stacie is also currently working on a commission for The School of Performing Arts in Edison, New Jersey. Professional acting credits include New York’s Provincetown Playhouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ohio Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Hangar Theatre and Luna Stage Company. She received her MFA from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts, and her B.A. in Theatre from Yale University.
 

DAVID HILDER David directed the New York premieres of SCITUATE at The Barrow Group Theatre (Outcast Productions/Barry Goralnick) and PING PONG DIPLOMACY at 59E59 Theatres for Reverie Productions.  He served as Assistant Director to Doug Hughes on the Broadway and Off Broadway productions of FROZEN (4 Tony nominations, 4 Outer Critics Circle Nominations, 6 Lucille Lortel Award nominations).  Other New York: Vital Theatre Co. (CINDERELLA’S MICE, GIBLET: A NIGHTMARE, SUSPENSE, AL & AUDREY, THE AMAZIIING COLOSSAL THING), Ensemble Studio Theater (FAITHFUL, MOVIN’ ON), Expanded Arts (HEDDA GABLER, for which he also wrote the adaptation, THE PARTY), A Crew of Patches (MIGHT AS WELL LIVE: AN EVENING OF DOROTHY PARKER).  Regional: Millbrook Playhouse (THE LAST FIVE YEARS), Horizons (PUMPING JOSEY), Rep Stage (THE PHILADELPHIA STORY), Theater J (SOCIAL SECURITY, ONLY KIDDING!), Source Theatre (RUTHLESS!), Pioneer Playhouse (YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940).  Assistant director in New York at MCC (SCATTERGOOD, dir. Doug Hughes; A LETTER FROM ETHEL KENNEDY, dir. Joanna Gleason), Pearl Theater Co. (LIFE IS A DREAM, Rob Bundy, dir.).  Film: the independent shorts FINAL DIS/CORD and FAITHFUL.  Education: University of Pennsylvania and the O’Neill Center’s National Theater Institute.  David is also a playwright and recovering actor.

 

                                                           
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