Theater 195: Ask. Tell.
Synopsis:
When an older woman comes to a hospital to collect her injured grandson, she meets a young man who turns out to be the grandson's boyfriend. As they wait for news, the two of them grapple with the generational differences between them.
Writer
Barbara Lindsay
Barbara Lindsay is a Seattle-based playwright whose plays and monologues have received more than 400 productions across the United States and around the world. Her extensive body of work includes FREE, Snow White Who?, Sex in the Middle Ages, Creamy Dreamy Boyfriend, Want, The Walkers, and dozens of other plays that have entertained audiences in theaters large and small.
Barbara Lindsay
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 North 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 Armstrong
Anne Cooper as Debra
Anne Cooper has acted under the direction of influential Film and TV directors such as Sam Raimi, Paul Schrader, and Kat Coiro. She has performed with Angela Lansbury, Mary Beth Hurt, William Hurt, Danny DeVito, Lee Remick, and Geraldine Page and most recently in the new film MARRY Me with Jennifer Lopez and John Bradley of House of Thrones. Anne studied acting under Uta Hagen, Herbert Berghof and Michael Schurtleff, and attended London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She has a BA from EMU. In addition to her acting career, She has directed and developed plays both in NYC and LA. She is a theatre consultant to LA GOA, which provides services for adults with developmental disabilities. Anne is on the summer acting faculty at Interlochen Center for the Arts. She has dual citizenship from USA and Italy and speaks fluent Italian. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. She is a big fan Bernadette Armstrong as a writer and director, and was in her production of SIMPLE LIVES and feels lucky to again be working with Bernadette.
Anne Cooper
Larry Coleman as Jace
Lawrence G. Coleman III is a Black American Actor based in Los Angeles, CA. His focus is on work in Film and Television and avant-garde theatre. He currently works as an Office Manager on campus for UCLA. He attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in 2017 and has been working since 2019. Credits: “My Psycho Party Planner”-2019 Lifetime Network, “Bilk” 2020 Short Film, and “ZJU’s Urban Death” 2021 Theatre Show.
Larry Coleman
