Theater 62: Adagio
Writer
Sabrina Rose Bivens
Sabrina Rose Bivens (Playwright) is a transgender female playwright currently located in Beaumont, Texas. Her recent productions include The Joys of Christmas: A Monologue on Mental Health (Voices for the Holidays, B3 Theater, Phoenix, AZ, 2021; Elgin Mini Fringe Festival, Elgin, IL, 2021) and The Seahorse: A Transmasculine Monologue on Fatherhood (Fatherhood Out Loud, Springs Ensemble Theatre, Colorado Springs, CO, 2021). In the fall of 2021, Adagio won Second Place in Shawnee Playhouse's Original Playwrights Festival (Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA), ensuring Adagio's live staging I'm August 2022. She is currently working on two full length plays.
Sabrina Rose Bivens
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:
Camille Ameen as Melenda Dalcourt
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
Daamen Krall as George Hadley
Daamen has worked as a professional actor/voice-over artist in films and television for the past 38 years. Some of the recent film credits include THE POST, CARS III, AMERICAN PASTORAL, UNBROKEN 2, and, for television, SLEEPY HOLLOW and MADMEN. One of his favorite projects was starring in the title role of the award-winning remake of THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI. He also produced the award-winning short film HIDE. Under the banner of MIDNIGHT SCREAM PRODUCTIONS with partner Robert Shelby, he is currently in post-production for the web series THE LISTENER. Daamen is also the host and sometimes cast member of the return of radio’s theatre of thrills, SUSPENSE, which is ha gained fans around the world and was nominated twice for a Peabody Award.
Daamen Krall
Sound Production:
Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.
