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written and
directed by:
J-Powers (a.k.a. John Powers).
Writer-director J-Powers (a.k.a. John Powers) continues to adapt
and dramatize significant historical events including
The 9/11 Commission
Report and other unique events in history.
These include The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the
Court at Newton, The Army-McCarthy
Hearings, The Watergate Tapes, The Anita Hill-Clarence
Thomas Hearings, Trial of Lenny Bruce, Court-Martial of
William Calley, McMartin Preschool Trial, and Trial of
O.J. Simpson.
He wrote and directed the series
1968 in which he
dramatized four significant events from that year in the works
entitled
Memphis,
Los Angeles,
Chicago, and Mexico City.
He also wrote the critics’ choice production of
@Heart directed by Paul Linke.
produced by:
Santa Monica Playhouse
and
PowerPlayz
Productions
Santa Monica
Playhouse,
Artistic Directors Evelyn Rudie
and Chris DeCarlo, is no stranger to anti-war themed plays
having been the home to productions of Garcia Lorca’s
Yerma, Diane Samuel’s
Kindertransport, West
of Broadway’s production of
Judgment at Nuremberg,
the original
Rudie-DeCarlo Can’teen:
Letters to the Front an exploration of war and other
unnatural disasters, John DiFusco’s
Tracers, and the
powerfully dramatic answers to unmailed letters, a
collaborative theatre odyssey by Peter Manning Robinson, Bill
Gough, Stephen Rothman, Rudie, and DeCarlo based on his personal
experiences in Vietnam.
PowerPlayz
is an entertainment entity that creates and produces original
and adapted works for stage and screen.
featuring (in alphabetical order):
Jeffrey Ashkin
(Who
Stole The Electric Car(producer); Growing
Up Too Fast (playwright); The
Sexcapades of Darby Quinn (LA
Fringe Festival)
Caroline Do
(The Groundlings; The
Beverly Hills Playhouse)
Serena Dolinsky
(Love in Bloom;
Audition: The Musical;
Ionesco’s The
Bald Soprano)
Mark Jacobson
(Gentlemanly
- The Improv Space; The
Anchor; Flat!)
Stephen Juhl
(Angels in America;
Lost in Yonkers;
Not Your Mama’s Broadway)
Dave Kirkpatrick
(The Eccentricities of a Nightingale; All My Sons; Counter Man)
Amanda Martindale
(Red Gold;
Investigative Discovery Channel’s
Hostage: Do or Die;
NBC’s
Nashville
Star)
Brian Sounalath
(The Young and the Restless;
Werner Herzog’s My Son My
Son, What Have Ye Done)
sound design: Cricket S. Myers
dramaturge: Paul Linke
stage manager: Robert Adams
costumes designed by: Diana Mann
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Jeffrey Ashkin has
worked as journalist and playwright since high school. By age
nineteen, he had two plays produced, a story published, and was
editor/lead writer of an entire page in the Sun-Sentinel
newspaper. After graduating the University ofCentral
Florida's film school, Jeffrey moved out to Los
Angeles to pursue
acting and writing for television and film. He has written and
directed eight short films and produced and co-starred in a
feature which recently was picked up for distribution. He is
represented by the Apple Talent Group.
Caroline Do
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Conceived in Saigon,
Vietnam, and born in
Pasadena, California, Caroline is a proud member of the
Vietnamese Diaspora. She studied International Development with
an emphasis on non-industrialized
Southeast Asian nations at UC Berkeley, Sussex University
(UK) and the
Chinese University
of Hong Kong. Previously
recruited by the State Department and CIA, Caroline is delighted
to fuse her passion for acting and international intrigue with
Pentagon Papers.
Caroline trained in improv at The Groundlings and scene study at
The Beverly Hills Playhouse. Currently,
she is in production with a cyberpunk web series and feature
film.
Serena Dolinsky, Santa Monica Playhouse Director of Education, and a graduate of
the American
Academy
of Dramatic Arts, began her formal acting training at age 8 and
later attended Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Boston. A member of Actors’ Repertory Theatre,
Santa Monica’s resident professional
theatre company, Serena has performed in countless Main Stage
and international touring productions, including
DOLLS! Not Your Usual Love Story, Backstreet: The Musical, Love In
Bloom, AUDITION! The Musical (London
preview production; U.S.
world premiere); Jankenpon,
Sugoi!, Youkoso (Japan
tours), Ionesco’s The Bald
Soprano, Author! Author! - an evening with Sholom Aleichem.
She is a featured singer on
Playhouse Greatest Hits,
the CD. Career highlights include the U.K. premiere of
Canteen: a musical reconnaissance of war and other unnatural disasters
at the Dream Factory in Warwick, the Irish premiere of
The Silver Key in Londonderry,
Make Mine Myths in Tokyo,
Guys and Dolls (Sarah)
and The Ends of the Earth
(Alice) at the Keiter Performing Arts Center in Boston and
The Gut Girls (Annie/Emily/Eady) and
Moonchildren (Shelley) at The Academy Theatre in Los Angeles. Ms.
Dolinsky has taught and directed in
England,
Holland, Ireland
and Japan.
Mark Jacobson - Mark is honored to take part in this powerful project. Recent
theatrical credits include What's Wrong with Angry?
(Celebration Theatre), Engaged (Sierra Madre Playhouse),
Away Up North (Three Roses Players), Twelfth Night
(Downtown Rep), King Lear (Oval House,
London), On the Town, Into the Woods,
and Laughter on
the 23rd Floor (USC). Mark can also be seen on the
weekly mainstage improv comedy team Gentlemanly at The
Improv Space in Westwood, the upcoming films The Anchor
and Improvising, as well as the web series Flat!.
He is a graduate of the University of Southern California School
of Theatre and a co-founder of USC's The Merry Men comedy
troupe. Special thanks to John, Joe Culliton, Megan, and Nana.
Stephen Juhl - California-born, Colorado-raised, Stephen has amassed many favorite credits
in Colorado including
Angels in
America
Parts I&2, A Skull in Connemara, Lost in Yonkers, and
The Foreigner. Recent Los Angeles
credits include the Broadway showcases
Not Your Mama’s Broadway
1&2 at Oil Can Harry’s in Studio
City, and he has been seen in multiple
Chris Berube productions including
Happily Whatever After
at The Next Stage in
Hollywood. He occasionally takes his hand
in directing including “The Youth Hostel” from Wallace Shawn’s
controversial A Thought In
Three Parts, and he received special recognition in the
Huffington Post this past spring for directing a series of Anton
Chekhov one-acts at The TreStage in
Hollywood. Classically trained with a
B.A. in Theatre from Fort
Lewis College
in Durango,
Colorado, Stephen is excited to continue his
theatrical ventures in Los Angeles with John Powers and hopes to keep
heightened awareness in the masses about government culpability.
Dave Kirkpatrick - Dave is thrilled to be a part of this important work. Los
Angeles stage credits include Askance at Eclectic Company
Theatre, Counter Men (Whitefire Theatre), The
Eccentricities of A Nightingale (A Noise Within), All My
Sons (Raven Playhouse), Southern Baptist Sissies with
Del Shores productions, Salam Shalom (Greenway Court
Theatre), and others including plays in San Francisco. Film
credits include Las Angeles, Double Spaced, Paperboy, and
others. He was awarded a BA Theater from
Ohio
State
University.
Amanda Martindale - Hailing
from Oklahoma, Amanda moved to
Los Angeles
to act and sing. In this process, she received a degree in music
therapy from CSU Northridge and found a passion for improving California’s state foster care system. Her
stage credits include The
House of Blue Leaves,
@Heart (another work by J-Powers), and as the “The Clean Up
Woman” in the national tour of
JD Lawrence presents The
Clean Up Woman. Film and TV credits include the western
Red Gold,
Investigative Discovery Channel’s
Hostage: Do or Die,
and NBC’s Nashville Star.
Amanda is a board certified music therapist, Court Appointed
Special Advocate (CASA), and a mentor for children in foster
care. Her album
Road to Beautiful is
available on iTunes and AmandaMartindale.com.
She is excited to be part of another J-Powers’s project
that gives a theatrical glimpse into the decisions of our
government during wartime.
Brian Sounalath
- Brian is excited to work with J-Powers once again in another
theatrical production. He last was seen in the world premiere of
American Bamboo, also
directed by J-Powers at the Nakano Theatre. Before that he was
in Urban Theatre Movement's production of
Dog Sees God. Brian
has appeared on the Young
and the Restless and in Werner Herzog's movie
My Son My Son, What Have
Ye Done. e thanks his family, friends, and representation
for their love and support. He was awarded a BA Theatre, University of Southern California.
Cricket S Myers (Sound
Design) Broadway: Bengal
Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Drama
Desk Award, Tony Nomination). Off-Broadway: Marvelous
Wonderettes. Regional:Burn
This, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Ovation
nomination), Bengal
Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Subject was Roses, The School of
Night, Nightingale (Mark
Taper Forum); The
Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Ovation
nomination), The
Little Dog Laughed (Ovation
nomination), Two
Unrelated Plays, Come Back, Little Sheba(Kirk Douglas
Theatre); Book
Club Play (Arena
Stage); In
the Wake (Berkeley
Rep); Wrecks,
Some Girl(s), Emergency (Ovation,
NAACP nomination-Geffen); Three
Days of Rain, Trip to Bountiful (South
Coast Rep); Crowns,
Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena
Playhouse); Life
Could be a Dream, Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes (Laguna
Playhouse). Other LA designs include The Colony Theater, The
Rubicon, Antaeus, Boston
Court and Circle X.
She’s earned 13 Ovation Nominations, as well as winning an LADCC
and a Garland Award. www.cricketsmyers.com.
Paul Linke (Dramaturge)
A professional actor for almost 40 years, Paul is best known as
Artie Grossman on the NBC-TV series CHiPs. Motion picture
credits include Motel Hell, Parenthood, and K-PAX. An MFA
graduate of the University of Southern California, he co-founded
the Garden Theatre Festival and was a member of the Company
Theatre in Santa Monica where he created his celebrated Time
Flies When You’re Alive, which was later filmed as an HBO
Showcase special and nominated for a Cable Ace Award. Paul
continued his autobiographical solo work with Life After Time,
which he developed at the Santa Monica Playhouse. Mr. Charles
Nelson Reilly directed the third installment of Paul’s “Time
Trilogy” Father Time at Pacific Resident Theatre. Most recently
he played Joe Keller in the award winning production of All My
Sons at Ruskin Group Theatre. Paul lives in Los
Angeles with his
wife, actress Christine Healy and is the father of four
children. E-mail: linkelink1948@aol.com.
Robert Adams (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working on
Pentagon Papers. Past productions at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Santa Barbara City College
include: Stage Manager for
Jitney, Lighting Designer for
The River Niger, Sound
Design for The Brenda
Project, as well as Directing and Sound designing for
Wanda’s Visit and Biloxi Blues.
On-stage credits include
Songs for a New World, Welcome
Home, Jenny Sutter, All in the Timing, and
Macbeth. School Awards
include Best Actor for All
in the Timing, Best Supporting for
Jenny Sutter and
nominated Best Supporting from the American College Theatre
Festival for Macbeth.
Diana Mann (Costumes) Diana’s passion for costuming reaches back to her early
theater days in Chicago, where
she received her B.A. in performing arts from the University of Northeastern
Illinois. Diana has costumed over
five dozen shows in the past decade. Some favorites include
The Lion in Winter, Pirates of Penzance, Cabaret, Grease, Moon Over
Buffalo, Bent, West Side Story, and
The Misanthrope, to
name a few. It is Diana’s great privilege to be working again
with the brilliant and fascinating John Powers and his excellent
Pentagon Papers. Enjoy
this historic journey.
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