Jay Michael Fraley (Son) was last seen as R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at Rude Guerrilla Theatre Company and in A View From the Bridge at South Coast Repertory.  His other recent productions include roles at Hunger Artists, Venice Playwrights Festival, Grove Shakespeare, and the Laguna Playhouse.  He is an active member of Rude Guerrilla. 

Paul Halem (Dad) is a New York-trained actor who has appeared in numerous off-Broadway productions.  Recently, he played in the Broadway Theater production, What’s Wrong with This Picture? and the Patio Playhouse production of Book of Days. He has acted and directed in New York, Bangkok and San Francisco.

Ed Eigner (Pop) was most recently seen in the OnStage production of The Crucible as Giles Corey.  Previously, he appeared as Talthybius in Hecuba at 6th @ Penn.  Other recent credits include The Gin Game at theBroadway Theater, TheFantasticks!, and Not Now, Darling.  He has directed two plays, one his own, at the Actors Alliance Festival.  His play, Tiresias the Harlot, was produced this year at 6th @ Penn.

J Marcus Newman (playwright and director), the artist previously known as Nonnie Vishner, is an accomplished stage director, actor and portrait photographer.  His directing credits include Edward Albee’s one-acts, The American Dream and The Zoo Story, at Coronado Playhouse and WendyWasserstein’s Isn’t it Romantic? and The Sisters Rosensweig at North Coast Rep, as well as many new works in the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays, and young writers’ winning plays on the Cassius Carter Center Stage for Playwrights Project.

Marcus grew up in The Bronx, where he attended Sholem Aleichem Folkshul 21 and Mittlshul while concurrently enjoying the creative atmosphere of the High School of Music and Art (“Fame”).  His theatre training continued at Syracuse University and at CalArts where he earned his MFA in theatre. Marcus has a new play in production that will be coming out soon.

This is his first play.  Inspired by family quotes and incidents in their lives, this is neither an autobiographical work nor a portrait of that family.

Becky Pierce (stage manager, lighting designer) received her theatre arts degree from Loyola Marymount University.  She has worked as a lighting designer and stage manager at various professional theatres in Los Angeles.  Currently, she is a lighting designer/technician at the Joan B. Kroc Theatre, as well as a freelance scenic artist and set builder in San Diego.