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 a former member of Rude Guerrilla in Orange County, California and now resides in Austin, Texas where he continues his successful photography career. 

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) continues to perform on San Diego stages.  Roles include 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 Morris Vishner, is an accomplished stage director, actor, acting coach and portrait photographer living and working in San Diego, California.  His directing credits include Edward Albee’s one-acts, The American Dream and The Zoo Story at Coronado Playhouse and Wendy Wasserstein’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.  He recently created the Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival at Congregation Dor Hadash in San Diego.

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 development 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 served as lighting designer/technician at the Joan B. Kroc Theatre, as well as a freelance scenic artist and set builder in San Diego and is working on her Master's Degree in Technical Theatre and Management.