GEORGIE D.
by Jessica Durdock Moreno
Directed by Rick Hamilton
Margaret Dudka, forty and forever going nowhere fast, reunites with her damaged-goods brother Thomas at their estranged father’s deathbed to “pull the plug,” sell the house, and settle the old man’s affairs as quickly as possible. Their efforts are complicated, however, when the chaos that has been slowly and silently tearing their family apart for generations is stirred up by their mutual longing to remember the love that might have been there all along.
FRIDAY, MARCH 19th at 7pm
SUNDAY, MARCH 21st at 3pm
Jessica Durdock Moreno is currently an MFA candidate in the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her first play “To Richard!” premiered at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival, where it won the Encore Producers Award and was nominated for the Inkwell Theater Playwright’s Promise Award. She began her writing training at Los Angeles City College, where she won the 2019 Cinema and Television Department’s Best Screenplay Award for her television pilot “Filly.” She was selected as a finalist for the Theater Masters Take Ten 2020 Festival for her play “Shooting Stars”. In 2021, she will participate in the Full Circle Theatre Collaborative’s New Works Festival with her plays “Shooting Stars” and “Funeral.” She won the Most Unleashed Performance Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Outstanding Theatre Performance Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was nominated for a Stage Scene LA Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Lead Actress in a Comedy. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology (focus on North American Settler Colonialism). JessicaDurdockMoreno.com
Rick Hamilton, Managing Director of the Chain Theatre, is an award-winning filmmaker whose short films "Seeing Glory," "Choices" and "The Fear Inside" have screened around the world and are available on multiple streaming platforms including Amazon, TelloFilms and LesChicks. He directed the Off-Broadway hit show Fabulous! The Queen of New Musical Comedies. Other productions include the NYC premieres of Candy Hearts, Geeks! The Musical and Sophia as well as the Audelco Award-nominated production of Gypsy. www.rickhamilton.nyc
STARRING
Margaret: Melissa Roth* (The Bohemians, Matrushka)
Thomas: Christopher Dippel (Founding Member of The New York Neo-Futurists)
Patty: Brenda Crawley (Prometheus Bound, The Problem With Magic Is...)
Pedro: Jorge Humberto Hoyos* (FBI, The Blacklist)
Reader: Laura Clare Browne (Miracle on 34th St, Animal Farm)
*We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers Unions: Actors’ Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists, SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.*