Presented by Jeanette Bonner, Jessica McCoy & Melissa Nally
6/26 - Radio Galaxy
by Michele Aldin Kushner
Directed by Daisy Walker
Starring Purva Bedi, Dave Gelles, Antoinette LaVecchia, Peter Rini, Indika Senanayake, and Rajeev Varma
Soho Playhouse
15 Vandam St.
NYC, NY 10013
Tino is a 17 year-old science prodigy from a hard-working, blue-collar family, who dreams, eats and sleeps astronomy. Unexpectedly, his biological father, Raju, an astrophysicist and academic, enters his life, as he and his wife Daya hope that Tino will be a match for a bone marrow transplant for their daughter. The stakes and potential risks of bone marrow donation and racial, cultural and class differences spark conflicts between the two families, and Tino is caught in the middle. His sister's life - and Tino's dream - hangs in the balance.
"Dollars & Sense" panel to include Margot Astrachan, producer (A Gentleman's Guide..., The Realistic Joneses, Ghost the musical tour, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Busker Alley, On a Clear Day... revival); Josh Goodman, (Tony award winning producer for Pippin and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, also Rocky and Come From Away); Bradley Reynolds, producer (It's Only A Play with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, Something Rotten!, Hand To God, Mothers And Sons with Tyne Daly, recent revivals of West Side Story and Ragtime, [title of show]); Frank Zuback, producer (Taking Leave, American Soldier, Roof of the World).
Panelists
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MARGOT ASTRACHAN
is a Tony Award winning commercial theatrical producer based in New York. Broadway: Diana, A New Musical, The Prom, Tony Award winning A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The Realistic Joneses, Nice Work If You Can Get It, the revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Bonnie & Clyde; Busker Alley, Ghost the Musical National Tour, and the only staging of Stephen Sondheim’s Evening Primrose. She also produced The Sting starring Harry Connick Jr. at The Papermill Playhouse. Margot wrote, produced and performed five one-woman cabaret shows. New York: Danny’s Skylight Room, Judy’s, The Plaza Hotel, The Oak Room of The Algonquin Hotel, the Triad, The National Arts Club, and Don’t Tell Mama’s, among others. With dancer/choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, she wrote the book of a new Jazz musical, which has been read at Lincoln Center and at The York Theater. Margot was the American Artistic Director of the Jermyn Street Theatre in London and The Kings Head Theatre in London, and has had over 30 years’ experience producing special events for Arts Organizations such as The York Theatre Company, The Theatre Museum, and Brit-Arts of The St. George’s Society, which with Jim Dale, featured British and American theatre professionals in readings and panels in New York. She was the Vice Chair of The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), and is a board member of The Alumni & Friends of The LaGuardia High School for the Arts, Chair of the Theater Advisory Committee of the Library For the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, a Board Member of The Transport Group and Co-Chair of the Rachel Crothers Award of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is a graduate of CTI (The Commercial Theatre Institute) and is a member of The Association of Performing Arts Presenters, The National Alliance For Musical Theatre, The Broadway League, The Dramatists Guild, the Advisory Board of TRU, British American Business, Inc. and BAFTA East Coast. She is the past chair of The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Her latest project is Radio Galaxy by Michele Aldin Kushner (found in the TRU Voices series) and directed by Mark Waldrop, currently in development. She is a graduate of CTI (The Commercial Theatre Institute) and is a member of The Association of Performing Arts Presenters, The National Alliance For Musical Theatre, The Broadway League, The Dramatists Guild, the Advisory Board of TRU, British American Business, Inc. and BAFTA East Coast. She is the past chair and current board member of Theater Resources Unlimited and The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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JOSH GOODMAN
is Executive Director and Associate General Counsel at Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc. and 2-time Tony award winning producer. Broadway: Pippin, Rocky, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Rocky and Come From Away. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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BRADLEY REYNOLDS
is a TONY, Olivier and Drama Desk nominated producer living in New York City. He received his BFA in Musical Theatre at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Bradley and producing partner, David Siesko, are currently represented with the Broadway national tour of Something Rotten! On Broadway they produced It's Only A Play with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, Something Rotten!, Hand To God, Mothers And Sons with Tyne Daly, the recent revivals of West Side Story and Ragtime, as well as [title of show]. They invested in Avenue Q and In The Heights. In the West End they produced Master Class, Hand To God and Blind Date. Bradley is a TONY voting member of The Broadway League and is on the advisory board of Harbor Lights Theatre Company in Staten Island.
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FRANK ZUBACK
was the Lead Producer for Moolah, a new comedy by Arje Shaw (The Gathering). Currently he is helping develop three new works: Taking Leave, American Soldier and Roof of the World. Frank has also had the great privilege of working on a number of shows and projects with the late director Tom O’Horgan (Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair). In addition, he has worked on over twenty musicals and was involved for thirty years on the Tony Awards. Also involved in the music and entertainment industry, Frank has worked with luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, conducted the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and consulted on nine Super Bowl half-time shows. Mr. Zuback founded Frank Zuback Productions, which provides a wide range of services in the music and entertainment industry. Website - http://fzpi.com