The Creative Team for MESSAGES by Fred Dennehy: Program

MESSAGES by Fred Dennehy
Directed by Ed Faver and Elizabeth Colagrande

Time:   The present.
Place:   The Bedroom of Emma and Simon.

Characters in order of appearance
Emma………..Donna Petito
Simon………. Ed Faver

Who’s Who

Ed Faver (Simon/Co-Director) has worked as an actor and director at several venues in New Jersey, including Circle Players, the Paper Mill Playhouse, and the NJ Shakespeare Festival.  Recent directing credits include:  The Normal Heart, Children of a Lesser God, Rabbit Hole, and Body Awareness.

Donne Petito (Emma), a graduate of the Goodman School of Drama and of the Art Institute of Chicago, has appeared on many amateur and semi-professional stages in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Singapore and Chicago.  Recent roles include Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, Rosemary in Picnic, Sonia in Vanya &Sonia &Masha $Spike, Maude in Bakersfield Mist, and the Widow Quin in Playboy of the Western World – for which she won a New Jersey Perry Award – as well as Sr. Aloysius in Doubt, Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, Nat in Rabbit Hole, Charlotte in Beyond Therapy, and the title role in Miss Witherspoon.

Elizabeth Colagrande (Co-Director) is thrilled to be making her directing debut! Recent acting credits include Sylvia (Circle Players, NJACT Perry Award nominee), Hand to God (Villagers Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (Crossroads Theatre Company). TV/FIlm credits include Machiavellian (web series), Who Killed Jane Doe? (Investigation Discovery), and The Holes Beneath the Trees. Elizabeth holds a BA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Acting, and minor in Dance from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Love and thanks to the cast and crew, Mom, Dad, Emily, Megan, and Zoey. www.elizabethcolagrande.com 

Fred Dennehy (Playwright) is the author of eight plays that have been performed Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and in more than a dozen Play Festivals in New York and New Jersey community theaters.  He is also co-author with Lisa Black of four comedies that have been performed in New York and New Jersey theaters.  His 2018 play “Homecoming” was one of six One-Act plays selected by the Red Bull Theater to be performed at the Lucille Lortel Theatre together with commissioned plays by Tina Howe and Douglas Wright, and has been published by Steele Spring Stage Rights.  His play “A Visit In The Afternoon” was first performed in 2019 at the Riant Theatre’s Strawberry One-Act Festival and will be performed on February 7^th and 8, 2020 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space in The Best Plays From The Strawberry One-Act Festival.

The Strawberry One-Act Festival

Wednesday, February 12th at 8:30pm
Thursday, February 13th at 6pm

Tickets:  $25 Online; $27 at the Door (Cash Only)

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At Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios & Theatres
244 West 54th Street, 12th Fl, NYC