ABOUT
Family is polarizing. A delicate dance of destiny akin to the ballet on this stage. Some families are simple and sufficient, neurotic but neutral; others are Superfund sites. The DuLacs are an amalgam: misfits and Machiavellian matriarchs jockeying for power, masked by beautiful indifference. Will the youngest descendant continue the cycle or pirouette into her own path of promise?
Director
Nathan Tilley
Director Nathan Tilley is graduated Magna Cum Laude from the School of Theater at George Mason University with a BFA in Theatre Performance. Nathan is a playwright, performer, dramaturg, and director.
The child of a Navy Master Chief, Nathan moved from his birthplace of North Carolina and settled in Saint Petersburg. He attended the Pinellas County Center For the Arts in high school and graduated as a performance theater major. It was here he was able to write and co-produce his first show, Night of the Living Classmates, and perform as Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Nathan received top academic honors in his department, and served as the Company Manager for the Mason Players. He has worked as dramaturg and director for the past four years on four productions, and has co-produced a short independent play and film festival, Stories From the Stars.
This past year, Nathan was the Wardrobe Supervisor for Synetic Theater during their production of Romeo & Juliet, and Remount Costume Designer for their Teen Production. He has also worked as a Teaching Artist with Acting For Young People. Nathan’s mission is to use art as a medium to explore the horrors of the world to comprehend, advance, and heal it.
Playwright
April E. Brassard
Playwright April E. Brassard is an award-winning TV and screenwriter, playwright, producer, and professor from Washington, DC. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the School of Theater at GMU, then earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
April worked in Hollywood at Warner Bros., ABC, and CBS Studios, developed four original television series with Archie Comics, Two Shakes Entertainment (Damon Wayans, Jr.), Lucid Road (Aaron Paul), and Tornante (Michael Eisner), and penned and produced a 6-time internationally-awarded short film. Ten of April's plays have been produced in the DC area, including a critically-acclaimed production at Capital Fringe. For the past four years, she has worked as a professor at GMU, and is Co-Director of their festival of new plays, THE ORIGINALS!
April was the recipient of the Purks Faculty Enrichment Grant at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, which is contributing to the success of the production—a collaborative effort between alumni, students, and professors at GMU. Her mission is to speak for the silenced, catalyze laughter, turn trauma into drama, and inspire the next generation of artists.