Actor’s Asylum Productions
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Who:
Actor’s Asylum Productions
What:
Silent Night, Lonely Night
When:
December 5th through January 4th
Thursday, Friday, Saturday evenings @ 8pm
Sunday matinees @ 2pm
Price:
$18 evening performances
$15 Sunday matinee performance
$3 discount for Seniors/Students/Actor’s Alliance
Where:
Actor’s
Asylum
6663 El Cajon Blvd. Suite N
San Diego, CA 92115
www.actorsasylum.org
Box Office: 619/465-3742
tix@actorsasylum.org
Contact: Lee Lampard
619/465-3742 (theater)
858/735-3216 (cell)
lee@actorsasylum.org
Actor’s Asylum Productions proudly present Silent
Night, Lonely Night by Robert Anderson.
Featuring John Kenton Shull and Lee Lampard in the lead roles, it is
directed by William Lawrence Kerr, Actor’s Asylum’s new Artistic Director.
Robert
Anderson, who the New York times once described as the dramatist of loneliness,
is perhaps America's most successful playwright to chronicle mid 20th century
American life. Besides Silent Night Lonely Night (1959), some of
Anderson's more famous plays include Tea and Sympathy (1953), All
Summer Long (1954), and I Never Sang For My Father (1968). Anderson
also wrote extensively for motion pictures, including the academy award
nominated Sand Pebbles, The Nuns Story and I Never Sang For My
Father, which also was the recipient of the Writers Guild Of America award. Silent
Night Lonely Night, which was produced on Broadway starring Henry Fonda, is
perhaps the work closest to Anderson's heart. A beautifully crafted drama, it
contains quiet truths and reflections on love and loneliness that remain
unsurpassed in the American theatre library.
Christmas Eve and chemistry work its magic on two lonely people
struggling to get through personal crisis during the holidays.
William
Lawrence Kerr, who begins his stint as artistic director of Actor's Asylum with
this production is proud to be bringing the acclaimed work of Robert Anderson to
San Diego audiences." Silent Night Lonely Night is representative of
the kind of forgotten American gems, that I hope to reintroduce to the local
playgoers during my tenure at the Asylum" Kerr said. William who is known
to Southern California audiences primarily as a well regarded Equity stage
actor, having recently turned in critically acclaimed performances locally as
FDR in Annie and Spider in the regional premier of Jekyll & Hydeâ€,
brings a vast knowledge of the American theatre library as well as the ability
to attract top performers and directors to the new College district theatre.
John
Kenton Shull, whose varied and successful career has taken him from major star
turns opposite Carol Burnett (Company) and Betty Buckley (Gypsy)
on the stage, to a recurring role as Molor "the singing Klingon" on Star
Trek, The Next Generation, is spending the holidays in the lead role of John
Sparrow. Already familiar to San Diego audiences for his critically acclaimed
performance of Daddy Warbucks in this summers production of Annie at the
Starlight Bowl, John is back to lend his talents to this moving American
classic. John whose recent television work includes national commercials for
Apple computer and ESPN and an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm is
appearing at Actor's Asylum through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
Lee Lampard, playing
opposite John as Katherine Johnson, most recently performed in Songs for a
New World and Lips Together, Teeth Apart at Actor’s Asylum, as well
as Annie and Jekyll & Hyde for Starlight Musical Theatre.
She is executive director of Actor’s Asylum Productions and manages the
theater space.
This is the third
production of Actor's Asylum Productions in its home, Actor's Asylum (following Songs
for a New World and Lip's Together, Teeth Apart). Nine productions
have gone up at Actor’s Asylum’s in its first year of operation. The
majority of 2002 being devoted to providing production, audition and rehearsal
space to such burgeoning theatre companies as Beacon Theatre, Women's Repertory
Theatre, Hormonally inCorrect Productions, Asian American Repertory Theatre and
The Muse Theatre.
Plans
for Actor’s Asylum include combining several American classics with one
musical and one new or premier production each season. The 2003 season will be
announced shortly.
Silent Night, Lonely Night runs Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights at 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm at the Actor's Asylum Theatre from
December 5th through January 4th.
Produced by:
Actor’s Asylum Productions
Written by:
Robert Anderson
Directed by: William Lawrence Kerr
Featuring:
John Kenton Shull, Lee Lampard
Julie Scott, Nessa Hill, Spencer Moses, Adam Carver
Stage Management:
Mildred McMillan
Costume Design: Brain Schmittberger
Sound Design:
Jeff Jones
Light Design: Justin Kleiner
Technical/Set Design: Will Widick