NOW PLAYING

DECEMBER 4TH, 2019

TERRIBLE SECRET HOUR BY JENNY STAFFORD

THE BLACK BUZZARD, 7:00 PM 1624 Market St, Denver, CO 80202

Thirty-five year old Kate is a professor of Ethics, with only one rule for her students--do not lie to her.  However, as Kate and her husband struggle to have a baby, she finds herself in an ethical dilemma of her own. A new play exploring womanhood, motherhood, and the space between right and wrong.

PLAYWRIGHT

Jenny Stafford

Jenny Stafford is a book writer, lyricist, and playwright. Her lyrics have been heard on Broadway (Cirque du Soliel’s Paramour, Original Broadway Cast Album available), and she holds an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her works include The Homefront (with Sam Salmond, Village Festival of New Musicals), The Artist and the Scientist (with Brandon Anderson, produced Off-Off-Broadway at CAP21), Extended Stay (with Scotty Arnold, Florida Festival of New Musicals), Prodigy (workshop productions through Collaborative Development Project, Two Rivers Theatre Company, and Indiana University), To Have and to Hold (produced by Prospect Theatre Company and Barrington Stage), Cinderella (commissioned and produced by the Spotlight Youth Theatre), Two Bugs are Better Than One (commissioned and produced Off-Broadway by the New York City Children’s Theatre, all with Willem Oosthuysen), The Star Child (with Sarah Underwood and Josh Freilich, produced at French Woods), Awakening (with Joel B. New and J. Oconer Navarro) and Beating a Dead Horse (winner of the 2017 Reva Shiner Comedy Award, produced through the Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Athena Project). Her work has been featured at the Lincoln Center Songbook Series (The Lyrics of Jennifer Stafford), Prospect Theatre Company, The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Songwriter Salon, the New York Musical Theatre Festival, 54 Below, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, and numerous other NYC venues, including multiple inclusions in William Finn’s Ridiculously Talented concert series. Awards include the 2017 Reva Shiner Comedy Award, finalist status for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference, and the Ronald M. Ruble New Play Competition, as well as second prize in the McLean Drama Company Playwriting Competition, and the Paulette Goddard Award. She’s been an Artist in Residence at the Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, Village Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, CAP 21, the Ross Ragland Theatre and the Berkshire Playwrights Theatre. Dramatists Guild member.

DIRECTOR

SUSAN LYLES

Susan Lyles has a BA from Wichita State University, and received certification from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Shakespeare. She has worked on stage in London, Chicago and Denver and has also worked in film, commercials, print, industrial, and voice over. Susan is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of And Toto too Theatre Company, and has directed more than 20 plays, including the award winning Naked in Encino, Car Talk, and Heads. She has designed costumes for more than 50 plays, including Lion in Winter (Denver Victorian Playhouse), 12th Night (Denver Victorian Playhouse), and Greater Tuna and Christmas Tuna (Denver Victorian Playhouse, Town Hall Arts Center). Susan is also producer for the award winning film production company Ruff, Ruff, Dog Productions.

CAST

Amy Serafin (Kate)

Amy Serafin has recently moved to Denver and is excited to make her debut with And Toto too Theatre Company. Amy has her Masters in Classical Acting for the Professional Theatre from LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts). She was most recently seen doing a solo play, Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan in Atlanta for Staged Right Theatre. Amy has also finished writing and directing Women of Smoky Wars, for the Kensington Olympia Festival of Music and Arts in the U.K. Amy’s favorite theatre roles include, Gretchen, Boeing, Boeing, Queen Margaret, Richard III, Phedre, Phedre, and Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing.  When Amy isn’t acting, she is also an award-nominated director, writer, and teaching artist.

austin lazek (ben)

Austin Lazek claims to be from Tennessee, though his origin story is a windy one. He studied film production and theater at the University of Miami, and has lived in Denver since 2015. Past local credits include The Tempest, Beau Jest, Sleeping Beauty, and Death of a Salesman. He is very excited to be back with “And Toto Too Theatre Co." When he isn't pretending to be someone else, he is driving his Jeep on crazy-long trips, rating movies on a two-star scale, and teaching kids all over Colorado.

mark collins(leaf)

Mark Collins has appeared in The Quality of Life, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina, The Audience, The Gun Show, God of Carnage, How I Learned to Drive, Mr. Burns-a post electric play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Pitman Painters, Lost Creatures and other plays in Colorado.