Your Weekly Message from PBD

Dear Friend,

Please join us Friday night, October 16 at 7:30pm for Dramalogue: Talking Theatre!, when the guest will be our fabulous scenic designer and production manager Michael Amico. Mike has designed some 50 productions for PBD, going back to the days at our 88-seat home on Banyan. Producing Artistic Director William Hayes has said of his work, “His scenic design always accentuates and completes the vision of the playwright and the director. He truly is a master.”

Dramalogue is sponsored by Marlene and Martin Silver. Tickets are free, but reservations are required.

Contemporary Voices continues on Monday, October 19 with a reading of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, followed on Wednesday evening with a discussion of the play. Both events begin at 7:30pm. In this searing and compassionate play, lives, friendships, hopes, and the American Dream unravel when the plant that has long employed a tight-knit group of factory workers debilitates their union. Set in blue-collar Reading, PA, Sweat is an all too timely and realistic cri de coeur on racism, the demonization of immigrants, and the disenfranchisement of the working class.

PBD’s reading is directed by Belinda (Be) Boyd and features Bryant Bentley, Austin Carroll, Dylan T. Jackson, Jennifer Jones, Kim Cozort Kay, Tracey Conyer Lee, Brandon Morris, Gabriell Salgado, and John Leonard Thompson. Iain Batchelor will read the stage directions. The participants in the discussion are Boyd, The Dramaworkshop Manager Bruce Linser, and Ike Powell III, who is well-known as a transformational and strategic leader in the community.

To learn more about Sweat, Click here to view this link for another installment of Did You Know.

Contemporary Voices is sponsored by Marilyn Meyerhoff and Sam Feldman. Tickets to both events are free, but reservations are required for each. Visit www.palmbeachdramaworks.org or call the box office at 561.514.4042, x2. And donations to PBD are always welcome.

Stay safe!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT 7:30PM

GUEST:

MICHAEL AMICO

Michael Amico is PBD’s production manager. He has designed the sets for Ordinary Americans, Fences (Carbonell nomination), Indecent, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Edgar & Emily, The Little Foxes, Sweeney Todd, The Night of the Iguana (Carbonell nomination), 1776, Picnic (Carbonell nomination), The Lion in Winter, Of Mice and Men, Talley's Folly (Carbonell Award), The Pitmen Painters, All My Sons (Carbonell nomination), The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Gin Game, American Buffalo, Copenhagen, Private Lives, The Weir, The Chairs (Carbonell nomination), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Carbonell nomination), and Seascape. He has designed scenery for theatres throughout Florida, including Aida at Actors’ Playhouse, Dial M for Murder and Deathtrap at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Fully Committed at the Broward Center, As Thousands Cheer at the Kravis Center, Benedict Arnold at Florida Stage, Ten Unknowns at Florida Studio Theatre, and Beguiled Again at Riverside Theater.