Post-Show Talkback - Saturday, Feb. 27 with the
the director, cast and author, Tony Burgess via Skype!

Synopsis

Pontypool, WV: population 2,408 and dropping. 

Radio 660’s own disgraced shock jock Grant Mazzy, along with his producers Sydney and Lori-Ann, broadcast live from the town’s church basement. Other than Grant’s bizarre encounter with a babbling woman on the way to work, it’s a typical small-time news day. And then the calls start. And the screaming. As reports of violent behavior and mob scenes flood in, it becomes clear that something very bad is happening to the residents of Pontypool. But what?

Pontypool is adapted from the 2008 film of the same name as well as radio play, all by author Tony Burgess.  The stage play has been workshopped in a handful of cities in the US and the UK. 

Josh Rocchi, Director

Josh, a West Virginia native, earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre from West Virginia University.  At WVU he worked on many shows, both on stage and backstage, that include “Marat/Sade,” “Twelfth Night,” “A Comedy of Errors” and working on the DC and New York Fringe Festivals. His M. T. Pockets credits include "Art," “Women and War,” “The Irish Curse,” “Butter Side Up,” “Ten-Minute Play Festival" (2013, 2014), “12 Angry Men” and “4 X’MAS.”  Josh has  shared his artistic talent as scenic artist for “Paul and Erin Go To Bed” and “Love, Loss and What I Wore.”

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Cast List

JEFF ORSBURN as Grant Mazzy
RAQUEL NETHKEN as Sydney Briar
ARIEL STONEKING as Laurel Ann Drummond
SEAN BONNETTE as Dr. Mendez
COLIN CRAWFORD as Ken Loney
VOICES:
Donnelle Bohnke, Pete McCumber, Mara Monaghan, Josh Rocchi

Production Stage Managers
Donnelle Bohnke, Mara Monaghan

Tony Burgess

Mr. Burgess lives in Stayner, Ontario, with his wife Rachel and their two children. He is the author of The Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, Caesarea and Fiction for Lovers, which won the ReLit Award.

In 2008, acclaimed director Bruce McDonald adapted Pontypool into film and Burgess was nominated for a Genie Award, and won a Chlotrudis Award, for best adapted screenplay.

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