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The Blue-Sky Boys
By Deborah BrevoortThe Blue-Sky Boys
By Deborah BrevoortSoutheastern Premiere
JUST EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 15! When President Kennedy vowed to put a man on the moon, the task landed in the hands of a band of maverick engineers – once the misfits of American science. With no rulebook, they embraced “blue-skying,” drawing inspiration from Buck Rogers, Greek myths, Louis Leakey, and even Snoopy and the Red Baron. An exhilarating ride through the wild imagination that made one giant leap possible!
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Cast
GREG BALLA*
DANNY BERNARDY*
GIL BRADY*
HOWARD KAYE*
PATRICK NOONAN*
JOHNNY SHEA*
KRAIG SWARTZ*
Greg Balla is thrilled to be returning to FST after appearing in The Cottage. Select credits include: Clue - 1st Nat. Tour, Off Broadway: Straight, Blue Man Group. Regional: La Jolla, Hartford Stage, Huntington, Pioneer Theatre, John Drew, Lyric Stage. TV/ Film: The Watcher (Netflix) The Blacklist (NBC), The Penguin (HBO Max), No Hard Feelings (Sony Pictures). imGregBalla.com.
Danny Bernardy is happy to be back at FST. Past credits here include Shear Madness, Alabama Story (Best Supporting Actor nomination), Spamalot, and The Underpants. NYC credits include PEMDAS (59E59, Edinburgh Stage Award for Excellence in Acting), Balls (59E59), Cougar the Musical (St. Luke’s), and Clue (original stage development at Playwrights Horizons), along with works at Cherry Lane, SoHo Playhouse, NY Classical Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and others. Regional highlights: My Fair Lady (Olney Theatre Center), Maple and Vine (American Conservatory Theater), and productions at Pioneer Theater Co, Gulfshore Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Florida Rep among others. Recent TV: Magnum P.I. (Maxwell). Carnegie Mellon, BFA. Member: SAG-AFTRA, AEA.
Gil Brady is so happy to be back and working with so many great friends and colleagues! F.S.T.: Don’t Dress For Dinner, The Outsider, Pictures From Home, Shear Madness, The Play That Goes Wrong, and Outside Mullingar. Off-Broadway: Sideways (Theatre at St. Clements), Shear Madness (Davenport Theatre), and National Pastime (Playwrights Horizons). National Tours: White Christmas, Annie. Selected Regional: Baskerville (Syracuse Stage); Mamma Mia (Capital Rep -Berkshire Theatre Award Nomination); Sound of Music (Alabama Shakespeare); The Addams Family (Gateway Playhouse). TV: My Sordid Affair... (Lifetime Movie Network), Law and Order: SVU. www.Gil-Brady.com
Howard Kaye: FST: The Lehman Trilogy, The Cancellation of Lauren Fein and Tom Jones. He has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, and 20 Regional theaters. He was the Broadway Guest Artist for Disney Cruise Lines and made his equity debut in Peter Pan, flying opposite Sandy Duncan, at the tender age of 12. Broadway World nominated him for outstanding performance by an actor in a supporting role for The Da Vinci Code. When not acting, Howie owns a bar in NYC called Dive106. Juilliard Drama Grad.
Patrick is snow-birdedly happy to be back at FST where he performed in a few of his favorite productions including Advice, Spamalot, and Irma Vep. He was last seen on stage in the Fall with the Portland Stage Company in Dirty Deeds Downeast. A proud veteran of the longest running non-musical in America, he has starred in over 4,000 performances of Shear Madness in several cities across the country including Washington DC's Kennedy Center and the entirety of the OFF-Broadway run. Other notable stage credits include: Hard Cell (GEVA Theatre), The Odd Couple (Cape Playhouse), and On Golden Pond (Florida Rep). TV credits include: Succession, FBI, Bull, Blue Bloods, The Last O.G., Raising Kanan, Akwafina Is Nora From Queens, The Good Fight, The Blacklist, several Law And Orders, The Sinner, Mindhunter, Friends From College. Films Include: West Side Story (2021), The Post, The Princess Diaries, Eileen, and Jules.
Johnny Shea is honored to be back performing at Florida Studio Theater. His favorite performances include Ugly Lies The Bone (FST), American Idiot (American Stage), Tick Tick Boom (Umbrella Arts), The Last Five Years (Portland Stage), Peter Pan (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Deathless (Goodspeed Musicals), and Teeth (National Alliance for Musical Theatre). He holds a BFA from Ithaca College and is an alumnus of Fiasco Theater's 9WC Program.
Kraig Swartz is happy to return to FST what he previously appeared in SOMETHING ROTTEN (Nostradamus), THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE (Tracy Mills) VISIT JOE WHITEFEATHER, PICTURES FROM HOME. OTHER FL credits: Asolo Theatre, West Coast Black Theatre, Florida Rep., Gulfshore Playhouse. Off-Broadway: A PICTURE OF AUTUMN, THE VOYSEY INHERITENCE, THE MADRAS HOUSE, DONOGOO, (The Mint Theatre), TARTUFFE (Pearl Theatre), JUNGLE BOOK (BAM), and the Drama Desk Award nominated SO HELP ME GOD (Lucille Lortel). Philadelphia: TAKE ME OUT (Barrymore Award), FULLY COMMITTED (Barrymore Award) and Vanya in VANYA & SONIA…, all at PTC, and Betty/Edward in CLOUD 9 (Barrymore nomination) at the Wilma. Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Other regional credits include: Guthrie Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Rep./ St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Coconut Grove Playhouse, MeadowBrook Theater, Kennedy Center, Caldwell Theatre. Television: SNL. Film: KNOW HOW, WORLD AND TIME ENOUGH.
Creative
Director | Richard Hopkins
Associate Director | Kate Alexander
Assistant to the Director | Lexy Hatch
Music Composer | Jim Prosser
Scenic Design | Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay
Costume Design | Janice Pytel
Lighting Design | Rob Perry
Sound Design | Nicholas Christensen
Projection Design | Dylan Uremovich
Choreographer | Ben Liebert
Dialect Coach | Paul Meier
Specialty Props | Ian Scheele
AEA Stage Manager | Shira Lebovich*
Stage Management Intern | Ashley Nolt
Rehearsal Stage Management Fellow | Tori Martinson
* Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Funny, brainy, and magical