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Drop (DeAngelis & Barry)
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J. Michael DeAngelis & Pete Barry

Comedy

Trapped at the top of a roller coaster, two old friends ponder their existence while they await their fate.

Playwright Bios:
PETE BARRY is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director and musician. Along with Drop, his short plays Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second and The Banderscott have been selected for performance in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. His screenplay 10 Crimes in 2 Hours was a finalist in the 13th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition. He is a cofounder of the Porch Room, a theater and film production company. He has produced and directed several collections of short plays, including Five Cornered Thinking at the New York Comedy Club and Burt Reynolds Amazing Napalm Powered Oven and Other Paid Programming in the 2001 New York Fringe Festival. A collection including four of his short plays, Accidents Happen, won the 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play. Pete lives in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania with his wife Jean and his daughter Lia.

J. MICHAEL DEANGELIS is a writer, actor and director. In addition to Drop, he has written or co-written the plays Reunion Special, Reverie and Death in the Saloon. He is one of the authors of and co-conceived Accidents Happen, which won the 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Pro¬duction of an Original Play. He starred in and co-wrote the short film Tails Between Their Legs, which was a winner of the National Film Chal-lenge. And God Spoke..., a comedy pilot he wrote and directed, aired on SETV in Pennsylvania. He is the Managing Director of the Porch Room, a collaborative theater and film production company, where he has written and performed in An Evening on the Porch, Accidents Happen and the short film, Early Morning in the Tenement. A proud graduate of Muhlenberg College, Michael is an active performer-director with The Underground Shakespeare Company in Philadelphia, where he currently resides.

Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 34th series

FEE: $35 per performance

Character Descriptions:
MIKE – Afraid of heights. 20s or early 30s
RICK – Mike’s friend. 20s or early 30s
JACKSON – A repair man. Any age.

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