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working with Laura and company to Presentation. She also co-stars in VS’s
bring this intriguing new play to life. web series (Together Apart) and guest
Dave Maulbeck (Voice of stars as Aminata/Customer for season
Francisco) is an two of Cocotazo Media’s audio fiction
entertainment artist and series, Timestorm
member of the Screen (TimestormSeries.com). Assistant/
Actors Guild and he Directing credits include I Am The
recently relocated back to Gooseking by Ben Firke (The Tank),
New York City after a multi Valentine’s Day Cabaret: Kindred
-year stint in Los Angeles. Spirits (Vivid Stage), Portrait of the
He has starred in several Widow Kinski (Vivid Stage), and
commercials, including the Super Bowl Contagious Drama’s 2022 Evening of
Ad, Groundhog Day, for truTV, and as Short Plays. Daria wrote a one-act play
the Polish Polisher for Burger King and
with film credits include, the evil Dr. (Somewhere in Between), which was
produced at the University of Pittsburgh
Wily in Megaman, and the main
character Dracula Goes to Camp, Dave as well as several short plays for
is no stranger to the screen. In 2007 Contagious Drama’s 2022 Evening of
Dave co-founded Chicken Scoop Short Plays. She enjoys traveling and
Productions where he executive collaborating with artists from diverse
produced several spec pilots, music backgrounds and is especially
videos, and web series. More recently invigorated by stories centering Black
he has been developing animation women. You can learn more about
projects with BEHIND the BAG! Daria on her episode of Vivid Stage’s
Productions, where he is co-creator and Local podcast (Season 3; Episode 6).
illustrator of The Kinetix, a comic book Want to create together? Shoot her an
series featuring high school superheroes email at DariaMSullivan@gmail.com.
whose powers derive from their
respective disabilities, which recently Training: BA, University of Pittsburgh.
reached full funding on Kickstarter. Dave Laura Ekstrand
is thrilled to be back and working with (Director) is co-founder
his dear friends at Vivid Stage. and artistic director of
Daria M. Sullivan Vivid Stage, formerly
(Jennifer Evers) (she/her/ Dreamcatcher Rep. She is
hers) is a NJ/NYC based an actor, director,
actor, director, writer, playwright and teacher
teaching artist, and arts who has appeared on
administrator. She is a stages and screens for
member of Vivid Stage’s over 30 years. As an actor: Laura
acting ensemble and appeared at Vivid Stage in 101
playwrights’ group (Dreamweavers), a Humiliating Stories, Water in My
member of Burn It Down/BiD (NYC film Hands, Be Here Now, The Lucky Ones,
collective), a Vira I. Heinz (VIH) What Stays, Sister Play, and
alumna, a Humanity in Action Senior Motherhood Out Loud, among many
Fellow, the Manager of Programs and others, and is a member of the Flip
Services for the New Jersey Theatre Side improv comedy team. New Jersey
Alliance, and the Managing Associate for Theatre: Bickford Theatre, Centenary
Vivid Stage. She co-produced and art Stage, Luna Stage, Passage Theater,
directed BiD’s short films, Variations and Pushcart Players, The Theater Project,
A Cure (respectively). Theatre credits 12 Miles West. New York Theatre:
include Rapunzel (Regional - Byham Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio
Theater/Pittsburgh Cultural Trust), Soft Theatre, and New Georges. Film:
Animals (Vivid Stage), Water in My American Zombieland, Split Ends, High
Hands (Vivid Stage), Be Here Now Art, I Shot Andy Warhol. Television:
(Vivid Stage), and Unveiling Liberty Hacks, Sex and The City, Law & Order,
(Speranza Theatre Company). Daria and The Guiding Light. As a director:
originated the role of Samantha Soft Animals, Twirl, Dead and Buried,
Friedman in Lia Romeo’s The Every Brilliant Thing, The How and the