Our fourth show in our 2011-2012 season is the West Coast Premiere of “Dissonance” – featuring the talents of these beautiful people!
Check these cats out:
Jeffrey Cannata
Jeffrey Cannata (Jonny) is delighted to be returning to the Falcon, having played the title role in 2010’s world premiere of Sam Bobrick’s The Psychic. Other stage credits include All My Sons (TheatreWorks), Cymbeline, Henry IV pt 1, Shenandoah (Texas Shakespeare Festival) Romeo & Juliet (Nevada Shakespeare Festival), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Eclectic Company), Boy’s Life (Next Stage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum). He is perhaps best known as the co-creator and host of the wildly popular Totally Rad Show on Revision3. Other TV includes The Bold and the Beautiful, Reviews on the Run, Just for Kicks, Young and the Restless, and General Hospital.
Daniel Gerroll
Daniel Gerroll (James) has been heard on a number of audio books and has appeared in most of the established New York Theatre companies: The Roundabout, The Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage et al. In 2004 he played ‘Tony Cavendish’ in The Royal Family at the Ahmanson Theatre and ‘Henry Higgins’ at the Guthrie in Minneapolis where he has just returned after playing ‘Benedick’ in Much Ado About Nothing. On Broadway he appeared in Plenty, High Society, The Homecoming and Enchanted April. He is an associate artist at the Bay Street Theatre where he directed and performed in Accomplice, Blithe Spirit and No Time for Comedy. Film credits include Chariots of Fire, The Namesake and Big Business and on TV he has appeared in Law and Order, Cheers, Seinfeld, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods and Burn Notice as well as recurring roles in Knots Landing, Sisters, Cashmere Mafia, The Starter Wife and Ugly Betty.
Peter Larney
Peter Larney (Hal) is from Wilmington, Delware. He earns most of his living working as a baker in a secret hidden kitchen in Los Feliz, and his handmade breads and pastries are featured at Salt’s Cure and Bacon’s Bread. Most recently Peter was seen in Noel Coward’s Peace In Our Time with the Antaeus Company, where he is a member of the A2 Ensemble. Thank you to the Southern California Counseling Center for affordable mental health, without which none of this would be possible. Peter lives with his Framily [sic] in Boyle Heights.
Skip Pipo
Skip Pipo (Paul) is very happy to be making his debut at the Falcon. LA stage credits include Copenhagen, How I Learned to Drive, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (LA Weekly nominee), LADCC award winning Equus, Nicholas Nickleby (all for The Production Company); the critically acclaimed Bug for USVAA; Limitations of Genetic Technology for Offchance Productions at Theater of Note; and Amadeus at California Theater for the Performing Arts. He serves on the board of The Production Company at The Lex Theater in Hollywood. Film/TV work includes the show Reasonable Doubt, the new film Poker Run and numerous commercials.
Elizabeth Schmidt
Elizabeth Schmidt (Beth) Film credits: Kicking the Dog, Incident on Highway 73, An Unbending People, American Patriot, and Waking Olguita. TV: The League, Traffic Light, and As the World Turns. Theater: The Tempest (Cal Shakes), Peaches en Regalia (Sacred Fools), Christmas Times (Theatre 40), Slumpbuster (Piano Fight), Steel Magnolias (Mountain Playhouse), Dracula (Fulton Theatre), and Men Are Pigs (Theatre Row-New York). Web series: InfinityStrategists.com (LA Web Fest Winner–Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Series, IFQ Film & New Media Fest Winner–Best TV). Training: Northwestern University theatre program. www.elizabethschmidt.com
Damian Lanigan (Playwright) was raised in Manchester, England and attended Christ Church, Oxford University. He is the author of two novels: Stretch, 29 and The Chancers, both published by HarperCollins. He has written his own shows for both BBC Radio (Stockport, So Good They Named it Once, Fathers) and for BBC Television (Massive). Damian’s plays include Dissonance, San Andreas and The Talents. He has also been a columnist for ESPN and The Daily Telegraph. Damian appears in the upcoming feature The Wedding Video, an improvised ensemble comedy produced by Anonymous Content (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Before The Door Pictures (Margin Call). He also wrote and created the amusing little web series Points, which is worth a look. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Crispin Whittell (Director) was born in Kenya, studied at Cambridge University, and lives in Beachwood Canyon with his wife, Julia, and son, Arlo. Theater (as a writer and director): Killing Her, Killing Him, Success (Pleasance Edinburgh); Happy Valley (Liverpool Everyman); Stupidity (National Theatre Studio); Clever Dick (Hampstead Theatre); Villa America (Williamstown Theatre Festival). As a writer: Party Tricks (Nottingham Playhouse); Darwin in Malibu (Birmingham Rep); A Christmas Carol (Guthrie Theater). Television (as writer): Happy Birthday, directed by Helen Mirren, starring John Goodman and David Hyde Pierce. As writer and director: Hot Dog. Awards: TMA Award Nomination Best New Play for Darwin in Malibu. The Falcon Theatre staged the US premiere of Crispin’s play Darwin in Malibu. He is currently writing a new stage play and a new musical for the Guthrie Theater, and is under commission to write new plays for Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Hampstead Theatre in the UK.
The Cast of DISSONANCE
