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A very happy birthday to my wonderful step-sister Patty. A beautiful, strong, and smart woman inside and out.

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Happy Birthday Judy! Here we are at a fun family gathering last November in NYC.

Have a great year ahead!

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Our step-sister Diana (recently certified as an animal Chaplain) was just published again for her contribution to this article about animal/pet loss, "When You Struggle to Accept a Loss." Click on the image for the full article, including Diana's section near the bottom. Well done Diana!

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Happy Birthday to Everett! This year, falling on president's day, one of your favorite subjects, as in who should not be president. Have a wonderful year ahead. Here's a great picture of Everett with me, Jane, Josh and George after his recent super performance in Glory Days' one-night fundraiser for the Keen theatre in NYC.

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Hello all.

Feel free (you and yours) to vote in our 2024 Oscar Pool! 

Deadline is 6 pm ET Sunday, March 10th before the 7:00 pm ET ABC broadcast.

You must vote in all categories (feel free to also say who you want to win in any of the categories in addition to the one you think will win).

New this year: please include a charity organization if you can. No worries if you don't have one.

Charity organization:

Oscar Pool 2023 players by correct guesses (this is like when my 10th grade geometry teacher had us sit by grade after every class, boo). If you're not on this list, please consider joining, no worries. 

Jane, Josh, Sam, Caroline, Rebecca, Lizz, David, Louise, Mollie, George, Tracy, Amanda, John, Patty, Diana, Jeanne

Here is a link to a printable ballot, https://abc.com/shows/oscars/news/nominations/oscars-2024-printable-ballot, and the full list of nominees are pasted here, too. Email your choices to [email protected].

https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024

Best picture American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest Best actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper – Maestro Colman Domingo – Rustin Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best actor in a supporting role Sterling K Brown – American Fiction Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer Ryan Gosling – Barbie Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things Best actress in a leading role Annette Bening – Nyad Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall Carey Mulligan – Maestro Emma Stone – Poor Things

Best actress in a supporting role Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple America Ferrera – Barbie Jodie Foster – Nyad Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Best directing Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer

Best animated feature film The Boy and the Heron Elemental Nimona Robot Dreams Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best adapted screenplay American Fiction Barbie Oppenheimer Poor Things The Zone of Interest

Best original screenplay Anatomy of a Fall The Holdovers Maestro May December Past Lives

Best cinematography El Conde Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Poor Things

Best costume design Barbie Killers of the Flower Moon Napoleon Oppenheimer Poor Things

Best documentary feature film Bobi Wine: The People’s President The Eternal Memory Four Daughters To Kill a Tiger 20 Days in Mariupol

Best documentary short film The ABCs of Book Banning The Barber of Little Rock Island in Between The Last Repair Shop Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó

Best film editing Anatomy of a Fall The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer Poor Things

Best international feature film Io Capitano Perfect Days Society of the Snow The Teachers’ Lounge The Zone of Interest

Best makeup and hairstyling Golda Maestro Oppenheimer Poor Things Society of the Snow

Best original score American Fiction Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer Poor Things

Best original song The Fire Inside – Flamin’ Hot I’m Just Ken – Barbie It Never Went Away – American Symphony Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) – Killers of the Flower Moon What Was I Made For? – Barbie

Best production design Barbie Killers of the Flower Moon Napoleon Oppenheimer Poor Things

Best animated short film Letter to a Pig Ninety-Five Senses Our Uniform Pachyderme WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

Best live action short film The After Invincible Knight of Fortune Red, White and Blue The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best sound The Creator Maestro Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Oppenheimer The Zone of Interest

Best visual effects The Creator Godzilla Minus One Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Napoleon

https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024

Reminder: Please vote in all categories and include a charity organization suggestion (optional). 

Again, the deadline is SUNDAY MARCH 10th, 6:00PM ET to email me your votes.

Thanks!

Jackie

[email protected]

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On Super Bowl Sunday, Happy Birthday to Super Dan (front left). Here is many of our family, not all (Ben, Caroline, others) for November Thanksgiving. Go Dan! Go KC (for political reasons..)

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Belated Happy January birthday to Diana (left), here in complementary shirts with Patty (that Patty shared on Diana's birthday) - both my amazing sisters (step). Diana and I have so much fun sharing notes about various life things, including her love of her critters and me loving hearing about them ❤

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Happy Birthday Jane! Have a great Aquarius year.

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Sam was interviewed by KALW Public Media yesterday regarding his series on the sexual abuse crisis in California women's prisons.

Click on the first graphic for a link to the interview.

Below that are links to each of the articles in his 3-part series.

Very proud of his well done investigative reporting.

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Ben and a talented cast open the new play "Poor Yella Rednecks" with previews starting October 10th; opens November 1st!

Here is a discount code for those interested in going.

Click on the the "Poor Yella Rednecs" link above.

Click on Top right "Tickets" 

Scroll down until you see the box with "I have a promo code" above it (under the calendar)

Enter this and then Apply

Type in F&FPYRS (don't paste it in)

Then go to the calendar and to your preferred date, etc.

Very exciting! Feel free to email me with any questions:

[email protected]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 6, 2023

Contact: Chris Boneau/ Amy Kass / Michelle Farabaugh / Kenya Williams

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Manhattan Theatre Club

Announces Full Casting for the

New York Premiere of

Poor Yella Rednecks

By Qui Nguyen

Directed by May Adrales

Previews begin Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Opening on Wednesday, November 1, 2023

At MTC at New York City Center – Stage I

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Chris Jennings (Executive Director) are pleased to announce the full cast for the New York Premiere of Poor Yella Rednecks, written by Qui Nguyen (Vietgone) and directed by May Adrales (Vietgone, Golden Shield). Poor Yella Rednecks will begin previews on Tuesday, October 10 and open on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

The cast of Poor Yella Rednecks will feature Jon Hoche (Vietgone, Life of Pi), Ben Levin (Vietgone, “Kung Fu”), Samantha Quan (Vietgone), Jon Norman Schneider (The Coast Starlight), Maureen Sebastian (The Best We Could: A Family Tragedy), and Paco Tolson (Vietgone).

The creative team for Poor Yella Rednecks includes Tim Mackabee (Scenic Design), Valérie Thérèse Bart (Costume Design), Lap Chi Chu (Lighting Design), Shane Rettig (Original Music & Sound Design), Jared Mezzocchi (Projection Design), David Valentine (Puppet Design), Kenny Seymour (Arrangements), and Alyssa K. Howard (Production Stage Manager).

Qui Nguyen, the wildly inventive playwright (and screenwriter for Marvel and Disney) known for his use of pop culture, pop music and puppetry, reunites with his frequent director, May Adrales, for this funny, sexy and brash new play. A young Vietnamese family attempts to put down roots in Arkansas, a place as different from home as it gets. A mom and dad balance big hopes and low-wage jobs, as old flings threaten to pull them apart. It all makes for a bumpy road to the American dream. From the world of Nguyen’s Vietgone, with its comic book and action movie influences, comes a play that melds a deeply personal story with the playwright’s trademark, killer humor. The New York Times hails the writer’s work as “culturally savvy comedy,” and this production shows you why.

Poor Yella Rednecks is co-commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Manhattan Theatre Club. Support for MTC’s production of Poor Yella Rednecks is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation and Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. Developed in part in Center Theatre Group’s Writers’ Workshop.

The 2022-23 season marked Lynne Meadow’s 50th Anniversary as Artistic Director of MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB. Meadow was recently joined at the helm of MTC by Executive Director Chris Jennings, who succeeded Executive Producer Barry Grove. MTC’s mission, which Meadow created in 1972 and has implemented since, is to develop and present new work in a dynamic, supportive environment; to identify and collaborate with the most exciting new as well as accomplished artists; and to produce a diverse repertoire of innovative, entertaining, and thought-provoking plays and musicals by American and international playwrights. Since 1989, MTC Education, which uses the power of live theatre and playwriting to awaken minds, ignite imaginations, open hearts, and change lives, has also been an important part of our work.

Over five decades, MTC has grown from a small off-off-Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most prestigious and award-winning theatre companies, creating approximately 600 world, American, New York and Broadway premieres. Our productions have earned 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 28 Tony Awards, 50 Drama Desk Awards and 49 Obie Awards amongst many other honors. Our Broadway home is the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and Off-Broadway at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street). MTC is an anti-racist organization that respects and honors all voices, and upholds the values of community and equity, For more information, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com. 

TICKETING INFORMATION

Joining MTC’s season of plays is easy! Just call the MTC Clubline at 212-399-3050 or go to www.manhattantheatreclub.com. Group Sales available now, contact Joanna Lee at [email protected]. Single Tickets on Sale September 5.

BIOGRAPHIES

JON HOCHE returns to MTC after performing in the Off-Broadway Premiere of Vietgone and has collaborated with playwright Qui Nguyen for over a decade. Other credits include - Broadway: Life of Pi (Richard Parker Puppeteer, Associate Puppetry and Movement Director), King Kong: Alive on Broadway (Voice of King Kong/Puppeteer). Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey 2 puppeteer); Soft Power (The Public Theater - Grammy Nominated); Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club); Soul Samurai, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G (Ma-Yi Theater/Vampire Cowboys Theater); Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth (Playwright’s Realm). National Tour: Warhorse (Puppeteer/Puppet Captain). Regional: Revenge Song (Geffen Playhouse). TV: “Hello Tomorrow!” (Apple TV+) - @JonHoche

BEN LEVIN’s MTC debut. Ben just wrapped a season-long arc on the CW series “Kung Fu”. Prior to that, he starred in the series Legacies for four seasons. Selected TV credits include “Arrested Development”, “Love”, and a recurring role on ABC’s “Time After Time”. He appeared in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed Independent Spirit Award nominated feature Test Pattern. Ben can also be seen in the Freeform/Hulu feature Turkey Drop. Other features include Allegiant, Admission, and Mike Birbiglia’s indie comedy Sleepwalk with Me. He's thrilled to be reprising the role of Quang in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone, after starring in the 2018 production at the San Diego Repertory. Ben is New York City born and raised and is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Shout out to TADA Youth Theatre. In addition to acting, Ben makes music under the moniker Grasshapa, available wherever music is found. 

SAMANTHA QUAN’s theatre credits include Poor Yella Rednecks (South Coast Rep); Vietgone (South Coast Rep, MTC); B.F.E. (Just Add Water Festival); Masha No Home (Ensemble Studio Theatre); An Infinite Ache (The Globe Theaters), workshops of To Red Tendons, Peerless, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, Red Flamboyant, American Hwangap (Ojai Playwrights Conference); Monument: Or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play) (Boston Court New Works Festival).  Television credits include “Home Before Dark”, “Elementary”, “NCIS”, “The Mentalist”, “Blue”, “Suburgatory”, “Castle”. Film credits include 4 Wedding Planners, Sake Bomb, Good Grief and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

JON NORMAN SCHNEIDER most recently appeared onstage in Keith Bunin's The Coast Starlight at Lincoln Center Theater. Select New York credits include Catch As Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons), The Chinese Lady (The Public), Henry VI Parts 1-3 (NAATCO), Awake and Sing! (NAATCO/The Public), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center Theater), Lunch Bunch (Clubbed Thumb), A Map of Virtue (13P), among others. Regionally, he has worked at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Alley, Alliance, Barrington Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival, The Goodman, Huntington, The Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Magic, McCarter, Milwaukee Rep, Mosaic, Northern Stage, The Old Globe, and South Coast Rep. His film and TV credits include Bitter Melon, Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy, The Normals, HBO's Angel Rodriguez, “The Endgame”, "Jessica Jones", "Veep", "30 Rock" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".

MAUREEN SEBASTIAN’s theatrical credits include, most recently, MTC’s The Best We Could: A Family Tragedy for which she received a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Featured Performer in a Play; Vietgone (South Coast Repertory) ; Arabian Nights (Berkeley Repertory/Arena Stage); Thunder Above, Deeps Below (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center/Second Generation); Now Circa Then (Ars Nova); Lonely, I’m Not and Year Zero (Second Stage); and Soul Samurai (Vampire Cowboys/Ma-Yi). Television credits include “Love Life” (HBO), “American Gothic” (CBS), and “Revolution” (NBC). She produced and starred in the web series “Pretty Precious Unicorns” and the short film “Second Province”. She co-created the podcasts “Gulp” and “A Guide to Freedom” with The North Star Fund. She is a member of May-Yi’s Writer’s Lab and The Gotham Film & Media Institute.

PACO TOLSON is thrilled to return to Manhattan Theatre Club where he received a Lortel nomination for his work in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone. Paco and Qui have enjoyed an artistic collaboration of over 18 years, and Poor Yella Rednecks will mark their ninth full production together. Select Off-Broadway Credits: Fiasco Theater’s productions of Knight of the Burning Pestle (Red Bull), Twelfth Night and Pericles (Classic Stage Company); The Unwritten Song (EST); Slavey (Clubbed Thumb); The Children of Vonderly (MaYi Theater); Soul Samurai (Ma-Yi/Vampire Cowboys). Regional: to the yellow house (La Jolla Playhouse); Fiasco’s Measure for Measure (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Winter’s Tale and Vietgone (OSF); Peter and the Starcatcher, Vietgone, and Poor Yella Rednecks (South Coast Rep). Audio: (There’s) No Time for Comedy (Playwrights Horizons), The Memory Motel (Two River Theater), Witness (Paramount/Gideon Media), Play On Shakespeare’s Henry V, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure (Next Chapter Podcasts). Film and TV credits include “Billions”, “Law & Order: Organized Crime”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Prodigal Son”, “Search Party”, “The Good Fight”, “Madam Secretary”, “Happy!”, “The Code”, and 7 DAY GIG.

QUI NGUYEN (Playwright) is a playwright, screenwriter, and co-founder of the pioneering geek theatre company, Vampire Cowboys. His plays include Vietgone, Poor Yella Rednecks, Bike Wreck, and the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys shows Revenge Song, She Kills Monsters, Soul Samurai, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl Battle World, Men of Steel, and Living Dead in Denmark. For TV/film, he’s written for Marvel Studios, Netflix, AMC, SYFY, and PBS. He most recently wrote Disney’s Raya and The Last Dragon (nominated for a 2022 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature), and he co-directed and wrote Disney's Strange World in 2022.

MAY ADRALES (Director) is a director, artistic leader, teacher and mother; she has directed over 25 world premieres nationally. Her work has been seen most recently at Second Stage (Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh), Manhattan Theatre Club (Anchuli Felicia King’s Golden Shield, Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone). Awards include: Ammerman Award at Arena Stage; TCG’s Alan Schneider award for freelance directors; Denham fellowship; New Generations Grantee. She is a Drama League Directing Fellow, Van Lier Fellow, WP Lab Director, SoHo Rep Writers/Directors Lab and New York Theater Workshop directing fellow.  She served as an Associate Artistic Director at Milwaukee Rep; Artistic Associate at The Playwrights Center; Artistic Associate at The Public Theater; and Director of Artistic Programs and Artistic Director at The Lark. She serves on the board of Theater Communications Group.  She is currently the Director of the Theatre Program and Assistant Professor at Fordham University.  MFA, Yale School of Drama. (www.mayadrales.net)

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Exciting update! Ben will be making his Off-Broadway debut this Fall! Here is Manhattan Theatre Club's announcement on Instagram and the theatre's press agent BBB's press release that was sent to our magazine.

Poor Yella Rednecks website link:

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Ben is in The Rookie’s Season 5, episode 21 which aired 4-25-23! As Scott, the potential love interest with Detective Celina Juarez (Lisseth Chavez)

Breezy cop story, I watched the whole hour, but you can also go to Ben’s two fun scenes. There’s a dog, too!

-30.04 mark

-20.25 mark

ABC free streaming:

https://abc.com/shows/the-rookie/episode-guide/season-05/21-going-under?view=full

Hulu:

https://www.hulu.com/watch/c21b75a4-2efd-4ec4-9953-b47d8f14c67a

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Happy Wednesday Guitar post...

Happy Wednesday guitar post. Dan sweetly got David a beautiful Enya guitar. It looks and sounds great. David has also gotten really good on his uke, so this addition is perfect. Meanwhile, Ben posted this amusing and fun post of him playing guitar on set with scary make-up on. Check out the little video- he sounds great.

https://twitter.com/thebenlevin/status/1623434489862193152

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Happy Birthday to Jane, February 5 and Connie January 11th. In addition to February also including Grandpa Tom’s Feb 5 birthday, it’s the Academy Awards nominations month aka time to kick off my Jane-wins-another-Oscar-pool soon. Second photo is a beautiful throwback to Jan-Feb 2018, four years ago when so many family flew into San Diego to see Ben in Vietgone at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-diego/regional/Vietgone-San-Diego.

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Sam’s good article was referenced on MSNBC yesterday!

TV clip:

https://youtu.be/LolOw5QN-M0

Article:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022

Bookmark Sam’s link to his ongoing coverage:

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sam-levin

Very proud.

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As many know, I’ve been following the hugely popular Korean band BTS since this spring. Pretty much a full time interest in addition to work, family. My favorite band member V (real name Kim Taehyung) released a cover of It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas on Christmas Eve. Apparently, V loves Bing Crosby songs. I love V’s version and I know Debbie and Tom would have enjoyed it, too. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4mCEanwKI

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Happy Birthday to John! Here we are in July 2017 after a work sleepover. Those were/are always fun. Stay happy and healthy inside and out John!