One Damn Thing
a play by Michael David
directed by Dana Schwartz
featuring Shannon Lee Clair & Rob Nagle
produced by Michael David
Artists:
Shannon Lee Clair actor
Shannon Lee has performed with L.A. Theatre Works, Phantom Projects at La Mirada Theatre, Will Geer Theatricum, EST/LA, New Canon Theatre Company (Monterey), Book-It Rep (Seattle), Harlequin Productions (Olympia), and The Antaeus Company, where she is a member. Indie film credits include When You Sleep (in post-production)and The Dangle (Best Short: California International Film Festival). As a writer, Shannon has been a Top 50 List-Semifinalist in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition, a Finalist for fellowships with Stowe Story Labs, and a Quarterfinalist in the Page Awards. Thanks to ample time spent sailing on tall ships in her teens and twenties, Shannon holds a Merchant Marine license from the U.S. Coast Guard. An avid outdoorswoman, she has also hiked and backpacked hundreds of miles in the Sierra Nevada, Rockies, Cascades, and White Mountains of New England. Education: Princeton University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Rob Nagle actor
Rob began his career in Chicago, before years in New York City & Washington, DC. His Los Angeles theater credits include work with Antaeus Theatre Company, Boston Court Pasadena, Fountain Theatre, Moving Arts, Pasadena Playhouse, Road Theatre Company, Rogue Machine Theatre, Skylight Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Troubadour Theater. Regionally, he has worked with Centerstage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Old Globe, Portland Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company. Film credits include: Alien Vacation, The Wolf and the Lamb, Missing Rhythms, Paper Marriage, Sisters, Blonde, Bad Samaritan, New Year’s Eve. Television credits include: Good American Family, Suits LA, Good Trouble, NCIS: Los Angeles, Batwoman, Dynasty, Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy. Training: Northwestern University. Spouse: Heather Allyn. Pug: Houston. @nagdoggie robnagle.com
Dana Schwartz director
Dana Schwartz is an award-winning Los Angeles writer, director, actress, designer & producer. She has directed plays across the country, most recently the critically acclaimed here comes the night at Moving Arts, as well as productions at Theater of NOTE, The Road Theater, Topanga Arts Center, Lyric Hyperion, Fierce Backbone and the Victory Theater. Her play @Playaz was an O’Neill Finalist and had its World Premiere in 2021. Presto! was O’Neill Semi-Finalist, was developed with The Workshop Theater in New York, and was part of the Hudson Valley Theater Festival in May. The Grotto will be part of this summer’s Valdez Theater Conference in Alaska. Early Birds premiered in 2019. She has also had plays produced at Morgan Wixon, Surfside Theater, Nomad Theatre, Parish Players, Eclectic Theater, Echo Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, LeftEdge, Sky Pilot, REDcat LA, Disney Hall, Segerstrom Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Curtis Theater and LACMA. As an actress she has performed around the world. Dana is the Program Director of the MADLab New Play Development Program at Moving Arts.
Michael David
playwright / producer
Michael is a veteran of more than 300 stage productions as a playwright, director, actor, designer and producer. He has written 16 full-length plays and is a recipient of the Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellowship. His plays have been produced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Diego. Michael is an original company member of Paul Stein’s THE CAR PLAYS, for which he has written eight 10-minute plays. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Theatre Communications Group and the American Dialect Society. Michael is also the voice of Dolli Dimples at Chuck E. Cheese’s. MichaelDavidPlays.com
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