The Piteous Life and Tragical Death of Steve the Intern Creative Team
Daniel Takacs
Playwright
Daniel A. Takacs is an award-winning playwright and director from Oberlin, Ohio. His original plays have been developed or produced by The Riant Theatre, The Black Experimental Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Boston Playwright’s Theatre. He has taught and directed theatre in Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, and in Boston, where he received his MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University, with a focus on playwriting and directing. Favorite productions he has directed include “The Millennials” (CPT), “The 39 Steps” (Chagrin Valley Little Theatre), and “The Adventurous Adventuress” (Dobama). Dan lives with his wife, Linda, his peanut Greta, and the twins, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Allison Olivia Choat
Director
Allison Olivia Choat is a theatrical storyteller, educator, and activist whose work lies where directing and design meet voice and movement. Allison is Founding Partner and Associate Artistic Director of Cambridge-based Moonbox Productions, which is now entering its fifteenth year creating theater that celebrates local talent, uplifts new voices, and supports other socially-focused non-profits (www.moonbox.org). Recent collaborations include Covenant by John Minigan (Moonbox Productions’ Boston New Works Festival; world premiere); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Moonbox Productions; Director), The Lion in Winter (Theater UnCorked; Director), Sugar (Fresh Ink Theatre; Dialect Coach), As Bees in Honey Drown (Theater UnCorked; Combat and Intimacy Coordinator), as well as guest workshops in voice and movement at Salem State University and Westborough High School and in public speaking at Harvard University. Offstage, Allison is an academic administrator and diversity advocate at Harvard University and a very occasional voice-over performer (Colonial Radio Theatre/ Penumbra Podcast); they also maintain a small private teaching studio focusing on voice and movement for performing artists and athletes. Allison’s work has been recognized with numerous IRNE and Elliot Norton nominations and awards. A bloodsoaked three-ring binder of thanks to Dan for trusting them with this fabulous tale, to Jennifer and Gabby for their tireless support, to this stellar cast for supporting their wildly unconventional definition of “reading” in “staged reading”, and to their mother, a dramaturg, for a childhood rich in Shakespeare.
Gabby Stryker
Gabby Stryker (she/her) is a stage manager in the Boston area and the assistant production manager for the Tufts University Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, where she TA’s the stage management course and mentors students for run crew. She has worked as a stage manager on a number of productions across theater disciplines including; Pimpinone & Ino (Boston Early Music Festival), Cirque of the Dead (Boston Circus Guild), Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels (Moonbox), The Mad Ones (Boston Conservatory), With Blood, With Ink (Seagle Music Festival), Roméo et Juliette (Seagle Music Festival), Good People (Oceanside Theater Company), Birds of North America (MOXIE), The Children (MOXIE), Curious Incident (San Diego Repertory), and Mother Road (San Diego Repertory). Gabby is honored to be supporting this show as it takes its first steps into the world, and she hopes you enjoy Steve and all of his adventures, murderous or otherwise.