Cast

Written and performed by Barbara Bragg. Bragg traces her pioneer family back to her great grandfather when Wyoming was still a territory. Grandpaw Bill and Paw William F. Jr. were both famous Western writers/shamans/storytellers. She made a full frontal assault on Shakespeare at twenty and never looked back, graduating from Utah University (undergraduate) and Yale School of Drama (MFA). Her theatrical credits include: Off-Broadway, Off- Off Broadway, and regional theatres Shakespeare & Company, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Los Angeles audiences will recognize her from her work as a member of the Classical Theatre Lab, The MET Theatre Company, Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, Yale Cabaret Blue/Hollywood and Pacific Resident Theatre. Most recently she starred in Oliver Mayer’s Laws of Sympathy directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera at Playwright’s Arena. Her TV/film credits include: West Wing, ER, Third Rock from the Sun, Jake in Progress, Lincoln Heights, DownStream (with Eric Stoltz), Match Made in Heaven (with Olympia Dukakis). An earlier version of Bragg’s first solo show True West Girl - Funny as a Rattlesnake was directed by Deborah Goodwin and produced by Alfred Molina, and was followed by her show American Cassandra both at the Yale Cabaret Hollywood in 2005. In 2008 True West Girl opened at the M BAR directed by Bruce Katzman, produced by Robert Burnett and Yale Cabaret Hollywood. The show competed in the 2nd Annual Actor’s Group Solo Festival January of this year, directed by Rosser Goodman.

Crew

Directed by Debra De Liso. Debra De Liso has been a theatre artist for over twenty five years, working as a film and stage actor/choreographer/dancer/director/playwright and teacher. She teaches at the USC School of Theatre, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, CSLUA, Rio Honda College, and acting classes in Pasadena. Developing her Master's Thesis in The Physicalization of A Role, and continued study in Hatha Yoga has guided her direction of over 250 original one -person shows.

Produced by WhiteHawk Productions

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