THE CATASTROPHE CLUB

“The story is compelling on its own, but even more so in the environment of the playing space. It is a true ensemble experience with all the actors dancing, with clarinet accompaniment, through a heartfelt script by Devin Burnam that delves into the foibles of a dying existence that knows it’s too late to go back."

- David Walters, Front Row Center

THE CATASTROPHE CLUB

by DEVIN BURNAM
Concept by DEVIN BURNAM & CHRISTOPHER J. DOMIG
Directed by SHAUN B. FAUNTLEROY
Assistant directed by KATIE CUNDARI

Fall 2019

The Catastrophe Club invites you 500 years into the future to examine the early 21st century before the collapse of civilization. The world of 2520 is sanitized, organized, peaceful, and, with public gatherings forbidden, isolated. Yet some distant descendants have begun to ask questions, venturing into an illegal recreation room to peer into our past and consider what it meant to be alive in 2019.

is a Brooklyn based writer and performer with a penchant for trying to convince you to put on a play in your backyard and/or living room. His extended family of likeminded collaborators includes Mason Holdings (“Consumption”; Unseen & Unheard Salon Series) and Sister Sylvester. He is a frequent contributor to Naked Angels Tuesdays @9. A bunch more stuff at www.abandonedgasstation.com and www.devinburnam.com.

is an actress, playwright, director, and producer and is overjoyed to be collaborating with Sea Dog Theatre again. With Sea Dog, she has performed in readings of Clybourne Park, Inherit the Wind, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and their beautiful Christmas Tapestry. As an actor, she was last seen in Romulus Linney’s Holy Ghosts (Theatre East), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Smith Street Stage), Richard III (NYIT Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role nomination — Smith Street Stage), The Tempest (Smith Street) and The Winter’s Tale (Smith Street), An Appeal to the Woman of the House (Retro Productions), and Advance Man (Gideon Productions). Recent directing work: Romeo and Juliet (Smith Street), Brain Trust (Core Artists Ensemble). Shaun is a recipient of the Theatre Hall of Fame’s 2017 Emerging Theatre Artist Award and was one of Gingold Theatrical Group’s 2018/2019 Speakers’ Corner playwrights. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog Bentley. They are both foodies. B”H. AEA, DGA www.shaunbfauntleroy.com

Theatre credits include Convention (Irondale); American Dreamers (Workshop Theater); A Piece of My Heart (IATI Theater). Film/TV: "Expecting" (Columbia MFA Film), "Dish" (opposite Dree Hemingway); “Ray Donovan” (Showtime); “Law and Order: SVU” (NBC); “Golden Boy” (CBS). suekimnyc.com Love always to Juan Carlos & Teddy! “The ability to vote is how you tackle climate change. We can’t have climate change legislation simply by wishing it.” - Stacey Abrams Protect the right to vote: fairfight.com, capturingtheflag.com

Credits include “The Woodsman” (Alexander Dinelaris Director); Iago, “Othello”; Aguecheek, “Twelfth Night”; Tuzenbach, “Three Sisters”. All for Oberon Theatre Ensemble. Other NY Theatre: Claudius & Ghost, “Hamlet”; Marcus Andronicus, “Titus Andronicus”; Ferdinand, “Duchess of Malfi”. All for Folding Chair Classical Theatre. Simon Drekker, “Shakespeare’s Slave” for Resonance Ensemble. Regional: Eddie, “Fool for Love”; Spooky Action Theatre, Washington D.C. Oswald & Burgundy, “King Lear”; Indiana Rep and Syracuse Stage. Film: Lead roles in “Ride of Passage” and “Rogue in Londinium”; supporting roles in “Quietus”, “My Brother’s War” and “Heads or Tails”. MFA: Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre Co. /George Washington University.

is an NYC-based Nigerian theatre artist and this is her debut with Sea Dog Theater. She is thrilled to be living on the brink of catastrophe each night with you and this brilliant crew. Selected credits: Sing, Goddess! (HERE Arts), Romeo and Juliet (Smith Street Stage), Salty (Lyra Theatre), Dumpster Fire (SheNYC), 1001 (Columbia Stages), The Odyssey Reimagined (Columbia University), Lysistrata (Savage Players), Julius Caesar (Gangbusters Theatre). MFA, Columbia Grad Acting. Gratitude ever to the fam and Chineke.

has appeared in new works by Dan Rothenberg, Kristin Marting, Ashlin Halfnight, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jerry Lieblich, Eric Bland, Tracy Bersley, Jenny Connell Davis, Jeremy Pickard, Mikhael Tara Garver, Sister Sylvester and art.party.theater.company. Recent credits include: Toshiki Okada’s The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (The Play Company, NYT Critic's Pick); IDIOT (HERE); Tom & Eliza (JACK); Ghost Stories (Tiny Little Band); Dead Behind These Eyes (Sister Sylvester); and Health Insurance (United Solo Festival-- Best Avant-Garde Show). He is a graduate of The Studio/New York and Princeton University, and currently lives in oh so beautiful Brooklyn.

is excited to be performing with Sea Dog Theater for the first time. Credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Smith Street Stage); Brave Smiles....Another Lesbian Tragedy (Pride Plays); The House of Bernarda Alba (Gene Frankel Theatre); Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); A Midsummer Night’s Dream & To Kill a Mockingbird (Syracuse Stage); Baskerville & The Importance of Being Earnest (Cider Mill Playhouse); Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Richard III, and Twelfth Night (Allentown Shakespeare in the Park); and The Grey Boy (Dixon Place). TV/Film: Law and Order SVU (I’m Gonna Make You a Star). In addition to her work as an performer, Rachel teaches phonetics and dialects to fellow actors.