MAD MEN MEETS MILK
November 22 – December 3, 2011
PAL Studio Theatre
by Jon Marans
With permission by Dramatists Play Service Inc.
“Intellectual, Emotional and Sexual” - New York Times
Directed by Ryan Mooney
Stage Management by Rachel Duffy
Starring Brian Hinson and Devin Pihlainen, featuring Rob Monk, David Nicks and Robert Sidley
“Temperamental” was code for “homosexual” in the early 1950′s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. The Temperamentals tells the story of two men – the communisty Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich – as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States.
What Ryan Says: Without a doubt, one of the most humourous and touching scripts I have read in a long time. A must for anyone who likes a bit of history with their theatre.
RYAN MOONEY (DIRECTOR): Ryan is the Artistic Director and founder of Fighting Chance Productions. Favourite FCP directing credits include The Wiz, Sweeney Todd, Forbidden Broadway, Rent, The Laramie Project, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical! . As an actor Ryan has appeared on stage in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (Fighting Chance Productions and Delinquent Theatre,) Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound (Metro Theatre,) and The Who’s Tommy (Uncle Randy Productions).
As a director he has been nominated four times for Ovation Awards for his work on Sweeney Todd, Rent, Flower Drum Song and The Musical of Musicals: The Musical, winning in 2011 for Sweeney Todd. His production of The Mikado was nominated for 15 CTC Awards including Best Director. Recently Ryan was nominated as two Best Director CTC awards for Forbidden Broadway and The Wedding Singer, for which he won. As a producer Fighting Chance Productions has twice been chosen as Pick of the Fringe for their productions of The Musical of Musicals: The Musical and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead as well was awarded the 2009 Xtra West HERO Award for Outstanding Live Performance for their production of The Laramie Project.
