90028: Hollywood - Marie Dressler: Good Gal

Written by: Diana Burbano
Directed By: Cameron Watson
Episode Available: December 2, 2021

From her dressing room on the set of the classic MGM film “Dinner at Eight,” the consummate character actress recounts the improbable journey that brought her from small-town ugly duckling to glamorous movie star at the dawn of the studio era. What does it cost a woman to stay on top?

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* This podcast was recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Collective Bargaining Agreement

CREATIVE TEAM:

Series Host – Ramón de Ocampo
Audio Producer, Sound Designer, and Foley Artist – Jeff Gardner
Co-Designer – Andrea Allmond
Original Music – Ellen Mandel
Production Stage Manager – Ben Altman
Audio Editor – Neil Wogensen

Cast

Julia Fletcher*
Marie Dressler
Julia Fletcher has been a theater professional for more than 35 years, working in new play development, as an adapter of the works of Shakespeare, as a director, an Equity stage manager, and a master teacher. She trained and worked as an actor with the American Conservatory Theatre, and has performed with the Old Globe, the Intiman, San Jose Rep, ACT/Seattle, Antaeus, P.C.P.A., and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, among others. She was also the Founding Artistic Director of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Diana Burbano
Playwright: Ghosts of Bogota, debuted at Alter Theater, Feb 2020. Sapience, a National New Play Network rolling world premiere, opens at Moxie Theatre in 2022. Fabulous Monsters is to premiere at Playwrights Arena in 2022. She has worked on commissions for Artists Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Livermore Shakespeare Festival, Lower Depths Ensemble and Hero Theatre and is part of the Geffen’s writers lab. Actor: Diana played Amalia in American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory and Leona in Somewhere Over the Border at  Arizona Theatre Company. She is the Dramatists Guild Rep for Southern California. www.dianaburbano.com
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Cameron Watson
At Antaeus: The Little Foxes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, Top Girls. Other theatres: It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (Pasadena Playhouse); The City of Conversation (Ensemble Theatre Company); Bled for the Household Truth, The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Cock (Rogue Machine); All My Sons (Matrix Theatre); Trying, On Golden Pond Grace & Glorie (The Colony Theatre); I Never Sang for My Father (New American Theatre); I Capture the Castle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). www.cameron-watson.com
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*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
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