The Bobbie Olsen Series on the Waxlax Stage presents:
Morning After Grace

By Carey Crim     

After connecting at a funeral, Abigail and Angus find themselves waking up the next morning with more questions and revelations than they each expected. Enter Ollie, a neighbor and former baseball player, who brings insight into Angus’ deceased wife. With comical revelations, this unlikely trio tackles love, loss, and coming to terms with growing old. Set in a Florida retirement community, this heart-warming and often hilarious new comedy takes us on an unexpected journey toward a new lease on life.

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Cynthia Babak* (Abigail) is an actor, playwright, director and deviser. She is a core member of Hook & Eye Theater Co. (actor: Space Nunz of the Rescue Mainframe, She, She, She; God is a Verb; The Summoners), and a founding member of Brave New World Rep. (director: The American Clock and Fabulation). Playwright: Where I Dwell (Florida Rep PlayLab & Lanyard Theater); Life&Death&In-Between (workshops: Actors Institute and Hudson Theatre Works); In the Skin (semi-finalist National Playwrights Conference). Cynthia creates sketch comedy with Michael Huston as Babes in the Woods; and is a 2015 recipient of the Tanne Foundation Award.

Tony Campisi* (Angus) is extremely pleased to be making his debut with Riverside Theatre.  His previous work includes Broadway (The Nerd, Pvt. Wars , and  Awake and Sing! - Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play).   Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theatre,  Roundabout Theatre, Westside Arts - co-starred with Kathy Bates in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, the Promenade Theatre with Elizabeth Ashley in If Memory Serves, the Lion Theatre Company, Naked Angels Company,  Primary Stages and others.   He has been a regular participant at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the Sundance Playwrights Lab working on and helping develop new plays.  Regional Theatres:  Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theatre Festival,  McCarter Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati ,  St. Louis Repertory, NY Stage and Film, Cleveland Play House,  Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,  Philadelphia Drama Guild and numerous others.  Film: A Home of Our Own, Cruzando,  Green Plaid Shirt,  Spiderman 2,  Tyson( HBO) and others.  TV:  multiple appearances on all the various versions of “Law & Order,” “Blue Bloods,” “Ally McBeal,” “Seven Seconds” ( Netflix), “EZ Streets” and others.  He has written two short plays done at the One-Act Theatre of San Francisco. 

Keith Lee Grant* (Ollie) Broadway: Marie Christine, Showboat and National: Ragtime. Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizon, The York Theatre, New Federal Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, and The Jewish Rep. Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburg Public Theatre, The Pioneer Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre. M.F.A Yale School of Drama, M.A. Penn State University, B.F.A. University of Utah and Certificate, The American Conservatory Theatre. Mr. Grant is the founding artistic director of the Harlem Repertory Theatre (HRT) where he was the recipient of the 2009 and 2012 AUDELCO awards for the Best Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical for his work on the HRT's productions of The Wiz and Dreamgirls.