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Damon DiMarco.

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UPDATES

Damon’s under contract for a true crime title from Berkley Books.

Easton Press recently acquired the rights to produce a handsome, gilt-edged, leather bound, collector’s edition of Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11.

Santa Monica Press has come up with a new cover for The Quotable Actor: 1001 Pearls of Wisdom from Actors Talking about Acting. The Quotable Actor will be available in August, 2009. It’s already available for preorder on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com.

Damon’s play, “Shock & Awe: Soldier’s Voices from Iraq” had its world premiere production as part of the Y.E.S. Festival at Northern Kentucky University in April, 2009.

iraq

Brad Goren says,
‘Take A Number.’

Nathan Tubbs
as Spc. Jesse Simon.

Brad Goren and
Tony Springs talk about
killing for oil.

Bravo under fire.

Many thanks to Mike King for his excellent direction; Sandy Forman, the festival’s Artistic Director, for giving a such a volatile piece a chance to live on the stage; the set, lighting, sound, and costume designers for all their hard work; the kick-ass crew; and the awesome cast, which featured: Jyreika Guest, Kieran Cronin, Tim Rhoades, Johnny Kyle Cook, Brendon North, Landon E. Hutton, Nathan Tubbs, Charlie Roetting, Tony Springs, S. Justin Terry, Romeo Seay, Brad Evans, Brad Goren, and Elizabeth Sunderhaus.

Morfa (S. Justin Terry) gets
lectured by Puglisi (Tim Rhoades)

Clockwise from lower left: Ramirez (Johnny Kyle Cook), Von Zill (Kieran Cronin), Burke (Tony Springs), Kavanian (Charlie Roetting), and Simon (Nathan Tubbs, center).

“. . . an admirable production . . . Shock & Awe is a polished script, which DiMarco adapted from his book of the same title, taken from interviews he did with returning Iraq veterans. . .it’s impossible not to be moved by sacrifice piled on sacrifice . . . there was a true, life-and-art affirming sense of theatrical community.”

The Cincinnati Enquirer

A few scenes from a dress rehearsal are available on Facebook, as well as a walk through of the armament NKU used to simulate the actual weapons that U.S. soldiers in Iraq would carry.

Damon and Bill Esper are back at work on a follow-up book to The Actor’s Art & Craft. The next book details Bill’s second year of training based on the techniques he learned from Sanford Meisner. A new, very complimentary review of Art & Craft recently came out in Theatre Topics by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Click here to read a copy.