Southern Baptist Sissies

Southern Baptist Sissies
Director: Del Shores
Beard Collins Shores Productions
Running Time: 138 minutes
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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER – Birmingham SHOUT Film Festival
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER – North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
TITLE CREDITS
BEARD COLLINS SHORES PRODUCTIONS presents
a film by DEL SHORES
EMERSON COLLINS
WILLAM BELLI
MATTHEW SCOTT MONTGOMERY
LUKE STRATTE-McCLURE
NEWELL ALEXANDER
ROSEMARY ALEXANDER
BOBBIE EAKES
ANN WALKER
JOE PATRICK WARD
with DALE DICKEY
and LESLIE JORDAN
Music by JOE PATRICK WARD
Lighting Designer KATHI O’DONOHUE
Costume Designer CRAIG TAGGART
Editor DONNA MATHEWSON
Production Designer JEFF ROBINSON
Director of Photography NICKOLAS ROSSI
Co-Producer DONNA MATHEWSON
Executive Producer LOUISE H. BEARD
Produced by EMERSON COLLINS, DEL SHORES
Written and Directed By DEL SHORES
LOGLINE
Southern Baptist Sissies is a film of the theatrical experience
of writer/director Del Shores’ GLAAD Award-winning play
about four gay boys growing up in the church. It explores the
conflict between the caustic rhetoric of dogmatic religion and
the fragile development of adolescent homosexuality while
challenging hypocrisy, exposing damage and offering hope.
The intimate experience of theatre on the film screen reveals
the complicated emotions from all sides – the confused child,
the struggling adolescent and the angry and damaged adult.
SYNOPSIS
Southern Baptist Sissies is the film of the award-winning 2000
play by writer/director Del Shores. The film is not an
adaptation, but an actual capturing of the play in the theatre
on the stage, allowing the film audience to be a part of the
electricity and intimacy of the original theatrical experience.
Southern Baptist Sissies explores the conflict between the caustic rhetoric of dogmatic religion
and the fragile development of adolescent homosexuality while challenging hypocrisy,
exposing damage and offering hope. Writer and director Del Shores draws the audience into
the fire, allowing them to laugh one minute and cry the next as they experience complicated
emotions revealed from all sides – the confused child, the struggling adolescent and the angry
and damaged adult.
Southern Baptist Sissies follows the journey of four gay boys growing up in the Southern
Baptist Church. Storyteller and narrator Mark Lee Fuller (Emerson Collins) guides the story
through the formative experiences and moments that heightened the conflict between the rigid
teachings of the church and their developing sexuality for each of the boys. Mark, the thinker,
questions the teachings of the church from an early age, unable to understand a God of love
who would send people to
hell and grows into an
adult eager to expose the
hypocrisy he experienced.
Andrew (Matthew Scott
Montgomery), Mark’s
childhood best friend and
the sensitive one, prays
harder and harder for God
to take it away, even as
he begins to venture into
the gay world to explore
the sexuality he is taught
is a terrible sin. Benny
(Willam Belli), the most
flamboyant of the boys,
embraces his own true
nature early on and
becomes one of the preeminent drag entertainers in Dallas, performing as country divas and
ultimately Tina Turner. T.J. (Luke Stratte-McClure) is Mark’s first love. His fear of his military
father and his acceptance of the teaching that the Bible says that “that kind of love is wrong”
leads him to fight his own feelings, reject and judge Mark and attempt to live a normal life with
a woman.
Mark exposes the harsh and judgmental words of the Pastor (Newell Alexander) that weighed
so heavily on four adolescent boys in different ways and impacted the way their families
reacted as well. Mark’s Mother (Bobbie Eakes) encourages him to accept Jesus so he will not
go to hell. Benny’s Grandmother (Ann Walker) worries that her sissified grandson doesn’t act
like other normal little boys. Andrew’s Mother (Rosemary Alexander) admits she does not
want her son to be one of them, and her attempt to tell him so has disastrous effects. The
world Mark creates also includes two worn out older barflies, Preston “Peanut” LeRoy (Leslie
Jordan) and Odette Annette Barnett (Dale Dickey), whose witty banter and raucously lighthearted and hilarious storytelling hides their own pain and scars caused by the church and its
impact on their own self-worth. As Mark weaves all of their stories together he tries to create a
perfect world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, in spite of the
judgment and rejection while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage at
the church, the pastor and the parents who taught all of them through words and actions that
because of who they are, they are less than.
Del Shores’ brings the story through hysterical laughter using incisive judgment of the
hypocrisy of many churches and pastors on his way to revealing the tragedy of the often
permanent damage done to children, teenagers and adults when hate is spewed in the name
of the Lord.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT – DEL SHORES
In 1998, in the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard, I saw a news
article with a photo of one of the killer’s apartments and on the wall was a
prominent picture of Jesus. It made me wonder – was this young man
who committed this heinous murder of an innocent, young gay man
taught by his pastor, parents and church to spew hate in the name of the
Lord? I grew up in those pews, too, in a tiny Texas town. I thought I had
dealt with all of my anger with the church, but this incident brought back
all the damage and all the rage. The result was my most personal play –
Southern Baptist Sissies. My mother was a drama teacher and taught
Sunday School and my father was a Southern Baptist preacher. I, like so
many other gay men and women, was raised to believe that
homosexuality was a sin that would send me to hell to “burn in the lake of
fire for all of eternity where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
My coming out journey was longer and more painful than it needed to be
because of the judgmental and hypocritical teachings of the dogmatic
church and the shame and guilt created a great deal of pain and anger for me as an adult. When
Sissies premiered as a play in 2000, the response from audiences was overwhelming. I was blessed to
hear the stories of gay men who found it healing and cathartic to remember what they went through and
from parents and families who said it helped them finally understand their gay family member’s
struggles. The impact of this piece that I never could have imagined while writing it is best exemplified
by the story of one young man who told me he decided not to kill himself after seeing my play.
This brings us to this film. With the incredible strides the LGBT community is making toward equality, I
have watched as conservative groups, churches and pastors have fought back against us with rhetoric
that is harsher than ever before. I realized that even as we gain equality, there are still gay children,
teens and young adults living in families and growing up in communities and churches where they are
still being told they are “less than.” Unfortunately, Sissies is even more relevant today than it was when
I wrote it, and my producing partners and I decided to find a way to share this piece and its message
beyond live theatre.
In considering this, I realized there is something magical about the experience of being in a theatre and
watching the actors perform live. I am a huge fan of the old Playhouse 90 productions that were filmed
live for television. I decided that this was a perfect piece to create something unusual. Rather than
adapt the project to film, I made the choice to film the theatrical production. I shot four live
performances with three cameras in each show to capture the experience and the energy of the work in
front of a participating audience. Then I shot the actors in close-ups and for coverage on the same
theatrical set for eight days. The result is that I have edited the live performances and the film
coverage together to make it feel like one night of live theatre with all the intimacy of film. This hybrid
result is meant to acknowledge the theatre that I began my career in and bring the film audience into
the theatre to share as closely as possible in the
feeling created for so many who loved the play
first, while sharing it with a broader audience. It
is a labor of love from the actors, the crew, the
production team and the incredible supporters
and fans that helped us raise the budget to
make this passion project possible through our
Indiegogo campaigns. It is my hope, and our
hope, that it will be seen by those who need
hope, understanding or just a way to tell others
what their journey was like until no questioning
young boy or girl will ever be made to feel like
they are unworthy because of who they are.
Del Shores – Writer/Director/Producer
Del Shores has written, directed and produced successfully across studio and
independent film, network and cable television and regional and national
touring theatre. Shores’ career began with the play Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got
The Will?) in 1987. The play has been produced in over 2,500 theatres
worldwide. A movie version was released in 1990 starring Beau Bridges, Tess
Harper, Judge Reinhold, Keith Carradine and Beverly D’Angelo. Shores wrote
the screenplay and executive produced the film.
Sordid Lives opened in 1996 and won 14 Drama-Logue Awards, including three
for Shores for writing, directing and producing. In 1999, Shores wrote and
directed the film version starring Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, Olivia NewtonJohn, Bonnie Bedelia, Leslie Jordan and Beth Grant. The film took in nearly
two million dollars in its eight theatre limited release and became the longest
running film in the history of Palm Springs with a record ninety-six weeks. The
movie won six Best Feature and thirteen Audience Awards at film festivals. The DVD has now sold
over 300,000 units.
His play Southern Baptist Sissies followed, with a ten-month sold-out run in 2000 and 2002. Shores
received multiple Best Direction and Best Writing awards, and the play won the GLAAD Award for
Outstanding Production of the Year. In 2003, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife
won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s Ted Schmitt Award for Best World Premiere of an
Outstanding New Play and five Back Stage West Garland Awards, two NAACP Awards, an LA Stage
Alliance Ovation and three LA Weekly Awards. In 2006, Shores revived Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist
Sissies, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife in Los Angeles before a successful six
city national tour, starring Delta Burke and Leslie Jordan, which played in 1000-1700 seat houses.
Sordid Lives: The Series premiered on Viacom’s LOGO network in 2008 starring Olivia Newton-John,
Rue McClanahan, Leslie Jordan, Beth Grant and Caroline Rhea. Shores created, wrote, directed and
executive produced all twelve episodes. The series was distributed internationally in syndication in
seventeen countries. Shores has written and produced in television including Dharma and Greg and
Queer as Folk. He also wrote, directed and produced the Showtime movie The Wilde Girls.
In 2010, Shores’ newest play Yellow opened winning various Los Angeles theatre awards including
Best World Premiere, Best Production, Best Direction for Del Shores himself (Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle, Backstage Garland, LA Weekly, Broadway World.)
In 2011, Shores wrote, directed and
produced the screen adaptation of his play
The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash
Housewife entitled Blues For Willadean with
the entire original stage cast: Beth Grant,
Octavia Spencer, Dale Dickey, David Steen
and Debby Holiday.
Shores has played 134 cities with his three
one-man shows Del Shores: My Sordid Life,
Del Shores: Sordid Confessions, both
available on DVD, and Del Shores:
Naked.Sordid.Reality. Shores also recently
returned to acting and completed principal
photography, co-starring in the independent
feature Cry.
Emerson Collins – Producer/”Mark”
Emerson is best known for his work as “Max” in Sordid Lives: The Series.
Emerson co-produced the series for LOGO. Emerson produced Blues For
Willadean, the film adaptation of the NAACP award-winning play The Trials
and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife. He produced the revivals of
Sordid Lives and Trailer Trash Housewife while appearing onstage in
Southern Baptist Sissies, as well as the national tour of Sordid Lives and
Sissies while performing in Sissies opposite Leslie Jordan and Delta Burke.
Emerson produced the world premiere of Del Shores’ Yellow, LA Drama
Critic’s Circle Award for Best Production. Award-winning regional theatre
work includes Best Supporting Actor for The Secret Garden, Best Actor for
Southern Baptist Sissies and additional nominations for The Outsiders, A
Man of No Importance and the title roles in Joseph…Dreamcoat and Hans
Brinker or the Silver Skates. Other regional highlights include Hamlet and
Taming of the Shrew with Shakespeare in the Park Dallas, An Inspector
Calls, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Fiddler on the Roof, The Fantasticks, My Fair Lady, Romeo and
Juliet and the Off-Broadway Premiere of Rice and Menken’s King David in the role of “Jonathan”. LA
theatre includes The Altruists and Twelfth Night with The Mechanicals Theatre Group and the world
premiere of The Boomerang Effect by Matthew Leavitt. Emerson also directed and produced the
DVDs of Del Shores’ one man shows Del Shores: My Sordid Life and Del Shores: Sordid Confessions.
Willam Belli – “Benny”
Willam is best known as a crossdressing actor. He memorably played “Cherry
Peck” on Nip/Tuck, Stiffler’s she-male in American Wedding and the tranny in
the pre-Broadway runs of Rock of Ages. Other television work includes CSI,
Southland, Saved, Cold Case, The Shield, Criminal Minds, The District,
Women’s Murder Club, CSI:NY & The Forgotten, HDNet’s Svetlana, Comedy
Central’s Nick Swarsdon’s Pretend Time & American Body Shop, My Name is
Earl, Nerdist’s Neil’s Puppet Dreams. Film work includes Because I Said So,
Bloodrayne 3, Blubberella and “Candy Darling” in HBO’s Cinema Verite.
Willam played J-Woww in the Audience Award winning Jersey Shoresical at
the NY Fringe Festival. His band TranzKuntinental can be seen at the Viper
Room, The Roxy and House of Blues. As a singer, his viral video parodies of
hit songs including “Chow Down At Chik-Fil-A” and “Boy Is A Bottom” have
become internet phenomena amassing over twenty million views.
Matthew Scott Montgomery – “Andrew”
Matthew is best known for his work on Disney’s So Random. Other film and
television work includes Austin & Ally, Shake It Up, Nickelodeon’s Night of the
Living Fred, MTV’s Warren the Ape, Hallmark Movie Channel’s Expecting a
Miracle. He won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured
Performance by an Actor in a Play, Backstage West Garland Award for Best
Performance by an Actor in a Play, StageScene LA’s Comedic/Dramatic
Performance of the Year and Ovation Nomination for Best Actor in a
Supporting Role for his the role of “Kendall Parker” in Yellow (Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production, Backstage West Garland
Award for Best Production/Ensemble, LA Weekly Award for Best Ensemble,
BroadwayWorld’s Southern California Best New Work,) written and directed by
Del Shores at the Coast Playhouse. Other theatre work includes The
Production Company’s Spring Awakening, Rogue Machine’s American Dead,
Theatre Unleashed’s Friends Like These (Artistic Director’s Award Best
Ensemble), GTC Burbank’s Eternal Equinox. Zephyr Theatre's Jacob and Jack.
Luke Stratte-McClure – “T.J.”
Born and raised in France, Luke studied Drama and Film at the University of
Kent at Canterbury, England and went on to complete a Master’s Degree in
Acting at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2008, before
moving to the U.S., he toured London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
with Grey Days by Colin Goodwin, and starred in Evan Placey’s comedy,
Dinner on the Fourteenth Floor, at the Hampstead Theater, London. In 2010,
he originated the role of “Dayne Westmoreland” in Del Shores’ award-winning
play, Yellow. In 2012, he originated the role of Paul in Matthew Leavitt’s The
Boomerang Effect at The Odyssey Theatre, directed by Damaso Rodriguez,
produced by Del Shores. Film and television work include Nip/Tuck and the
upcoming independent films Truly Blessed and Altogether Now.
Leslie Jordan – “Preston ‘Peanut’ LeRoy”
Winner of the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy
Series for his portrayal of “Beverley Leslie” on Will and Grace, Leslie’s many
other recurring roles on television include Raising Hope, Neighbors, The
Secret Life of the American Teenager, Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal,
Ugly Betty and Reba. Feature film audiences will recognize Leslie from The
Help and his performance as “Brother Boy” in Sordid Lives. He continued the
role in Sordid Lives: The Series. On stage, Mr. Jordan won the Ovation
Award, The Garland Award and The L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for his
portrayal of “Preston Leroy” in Southern Baptist Sissies. His book My Trip
Down the Pink Carpet formed the basis of a one-man show, which had a 45
city tour, a twelve-week Off-Broadway run, a six-week run at the Apollo
Theater in London and is available on Netflix. Leslie’s other one-man shows
Like a Dog on Linoleum, Full of Gin and Regret, From Whence I Came, Deck Them Halls Y’All and
Stories I Can’t Tell Mama and Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued
My Life Thus Far have run to sold-out houses in LA and New York City. His latest, Fruit Fly, opened in
2012. Leslie’s screenplay Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel won the Los Angeles Independent Film
Festival’s Production Grant Award and was made into an independent feature film distributed by
Northern Arts Entertainment.
Dale Dickey – “Odette Annette Barnett”
Dale won the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Award for best supporting actress
and shared the Gotham Award for best ensemble for 2010 Sundance Grand
Jury Prize Winter’s Bone. Over 30 films to her credit, studio features include:
Iron Man 3, The Pledge, Domino, Changeling, A Perfect Getaway, Super 8,
and upcoming The Guilt Trip and Iron Man 3. Indies include: ...2 Girls In Love,
Our Very Own, Being Flynn, Evidence, The Man Who Shook The Hand Of
Vincente Fernandez (playing Ernie Borgnine's daughter in his final film), and
Blues For Willadean (with Octavia Spencer and Beth Grant). Currently filming
3 indies – White Bird in a Blizzard, Southern Baptist Sissies and I Fought The
Law. Over 40 guest appearances on television, most memorably her
recurring roles in True Blood (Wolf “Martha Bozeman”), Breaking Bad (the
ATM murdering “skank”) and My Name Is Earl (“Patty, the daytime hooker”).
A veteran of the stage, she has worked on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in
The Merchant of Venice, off-Broadway, on L.A. stages such as the Odyssey,
Matrix, Hudson Guild and the Blank, and in numerous regional theatres around the country – recently
starring on the Clarence Brown Theatre stage in A Streetcar Named Desire and Sweeney Todd.
Newell Alexander – “Preacher”
Newell plays “Dr. Burke” in Tracy Letts’ upcoming film adaptation of the awardwinning play, August: Osage County. He played the role of “Wardell” in Del
Shores’ film and television versions of Sordid Lives, his stage credits include
the original productions of Shores’ Cheatin, Daddy’s Dyin’…Who’s Got the
Will?, Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies and Leslie Jordan’s Hysterical
Blindness. Other recent films include The Gundown, Easy Rider II, First Strike,
Dragon Hunter, and Leslie Jordan’s Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel. TV
credits include Justified, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Las Vegas, Judging Amy
& Designing Women. Newell is a principal member of the L.A.MadDogs
ADR/Walla Group, and has done voice overs for hundreds of productions such
as Transformers, Shrek, Madagascar, & How to Train Your Dragon. Newell
performed as Neil Young's opening act "Dan Clear" for 84 shows in 1983-84.
Bobbie Eakes – “Mark’s Mother”
For over 25 years Bobbie has worked primarily in television and is best known
for her roles as “Macy” on The Bold and the Beautiful and “Krystal” on All My
Children, a role that won her two daytime Emmy nominations for Best Lead
Actress. Bobbie portrayed Daniella in Sordid Lives: The Series and can be
heard on the film’s music soundtrack on “Better a Painful Ending”. As a
singer, Bobbie has recorded for Epic Records as well as Sony Nashville and
has two double platinum albums in Europe. In the US, her CD Something
Beautiful entered Billboard’s Smooth Jazz chart at 21. In Nashville she
recorded the duet “Tired of Loving This Way” with country music star Collin
Raye on his Tracks CD and performed the soaring ballad with him at The
Grand Ole Opry as well as The Greek in Hollywood. On stage she has starred
along with Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and Rose Marie in the title role of
Cinderella at the Pantages in Hollywood opposite Jeff Trachta as “The Prince”.
Other regional theatre roles include “Melissa Gardner” in Love Letters and most recently “Velma Von
Tussle” in Hairspray which won her a Desert Theatre League nomination.
Rosemary Alexander – “Andrew’s Mother”
Rosemary Alexander stars as “Dr. Eve Bolinger” in Del Shores' film, Sordid
Lives and also Sordid Lives: The Series. Other films include Madhouse,
Leslie Jordan’s Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel, and The Trip. TV
appearances include Las Vegas, Cold Case, Heartland, Murder She Wrote,
Dharma & Greg, The Pretender, Designing Women, Days of Our Lives
(recurring), General Hospital, Dallas, Knots Landing and Passions. Rosemary
created the role of the three “Mothers” in Del Shores’ play Southern Baptist
Sissies at the Zephyr Theatre. She also created the role of “Dr. Eve” and
received a Drama-Logue award for her performance in Del Shores' play,
Sordid Lives. She created the role of “Evalita” in Shores’ Daddy's Dyin' Who's
Got The Will? at Theater-Theatre in Hollywood for which she received an LA
Weekly Theater Critic's Award. From other LA theatre performances
Rosemary has Drama-Logue Awards for The Early Girl, and And Miss
Reardon Drinks a Little. In 2012 Rosemary had the joy of playing “Big Mama”
in Spotlight Entertainment’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Center
Stage Theater in Santa Barbara. In addition, Rosemary is a commercial and voice-over actress who
has done TV and radio spots, narrations and voice tracks for feature films including Flight, Magic Mike
and Guilt Trip. She has also guest starred on several NPR radio dramas for Hollywood Theater of The
Ear.
Ann Walker – “Benny’s Grandmother”
Award-winning actress Ann Walker is best known as “LaVonda Dupree” in
Sordid Lives: The Series. Ann reprised the role which she originated in Del
Shores’ 1996 play and 2001 movie by the same name. She originated the role
of “Odette Annette Barnett” in Southern Baptist Sissies, receiving the LA Drama
Critics Award and an Ovation nomination for her work. Ann has enjoyed a long
career in movies, TV and stage. Her most recent TV work includes Lone Rider
and Undercover Bridesmaid on Lifetime and the very popular web series, Child
of the 70’s. Last year she embarked on a new career as co-owner and radio
host of her own internet radio station, Universal Broadcasting Network and is
heard weekly on The Ann Walker Show, where she discusses LGBT topics and
politics and can be found at www.ubnradio.com.
Joe Patrick Ward – “Houston/Bro. Chaffey”/Composer
Joe Pat is a composer-lyricist in theatre, film and television. His collaboration
with Del Shores began with Southern Baptist Sissies in 2000, when he originated
the roles of "Brother Chaffey" and "Houston" and helped create the play's
musical sequences. His wrote original songs the score for the film Blues For
Willadean, based on Del's play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash
Housewife. Joe scored every episode of Sordid Lives: The Series on LOGO,
and appeared onscreen as "Marshall". In New York City, Joe wrote the music
and lyrics for Leslie Jordan's show Hysterical Blindness & Other Southern
Tragedies. He wrote the music for the cult musical Judy’s Scary Little Christmas
and the book, music and lyrics for another cult favorite The Grave White Way,
both produced nationwide. He was the staff composer for Warner Brothers
Feature Animation, and songwriter/head comedy writer for the NPR broadcast
Propaganda Radio.
Louise H. Beard – Executive Producer
Louise H. Beard most recently produced the world premiere of the three-time
Tony nominated A Christmas Story to rave reviews on Broadway. Broadway
producing credits include Ragtime (7 Tony/8 Drama Desk nominations including
Best Musical 2010), Finian’s Rainbow (3 Tony/8 Drama Desk nominations
including Best Musical 2010), The Pee-Wee Herman Show, The Scottsboro
Boys, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Porgy and Bess, Nice Work If You Can Get
It, Ghost, the Musical. Off Broadway and National Tour producing work
includes Through the Night, Leslie Jordan’s My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, the
national tour of A Sordid Affair, the world premiere of Del Shores’ Yellow. She
produced the DVD’s of Del Shores: My Sordid Life and Del Shores: Sordid
Confessions, and was an Executive Producer for Blues For Willadean. Louise is
a founding partner of Beard Collins Shores Productions.
Donna Mathewson – Co-Producer/Editor
Donna Mathewson spent years as a CAD software engineer before running away to film school. In her
first editing class, she found her passion. Editing feeds on everything that made her an exceptional
software engineer and frees her inner art student, the one who got packed off to 'real' college under
protest years earlier. She has edited 12 feature films, 2 feature length documentaries and all of Del
Shores’ one man shows since coming to Los Angeles in 2004. She was an Associate Producer for Love
or Whatever, and is producing the upcoming feature Real Heroes. Donna has been working with Del
Shores and Emerson Collins since her time as Assistant Editor on Sordid Lives: The Series. She also
works as a visual effects editor and colorist, and is the editor for the upcoming series East Los High.
END CREDITS
TIM REISCHAUER
Unit Production Manager/
First Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director
MICHAEL CURRIE
Executive Producers
JOHN PAFFORD
JUDY VETTER
Associate Producers
CYNTHIA SANDERS
THOMAS STEWARD
LINDA SWARTZ
DEBBY HOLIDAY
JOE PATRICK WARD
GARY SKALA
SHARRON ALEXIS
STUART BELL
BILL DONIUS
DOUGLAS JOHNSON
CHUCK PHELAN & STEVE McINTYRE
JOEL STRATTE-McCLURE
CAST
Mark
Benny
Andrew
T.J.
Mark’s Mother
Andrew’s Mother
Bro. Chaffey/Houston
Preacher
Preston “Peanut” LeRoy
Odette Anette Barnett
Benny’s Grandmother
Stripper
Ikette
Ikette
EMERSON COLLINS
WILLAM BELLI
MATTHEW SCOTT MONTGOMERY
LUKE STRATTE-McCLURE
BOBBIE EAKES
ROSEMARY ALEXANDER
JOE PATRICK WARD
NEWELL ALEXANDER
LESLIE JORDAN
DALE DICKEY
ANN WALKER
JOHNA MYERS
T. ASHANTI MOZELLE
ANTHONY CHERRY
Originally produced for the stage by Sharyn Lane
Zephyr Theatre, Hollywood, CA
A Camera Operator
A Camera First Assistant Camera
B Camera Operator
B Camera First Assistant Camera
C Camera Operator
Additional Assistant Camera
Electrician
Spotlight Operator
Production Sound
Production Sound Mixer
Assistant Production Sound Mixer
Utility Sound Technician
Property Masters
NICKOLAS ROSSI
MARK PARSONS
J.T. GURZI
ADAM KOLKMAN
LEAH ANOVA
JAMIAL VANOWEN
JACK GEORGE
REBECCA SHORES
DIABLO SOUND
DREW DALZELL
MARK JOHNSON
BECCA KESSIN
RACHEL SORSA
T. ASHANTI MOZELLE
CARRIE MERCADO
LEYA OAKLEY
COLIN BLUNDELL
T. ASHANTI MOZELLE
ANTHONY CHERRY
JORDAN RIKER
MASON McCULLEY
AMBER HIGGINS
MIKE JUSTICE
RACHEL SORSA
REBECCA SHORES
RACHEL SORSA
JORDAN RIKER
RACHEL MILOBAR
Make-Up/Hairstylists
Additional “Ikette” Makeup
Wardrobe Supervisor
Choreographer
Key Set Production Assistant
Assistant to Del Shores
Script Assistant
Assistant Editor
Stage Manager
Box Office Manager
House Manager
Main Title Art Producer
Graphic Artist/Illustrator
Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer
MICHAEL J. McDONALD
PRIVATE ISLAND AUDIO
ROBYN WHITNEY
CHELSEA CARMICHAEL
MATT D. HALL
LEOBARDO LEDON
ANTHONY GORE
CHRIS CONLEE
ABS PAYROLL & PRODUCTION
ACCOUNTING SERVICES
ROBERT GOUDIE
ASIS FINANCIAL
Audio Post Facility
Audio Post Coordinator
Post Audio Booking
Dialog Editor
ADR Recordist
Post Consultant
Audio Layback
Payroll Services
Payroll Coordinator
Insurance
Camera and Lenses
HD PIONEERS
Grip and Electric Equipment
ANGSTROM LIGHTING
BIRNS & SAWYER, INC.
Edited on
AVID
Original Score Produced and Performed by
JOE PATRICK WARD
Hymns Arranged and Performed by
JOE PATRICK WARD
“Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior”
Written by Frances J. Crosby and William H. Doane
Performed by Levi Kreis
Arrangement by Joe Patrick Ward and Levi Kreis
Piano by Joe Patrick Ward
“When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder”
Written by James M. Black
"Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior"
Written by Frances J. Crosby and William H. Doane
“Doxology”
Written by Thomas Ken
“The Seeker”
Words and Music by Dolly Parton
Vocals by Willam Belli
Background Vocals by Debby Holiday
Vocal Production by Debby Holiday
Arranged and performed by Joe Patrick Ward
©1973 Velvet Apple Music (BMI), Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved.
“O Happy Day”
Written by Philip Doddridge
“Revive Us Again”
Written by William P. Mackay and J. J. Husband
“Dive”
Chris Cox Club Anthem – radio edit
Performed by Debby Holiday
Written by Debby Holiday & Bryan Corbett
Published by Joshman Music (ASCAP), Ice Cream Headache Music (ASCAP)
© *Nebula 9 Records, Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved.
“Don’t Look Back”
Words and Music by John Leonard Keller and Tonio K.
Vocals by Willam Belli
Background Vocals by Debby Holiday
Vocal Production by Debby Holiday
Arranged and performed by Joe Patrick Ward
© 2013 BMG Sapphire Songs (BMI), All rights Adminstered by BMG Management (US) LLC, Warner-Tamerlane
Publishing Corp. OBO Itself and Checkerman Music (BMI),
Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
“When We All Get To Heaven”
Written by Eliza E. Hewitt and Emily D. Wilson
“A Fool In Love”
Written by Ike Turner
Vocals by Willam Belli
Background Vocals by Debby Holiday
Vocal Production by Debby Holiday
Arranged and performed by Joe Patrick Ward
© EMI UNART CATALOG INC. (BMI), Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
“In The Garden”
Written by Charles Austin Miles
“Whispering Hope”
Written by Septimus Winner
“Stained Glass Window”
Written by Levi Kreis and Del Shores
Performed by Levi Kreis
Produced by Levi Kreis
Co-Produced by Eric Fraley
Engineered and mixed by Eric Fraley in Encino, CA
Drums by Mitch Malloy
Bass by Eric Fraley
Organ by Michael “Smitty” Smith
Guitar by Jeff Fedak
Background Vocals by Debby Holiday, Darci Monet and Levi Kreis
© Surgery Puppy Music (ASCAP), Somewhat Sordid Publishing (ASCAP),
Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
Additional Score Excerpts:
From the musical Judy’s Scary Little Christmas
“Angel Star”
From the musical The Grave White Way
“Just Too Dumb To Know”
“Love Him More”
“My Parents Like Him So”
“We’ll Build A Little Slaughterhouse”
From the musical In Sherwood
“Remember The Forest”
“Curtain Down”
“Quiet Confessions”
“Buddy”
© Joe Patrick Ward Music, Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
Special Thanks
FRANKE MEYER
BONNIE BEDELIA & MICHAEL MACRAE
PHILIP DAVID BROWN
ANDREW CROW
DANIEL FOSTER
DENNIS HOLDING
DEBORAH & KIM JONES
O. KEITH JONES
DAVID KEITH
JAMES LOMMORI
MINDY STICHWEH
BILL STUBBS & JAMES MURRAY
JOHN BEARD
LEVI KREIS
JOHN CONLEY & BILL MACMILLAN
STAN TUCKER
ALICE WEST
ROBERT LEWIS STEPHENSON
TATE TAYLOR
SAM McCONKEY
MICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY
TED DETWILER
TOMMY WOELFEL
SCOTT PRESLEY
RICH DELIA
MARK McLAINE
KREWE OF APOLLO AIDS/CRISIS FUND
MISS KITTY’S SALOON – LITTLE ROCK
KEVIN JAMES
LUKE HENLEY
ANDREW CHRISTIAN
CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD
DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA
ALL OF THE CONTRIBUTORS THROUGH
INDIEGOGO
Original Set Design for the Zephyr Theatre by
ROBERT STEINBERG
Filmed entirely at Macha Theatre/Films
West Hollywood, California
ODALYS NANIN – Producing Artistic Director/Founder
www.machatheatre.org
In Memory Of
SHARYN LANE
KENDALL MOORE
RONA NEWTON-JOHN
FRAN DICKEY PATTON
GARY SKALA
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