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Recipient of 5 Artistic Director Achievement Awards
StageSceneLA calls
"The Columbine Project"
Best World Premiere Play of 2009
StageSceneLA calls
"The Columbine Project"
Best World Premiere Play of 2009
it would change the whole country - and the world!
Randall Wallace
(Screenwriter "Braveheart")
"From beginning to end, it grips you and won't let go.
'The Columbine Project' is captured with honesty and beauty in a raw and gritty portrayal."
Crystal Woodman-Miller
(Columbine Survivor and Author of "Marked for Life")".....imagining the day-to-day lives of the two troubled young killers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. The uniformly handsome cast, almost all of them playing teen-agers headed for disaster, fills the tiny, funky theatre with talent and gravity"
~The New Yorker
“The Columbine Project” remains a respectful memorial to the event, and at the same time, provides a profound piece of theater that leaves the audience stunned, quiet and a little bit more understanding at the end."
~UCLA Daily Bruin
"It is indeed a disturbing, cathartic, gut-wrenching, emotional work … and great theatre"........ "THE COLUMBINE PROJECT boasts a large cast of tremendous actors, grounded by the simply stunning performances"
~National Board of Review
"The more serious the true-life subject matter, the more important it is do it justice. That much is demonstrated by "The Columbine Project,"
~ NEW YORK POST
"GO" "The play delivers a nuanced account of the whole horrific event”
-LA WEEKLY
"The Columbine Project sticks to the facts of the story without indulging in sentimentality, showing how adolescent angst, alienation, an unsympathetic public school system and peer pressure resulted in one of the most horrifying crimes committed by teens in American history."
~Show Business Weekly
"Thankfully, the ruthless killers aren’t portrayed as, well, mere ruthless killers, but complex, smart, seriously damaged kids whose impulses were allowed to run amok." "A Thought Provoking Play"
Gay City Times, NYC
".... to explore the hows and whys of that most horrific of days, but that he has also somehow managed to fill his stage with nearly two dozen gifted performers is nothing short of miraculous."
Steven Stanley~ StageSceneLA
"Shockingly Written and Gut-wrenchingly directed"
Pat Taylor~ Tolucan Times
"The setting jumps back and forth in time, focusing on individual moments in students’ lives before, during and after the shooting. The killers, Eric Harris (Ryan O’ Callaghan) and Dylan Klebold (Morgan Roberts), are major players in the story but not necessarily the focal point; nearly equal time is given to Columbine victims and survivors. This allows the writer/director to explore the reasons behind the tragedy without overanalyzing or bidding for easy answers. There are none, after all. "
~The Edge
