Can I Touch You

11/02/2004 — 11/20/2004


One person's memories meld with the possible outcomes of a crucial moment between an abused teenager and his molester. Using simple but essential theatricality, Defazio's play explores the symbiotic connections between memory, the abuse, and the theatre.
 
“There are things we want to know that we can never find out. About other people’s choices. Even our own.”

Talent

Shawn Shafner (Camper)
Shawn Shafner was most recently seen in The Unconvention, portraying the priest in Stone Soup Theatre Art's production of The Trial of God, by Elie Weisel. He has also been seen this summer at HERE and The Brick with Moloch and the Other Demons, and was at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts portraying Roald Dahl this spring. Shawn is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School.

Robin Mervin (Counselor)
Robin Mervin was born in South Africa, but grew up in Seattle, WA. He holds citizenships with the US, Canada, and Great Britian. He is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Neighborhood Playhouse Professional Actor Training Program here in NYC.


Creatives

Alex DeFazio (Can I Touch You & Mountainlight)
Alex S. De Fazio received his B.A. in Literature and Drama from SUNY-Purchase. He is the author of more than fifteen plays, including Mirror of Monsters (for which he received the Frank Wadsworth Prize), Mixed Up Molly Eden (Off Off Broadway, 2000), and Christine (Off Off Broadway, 2001). His translation of Euripides' Medea has been taught in literature courses at Lehigh University for the past two years, and he was named a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award for another play, Terrible Neon. Several of his plays are available in paperback editions published by Elixir Productions. His other plays include Mountainlight (selected by TADA! Theatre for Youth for their annual one-act festival), Writing Ground Zero (Off Off Broadway, Dixon Place, 2002), Radium, and When I Wake From Dreaming In Dark, Dark Places.

Gil Parkin (Director)
A versatile theatre artist, Gil Parkin has been seen both on and off the stage as a director, an actor, a designer and a producer. Directing credits include Revival Meeting at the Cherry Lane Studio, Bent and Medea. The reading of Glyn O’Malley’s Cappy’s Field appeared as part of the Cherry Lane Theatre’s Tongues of Fire reading series honoring Joseph Chaikin. Select acting credits include The Threepenny Opera, Assassins, and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Gil is also an Associate Producer for Fusco Films having just completed a new narrative short called Tonight at Last and works with the Lynx Ensemble Theatre on their Educational and Production Committees.

Sara Jablon (Costume Designer)

Barbara Zuckerman (Graphic Designer)

James Bedell (Light Design)
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