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Paul Downs Colaizzo
Paul Downs Colaizzo () is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director. Early life and education Colaizzo was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Alpharetta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University in New York City. Career Colaizzo's play ''Really Really'' premiered at The Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in January 2012, breaking Signature Theatre box office records. A new production opened Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theater in January 2013 starring Zosia Mamet and Matt Lauria and directed by David Cromer, as part of MCC's 2012–2013 season. The MCC production was sold-out and twice extended. Colaizzo stepped into the play for three performances in the role of Johnson while actor Kobi Libii filmed a television pilot. Colaizzo's play ''Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill'' premiered at The Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in autumn of 2013 starring Christine Lahti. A reading of the play, held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of United States cities by population, 67th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is located in Western Pennsylvania, southwestern Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River, which combine to form the Ohio River. It anchors the Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.457 million residents and is the largest metro area in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th-largest in the U.S. Pittsburgh is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Lahti
Christine Ann Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress and filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film '' Swing Shift''. Her other film roles include '' ...And Justice for All'' (1979), ''Housekeeping'' (1987), '' Running on Empty'' (1988), '' Leaving Normal'' (1992), and '' A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'' (2019). For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film '' Lieberman in Love'', she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Lahti made her Broadway debut in 1980 as a replacement in ''Loose Ends'' and went on to star in the Broadway productions of '' Present Laughter'' (1982) and '' The Heidi Chronicles'' (1989). An eight-time Golden Globe nominee and six-time Emmy Award nominee, she won a Golden Globe for the 1989 TV movie ''No Place Like Home'' and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 1998 for her role as Kate Austin in the CBS series '' Chicago Hope'' (1995–99). She returned to Broadway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany Runs A Marathon
''Brittany Runs a Marathon'' is a 2019 American comedy film written and directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo, in his List of directorial debuts#2019, directorial debut. It stars Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lil Rel Howery, and Micah Stock. The film follows an obesity in the United States, overweight woman in New York City who sets out to lose weight and train for the New York City Marathon, city's annual marathon. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2019 and was released on August 23, 2019, by Amazon Studios. Plot Brittany Forgler is a 28-year-old living in New York City, NYC, employed as a greeter at an off-Broadway theater. She and her roommate Gretchen, a teacher's assistant dreaming of social media fame, are hard partiers who abuse drugs. Visiting a new doctor to score an Adderall prescription, Brittany receives the unwelcome diagnosis that she is overweight and must get healthier. Brittany visits a gym only to find even t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacGyver (1985 TV Series)
''MacGyver'' is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and starring Richard Dean Anderson as the title character. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The series follows the adventures of Angus MacGyver, a secret agent armed with remarkable scientific resourcefulness to solve any problem out in the field using any materials at hand. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles during seasons one, two and seven, and in Vancouver during seasons three through six. The show's final episode aired on April 25, 1992, on ABC (the network aired a previously unseen episode for the first time on May 21, 1992, but it was originally intended to air before the series finale). The series was a ratings success and gained a loyal following. It was popular in the United States and around the world. Two television films, ''Lost T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacGyver (2016 TV Series)
''MacGyver'' is an American Action-adventure fiction, action-adventure television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov that ran on CBS from September 23, 2016 to April 30, 2021, comprising five seasons and 94 episodes. The series stars Lucas Till as the MacGyver, title character, an undercover government agent who prefers to fight crime with ingenious feats of engineering rather than lethal force. It is a reboot (fiction), reboot of the MacGyver (1985 TV series), original series of the same name created by Lee David Zlotoff, which aired from 1985 to 1992. CBS cancelled the show in April 2021; the series finale aired on April 30, 2021. ''MacGyver'' takes place in the same fictional universe as two other series, both also developed by Lenkov and both reboots of earlier shows: ''Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), Hawaii Five-0'' and ''Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series), Magnum P.I.'' The three shows have been collectively referred to as the "Lenkov-verse". Premise MacGyver, Angus "Mac" MacGy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Micheal Hall
Brandon Micheal Hall (born February 3, 1993) is an American actor. On television, he starred as the lead of the ABC sitcom '' The Mayor'' (2017) and the CBS comedy-drama ''God Friended Me'' (2018–2020). Hall also appeared as a series regular on the TBS / HBO Max dark comedy '' Search Party'' (2016–2022). Early life Hall was born on February 3, 1993, in Anderson, South Carolina, and raised by his single mother, a minister. He attended Pendleton High School for his freshman and sophomore years, before transferring to South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville. Hall went on to study drama at the Juilliard School in New York City, from which he graduated in 2015. Career Film Hall was in ''Cecile on the Phone'' (2017). He was in ''Monster Party'' (2018) and '' Lez Bomb'' (2018). Hall was in the romantic comedy film '' Always a Bridesmaid'' (2019) as Kenny directed by Trey Haley and written by Yvette Nicole Brown, her first screenplay. . Television H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Sharman
Daniel Andrew Sharman (born 25 April 1986) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Isaac Lahey on the television series ''Teen Wolf'' (2012–2014), Kaleb Westphall / Kol Mikaelson on '' The Originals'' (2014–2015), Troy Otto on ''Fear the Walking Dead'' (2017, 2023), Lorenzo de' Medici in '' Medici: The Magnificent'' (2018), and the Weeping Monk in '' Cursed'' (2020). He also starred in the film '' Immortals'' (2011). Early life and education Sharman was born and raised in Hackney, London. He started acting as a child at the age of nine when he auditioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company and was selected out of hundreds of other children. Of his venture into the dramatic arts, he stated: "I just adored it. Between ''Macbeth'' and ''Henry VI'' with all of the armour and the blood and everything, it was just fantastic as a kid. It was the best thing ever." Sharman stayed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for two plays: ''The Park'' in 1995 (age 9) and ''Macbeth' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, Leo became a regular on the television shows ''All My Children,'' for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, and '' The Young Riders''. Her breakthrough role came in 1993 as detective and later sergeant Kay Howard on the television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1997). Leo received critical acclaim for her performance as Ray Eddy in the 2008 film '' Frozen River'', earning her several nominations and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, Leo won several awards for her performance as Alice Eklund-Ward in the film '' The Fighter'', including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2013, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. A successful pilot may be used as the series premiere, the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot (although an increasing number of such series have their first episodes titled "Pilot"). On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Carter Beane
Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has been nominated for five Tony Awards and won two Drama Desk Awards. His plays are essentially works with sophisticated, "drawing room" humor but just as often farce, particularly his work in musical theater. His works include the screenplay of '' To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'', and several plays including ''The Country Club'' and '' The Little Dog Laughed'', which was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play and '' As Bees in Honey Drown'', which ran at New York's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1997. Early life Beane was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Beane trained as an actor, graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts New York campus in 1980. He is very involved with his alma mater, workshopping new pieces with the students. Beane is the artistic director of the Drama Department Theater Company in New York. Career Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Act (musical)
''Sister Act'' is a musical based on the hit 1992 film of the same name with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, and additional material by Douglas Carter Beane. After having a regional premiere in 2006, in Pasadena, California, the original West End production opened on June 2, 2009, at the London Palladium, starring Patina Miller and produced by Stage Entertainment and Whoopi Goldberg. Subsequent productions have been seen on Broadway and in many countries around the world. Synopsis West End ;Act 1 In Philadelphia, the Mother superior declares that the convent is in need (''Prologue'') before Deloris Van Cartier, crowned 'Lady Fabulous' of 1978, is seen performing in the night club run by her gangster boyfriend Curtis Shank ("Take Me to Heaven"). Deloris is overjoyed as she believes her boyfriend is going to introduce her to a record producer on that day (her birthday), although she soon learns that this is not to be. Hurt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985) is an American actor and singer. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he has received several awards including a Tony Award and a Grammy Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. He began his career on Broadway theatre, Broadway making his debut in the musical ''In My Life (musical), In My Life'' (2005). He later received Tony nominations for playing Melchior Gabor in the original production of the rock musical ''Spring Awakening (musical), Spring Awakening'' (2006), King George III in the original production of the historical musical ''Hamilton (musical), Hamilton'' (2015), and Bobby Darin in the original production of the jukebox musical ''Just in Time (musical), Just in Time'' (2025). In 2024, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Franklin Shepard in the musical revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (musical), ''Merrily We Roll Along''. He also starred as Seymour Krelbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
