DRIVING MISS DAISY
written by Alfred Uhry
Jan. 9-18 Fri. & Sat. at 7pm Sundays at 4pm
Location: Mammoth High School MPR
365 Sierra Park Rd.
A Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award Winning Play.
Gen Adm – $20 / Seniors 65 and older $18 / High School Students $15
Tickets purchased at the door $25 no discounts
MEET THE CAST
David Baron (Boolie) David’s life has come full circle with this performance. Having trained and worked as an actor and theatrical producer, David took a 30 year hiatus to work in the media/tech industry. Yet somewhere in the back of his mind, he always knew he would return to the theater. Big thanks to Shira for the opportunity to trod the boards once again.
Maurice Cooper (Hoke) has very recently attended Theatricum Botanicum’s Classical Acting Intensive Course at Topanga Canyon. His previous performances includes: Nick Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream (MLRT), Pinocchio as various characters (TYA), Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale (SCT), The Tortoise in Hare and the Tortoise (TYA), Stephen in Red Riding Hood (TYA), Maria in Twelfth Night (MLRT), The Duke in Measure for Measure (SCT), Jerry Price in the horror/mystery podcast The Sheridan Tapes (HOTC), Keith in Love/Sick (SCT), The Servant in Taming of the Shrew (MLRT) Sebastian in The Tempest (SCT), Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (SCT), Macduff in Macbeth (SCT), Jacques in As You Like It (SCT), Art Dog as the title character (TYA) and El Gallo in The Fantasticks (MLRT).
Juliana Olinka Jones (Daisy) spent 20+ years in Entertainment Marketing at Warner Bros., then taught HS Drama for 4 years and served on the Board of the Group Repertory Theatre before moving to Mammoth Lakes full time in 2011. Her performances in MLRT productions include The Glass Menagerie (Amanda), Suite Surrender (Claudia), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha) and Always, Patsy Cline (Louise Seger). She has performed at the Mammoth Lakes Shakespeare Festival in The Tempest (Prospero) and Twelfth Night (Malvolio), among others. She currently serves as President of the Eastern Sierra Arts Alliance. Her next project is directing the farce The Cottage for MLRT, opening here on March 13.
This Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning drama, Driving Miss Daisy, is a heartwarming and humorous journey through an unlikely friendship that transcends race, class, and time. Set in the Deep South of 1948 to the —on the cusp of the civil rights movement—this beloved play follows the fiercely independent Miss Daisy Werthan, a sharp-tongued Jewish widow, and Hoke Colburn, a patient and dignified Black chauffeur, as they navigate 25 years friendship.
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