THE RIVER AND THE SEA
by Danny Bryck
directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Featuring  Michelle Dowd, Daniel Berger-Jones, Elle Borders, Becca Lewis, Greg Maraio, Theresa Nguyen, Bari Robinson, and Mark Soucy

In 2012 – 2013, playwright Danny Bryck conducted hundreds of interviews in Israel/Palestine, capturing the staggering diversity of voices of the people living between the river and the sea: from a young soldier in Tel Aviv to a young mother from Gaza, a Holocaust survivor to an Eritrean refugee, a Filipino migrant worker to a German convert to Judaism turned anti-occupation activist. Using their real words, THE RIVER AND THE SEA challenges our notions of birthright and belonging, history and nation, and the ways we define ourselves and each other. When everyone tells a different story, how do we tell the truth?

Danny Bryck is a Boston-based actor and playwright, and the author of No Room for Wishing, a one-man documentary play based on interviews with people involved in Occupy Boston. The show premiered in Boston (2012) with Company One, Central Square Theater and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and has since toured New York and Massachusetts, including the Outside the Box Festival, and was nominated for Best New Play and Best Solo Performance by the Independent Reviewers of New England. His latest documentary project is The River and the Sea (working title), a play based on interviews from Israel/Palestine, which will receive a staged reading at New Repertory Theatre in March as part of the inaugural Next Rep Festival. Boston acting credits include The Cherry Orchard, Cymbeline, and Troilus and Cressida (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), RENT (New Repertory Theatre), Breaking the Code (Underground Railway Theater; IRNE nomination), The Real Inspector Hound (Publick Theatre), The Corn is Green (Huntington Theatre Company), The Donkey Show (American Repertory Theater), The Nutcracker (Stoneham Theatre), and title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac (Apollinaire Theatre Company), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Blue Spruce Theatre; IRNE nomination), and Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare Now!). He has performed in New York with The Civilians and New Perspectives Theatre Company, and was an artistic associate with Whistler in the Dark Theatre for three years, where acting credits include A Number, Family Stories, and the IRNE award-winning Tales from Ovid at ArtsEmerson. He works as a dialect and accent modification coach and theatre educator, and has appeared on the daytime drama As the World Turns and in a handful of independent films, including The Rasmussen Brothers’ Dark Feed. Mr. Bryck is a recipient of the David Wheeler Award for emerging talent in the Boston theater scene. He holds a BFA from Boston University’s School of Theatre, studied at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. He can be seen next in Sila at Central Square Theater. www.dannybryck.com