Fostered

A WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY

Fostered is an adult comedy about a unconventional family in Scarsdale, New York. Set in 2016, just prior to the election, and moving into 2017, parents Karen and Sandy Foster are ready and excited to make some big changes in their lives. Their plans are thwarted by their adult children who return home, one by one, beset with problems. Each family member is forced to take a good hard look at who they’ve been pretending to be. Karen and Sandy find a way to move ahead with their lives as they, and their children, learn to embrace their authentic selves…and oh, there’s vodka!

ONE FAMILY. THREE GENERATIONS. AND A REFUGEE.

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“…eight characters, endless moving parts, and one revelation after another, all staged with breathless, caffeinated momentum.”

“If you’re weary of message-heavy theatre and ready for a night of pure, madcap entertainment, Fostered is ready to welcome you with open arms…”

– Stage and Cinema

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Dates and Times

April 26th – June 15th
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 3PM
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Dates and Times

Saturday, April 26th – 8pm – OPENING GALA
Sunday, April 27th – 3pm

Thursday, May 1st – 8pm
Friday, May 2nd – 8pm
Saturday, May 3rd – 8pm
Sunday, May 4th – 3pm

Thursday, May 8th – 8pm
Friday, May 9th – 8pm
Saturday, May 10th – 8pm
Sunday, May 11th – 3pm

Thursday, May 15th – 8pm
Friday, May 16th – 8pm
Saturday, May 17th – 8pm
Sunday, May 18th – 3pm

Thursday, May 22nd – 8pm
Friday, May 23rd – 8pm
Saturday, May 24th – 8pm
Sunday, May 25th – 3pm

Thursday, May 29th – 8pm
Friday, May 30th – 8pm
Saturday, May 31st – 8pm
Sunday, June 1st – 3pm

Thursday, June 5th – 8pm
Friday, June 6th – 8pm
Saturday, June 7th – 8pm
Sunday, June 8th – 3pm

Thursday, June 12th – 8pm
Friday, June 13th – 8pm
Saturday, June 14th – 8pm
Sunday, June 15th – 3pm

Location

703 Venice Blvd. (Between Lincoln and Abbott Kinney) Get Directions

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director
Andy Weyman >

Andy Weyman

Andy Weyman’s career includes directing at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for several seasons. He’s worked closely with many writers to develop their plays, television projects and films. Andy recently directed an acclaimed production of Samuel D. Hunter’s A Permanent Image at PRT. His television directing career began when he was 24 years-old with the soap opera, The Edge of Night. He went on to direct many other soaps and later became well-known for directing comedies including The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, King of Queens, and Roseanne. He has also produced several television pilots and series. He is a nationally licensed racecar driver, competing in two Porsche racing series and is the Editor and a contributing writer for VELOCITY magazine. Andy is married to the love of his life, actress Terry Davis, with whom he has two daughters, two sons-in-law, and five fantastic grandchildren.

Writer
Chaya Doswell >

Chaya Doswell

Chaya Doswell is a playwright and screenwriter from NYC. She has written, and directed many of her own plays at the Gene Frankel Theatre in NoHo, New York, including Everyone I Love is Dead, Sex Talk at the Dinner Table, and Lonely Circus Beast. Her work explores the chaos of human relationships with lots of wildly inappropriate jokes which make her parents wonder what drugs she’s on and if they can have some? In addition to theater, Chaya is a screenwriter with two films currently in pre-production. She is beyond grateful that her comedy landed in the incredibly talented hands of Andy Weyman and Terry Davis and is still pinching herself over the unbelievable cast assembled for FOSTERED! Chaya would like to thank Marilyn Fox and PRT from the bottom of her bloody heart for hosting this absolute shit show. Cheers!

Set Design
Rich Rose>

Rich Rose

RICH ROSE (Scenic Design) Recent; For Pacific Resident Theatre: The Bespoke Overcoat, Andy Warhol’s Tomato, Stalled. Actors Co-op: The Baker’s Wife, Summer and Smoke, Our Town,A Man for All Seasons, A Body of Water, TORNADO. La Mirada Theatre: Spring Awakening, Floyd Collins, American Idiot. Guangzhou (China) Dramatic Arts Centre: Rabbit Hole. Theatricum Botanicum: Other Desert Cities, The Chalk Garden. LA Theatre Works, national tour productions of: In the Heat of the Night, Judgment at Nuremberg, The

Sound Design
Keith Stevenson >

Keith Stevenson

Keith Stevenson is the author of The Fried Meat Trilogy, performed at Pacific Resident Theatre. Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd. (Ovation nomination for Playwriting for an Original Play) played at Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End in 2017 with Mr. Stevenson performing. Performance credits include Andy Warhol’s Tomato; Smart Love; Rhinoceros; My Girlfriend is Alien by Keith DeFacto; Lions (PRT) and Julia (PRT, 59e59 in NYC); King Dick (Gangbusters Theatre); The Steward of Christendom (Pittsburgh Public). Directorial credits: Blunt Force (PRT); Lone-Anon (PRT, Rogue Machine, LA Weekly’s ten best plays of the year).

Assistant Director
Lily Brown >

Lily Brown

A theater rat from rural California, Lily Brown is a Director, Writer, and Meisner-trained Actor whose first short film, dark comedy Dead Serious, premiered at the Oscar-qualifying New Hampshire Film Festival in 2023. She is a proud Company Member at Pacific Resident Theater and has directed new works, readings, and solo performances throughout Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles Counties. She co-produced the downhome-style storytelling podcast, The Townies Podcast, where selections of these works can be heard. Lily serves on the reading committee of the Ojai Playwrights Conference and is Co-Director of its Youth Workshop. She is in pre-production on her next short film, What To Do When You’re Caught in the Middle of a Wildfire by Noah Lashly, and is in development on an original short, Stealth (Finalist, Ojai Film Society Young Filmmakers Grant). A true collaborator, Lily values long-term creative partnerships and cultivates community with every project.

Costume Design
Audrey Eisner >

Audrey Eisner

Audrey Eisner has been involved with PRT for 25 years so happy to be back. Some theatre favorites to costume have been A View From The Bridge, Sweet Thursday, The Browning Version, Wild Boy, Happy End, Fata Morgana, The Hasty Heart, Anatol. Recently she become a union costumer for film and television. Some of her projects include; The First Lady, Underground Railroad, Dopesick, The Harder They Fall, and The United States vs Billie Holiday. A graduate of CSU Long Beach TA program in Costume Design. Her proudest accomplishment is her marriage to James Barner and her sons Jakob and Eli

Lighting Design
Michael Redfield

Stage Manager
Bianca Martucci Rickheim >

Bianca Martucci Rickheim

Bianca Martucci Rickheim is a graduate of LMU with a MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and is now pursuing her passion for theater. She has been Pacific Resident Theatre’s production manager for 3 years and has stage managed over 15 productions at theatre during that time. Outside of PRT, Bianca can be seen stage managing regularly at The Broadwater and the Echo Theatre Company. Some of her favorites credits include A Permanent Image, Shakespeare Inc, Nightingale, and One Jewish Boy. Thank you to this amazing creative team for this opportunity, my friends and family for all their support both close and far!

Builder
James Morris

Executive Producer
Marilyn Fox

Producers
Andy Weyman
Terry Davis

Associate Producer
Dalia Vosylius

CAST

Tony Pasqualini >
Sandy Foster

Tony Pasqualini

A theatre veteran of almost fifty years, Tony is a playwright, director and actor Some of his favorite roles include Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Prospero in The Tempest, Lear in King Lear. In Los Angeles Tony has appeared at the South Coast Repertory playing Jim Bayless in All My Sons; the Fountain Theatre as Donald Rumsfeld in What I Heard About Iraq; the Hollywood Bowl as Van Swieten in Amadeus; EST LA as Harold in Watching OJ; and post pandemic Tim in A Great Wilderness at Rogue Machine, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing at A Noise Within, and Mike in Lines In The Dust for the Collaborative Actors Collective. Among his many roles here at PRT Tony has played Tobias in A Delicate Balance, and Andrew in Loyalties, a play he also wrote. Tony has guest starred on over 50 television shows and films. A few favorites: Grace and Frankie; Mad Men; Modern Family; West Wing,The Office and Frasier.

Terry Davis >
Karen Foster

Terry Davis

A proud and longtime member of PRT, Terry has been involved in productions including: DEMOLITION, A PERMANENT IMAGE, AMERICAN LA RONDE, ALL MY SONS, SMART LOVE, PYGMALLION, CAMINO REAL, UNDER THE GASLIGHT, SOUTHERN GIRLS, AMERICAN COMEDY, NIGHT BREATH, NO PROBLEM, A REVENGER’S TRAGEDY, HAPPY END, RACHEL RAY, MAURITIUS and THE DOROTHY PARKER PROJECT. Other L.A. productions include QUESTA, KINGDOM OF EARTH, FAVORS (Drama-Logue Award), FACING EAST at ITC and SARAH’S WAR at the Hudson Theatre. Commercials, Film and TV projects may pay the bills but a most gratifying experience was performing with the L.A. Philharmonic at Disney Hall in a dramatic presentation of Shostakovitch’s Symphony No.13 “Babi Yar.” Having begun her career in daytime television, she met and marryied the love of her life. Forty-five years and two beautiful daughters, and 5 incredible grandkids later, she is grateful to her masterful director and father of her children for “Fostering” laughter out of the ashes.

Satiar Pourvasei >
Shafeek

Satiar Pourvasei

Satiar was last seen at PRT as “Cross. Simon Cross” in the critically acclaimed world premier of THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB, by Gregg Ostrin. Other notable credits include portrayals of Reverend, Ezra Stiles in the world premier of THE MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF A COMMON SCOLD, by Mike Teverbaugh at the Promenade Playhouse, Marco in A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, by Arthur Miller at PRT, Ebrahim in the world premier of HOSTAGE, by Michelle Kolos Brooks at the Skylight Theater, and Janis in world premier of WAR WORDS, by Michelle Kolos Brooks at both The Actors Gang and The New Vic. Satiar can be seen in the upcoming film AND STILL SMILING. T.V. credits include NCIS: LOS ANGELES, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, J..A.G., and THE PRACTICE. Satiar is a graduate of the Univerdity of Southern California with a BFA -Acting degree, and studied with Howard Fine at the Howard Fine Actong Studio.

Taubert Nadalini>
Jeremy Foster

Taubert Nadalini

Theatre: Jersey Boys (McCoy-Rigby Entertainment, 3D Theatricals, CCAE, Musical Theatre West), Mamma Mia! (MRE), The Angel Next Door (world premiere, North Coast Rep), The Legend of Georgia McBride (ICT, Robbie Award for Best Actor in a Comedy), Shooting Star! (world premiere, Hudson Theatre), Bright Star (MTW), The Lion in Winter (Laguna Playhouse), Bronco Billy (world premiere, Skylight), The Wedding Singer (Musical Theatre Guild), Evita (Palos Verdes Performing Arts), Frozen (Disneyland). TV: “This is Us” (NBC), “Sterling” (HBO), “Deviants” (Showtime). Past performances at PRT include A Very Streaming Christmas, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and Women in Jeopardy! Alum of USC and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Repped by Denny Sevier at The House of Reps and Heidi Rotbart Management. taubertnadalini.com

Hiram Murray >
Daniel

Hiram Murray

Hiram A. Murray is an award-winning American actor, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He started his acting career in 1999 on the CBS television show “Now and Again” and since then has gone on to find much success in Hollywood with such roles on Fox’s “Touch” starring opposite Kiefer Sutherland, “Lethal Weapon” starring opposite Damon Wayans, Paramount Pictures’ “Scout’s Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse”, a recurring role on ABC’s “General Hospital”, leading roles in such films as “The Great War”, “Operation Seawolf” and various other film and television shows. Most recently, he starred in Amazon Prime’s new series “The Terminal List” opposite Chris Pratt.

Katy Downing >
Alice Foster

Katy Downing

Katy is so happy to be included in this amazing cast of “Fostered”! As a member of PRT, she has been in “The Dorothy Parker Project”, “If You Are Reading This”; “What We Are Up Against”, and “A Very Streaming Christmas”. Some highlights in New York: “Bone Songs” (with NYTW), Design Your Kitchen (The Flea), “I Heart Kant”, “The Seagull” (Arc Light Theater). Regionally; “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, (Vermont Stage), “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” (Chautauqua Theater). She trained at The Actors Center and The Shakespeare Lab at The Public. She completed an audio documentary encapsulating her experience with the unhoused population in 2020. She recently has been enjoying stand up performing at Flappers, exploiting her obsession in search of the best health hacks including ordering water from Romania! She enjoys highlighting her neighborhood with short videos of local visionaries, called VeNICE.

Hope Lauren >
Rachel Foster

Hope Lauren

Hope is overjoyed to be making her Pacific Resident Theatre debut as Rachel in Fostered! Born in New Orleans, raised in Austin and currently thriving in Los Angeles, Hope moved to LA after high school to pursue a career in this business we call show! Recent theatre credits include Rogue Machine theatre’s Babyfoot, Kim Davies’ Smoke and Over the Moon’s Spring Awakening. Her film credits include IFC’s Bar Fight! Universal’s The Forever Purge and Morgan Dameron’s Different Flowers. Her TV credits include CW’s The Republic Of Sarah (now streaming on Max), and Supergirl, FOX’s Fantasy Island, ABC’s Fresh off the Boat, , HBO’s Togetherness, and MTV’s Awkward. You can currently see her as Lynn in Chicago Med! She would like to thank the cast for being kind and hilarious and Andy Weyman for being such a brilliant, generous and collaborative leader! Enjoy the show!

Jillian Lee Garner >
Maggie Foster

Jillian Lee Garner

Jillian Lee Garner, an LA native, graduated from the University of Michigan with her BFA in Acting, and has since then, worked on various productions in short films, web series, film and television, such as Rabbit, Episode 1, and Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Tubi). She is also co-host of the podcast, The Plank, as well as a dedicated traveler, dog mom, and reality TV enthusiast. She is very excited to be making her Pacific Resident Theatre debut, and would like to thank Andy Weyman and Chaya Doswell for trusting her with the role of Maggie. She would like to dedicate this performance to her own crazy, but equally, loving and hilarious family.