PROGRAM 1

Honor by T. J. Elliott

The Dandiest Duo by Marcus Harmon

*Shows in this block include Equity Members appearing with permission of Actor’s Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this off-off Broadway production.

SETTING

A well-appointed conference room with a glass door stage right. Center stage, a long table thrusts diagonally. Seated on its stage left side behind a brace of water bottles is RONNEE EMERSON, Associate General Counsel of the corporation, with a small plastic Tupperware container. Also at the table is LUDWIG CADE, the firm’s General Counsel
There is an empty chair across from RONNEE. A large whiteboard hangs behind LUDWIG with a package of different colored dry erase markers angled on its sill. They await DON TROY, former Vice President now ‘Special Agent’ in Research and Development at the company.

BIOS

Alinca Hamilton (RONNEE EMERSON) Alinca is a born and bred New York actor, writer, and creator. Select acting credits include Edges and Freedom in To All the Black Girl’s Who’ve Waited (Ars Nova AntFest); Leticia in Clyde’s (Alabama Shakes); Calphurnia in Julius Caesar (Classic Stage Company); Philly in Someone Dies at the End (59E59 / Edinburgh Fringe Festival) produced by Squeaky Wheelz Productions, a theatre company she co-founded; and the title character in the short film Melody June Cooper: Actress* for Hire, which she starred, conceived, and produced. MFA Columbia University. alincahamilton.com

John Blaylock (LUDWIG CADE) recently played Victor Frankenstein in The Articulate Theater production of Doctor Frankenstein by George Allison & directed by Cat Parker. With Knowledge Workings, he was privileged to appear as Matthew in Grudges & Gunnar in Keeping Right. Other roles include Fr. Tommy DiCamilo in Holy Child by Joe Lauinger, Disraeli Levering in Both Your Houses at Metropolitan Playhouse, Jack Mullen in The Weir at Gallery Players, & part of the ensemble cast of Daniel Damiano’s award-winning play, The Dishonorable Discharge of Private Pitts.

Ed Altman (DON TROY) Ed was last seen in “Atlantic Pharmaceuticals,” The Tank International Human Rights One Act Festival; “The Oracle,” Theater for the New City. Upcoming film, “The Dummy Detective” and Joe Queenan’s “Top Hate.” Ed also serves as a valued Associate Producer for Knowledge Workings Theater LLC.

T.J. Elliott (PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR) wrote with Joe Queenan the OOB plays Alms and The Oracle; directing the latter as well in May of 2022 at THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY. They were also the co-playwrights of Genealogy; which at Broom Street Theater in Madison, Wisconsin in 2021, and Grudges, a 2020 sold-out Zoom pandemic sensation. Elliott’s 2023 solo work, The Jester’s Wife, premiered at The Chain Theater. His other solo playwrighting work, Keeping Right, enjoyed a sold-out run via Zoom in December 2020. In 1981 and 1982, T.J. wrote and directed the successful Captive Audiences revues, which were followed by his 35-year hiatus from Off-Broadway.  In those lost years, he produced, directed, & performed among casts of thousands a mélange of corporate telenovelas & tragicomic, melodramatic, & absurd organizational performance art.

Gifford Elliott (TECHNICAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) Giff worked most recently as Tech and Artistic Director for The Jester’s Wife at The Chain Theater in Fall of 2023. In the last several years besides his side work as an associate producer for Knowledge Workings Theater LLC, he served as a postproduction coordinator on such hit series as Bupkis (the Pete Davidson comedy), The Best Man — The Final Chapters, Queen’s Gambit, and Divorce (Season 3). Prior to those assignments, he served as a manager at LightIron, one of the premier firms in the movie and television industry specializing in post-production workflows. Gifford is a graduate of the Cal Arts acting program and a director of a variety of theatrical events including Srivia, the weekly fun trivia extravaganza at Singers in Brooklyn.

Marjorie Phillips Elliott (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) A co-founder of Knowledge Workings Theater, Marjorie’s work there arises from deep roots in the arts. Having studied theater at Skidmore College and photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Marjorie brings to her role at Knowledge Workings a wide array of talents and experiences including her work with NewLine Cinema in the 1980s. Her support of our productions ranges from strategy to prop design to script doctoring to publicity consultation and beyond. Marjorie is also the Chair of the Board of Chamiza Foundation, a nonprofit helping to ensure the continuity & living preservation of Pueblo Indian culture and traditions, and on the Members Committee of the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC

N.B.

This play, HONOR, is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this play are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Knowledge Workings Theater LLC

Gifford Elliott, Technical & Artistic Director

Marjorie Phillips Elliott, Co-Founder & Executive Producer

T.J. Elliott Co-Founder & Managing Director

Joe Queenan, Co-Founder

Patrick O’Shea, Script Consultant

Irene Elliott, Audience Development Director

Playwright/Director

Marcus Harmon
Marcus Harmon is a playwright, actor, and singer from Columbus, Ohio, now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has had multiple award-winning plays staged in New York. Chain Theater (20th Anniversary, One-Act), NY Theater Festival (Edin. Full-Length), the Off-Broadway Downtown Urban Arts Festival (2022- 20th Anniversary / 2023 The Dandiest Duo 3rd place finalist), 2023 Queens Play Festival, 2023 Think Fast Theater Festival Finalist, 2023 Two Dogs Theater, Best Play Winner (The Dandiest Duo). His new One- Act play, Good Grief has been accepted into the 2024 Abingdon Off-Broadway Festival.

Cast

Jonathan Tyler Peck,

A New York-based actor and a graduate from the William Esper Studio class of 2017. He's produced 3 theatre productions always striving to create meaningful content for the artistic community. He's done a number of Off-Broadway theatre productions. Before attending Willam Esper, he attended SUNY University at Albany; attaining his BFA in Philosophy and Theatre

Michael Antwi

Michael plays the role of Micah. He is an American actor born in the Bronx, NY. His television debut was in legal analyst Rikki Klieman Investigation Discovery special “In The Line Of Fire” (2016) playing the lead, Jason Levia. Michael is a lover of music and film and enjoys collecting vintage vinyls in his free time.

Hartley Erickson

Hartley is from Sandy Spring, Maryland. He has studied at the William Esper Studio here in Manhattan. He has had multiple stage performances on Off-Broadway and recently won Best Actor for the 2023 Think Fast Theater Festival. This will be his 8th festival with Marcus Harmon