(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre will release the original web series “Together Apart,” featuring its resident acting ensemble, beginning Tuesday, April 6 on Facebook and other social media channels. Episodes will be released weekly through May 11.
“Together Apart” is the comic brainchild of Dreamcatcher member Dave Maulbeck (Maplewood), and is written by Maulbeck and David Lee White (Bordentown). With production design by Jeff Ertz (Madison) and graphic design by Yolanda Fundora (Summit), the series hearkens back to sitcoms of the 80s and 90s. An oddball collection of characters lives together in a house run by Mrs. Garrett, the possibly benign den mother of the group. Residents include an alien, a detective, a cowboy, a monk and many others, but all characters are merely heads on television screens. Each episode contains a different adventure, replete with mishaps and mayhem.
Directed by Maulbeck, “Together Apart” features Nicole Callender (West Orange), Clark Carmichael (Montclair), Harry Patrick Christian (Montclair), Laura Ekstrand (Livingston), Noreen Farley (Clinton), Julian Blake Gordon (Jersey City), Scott McGowan (Maplewood), Daria M. Sullivan (Montclair), Jason Szamreta (Rahway) and Harriett Trangucci (Summit).
Episodes will be free and can be found on Dreamcatcher’s social media platforms and through the website, although donations are appreciated.
Dreamcatcher was founded in 1994 as a non-profit professional ensemble of actors, a subset of whom perform in every production. The mission of our ensemble is to build community with the audience by sharing contemporary, life-affirming stories that challenge, energize and entertain. We seek to expose theatregoers to ideas and lives like and unlike their own, to awaken their imaginations and create empathy for others. The company focuses on deepening the experience of our patrons by supplementing the performances with personal contact through receptions, talkbacks and interactive programs.
Dreamcatcher's core company of professional local actors performs contemporary work that entertains and challenges, and has at its heart a belief in the essential goodness of people. The company’s activities include mainstage productions, improv comedy and cabarets, new play readings and a variety of educational and senior outreach programs.
Dreamcatcher’s programs are funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, The Summit Area Public Foundation, and many other corporations, foundations and individuals. Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre is a senior member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.
