BOREDOM to Play Coney Island Museum

BOREDOM is a Dick Zigun play adapted from MAXIM GORKY's trash-talking Coney Island essay about his 1904 visit.

Gorky lectures, drinks, smokes and pisses during the show. Tony the Carpenter introduces the famous Russian writer as head of the Amusement Park Workers Union as the play is set in Tony's 1904 APWU union hall. When Gorky himself is too bored to read his own work his mistress Maria Andreyeva takes over but her English is better besides she's the star actress at Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre.

Satiric, Marxist, Poetic and Precise, BOREDOM denounces amusement rides especially Dreamland's big show attractions of Creation & Hell. As far as BOREDOM is concerned: "In America, amusement parks are the opiate of the people".

Running Time: One Hour

Adapted by: Dick D. Zigun

Directed by: James Rana

Director Bio:
James Rana is best known in Coney Island as the stilt-walking Uncle Sam at the Mermaid Parade. He recently guest-starred on "Chicago Fire." His adaptation of Mark Twaine' HUCK FINN will receive its world premiere at the East Lynne Theater, in Cape May, NJ in July.

Cast: Atalanta Siegel, Luis Michaels, Chris DePierro

Cast Bios:
Atalanta Siegel is delighted to be making her New York stage debut in "Boredom". Other New York credits including voicing Viola in "Twelfth Night" with Anthology Productions. Previously Siegel has performed Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Peregrine in "New Light Shine" at Shakespeare and Company. Other credits include Myrrhine in "Lysistrata" at Lavender Door Theater, Keely in "Keely and Du" in regional fringe series, and Maragaret in "Much Ado About Nothing" at the Oberlin Theater Festival. Siegel started performing at age 12 with Lumina Studios in Washington DC, went on to study theater at Oberlin College and Queen Mary University. Actor training includes SAFD, Shakespeare and Company, The Humanist Project, and Shakespeare Forum.

Having signed his first modeling contract at age 17, Luis Michaels originally started off as a professional male model in Florida. After college, he decided to pursue his passion for acting full time, & soon moved out to New York after having been accepted into the Actor's Studio. Luis is currently acting in indie films and stage productions and is currently in negotiation with Ford Models.

Chris DePierro is very excited about reprising the role of "Gorky" after a successful reading last year and to be back at Coney Island USA. He was born and raised in Hudson County, N.J. where currently lives. He just had his first feature, self-funded film, "Miami or BUST - A Hoboken Bet", which he wrote, directed, edited and starred in, screened at this years Garden State Film Festival and had it's World Premiere at the Coney Island Film Festival and is currently in production for his next feature, "Go-Go Boy" shooting in Jersey and NYC this summer.

Chris has been performing with "Tony and Tina's Wedding" for almost 20 years and has written and produced for off-broadway productions including "Dina's Divorce Dinner" and "CLUBWORLD".

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.