Actor, Playwright, and Producer Jack Dyville Dies at 77

Jack Dyville founder of Friends Always Creating Theatre passed away July 6th at age 77. Jack produced a play entitled STAGE DADDY, an autobiographical play which most recently played at the Thespis Festival. In this play he captured how his father was a male Mama Rose, helping him to be featured on the Ted Mack Amature Hour and taking him to auditions which landed him roles at Casa Manana in Fort Worth. It also featured the real life guts Jack exhibited when he moved to New York City and went to Radio City Music Hall. After a show he knocked on the stage door and asked to speak to the dance captain of the show. As a result he got an audition and landed a job as a dancer there. He left that show to tour the country in Hello Dolly starring Yvonne De Carlo.

While Jack Dyville was a song and dance man and also created the Jack Dyville's Dance Factory which helped many young dancers to begin their career. Broadway star Blake Hammond began his career under Jack's encouragement.

Jack moved to Willeston North Dakota where he and Bruce Michael Quale ran Entertainment Inc which has been producing theatre for over 40 years. Jack was helping with the production of Chicago up until weeks before he passed. He also was a vital part of the North Dakota Miss America Scholarship program and was a mentor to many young women who went on to the pageant.

Jack returned to New York City in the 1990's and continued to write plays, His plays, If the Pink Pump Fits, An Umbrella in the Snow, My Stage Daddy, and hundreds of short plays have been performed regularly in New York and in festivals throughout the country. If the Pink Pump Fits, a Gay Cinderella Story was recently performed for the Dramatis guild series. A Red Umbrella in the Crystal White Snow is being performed at the Producer's Club by Genoveva Productions September 16th through 18th this year.

Jack Dyville and David Gillam Fuller who were both life partners and producing partners founded Friends Always Creating Theatre known as FACT Theatre Company. This company had numerous productions including Gutternipe ad Ron Pallilo's The Lost Boy which was a featured reading at The Actors Temple featuring Blake Hammond and Lucy Sorcullo, Danielle Aaron Rhodes and Lynn Manuell. FACT also held short play festivals entitled Words and WIne, which debuted many new plays. It sponsored playwright development and created Instant Theatre where a play was conceived and written and performed in 48 hours. FACT Theatre produced Sargent Stubby the American War Dog

Musical by Jack Dyville and Lawrance Wankle. Sargent Stuggy ran at St. Luke's Theatre and was nominated for a Audience Choice Award.

Jack Dyville had returned to North Dakota for a vacation after having COVID. There it was discovered he had cancer. He continued to work with Entertainment Inc throughout his treatment and wrote new plays and submitted plays to various theatre festivals. He touched thousands of lives and had aptly named the theatre company Friends Always Creating Theatre as numerous friends were made and some couples and babies are a result of his and David's making theatre not only creative but a place to commune with other theatrical people.

A Memorial Words and Wine will take place in September. For Information text 917-868-1288.

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