Bill Cosgriff, Artistic Director

American Renaissance Theatre Company

“It was an amazing reading.  It was great to hear that music backed up, and the actors were super! I think the play should get the Pulitzer Prize!”

Deb Armelino, Actor, Singer

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Please see more about Steven at his site: StevenPetrillo.com.

We look forward to bringing you more information soon.

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert and Slats Klug

As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Tim Warmen

Now You’ve Done It

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen

As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen

Opening ensemble: Opening the Pandora’s Box of life

Waiting For The Click

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert

As Performed by: Paul Oakley Stovall

In the face of a brutal beating hope springs eternal.

Anywhere Can Be Home

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert

As Performed by: Aaron Berk

Living on the street, Frankie tries to make the best of it.

All I Can Do

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen

As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen

Deanne and Colin struggle to come to terms with their feelings for each other and their haunted pasts.

Bein’ Somebody

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert

As Performed by: Paul Oakley Stovall

Carmel lectures Frankie about survival in this crazy world.

Don’t Kiss Me

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert

As Performed by: Lauren Robert

Deanne struggles with Colin’s advances of ‘true’ intimacy.

Risky Business

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert

As Performed by: Lauren Robert, Paul Oakley Stovall, Danny Dolan

Deanne, Carmel and Frankie look at the risky business of love.

I Need To Rest

Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert

As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen

Deanne is a woman in her mid forties who has struggled for years with profound emotional ups and downs. Nervous breakdowns have, at times, caused her to be institutionalized. She has never lost her way so much that she could not return to society.

Keeping apartments, holding down some upscale jobs; her last, at a police pathology lab reading slides.

Though diagnosed as bi-polar and depressed, her basic innate soundness, extraordinary intelligence and a small flame of willingness to love that will not burn out, is what has managed to keep her surviving.

Attractive, funny, and sarcastic, we find her in a fugue state between the darkness of the past and the light that a new flirtation unexpectedly brings.

She lives in a crummy apartment in the lower east side, surviving on food stamps, medications and other assistance programs like SSI…or as they called it in the 70’s nut pay.
She grew up in the out skirts of Boston.

Photo: Deanne as played by Lauren Robert

With tremendous excitement, anticipation and growing support, .22 Caliber Mouth moves swiftly toward full production.

If you wish to take part in this exciting project please contact us and we would be most pleased to speak with you.

.22 Caliber Mouth

Music: Timothy Warmen, Dan Dolan and Lauren Robert

Lyrics: Timothy Warmen and Lauren Robert

Arrangement: Dan Dolan

This title song which is still in the development stage embodies a harder rock-n-roll drive than other songs in the show to encompass the wavering of Colin’s world as he is exposed and those emotions that send him over the edge.

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Handsome, charming barfly, Colin Maitland’s true history remains elusive till the play’s end. Deanne never quite understands where he has come from, but he is impossible to resist. His is a unique combination of sophisticated repartee’ and blue-collar animus.

His language is often peppered with large words that he uses with ease, yet when without warning, a tsunami of blinding rage swirls into any moment, any remnant of sophistication is lost. In it’s place, is Colin’s seething blinding anguish and fury.

Colin’s soul-searching is compelling, his rawness is his realness. He can be strong and weak, tender or mean, very hot and very cold. Something, old and cruel, revealed to us as the story unfolds drives him hard frustrating his attempts to clean up his life …and his choices.

Photo: Colin Maitlin as played by Timothy Warmen

What did Ronnie see? What did she know growing up in the Campino house? Five years older than sister, Deanne, Ronnie goes to great lengths to keep her demons locked deep inside her. She is insular, shy, and socially awkward.

The small singular back room of an accountants office in Dalton’s Furniture Store is the job she lives on, oppressed and abused by her boss, but comforted by the agitation of a familiar scenario. Yet, Deanne’s emotional frailty, gives her a sense of one-up, and driven by a confused fantasy of familial “love”, and perhaps guilt, she has tried and failed many times to connect with her sister.

Ronnie Campino as played by Laura Jordan.

If you can smoke it, shoot it, snort it, inhale it, swig it, swallow it…not swallow it…Frankie’s your man. A scientific marvel in that he still does at times make sense. His wily heart still beats. And it thumps with much more than just the anxiety of the next fix .He loves his friends. His Deanne especially. Though one must love Frankie back with great indulgence to get to the good stuff.. Since forging a friendship with Deanne in Wrentham State Drug Rehab “ I was the monkey in the next cage”… he has remained as devoted a friend as a homeless, dispirited, speed freak can be. He is her confident, her watch-dog. She suffers his twisted drug-addled style of speaking because he can make her laugh. She’ll struggle to de-code his inverted sentences and nihilist rants.

Because his spirit is a good one… a dear one, becoming as lost as Frankie is not that hard. 

Photo: Frankie Canton as played by Ted Brunetti