Music They Wrote at Zipper Concert Hall

Dan Purcell

Dan Purcell is a 2019 graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the founder of Lonesome Swing Productions. His past credits include lead roles in the originals Sex, Shoplifting and Rock & Roll and The Statement by Claude Solnik at Theatre for the New City, the protagonist Freddy in the original Kiss the Fortune Teller by Tony DiFranco, Rick and The Hustler in Six Degrees of Separation, Charles in As You Like It, and the opera La Traviata. Dan wishes everyone to have an absolute blast at Lonesome Swing Productions' debut piece.

Keean Sabbah

Keean is a 2019 graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse. Since graduation, Keean has acted in The Nerd, Strange Magic, Feels, and Love Sick. He's very excited to be part of Lonesome Swing Productions' first show.

Dan Purcell

In addition to playing Aaron in Pillow Talk, Dan is the founder of Lonesome Swing Productions and one of the producers of the show!

JD Glickman

Glickman received his B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he trained at the Circle-in-the-Square Theater Conservatory with Alan Langdon, John Malkovich and Tony Greco and The Michael Chekhov Studio with Beatrice Straight, Mala Powers, Joanna Merlin and Ted Pugh. In addition to his formal studies he continued his training in New York City at The Actors Space with Alan Langdon, The William Esper Studio with Suzanne Esper as well as with Darryl Hickman and Tony Greco in Los Angeles. Glickman’s director credits include: Pillow Talk by Peter Tolan, Fast Girls, The Bachelor Party, In the Boom Boom Room, True West, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Stone, Extremities, The Odd Couple (women & men version), Angles in America (scene showcase), Fool For Love, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Long Days Journey Into Night (scene showcase, American Buffalo, Barefoot in the Park, Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Glass Menagerie, Spoon River Anthology, Oleanna, The Great God Pan, Equus, Gungfly (original play – end production – co-director), Jean Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” at the Lab Theatre at Randolph College and The Statement and Sex, Shoplifting and Rock & Roll by Claude Solnik at Theatre for the New City, NYC. Some of Glickman’s notable stage acting credits: NYC, Los Angeles and St. Louis: The Enormous Radio: Jack Tate, The Public Theatre, The Merchant of Venice: Prince of Aragon, Central Park Shakespeare Festival, The Elephant Man: John Merrick, The Actors Space Theatre, Edmond: Customer and Preacher, Chekhov Studio Theatre, In The Boom Boom Room: Al Royce, Chekhov Studio Theatre, True West: Lee, Chekhov Studio Theatre West, A Weekend Near Madison: Jimmy, Chekhov Studio Theatre, See How They Run: Clive Winton, Webster Theatre, Spoon River: Eugene Carman, Chekhov Studio Theatre, Pillow Talk: Aaron, The Gardner Stage, Waiting for Lefty: Dr. Benjamin, Lillian Theatre, The Authorʼs Voice: Todd, 3rd Street Stage, Neighborhood Crime Watch, Ronald, Webster Theatre, Long Days Journey Into Night: Edmund, Chekhov Studio Theatre. Some of his TV and Film credits include, Melrose Place, Models Inc., NYPD Blue, En Pilgrim Död and Last Exit to Brooklyn, Below 30/Above 10,000, Coffee Date, Dark Rider and Rosenberg, which he co-wrote and produced and made it’s US premier at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. His most recent work includes playing the roll of Frank in the new TV series “How To Make It In Hollywood” as well as Rudolph Hess in the one man play entitled “Hess”. Glickman is a celebrated teacher and has instructed hundreds of actors the Michael Chekhov work at COCA (St. Louis, MO), Randolph College, Conservatory (Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, Milan, Paris and Stockholm) and at Kulturama and Calle Flygare theatre schools in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, he runs the Actors Studio Stockholm in Stockholm, Sweden and instructs the work in NYC at his own Conservatory – NYC.

Elisa Tarquinio

Elisa Tarquinio is an NYC-based producer and casting director for theatre and film. She currently serves as Executive Producer at Artists Cavern Productions. She has worked with equity casting teams for over 3 years and has been producing short films for the past 2 years. She has worked with companies such as: Shakespeare Downtown, Little and Fierce Co., and Theatre for the New City. Degrees in Drama, Entertainment Business and Producing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.