ALAN SAFIER (George Burns) celebrates five decades on stage, on television, in commercials, and in voice-overs, with this, his fourth season playing everyone’s favorite centenarian, both off-Broadway and across the country.
Alan has played many celebrated persons in his stage career, including Albert Einstein in the world-premiere musical The
DIDI CONN (voice of Gracie Allen) appeared on Broadway in Lost in Yonkers, Julie Taymor's The Green Bird, and A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway credits include The Vagina Monologues and Consequences and the Lesson. Regionally, she has done such shows as Danny and the
Deep Blue Sea (L.A. premiere), Birdbath, Room Service, Anything Goes and Enter Laughing.
In films, she had has starring roles in You Light Up My Life, Grease and Grease 2. On television she was a regular on Danny Thomas's "The Practice," "Benson," and "Shining Time Station." She lives with her husband, composer David Shire, and their son Daniel, in Hudson Valley, N.Y.
Smartest Man in the World, John Adams in 1776, Spiro Agnew in Gore Vidal's An Evening with Richard M. Nixon, Charles Guiteau in the Los Angeles premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, and Truman Capote in the hit off-Broadway revival of New Faces of '52.
Alan debuted off-Broadway in another play called Say Goodnight, Gracie (this one by Ralph Pape and about neither George nor Gracie!). Other New York stage credits include Scrambled Feet, Bend Your Ear and Once in a Lifetime. Some of his regional theatre credits include Steve Martin's The Underpants, Littlechap in Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, Bluntschli in Shaw's Arms & the Man, and Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice (in which he co-starred with legendary Group Theatre actor Morris Carnovsky).
He had a six-month run in the hit comedy The Last Schwartz at The Zephyr in Hollywood. Other west coast credits include the homeless Vietnam veteran Lou in Steve Tesich's The Speed of Darkness, Michael in the L.A. premiere of The Men from the Boys (Mart Crowley's sequel to his seminal play The Boys in the Band), Stephen in Dealer's Choice, Frenchy in Clifford Odets's Rocket to the Moon, and Buddy Fidler in the Cy Coleman musical, City of Angels.
Alan Safier may be familiar to audiences from hundreds of television and radio voiceovers (most notably as the Kibbles 'n' Bits dog!) and from guest appearances on many tv series (most recently on "The Wizards of Waverly Place"). He also teaches voice-over workshops at theatre festivals and universities across the country. He is the author of the play My Father's Voice, as well as several published short stories.
His CD of American standards from the 1930s and 1940s, Alan Safier Sings the Songs of George & Gracie's Heyday, was released in 2011. He also composed the song "Another Tuesday Morning" on the Jim Brickman CD Simple Things. He’s currently adapting Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol into a one-actor musical, with words and music by Sheldon Harnick and Michel Legrand. It will begin touring in late 2012.
Alan grew up in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, and is a passionate Cleveland Indians baseball fan, an avid reader, a lover of theatre and classic Hollywood films, and a politics junkie.
MICHAEL WHITE (director/stage manager) began a lifelong love affair with the American theatre while still in high school, where he won numerous awards in statewide theatre competitions, and earned a scholarship to the prestigious University of Texas Department of Drama. By the
time he graduated, he was already a veteran of nine Equity productions on the professional stage.
Michael returned to the professional theatre after college, wherein he served as an actor, director, designer and stage manager in professional theatres from coast to coast.
Recent credits include stage managing Bermuda Avenue Triangle starring Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna and Lainie Kazan, and the national tour of The Odd Couple (female version) starring Barbara Eden. As a director, he most recently helmed the world premiere of playwright Lizzie Maxwell's Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl.
As an actor, Michaels credits range from Shakespeare, Williams and Albee to light comedies, including the box office record-setting tour of Hanky Panky. His performances have also been seen in numerous films and television shows. Of all his roles, his all-time favorite remains the role of husband to his beloved wife Jennifer, and father to his cherished daughter Michelle.
