Dave Durbin's Dirty Delights

Billed as “a sexy comedy show for adults,” this Are We Delicious? late-night show explores the more R-rated side of human relations. Durbin and his five-person ensemble are aiming to create their raunchiest material, so leave the kids at home.

press release: Are We Delicious? goes there with a sexy-funny set of comic plays created by Dave Durbin and his riotous ensemble. Beginning with a brainstorm just a week out from opening night, Dave and 5 local playwright/actors will create what will be the raunchiest Delicious ever. Strictly for adults and exclusively performed long after decent people have gone to bed, this show is destined to be filled with belly laughs and earth-shattering groans.

Dave Durbin’s Dirty Delights is part of a special Are We Delicious? triple-show with A Serpent's Tooth: the King Lear Musical each evening and R Wee Delicious children’s show matinees. Delicious has something for everybody.

Dave Durbin’s Dirty Delights, a sexy-comedy show for adults

January 25 & 26 at 10 pm and February 1 at 10 pm, Drury Stage of the Bartell Theater (upstairs), 113 E. Mifflin Street

Price: $10, adults only

Tickets: http://arewedelicious.com/tickets  

Ensemble includes: Clarice Lafayette, Nick Kaprelian, Stacey Garbarski, Jordan Humpal, and Kyle Baldauf

Directed and designed by Dave Durbin and produced by Trevin Gay.

Clarice Lafayette has been 6’ 0” since she was 11. She loves solitude and theater and when her cat Vinnie blesses her by laying on her back and purring loudly in her ear. She has a BA in Theatre Performance from Edgewood College. Most recently, she played Pamela in Encore Studio’s The Green Room where she also works as an Artistic Associate. Clarice just got done working with GreatWorks Theatre out of Chicago playing Hector in the musical Lyle the Crocodile and Jack in Fractured Fairy Tales. She currently voices Angelique the novitiate in the sardonic soap-opera podcast Lust for Life. In 2018 she was nominated for a Barty Award for her role as dominatrix Mistress Mona in Temps the Musical. This is her first Are We Delicious and she couldn’t be happier it’s the one about sex, although being in the one about the cyborg robot that methodically plotted to kill their creators would have been cool too. Clarice got into acting as a kid when her dad, camcorder in hand, would roundup all sixteen of her Irish Catholic cousins and make Frankenstein and Christmas Carol parodies. 

Nick Kaprelian has been acting on Madison stages for the last 11 years with many theater companies. Favorite past roles include Preacher in Southern Baptist Sissies with Stage Q, Jean in Rhinoceros with Strollers, Paul in Dumpster Flower with Broom Street and Karl/Steve in Clybourne Park with Madison College.

Stacey Garbarski is a Chicago suburb native. She has been living and attending school in Madison, WI since 2011 and graduated with her degree in Theatre Arts in 2016 from Edgewood College. Her college career concluded with the production of Caucasian Chalk Circle (Azdak) directed by David Frank. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Dramatist Guild Award for Best Performance in a New Play or Musical at the American College Theatre Festival region 3, as a finalist in the Irene Ryan competition. Her first onstage credit for 2019 is Beautiful View by Maureen Janson Heintz She can be seen next in the premiere of Prom; written by Rob Matsushita, directed by Kathy Lynn Sliter and Isa Leigh. By day she works in animal welfare and all the cool things she's been privileged to do can be found at www.staceygarbarski.com. This is her 6th Delicious onstage and 10th in total.

Jordan Humpal - As a member of the Madison Community Theater since 2015, I couldn' be more excited to be in my first Are We Delicious production. With more emphasis in musical theater and dancing, I am ready to give it my all in the unique Are We Delicious pace and environment.

Kyle Baldauf is a UW-Madison Theatre and Drama alumni and has been acting in the Madison area since 2012. Previous roles include Melchior Gabor (Spring Awakening), Princeton/Rod (Avenue Q), and Joey Percival (Misalliance), among others. He can currently be seen as Father Dylan McHenry/Mister Slade in future episodes of the four-part series Lust for Life here at the Bartell Theatre. This is Kyle's first Are We Delicious? production, and he is excited for everyone to enjoy the show!

Dave Durbin has been a performer in the Madison theatre scene for the last sixteen years. Past performances include The Normal Heart for StageQ, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for Strollers, Company for Stoughton Village Players, and Bare for Mercury/OUTcast theatre.  This show marks his fifth appearance with the group. 

Acknowledgements

This project is supported by The Joan L and Robert C Gilkison Family Foundation.

The Are We Delicious? 2018-2019 season is sponsored by WORT 89.9 FM community radio providing alternative music, news and public affairs to South Central Wisconsin.  Live streaming, program archives and podcasts are available at wortfm.org

Are We Delicious? is an ensemble of Madison actor/playwrights, composer/musicians and choreographer/dancers who work collaboratively to create a 90-minute show in only 7 days. Everyone writes, everyone acts, everyone sings and dances and no one can rest until the final curtain.

Are We Delicious? is produced by Delicious Creative Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to conduct charitable and educational activities related to collaborative performance art projects which prioritize creativity and empowerment, teamwork and cooperation, self-confidence, and expansion of individual creative potential within a supportive group experience.