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Look Out! Here Comes Zoetic!

by Roger Martin on July 08, 2010

Well, it ain't quite LeBron, Dwyane and Chris Bosh but it's close if you're speaking theatre. Michael McKeever, Christopher Demos-Brown and Stuart Meltzer have just announced their new theatre company...and the terrific actors joining as company members.

They're calling it Zoetic Stage and yes, I had to look it up. Zoetic means, according to the Dictionary of Obscure Words, “living” and “vital”. Knowing these guys, I'd say that's pretty apt.

Stephanie Demos-Brown, Christopher's wife, is the fourth founding member of Zoetic and will serve as President of the Board of Directors.

The company members are: Irene Adjan, Stephen G. Anthony, Jeffrey Bruce, Nick Duckart, Lela Elam, John Felix, Elena Maria Garcia, Maribeth Graham, Amy London, Margery Lowe, Amy McKenna, David Perez Ribada, Jerry Seeger, Kim St. Leon, Barry Tarallo, Laura Turnbull and Tom Wahl.

First on stage for Zoetic is Michael McKeever's South Beach Babylon at a yet to be decided venue. Indeed the entire first year for the company will be spent in existing spaces while a permanent home is established.

David Adjmi's Stunning will be the second play produced, followed by Christopher Demos-Brown's Wrongful Death. The final show for the first season will be Carlos Murillo's Diagram of a Paper Airplane.

“It is the goal of this company to present top quality theatre to the South Florida audience. We want their experience to be the best it possibly can be. Everything - from production, to script, to the venue itself – needs to be the highest quality we can possibly present,” Meltzer says. “We are talking about a company of extremely committed artists with years of experience behind them. This is the teal thing.”

With this crew running Zoetic Theatre it should indeed, be the real thing.

Photos by Roger Martin.

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