Darius Pierce as Crumpet. Photos by Patrick Weishampel.
THE SANTALAND DIARIES CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
DARIUS PIERCE
Crumpet
Darius is thrilled to be spending his
seventh holiday season with PCS after
two years each of The Santaland Diaries,
A Christmas Story and A Christmas
Carol. Other productions at PCS include
Beard of Avon (Drammy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actor), Twelfth Night,
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee, The 39 Steps, Frost/Nixon, How
to Disappear Completely and Never Be
Found, Misalliance and the JAW festival.
Elsewhere, some of his favorite shows
have been Stupid Fucking Bird (Woolly
Mammoth Theatre); The Gaming Table
and Comedy of Errors (Folger Theatre);
Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Profile
Theatre); As You Like It (Portland
Shakespeare Project); My Fair Lady
and Les Misérables (Broadway Rose);
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Portland
Playhouse); The Long Christmas Ride
Home and A Devil Inside (Theatre
Vertigo). Darius is a co-founder of the
Anonymous Theatre Company, which
produces the annual theatrical event
Anonymous Theatre with Theatre
Vertigo. He can also occasionally be
seen on screen, where his credits
include Leverage, Portlandia, Grimm,
Mock Trials, Train Master II and Cell
Count. He would like to thank you all
for spending a little bit of your holiday
season with us!!
DAVID SEDARIS
Creator
David Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strangebut-true experiences of being a Macy’s elf clad in green tights,
reading his Santaland Diaries on National Public Radio’s
Morning Edition. Sedaris’ sardonic humor and incisive social
critique have since made him one of NPR’s most popular and
humorous commentators and a best-selling author in the
United States and abroad. The great skill with which Sedaris
slices through euphemisms and political correctness proves
that he is a master of satire. Everywhere he goes, David Sedaris
delights his audience with his irreverent style and great humor.
In addition to his commentaries on NPR, David Sedaris is the
author of the best-sellers Barrel Fever and Naked. His collection
of Christmas related stories is entitled Holiday on Ice. His book
of essays Me Talk Pretty One Day was published in June 2000
and became an immediate best-seller. David and his sister,
Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name The Talent
Family and written several plays which have been produced at
La Mama and at Lincoln Center in New York City. These plays
include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Show, which
received an Obie award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The
Book of Liz. David is a regular contributor to Esquire magazine
and his essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, Allure
and Travel and Leisure. Sedaris’ original radio pieces can often
be heard on public radio’s This American Life, distributed
nationally by WBEZ in Chicago, as well as BBC radio in
London. David Sedaris currently resides in Paris.
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