Radium
Originally performed off off Broadway at The Jewel Box Theatre, March-April 2005
Written by: Alex DeFazio
Directed by: Jody P. Person
Produced by: Alexa Shaughnessy
Cast: Bobby Abid (J.), Nathaniel P. Claridad (Alexis), Jon Deliz (Zachary), Thay Floyd (Ryan), Dustyn Gulledge (Louis), Elizabeth Sugarman (Louise)
Crew: Suzanne Apicella (Stage Manager), Amith A. Chandrashaker (Lighting Design), Alex DeFazio (Sound Design), Allison Person (Graphic Design), Priyanka Dasgupta (Photography)
Publicity: David Eldredge
Media Sponsors: HX Magazine & The Village Voice
Synopsis: Naked. Fragile. Radioactive. Radium is a study of five gay men and their search for intimacy.
Danial Adkison, The Village Voice 03/30/2005:
"A mass of pure radium weighs less than the same amount of uranium but is over a million times more radioactive. Alex DeFazio's RADIUM is both heavy and phosphorescent, as five gay men, each dysfunctional, self-loathing, and privately falling apart, strive to create and maintain meaningful relationships. A talented cast and innovative staging - especially the use of the sole female role - make for a nuanced, powerful production that yields, instead of catharsis, unanswerable questions about the half-life of everyone's personal fissile material."