In 1915, a terrible secret was buried…and almost a century later, it is about to be uncovered. One man makes an unforgettable journey into the shadows of his family’s past in the hopes of saving is own future.

By Alexander Dinelaris
Directed by Michael Peretzian
Starring Kathleen Chalfant

Kathleen Chalfant is well known to New York audiences and worldwide for her portrayal of Vivian Bearing in the off-Broadway, Los Angeles and London productions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. For her performance, she received the Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, LA Ovation Award, Connecticut Critics Circle Award, as well as her second Obie Award. In addition to her award-winning turn in Wit, Chalfant was also acclaimed for her Tony-nominated performance as Hannah Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America on Broadway. As familiar a face in film as in the theatre, Chalfant can also be seen in the feature films "A Perfect Stranger" opposite Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, "The Last New Yorker," "Kinsey," "Lackwanna Blues," "Dark Water," "Random Hearts," Boaz Yakin's "A Price Below Rubies," Whit Stillman's "The Last Days of Disco," "Side Streets," "Company Men" and "The Pornographer."

Playwright Alexander Dinelaris was nominated for two Drama Desk awards in 2003 for his work on the book and lyrics for the Off-Broadway hit Zanna Don't. He just finished work on the new film by producer-director Alejandro Gonzalez-Iñárritu, Academy Award nominee for "Babel" and producer of "21 Grams." Dinelaris also wrote the play The Chaos Theories, which was the hit of the 2004 New York Fringe Festival, and chosen as a top pick of the Festival by the New York Times and Daily News. It was re-mounted and played to sold-out audiences last year. At present, he has two plays optioned for Broadway: Folding The Monster (with Danny Aiello) and Still Life, slated for fall of 2008. His other works include Big Kids, Adam & Evelyn and Pathetique. He has been a script doctor for New Line Cinema and recently finished work on "Crisis Center: NYC," his first television pilot. He is also developing a television drama with Warren Littlefield and The Littlefield Co.

Michael Peretzian directed Phil and Mac by David Briggs for Los Angeles Actors' Theatre, the West Coast premiere of Talking With by Jane Martin for the Mark Taper Forum Taper Too, a staged reading of Truman Capote's One Christmas for the Taper, and A Christmas Memory, broadcast for many years on KCRW FM (NPR). He also staged A Christmas Memory for Pacific Resident Theatre. At Theatre 40, he directed productions of Michael Cristofer's The Shadow Box, James Prideaux's The Orphans, Garry Williams' one act Rain, David Storey's Home, and productions of Hugh Leonard's Summer and A Life, the latter of which won Peretzian the Los Angeles Critics' Award for Best Director.