Runtime 90 Minutes
There will be no intermission
Intense Themes
Content Warning: Sex, Adult Language, Drug Use
CAST
Genny Yosco as Michelle Baker
Austin Sky Parker as Cortland Baker
Genny Yosco as Michelle Baker
Genny Yosco is one of the most overworked people you've ever met, and is constantly taking on more projects because hey, why not? She founded Sour Grapes Productions (the company that owns the theater you'll be sitting in for the show) back in 2014, and The Vino Theater itself will be celebrating its five year anniversary on February 1st.
Genny Yosco is one of the most overworked people you've ever met, and is constantly taking on more projects because hey, why not? She founded Sour Grapes Productions (the company that owns the theater you'll be sitting in for the show) back in 2014, and The Vino Theater itself will be celebrating its five year anniversary on February 1st. To date, she's produced 124 shows, 91 of which she's directed at 69 of which she's written. Genny would like to send out a big huge thanks to Austin for not only writing this show, but for writing a part for her specifically. Also thanks to Dan for always being down to do something fun with us. Much love to Poppy, Petunia, and Huey. Social media: @gennydreadful and @sourgrapesproductions
Dan Finegold as David Baker
Austin Sky Parker as Cortland Baker
Genny Yosco as Michelle Baker
Dan Finegold is mostly a comedian but he's really trying his best up there.
Dan co-produces Professional Unprofessionals, a weekly stand-up show at Jake's Dilemma on the Upper West Side and has gigged all throughout NYC and the North East. A Long Island native, Dan is a naturally talented actor and director who only wrote the first sentence of this bio. Insta: @dan_finegold
Austin Sky Parker as Cortland Baker
Austin Sky Parker as Cortland Baker
Austin Sky Parker as Cortland Baker
Austin Sky Parker is a playwright and performer in NYC. He's been writing and producing for over 10 years but took a break In the middle to explore degeneracy in NYC.
He fronts the Punk / Alt
Rock band: The Richlands and is the Creative Director of AMPD NYC. He thanks Genny and Dan for their work on this project and his Pops for passing down the hereditary lottery that has made him an artist.
A Note From The Writer
I'm writing this before the last scene has been finished. I'm putting a lot of blind trust in myself, trust that has backfired more than I'd like to admit. I'm not sure how this show ends but I know I gotta wrap it up with something hopeful, something real. Maybe not a happy ending, but sure not a depressing one. I hope that, however this ends, you leave this theater with compassion for those living on the fringe, the hopeless loudmouths, the addicts. I hope you see a person with a family, a kind heart in a calloused shell, hands that never wished to be balled into tight fists, but longed to hold someone in their palm.
I don't know how this play ends, but I know that end is supposed to change how you see us. Will you let it?
-Austin Sky Parker, Writer of I Could be Dead by Christmas
Technicians
Hannah Tucker Duncan
Hannah Tucker Duncan
Hannah Tucker Duncan
Hannah Tucker Duncan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Manhattan. You can see them die before Christmas as Alex in “It’s Alive!” at Vino Theater this February!
Jack Doyle
Hannah Tucker Duncan
Hannah Tucker Duncan
Jack Doyle is a writer/performer/whatever the show requires, originally from Michigan, and he is so thrilled to run tech for this awesome new show. You can check out his original musical “It’s Alive: On Stage!” next month right here at Vino! Instagram & Tiktok: @jackdoyle901
Coming Up at the vino theater
SEX JOKES & MURDER | Feb 16-18
A hand selected group of directors compete in a festival of comedic, off-beat short plays
IT'S ALIVE | Feb 19-28
An original musical for bloodthirsty monsters & people who would rather die than get stuck in detention
LEGENDARY | April 9-12
LEGENDARY | April 9-12
A teenage fry cook is transported to a Middle-Earth style realm where he must conquer Orcs, Giants and Dragons before facing his greatest battle: growing up.
CReative Team
Sour Grapes Productions | Producers
Sour Grapes Productions was founded in 2007, incorporated in New York in 2014, and turned into a non-profit in 2019 by two disgruntled performers sick of unfair treatment of indie theater productions in the city. SGP is the home of five regular monthly shows, four yearly festivals, mutitudes of resident artists, and, as you can see here, and insane amount of costumes. Sour Grapes Production owns The Vino Theater & The Cork Studio, which are run by Genny Yosco and Austin Sky Parker. @sourgrapesproductions
AMPD | Producers/Marketing
AMPD was founded in 2024. Dedicated to showcasing artists and their art, AMPD produces live stage shows, concerts and multimedia projects.
