Blood and Water

Jeff Dolecek and Justin Estes

Jeff Dolecek and Justin Estes

BLOOD AND WATER by Andy Mayo

World Premiere at Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill,

Producing Artistic Director Victoria J. Liberatori

Directed by Victoria J. Liberatori

Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . JEFF DOLECEK

Steffi . . . . . . . . . . . TRISTANA GONZALEZ

Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . JUSTIN ESTES

Officer . . . . . . . . . . GEORGE RYAN

Designers/Crew

Tim Wilkins  . . . . . . . . . . . .Stage Manager

Casey Mraz . . . . . . . . . . . . Sound Designer

Rhonda Backinoff . . . . . . .Costume Designer

Victoria J. Liberatori . . . .  Set Designer

Dan K. Tabeling  . . . . . . .  Set Construction

Paul Meeker . . . . . . . . . . . Set Construction

Susan Roden . . . . . . . . . . . Set Painter

Adrian Doerfler . . . . . . . .  Set & Props Principal Crew

Russell Maynor . . . . . . . .  Graphic Designer/Photographer

Peter St. Cyr . . . . . . . . . . . Video Designer

April Hunter . . . . . . . . . .  Costume Assistant

Catherine Towne . . . . . . Props Assistant

Kim Clarke-Sailo . . . . . . . Production Assistant

10-Minute Plays

My 10-minute play What Mom Said received a staged reading at the Fusion Short Works Festival on June 16 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, directed by Becca Holmes with Amelia Ampuero as June and Jen Grigg* as Natalie.

My 10-minute play A Valuable Commodity received a staged reading at Santa Fe Playhouse, January 27-29 as part of the theatre’s New Play Reading Series. Directed by Antonio Miniño. Cast: Sam: Kent Kirkpatrick, Louisa: Vanessa Rios y Valle, Martin: Carlos Andrés Vásquez. Stage Directions: Hannah Machado

My 10-minute play, The Connection, selected by Equity Library Theater of New York for its 2022 Virtual Play Festival.

Lyndon Agonistes

“We are pleased to support this play! It was a Finalist for the 2020 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.” - Kitchen Dog Theater

Cast of 5: 1 white woman, 3 women any ethnicity, 1 white man.

No American President had a greater impact on social justice than Lyndon B. Johnson,  yet he is remembered, if remembered at all, as the mastermind of the Vietnam War debacle.

His domestic policies are particularly relevant today; for example, changes in immigration rules that he signed into law are now being reversed by the Trump administration. His leadership in civil rights laid the groundwork for LGBTQ rights, which the Trump administratin is working to reverse.

His life is a case study in questions of justice, morality, human freedom and human sacrifice. He was a deeply flawed, genuinely tragic man who is unknown to many American citizens.

 Lyndon Agonistes examines how the feelings, dreams, and desires of a U.S. President affect the policies he implements, especially when that man is a narcissist and a bully. That examination – why LBJ sent 36,000 Americans to their deaths in Vietnam – is conducted by the three Furies: Infinity, Jealousy, and Destruction. This is a story told in real time and dream time, mixing history, myth and public policy relevant to today’s political environment.

The play had a first reading at Chicago Dramatists’ First Draft series with Richard Henzel* reading the part of Lyndon and moderated by Will Dunne, author of The Dramatic Writer’s Companion and other books.

Cast of four: 1 woman, 3 men. Contact Andy Mayo for script.



A One-Man Show

Wish Upon a Star

Unauthorized, intimate reflections with Walt Disney


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Vernon Poitras as Walt Disney in my play Wish Upon A Star, The Cell Theatre, 2017 and Adobe Theater, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


Confess and Conspire produced at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, 2018.

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