Work Sample: Fleishhacker Foundation

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Push/Pull by Harry Davis (2025)

Central Works’ world premiere #76: Matthew Kropschot and Andre Amarotico* perform scenes from the play.

Clark is a young man at the age of 24. After a devastating breakup, resulting in a brief stay at a mental health facility, he reconnects with his childhood friend Nolan, now an amateur bodybuilder determined to get his Pro Card. Nolan agrees to get his old friend “totally jacked” if Clark will be his competition coach. Together these two set out on a journey of physical perfection through a regimen of discipline, drinking your milk, and the 7 Compulsory Poses. A pathway to fulfillment, or a dangerous delusion?

Nolan’s body-building routine.

Clark obsesses over his ex-girlfriend and whether getting “big” by using steroids will win her back.

Mondragola by Gary Graves (2023)

Central Works’ world premiere #70: Rudy Guerrero* performing in the final scene from the play.

Things aren’t going so well for Niccolo Machiavelli.  He’s been in exile.  The man history will come to know as the author of The Prince, the infamous “Handbook for Tyrants,” has been struggling to get by as an itinerant playwright, writing farcical sex comedies to make ends meet.  But a big break comes when he’s invited to present a new play at an elite soiree in Florence.  Little does he know, his play is merely bait to lure the Cardinal of Florence into an assassination plot.  When Machiavelli realizes what’s afoot, he must choose:  is he with the conspirators, or against them?  Either way, he could see his head wind up on the chopping block.  Politics, and playwriting, is a dangerous game!
Recorded by Lawrence Dillon

*member AEA