What We Deserve - With David Rigano and Catie Carlisle

The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, What We Deserve - With David Rigano and Catie Carlisle - A Talkback, signing and live podcast recording.

About the Play

Six strangers meet by chance, unaware of how much they share. As the chance meetings keep coupling them in the wrong pairs, they wonder what it is they actually deserve—and sometimes hope they aren’t already living it. Part One follows them finding each other in pairings that provide them with a sense of what they think they’re looking for. Part Two looks at why they need something they have difficulty finding. Part Three places them in their final pairings for the show, hopefully pointing them toward something that they deserve more than what they started with.      

About the Playwright

David Rigano is an award-winning musical theatre writer and director. With his brother and collaborator Paul Rigano, he has written book, music, and lyrics to You Heard It Here (NY Winterfest 2017 Award for Best Score), We Were Wild, Get the Duchess, and Awaken: a Sleeping Beauty musical. Together they also wrote the score for The Holy Cows of Credence South Dakota with bookwriter Mark-Eugene Garcia and created the long running Ides of March Extravaganza. David and Paul were awarded a 2018 Town Stages Fellowship to produce their musical talk show "Broadway On Deck," and their 2020 music video "Screen to Screen" won the Rave Theatre Social Distancing Festival. David's plays include Life Lessons with Susan Gail, What We Deserve, Not the Same Old Story, and Opposite Attraction. As a director David has helmed new musicals through workshops and initial productions, such as Nutcracker! the Musical, Wild Women of Planet Wongo, All Star: the Best Broadway Musical, and his own award-winning You Heard It Here. When not directing or writing, David can be found cooking and binging M**der mysteries with his cat. Please follow @RiganoSongbook for more information.

About the Moderator

Catie Carlisle is a writer, director, and performer from San Antonio, Texas based in New York City. She is a city girl in the South, or a cowboy in the iron jungle, depending on the day. Her plays include 100 Days, That Night, and The Overlap. She has performed in Tartuffe, Rocking Chair, Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, and Shaina Taub's Twelfth Night among others, and holds an MFA in Classical Acting from The Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy at GWU. When she's not writing, directing, and performing, Catie does production design for short films and runs Carlisle Entertainment.

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