Many of you have written curious about the latest from the world premier stage debut of my memoir. So, without further adieu, I'm posting a few shots from the play, "FBI Girl," adapted for stage by Tammy Ryan, directed by Sheila McKenna and produced by the one-and-only Pittsburgh Playhouse. It was a treat to travel east and meet everybody involved with the production. Pittsburgh is an amazing theatre town. I am honored to have met so many truly talented and dedicated people!!!!
So, like some of you, I grew up watching the TV show, "The FBI," starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. At the end of the show, he (Inspector Erskine) would review the Ten Most Wanted list. This was the part of "The FBI" I loved to hate to watch! After all, herein were portrayed the dangerous element--those scary criminals my father, Special Agent Joe Conlon, pursued on a daily basis (no doubt running faster than a locomotive and leaping between buildings!) Didn't he know I dreamt of being his partner in crime so we could solve the mysteries of life together?! In this scene, I wonder if the Ten Most Wanted are anywhere near our house in beautiful suburban Los Angeles.
Okay, so it was no big deal that I was voted Most Quiet Girl in my eighth grade graduation glass! I harbored my own dreams of being the first female agent for the FBI and here I am embodying the very cool criminal-gnabbing techniques I've devised alongside the design of my very own FBI Girl special agent wardrobe (thank you Gramma Molly for teaching me how to sew, well, at least how to thread a needle.) Here's a shot of the incredible actor Robin Abramson playing FBI Girl (Maura Conlon), cavorting about with her dreamy secret agent attire!
Watch out world! And here I am...J. Edgar Hoover!
Here my father takes me out for lunch (tuna melt on rye) along with my younger brother Joe who was born in 1966 with Down syndrome. (Joe the special agent loves his son Joe Jr. In fact, he says people like Joe hold the keys to heaven. That's what he tells me in this restaurant scene.) Actor Mark Tinkey knows the power of the language of love and here, playing the role of Joe Jr., engages the waitress, played by Mary Rawson, signing to her how much he loves her. We've all heard the adage: Love Makes the World Go Round. My brother Joe is proof positive. Mark did an amazing job playing Joe with such sweet tenderness and wise delicacy. And veteran actor John Amplas played a true-to-life Joe Conlon complete with all the grit and grin and painstaking forbearance. Fabulous actors all (including Nancy Bach, Michael Fuller, Joel Ripka, Theo Allyn.)
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