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ME TO PLAY Director Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM
Director Jim Bernfield Talks Parkinson's Disease, Samuel Beckett and Filmmaking on THE SOUNDS OF FILM
ME TO PLAY Director, Jim Bernfield, Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM
ME TO PLAY features Dan Moran and Chris Jones who are New York actors. Both have Parkinson’s disease — a disease that affects all the elements essential to their craft.
So it is an act of bravery for Dan and Chris to take on Samuel Beckett’s comic masterpiece, Endgame, a complex and difficult piece of theater that makes the case that “there’s nothing funnier than unhappiness.”
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By performing with Parkinson’s disease while opening their lives to a documentary, these two men show that they can meet even the most difficult circumstances with aplomb, a sense of humor, and soul.
Dan and Chris represent six decades of acting between them. They have appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in films and on TV.
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They met in 1995 while sharing a Broadway dressing room during a production of A Month in the Country.
Now they share another bond: Parkinson’s disease.
On April 12th, the Port Jefferson Documentary Series will screen ME TO PLAY online beginning at 7pm EDT with 48 hours to view. For ticket information, go to:
Jim Bernfield recently completed ME TO PLAY, a documentary feature about actors with Parkinson’s disease who put up Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. He wrote It’s Best Not to Know, a TV miniseries based on two sisters’ experience in the Holocaust. He also oversees Human Rights First’s marketing and communications efforts. Before joining Human Rights First, he worked with a range of nonprofit, political, and commercial organizations, from the Alliance for Climate Protection to the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Los Angeles Dodgers, to the last four Democratic Presidential nominees.
THE SOUNDS OF FILM is the nation's longest running film and music themed radio show. For the past 30 years, the program has delivered a popular mix of interviews and music to listeners all over Long Island, parts of Connecticut and streaming live worldwide on the internet. Past people interviewed for the show include Jim Breuer, Cheech & Chong, Jason Biggs, Thora Birch, Alec Baldwin, Billy Joel, William H. Macy, John Debney, Howard Shore, Kurtis Blow and Ralph Macchio.
Worldwide listeners can tune into the SOUNDS OF FILM internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.