Last Ditch Playlist is an original full-length play by Brad Baron
In 2017, Last Ditch Playlist was presented as a part of the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC, as well as at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Last Ditch Playlist also had its Off-Off-Broadway premiere at Theaterlab in New York City.
According to DC Theatre Scene: “Last Ditch Playlist is clever, heartfelt, and frustrating—in a good way. It’s refreshing to see a relationship between two gay men through the kind of tender-but-flawed lens that we take for granted when heterosexual couples are the subject—even down to the frank talk about the finer details of man-on-man sex that aren’t often discussed in pop culture. Aaron doesn’t get the typical Hollywood rom-com ending he so desperately desires, but Last Ditch Playlist does adhere to most important rule of both mixtape- and theatre-making: the rules are made to be broken."
For more information about Last Ditch Playlist, please visit the play’s official website.
2017 Production Credits:
Aaron: Brad Baron
Wes: Ross McCorkell
Zara/Lexi: Amy Stringer
Kellan/Willie: Dontonio Demarco
Choreography: Casey Bagnall
Graphic Design: Sarah Cuneo
Lighting and Tech Design: James Johnson
Sound Design and Original Music: Jason Pomerantz
Video Design and Original Photography: Joseph Prestamo
In 2016, Last Ditch Playlist was workshopped at Dixon Place, culminating in a fully staged reading.
2016 Workshop Credits:
Aaron: Kyle Luckett
Wes: Ross McCorkell
Zara/Lexi: Veronica Pickett
Kellan/Willie: Adam Hyndman
Director: Brad Baron
Graphic Design: Sarah Cuneo
Sound Design and Original Music: Jason Pomerantz
Video Design and Original Photography: Joseph Prestamo
Last Ditch Playlist had a reading with the Village Playwrights early on in its inception. The play has also been read in many a living room over beer and Domino’s pizza.
Brad has authored dozens of plays to date. In addition to Last Ditch Playlist; he contributed works to the 2016, 2017, and 2018 New Jersey One Minute Play Festivals (#1MPF); his one acts Homochondria and Queer Assumptions were a part of the Rainbow Festival with the La Strada Ensemble Theater; his short play 140 Characters or Less was presented in the Second Annual Short Play Festival with Luna Stage; his full-length Where We Always Go was presented in the New Playwrights Series at The Villagers Theater; and Homochondria had its regional premiere as a part of the Ringwald Theatre’s Gay Play Series (GPS). While at Princeton University, he re-imagined Sophocles’ Oedipus plays in an original drama titled In the Waste: A Theban Cycle, presented in a staged reading that he also directed.
