The Club of Broken Fasts at Long Beach Playhouse

What happens when the spirit of the 1980s as embodied in a much-beloved film about a group of Saturday detention-bound high school students meets the beauty and wit of Shakespearean verse? Attend The Club of Broken Fasts and find out!

From the playwright Phil S. Gould: “High school drama is pointless, and silly, and also somehow the most important thing in the world. That’s what I take from the John Hughes high school oeuvre, and that’s what I wanted to put across in The Club of Broken Fasts; when you’re going through it, your first love and your dumbest embarrassment and your game-winning catch and your B that should have been an A are as important as anything any king did hundreds of years ago, and as worthy of elevation through verse.”

Directed by Adrián Genesius Barrón and Phone Tha

Written by Phil S. Gould

Starring Scott Bartling as Andrew, Dina Cataldi as Claire, Mason Conrad as Bender, Michael DiNardo as Brian, Mary Ann Pianka as Allison, and Ted Dane as Principal Vernon

Executive Producers Dina Cataldi, Adrián Genesius Barrón and Phone Tha

Producer Sam Miyamoto

Marketing Director/Producer Scott Bartling

Costuming by Morgan Cordova-Stuart

Scenic design by Siyin Yan

Associate Scenic Design by Izzy Martinez Lighting Design by Andew J Roberts

Choreography by Marycarmen Portillo

Stage Manager Felicia Cantu

Props Master Keenan McCarthy