Don't Dress for Dinner

BRIAN ROBERT BURNS (Bernard) First National Tour: War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Yale Rep: Richard II, Romeo and Juliet. San Francisco Playhouse: Becky Shaw. Rubicon Theater Company: The Baby Dance: Mixed. The Fountain Theatre: Arrival and Departure. Boomerang: Cymbeline. Clout in the Mug: Look Back in Anger. Lifetime: “Danger Lurking Under My Roof,” “Lucky Hearts.” Streaming: “Daredevil,” “Black-ish.” MFA Yale School of Drama. Brian is in a punk band called Nonheroelite, is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu and kickboxing champion, and plays co-ed wood-bat baseball in a rec league for the two-time LABF champion Los Angeles Death. Brian is elated to be sharing this production of Don’t Dress for Dinner with you at the Laguna Playhouse and would like to thank his friends and family for their love and support.

BRANDON J. PIERCE (Robert) is thrilled to be performing at Laguna Playhouse! Born in the city of Philadelphia, where he has most extensively plied his trade, Brandon has had the pleasure of performing all over the country. Broadway: Birthday Candles (Roundabout Theatre) Off-Broadway: Exit Strategy (Primary Stages) Regional: Fat Ham, Eternal Life Pt.1, Kill Move Paradise (Wilma Theatre); Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth); Ben Butler (North Coast Repertory); Native Son (Playmakers Rep.); Welcome to Fear City (Kansas City Rep); Skeleton Crew (Portland Stage); Sweat (People’s Light); Metamorphoses (Arden Theatre Company). Brandon is a member of the Wilma Theater’s Hothouse Acting Company. Brandon was the recipient of the 2023 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Play. Love to Alexandra, Mom, and Dad.

KATY TANG (Suzanne) is excited to return to Laguna Playhouse, previously seen in Love Among the Ruins. Regional credits: Sweeney Todd, She Loves Me (South Coast Repertory), A Christmas Carol (Denver Center, Syracuse Stage), Marry Me A Little (International City Theatre), Candide (San Bernardino Symphony), A Little Night Music (EastWest Players), Spring Awakening (Cygnet Theatre),The Mikado, Turn of the Screw (Pacific Opera Project), La Mirada Theatre, Independent Shakespeare Company, North Coast Rep, The LATC, Arrow Rock Lyceum, Sacred Fools, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, and LA Opera. International credits: Susanna in ”Le Nozze di Figaro” (Mediterranean Opera Festival, Italy), Sophie in “Werther,” Amour in “Orphée et Eurydice” (La Péniche Opera, France). Katy has also recently created her own site-specific work with vocal sound installations, as a selected 2023 Artist in Residence with Saturn’s Return in Washington state. Tang trained at UCLA & the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris. She was runner-up Miss CA 2013 and is a two-time Junior Olympian ice-skater.