Fruit of the Sea Sean Daniels

About This Show

When a down on her luck pet store clerk discovers she’s actually landlocked mer-princess Calamaria, Fruit of the Sea, her life is turned head over fin. With her trusty sidekick, Jimmy the Lobster, Calamaria travels to central Florida’s premiere mermaid attraction, Weeki Wachee Springs, to reclaim her tail and save the oceans from Garbage Island. Inspired by the Twitter account @_floridaman, roadside Americana, sea shanties, and the truth about climate change, this dark musical comedy plumbs the depths of identity and obsession to explore the line between harmlessly ridiculous and deceptively dangerous.

About the Artists

Sean Daniels is a writer, originally hailing from VA. He holds a BFA in Drama from NYU. Select writing credits include The Scientists: A Forgetful Farce (Geva, Chicago Fringe, Portfringe), Not Without My Gallbladder (Robert Moss – Planet Connections Award for Outstanding Direction), JEERS (Undiscovered Countries), Ach Du Lieber Himmel (NYTW with Theatre in Asylum), Imagination (L’Oreal Matrix), Someone is Living in this House (Connelly Theatre), Upon a Weaving (Red Room), Objects of Affection (Robert Moss Theatre) and The Sixth Borough (NYU). He was a recipient of the 2016 Barn Arts Collective Hamilton Project playwriting residency in Bass Harbor, Maine.

Eliza McCoy is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, actor, and recent grad of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Performing credits include All Shook Up, Shrek, and Chicago (The Arundel Barn Playhouse), Not Without My Gallbladder (Robert Moss), The Scientists (PortFringe), White Flame Dancing with the Montmartre Dionysia Festival in Paris, and Role of a Lifetime Cabaret with The Unmasked Theatre Company. Most recently she worked on developing the new musical Elysium (written and composed by Yianni Papadimos and Ben Chavez) at the Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival.

Eric Mercado is a director specializing in new and devised works. Directing credits include The Scientists (Geva, Chicago Fringe, PortFringe), Uzume (La MaMa), The Comedy of Errors (Stone Soup Shakespeare’s Midwest Tour), When The Party’s Over (Paradise Factory), Not Without My Gallbladder (Robert Moss – Planet Connections Award for Outstanding Direction), In Memory (HERE), Choking the Butterfly (PS122 with EBE Ensemble), and Smartphones (Segal Theatre Center, CUNY). Eric is an Artistic Associate of Stone Soup Shakespeare and a member of the current SDCF Observer Class. BFA, NYU.

Saturday, November 19 at 10:00pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students / Seniors / ID NYC
$12

Estimated Runtime
70 minutes

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Credits

Written by Sean M. Daniels

Directed by Eric Mercado

Music by Eliza McCoy

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