Heartless Bastard Jim Shankman
About the show
Barry Weiss is a hot shot broker, arrogant, smart and tough. His girlfriend Janie is his take-no-prisoners business partner. They ride the big wave of ambition and wealth, self-involved and self-satisfied. When Barry needs a new heart, he descends into a comically callous world of medically inept doctors and their hard-bitten nurses. But as he recuperates, Barry finds that everything feels wrong and he is deeply disturbed. What are these feelings, these thoughts, all these questions? When he shows up on the doorstep of the dead man’s widow, he begins a dangerous journey into the true nature of his illness and the deeper meaning of his new heart.
Credits
Written by Jim Shankman
Directed by Craig George
Set Design by Margaux Maeght
Light Design by Cha See
Technical Direction by Steven Brenman
Performed by: Collin Smith, Amelia Matthews*, Barbra Wengerd*, Kevin Sim*, Courtney Leigh Halford*
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States