ICU | A Play That Is Also A Musical

November 15, 2024

About the Show:
ICU is a new play written by Dan Costello. It’s also a musical. ICU is about two weeks in a family’s life when a father suddenly goes on life support. The play also explores moving from the city to the country, senior care in America, the medical profession, siblings, religion, and being a parent of young children while also being the child of aging parents. There’s a lot of fishing. And of course, it’s a love story. Did we mention it’s a musical? This performance is the world premiere staged reading of the new musical. Limited seating available.

Written by Dan Costello
Directed by Brittany Martel

This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the office of the governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council.

Meet the Team

  • Dan Costello

    BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS

    Dan Costello is an actor, writer, and musician. Having grown up in Albany NY and lived 20 years in Brooklyn, Dan and his family now live in Washington County, restoring a house from the 1700’s and running a family business. He is the recipient of a 2024 LARAC Community Arts Grant, funded by the NYSCA, and is an 2024 Artist-In-Residence at the Sable Arts Colony. Dan has performed all over the region including at The Rep, NYSTI, Park Playhouse and Fort Salem Theater. His immersive play “The Forest of Feelings,” was commissioned by New York City Children’s Theater and was featured in the New York Times.

    Most recently, Dan won critical acclaim as Charles Guiteau in “Assassins” at Playhouse Stage Company. As a musician Dan has traveled to more than twenty countries bringing his unique mix of folk, rock, jazz and comedy to people who speak many languages. BFA Acting, Syracuse University. ICU is Dan’s first full-length musical.

  • Brittany Martel

    DIRECTOR

    SHE/HER | Brittany is an NYC based director, actor and intimacy director. Originally from the Capital Region, Brittany is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz and alumna of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 2016 Apprentice Program. Director Credits: the world premiere of The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams (The Tank), Into the Woods (River Valley Waldorf Theater), Associate Director Credits: Noises Off (Cape Playhouse), An American in Paris (MTWichita), and Resilience: The Donner Party (710 Main) all under Jeffry Denman. Intimacy Director Credits: As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Penelopiad (SISTC), Resilience: The Donner Party (DTDC). Brittany is a co-founder of Shakespeareholics Anonymous.

  • Kyle West

    FORT SALEM THEATER EXECUTIVE & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    HE/HIM | Kyle has three decades of creating award-winning theatre under his belt, working as a producer, director, choreographer, designer, and performer. His work has been seen all across the US, from Cape Cod, to Boston, Arizona and Dallas, to New York and has been recognized by the AriZoni Awards of Excellence, BroadwayWorld Awards, Column Awards, Annie Award, MET Awards, and MHSDG Awards, among others. in June 2023, was named one of the Top 10 New York State LGBTQ+ Leaders by I ❤️ NY.

    Best known for creating larger-than-life musicals, some of Kyle’s credits include Hairspray, Next to Normal, Evita, White Christmas, I Love You Because, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Man of No Importance, West Side Story, Footloose, Into the Woods, RENT, The Rink, The Boyfriend, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Little Shop of Horrors, A Chorus Line, Chicago, Grease, La Cage aux Folles, The World Goes ‘Round, Cabaret, Pirates of Penzance, My Favorite Year, Annie, and Fame.

    At Fort Salem Theater, he has directed and choreographed Salem Under The Stars, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Next to Normal, There’s No Business Like Snow Business, Grease, The Pirates of Penzance, Agnes of God, and Mary Poppins and has designed costumes for FST’s Pride & Prejudice , Grease, and Bright Star. He recently made his FST onstage debut in The Rocky Horror Show, and played Gangster #2 in The Drowsy Chaperone.

  • THE CAST

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