The Cast

---

RICHARD GRUNN is  an actor, artist, puppeteer, and teaching artist, who has performed and toured original shows at many festivals in the U.S., Ireland and the U. K. including the West Cork Literary Festival, Schull Arts Festival, Arundel Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe.  In 2019 he received a Creative Engagement Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) to perform his trash- constructed puppet circus Urbano’s Circus and the Monster of Garbage at the University Settlement in New York City.  Some of his original solo shows include: Urbano’s Circus, Father Joiner’s Purgative Poetry Project, a poetry reading of several winsome, yet unlikely poets, and his most recent show, Good Medicine, a satirical history of America's great anti-satanic, scientific, and spiritual salesmen.  He received a 2015 BRIO award for experimental film from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and in 2003 was awarded the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Theatre. Richard Grunn is a teaching artist for Sundog Theatre where he designed a drama-based literacy program, 3-D Literacy, which serves elementary and middle school students in the NYC schools. He has taught radio theater to visually impaired students at the Lighthouse Guild, and seniors for the past four years. He has been a LMCC SU-CASA recipient from 2015-2022.

Received NYIT Outstanding Director and NY Times Critic's Pick for The Workshop Theater's Drama Desk nominated production "The Navigator" (Eddie Antar). She is the winner of a NYC Fringe Award winner for outstanding direction for "Zamboni" (Sean-Patrick O'Brien), production extended in Encore Series.  Recently: "The Chekhov Dreams" (Becket Theatre), "Broadway Bound" (Gretna Theater), "The Tempest" (Pied Piper Theatre). Leslie is an associate artist director and dramaturg at The Workshop Theater.  Proud Member Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

JOE BURBY is an actor, musician, and voice over guy who lives in Northern Manhattan with his family.  He takes great pleasure in this opportunity to collaborate with Rich, Leslie and Henry on Good Medicine!  Joe’s voice can be heard in museums via Acoustiguide from Ellis Island and the Met to Angels Mining Camp in Calaveras County.  Joe has had two original musicals for children produced and along with wife Leslie wrote and produced a film: an original telling of “Robin Hood” shot entirely in Manhattan parks.  The film got 5 out of 5 stars from the “Kid’s First Film Festival” in 2021.  For more about Joe please visit www.joeburby.com.

HENRY BURBY is a multidisciplinary performance artist and public historian operating in New York City. His Theatrical roles include Tony Lumpkin (She Stoops to Conquer, UP Theater Co.), Valère (Tartuffe, UP), Lee (lead, The Tallest Building in the World, UP), Seyton/Assassin (MacBeth, Delphi Theater Company), Sam (lead, Endurance, Workshop Theater Co.), Trolling (Lead, The Four Horsemen of the Internet, Secret Theater Co.), and David Rockefeller (The Gardens, Morningside Players). He is thrilled to be participating in Good Medicine, show which combines his interests in music, acting, and obscure history.