Virginia Madsen, Academy Award nominee from the hit movie “Sideways”, has been added to the east coast tour of Stan Zimmerman’s suicide awareness play, ‘Right Before I Go’, highlighting the raw struggles of people in all walks of life that have died by suicide.

The play brings to life the last words written in letters by individuals lost-including celebrities, veterans, children and those identifying as LGBTQ+, people who have experienced a range of mental health calamities -as well as those who have survived attempts. ‘Right Before I Go’, produced by Seedling Events, will also feature cast members from the popular TV show ‘Gilmore Girls’, with its first performance at 3p.m. in Ogunquit, Maine on October 2, 2022. Tickets, cast bios and additional information about this production can be found at www.seedlingevents.com.

The tour will run for one week throughout New England and down the eastern seaboard, from Maine to Washington D.C. (including stops in Woodstock, NY; Manchester, New Hampshire; Wilmington, Delaware and ending in Baltimore, Maryland). The play will be under the direction of Gilmore alum Devon M. Schwartz, who brings nearly three decades of theater experience from across the country to this project. To date, cast members include playwright & narrator, Stan Zimmerman (whose writing credits include The Golden Girls, Gilmore Girls & Roseanne), Shelly Cole, Nick Holmes, Devon Michaels, and now, Virginia Madsen, whose nephew died by suicide this year.

“After the suicide death of my good friend, Kevin Gill, I was at a loss about how to process this. Seeing so much shame around the topic, I decided to create a play in the vein of “The Vagina Monologues”, easily produced with actors on stools, reading the script from music stands.” Stan Zimmerman, Right Before I Go creator, said. My hope is that this will create an opening for a much needed discussion about a very complicated issue.”

Confirmed performances, for this production, of Right Before I Go include:
October 2nd @ 3p.m.
Ogunquit, Maine (The Leavitt Theater)

October 3rd @ 7p.m.
Manchester, New Hampshire (The Rex Theater @ The Palace)

October 5th & 6th @ 7p.m.
Woodstock, New York (Woodstock Playhouse)

October 7th @ 8p.m.
Wilmington, Delaware (Theatre N at Nemours)

October 8th @ 8p.m.
Washington D.C, (The Lang Theatre @ Atlas Performing Arts Center)

October 9th @ 8p.m.
Baltimore, MD (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company)

Alyssa Milano (Brazen), Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Gina Torres (9-1-1: Lone Star) and Milana Vayntrub (This Is Us) have signed on for roles in the feature-length anthology Give Me an A, which links together 15 short films, in response to the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade.

The film currently in post-production will have been completed within two months from the date of Roe’s overturning — which eliminated the longstanding constitutional right to abortion — in an effort to ensure this is a response and not a delayed reaction. The creators, cast and crew have made a significant effort to expedite the process in order to start a conversation with audiences about the importance of bodily autonomy and address the dysfunction of a democracy that is not protecting the needs of a majority of the population. Support from vendors like Keslow, Panavision and The Ebell of Los Angeles has allowed the teams to move quickly under a low budget.

Virginia Madsen earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her supporting role in Alexander Payne’s Sideways, and has more recently appeared in films like Operation Christmas Drop, Her Smell and 1985. Recent TV credits include Swamp Thing, Elementary and The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. Other upcoming projects for the actress include Lionsgate’s horror-thriller Prey for the Devil and its action-thriller One Day as a Lion, as well as Nicola Peltz Beckham’s drama, Lola James.

Grindstone Entertainment Group now has the rights to the upcoming crime drama, One Day as a Lion, reports Deadline. The film is currently in production. The story of One Day as a Lion follows Jackie Powers, a father of a juvenile delinquent son, who struggles to escape his past life of crime as he turns to a job as a collector for local mobster Dom Lorenzo and his mob boss Pauly Russo.

After failing to collect from Walter Boggs, a local cowboy legend, he makes a run for it with waitress Lola Brisky as a hostage. Seeing no way out of the chaotic situation, he makes a deal with Lola and poses as her fiancé to impress her terminally ill mother in return for money to pay for his son’s defense lawyer.

The film features the acting talents of Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), Frank Grillo (Captain America, The Purge), Michael Carmen Pitt (Boardwalk Empire), Marianne Rendón (Charlie Says), Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black), and Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen (Sideways). One Day as a Lion was written by Scot Caan (Hawaii Five-O), with John Swab (Ida Red) serving as director. Jeremy M. Rosen (Ida Red, Charlie Says) is producing for Roxwell Films. Executive producers are Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb, Joshua Spector, Viviana Zarragoitia, and Ali Jazayeri.

Swab and Rosen have worked together on several other projects as well; One Day as a Lion will be their seventh creative collaboration. It also serves as the fourth creative project between the Rosen, Swab, and Grillo, with their most recent project being Ida Red, a crime thriller starring Grillo, Josh Hartnett, and Melissa Leo. The three also have two films expected to release in the later 2022.