ABOUT
RE is a TV series in development, RE-imagining the life of an actor who died of AIDS at the age of 29. Based on the success of its Award-Winning Prologue, RE invents a new vision of theater for television using LED and AI technology to give us back the joy we missed.
SYNOPSIS OF RE
Marcus di Pino is an actor who died of AIDS in 1986 at the age of 29. RE, a revolutionary television series, brings Marcus back to perform the 50th year of his life. Giving an encore to one unknown, flawed, and magnificent artist, we understand the devastation of losing a generation of talented gay men.
RE's journey started as a 1,400-page diary of this imagined 50th year. It was turned into an award-winning short film and has now been developed into a dramatic series for Television.
This is a new vision of theater for television. Shot on a sound stage within LED walls and incorporating the magic of AI and digital technology, RE immerses the audience into a world where the present and past combine to generate this performance of a lifetime.
Is it Shakespeare? Hardly. In his Fleabag type of delivery, Marcus drags us into the messy, hilarious, and inglorious life of a real artist.
The joyful outcome of RE is that we get to recover some of what we lost.
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND RE
Almost a generation of gay artists were lost to AIDS. Many of these young men might never have attained the renown of Keith Herring, Rudolph Nureyev, Freddie Mercury, or Halston. But what might they have been? And how would we be different had they lived?
A postcard memorializing one, New York actor who died at 29 set off the chain of extrapolation in Kenneth Robins’ mind. RE takes this obscure, stage-actor, and RE-imagines the life and contribution he might have made had he lived. The 1400 page text for RE is a journal of the artist’s 50th year. The script provides a platform for artists of different types to employ their talents in order to give one, lost actor a callback that never came.
BEHIND THE SCENES
CREATORS
Kenneth Robins
“In his multiple levels, Mr. Robins tells a story about real people.”
- NEW YORK TIMES
Julie Hartley
Julie Hartley has been production managing and producing entertainment and media projects for the past forty years.
Tom Adair
JOHN MCBRIDE
John is a Videographer/Editor and Creator of original sales presentations for nationally syndicated shows, including Ellen DeGeneres, Queen Latifah, Sharon Osbourne, Rosie O’Donnell, and more.
Actors
MATTHEW FLOYD MILLER
(Netflix, HBO Max, NBC, Amazon)
Marcus DiPino
Matthew Arkin
(Get Shorty, NCIS, Hawaii Five-O, Medium, Criminal Minds)
Eric Szmanda
(CSI)
Ugo
Joel McKinnon Miller
(Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Staircase, Big Love)
ROB NAGLE
(Blonde, NCSI)
Sean Hemeon
(True Blood, Husbands, Criminal minds, As the World Turns)
Michael Manuel
William Lovelle Warren
DAVID LEE HESS
(HBO MAX, FX, HULU)
NICOLE OHARA
Melina Bielefelt
(CSI)
Alan Schack
(ER, Miami Vice)
Lang parker
Connie Mellors
Ben Miller
KELSEY LANDON
(A Crime to Remember, Days Of Our Lives)
Bruce Merkle
Tina Marzell
Tina is grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of this exciting production! She was inspired as a child living in the New York area by seeing the original Broadway productions of West Side Story, Peter Pan, Fiddler on the Roof and so many other iconic Broadway shows. Some favorite of her roles have been Old Lady in Candide, Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill ) and Annie Get Your Gun. She sings with a jazz quartet (recently in New York City), in a variety of venues, notably a residency at SF Fine Arts Museum and headlining at Biscuits and Blues. She had provided ASL interpretation for the S.F. Mime Troupe for many years and is a regular performer at nursing homes.
She encourages anyone who has been told “you can’t sing” to take a deep breath and do it! It’s never too late!
the Prologue
In RE's early incarnation, the prologue screened at film festivals around the country, winning multiple awards.
PRESS
The Story
The following scenes excerpted from the text of RE are set during Christmas of 2008. Barack Obama has just been elected President running on a platform of hope. Those benefits have not yet trickled down to Marcus di Pino who lost his job teaching high-school drama and is living in a farmhouse in Pennsylvania with no heat or hot water. In these holiday scenes, he is dealing with his overly-dramatic mother while unable to get himself even cast in community theater. Although Marcus would blame the script for the drama of his life, the fact that he is being directed by the voices in his head ( Spalding Gray, Jesus, Jerry Herman, Thornton Wilder, among others) does not inspire hope.
THE IMAGINARY INVALID
INT. VILLA VERSAILLES CHATEAU DE RETIREMENT- DAY
OUR TOWN
EXT. CEMETERY - DAY
Long Day's Journey Into Night
INT. JILLY'S - NIGHT
TWELVE ANGRY MEN
INT. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE - NIGHT
Original Drawings by Leslie Harris