DEB

 

Played by Beth Domann, Deb is a hippie, employee and mom, but not necessarily in that order. Deb named her baby boy after her favorite Beatle, works hard as an Assistant Manager at Beary’s Bowling, and tries to be a loving wife, and mother, but sometimes her recreational activities get in the way.

 

Beth Domann grew up in Springfield, Missouri and graduated from Stephens College with a BFA in Theatre. Beth considers her first performance to be birth. She decided to pursue acting because she liked to make people laugh and it all fell into place very naturally for her. After college, she spent time as an actor and stand-up comic in Dallas and around the Midwest before returning to the Springfield theatre community.

 

Ms. Domann has acted on stage and film.  She has directed numerous plays at Springfield Little Theatre (SLT) and currently she serves as SLT’s Executive Director.

 

Beth and Deb might be the least similar characters out of the entire cast. Beth says that she is in no way as mellow as Deb, and if someone were to trash her house and make a mess like the scene with all of the food, she would “freak out”! Although, Beth says they might be a lot alike in their “smarty pants” ways.

 

Being on set was a blast for Beth. She loved getting to know everyone and working with them. She said that she can’t wait to see some of those names on the big screen because they are “freaky talented people.” The hardest change for her between theatre and film is having to wait around for production setups and retakes.

 

ALH hopes that Beth continues to create the humor in the fabulous characters that she brings to life on stage every year and that she will work with MSU productions again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DAN

 

DAN played by David Greathouse.  David grew up in the small town of Arnold, just a short drive from St. Louis, Missouri. While he does act, he considers himself a songwriter and musician. Acting is more of a hobby that he greatly enjoys. He remembers his first performance as singing “Jingle Bells” with a toy guitar when he was two years old.

 

David loved being able to bring Dan’s character to life and says that he is just like the character because they look exactly alike! He laughs whenever he thinks about how much the smoke machine got was used to create Dan and Deb’s atmosphere. It certainly got quite the workout.

 

Like the other actors, David is mostly involved in the surrounding areas theatre scene. While he loves the immediacy of the theatre and having to work really hard to connect with the audience, film offers different opportunities. “I enjoy film because there is no audience to connect with…the small nuance in performance is detectable in film where it would be lost on stage.”

 

For A Little Help, not only did David write and perform the main title theme it got him his gig to be the webseries composer.  For David, composing was a new opportunity to stretch how he creates music.  Normally, he writes lyrics and then the music follows in this scenario he had to enhance the story through music without lyrics.  ALH feels very lucky we were the recipients of his talent which help set the tone for the series.