i'm not trying to throw you out of your life i'm just trying to help me with  perkins the writer director producer of this also in production the company you keep and i'm cold owner of prescription entertainment this is my wife stephanie she's coal owner of prescription entertainment these are my two children times we don't know who our enemies are and the sad thing about life is sometimes your biggest enemies smiling your face your biggest enemy show up to your house the biggest enemies each of food the biggest enemies wear your clothes and we call them friends so what i want people to take away from this show is understanding that they need to use discernment they need to keep a eyes open and be careful of the company they keep the stories important because  a lot of times we run into situations or allow people in our personal circles who mean us no good and the problem with that is those are the ones that try to demise us or try to bring us down and if we were more careful if we took more time as we allow people in our circle to become our friends i think we can eliminate a lot of that lin and eliminate a lot of stress eliminate a lot of frustration a little limb in a lot of surprises that you get when you find out touchstone one and hopefully give them a answer to whatever it is that they're going to and want to in their lives miss joyce i love her she is amazing she is truly truly all some she gives you love she gives you compassion she gives you understanding in what it is she's trying to teach the people the some of the cast are in the play stage managing to me is helping them backstage getting the prepare getting them excited making sure th making sure that they have all of their words down packed all their outfits are ready to go mikes are working that statement and i love stage managing i love being a part of the whole that and the whole crew and helping everyone i just love watching it's so mind blowing actually you're going to catch a whole lot of knowles you're going to run into a lot of issues with preproduction the biggest thing is finances i ran my first production in los angeles california and it started off difficult you know trying to get the money and trying to get people to notice me and know that i'm serious about my craft so i will say you cannot give up never to continue to press the world know your craft know your craft study writing you know watch productions watch plays and whenever you can get into some workshops there's a bunch of war shops all over the city of chicago and all over every major city and smaller cities in the united states but when you serious about some you take time out to build your your craft so i say definitely continue to push continue to be the biggest  can be in this because this is not easy is not easy you run into a lot of pitfalls and so as you as you out there trying to pursue playwright you want to make sure that you are you connecting with people in another big thing is networking you can't be afraid to network you've got to get out there and talk to other people and learn one thing i've always been as a student and you know i never look at people ages if they if they're somewhere that i want to be i sit at the fee as a student and i learn and i've been learning in this field since one thousand nine hundred five and we still pushing always still pressing but i believe my ministry is community and that's what this show talks about that's what it deals well deals with when when you run across people that really don't care too much for you or have a hidden agenda you press through it you don't give up and you don't give up all people robert my name is ebony cook's and i play andrea my name is karen date and i play charlene my name is sherry me well and i play ms joyce you should come see the play because it has lots of life lesson as long as well as a family lest you should really come see the play because i minute yeah sure really come out and see the play because they've got some amazing talent you know come out see me in my boot guys really need to come out and see this play i mean it's entertainment action drama comedy you name it you guys really come see the play because it's the phenomenal can just give you a little bit of comedy as well as a lot of life lesson you don't want to miss you can learn a lot from it if you want to find those you can go to our website which is w w w dot intense retribution dot com that's w w w dot intense retribution dot theater recognizes each year at the inner company or a person who exhibits outstanding achievement in the field of the year in three short years he has transformed not only is community but countr he brought his love of musical theater to underprivileged children and urban communities and chicago south the northwest side now we had a spears spirit of excellence when every performer he taught with that same spirit performing in chicago shows all over the chicago areas so this year's taissa theater ward present very first here to chicago he formed the theater group trost bubbliness or back stage in english he taught underprivileged kids to sing dance act create costumes and music his mo thank you very much i am very very excited i'm very grateful with victor because he has done so much for us ever since he met hano and i'm very proud to see that that he was my teacher that he was my mentor that he was my family that he was my father he was everything to us and and it's awesome to be giving this award for him and i know where he is he's very proud of  his kids thank you very much still friends victor we were going to be friends forever because he's going to be here with us