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Michael P. Dalberg

Chicago-based actor, director, and playwright; Resident Playwright and Literary Director for Idle Muse Theatre Company, known for stage adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Oct 5, 2026

4:23
Did you guys go around, ask who wants what? Can you tell us about that life?
4:28
Oh, sure.
4:28
One of my best friends at the time when I was a kid, he lived in that unincorporated town.
4:33
And so it was at least once a month that we would have sleepovers.
4:37
to be like, okay, you know what? I've been dropped off by my mom or my dad, and we're just going to hang out at the ballpark and just be kids, right, for a couple days.
4:46
And that was so exciting because it was really the only sort of interaction that I would have outside of direct family on the farm.
4:53
And so the idea of going to the grocery store, it wasn't like sharing it with other folks necessarily to be like, hey, does someone need anything? But you did have your friends like, you know, my dad and my best friend's dad, of course, were best friends or really good friends.

18 MINS LATER

23:03
And if it's something we haven't discussed yet, maybe you can give us a little preface and tell us more about that project.

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