Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is a two-person American play about shame, isolation, and the uneasy instinct toward connection. It is bare bones and emotionally raw. There is no spectacle to hide behind- only words, bodies, and risk.

This Los Angeles staging is being produced as a focused chamber run: a limited house size, a disciplined rehearsal process, and a scale designed to protect the integrity of the work. The audience will be close enough to feel breath shift and silence stretch.

It strips its characters of defense and leaves them exposed- anger, fear, and hunger laid bare. From there, they must decide to stay, leave, or risk being fully seen. It is an experiment in what happens when there is nowhere left to hide- when two people remain in the room anyway. That kind of encounter feels worth witnessing.

Support for this production goes directly toward theatre rental, rehearsal space, collaborators, and technical execution. It allows the work to exist with rigor and care.

Two people. No masks.

Where Your Support Goes

Each performance costs approximately $700 to produce, covering theatre rental, licensing, and essential production needs.

Support directly sustains:

the space itself

a focused rehearsal process

collaborator stipends

the technical execution required to hold this work with precision

This production is being built intentionally at a scale that protects its intimacy. Every contribution helps hold the room.

About the Artists

Lux is a Los Angeles–based actor and emerging producer drawn to theatre that sheds spectacle in favor of truth. Her work lives at the edge of vulnerability, exploring shame, longing, and the courage it takes to remain seen. Committed to the enduring value of theatre as a mirror, she creates intimate experiences where audiences can see themselves- flawed, tender, and human- in the lives unfolding onstage.

Connor Lang is a Vancouver-based actor and filmmaker drawn to the hidden places in people—the parts we’re taught to conceal, but that quietly shape how we love, fight, and survive.

He is interested in characters who resist redemption yet still reach for connection, exploring the tension between brutality and tenderness.

At home, he is a father, where the work of presence and care continues in its most honest form.

Sam Doumit is a Los Angeles-bassd actor, writer, and producer whose work spans film, television, and theater. She is drawn to stories that explore vulnerability, contradiction, and the quiet forces that shape how we connect.

As a director, she creates a focused, grounded environment where actors can take risks and remain fully present, allowing the work to unfold with honesty and precision.

Ways to Stand With the Work-

The Spark — $10

Helps ignite the process

Witness — $25

Supports the work being seen

Ally — $100

Supports rehearsal and development

Room Holder — $250

Helps sustain the space and the room itself

Patron — $500

Supports a full phase of production

Founding Patron — $1,000+

Early backer helping bring the full run to life (Associate Producer credit)

Executive Producer — $2,000+

Major support shaping the realization of the production

Any amount is appreciated. Custom amounts are available in the 'Take A Stand' button.

All supporters will be invited into the process as we move toward opening night.

DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA- Los Angeles Production Fund

A precision-mounted 43-seat production of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea- a searing, actor-driven encounter rooted in intimacy, volatility, and restraint