{"id":43293,"date":"2016-05-05T11:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=43293"},"modified":"2016-05-05T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T18:32:04","slug":"russ-to-star-in-sci-fest-l-a-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/05\/russ-to-star-in-sci-fest-l-a-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ To Star In Sci Fest L.A. Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em>&#8216;s<strong> Tim Russ<\/strong> will be starring in<em> Prayerville<\/em>, a play written by Grammy winning songwriter <strong>Janis Ian<\/strong> at this year&#8217;s <em>Sci Fest L.A.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russ will take on the role of Tomajanski, a retired Global Alliance Army Major, who &#8220;in his younger days, ran wild through the galaxy. Now, sick and getting sicker, Tomajanski hopes to turn the once-honorable duty of returning the bodily remains of dead aliens into a for-profit business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s important to me to support <em>Sci-Fest L.A.<\/em> because I am a fan of science fiction, and because it&#8217;s live theater,&#8221; said Russ. &#8220;And small- to medium-sized theater needs all the help it can get here in Los Angeles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The role of Tomajanski was interesting to me because of the character&#8217;s contrast to [the virtues of spirituality, sacrifice and honor],&#8221; said Russ. &#8220;He is an outwardly brash and arrogant character, lacking a moral compass&#8230;and he physically suffers for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sci Fest L.A.<\/em> runs from today through May 29. For more information and to purchase tickets, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fest.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: Voyager&#8216;s Tim Russ will be starring in Prayerville, a play written by Grammy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[8849,2738,8850],"class_list":["post-43293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-prayerville","tag-russ","tag-sci-fest-l-a"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RussPrayerville050516.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43295,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43293\/revisions\/43295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}