[NoHo Arts District, CA] – The solo show Intellectual Mind Candy written and performed by Jovian Deadees, and directed by Charlene Ward, heads to the Whitefire Theatre Solofest 2025 on Sunday, April 13.
About Intellectual Mind Candy
Physical death is an inevitability from the moment we experience our first physical memory. My lifetime of study and experiences didn’t avert that inevitability, but perhaps it prepared me for it? Â
What can be created from death? This show. Â
I’ve always known I’ve experienced life before my current one. For centuries, I’ve returned to this world only to die again and start a new life in an unfamiliar place. I’ve very rarely discussed the lives I remember and have kept my study of them solitary and hidden. Until February 13, 2021, at a Trader Joe’s in Camarillo, California where I suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and died in the checkout line. I returned two days later. Now it’s time to have a talk.
Death didn’t mark my end, it was just the end of the beginning.
The Team
Actor/Writer Jovian Deadees, has been developing his acting and writing skills at Mary Kennedy’s ‘The Biz Studio’. A scientist by trade, he has also had the opportunity to work as an extra on many shows as well as a living history reenactor for many years. He developed his one-man show Intellectual Mind Candy after his death and subsequent resurrection from a sudden cardiac arrest on February 13, 2021.
Charlene Ward is an actress, comic, writer and director. Intellectual Mind Candy is her 4th time directing a solo show for the Whitefire SOLOFEST. Her previous three shows Mid-Life Mood Swing, Jim McCaffrey – National Treasure and Fill Your Pockets with Sunshine all received Encore Awards in SOLOFEST 2024. Charlene is excited to help Jovian tell his story because on February 13th, 2021, she came home from work to an empty apartment, not knowing he was at the hospital, in a coma, on life support.
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