Desc: Dionysus, Help Me...: Directed by Derek Lindes, Amira Soliman. With Steve Ashton, Tamera Coble, Steven Douglass, Amy Geiger. 'Sometimes, you have to laugh or you'll cry.' Dave Williams, the protagonist in "Dionysus, Help Me," finds himself laughing a lot. The lone theatre professor at The Ohio State University Newark campus has applied to nearly one thousand institutions of higher learning in an attempt to escape Newark, Ohio. Stuck in a town full of NASCAR and McDonald's, this eccentric child of Ithaca, New York longs for the lights, the art, and the opportunity of "the city."