RE-
By Kimber Lee
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Wednesday, August 12 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, August 16 @ 12pm
An upside-down romcom where two people dig through their past trying to figure out what happened.
A Commission for the Royal Court Theatre in London
CREATIVE TEAM
KIMBER LEE, Playwright
Plays: the water palace (Susan Smith Blackburn Special Commendation), to the yellow house (La Jolla Playhouse), untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play (Royal Exchange Theatre & Young Vic, UK), saturday (Colorado New Play Summit), RE- (Upcoming production with Escola do Largo, Lisbon), tokyo fish story (South Coast Rep, TheatreWorks SV, Old Globe), brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Humana Festival, LCT3, Long Wharf Theatre), and different words for the same thing (CTG). Recipient of the inaugural Bruntwood Prize International Award, Hodder Fellowship, Helen Merrill Award, 3-time Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist, Edgerton New Play Award, Ruby Prize, PoNY Fellowship, Horton Foote Award, and Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. MFA: UT Austin.
GIOVANNA SARDELLI, Director
LISA DE LEEUW, Stage Manager
CAST
SARITA OCÓN
SARITA OCÓN* TheatreWorks: It’s A Wonderful Life. Regional credits: Alley Theatre, ACT, Arizona Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Huntington Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Center, Oakland Theater Project, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Rep, Round House Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, South Coast Rep, among others. Awards: TCG Fox Foundation Actor Fellowship; RHE Foundation Artistic Fellowship.
KENNY SCOTT
KENNY SCOTT. His past TheatreWorks productions include Primary Trust, A Distinct Society and King James. Other regional productions: Aurora Theatre Company (Paradise Blue), Cal Shakes (Lear), Marin Theatre Company (Two Trains Running),Crowded Fire (Inked Baby). A company member with Shotgun Players (The Claim, The Light).
JACQUELINE DE MURO
JACQUELINE DE MURO has performed with TheatreWorks in A Little Night Music (Mrs Segstrom), Pacific Overtures (Shogun’s Mother), Joy Luck Club (Amah), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Marta), and Into The Woods (Cinderella’s Mother). Most recently, she appeared in New Conservatory Theatre Center’s Encore. Other favorite local productions include Broadway by the Bay’s The King And I (Lady Thiang) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Muzzy), Woodminster’s Flower Drum Song (Madame Liang), Palo Alto Players’ City Of Angels (Alaura/Carla) and The Baker’s Wife (Genevieve), Busbarn’s And The World Goes Round and Baby (Pam), 42nd Street Moon’s Grand Night For Singing and By Jupiter (Buria), Ohlone Stage’s Man Of La Mancha (Aldonza), and Foothill Theatre’s South Pacific (Bloody Mary), for which she won a Bay Area Theatre Critics Award.
MICHAEL PATRICK GAFFNEY
MICHAEL PATRICK GAFFNEY has been working as an actor in the Bay Area for the past 25 years and is very honored to be performing this summer with TheatreWorks! Last spring he played the role of the Interlocutor in The Scottsboro Boys with 42nd Street Moon. Other regional theatre companies Michael has worked with include: Center Rep, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, Word for Word, and Contra Costa Musical Theatre. Michael has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1997.
EMILY KURODA
EMILY KURODA worked at TheatreWorks (The Language Archive, Calligraphy), South Coast Rep (Tiger Style!, Fast Company, Our Town, Ballad of Yachiyo), New York Theatre Workshop (Endlings), Yale Rep (Today is My Birthday), Pan Asian (Brothers Paranormal), American Repertory Theater (Endlings), Page 73 (Today is My Birthday), Actors Theater of Louisville (we, the invisibles), Huntington Theater (Tiger Style!, Woman Warrior), Artists at Play (Two Mile Hollow), Alliance Theater (Tiger Style!), Sundance Theater Lab (Today is My Birthday, A Cage of Fireflies), East West Players (over 45 productions), Kirk Douglas, Mark Taper Forum, Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, The Doolittle, LATC, Zephyr, LA Women’s Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. Selected TV: Mrs. Kim in Gilmore Girls, Baymax, All Rise, The Good Doctor, The Resident, Drop Dead Diva, Sequestered and Amazon’s The Power. Recent Films Strange World, Kimi, Porcupine, Take the 10, Party Boat, Red, Yellow Face and Sensei.
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