past productions
THE SIBLINGS PLAY
MArch 4 - April 5, 2020*
written by Ren Dara Santiago
directed by Jenna Worsham
featuring Dalia Davi, Cindy De La Cruz, Mateo Ferro, Andy Lucien, and Ed Ventura
Produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and piece by piece productions
in association with Rising Phoenix Repertory
The Siblings Play delves deep into the psyche of a teenage girl and her two brothers left to raise each other in their parents' absence. The play looks at the ways these three teenagers protect, love, fight, and diminish in the wake of their family history and the complexity of growing up with parents who are too young to be parents in the first place. In The Siblings Play, Santiago gives voice to characters rarely seen on the stage with theatricality, poignancy, humor, and empathy.
*final live performance March 14 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater due to Covid-19 shutdown. Taped performance was available to view online until April 5.
THE WHOLE OF YOU
MAY 17 - 19, 2019
written by Amy Berryman
directed by Daniel Talbott
featuring Chapman Hyatt, Oliver Palmer and Libby Woodbridge
Three old friends have moved from Kentucky to LA together in pursuit of their Hollywood dreams. Working in a bookstore crammed with dusty scripts and haunted legends - on the edge of becoming who they will be - they confront a shared truth that will test their loving friendship.
Commissioned to be performed site-specifically at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los Angeles.
THE CONVENT
January 16 - February 17, 2019
written by Jessica Dickey
directed by Daniel Talbott
featuring Amy Berryman, Annabel Capper, Brittany Anikka Liu, Margaret Odette, Samantha Soule, and Wendy vanden Heuvel
Produced by Weathervane Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory
in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
In Jessica Dickey’s The Convent, a group of women goes on a retreat to live like nuns in the Middle Ages and is baptized with 80s pop, female mysticism, hallucinogens, and sex. The Convent is a toothy dark comedy about desire, devotion, and the mystery of intrinsic divinity.
Creative Team
Scenic Design by Raul Abrego / Costume Design by Tristan Raines / Lighting Design by Joel Moritz / Sound Design by Erin Bednarz / Projection Design by Katherine Freer / Fight Direction & Choreography by Unkle Dave’s Fight House / Production Stage Manager Kate Croasdale / Assistant Stage Manager Kelsy Durkin / Production Management SenovvA Production Core / General Management by Snug Harbor Productions / Executive Producer Kendra Bator
CINO NIGHTS
2010 - present
An ongoing series of new plays inspired by Joe Cino and his Caffe Cino – one of the original birthplaces of Off-Off-Broadway theatre. RPR has commissioned over twenty-five playwrights to write new plays, which are fully produced site-specifically on a shoestring budget.
Past plays include:
BEST SEX EVER by Gary Sunshine
(O)N THE 5:31 by Mando Alvarado
HERE I LIE by Courtney Baron
BUSTED by Florencia Lozano
THE STRAY DOG by Kristen Palmer
THE UPSTART by Emily DeVoti
NAMED by Lucy Thurber
ROW AFTER ROW by Jessica Dickey
CLOWN BAR by by Adam Szymkowicz
THE UNDENIABLE SOUND OF RIGHT NOW by Laura Eason
BLOOD STROKES by Daniel Reitz
EDIE & ALEXANDER by Megan Mostyn-Brown
KILLING FLOOR by Dael Orlandersmith
SOLITARY MAN by Keith Reddin
SEX AND DEATH IN LONDON by Crystal Skillman
FAVORITES by Charlotte Miller
CASUAL ENCOUNTERS by Brooke Berman
RADIANCE by Cusi Cram
BREAK MY FACE ON YOUR HAND by Daniel Talbott
EAST COLFAX by Diana Stahl
UNTITLED DEGRADATION PLAY by Micheline Auger
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY by Halley Feiffer
MIDDLE VOICE CINO: 4 New Short Plays by Steve DiUbaldo, Catya McMullen, Alec Silberblatt, and Emily Zemba
I CAN’T EXPLAIN IT BETTER THAN THAT by Sarah Shaefer
CINO NIGHTS LA: New Short Plays by Mando Alvarado, Jessica Dickey, Ryan J. Haddad, Qui Nguyen, Ren Dara Santiago, and Alice Tuan
CINO NIGHTS: Haunted Hollywood by Amy Berryman, Helen Shang, and Larry Powell
SELKIE
Or When I Look At The Ocean, I Feel Like I Belong
Feb 9 – 24, 2016
Written by Sarah Shaefer
Directed by Daniel Talbott
Featuring: MacLeod Andrews, Addie Johnson Talbott, Briana Packen,
Jimi Stanton, Jelena Stupljanin, and Wendy vanden Heuvel
Co-produced with Weathervane Productions
Creative Team
Deb O (Scenic Design), Tristan Raines (Costume Design), Kia Rogers (Lighting Design), Jake Rodriguez, and Unkle Dave’s Fight-House (Fight Direction), Caroline Fermin (Choreography), Susie Walsh (Production Stage Manager), Christina Hogan (Assistant Stage Manager), Kendra Bator (Executive Producer)
THIEVES
Mar 18 – Apr 4, 2015
Written by Charlotte Miller
Directed by Daniel Talbott
Featuring MacLeod Andrews, Chris Bellant, Addie Johnson,
Sarah Shaefer, Samantha Soule, & John Wojda
Co-produced with piece by piece and Rattlestick
Creative Team
Deb O (Scenic Design), Tristan Raines (Costume Design), Kia Rogers (Lighting Design), Jake Rodriguez (Sound Design), Kaitlyn Pietras (Projection Design), Mike Mahaffey (Fight Choreography), and Victoria Hanlin (Key Dialect Coach), TJ Kearney (Production Stage Manager), Christina Hogan (Assistant Stage Manager), Kendra Bator (Executive Producer)
A FABLE
May 6th – June 28th, 2014
written by David Van Asselt
directed by Daniel Talbott
Featuring Edward Carnevale, Liza Fernandez, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Maxwell Hamilton, Jerry Matz, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Eileen Rivera, Sarah Shaefer, Pamela Shaw, Samantha Soule, Alok Tewari, Sanford Wilson, and Gordon Joseph Weiss
Co-produced with piece by piece and Rattlestick at the Cherry Lane Theatre
A Fable is the ultimate struggle of dualities – morality and corruption, good and evil, filth and beauty, angel and devil. Follow the epic adventure of a man torn between these two opposing forces and his encounters with a whole cast of characters as they each grope their way through a landscape of nationwide strife and corporate greed. A daring, gritty black comedy, A Fable takes into question how each choice we make can drastically change our ending.
Featuring: Edward Carnevale, Liza Fernandez, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Maxwell Hamilton, Jerry Matz, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Eileen Rivera, Sarah Shaefer, Pamela Shaw, Samantha Soule, Alok Tewari, Sanford Wilson, and Gordon Joseph Weiss
Creative Team
Elizabeth Swados (Songs & Music), John McDermott (Set Design), Tristan Raines (Costume Design), Joel Moritz (Lighting Design), Kaitlyn Pietras (Projection Design), Janie Bullard (Sound Design), Caitlin Conci (Hair & Makeup Design), UnkleDave’s Fight-House (Fight Direction), Trevor Bachman (Music Arrangements & Direction) Dave Nelson (Production Manager), Andrew Slater (Production Stage Manager), Lorely Trinidad (Assistant Stage Manager), Don Summa/Richard Kornberg & Associates (Publicity), DR Advertising (Advertising), Leanne Schanzer Promotions, Inc. (Marketing)
ALL THE RAGE
January 19 – February 24, 2013
A new play written & performed by Martin Moran
Directed by Seth Barrish
Produced by piece by piece productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory in association with The Barrow Group
2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show, and nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance!
What happens when a mild-mannered Manhattanite shows up at his father’s Las Vegas funeral and ends up in a fight with his fuming stepmother? Or when he suddenly finds himself in a room, translating the details of an asylum seeker’s torture? In his new solo work, Martin Moran takes us on a quest from West of the Rockies to South of Johannesburg, unearthing unexpected connections and human hilarities as he attempts to resolve an ancient riddle: How is it that one moment we might reach out in compassion and the next…kill?
3C
June 6 – July 14, 2012
by David Adjmi
directed by Jackson Gay
Produced by piece by piece productions, Rising Phoenix Rep, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Featuring: Kate Buddeke, Bill Buell, Hannah Cabell, Eddie Cahill, Anna Chlumsky, and Jake Silbermann
Creative Team
Choreography by Deney Terrio, Sets by John McDermott, Costumes by Oana Botez-Ban, Lighting by Tyler Micoleau, Sound by Matt Tierney, Hair & Makeup by Jon Carter, General Management by Snug Harbor Production
Slipping
July 28 – August 15, 2009
A new play by Daniel Talbott
Directed by Kirsten Kelly
Featuring: MacLeod Andrews, Adam Driver, Meg Gibson, and Seth Numrich
Produced with piece by piece productions in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Creative Team
Sets by Lauren Helpern, Lighting by Joel Moritz, Costumes by Chloe Chapin, Sound/Projections by Brandon Epperson, Props by Eugenia Furneaux-Arends, Fights by Christian Kelly-Sordelet, Production Stage Manager Katrina Renee Herrmann, Assistant Stage Manager Melissa Gregus
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ELECTIVE AFFINITIES
November 17 – December 18, 2011
by David Adjmi
directed by Sarah Benson
Produced by Soho Rep, piece by piece productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory
CREATIVE TEAM
Set Design: Louisa Thompson / Lighting Design: Mark Barton / Costume Design: Susan Hilferty / Sound Design: Matt Tierney / Production Stage Manager: Tom Taylor / General Management: Snug Harbor Productions / Steven Chaikelson, Kendra Bator / Casting Director: Jack Doulin, C.S.A.
OTHER WORLD-PREMIERE PRODUCTIONS INCLUDE
EXTRAORDINARY THINGS and WHAT HAPPENED WHEN by Daniel Talbott
CEREMONY and GIFT by Mark Schultz
AFTERCLAP, THREE SISTERS, RULES OF THE UNIVERSE, and FALL FORWARD by Daniel Reitz
BIRTHDAY, NOBODY, and THE TELLING TRILOGY by Crystal Skillman
TOO MUCH MEMORY by Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson
DON’T PET THE ZOOKEEPER by Napoleon Ellsworth
365 PLAYS/365 DAYS by Suzan-Lori Parks