APR 04 - APR 28, 2024
Kairos
By Lisa Sanaye Dring
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
Developed as Part of the Geffen Playhouse Writers' Room
Originally Produced by Know Theatre of Cincinnati
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Kairos
By Lisa Sanaye Dring
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
Developed as Part of the Geffen Playhouse Writers' Room
Presented at the David Henry Hwang Theater
April 4 – April 28, 2024
Opening Night April 7, 2024
Kairos is the story of two people falling in love during a tectonic shift in society. Their nascent relationship is tested by the advent of Prometheus, a procedure that grants immortality to a select few. What happens to commitment, meaning and care when linear time breaks open? At once both a dystopian science-fiction play and a dark-comedy love story, Kairos is a deeply sensitive investigation of two humans whose ideal “happily-ever-after” is terrifyingly outpaced by relentless technological and societal upheaval.
Kairos was originally developed as part of the Geffen Playhouse Writers' Room 2021/2022. Kairos is produced at East West Players as part of a National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere. Other Partner Theaters are Know Theatre of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) and Theatre Nova (Ann Arbor, MI). For more information, please visit nnpn.org.
Supported in part by the S. Mark Taper Foundation.
Performance Schedule
Cast
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(Gina) Sylvia Kwan may perhaps be best known for her recurring role as surgical intern Dr. Mabel Tseng on Grey's Anatomy. Her film, List of a Lifetime, in which she starred opposite Kelly Hu and Shannen Doherty, was nominated for a Critics Choice Award as well as an HCA Award (Hollywood Critics Association Television Awards) and NAMIC Vision Award. She has appeared on Station 19, NCIS, and NCIS: LA, along with numerous commercials. In addition to film and television, Sylvia also has extensive onstage credits including most recently a sold out run of King of the Yees at the Tony Award winning Signature Theater, Orangutan in Water By the Spoonful at the Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre Group, and Tong in Vietgone at East West Players for which she was nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Performance. @kwansyl
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(David) Gerard Joseph is a multi-hyphenate artist based out of LA. He received his MFA from UCSD, has trained with Maggie Flanigan in NYC, and is a company member at Antaeus Theater Company, The Road Theater, Ammunition Theater Company, and The Black Creators Collective in LA. Gerard sends special love and thanks to his parents for their tremendous love and support. IG @whatnextg. Reps welcome.
LA Theater: She - Antaeus Theater Company; The First Deep Breath - Geffen Playhouse; Everybody - Antaeus Theater Company; 90027: Griffith Park - Antaeus Theater Company; Aching - Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room; Present Black Fathers - Road Theater Company; A Post-Racial USA - Highways Theater; A Taste of Honey - Odyssey Theater.
NY Theater: American Lullaby - Manhattan Theater Club; Terror Superhighway - Cherry Lane Theater; VII Deadly Sins - Downtown Theater Festival.
Regional Theater: Honky - San Diego Rep; His Girl Friday - La Jolla Playhouse; Blueprints to Freedom - La Jolla Playhouse; Dutchman - Ubuntu Theater Co; Run Mourner, Run- Flashpoint Theater Company; A Matter of Seconds - Walnut Street Theater; Take Me Out - Plays and Players.
As Director: Robbin, From the Hood - Road Theater Company; Topdog/Underdog - Black Creators Collective; You - an immersive experience; Secret Society- Alliance Theater
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(Woman, April 4-21) Ren Hanami is an award-winning actress, writer, and filmmaker who brings her “Aloha Spirit” to everything she does. Hanámi has appeared in numerous primetime TV series, big budget films and prestigious stage productions. Recent credits include recurring Buffalo Betty guest star, Mavis in Disney’s Bunk’d, and Director Lee in Star Trek: Picard. She is also the voice of Adult Sally in Dreamworks Animation’s Orion and the Dark, Dr. Magita Rose in Netflix’s animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers, and Wakako Okada in AAA video game, Cyberpunk 2077. She is thrilled to be back on the East West Players stage where she began in Company, Performance Anxiety, and Canton Jazz Club. Hanámi is an Asian Hall of Fame Inductee, and serves as its Co-Chair of the Trauma Advocacy Initiatives, as well as longtime champion of Asian Pacific Americans in entertainment as National Chair of the SAG-AFTRA APA Media Committee. @renhanami
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(Woman, April 22-28) Jeanne’s recent TV recurring and guest star roles include ABC/Shondaland’s Station 19, CBS’ Magnum P.I., NCIS: Hawai’I, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Disney Plus’ High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, with her voice talents featured in animated series by Marvel, Disney, Apple, and Nickelodeon as well as the audiobooks How High We Go In The Dark and Trust. Onstage, she recently performed in Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum, Carla Ching’s Revenge Porn with Ammunition Theatre, and Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Groenich’s Here There Are Blueberries with La Jolla Playhouse. Jeanne’s celebrated solo play, Hold These Truths, commissioned by Center Theatre Group, has won rave reviews over two dozen productions across the country, followed by her 2021 L.A. Theatre Works audio drama For Us All. Jeanne is currently working on two commissions: an adaptation of The Secret Garden for LA Theatre Works and a new play for the 2024 Legacy Commissions program at Washington DC’s Ford Theatre. (JeanneSakata.com, HoldTheseTruths.Info)
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(Man) William L. Warren is a native of Gary, Indiana. He began his journey at the famed Second City Theater Improvisation Workshop in Chicago, IL. William recently appeared in The Pitch (Madnani Theatre), Scintilla (The Road Theatre), The Language Archive (The McCadden Place Theatre), Dismissed (Hollywood Fringe), Sister Act The Musical (Long Beach Playhouse), Isolation Inn (Moving Arts Theatre series), The Soldier’s Tale (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / The Robey Theatre), August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (Long Beach Playhouse), The Little Foxes (Antaeus Theatre), The Fertile River (Baylor University), Periphery (The Hudson Theatre). William is thrilled to be a member of the cast Kairos!
William who is also a professional vocalist has performed in various musical productions, toured Canada as a vocalist with the Platters and performed as a backup vocalist with recording artist Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo of The Fifth Dimensions, Stephanie Mills, Deniece Williams and Phillip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire.
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(u/s David) Zachary Bones is thrilled to be a part of his first production with EWP. Zach’s most recent credits include Lateen in the world premiere of Howard Ho’s RESET at Moving Arts Theatre, The Rival in Ghost Road’s production of Super Duper, and Derek in inkwell’s staged reading of The Taste of Emeralds. Zach is also a company member of Coeurage Ensemble, Backroom Shakes LA, and the Illyrian Players. He has also performed on stage at Theatricum Botanicum, Watts Village, Sacred Fools, E3W and more. He currently works as a Teaching Artist for Center Theatre Group, and on weekends you can see him perform as a dinosaur puppeteer for Dinosaur Encounters! at the LA Natural History Museum. Aside from being a performer Zach is also an accomplished visual artist and his work was featured at the Geffen Playhouse for their 22-23 season. You can see his work at ZachBArt.com or on insta @Art_on_my_sleeve
Credits
Playwright
Lisa Sanaye Dring
Director
Jesca Prudencio^
Assistant Director
Tyree Marshall
Scenic Designer
Yi-Chien Lee
*Member of Actors Equity Association
^Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Properties Designer
Zane Wayneright
Costume Designer
Ashphord Jacoway
Lighting Designer
Szu-Yun Wang
Sound Designer & Original Music
Steven Leffue
Stage Manager
Brandon Hong Cheng*
Assistant Stage Manager
Irene DH Lee
COVID Safety Manager
Vivi Le
Advisories
Production Warning
Please be advised that this production contains loud noises, theatrical haze, and flashing lights.
Content & Trigger Warning
Kairos contains adult language, suggested depiction of sex, mentions of abortion and suicide, and discusses topics related to death and grief.
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