Content Warning: Please be advised that this production features descriptions of sexual acts, and interaction with bodily fluids.

Reed Flores ‘28 is a playwright and director from the Bay Area. He’s very Brown (CHamoru/Filipino kine) and hella gela’/bakla — his work usually is too. Reed has worked around the country at cool places like Seattle Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Bindlestiff Studio, among others. Most recently, his play CUCKOO EDIBLE MAGIC had its World Premiere last year with SFBATCO at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco — it was hella cute. www.reedflores.com

Aileen Wen McGroddy '22 MFA is a theatre director based in New York and this is her third year as the Creative Producer of the Writing is Live Festival at Brown. She is also Co-Artistic Director of TUTA Theatre Chicago and a current resident artist with New Georges. Upcoming work includes the world premiere of Talene Monahon's Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret at Northern Stage. Past Writing is Live shows: Kingdom by Kathy Ng, Cold War Choir Practice and Throwback Island by Ro Reddick, On The Y Axis by Lucas Baisch, and Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt by Julia Izumi. Other past work includes: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt... (Woolly Mammoth), Cold War Choir Practice and A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); Tom and Eliza and Attempts on Her Life (TUTA Theatre Chicago); The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); Sisters and Sense and Sensibility (Northern Stage); Airness (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Glass Menagerie, Or,, Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Knuffle Bunny and The Snowy Day (Emerald City Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists). She has developed new work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, The Playwright’s Realm, NY Classical Theatre, and Northern Stage. Fellowships: Roundabout Directors Group, 2050 at NYTW, Drama League, and BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. MFA in Directing from Brown-Trinity.

Cast

Giselle
Anna Basille
Evelyn Dearbourn
Anna Slate
Lauren Farnell, PhD Student

Crew

Reed Flores '28 MFA: Playwright
Aileen Wen McGroddy '22 MFA: Director
Shannon Constantine '29 PhD: Assistant Director
Jocelyne Lioe '29: Stage Manager
Berkem Yanikcan, PhD Student: Dramaturg