An Evening With Activists
“Just so you don’t have to explain what
you’re doing with a dead body and a dead dolphin in your house,
take me and Paul to the beach.”
a young couple’s anniversary celebration
by Yussef El Guindi
directed by Rem Myers
ARTISTS:
Click on a headshot to read the artist’s bio:
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Yussef2016.jpg” name=”Yussef El Guindi” title=”Playwright”]Yussef El Guindi’s most recent productions include Collaborator at Macha Monkey Productions, Threesome at Portland Center Stage, ACT, and at 59E59 (winner of a Portland Drammy for Best Original Script), Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World (winner of the Steinberg/American Theater Critics Association’s New Play Award in 2012) at ACT, and at Center Repertory Company (Walnut Creek, CA) 2013; and Language Rooms (Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award), co-produced by Golden Thread Productions and the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco; at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (premiere), and at the Los Angeles Theater Center.
We did a mini interview with Yussef! Click here.[/headshot]
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Rem_Myers.jpg” name=”Rem Myers” title=”Director”]Rem Myers is a director, dramaturg, producer, and teacher. He is happy to be working again with the Cutting Ball Theater (where he is also an associate artist) for Avant GardARAMA! Rem has also directed for PianoFight, FaultLine Theater, Theater Pub, the Young Playwrights Project (TheaterWorks), Those Women Productions, and the Playwrights Foundation. He has taught for San Francisco Shakespeare, and during the year he teaches at the Urban School of San Francisco.[/headshot]
[headshot src= “https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Michelle-Drexler.jpg” name= “Michelle Drexler” title=”Mona”]Michelle Drexler has been seen at Theatreworks, San Francisco Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival on Tour, Bay Area Children’s Theater, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, 42nd St Moon, Great River Shakespeare Festival and American Repertory Theatre. She has also played sold out houses at Feinstein’s at the Hotel Nikko in SF and the Laurie Beechman in NYC with her identical twin sister, Lily, in A Very Drexler Cabaret. Michelle is a proud native of San Francisco. Emerson College: BFA Acting www.MichelleDrexler.com[/headshot][headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/unnamed.jpg” name= “Kunal Prasad” title=”Kamal”]Kunal Prasad is a Bay Area native and received an MFA in Acting from The American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. He is a long form improviser and trail runner and recently played The Poet in “A Dreamplay” here at The Cutting Ball Theater. He has performed at Berkeley Repertory Theater, City Lights Theater Company, Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, and Un-Scripted Theater Company. Favorite theater credits include: “HIStory” at |the claque|, “homeward” at Red Fern Theatre Company, “Julius Caesar” at Centre Dramatique National d’Orléans, “Room” and “Celebration” at The American Repertory Theater.[/headshot]
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Glass_Kevin_HS.jpg” name=”Kevin Glass” title=”Paul”]Kevin Glass is a newcomer to the Bay Area theatre scene and is already in love with the community and its dedication to new works and cutting edge performance – especially Cutting Ball’s Avant GardARAMA. You might have seen him doing all sorts of different things in the Shortlived short play competition this year, speaking in an Australian accent in Pianofight’s production of Stuart Bousel’s Adventures in Tech or most recently as a meta-theatrical device in a leather jacket in The Line. [/headshot]
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