The Wasps
“I’ve got a better idea
Let’s graft our bodies together along the midline
And fuck him together”
a post -apocalyptic theater-movement piece which visits twins, Jenna and Barbara Bush, on the eve of their execution
by Guy Zimmerman
directed by Paige Rogers
choreographed by Liz Tenuto
ARTISTS:
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[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GZimmerman.jpg” name=”Guy Zimmerman” title=”Playwright”]Guy Zimmerman — an award-winning writer, director, and producer — penned The Wasps. Guy has served as Artistic Director of Padua Playwrights in Los Angeles since 2001, staging over 40 productions of new plays and moving several to stages in Atlanta, New York City, Edinburgh, Prague, Berlin, Beirut, and Cluj, Romania. In 2015, he completed a doctoral degree in Theater at UC Irvine. His articles have been published in Theatre Journal, SubStance, Shakespeare Bulletin, TheaterForum, LA Weekly, LA Theater Magazine, and the arts and culture website [Times Quotidian](http://www.timesquotidian.com/author/guy-zimmerman/).[/headshot]
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PaigeHeadshot.jpg.png” name=”Paige Rogers” title=”Director”]Paige Rogers (Director) is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Cutting Ball Theater. At Cutting Ball, her directing credits include Antigone, Mud, Tontlawald, and Life is a Dream.[/headshot]
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/LTenuto.jpg” name=”Liz Tenuto” title=”Choreographer”]Liz Tenuto creates original choreography for a variety of industries. Her work has been seen at ZSpace, ODC Theater, West Edge Opera, The Comedy in Dance Festival, A.C.T., Cutting Ball Theater, Aurora Theater, CounterPulse, Killing My Lobster shows and in music videos and commercials. More information at [www.danceandahalf.com](http://www.danceandahalf.com/) or on instagram @danceandahalf[/headshot]
[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/DanielleOHare2016.jpeg” name=”DANIELLE O’HARE” title=”Barbara”]Danielle O’Hare is a Cutting Ball Associate Artist and has been seen in various Cutting Ball productions including Ondine, The Strindberg Cycle, Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and other plays, the evolutionists club, Mr. Fujiyama’s Electric Beach, No Exit, and the first Avant GardARAMA![/headshot][headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Melanie2.jpg” name=”Melanie DuPuy” title= “Jenna”]Melanie DuPuy was last seen as Margie Walsh in GOOD PEOPLE with the Role Players Ensemble. She also starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire during the Eugene O’Neill Festival where she was named one of the Bay Area’s Top Ten Female Performances by Talkin’ Broadway, 2015.[/headshot]
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