Reinventing the World
​Guided by Humor and Heart

The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers 
by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Natsu Onoda Power
September 21, 2019
December 9, 10, 15, 17-18, 22, 2019
​January 12 & 19, 2020 at 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM
Between December 18, 2020 and January 14, 2021 the play was streaming on our YouTube Channel (READ MORE)

Starring: Dylan Arredondo, Melissa Carter, and Jared H Graham

Unpublished, unproduced! -- preview this newly discovered one-act before it travels to Provincetown for a world premiere at this year's Tennessee Williams Festival (September 26-29).  The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers is directed by Natsu Onoda Power, winner of two Helen Hayes Awards for The Lathe of Heaven at Spooky Action last year.  This innovative event mixes Japanese kami-shibai style street theater with storytelling performers.  Subtitled “A Japanese fantasy,” The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers has its head in the stars and both feet on the ground.  It’s a punchy send-up of love, the perils of first impressions, and our earthly attempts to touch something eternal.

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The Realistic Joneses
by Will Eno

Directed by Gillian Drake
March 12 - 15, 2020

Featuring Amanda Forstrom, Lisa M. Hodsoll, Brandon McCoy* and Todd Scofield*
*member of Actor's Equity Association

​2020 begins with the Washington premiere of  The Realistic Joneses, by critically acclaimed playwright Will Eno, directed by Gillian Drake, Spooky Action Theater’s New Works in Action Program Director.  In this "humane, literate and slyly hilarious" play (New York Times), two couples find they share a lot more than their last names.  Ever stumbling towards meaningful relationships, humor caps their encounter with an unsettling truth that lies just below the surface

"I have wanted for a long time to write a play about mortality and how we grapple with that. What I hope is that through these four characters, who have very different responses to the big, big things in life, people will find something recognizable as they go through their days." -Will Eno, playwright

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Meet the Joneses

Over the past 16 years in DC Todd Scofield has done numerous shows at Shakespeare, Folger, and Round House Theatres, as well as shows at Arena, Studio, Theater J, Ford’s, Olney, Adventure Theatre, and Imagination Stage.  Outside of the DC area Todd worked at Everyman, Arden Theatre, PlayMakers, Charlotte Rep, and four seasons at North Carolina Shakespeare Festival.  Television: recurring role in seasons 3 and 5 of The Wire

Lisa Hodsoll is thrilled to be working with Spooky Action.  Theater credits include – NEW YORK: Laura Bush Killed A Guy (The Klunch) - D.C. run, Helen Hayes nomination for Best Lead Actress.  LOCAL: The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theater Alliance) Helen Hayes Nomination Best Supporting Actress, Edgar and Annabelle (Studio Theatre), and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide … (Theater J) OTHER: A Fool’s Paradise (Valiant Flea) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Medea’s Got Some Issues in Chicago (Chicago Theater Sweatshop) and D.C. (No Rules Theatre) TV/FILM: recent appearance on Chicago Med and just finished shooting the film Bird’s Eye.  Education: BA, University of Virginia.

Brandon McCoy is a playwright, actor, director, and educator. His work has been featured at numerous companies, including Round House Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Theater J, Imagination Stage, Rep Stage, Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Olney Theatre Center, Theater Alliance, Forum Theatre, and The Keegan Theatre, where he is a proud company member. He serves as adjunct theatre faculty for The Catholic University of America, George Washington University, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Harford Community College. Brandon has written four full-length plays and one full-length musical. He received a BFA in Acting/Directing from Marshall University in his hometown of Huntington, WV, and an MFA in Acting from The Catholic University of America.

Amanda Forstrom is excited to be working with Spooky Action Theater for the first time.  OFF-BROADWAY: The Irondale Ensemble: Julius Caesar, Color Between the Lines.  D.C-area credits include Junk (Arena Stage), Timon of Athens, Sense and Sensibility, Julius Caesar, (AD) and Twelfth Night (Folger Theatre); Tartuffe (Shakespeare Theatre Company) Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Round House Theatre). She has also worked with Constellation Theatre, Keegan Theatre, 1st Stage, Taffety Punk Theatre Company, Arts On The Horizon, Rorschach Theatre, and 4615 Theatre Company.  REGIONAL: The Lion In Winter (Cape May Stage); Hamlet, Cymbeline (Virginia Shakespeare Festival), Measure for Measure (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company).  FILM/TV:  News Around America (host) and Union.   Instagram: @amanda_forstrom

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Spooky Action Theater hosted
Life and Death with Washington Improv Theater 

November 1 - 23
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Spooky Action proudly hosts the DC premiere of Life and Death with Washington Improv Theater. 

This series of improvised shows deals with the themes of life and death through different perspectives. Included in the run is In Lieu of Flowers which stages a fully improvised funeral based on the final wishes of a member of the audience.  In Lieu of Flowers uses comedy and drama to explore the human experience of death and our desire to see how others will remember us after we shuffle off this mortal coil. Each night is unscripted, and unpredictable - so every show is unique! 

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