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Directed by Gillian Drake
October 7-24, 2021 Featuring Kimberly Gilbert*, Lisa M. Hodsoll, Dan Crane* and Todd Scofield* *member of Actor's Equity Association Our 2021 Reopening Season begins with The Realistic Joneses, by critically acclaimed playwright Will Eno, directed by Gillian Drake, Spooky Action Theater’s New Works in Action 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 Premiered at the Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut in 2012, and performed on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in 2014, The Realistic Joneses underscores the shared challenges of how to love, live and forgive in the face of death. "The play results in this mostly cheerful, classically plotted mid-summer night’s dream, where the original couples, wandering in the woods, are star-crossed, find love and meaning in each other's arms, and in a magical way, return to their spouses whole and hopeful," describes Drake. "Eno wants the best for his lonely, loving, breaking, yet yearning characters. He wants them to learn how to live intentionally, find forgiveness and how to love one another." The production team includes Giorgos Tsappas (Set Design), Alberto Segarra (Lighting Design). Gordon Nimmo-Smith (Sound Design), Robert Crogan (Costume Design), Liz Long (Props Design), and Robert Bowen Smith (Movement Coach). |
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MEET THE JONESES
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Kimberly Gilbert Proud DC actor for over 20 years. Recent credits include Taffety Punk: suicide.chat.room (Lostbooks), Theater J: Sheltered (Roberta Bloom), Woolly Mammoth: Fairview (Suze), Round House: Oslo (Marianne/Toril), Cincinnati Playhouse: The Last Wide Open (Lina), Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Panties The Partner and The Profit (Louise), Ford’s Theatre: Born Yesterday (Billie Dawn). She is a company member of Woolly Mammoth and Taffety Punk and is an MFA graduate of The Academy For Classical Acting.
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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
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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.
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Dan Crane DC AREA ACTING CREDITS: Taffety Punk: Antigonick, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, Phaeton, Inheritance Canyon, Hamlet the First Quarto, Charm, Bloody Poetry, The Rape of Lucrece, Twelfth Night, Oxygen; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Importance of Being Earnest (U.S.), Romeo & Juliet, The Beaux Stratagem, Richard III; Folger Theatre: Cyrano, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale; Hub Theatre: Birds of a Feather; Baltimore Shakespeare Festival:Hamlet; Theatre J: The Four of Us.
REGIONAL ACTING CREDITS: Portland Center Stage: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet; Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus, Macbeth, The Three Musketeers, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Kitchen Theatre (NY): A Perfect Ganesh TRAINING: Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts; Ithaca College: BFA; The Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: MF |
