Stage & Screen
Theater Performances
Kimberly Akimbo
Role of Buddy
In this critically acclaimed dark comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole), the title character is a teenager with a rare disease that causes her to age several times faster than normal. By her 16th birthday, Kimberly looks more like her grandmother than her own peers. At a time when most young girls are celebrating the beginning of adulthood, she’s facing the end of her life. When Kimberly and her family flee their hometown under dubious circumstances, she finds herself re-evaluating her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a con artist of an aunt, her own mortality and — perhaps most terrifying of all — the possibility of first love.
The Pillowman
Role of Katurian Katurian
Katurian, a writer of short stories that often depict violence against children, has been arrested by two detectives, Ariel and Tupolski, because some of his stories resemble recent child murders. When he hears that his brother Michal has confessed to the murders and implicated Katurian, he resigns himself to being executed but attempts to save his stories from destruction. The play contains both narrations and reenactments of several of Katurian's stories, including the autobiographical "The Writer and the Writer's Brother", which tells how Katurian developed his disturbed imagination by hearing the sounds of Michal being tortured by their parents.