“The Care and Keeping of You’ never prepared me for creeping existential dread.”
Nils
Trigger Warning: suicide, child sexual abuse, transphobia
Performances: February 26 and 27, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Pacific time
When Nils's ex-girlfriend dies suddenly, she drags him back into a toxic online roleplay scene he swore he'd never return to. He'd been doing okay sticking to his seven-year plan for getting over their breakup - but now, everyone either blames him or expects him to have answers, and he's getting nasty anonymous messages that might be coming from beyond the grave.
A nuanced examination of identity, trauma, assault, grief, and mental health through an online world.
Written by Aliza Goldstein | Directed by Alison Kozar
All tickets are Pay-What-You-Will. Zoom information will be sent no later than 24 hours prior to show time.
“Becoming is exhausting.”
Moody
Creative Team
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Alison Kozar (they/them)
Alison is a rising stage manager making their directing debut with All New Cells. Their next project will be as stage manager for TSGP’s production of “Loom”.
Alison believes in healing the world, feminist science fiction, and radical self-worth. Recent productions: Black Bois (The Congregation,) Sheathed (Macha Theatre Works,) The Events (Intiman,) Is God Is (WET,) and The Christians (Pony World.) Alison is a 2018 Intiman Emerging Artist. www.professionalmomfriend.com
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Aliza Goldstein (she/they)
Aliza Goldstein is a playwright based physically in Orange County, CA and mentally someplace on the Northeast FL coast. She holds a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University (class of 2013) and has a day job editing scripts for mobile games. In addition to ALL NEW CELLS, plays include LIKE A DOG IN SPACE, IZZY ICARUS FELL OFF THE WORLD, and A SINGULAR THEY. Winner: 2013 John Golden Prize for Undergraduate Playwriting; 2015 Ebell of Los Angeles Playwright Prize; 2017 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award; 2020 SETC/Stage Rights Ready to Publish Award. This play and others available on New Play Exchange.
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Maycee McQuin (she/they)
Since graduating college with a degree in Theatre and Film, Maycee has adventured across the country working in both performance and production on various projects such as: Hawaii Five-0, Kong: Skull Island, Cobra Kai, and Venom. Memorable theatre roles include Jill Tanner in Butterflies Are Free, Valère in The Miser, and Abbie Putnam in Desire Under the Elms. New to the Seattle area, Maycee is looking forward to getting to know the artistic community here.
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Christopher Schoaps (he/him)
Having been born into an acting family, Chris has spent much of his life involved in community theatre, both as an actor and costuming assistant. Most of his acting experience has been at Pentacle Theatre in his hometown of Salem, Oregon. This is his first lead role in a production, and is extremely excited for the opportunity to work with a piece that resonates so strongly with him.
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Stephanie Spohrer (she/her)
Stephanie earned a BA in Theatre Performance in New York before venturing out to Seattle. Locally, Stephanie has worked with: Annex Theatre, Fantastic.Z, Parley, ReAct Theatre, Pacific Play Company, SecondStory Rep, Burien Actors Theatre, and Driftwood Players. She will be seen this fall in As If Theatre Company’s “The Cake.” Stephanie thanks The Shattered Glass Company for the opportunity to play a character who is so flawed yet complex. This play deserves to be seen.
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Kay Taylor Yelinek (they/them)
Kay Taylor Yelinek began their musical training as an instrumentalist before discovering a passion for theater in high school. Beginning their college career in Seattle, Washington, they eventually graduated from AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Favorite roles performed in AMDA productions include: Helen in Fahrenheit 451 and the featured ensemble role of the Broker in Madwoman of Chaillot. Alongside music and theater, Kay enjoys writing, painting, and gaming.
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Alex Kronz (they/them)
Alexandra Kronz is a Seattle based actor, choreographer, playwright, and teaching artist. “All New Cells” is very close to their heart, and they’re overjoyed to help it become a reality. Recent projects: dancing for Lucille Jun (Velocity’s Bridge Project); directing “Wormwood” an original play (18th&Union); and performing in “Orpheus & Eurydice: a Song Cycle” (streaming now DachaTheatre.com). Upcoming: “Secret Admirer” an immersive zoom play opening 3/19 (Dacha); “The Wheel” (original dance film). Insta: @alexandrakronz
I think about that a lot
How all our roleplay posts and fan art and selfies and
memes are our ghosts
Growing and growing
Until they become us
Until all that we are is what we’ve screamed into the void
Echoing around the internet until the plug finally gets
pulled and someone takes a magnet to the server and
the digital cloud turns into electric snow.
Aeon