The Theatre @ Boston Court to Present Brennan Kapil's SHIV

The Theatre @ Boston Court presents Shiv, by Aditi Brennan Kapil, directed by Emilie Beck. Opening night is Saturday, July 11, 2015 on the Main Stage at Boston Court Performing Arts Center, 70 North Mentor Avenue in Pasadena.

This post-Colonial fantasy loosely based on Shiva, the Hindu destroyer god, explores a vividly rendered relationship between a girl becoming a young American woman and the South Asian poet father who inspires and eventually disappoints her. By turns poetic, metaphysical, and richly human, the play paints a compelling portrait of how challenging it is to be an immigrant in a new country where all the rules are different.

Featuring: Monika Jolly, Leonard Kelly-Young, Dileep Rao, and James Wagner (Understudies: Matthew Grondin, Scott Haven, and Karthik Srinivasan).

Production Staff: Stephanie Kerley Schwartz, Scenic Design; Tom Ontiveros, Lighting & Video Design; Holly Poe Durbin, Costume Design; Jack Arky, Sound Design; Erin Walley, Properties Design; Phyllis Schuringa, Casting Director; Sayda Trujillo, Assistant Director; Matthew Quinlan, Dramaturg; Molly McGraw, Stage Manager; Ed Krieger, Production Photography.

Aditi Brennan Kapil is a writer, actress, and director, of Bulgarian and Indian descent. She was raised in Sweden, and resides in Minneapolis, MN. She performs extensively around the country, and her writing has been produced nationally to critical acclaim. Her play Love Person received the 2009 Stavis Playwriting Award, and her play, Agnes Under the Big Top, a tall tale, was selected as a Distinguished New Play Development project by the NEA as administered by Arena Stage. Her most recent work is the Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, consisting of the plays Brahman/i, a one-hijra stand-up comedy show, The Chronicles of Kalki, and Shiv. Aditi is currently working on commissions with Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and South Coast Repertory Theatre. She is the Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at Mixed Blood Theatre, an artistic associate at Park Square Theatre, a McKnight Fellow and Core Writer at The Playwrights' Center, and a Resident Writer at New Dramatists.

Emilie Beck is a director, playwright, and serves as Literary Manager at The Theatre @ Boston Court. She won 2010 LA Weekly Awards for Best Director and Best Production for Block Nine at the Elephant Theatre, and directed Because They Have No Words in Los Angeles (Ovation nominations) and Chicago (Jeff Award). In 2013 she directed the Ovation Award-winning production of David Wiener's Cassiopeia at Boston Court. Emilie's play Number of People had its world premiere at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago, in the spring of 2010, having been developed in readings with Edward Asner at Hartford Stage and Pasadena Playhouse, and Len Cariou at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey. Emilie wrote and directed And Let the Skies Fall at the El Portal Circle Theatre, which was nominated for six Garland Awards including Best Playwriting and Best Director. In 2014 her play Sovereign Body (a finalist for NNPN's 2011 Smith Prize) premiered at The Road Theatre in North Hollywood. Sovereign Body is slated for a second production at Winding Road Theatre in Tucson in 2016. At Boston Court, she has served as Dramaturg for The Children, Heavier than..., Alcestis, RII, and Everything You Touch. Her newest play, Habeas Corpus, was part of Boston Court's 2013 New Play Festival. Prior to working at Boston Court, Emilie was Associate Manager at Center Theatre Group, where she produced the Sherwood Award Program.

Shiv is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Shubert Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Founding Director Z. Clark Branson, and the generous contributions of The Theatre @ Boston Court supporters and contributors.

The Theatre @ Boston Court is the award-winning resident theatre company at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA. Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti, Co-Artistic Directors; Michael Seel, Executive Director; Hillary Metcalf Schenk, Managing Director.

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