Kumu Kahua Theatre Presents as Part of its Dark Night Series  Double Duo Musical Improv Comedy

Honolulu Improvisational Theatre Artists R. Kevin Garcia Doyle and Sean T.C. O'Malley (Oil in the Alley) and Tina Uyeno and Diana Wan (Musical Healing) are together at last for a night of music improv fun you'll never see again!

OIL IN THE ALLEY is the rockingest rock band that ever rocked rock. It's a unique comedy music act which features original rock music supporting polished improvisational humor. Each performance is the best concert ever for the diehard fanatical fans of this supergroup. The members of the band are always in character; there is no "improviser host" persona asking for suggestions. Instead, the gratuitously glam rockers extract ideas for song titles from banter with their megafans in the audience and using ideas from clothing, turns of phrase, and anything else to inspire a song. They then extemporaneously create completely new lyrics to an original rock song as if it were a "Classic" Oil in the Alley hit from their heyday 25 years ago. OIL has rocked stages in Honolulu, Seattle, and Washington D.C., and New York City.

Sean T.C. O'Malley (lead improvised vocals and electric guitar). Sean has been part of the improv scene in Honolulu for 25 years, including critically acclaimed and award-winning shows that performed invited gigs at Improv Festivals in Chicago and Seattle. He has written and performed music for the theatre in many genres, and spent five years in Austin Texas, where he honed his singer/songwriter skills.

R. Kevin Garcia Doyle (lead improvised vocals). "R." has shared the stage with Sean in many improv shows over the last 20 years as the leader of the group Loose Screws, and it was his creative spark that inspired their most successful touring show, Screwbuki. R is a theatre artist/director/improviser/teacher in Honolulu, and he received the 2017 Pierre Bowman Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hawaii State Theatre Council. He will be directing King Lear at this summer's Hawaii Shakespeare Festival.

In their MUSICAL HEALING practice, Tina and Diana improvise songs to heal the pains of the world! In this "safe space," audience members are invited to "sessions" on stage, where they share their pains and sorrows to be crafted into songs of catharsis. Laugh, cry, cry laugh; this musical duo hopes you will feel it all!

Christina Uyeno and Diana Wan have performed together in Hawai'i Shakespeare Festival's Lear-Shrew-Much Ado (2014), Commedia Rep (2015), and in the remount of Dromio and Juliet (2017). They performed at Improvaganza, Hawai'i Festival of Improv, in Commedia (2015), Indie Group (2016), and as Musical Healing with Diana & Tina (2017). They further collaborated on Eat Cake Gallery's Artist Series episode "Indulge" (2016).

Christina is a company actor at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and head curator/visionary of The Production Company, Eat Cake Gallery, LLC. Diana is an improvisor of song/dance/theatre and a Drama teacher.

Kumu Kahua Theatre's Dark Night Series was created to offer other theatre groups, playwrights, and performance artists the opportunity to present their work to the community. This series is presented during dark nights, evenings when Kumu Kahua's regular season shows are not being performed. To be part of the Dark Night Series artists must submit a proposal, which is reviewed by the Board of Directors of Kumu Kahua. From these proposals, projects are chosen that Kumu Kahua feels will promote the development of the theatrical arts and benefit local artists. Kumu Kahua sees this as another way to enhance and enrich the cultural diversity and artistic climate of Honolulu.

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