5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE to Make Regional Debut at B Street Theatre This Fall
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 15, 2015
B Street Theatre's Mainstage will present the regional premiere of 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE, playing October 4 - November 15, 2015, with two preview matinees on October 3 & 4 and opening night slated for the 4th.
Winner of the Outstanding Production award at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival, 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE is described as "sharp, smart and hysterically funny" (Time Out Chicago). This piece of theatre is not just a play but an event for the audience. Upon entering the theatre, patrons are given a name tag, thereby setting the mood for this interactive experience from the moment they walk into the door.
Production notes from the playwrights begin "Any lines that are book-ended with brackets can be said by the actor however they feel each night..." This show is acutely B Street as rehearsals will include comedic improvisation as intended by the authors. This element is especially exciting as the all-female cast features the talent of B Street Company Members.
The backdrop of a 1950"s woman's club creates lots of laughs for the audience. Again, from the playwright's notes "all of the comedy...originates from one source: honest, real people delivering ridiculous dialogue and by the audience." The result is a laugh out loud experience as both actor and patron attend the biggest event of the year - the annual quiche breakfast.
All performances play the B Street Theatre, 2711 B St., Sacramento. Tickets: $23-$35*, $5 Student Rush, $15* Preview tickets. To purchase or for more information, call (916) 443-5300 or visit www.bstreettheatre.org. (*Please note this price includes a $5 Facility Fee. For details, visit bstreettheatre.org/next-stage/fee.)
About the Playwrights - Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood (With contributions by Sarah Gitenstein, Mary Lollis Inboden, Meg Johns, Thea Lux, Beth Stelling, and Maari Suorsa)
Evan Linder is a founding member of The New Colony (Winner of Broadway in Chicago's Emerging Theatre Award- 2011) in Chicago, IL where he also serves as Co-Artistic Director. A graduate of the College of Charleston, Mr. Linder has had the pleasure of working with Victory Gardens, The Inconvenience, Collaboraction, Bailiwick Chicago, the side project and Bohemian Theater Ensemble during his time in Chicago. His first play produced in Chicago, FRAT, was named as one of the Best of 2009 in the Chicago Tribune, Windy City Times and New City. Other works include 11:11, The Warriors, The Bear Suit of Happiness, B-Side Studio and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, which was named Best Overall Production at the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival and is published by Samuel French. 5 Lesbians enjoyed an Off-Broadway run as part of the Soho Playhouse's 2012-2013 season. Mr. Linder also co-wrote the book to the glam-rock musical Rise of the Numberless, which was developed by The New Colony and Bailiwick Chicago in 2012. He was recently listed on Chicago Magazine's 2013 Power List of Theater Scene Stealers.
In 2014, Evan originated the roles of Jonathan in reWILDing Genius for Steppenwolf's Garage Rep and Orville in Orville and Wilbur Did It! with The New Colony. In September 2014, his new play Byhalia, Mississippi was named a finalist in the New Works @ TheWorks competition at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN, his play The Bear Suit of Happiness was published by Chicago Dramaworks, and his play The Five received a four-week workshop at Rhodes College. Evan will be directing the musical Plastic Revolution for The New Colony in January 2015. In addition to being a playwright, Mr. Linder also works as a director, actor, creative consultant and teaches playwriting at the University of Chicago.
Andrew Hobgood is the Founding Artistic Director of The New Colony and the Business Strategist for Vosges Chocolate in Chicago. Before Lesbians Hobgood's other work with The New Colony includes writing and directing the new musicals Tupperware: An American Musical Fable, That Sordid Little Story, and Rise of The Numberless as well as directing Amelia Earhart: Jungle Princess, the original and commercial productions of FRAT, and Hearts Full of Blood, which won Outstanding Script at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival. In 2010 Newcity Magazine named him one of the 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago; in 2011 he and The New Colony were honored with the Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theater Award; and in 2013 he and Co-Artistic Director Evan Linder were two of six people on Chicago Magazine's Cultural Power List of Theater Scene Stealers. His new play reWILDing Genius was commissioned by the University of Chicago in 2013 will receive its world premiere at the Steppenwolf Garage in March 2014. When not directing, writing or acting, he can be found working in the Innovation Lab of Vosges Haut-Chocolat, or guest speaking and writing on the topics of devised/collaborative theater, the future of playwriting and theater, and the art of business/business of art.
About the Director - Buck Busfield has worked for B Street since its creation in 1986. He selects and casts all plays and has directed more than 200 of them, working with some of the nation's finest actors and playwrights. As a playwright himself, Buck has written more than 20 plays; many having received productions at B Street Theatre. He is the recipient of the Arts and Business Council of Sacramento's Executive of the Year award and a senior fellow of the Mountain Valley chapter of the American Leadership Forum, Class IX. He makes his home in Sacramento with his wife Mehera, and their daughter, Priya.
About the Cast (Entirely B Street Company Members)
Lulie Stanwyck: Elisabeth Nunziato - Ms. Nunziato is a founding B Street Theatre Company Member, appearing most recently in Oblivion. For the B Street Theatre Family Series, she was last seen in Snow White and Rose Red. She recently made her feature film directorial debut with Stolen Moments, an NK Media/Iron Mountain Films production. Elisabeth has been performing on stage, in film, commercially and in voice-over for more than two decades. She has been fortunate enough to work with Academy Award winners Danny Glover, Robin Williams, Forest Whittaker and Robert Duvall. Her commercial work has been featured in award-winning projects both national and regional. She is partnered with her husband Jason Kuykendall in NK Media, winner of the 2011 National Addy, the world's largest advertising competition.
Wren Robin Events: Amy Kelly - Amy is an actress, comedian, v.o artist and impersonator. Her film credits include Nick and Tristan Go Mega Dega (2010) and West Hollywood Motel (2013) and she has starred in numerous independent cult classics that have screened internationally. Amy guest starred in the Comedy Central series Free Radio and VH1's reality series New York Goes to Hollywood. Amy is a B Street Theatre company member, her performances include Well, 39 Steps, The Snow Queen, Extraordinary Things: Through the Eyes of Anne Frank, The Young Tom Edison, Hansel and Gretel, The Conductor: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Robyn is Happy, The Ladies Foursome and Dia de los Cuentos. She also writes and performs for the B Sketchy comedy shows.
Ginny Cadbury: Stephanie Altholz - Stephanie was seen most recently in The Explorers Club, Snow White and Rose Red, and Elemeno Pea. Other B Street credits include Gift of the Magi, Seminar, RX, Aliens with Extraordinary Skills, The Snow Queen, Extraordinary Things: Through the Eyes of Ann Frank, Cinderella; Junie B. Jones, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, I Am a Camera, The Almost Perfect Party, Swiss Family Robinson and A Christmas Carol. Stephanie has also been seen at Capital Stage in Reasons to be Pretty, Erratica and Clybourne Park. She has also performed in online videos with Dutchwest, College Humor and Smosh.
Dale Prist: Tara Sissom - Tara is a B Street Theatre Company Member and former intern who was seen most recently in The Jacksonian for the MainStage Series. Tara recently appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in The Iceman Cometh, with Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane, having also in appeared in the same production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. She also is a company member of the New Colony, with whom she's written two plays -- Pancake Breakfast and 11:11. She received a Joseph Jefferson Award for original music composition for That Sordid Little Story. Other B Street credits are Make Someone Happy, Jack Goes Boating, Gulf View Drive, Go, Dog, Go! and Cinderella. In Chicago, Tara has appeared in Frat, Tupperware: An American Musical Fable and 11:11 with the New Colony, and Literally Sexy II, III and IV, One-Minute Play Festival and Walk of Shame with the Fresh-Squeezed Series at Victory Garden's Biograph Theatre. Regional credits include The Man Who Came to Dinner, Children of Eden and Beauty and the Beast at Flat Rock Playhouse. Tara has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Music Theatre from Elon University.
Veronica "Vern" Schultz: Amy Resnick - Amy is a proud B Street Company Member where she has appeared in Around the World in 80 Days, Collapse, The Clean House, Why We Have a Body, Sarah, Sarah, Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Boston Marriage, Talley's Folley, Hidden In This Picture and Criminal Hearts. Ms. Resnick most recently appeared in Detroit at the Aurora Theatre Company, Good People (Bay Area Critics Award for Acting) at Marin Theatre Company, God of Carnage (Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Acting) at San Jose Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and the National Tour of The Laramie Project Ten Years Later and The Laramie Project at Boston's Majestic, D.C.'s Arena Stage and Philadelphia Theatre Company with New York's Tectonic Theatre Company. TV : Law & Order, Picket Fences, Paper Dolls, Paper Chase.
More about B Street Theatre - B Street Theatre is a non-profit, professional theatre company producing primarily new work for adults, families and children. The two-theatre playhouse on B Street in Midtown Sacramento is home to the Mainstage Series, B3 Series and Family Series, each created to feature intimate, quality theatre for audiences year-round. Recognized as one of the nation's top professional theatres, B Street Theatre has produced more than 100 new plays, 60 of which are world, national, West Coast or regional premieres.
B Street Theatre was originally founded in 1986 for the purpose of bringing the excitement of live performance to children through the B Street Theatre School Tour. This educational outreach program serves over 200,000 students in Northern California annually.
B Street Theatre programs include the Mainstage Series, B Street Theatre Family Series and Family Series Student Matinees (for school field trips), the B3 Series, B Street School Tours, Sketch Comedy, B Street Acting Conservatory and Studio for Young People, and the B Street Theatre Internship program for pre-professional and post-college training.
In 2014, B Street brought its most popular play ever, Around the World in 80 Days, to India. The original cast performed in 3 Indian cities, furthering the organization's mission by bringing high quality theatre to an international audience, while also raising money for Indian educational enrichment and schools and partnering with an overseas performing arts center with the hope of future international collaboration.
B Street Theatre has produced over 250 professional productions since 1986. The mission of B Street Theatre is to promote education and literacy, social interaction, and cultural enrichment by engaging children and adults in the highest quality theatre arts and playwriting.
More information at www.bstreettheatre.org.
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