Center Repertory Company presents
Every Brilliant Thing
By Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by Jeffrey Lo
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
George & Sonja Vukasin Theatre
January 6 - 28, 2024
EVERY BRILLIANT THING is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
EVERY BRILLIANT THING was first produced by Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre, on 28 June 2013 at Ludlow Fringe Festival. The play had its North American premiere at Barrow Street Theatre, New York, on 6 December 2014, where it was presented by Barrow Street Theatre and Jean Doumanian Productions.
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Meet the Company
William Thomas Hodgson (Narrator, AEA)
William Thomas Hodgson (He/Him) most recently worked with Center Rep as choreographer for last season's Red Bike (dir. Jeffrey Lo). His regional acting credits include four seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Rep), Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse), El Henry (SDrep/LJP), Calligraphy (TheatreWorks), An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre), Cyrano (Aurora Theater Company), Seussical (Berkeley Playhouse), Truffaldino Says No (Shotgun Players), I Am My Own Wife, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Oakland Theater Project). He received his MFA from UC San Diego, and is co-artistic director of the Oakland Theater Project.
William Thomas Hodgson (He/Him) most recently worked with Center Rep as choreographer for last season's Red Bike (dir. Jeffrey Lo). His regional acting credits include four seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Rep), Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse), El Henry (SDrep/LJP), Calligraphy (TheatreWorks), An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre), Cyrano (Aurora Theater Company), Seussical (Berkeley Playhouse), Truffaldino Says No (Shotgun Players), I Am My Own Wife, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Oakland Theater Project). He received his MFA from UC San Diego, and is co-artistic director of the Oakland Theater Project.
Jeffrey Lo (Director)
Jeffrey Lo (He/His) is a Filipino-American playwright and director based in the Bay Area. He is the recipient of the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award, the Emerging Artist Laureate by Arts Council Silicon Valley and Theatre Bay Area Director's TITAN Award. Selected directing credits include The Language Archive, Little Shop of Horrors and The Santaland Diaries at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin and Hold These Truths at San Francisco Playhouse, Vietgone and The Great Leap at Capital Stage as well as A Doll’s House, Part 2 and Eurydice at Palo Alto Players (TBA Awards finalist for Best Direction). As a playwright, his plays have been produced and workshopped at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, BindleStiff Studio, City Lights Theatre Company and Stanford University. His play Writing Fragments Home was a finalist for the Bay Area Playwright's Conference and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Playwright's Conference. Jeffrey has also worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Asian American International Film Festival, San Jose Repertory and is a company member of Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company and SF Playground. Jeffrey also works as an educator and advocate for issues of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and has served as a grant panelist for the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Creates and Theatre Bay Area. He is the Director Community Partnerships and Casting Director at the Tony Award Winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, a graduate of the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute and a proud alumnus of the UC Irvine Drama Department. For more: www.JeffreyWritesAPlay.com.
Jeffrey Lo (He/His) is a Filipino-American playwright and director based in the Bay Area. He is the recipient of the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award, the Emerging Artist Laureate by Arts Council Silicon Valley and Theatre Bay Area Director's TITAN Award. Selected directing credits include The Language Archive, Little Shop of Horrors and The Santaland Diaries at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin and Hold These Truths at San Francisco Playhouse, Vietgone and The Great Leap at Capital Stage as well as A Doll’s House, Part 2 and Eurydice at Palo Alto Players (TBA Awards finalist for Best Direction). As a playwright, his plays have been produced and workshopped at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, BindleStiff Studio, City Lights Theatre Company and Stanford University. His play Writing Fragments Home was a finalist for the Bay Area Playwright's Conference and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Playwright's Conference. Jeffrey has also worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Asian American International Film Festival, San Jose Repertory and is a company member of Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company and SF Playground. Jeffrey also works as an educator and advocate for issues of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and has served as a grant panelist for the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Creates and Theatre Bay Area. He is the Director Community Partnerships and Casting Director at the Tony Award Winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, a graduate of the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute and a proud alumnus of the UC Irvine Drama Department. For more: www.JeffreyWritesAPlay.com.
Spense Matubang (Lighting Designer)
Spense Matubang (They/He) is a freelance lighting and projections designer currently based in Oakland, California. They have been working in the professional theater world of the Bay Area for four years. They received their degree in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020. Spense uses their career as a never-ending outlet for exploration, creative experimentation, and community building. They have previously designed for The Chikahan Company, City Lights Theater Company, EnActe Arts, Town Hall Theater Company, Ferocious Lotus, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, West Valley Light Opera, and Jewel Theatre.
Spense Matubang (They/He) is a freelance lighting and projections designer currently based in Oakland, California. They have been working in the professional theater world of the Bay Area for four years. They received their degree in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020. Spense uses their career as a never-ending outlet for exploration, creative experimentation, and community building. They have previously designed for The Chikahan Company, City Lights Theater Company, EnActe Arts, Town Hall Theater Company, Ferocious Lotus, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, West Valley Light Opera, and Jewel Theatre.
Gregory Robinson (Sound Designer)
Gregory Robinson (He/Him), a United Scenic Artists Local USA 829, IATSE Member, is ‘An Artist That Paints With Sound & Music’. His creative works have been featured in local, regional, and national radio and television advertising; short films; documentaries; corporate video; and theatre. His work has been featured in an Emmy award winning documentary, an HBO Special, and he has been recognized by the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle, with a Sound Design ‘Excellence in Theatre Award’ for “Water By The Spoonful”, and a nominations for “Proof” and "Two Trains Running". Gregory recently designed for the Penumbra Theatre production (St. Paul, Minnesota) of Nambi Kelley's play "Re-Memori"; the TheatreWorks production of "Fannie, The Music And Life Of Fannie Lou Hamer"; composed music for the Aurora Theatre Company’s production of “Paradise Blue; designed sound and composed music for The Marin Theatre Company’s production of August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running, and designed for the Syracuse Stage Company’s production of “Salt/City/Blues.
Gregory Robinson (He/Him), a United Scenic Artists Local USA 829, IATSE Member, is ‘An Artist That Paints With Sound & Music’. His creative works have been featured in local, regional, and national radio and television advertising; short films; documentaries; corporate video; and theatre. His work has been featured in an Emmy award winning documentary, an HBO Special, and he has been recognized by the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle, with a Sound Design ‘Excellence in Theatre Award’ for “Water By The Spoonful”, and a nominations for “Proof” and "Two Trains Running". Gregory recently designed for the Penumbra Theatre production (St. Paul, Minnesota) of Nambi Kelley's play "Re-Memori"; the TheatreWorks production of "Fannie, The Music And Life Of Fannie Lou Hamer"; composed music for the Aurora Theatre Company’s production of “Paradise Blue; designed sound and composed music for The Marin Theatre Company’s production of August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running, and designed for the Syracuse Stage Company’s production of “Salt/City/Blues.
Liesl Seitz Buchbinder (Costume Designer)
Liesl Seitz Buchbinder (She/Her) is thrilled to once again join Center Rep for another lovely production. Her design work was last seen here at the Lesher Center in A Christmas Carol. She studied costume at Western Michigan University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her work, both in design and technology, has been seen all over the Bay Area, and all over the country, and she currently works as the Interim Costume Shop Manager at Center Rep. As always, this is for Jolon, Lucie and Josephine. It's always for them.
Liesl Seitz Buchbinder (She/Her) is thrilled to once again join Center Rep for another lovely production. Her design work was last seen here at the Lesher Center in A Christmas Carol. She studied costume at Western Michigan University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her work, both in design and technology, has been seen all over the Bay Area, and all over the country, and she currently works as the Interim Costume Shop Manager at Center Rep. As always, this is for Jolon, Lucie and Josephine. It's always for them.
Alyssa Tryon (Props Designer)
Alyssa Tryon (She/Her) has been the Resident Properties Designer for Center REP since 2019. Originally from New Jersey, she worked in NYC for six years prior to moving to the Bay Area. Her work has been featured in NYC, Santa Fe, Sacramento, and all over the Bay Area. She has a BA in Theatre Performance & Theatrical Design from Marymount Manhattan College. She would like to thank her family, friends, and fellow creatives for all their support! www.alyssatryon.com
Alyssa Tryon (She/Her) has been the Resident Properties Designer for Center REP since 2019. Originally from New Jersey, she worked in NYC for six years prior to moving to the Bay Area. Her work has been featured in NYC, Santa Fe, Sacramento, and all over the Bay Area. She has a BA in Theatre Performance & Theatrical Design from Marymount Manhattan College. She would like to thank her family, friends, and fellow creatives for all their support! www.alyssatryon.com
Bailie Molsberry (Production Stage Manager, AEA)
Bailie Molsberry (He/Him) is passionate about facilitating creativity, fostering joy, and uplifting under-heard voices, as he believes that art can be used to educate and enrich the lives of all those it touches. He is so excited to join Center REP to tell such a beautiful story. Select credits include The Mystery of Irma Vep, The High Table, and The Glass Menagerie (Diversionary Theatre); DRIVE (WOW Festival by La Jolla Playhouse); White Christmas and Mary Poppins (Roustabout Theatre); Fantastic Mr. Fox (Cal Poly Humboldt). Thank you as always to Jordan, for everything.
Bailie Molsberry (He/Him) is passionate about facilitating creativity, fostering joy, and uplifting under-heard voices, as he believes that art can be used to educate and enrich the lives of all those it touches. He is so excited to join Center REP to tell such a beautiful story. Select credits include The Mystery of Irma Vep, The High Table, and The Glass Menagerie (Diversionary Theatre); DRIVE (WOW Festival by La Jolla Playhouse); White Christmas and Mary Poppins (Roustabout Theatre); Fantastic Mr. Fox (Cal Poly Humboldt). Thank you as always to Jordan, for everything.
Randall K. Lum (Rehearsal Stage Manager, AEA)
Randall K. Lum (He/Him) recently stage managed The Legend of Georgia McBride for Center Rep. He is a Resident Stage Manager with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley for over a decade. Other companies stage managed for: American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Rep., Arena Stage, California Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and Denver Center. Some favorite productions include: The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Equivocation, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Restoration Comedy, The Birds, Three Days of Rain, Confederates, Hold These Truths, Fade, The Royale, They Promised Her The Moon, Wit, Fade, Princes Marjorie, and Fun Home.
Randall K. Lum (He/Him) recently stage managed The Legend of Georgia McBride for Center Rep. He is a Resident Stage Manager with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley for over a decade. Other companies stage managed for: American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Rep., Arena Stage, California Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and Denver Center. Some favorite productions include: The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Equivocation, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Restoration Comedy, The Birds, Three Days of Rain, Confederates, Hold These Truths, Fade, The Royale, They Promised Her The Moon, Wit, Fade, Princes Marjorie, and Fun Home.
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