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The Mother Code
 
at The California
 
 
 
by
Joe Hutcheson
 
 
Starring
 
Joe Hutcheson
 
 
Cheryl King
 
 
 
 

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Why readers theatre?

This is a brand, spankin' new piece of theatre. Some of the words you'll hear were likely written this morning. The audience, being an integral part of the theatre process, is what completes this magical relationship. Congratulations on being one of our first. 

We could have focussed on locking in a script a few months back and memorizing those lines. But that felt limiting. Instead, we choose to continue to develop this work, these conversations and concepts, and allow this play to grow organically, as it will continue to do. 

I love readers theatre. When I was in high school drama class, the teacher (shout out to Mr. Hughes) brought in a group that performed a melodrama in the style of readers theatre. It's truly one of my favorite things I've ever seen. While I don't remember the name of the play, I'll never forget the experience. Although the actors read from scripts, I felt deeply connected and involved in the play. I've had the good fortune to act in and direct several pieces in this style, and always find the form deeply satisfying and rewarding. I hope you will, too. 

Special thanks to Melissa Giges for her use of "Carry You", from her album Far Beyond the Pacific. 

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Cast

Joe Hutcheson
Playwright/Son
Cheryl King
Mother

Creative Team

Charl Brown/Pounding Pavements, Inc.

Producer

Brian Rickel

Director

Ryan Severt

Lighting/Sound Technician

Meet the Company

Joe Hutcheson

Playwright/Son
Joe Hutcheson is a New York City based writer/performer. His solo show Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown has appeared at several venues in New York and around the country and has garnered awards from the NY Fringe Festival and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Hutcheson's other work includes Son of a Hutch, The Geography of a Nervous Breakdown, and Sherilyn Fenn at the Hamburger Hamlet. In September, Joe's play Calypso Palace, with co-writer Dom Nolfi (featured in Broadway's Jersey Boys, Motown, and A Bronx Tale), will have a staged reading in New York City. Joe is especially grateful for Cheryl; they have been creating theatre together since 2007. If it weren't for her, many of the above projects would never have happened. And for Rickel, for humoring him in this endeavor. Mom...this one's for you.

Cheryl King

Mother
Cheryl King is an actor/writer/director/coach, and creator/director of Stage Left Studio, formerly of NYC. She currently lives in Santa Rosa, CA and produces programming there for The California Theater, including her acclaimed Forbidden Kiss LIVE series. During the 10 years she ran her Midtown Manhattan theater, she created and produced long-running theater festivals, such as the LGBTQ-focused Left Out Festival, and the Women at Work Festival. She won a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in NYC for her Gender Project in 2015. Described as the “matriarch of the Off-Off Broadway Solo Show scene” in the NYT, she has directed/developed over 80 solo shows, including NY Fringe, Drama-Desk and other award-winners from Frank Blocker, Joe Hutcheson and Tom Gualtieri. Cheryl teaches improvisation, acting and writing on a weekly basis in person and on Zoom. www.stageleftstudio.net

Charl Brown/Pounding Pavements, Inc.

Producer
Pounding Pavements, Inc. is a New York City-based production company run by Broadway performer Charl Brown (Motown, Jersey Boys, Sister Act).

Brian Rickel

Director
Brian Rickel (MFA, CSU Fullerton) serves as the Dean of Arts, Media, and Entertainment at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, CA. Prior to returning to Sacramento, Brian worked as an actor and director in San Diego. Assistant Director: Miracle on 34th St. (SDMT) Director: Winter’s Tale with Sean Cox (Intrepid Theatre Company), Love, Sex & the IRS (Grossmont College), Scapin (Grossmont College), Around the World in 80 Days (Grossmont College), Failure: A Love Story (Grossmont College), Treasure Island (Grossmont College), Death at Devil’s Cave (Great American Melodrama), Lost at Sea (Great American Melodrama) Actor: Dev in Stupid Fucking Bird (Cygnet Theatre), Malcolm in Macbeth, Polixenes in A Winter’s Tale, Frank Lubey in All My Sons (Intrepid), Baw in Joe vs. The Volcano, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Ensemble in Around the World in 80 Days, (Lamb's Player's), Judevine: Solo (SD Fringe & Bernardo Winery), Martin Dysart in Equus, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, Cleante in Tartuffe, John in Sailor's Song (CSUF MFA Program), Kinickie in Grease, Ira Stone in Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Pirate in Peter Pan, Selsdon Mowbray in Noises Off, Doug in Judevine, Mark in A Chorus Line, Otto Von Bruno in Bullshot Crummond, Brasset in Charley's Aunt (SRT, Santa Rosa).

Ryan Severt

Lighting/Sound Technician

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