Mary, a first-generation Cambodian American, struggles with guilt, anger, and grief of generational trauma as she tries to unpack her parents’ experiences as survivors of the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, having lost their first child in a bomb raid. Mary’s parents, one Catholic and one Buddhist, coped differently with their grief, and Mary ultimately has to find a way to reconcile her own beliefs and with theirs to find a path to healing.
Director: Raymond Cadwell
CAST
MARY.....Carolina Đỗ
MOTHER.....TBA
SAM.....Elliott Kashner
COMMUNE DIRECTOR.....Stan Kang
Stage Directions: Caitlyn Hooper
Tuyết Thị Phạm is a Helen Hayes Award-winning actor living in Washington, DC. After earning her Master's, she moved to Washington, DC to become an Artistic Fellow at the famed Living Stage Theatre Company at Arena Stage. Following her fellowship, she has worked as a stage, television, film, and print performer for over twenty years and has been seen in over 50 productions in the Baltimore-Washington DC area and other theatres that include roles at Centerstage, Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, RepStage, Roundhouse Theatre, Imagination Stage, Signature Theatre, The HUB Theatre, The Inkwell, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Arena Stage, and The Capital Fringe Festival. Her play Dinner and Cake received its world premiere at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, MD in Fall of 2022, and she was commissioned to write, co-direct and perform in Ping Chong and Company’s Generation Rise, presented at the Reston Arts Center in the spring of 2023. She served as Associate Director for Tripp Cullman on Kenneth Lin’s World Premiere of his play Exclusion at Arena Stage.
Carolina Đỗ is a multi-dimensional artist and proud daughter of Vietnamese freedom fighters and refugees. [BROADWAY] Linda Vista, Grand Horizons. [NY THEATER] PlayCo: Is It Supposed To Last? ; Adjusted Realists: The Refugees; Yangtze Rep: Stacey In The States, 410[Gone] [REGIONAL] Everyman Theatre: Dinner and Cake (world premiere) [TV] The Blacklist, Law and Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, FBI: Most Wanted [FILM] Ma's Kitchen, CRAM (Austin Film Fest), AVIVA (SXSW), [PLAYWRITING] 2022-2023 Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab Cohort, 2022 Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab Resident Artist; JACK 2021 Residency; buried ruins: 2023 O’Neill Semifinalist, 2023 Leah Ryan Finalist, 2022 Princess Grace Semi-Finalist, 2022 Bushwick Starr Finalist, 2020 BricLab Finalist [CO-FOUNDER & PRODUCING ARTISTIC LEADER] of The Sống Collective.
Stan Kang is a professional actor, director and teacher. Most recently, Stan worked on the TV show Dr Death. As an actor. His favorite theatre role was David Henry Hwang in Yellowface at Theater J. As a stage actor, he has worked with many local DC theatres: Washington Shakespeare Company, Studio Theater, Horizons Theatre, Washington Stage Guild, Scena Theater, and the Kennedy Center. Film and TV credits include:FBI’s Most Wanted, Brave the Dark, Tapawingo, House of Cards, The Confidential Informant, Sally Patcholok, Jamesy Boy, Fallen, 12 Monkeys, Murderous Intent, Homicide: Life in the Streets.. He worked as a director with Asian Stories in America (ASIA), where he directed Big Hunk of Burning Love and The Theory of Everything. He is a founding member and executive director of the Educational Theatre Company (ETC), whose mission is to unlock the potential of children and adults through immersion in theatre arts.
Caitlyn Hooper (She/Her) is overjoyed to be working with WWIT! She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. While there, she performed as Bess in Hunting And Gathering and Usher/Understanding in EVERYBODY, among other roles. After graduating, she portrayed Mary Shelley/The Creature in Frankenstein at the Strand Theatre. She has also performed in numerous staged readings with local Baltimore theatres/organizations such as Single Carrot, Sisters Freehold and Rapid Lemon. She would like to thank her family and friends for all their support and love.
Elliott Kashner is a Maryland-based artist, having lived in the DC area for nearly 20 years. He's also a grant manager at Everyman Theatre. He has his degree in Economics from George Mason.