2009 Capital Fringe Festival production of
MAY 39th/40th
by Callie Kimball
directed by Christy Denny
produced by 11:11 Productions
And playing doctor will be way more creepy.
SAT 7.11 9pm
SUN 7.12 11am
SAT 7.18 4pm
SUN 7.19 6:30pm
FRI 7.24 11pm
The Bodega @ the Trading Post
1013 7th Street NW
Washington DC 20001
BUY TIX ONLINE
we expect to sell out
like last time
MAY 39th ("the play with the orange") was a sold-out hit at the 2006 Capital Fringe Festival. The play has been rebuilt for Fringe '09, where it will be produced alongside Kimball's follow-up play, MAY 40th.
TheaterMania 6/22/09
"Among the highlights are the return of Callie Kimball's May 39th, a hit at the 2006 Cap Fringe, coupled with a newly written companion piece, May 40th."
Washington City Paper Fringe & Purge Blog 7/2/09
DC Fringe Guide, 7/7/09
Washington Post 7/4/09
Washington Times, 7/3/09
Washington Post 7/1/09
DC Performing Arts Examiner, 6/14/09
Adam Szymkowicz 6.23.09
DC Performing Arts Examiner, 6/14/09
The Washington Post, on the 2006 Fringe Production
DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
Recent directing credits include Good God Enters Flossing (Madcap Players) and MAY 39th (The Kennedy Center’s 2008 Page to Stage Festival). She is the Assistant to the Artistic Director of Constellation Theatre Company, and proudly worked on each show of their 2008-2009 season. She has assistant directed at Woolly Mammoth ("Stunning"), Studio Theatre ("Blackbird"), Theater of the First Amendment ("Mariela in the Desert"), and the In Series ("Orpheus in the Underworld"). This spring, Christy will assistant direct "Stunning" at LCT3-Lincoln Center. Following Fringe, she'll attend the 2009 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and will spend the '09-10 season assistant directing and interning in the Literary Department at Seattle Repertory Theatre.
ANDREW HAWKINS
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
LINDSAY HAYNES
LOUISA & ROYA
Lindsay Haynes was most recently seen as Elmire in "Tartuffe" with Journeymen Theater. In the DC area she has worked with DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue (Callie Kimball, director & playwright): Jupiter Zoom; Theater J: "Pangs of the Messiah," "Bal Masque," "Sleeping Arrangements"; Olney Theatre Center: "The Foreigner," "Enemy of the People"; Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: "Winter’s Tale"; Journeymen Theater: "Life’s a Dream"; Washington Shakespeare Company: "All’s Well that Ends Well"; Forum Theatre & Dance: "The Skriker"; Catalyst Theater Company: "Eleemosynary"; Rorschach Theatre: "Dream Sailors"; and The National Players, among others. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and a founding company member of the Inkwell.
JAMES FINLEY
SAM & JIM
James is making his CapFringe début in "MAY 39th/40th." He recently played Bill in "Small Craft Warnings" at Washington Shakespeare Company, and will play Armand in their upcoming production of Charles Ludlam's "Camille." Other recent credits include The Keegan Theatre (Pedro in "Man of La Mancha," and Thomas Jefferson in "1776"), as well as staged readings at MetroStage ("From Tom to Tenn," "The Greers of Magnolia Court").
PLAYWRIGHT
Callie Kimball is a playwright, performer, and blogger in New York City who explores dark subjects such as parasitic relationships, emotional violence, and organized aggression. Her produced full-length plays include PEACE and LUCRECE (Washington Shakespeare Company); LULU FABULOUS (Phoenix Theatre DC); and MAY 39th, JUPITER ZOOM, and NUTSHELL (DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue). Her short plays have been produced in NY, LA, DC, Boston, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Oregon. She has also had four readings at the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival, including the O'Neill semi-finalist SAFEWORD. Her work has been supported by Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and Electric Pear Productions. Callie was a MacDowell Fellow, is a member of Screen Actors Guild, has served as Regional Representative (DC) for the Dramatists Guild of America, is on the Advisory Board of DC Fringe, is a former Board Member of The Actors' Center (DC), and is Literary Manager for Red Bull Theater. She also founded Lizard Claw and DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue.
PATRICK MAGILL
STAGE MANAGER
Patrick Magill is a recent graduate of George Mason University with a Theater B.A. and Arts Administration minor. Last summer, he stage managed Theater of the First Amendment’s The Warrior with the 2008 CAP and NY Fringe Festivals, Other Stage Management Credits: Giving A Troll A Green Card (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Measure for Measure, Sweeney Todd, and Reckless. Directing Credits: Theater of the First Amendment’s Two-Bit Taj Mahal (asst.), Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead and The Boys Next Door. Performance Credits: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Judge Littlefield), The Pillowman (Michal), Humble Boy (Felix Humble), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Doctor McSharry) and James Joyces’ The Dead (Bartell D’Arcy). He currently teaches acting and musical theater with A Class Act-Acting for Young People and Adults, Inc. Patrick will be spending the 2009-2010 season as the Production Assistant/Intern at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
VENUS PEREZ
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
