BISEXUAL SADNESS
Written by India Kotis
Directed by Carlyle King
THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, announce the first show of its 2023-2024 season.
BISEXUAL SADNESS will preview Saturday, September 23 at 8pm; Sunday, September 24 at 2pm; Tuesday, September 26 & Wednesday, September 27 at 8pm. BISEXUAL SADNESS is double cast with the “Edna St. Vincent Millay” cast opening on Thursday, September 28 at 8pm & the “Roxane Gay” cast opening on Saturday, September 30 at 8pm. BISEXUAL SADNESS will perform through Sunday, November 5 at the Road Theatre, located in The NoHo Senior Arts Colony, 10747 Magnolia Blvd. in North Hollywood.
Additionally, there will be a special enhanced staged reading of BISEXUAL SADNESS co-presented with the Los Angeles LGBT Center which will perform one night only, Sunday, September 10 at 7pm at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre at the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center, 1125 N. McCadden Place in Hollywood. bit.ly/bisexualsadness
BISEXUAL SADNESS is about just that. Faye used to be with Genevieve. Now she’s getting married to Alex, and though she really truly loves him, she’s starting to have questions about what it means for the rest of her life. How will she be viewed by the queer communities that have always been her home. BISEXUAL SADNESS is about that specific loneliness of being a bisexual woman in love with a man, staring down the barrel of a lifetime of feeling that way. BISEXUAL SADNESS explores love, commitment, the security blanket of identity, and the inconvenience of fluidity. Is it BS? Or is it…Bisexual Sadness?
INDIA KOTIS (Playwright) is a playwright and anthropologist, chiefly interested in how and why the meanings of things change. Plays include Philia (James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting), Sybille Of Harrogate (G45 Productions); The Tangibles (Playscripts, Inc.) and more. Her work has been taught alongside writers like Aleshea Harris and Martyna Majok at SUNY Purchase and elsewhere. She has held fellowships with the Museum of the City of New York and the American Museum of Natural History, where she teaches courses on anthropology, archaeology, the natural world and the known universe.
CARLYLE KING (Director) is an award-winning actress, writer, director, and producer in the theatre over the last 40 odd years. Recently she completed shooting all 8 episodes of “Smothered 2” with Mitch Hara and Jason Stuart and wrote and directed the soon to be released short film “Sunny’s Closet” with Irina Maleeva. Initially brought out here by John Houseman (she holds an MFA from USC), she has studied with Uta Hagen, Kim Stanley, Milton Katselas (to name a few). She was co-artistic director at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills for 2 years and co-created their highly successful One Act Festival that led to NY productions, an HBO show and publications in Samuel French. She loves one person shows and directed the world premiere of Tracy Silver’s one woman show Motion Cures and the LA revival of Barrymore at the Marilyn Monroe theatre and recently Mitch Hara in Mutant Olive 2.0. At The Road Theatre she starred in award winning Mud Blue Sky, produced numerous mainstage shows and 13 of their Playwrights Festival which is the largest playwright’s festival in the country. She is a member of the Road Theatre Artistic Board and created “Under Construction” which creates plays from the ground up. “Under Construction” playwrights are being produced all over the country, Steppenwolf producing one in the spring. Over the last thirteen years, Carlyle has created “Kid Shakespeare” an afterschool drama program in the Pasadena. Bringing Shakespeare to Grades 1-6. She has taught at USC and South Coast Repertory. Coming up she is currently in negotiations to bring Martin Sherman’s Onassis to the United States and filming Mutant Olive 2.0 after it’s sold-out run.
BISEXUAL SADNESS is double cast. The “Edna St. Vincent Millay” cast will feature: Tiffany Wolff as “Faye,” Alaska Jackson as “Genevieve,” Brian Graves as “Alex,” Karrie King as “Miranda,”, Gloria Ines as “Naomi,” and Andrea Flowers as “Lillian.” The “Roxane Gay” cast will feature: Liz Fenning as “Faye,” Bex Taylor-Klaus as “Genevieve, Philip Smithey as “Alex,” Amy Tolsky as “Miranda,” Naomi Rubin as “Naomi,” and Samira Beija as “Lillian.”
The Design Team for BISEXUAL SADNESS is as follows: Scenic Design by Katrina Coulourides; Lighting Design by Derrick McDaniel; Sound Design by Christopher Moscatiello; Projection Design by Ben Rock; Props Design by Scottie Nevil; Costume Design by Jenna Bergstraesser. The Production Stage Manager is Maurie Gonzalez. BISEXUAL SADNESS is produced by Danna Hyams, Barbara Mulller Wittman and Ray Paolantonio.
Performances are Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 2pm.
Check the Road Theatre Company website at www.roadtheatre.org for the dates each cast performs.
