Sharon
By Keiko Green
Directed by Rob Lutfy
WORLD PREMIERE
New Show Times: 2pm & 7pm*
Low-priced Previews Jun 7 - Jun 10, 2023
Slow Burn • Darkly Comedic • Suspenseful
Not all is as it seems in this hilarious and Hitchcockian story that makes you question…well, everything. Sharon and Jakey are a loving mother and son, running the crumbling apartment building in Everett, WA that’s been in the family for generations, repainting the walls as the tenants move in and out. Or are they…? Soon we start to realize that perhaps this family is not what they seem. Over the course of a very tense dinner, the story unfolds and power switches hands. We finally get to the bottom of this comedic thriller, asking the questions: What does survival look like? And who the f*ck is Sharon!?
This World Premiere received its first reading in 2021 through the Bill and Judy Garrett Finish Line Commission.
*New Show Times
Cygnet is moving to a 2:00 PM matinee and 7:00 PM evening schedule. If you received tickets for the old performance times, they will still be good for the new start times. No need to reprint tickets. Contact the box office if you have questions.
GET INSIGHT INTO SHARON: Click here to read the Q & A with playwright Keiko Green.
Approximate Run Time: 2 hrs 15 minutes, including 1 intermission.
Advisories: Severe emotional disturbance of characters, Mental health, Strong language, Some adult themes, Use of alcohol. For additional advisory information including spoilers, please click here.
Cast
DeAnna DriscollDeAnna Driscoll
SharonDeAnna most recently starred at Cygnet Theatre in the role of Paige in HIR and as Beatrice in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Effect of Gamma Rays… for which she won the SD Critics Circle Award for Best Female Lead. DeAnna’s favorite shows to date are: The Effect Of Gamma Rays…(Cygnet Theatre), Bethany and Bus Stop (Old Globe Theatre), Hand To God, Bad Dates, The Good Body (SD Rep.), The Quality of Life (Intrepid Theatre), and Frankie and Johnny…(ion Theatre) just to name a few. DeAnna recently finished filming the movie, Unverified in Northern California. DeAnna is a proud member of both Actors Equity and SAG.
Rafael GoldsteinRafael Goldstein
JakeA Resident Artist at A Noise Within Classical Repertory Company in Pasadena, CA, Rafael’s most recent visit to the San Diego-area was when he played Mozart in North Coast Repertory’s production of Amadeus for which he received an SDCC nomination. Favorite recent roles include Parolles in As You Like It, Eros and others in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, and Napoleon in Animal Farm. You can hear his voice in Netflix’s Transformers: War for Cybertron as well as a number of video games and podcasts. “Many thanks to Keiko and Cygnet Theatre for this rarity.”
Keiko GreenKeiko Green
TinaKeiko Green is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer based in Los Angeles and Seattle. She is a recent graduate of UC San Diego’s MFA Playwriting program. She was last seen at Cygnet in “The Great Leap” as Connie, a role that she also originated at the Denver Center and Seattle Rep. Favorite past shows include: As You Like It (Seattle Rep), Stupid F-ing Bird (ACT Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Seattle Shakespeare). Her original plays have been developed and/or produced by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, the Old Globe, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Playwrights Realm, among others. She is the 2023 resident playwright at OC’s Chance Theatre and holds commissions from ACT Theatre and the Old Globe. As a screenwriter, she wrote on Hulu’s upcoming “Interior Chinatown.”
DeAnna Driscoll
DeAnna most recently starred at Cygnet Theatre in the role of Paige in HIR and as Beatrice in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Effect of Gamma Rays… for which she won the SD Critics Circle Award for Best Female Lead. DeAnna’s favorite shows to date are: The Effect Of Gamma Rays…(Cygnet Theatre), Bethany and Bus Stop (Old Globe Theatre), Hand To God, Bad Dates, The Good Body (SD Rep.), The Quality of Life (Intrepid Theatre), and Frankie and Johnny…(ion Theatre) just to name a few. DeAnna recently finished filming the movie, Unverified in Northern California. DeAnna is a proud member of both Actors Equity and SAG.
Rafael Goldstein
A Resident Artist at A Noise Within Classical Repertory Company in Pasadena, CA, Rafael’s most recent visit to the San Diego-area was when he played Mozart in North Coast Repertory’s production of Amadeus for which he received an SDCC nomination. Favorite recent roles include Parolles in As You Like It, Eros and others in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, and Napoleon in Animal Farm. You can hear his voice in Netflix’s Transformers: War for Cybertron as well as a number of video games and podcasts. “Many thanks to Keiko and Cygnet Theatre for this rarity.”
Keiko Green
Keiko Green is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer based in Los Angeles and Seattle. She is a recent graduate of UC San Diego’s MFA Playwriting program. She was last seen at Cygnet in “The Great Leap” as Connie, a role that she also originated at the Denver Center and Seattle Rep. Favorite past shows include: As You Like It (Seattle Rep), Stupid F-ing Bird (ACT Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Seattle Shakespeare). Her original plays have been developed and/or produced by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, the Old Globe, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Playwrights Realm, among others. She is the 2023 resident playwright at OC’s Chance Theatre and holds commissions from ACT Theatre and the Old Globe. As a screenwriter, she wrote on Hulu’s upcoming “Interior Chinatown.”
Kat PeñaKat Peña
SabrinaKat is a second year MFA actor at UCSD. She’s a Dominican plant-mom from the Bronx. Some of her acting credits include: Yaz in Water by the Spoonful (Cahill Theater/Regional), Sullivan in Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Sofia in Dance Nation (UCSD), To The Moon (Creede Repertory Theatre), Remy in a reading of A Skeptic and A Bruja (Urbanite Theatre and San Diego Rep), Big Green Theater (The Bushwick Starr), Escolastica in Eight Tales of Pedro (The Secret Theater), and Michelle in award-winning short comedy, Reina.
MJ SieberMJ Sieber
GreggMJ is so damn happy to be returning to the Cygnet stage after appearing as Vanya in Aaron Posner’s Life Sucks last year also directed by Mr. Lufty. Before returning to CA after a 20 year stint in Seattle, some previous credits included: Glengarry Glen Ross, Outside Mullingar, Dry Powder, and the world premiere of Mr. Dickens and his Carol (Seattle Rep), Stupid F***ing Bird, Oslo, The Crucible, Lt. of Inishmore (ACT), and Barefoot in the Park, Sleuth, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Village Theatre). Other highlights include: Bottom (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Benedick (Much Ado), Autolycus (Winters Tale), Merrick (Elephant Man), Stanley Yelnats (Holes – World Premiere). As the Associate AD with New Century Theatre Co. he directed the west coast premiere of Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winner The Flick. Most recently he finished directing the short film Prepared (currently making the festival circuit) a script written by his way-out-of-his-league wife Keiko Green. Find out more at: mjsieber.com
Kat Peña
Kat is a second year MFA actor at UCSD. She’s a Dominican plant-mom from the Bronx. Some of her acting credits include: Yaz in Water by the Spoonful (Cahill Theater/Regional), Sullivan in Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Sofia in Dance Nation (UCSD), To The Moon (Creede Repertory Theatre), Remy in a reading of A Skeptic and A Bruja (Urbanite Theatre and San Diego Rep), Big Green Theater (The Bushwick Starr), Escolastica in Eight Tales of Pedro (The Secret Theater), and Michelle in award-winning short comedy, Reina.
MJ Sieber
MJ is so damn happy to be returning to the Cygnet stage after appearing as Vanya in Aaron Posner’s Life Sucks last year also directed by Mr. Lufty. Before returning to CA after a 20 year stint in Seattle, some previous credits included: Glengarry Glen Ross, Outside Mullingar, Dry Powder, and the world premiere of Mr. Dickens and his Carol (Seattle Rep), Stupid F***ing Bird, Oslo, The Crucible, Lt. of Inishmore (ACT), and Barefoot in the Park, Sleuth, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Village Theatre). Other highlights include: Bottom (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Benedick (Much Ado), Autolycus (Winters Tale), Merrick (Elephant Man), Stanley Yelnats (Holes – World Premiere). As the Associate AD with New Century Theatre Co. he directed the west coast premiere of Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winner The Flick. Most recently he finished directing the short film Prepared (currently making the festival circuit) a script written by his way-out-of-his-league wife Keiko Green. Find out more at: mjsieber.com
Creative Team
Keiko Green
Keiko Green is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer based in Los Angeles and Seattle. She is a recent graduate of UC San Diego’s MFA Playwriting program. She was last seen at Cygnet in “The Great Leap” as Connie, a role that she also originated at the Denver Center and Seattle Rep. Favorite past shows include: As You Like It (Seattle Rep), Stupid F-ing Bird (ACT Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Seattle Shakespeare). Her original plays have been developed and/or produced by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, the Old Globe, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Playwrights Realm, among others. She is the 2023 resident playwright at OC’s Chance Theatre and holds commissions from ACT Theatre and the Old Globe. As a screenwriter, she wrote on Hulu’s upcoming “Interior Chinatown.”
Rob Lutfy
Rob is the former Associate Artistic Director at Cygnet Theatre. Cygnet Theatre: Life Sucks, The Great Leap, The Last Five Years, The Virgin Trial, Pride and Prejudice, Marie and Rosetta, HIR, Every Brilliant Thing, The Wind and the Breeze, The Last Wife, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Shockheaded Peter, Bad Jews, Stupid F***ing Bird, When the Rain Stops Falling, Hay Fever, Sons of the Prophet, The Motherf**ker with the Hat. Elsewhere: Clown Play, NYC International Fringe Festival; The Gin Game, Anacostia Playhouse; The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Threshold Repertory; The Sunset Limited, 3M Productions; Time Stands Still, Collaborative Arts, Bodas de sangre, Grossmont College. He has worked on plays in development at The Kennedy Center, The O’Neill Theatre Center, Burning Coal Theatre, The Hub Theatre and The Rensing Center. He has assisted directors at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center and Marin Theatre Company. He was the 2014-2015 National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence at Marin Theatre Company, and the 2012-2013 William R. Kenan, Jr. Directing Fellow at The John F. Kennedy Center. Rob is a graduate of the directing program under Gerald Freedman at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
May 2023