Hell Mouth
World Premiere Presented by:
The Road Theatre Company and Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Robert Meadow
Made possible by the generosity of Elaine Kramer and Al Latham, Diane Naegele, Reverend Robert Sterling Richards, Patricia Serenbetz and Linda Washburn
Previews April 14th -16th
Opening April 17th
Alternate dates: May 5th, 6th, and 7th at 8pm.
Open Captioning Performances: Saturday May 2nd and Sunday May 17th
Special Talkback Sunday, May 17th with artist John Nava
Torn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women List.
Cast:
Tim: Danny Lee Gomez
Lois/Samara: Taylor Gilbert
Russell/Spencer: Tony Abatemarco
Cast:
Tim: Troy Guthrie
Lois/Samara: Erika Nadir
Russell/Spencer: Dirk Etchison
Off Broadway: The Twentieth-Century Way, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and Boston Court (PEN Award for Drama). Los Angeles: Plunge at Son of Semele Ensemble, Tar at Playwrights Arena, Mexican Day at Rogue Machine Theatre Company, The Orange Grove at Playwrights Arena, the award-winning Bunbury, Tainted Blood, Ouroboros and
The Friendly Hour at The Road Theatre Company, Making Paradise: The West Hollywood Musical at Cornerstone Theater Company, Sperm and The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) at Circle X, House of the Rising Son at Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA, Diet of Worms at Chalk Repertory, Captain of the Bible Quiz Team at Rogue Machine Theatre Company (LADCC Award), The Devil’s Wife at Skylight Theatre, and Walking to Buchenwald and The Bauhaus Project at Open Fist Theatre Company. Film: Prairie Sonata (based on The Friendly Hour), Drunk with Love. Opera: Hopscotch, commissioned by The Industry. Recent productions include Crevasse co-produced by
Son of Semele and the Victory Theatre (LADCC Award for Playwriting) and Mrs Christmas at Aurora Theatre. Upcoming: The Bear Republic at Open Fist.
Ann Hearn Tobolowsky began directing in 2004 with Sally Nemeth’s beautiful play Holy Days at Theatre 40, and steadily developed a following as a director and all around theatre enthusiast.
Ann directed three critically acclaimed plays by Steve Yockey: Sleeping Giant (2025), Mercury (2024),and Reykjavík (2021), which was a filmed live play production, honored with laurels at several international film festivals (Sweden, Paris and Buenos Aires). At The Road she also directed Scintilla, Through the Eye of a Needle and numerous readings for The Word, Under Construction and Summer Playwrights Festival.
At Theatre 40 she directed Beatnik Girl, The Half-Light, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Silent Sky, Good People, As Good As Gold, Bus Stop, Holy Days, Driving Miss Daisy, and Another Part of the Forest. In Los Angeles, Ann also directed the world premieres of The Civil Twilight by Shem Bitterman, The Favorite by Joe Correll, and Forever Bound by Steve Apostolina, as well as the classic Misery with actress Julie Dove. As part of Center Theatre Group’s 2022 LA Writers’ Workshop at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, she directed the reading of Jami Brandli’s play, The Magician’s Sister.
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JOHN NAVA
Artist John Nava studied art at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and did graduate
work at the Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Art in Florence, Italy, where he earned his MFA.
Nava has done large-scale public works including projects for the Tokyo Grain Exchange in Tokyo, Japan
and for Benaroya Hall in Seattle.
In 1999 Nava was commissioned to create three major cycles of tapestries for the new cathedral of Los
Angeles. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the largest Catholic cathedral in the United States,
opened in September of 2002.
In 2003 Nava’s tapestries for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels won the National Interfaith Forum
on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA) Design Honor Award for Visual Art. In 2021 A new group of
tapestries was made for the Los Angeles Cathedral.
Additional projects include large-scale tapestries for the Ronald Tutor Campus Center at the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, California (2011), the Firestone Library at Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey (2014) and painting for the School of Music at Yale University (2016). Further
large-scale tapestry cycles include projects for Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Las Vegas, Nevada (2018),
the University of San Diego, San Diego California (2020) and St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, New
York City (2024).
1993 Set Design for Tony Abatemarco’s Four Fathers | Tiffany Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles
Dramalogue Award for Stage Design)
In 2017 Sacred Material, a book that covers the work done for the Los Angeles cathedral tapestry project,
was published by Angel City Press of Santa Monica, California.
Nava continues creating and exhibiting large and small scale works to this day at his Ojai, CA studio,
both commissioned and independently rendered.