KAIJU
Two 250-foot-tall monsters debate the morality of the destruction they just caused. A group of human theatergoers argues after the play they just watched. Destruction becomes conversation and conversation becomes destruction in this satire of monster movies, post-show talkbacks, and both the power and self-cannibalization of live theatre.
Dan Caffrey is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter with an interest in end times and our relationship with the natural world. Plays include Matawan, The Amphibians, The Tusk Hunters, Sow and Suckling, and River Watchers—an immersive theatre experience on a moving 14-person canoe in Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek, co-created with Dina Vosi and Jens Rasmussen. He has been a Resident Artist at Tofte Lake Center, three-time O’Neill Finalist (and eight-time Semi-Finalist), and alumnus of The Civilians’ R&D Group, with work recently developed/produced by Gloucester Stage, Kitchen Dog, The Workshop Theater, Think Tank, American Records, and many colleges/universities. He’s also the co-host of two shows on the Bloody Disgusting Podcast Network — The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast and Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast. Published work includes the nonfiction book Radiohead FAQ (Rowman & Littlefield) and short plays featured in several anthologies by Smith & Kraus. MFA: UT Austin. dancaffreywrites.com
Ryan McRee is a dramaturg, director, and educator based in Los Angeles. He’s been a member of the Road since 2018 and frequently directs staged readings for SPF and The WORD. Previous Road readings include He Looked at Me With His Dick in Her Mouth, The Point, Mister Charlie Sent Me, From White Plains, Chickenheads, and Where’s the Rest of Me? Other directing credits include Gilberto (New Opera West), The Woman Is Perfected (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Equus, Much Ado About Nothing, and Six Degrees of Separation (Aeneid Theatre Company). Dramaturgy credits include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Pacific Resident Theatre), Eight Nights (Pear Theatre), Everybody, The Abuelas, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Little Foxes (Antaeus). Ryan has a BA in Theatre and Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California and is currently pursuing his MFA in Performance Pedagogy at Loyola Marymount University.