Kaiju

Opening September 25th
Written By Dan Caffrey
Directed By Ken Sawyer
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World Premiere Presented by:

The Road Theatre Company and BroadStage


Previews: Tuesday September 22nd thru Thursday September 24th

Opening Friday September 25th

Alternate dates: October 13th, 14th, 15th

Open Captioning Performances: Friday, October 9 and Saturday, October 17

Funny, unsettling, and audacious, KAIJU uses the spectacle of gigantic mythic monsters to examine power, destruction, artistic responsibility, and the fragile rituals of contemporary culture. Chaos becomes pageantry and pageantry becomes debate in a theatrical event that forces both artist and audience to confront the power—and futility—of making art.

Goliath – Leandro Cano*
Apex – Cherish Monique Duke*
Ensemble: Jon Snow*, Gabie Faulkner*, Noa Lev-Ari*, Billy Baker*, Sapna Kumar*, Ann Hearn*

*Denotes Road Company Member

Goliath  – Danny Bernardo*
Apex –  Rafaela Pérez*
Shinji – Shaun Tuazon
Ensemble – Troy Guthrie*, Kate Huffman*, Krista Conti*, Ethan Haslam*, Victoria Hoffman

*Denotes Road Company Member

Dan Caffrey is a Brooklyn-based playwright and pop culture critic. His play KAIJU was developed through The Road’s Summer Playwrights Festival, as well as The Workshop Theater and ScriptWorks Austin. Other work includes The Amphibians (Weber State Theatre, ThinkTank Theatre, Cypress Productions, Sundown Collaborative Theatre, St. Lawrence University), The Tusk Hunters (The Civilians’; Finding Series, Gloucester Stage’s Water’s Rising Festival, The Workshop Theater’s Lab Series, cell theatre residency), and Matawan (The Ruckus, UT Austin, Atlantic Acting School, Brooklyn College). His audio drama “Mortality
Rate”; was commissioned by 20th Century Studios as a tie-in to the 2023 Stephen King film The Boogeyman.

Residencies and development programs include Tofte Lake Center, an MFA Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’; Conference, Cry Havoc’s Playlist, UCF Pegasus PlayLab, Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival, The Orchard Project, and Hot Playwright Summer. He has been a Princess Grace Finalist, O’Neill Finalist, Next Forever Finalist (Princeton/The Civilians), Jerome Fellowship Semi-Finalist, shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, and his work has been published/licensed by Methuen Drama, Smith & Kraus, and Gitelman & Good. Additional companies who have produced or developed his plays include Concord Theatricals, American Records, Salvage Vanguard, Northlight Theatre, Mixily Presents, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Jarrott Productions, Genesis Ensemble, Hot Kitchen Collective, and Tympanic Theatre (RIP).

His work has been supported by grants from the Puffin Foundation, NYSCA, and Brooklyn Arts Council, and been the recipient of five B. Iden Payne Awards. His non-fiction book, Radiohead FAQ, is available from Bloomsbury Publishing, and he co-hosts The Losers’; Club: A Stephen King Podcast and Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast. MFA: The University of Texas at Austin, BA: Florida State University.

Ken Sawyer is an award-winning director based in Los Angeles, California. His work has spanned a wide range of genres with projects that include musicals, plays, experimental theatre, concerts and special events. Ken is honored to be back at The Road Theatre Company where he was a founding member and former artistic board member, and directed numerous productions including the award winning The Woman In Black, which enjoyed a 3-month sold out run in North Hollywood before moving to the Coronet Theatre. Most recently at The Road, Ken directed the critically acclaimed production of Lifeline in April of this year. His collaboration with Jon Imparato and the Los Angeles LGBT Center further built his reputation as a creator of theater that not only entertains and thrills the senses but also tackles challenging and thought-provoking issues. Highlights include The Goat Or Who Is Sylvia, by Edward Albee, a collaboration with Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to produce a full cast version of The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe, and the immersive Hit The Wall. Other career highlights include collaborating with Emmy Award winner Paris Barclay on the Vietnam era musical One Red Flower, rock icons Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go’s) and Anna Waronker (That Dog) on Lovelace: A Rock Opera starring Katrina Lenk; Stephen Schwartz and David Stern on the development of Snapshots; and with Colin Escott developing the Broadway hit, Million Dollar Quartet. Ken has guest directed at Carnegie Mellon University, USC, and California State University, Northridge and is currently an adjunct professor  at USC. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

Director………………….…………………………………………………Ken Sawyer
Playwright………………..…………………………………………………Dan Caffrey
Producers…………………………………………..Danna Hyams & Taylor Gilbert
Production Stage Manager…………………..………………….Maurie Gonzalez
Production Coordinator……………….…………………………….Darryl Johnson
Set Design…………………………………………………………………….Lacey Anzelc
Creature Design……………………………………………………………Shealyn Biron, Lee Diemer
Lighting Design……………………………………………………..Derrick MacDaniel
Sound Design………………………………………………………..Ryan McRee
Projection Design…………………………………………………………….Nick Santiago
Costume Design……………………………………………….Mary Jane Miller
Prop Design…………………………………………………………………Danna Hyams/Ken Sawyer
Publicist……………………………………………………..David Elzer/Demand PR
Production Photographer……………………………………………..Lizzy Kimball
Program Design……………………………………….Danny Gomez-Blumenfeld
Technical Director………………….……………………………Brian Graves