SPF 14: Let Me See Your Beauty
A storm is coming, and Sam is stuck in a hospital bed, hoping his ex-wife will come for a visit before it’s too late. His nurse Alex just wants to get home, even though no one is waiting for him. Two strangers come together to reckon with their longings and regrets.
Katherine Swan is a playwright, actor, and director who lives in Chicago. Her script for Act Five, an imagined fifth act of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard, was recently performed as part of A Red Orchid Theatre’s Incubator Series in Chicago. Her play Pony was a winner of the Carlow Little Theatre’s 2021-22 International One Act Play Competition in Carlow, Ireland. Her play Bench is slated for publication in the Smith & Kraus anthology Best Ten-Minute Plays, 2023.
Elizabeth Herron – Director: Let Me See Your Beauty by Katherine Swan
Road member 25 years. Executive Producer and Assistant Director to Ken Sawyer: A Woman In Black- The Road + Coronet Theatre: (Ovation and LADCC Awards), Assistant Director: Backwards in HighHeels and A Mislaid Heaven. Director: The Summer Playwright Festival: Stephen Metcalfe’s A World of Their Own.
Assistant Director to Paris Barclay and Ken Sawyer- One Red Flower at the Rubicon and the Brentwood Theatre. Director: One Act Festival -Topanga Acting Company.
As Actor: Road: Through The Eye Of The Needle, The Lyons, HomeFree, (NoHo Fringe Festival-Best Play), Pursued By Happiness, A Christmas Carol, Shove-(LA Weekly Nom-Best Ensemble), The Ballad Hunter, The Angels of Lemnos. At the LA LGBT Valentin Theatre: The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life-Revisited, The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later ( Ovation Nom-Best Production) and Deathtrap ( LA Weekly Best Revival.) Other: Rope: Actors Co-Op, The Interact Theatre: Member 20 years: The State of the Union, The Matchmaker, Urinetown (LA Weekly Award-Best Ensemble), Our Town (ADA Award Best Ensemble), Marvin’s Room.
Member: The Rogue Machine, Writer’s Group at Circle X ( 2 seasons), The Topanga Acting Company
Film: An American Christmas, Wilson ( Woody Harrelson + Laura Dern),True Adolescents ( Mark DuPlass + Melissa Leo.)
Education: D.D.S.- U of Wa., MFA: Cal Arts/ Asolo State Theatre/FSU.
“Let Me See Your Beauty”
Sam – Allan Wasserman*
Alex – Brian Graves*
Sara – Janet Chamberlain*
Stage Directions – Karrie King*
*Road Company Member