The Inevitability of Falling
Bill Griffith has done and seen it all: traveled the world, enjoyed every luxury, denied himself nothing. But now…Bill is heading into his eighties widowed, half-blind and as bitter as a man who yearns to do it all over again could be. We travel in this play through Bill’s latest “adventure”: checking into the Bloomdale Retirement Community. During the course of the play, we meet his son Jack, Bloomdale administrator Kyle and sunny waitress Lizzy as they help him navigate – and sometimes battle against – his new reality: life in assisted living.
Kevin has been a playwright, actor and writer in Chicago for almost forty years. He has worked with the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Peninsula Players, Timber Lake Playhouse and dozens of other regional and local theatres.
His adaptations of “The Fair Maid of the West” by Thomas Heywood and “The Sign of the Four” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the latter in conjunction with Shanghai Low Theatricals) have both been produced in Chicago to great acclaim, the former garnering eight Joseph Jefferson nominations. Both plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing.
In addition to his theatre work, Kevin is also the author of two books: “Confessions of a Transylvanian: A Story of Sex, Drugs and Rocky Horror” and “Invading Nirvana: A Chicagoan in the City of Angels” and he has recorded over 300 audiobooks.
Director/Actor/Producer/ AEA/SAG-AFTRA and longtime member of the Road ( 28 years), Interact, Rogue Machine and Topanga Theatre Companies. She is thrilled to be directing this “unlikely comedy” by Chicago playwright, Kevin Theis. And this upcoming September, she is excited to direct Our Man in Santiago written by Emmy nominated Mark Wilding at the Odyssey Theatre in LA. Most recently at the Road, Liz was the Assistant Director of this season’s production of LIFELINE directed by Ken Sawyer and written by Robert Axelrod. In recent years, she has directed for the Road Theatre’s Summer Playwright’s Festivals: (SPF) 2025: Maybe You Could Love Me by Samah Meghjee, SPF ’24 Some Other Woman Like Me and SPF ’23 Let Me See Your Beauty, – both by Katherine Swan, the Road’s WORD Reading, Juliet & Romeo by Ladd Sullivan and the Road’s Under Construction Playwright’s Lab/ UC ’26 The Fox Sisters- Just Beyond the Curtain by Ashlyn Frank, UC ’24 Cornchip by Elise Wein, UC ’23 The Zone of Death by Anna Watts, A Marriage of Inconvenience by Tony Blake at the Interact’s Play Lab and H-O-R-S-E by Kathleen Cahill at the Topanga Actor’s Company. She Assistant Directed Carlyle King for the Road Theatre’s ’23 Production of Bisexual Sadness and, in past years, was Executive Producer/ Asst. Dir. to Ken Sawyer on The Woman in Black at the Road and Coronet (Ovation & LADCC Awards) + Asst. Dir. for Paris Barclay/Ken Sawyer on One Red Flower at the Rubicon & Brentwood. As an Actor, Liz, most recently performed as an Alternate in the Road’s production of The Totality of All Things, participated in multiple WORD, SPF and UC staged readings, as well as, over the years, she has acted in multiple Ovation and LA Weekly Award -winning productions at the Road, The Interact, Actor’s Co-op and the LA LGBTQ Center. Her screen credits include Wilson, alongside Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern, True Adolescents with Mark Duplass, American Christmas, The Price and the short film Enough Room. She just finished producing and acting in a short film H-O-R-S-E. She holds her DDS / U of Wa., MFA: Cal Arts & Asolo State Theatre/FSU and is ever grateful to daughter, Katie, and husband, Chris, for their love and support.
“The Inevitability of Falling”
Bill Griffith – Allan Wasserman*
Jack Griffith – Jon Snow*
Kyle – Troy Guthrie*
Lizzy – Gabie Faulkner*
*Road Company Member