Tonight’s the night! No Exit Theatre Collective presents ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS, directed by Ashley Lauren Rogers.
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Karel Čapek’s R.U.R., directed by Ashley Lauren Rogers, will be performed today, January 15 at 7 p.m. on the No Exit Theatre Collective Facebook page. This show, part of our Fortnightly Reading Series, is pre-recorded. Run time is less than 1 hour, 45 minutes. A live Q&A with the director and cast will follow the show.
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Anita Okoye is Helena Glory
Gabriel Spector is Harry Domin
Kat Kaplan is Alquist
Chris Uehlinger is Dr. Gall
Rachel Weekley is Mr. Fabry
Nic Sanchez is Hallemeier
Maya Murphy is Nana
Mya Byrne is Sulla
Noah Parks is Radius
Syfer Locke is Marius
Kassandra Perez will read Stage Directions
Technical directed by Sarah Herdrich.
Anita Okoye hails from the soulless Connecticut River Valley. She majored in Creative Writing at Emory University, with a focus on play writing. She worked in book publishing for four years, but is now seeking out a career where she’ll be able to pay her student loans and live on her own before she turns 40.
Gabriel Spector is a NYC-based performer who coped with pandemic by moving in with their barbershop quartet. You can find him in theatre, music, dance, circus, cabaret, or that weird performance art piece you saw in Brooklyn that one time.
Kat Kaplan is a transmasc performance artist currently living in Chicago. They are working towards their MFA from Columbia College Chicago's European Devised Performance Program. They're stoked about being a part of a reading for this play that combines their interests of existential theatre, science fiction, and making people kind of uncomfortable on the internet.
Chris Uehlinger is an actor, designer and engineer who explores the intersection of live physical performance and technology. He is a co-founder of the Scattered Players, an online theatre company that started in March, where he builds online tools to help artists perform. His most recent performances were with that company, as Widget of G'Mail in "The Battle of Broken Mirrors," and Chad Fastcannon in "Shattered Space" (he also motion-captured and voice acted the host character, Colonel Panic). He's excited to work with Ashley again on an awesome sci-fi show!
Rachel Weekley is a Clown/Performer/Movement Coordinator based in NYC. They graduated from Ohio University with a BFA in performance and trained with The American Mime Theater. They are also a regular performer with SCOWL, a Queer and Trans-centric, stage combat comedy show. For more info on what shenanigans they’re up to now go to rachelweekley.com or Instagram @rachel.weekley.
Nic Sanchez is an actor and writer from Tulsa, Oklahoma living in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Gallatin at New York University in 2020. His theater experience includes Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (NYU Shakespeare To-Go), Falstaff in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Gallatin), Sir Toby in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the ‘Burg), Matt and Burns in Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Gallatin), and First Gentleman/Musician/Swing in Othello and Twelfth Night (American Shakespeare Center). He also wrote the short play Dicky Lube, the Punk Rock Legend which debuted at the Brandspankin’ New Works Festival in 2017. Nic is beyond thrilled to be reading for Hallemeier in R.U.R., his second NETC production.
Maya Murphy is very pleased to return No Exit Theatre Collective, previously appearing as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. She is a massive nerd based out of Jersey City. Favorite roles include: The Witch in Into the Woods. Mary Flynn in Merrily We Roll Along, and Black Canary in the DC Comics fan-series Nightwing: Escalation.
Mya Byrne is a published poet, actor, award-winning songwriter, and activist, and the first trans dyke to be featured as a solo performer at the SF Dyke March. Her music has been featured on official Spotify playlists, terrestrial radio, SingOut!, Advocate, New York Magazine, MSNBC, and NPR. Other highlights include lecturing at colleges, and performing at many major folk festivals and stages including Berkeley Rep, Z Space, Dixon Place, Honest Accomplice Theatre, San Francisco Trans March, and Folsom Street Fair. This is her first performance for No Exit.
Noah Parks is a graduate of the University of Iowa and performed at Williamstown Theatre Festival. He’s grateful for the opportunity to work with No Exit Theatre Collective and the amazing Ashley Lauren Rogers. laying Radius has been a thrill and an honor. He is currently producing a podcast, “the Luno Project.” He lives in beautiful South Slope Brooklyn with his fiancé Lucy and their pets (Paws and Arlo).
Syfer Locke is an actor from the Great Flyover that some people remember as Kansas. This is his first play in many years, and his first play with No Exit, although he's kept his hand in doing improv character work at Ren Faires and Steampunk events.
Kassandra Pérez is an actor, creator, writer and applied theatre practitioner who is excited to be back with No Exit for yet another exciting reading. Kassandra is currently pursing her Masters in Applied Theatre from CUNY SPS and aims to create, write, direct, and perform in theatre and film for change. Her recent credits include: Nessa in Hayley St. James “A GOD AWFUL SMALL AFFAIR,” reader in “Brunch with Poe,” director for Reuven Glezer’s “Your Sleep Paralysis Demon would like a word with you,” Lewis Hale in “Trifles” and Basque/Dubois/Officer in “Misanthrope.”
Sarah Herdrich is a stage manager and online technical director based in Brooklyn, NY. They recently completed the Juilliard Stage Management Apprentice program and are constantly seeking out new and innovative work in theater, opera, and dance. Recent works include: Wildfire Before the Bloom (NETC), Black Snow (Juilliard Drama), Then She Fell (Third Rail Projects), and Les Enfants Terribles (Opera Omaha).
Ashley Lauren Rogers, award-winning writer, and trans rights activist. Recently a Trans Theatre Lab fellow 2019, the Literary Director for Step1 Theatre Project, artist-in-residence at Middlesex County Vocational-Technical School 2018-2019. Works performed at Dixon Place, MITF, the Brick, Joe’s Pub, and others. “Becky’s Xmas Wish,” was a finalist for the City Theatre National Short Play Award, Miami. Work has been produced in Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Maine, Iowa, New Jersey, Detroit, and Minneapolis. Featured on Fusion TV’s Peabody Award Nominated Sex.Right.Now, panels for Revry.TV. Creator of the Is It Transphobic and The Right to Play Podcasts.