Theater 73: The Seahorse
Writer: Sabrina Rose Bivens
Sabrina Rose Bivens
Sabrina Rose Bivens is a transgender female playwright currently located in Beaumont, Texas. Her recent productions include The Joys of Christmas: A Monologue on Mental Health (Voices for the Holidays, B3 Theater, Phoenix, AZ, 2021; Elgin Mini Fringe Festival, Elgin, IL, 2021) and The Seahorse: A Transmasculine Monologue on Fatherhood (Fatherhood Out Loud, Springs Ensemble Theatre, Colorado Springs, CO, 2021). In the fall of 2021, Adagio won Second Place in Shawnee Playhouse's Original Playwrights Festival (Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA), ensuring Adagio's live staging I'm August 2022. She is currently working on two full-length plays.
Director: Bernadette Armstrong
Bernadette moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successful theater projects produced in No Hollywood. Her play The Reading Group was named Pick of the Week by LA Weekly Magazine and in 2017 her play Simple Lives was nominated for Outstanding Writing of an Original Play or Musical by the Valley Theater Awards (the only woman nominated.) Bernadette is also the producer and founder of Open Door Playhouse Podcast!
Rachel Berney Needleman
CAST:
Gena Kay
Gena Kay grew up on a farm in Indiana, where she wrote and performed various porch shows for uninterested siblings and barnyard animals. Her sister’s farm was the inspiration for Gena’s children’s book currently being illustrated, based on a Thanksgiving turkey that escapes the dinner table. While attending Ball State University, David Letterman was kind enough to give her some $$ when she won his scholarship. Chosen from over 1200 ladies in a Talent Search for Aaron Spelling’s daytime soap Sunset Beach, Gena got Californicated and was hooked. Currently, Gena is an actor, writer, producer, and fun alert: proofreader living in Los Angeles and leaving Los Angeles every chance she gets to see as many countries as she can. So far she’s visited all 50 states and about 66 countries, but who is counting? She spent half of Covid Zombie Apocalypse 2020 out of the country, volunteering in Africa, and “stuck” on a paradise Greek island. Somehow, she survived and is honored to be a part of such an impactful production as Supernova.
Gena Kay
Sound Production:
Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.
