The Heart Sellers


Date: September 18, 2024 — October 20, 2024
Days & Times:

Wednesday thru Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 2 pm

Price: $40

Written by Lloyd Suh
Directed by Nina Zoie Lam
'The Heart Sellers' was commissioned by Milwaukee Repertory Theater as part of the John (Jack) D. Lewis New Play Development Program Mark Clements, Artistic Director Chad Bauman, Executive Director and received its first public performance on February 7, 2023


Summary

Thanksgiving, 1973; over a bottle of wine–or two–and a questionable frozen turkey, Jane, a recent immigrant from Korea, and Luna, a recent immigrant from the Philippines, reminisce and dream of spreading their wings together in the land of opportunity: disco dancing, learning to drive and trying to find their way to feel at home in their new home, America. Lloyd Suh’s The Heart Sellers recently won the 2024 Steinberg/ American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play.

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Cast

Luna
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JOY REGULLANO is a writer / actor / comedian based in LA who wrote on the animated show MONSTERS AT WORK (based on MONSTERS INC) on Disney Plus. Previously, she wrote on JELLY, BEN, and POGO (a PBS Kids web series), KUNG FU PANDA: DRAGON KNIGHT (Netflix / Dreamworks), HEALING POWERS OF DUDE (Netflix), several Sesame Workshop digital shorts, and she was a Sesame Street writing fellow. TV acting credits include BARRY, LINCOLN LAWYER, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, MODERN FAMILY, SPEECHLESS, and SUPERNATURAL. She has performed improv and sketch around LA at UCB and Second City Hollywood. Her YouTube sketch WHITE FETISH went viral (1M+ views) and was featured in the Huffington Post, Upworthy, and more. She was recently nominated for an Emmy for writing on Sesame Street’s Word of the Day series. Check out the concept album for her Asian American comedy musical SUPPORTIVE WHITE PARENTS, now available on all streaming platforms! @joyregullano

Jane
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Zoë Kim is a storyteller who is passionate about creating art that encourages humanity, compassion, and kindness. She is a classically trained actor and the Founder of Seoulful Productions (seoulfulproductions.org), a Korean-American women-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose primary mission is to create artistic experiences that celebrate the culture, artistry, and voices of the Korean Diaspora. Additionally, she works as the New Work Development Manager at The Public Theater.

She was a Festival Consultant for 2023 National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), member of 2023 Theatre Producers of Color, Broadway Advocacy Coalition 2024 Theater of Change, 2023-2024 BIPOC Critics Lab Cohort, and 2024 Playwright in Residence at Amphibian Stage. She holds an MFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts (MGSA), Rutgers University.

Her recent acting credits include OriGen Story (Pan Asian Rep), Pride and Prejudice (Hartford Stage), Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?), Eureka Day, Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe in London), 4000 Miles, and The King’s Language (world premiere). As a Writer, her play Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?) showcased a 50-min workshop presentation at 59e59 Theaters in NYC and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the summer of 2023 and now in development for a full-length production. She also wrote screenplays for Phone Call, Meet Me at a Funeral (MMF), Say, Do You Wanna Be White?, and multiple episodes of Blue Match Comedy. As a Filmmaker, MMF and Phone Call became official selections at various film festivals and have won her numerous awards including EMERGING FILMMAKER, BEST COMEDY, and BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE. www.thezoekim.com

* Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, appearing under Special Appearance Contract.


Creative

Director
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Nina Zoie Lam – New York based theatre director, dramaturg and performing arts educator. A former modern dancer, trained at Martha Graham School of Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Jose Limon and Mary Anthony Dance Institute, Nina made her international debut as a dancer at Taiwan’s Cloud Gate National Dance Theater and her Broadway debut in the original company of Miss Saigon. After 20 years of performing and touring, she co-founded National Asian Artists Project, a nonprofit theatre company dedicated to showcasing Asian and Asian American writers and theater artists, providing needed performance opportunities and training to the next generation of Asian artists. During this time, she also transitioned into directing. Nina directs in a variety of genres, from new play readings, devised storytelling, dance theatre and sight specific works to musicals. She is known for her improvisatory (when appropriate), playful approach to storytelling, with her unique point of view as a first generation Asian American woman, and a specific interest in the telling of global, multicultural, multilingual stories. Select directing and associate directing credits include: King and I – US national tour, Bombay Dreams– US and Canadian tour, Cinderella – New York City Opera at Lincoln Center, Miss Saigon – Papermill Playhouse, works at Musical Theatre Factory, Joe’s Pub at the Public, The Tank/Leviathan Lab, A Festival of Plays– Museum of Jewish Heritage, Pan Asian Repertory’s NuWorks Festival, MoCA Performs – Museum of Chinese in America. BA: Brown University, postgraduate- Sanford Meisner Center (NYC). Guest director at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theater Program and Berklee’s School of Music’s MFA Graduate Program (NYC).

Scenic Design
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Ellen Rousseau (Scenic Design) is fascinated by how spacial relationships inform story. Some of her recent design credits include The Humans, Tiny Beautiful Things, Casa Valentina, What The Constitution Means To Me (Provincetown Theater, Cabaret (Peregrine Theatre), August: Osage County, Sweeney Todd (Provincetown Theater), An Act of God (WHAT),The Tuna Goddess (Cape Rep Theatre),You Can’t Take It With You (Provincetown Theater), Painting Churches (WHAT), Chicago (Peregrine Theatre), One Day (Off Broadway), Inappropriate: The Musical (Los Angeles). She is thrilled to be making theater with Cape Rep again.

Costume Design
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Robin McLoughlin (Costume Design) when Robin was 5 someone asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, “A designer,” she said, and she has been sewing and creating ever since. Moving to Southern California at 21, Robin started her career as a costumer in film when there were 3 networks and it was TV vs film. After 2 years in Australia and following the birth of her daughter Leanne, they relocated to Cape Cod, where Robin has worked as an acclaimed costume designer for theaters across the Cape and Islands for the last 25 years.

Lighting Design
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Yiyuan Li is a Chinese lighting designer currently based in New York City. She is especially interested in collaborating on work that breaks the boundaries of certain culture landscapes. And she is always passionate about finding meaning in abstraction through the manipulation of lights in her process. Outside of design, she enjoys walking on the street with her camera to observe and capture stories.
Selected Credits: Don’t Pitch It, Do It (A.R.T New York); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Smith Street Stage, Carroll Park); The Moors (NYU, Theatre C); Dancing at Lughnasa (Lenfest Center for the Arts); Em Domstol (NYU, Walker Theatre); Second Av Dance Company resident lighting designer (2022-2023); Story of A Bird (Shanghai Changjiang Black Box Theatre)
Education: MFA, Design for Stage and Film, NYU Tisch; BM, Arts Management, Shanghai Theatre Academy

Sound Design
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Sound Design (Maura Hanlon) Mo is the Associate Artistic Director at Cape Rep Theatre, where she has directed many, many plays, acted in several more, written a few and sound designed frequently. Most recent sound design credits include Our Town, Prelude to a Kiss and Miss Delta Township (which she also directed) and Dear Jack, Dear Louise. Favorite sound designs include all of the YoCo shows, A Cloud of Canvas, Topdog/Underdog, My Name is Asher Lev and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Dialect Coach
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Joy Lanceta Coronel (Dialect Coach) is a theatre artist and dialect coach. New York theatre: What Became of Us, The Great Leap, and Nomad Motel (Atlantic Theatre Company), Among the Dead and Once Upon a (Korean) Time (Ma-Yi Theatre), and additional collaborations with Comedy Central, NAATCO, and Playwrights Horizons. Regional credits (selected): The Sins of Sor Juana, Smart People, and Sense & Sensibility (American Players Theatre), King John (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club (Williamstown Festival), The Heart Sellers (Milwaukee Rep and The Huntington), and The Far Country (Berkeley Rep). In addition to coaching, Joy is a teacher, researcher, and award-winning writer focused on topics related to accent work, identity, cultural sensitivity, and equitable coaching practices. www.joylancetacoronel.com

Stage Manager
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Stage Manager (Hannah Gruendemann) is a director, composer, writer, and performer raised in Los Angeles, CA. Her directorial debut, Jane Eyre: The Musical, was at the Theatre at St. Jean’s in Manhattan this year. She recently completed a year-long research fellowship studying the intersection of musical performance and the natural world in Spain, Italy, the UK, Indonesia, and Aotearoa, New Zealand. This included producing the world premiere of a musical about reducing carbon emissions, working on a permaculture coconut farm, and walking 550 miles chasing music across Spain. Recent compositional premieres have been at Brooklyn Art Haus, the Northwestern Beinen School of Music, I/O New Music Festival, and the New Explorative Oratorio Voice Festival. She is thrilled to stage manage at Cape Rep for the first time! www.hannahgruendemann.com

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Reviews

The Heart Sellers offers the kind of humor that’s enjoyed in the moment but causes later profound reflection—the best kind, to my mind. The production timing is tight and the silences—there are several—are woven in expertly and subtly. This is a story that will stay with you long after the final curtain.” – Jeannette de Beauvoir, pTownie.com

The Heart Sellers is a special play that tells a special story, very relevant to our times.”-Amy Tagliaferri, The Cape Cod Chronicle

“It’s love at first sight when Regullano bounces onto the stage…She’s a delight to watch and to hear, and her jumbled excitement and pain flow out of her like a tiny Niagara Falls…Kim is perfect…I found myself hanging on her every word throughout the 1 hour 15 minute show.”- Shannon Goheen, Cape Cod Times

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