SELECTED THEATER
Man In Snow
Presented in association with Barefoot Theatre Company& Compagnia Horovitz-Paciotto and performed at LaMama NYC and at the Gloucester stage company.
Written & Directed by Israel Horovitz
“David, recently retired, mourning the loss of his young son, re-visits Mt. McKinley in Alaska, a mountain he summited at age 25. He’s not climbing this visit. Instead, he is guiding a group of Japanese honeymooners who hope to conceive a child under the spell of the Northern Lights. This powerful, passionate drama was originally written by Israel Horovitz 20 years ago for BBC Radio 4 (winner of The SONY Radio Academy Award). The radio script of Man in Snow was put on stage in Italy 3 years ago by director Andrea Paciotto. Inspired by Paciotto’s work, Horovitz re-visited and totally re-conceived Man in Snow for the stage. This new stage version makes its world premiere at Gloucester Stage in October, prior to its NYC premiere at La MaMa.”
CAST: Will Lyman, Ron Nakahara as Mr. Takayama, Paul O’Brien, Sandra Shipley, Ashley Risteen, Francisco Solorzano
Wild Swans
Perfomed at The Young Vic, London and A.R.T. Boston, directed by Sacha Wares.
The Screens
Performed at the Guthrie Theater, directed by Joanne Akalaitis.
Genet was writing the piece as a war of independence was being conducted in French colonial Algeria. The work has no narrative structure, but comprises a series of 17 individual scenes depicting Arab insurrection against a stupid and blundering colonial power. Although the occupying army is not identified as specifically French (nor is the action intended to depict only the then-current insurgence—the French conquest of Algeria in the 1840s is also referenced), when the play was first performed in France, at the eminent Odéon theatre, Paris, in 1966 it was seen as a provocative insult to national prestige and caused serious protest demonstrations.
Ron played Arab Man/ The Cadi/ The Gendarme/ The General
Ping Pong
Ping Pong, written by Rogelio Martinez and directed by Kate Whoriskey. Performed at The Public Theatre, NYC
Set in 1971, when Cold War tensions were running high, and China’s doors had been closed to visitors from The U.S. for twenty-five years. PING PONG is the story of one unassuming American ping pong player, whose actions set in motion a chain of events that would change the face of international diplomacy—and the world—forever.
Cast: Clea Alsip, Erin Gann, Jennifer Ikeda, Steve Mellor, Ron Nakahara, Daniel Pearce, Hansel Tan, and James Yaegashi
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS
Hartford Stage, Adapted for the stage by Kevin McKeon
From the best-selling novel by David Guterson
Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen
Set in 1954, in a Puget Sound community divided among fishermen and farmers, whites and Japanese, it is at once a courtroom drama, a mystery, a love story and, in flashbacks, a social history freighted with the angry residue of World War II and the Japanese internment camps.
Cast: Kimiye Corwin, Dashiell Eaves, Brian Tee , Sean Cullen, Bill Doyle, TEd Koch, Kate Levy, Tom Mardirosian, Ron Nakahara (plays Hisao Imada, among others), Mia Tagano, Mark David Watson, Alexandra Hoffman Beechko
CHING CHONG CHINAMAN
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre premiere of Ching Chong Chinaman by Lauren Yee, directed by May Adrales.
Ching Chong Chinaman “tells the story of the Wong family, who are as Chinese-American as apple pie. Once their teenage son imports ‘Ching Chong,’ a stranger from China, their lives will never be the same.”
Cast: Fay Ann Lee , James Chen , Jennifer Lim , Angela Lin , Ron Nakahara and Jon Norman Schneider.