Nexus
a different couple every night
live from their living room
75 minutes, no intermission
When two iPhone-armed strangers meet at a bus stop in Washington, DC, they’re entirely unprepared to spend three years falling in and out of love with each other. But, of course, that’s exactly what happens. This unexpectedly honest and refreshingly modern love story explores what transpires when two people become addicted to each other — putting them metaphorically on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships.
This play was performed on Zoom, with a different set of performers broadcasting live from their living rooms each night.
Nexus was supported, in part, by 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax.
Past Performances
Erika Vetter was last seen as Gregg in The Best of Everything and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (University of Washington) Other credits include: W in Lungs (Really-Really Theatre Group - WA), Armande in Learned Ladies (University of Washington), Rose in The Flick (Mendocino Theatre Co. - CA), Celia in As You Like It (Classics on the Rocks - NYC), and Vera in A Month In The Country (Parnassus Theatre Co. - NYC). Training: MFA ’21 Candidate at University of Washington. Gratitude to Danielle, to Adam, and to you. www.erika-vetter.com
Adam Fontana is very happy to be making his isolation theatre debut! Seattle credits: Bulrusher (Initiman), Howl’s Moving Castle (Book-It). NY credits: Civil War (Off B’way and Tour); Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth and Tulsa in Gypsy (Gallery Players); Henry in Next to Normal (Hangar Theatre). CO credits: Elf: The Musical (Arvada Center); Lysander in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Bert in Mary Poppins, Adam in The Shape of Things, Dick in Dames at Sea and Jinx in Forever Plaid (Merely Players). Thank you Danielle for inviting us to play and keep live theatre alive.
Friday, April 17
starring Erika Vetter & Adam Fontana
(Seattle, WA)
Jenna Berk is an actor and dialect coach in the Washington, D.C. area. Recent credits include Avant Bard: A Misanthrope (world premiere), A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Folger Theatre: Richard III; Imagination Stage: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Constellation Theatre Company: The Skin of Our Teeth, Urinetown, Avenue Q; Taffety Punk Theatre Company: Titus Andronicus; 4615 Theatre Company: Separate Rooms (world premiere); Brave Spirits Theatre: ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A King and No King, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Noble Kinsmen, Richard III. Jenna is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia and LAMDA. www.jennaberk.com
Danny Cackley is an actor, teaching artist and fight choreographer in the Washington, D.C. area. Recent acting credits include: Constellation Theatre Company: The 39 Steps; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Taming of the Shrew, The Metromaniacs; Folger Theatre: Second Shepherd’s Play, Othello; Flying V Theatre: Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World, Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield; Brave Spirits Theatre: 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Romeo & Juliet; Avant Bard: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Faction of Fools: Tales of Marriage & Mozzarella, A Commedia Romeo & Juliet, Foolish Fairytales, Cherry Orchard. Danny is a proud member of the Society of American Fight Directors and a company member with both Flying V Theatre and Faction of Fools. Danny is an alum of the National Players (Tour 65). www.dannycackley.com
Saturday, April 18
starring Jenna Berk & Danny Cackley
(Washington, DC)
Alia Thomaier is an actor, choreographer, musician and photographer living in Brooklyn, NY and attending the Atlantic Acting School. Originally from Seattle, her most recent credits include Annie at the 5th Avenue Theater and Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes! at the University of Washington, where she also majored in Psychology. Alia is so thankful to be working on a project that continues to connect people through live theater during this time of isolation.
Ricky Spaulding is an actor, director, and musician currently living in Brooklyn, NY. After growing up in Seattle, Ricky attended the University of Washington to study Drama and English. At UW, he appeared as JD in Heathers and Hanschen in Spring Awakening among other roles. During this time, he also independently produced and directed Sam Shepard’s True West and worked with Seattle’s coolest independent youth theatre company YATC to direct Annie Baker’s The Flick. After graduating, he appeared in The Champagne Widow at Café Nordo. Ricky is currently studying at the Atlantic Acting Conservatory in NYC.
Sunday, April 19
starring Alia Thomaier & Ricky Spaulding
(Brooklyn, NY)
Keiko Green recently relocated from Seattle to begin her first year as an MFA Playwriting student at UCSD. Regional Theatre: The Great Leap (Seattle Rep/Denver Center for Performing Arts/Cygnet Theatre); As You Like It: Public Works, The Comparables (Seattle Rep); Stupid F#$%ing Bird, Dangerous Liaisons, A Christmas Carol, Bad Apples (ACT Theatre); All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bring Down the House Pts. 1 & 2, Love’s Labours Lost, Othello (Seattle Shakespeare Company). TV/Film: “Grimm,” “Z Nation,” “C.O.G.” As a playwright, she was an honorable mention on the Kilroys List, a finalist for the Many Voices and Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights Center, winner of Outstanding New Play at Seattle’s Gregory Awards, and selected for the Scratchpad Series at the Playwrights Realm and the MFA Playwrights Workshop with the Kennedy Center and the National New Play Network. Training: BFA, NYU. www.keikogreen.com
MJ Sieber is a recent transplant to San Diego after spending the last 20 years on Seattle stages. He has been featured as a regular at the Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare, Village Theatre, StrawShop and was the artistic associate with New Century Theatre Company. He creates video marketing content and is currently the host of the web series 'An Unauthorized True History of Hummels’ dedicated to his mother, Barbara.
Thursday, April 23
starring Keiko Green & MJ Sieber
(San Diego, CA)
Corinne Magin is an actor and costume designer from Rochester, NY. Since moving to Seattle, Corinne has performed in Peerless (ArtsWest), Do It for Umma (Annex), Hotel Nordo (Cafe Nordo), and Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine (Annex). Other credits include Machinal, The Shape of Things, Some Girl(s), Squatch! the musical, and Coriolanus. Corinne costumed Trevor, Do It for Umma, From Kings to Controllers, and The Lost Girls. Corinne would like to thank her band mates of Liquid Velvet and Andrew Buffelen for their love and support.
Andy Buffelen (he/him) is a theater human who produces, performs, directs, and creates mostly new work in the PNW. Lately, he played Jake in Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men at WET, he was the producer / production stage manger for Amy's Escobar's We Go Mad, most recently he co-directed Sara Porkalob's The Angel in the House at Cafe Nordo, and you can always see him mucking around with the 14/48 Projects. He is currently writing a full length play, 325, which is going through several workshops this year.
Friday, April 24
starring Corinne Magin & Andy Buffelen
(Seattle, WA)
Emily Huntingford is very excited to be making art from her very own living room. She received a BA in Theatre from Whitman College and has been in Seattle for two years performing throughout the city. A lover of classical theatre, she has memorized the entirety of Hamlet, As You Like It, and Pride and Prejudice in Dacha’s Dice series, and has acted with Fern Shakespeare Company in Much Ado About Nothing and GreenStage in The Three Musketeers and Taming of the Shrew. She has also worked with the UMO Ensemble in Falling Awake and is a founding member of Parachute Players, a company which creates inclusive, immersive theatrical experiences for young people with disabilities. She acted in their inaugural show Polka Dots at Seattle Children’s Theatre. She has performed extensively with Dacha Theatre where she is also an Artistic Producer, most recently seen crashing onto the stage as the Moor-Hen in Jen Silverman's The Moors. For more information check out her website emilyhuntingford.com.
Mike Lion is a director, actor, and Russian translator. He concentrated in Theatre at Hampshire College and created an immersive adaptation of Hamlet as his thesis. He is the co-Artistic Director of Dacha Theatre in Seattle, WA. He frequently directs in non-traditional spaces, working to blur the line between audiences and performers. Recent directing credits include The Moors (Dacha Theatre), Metamorphoses (Dacha Theatre), and The Bee-Man of Orn (Piknik Theatre). Mike is drawn to physical theatre and has trained in Commedia dell’Arte, American Melodrama, Suzuki Movement, Slapstick, and Clown. Recent acting credits include Puck in two separate productions (always accepting offers for this role) and a four time ensemble member in Dacha’s Shakespeare Dice series. Mike works as an Admin Assistant and Improv Coach at Youth Theatre Northwest. For more information visit http://www.mikeplion.com/.
Saturday, April 25
starring Emily Huntingford & Mike Lion
(Seattle, WA)
Mariella Klinger is a teaching artist, singer, dancer, feminist, professional actor, director, choreographer and bookworm. Mariella has appeared in the roles of Lucille Frank in Parade, Mimi Marquez in Rent, The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and many others. She toured the Northeast for two years with the Traveling Lantern Theatre Company. You can reach her at mariella.klinger@gmail.com and follow her on Twitter, @mariellalynn.
David Seamon is a composer, playwright, and actor. He works as a teaching artist for George Street Playhouse and McCarter Theatre, and is the playwright and composer of Lovers' Lane: A Rumor Inspired by the Hall-Mills Murders. David has an extensive background as a musical director and touring children's theater performer, and has a degree in journalism and media studies from Rutgers University. Awards and Recognitions: College TV Emmy Award, Everything’s Fine: A Panic Attack in D Major (composer); Best Score/Best Production at the New York Theatre Festival, The Eleventh Hour (composer/playwright).
Sunday, April 26
starring Mariella Klinger & David Seamon
(Jersey City, NJ)
Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako is an actor, writer, director, choreographer, and member of ACT Theatre’s Core Company. She was last seen on stage as the title character in SCT’s Snow White. Recent credits include Lucy in Dracula (ACT), Rosalind in As You Like It (Seattle Rep), and Paulinka/Die Alte in A Bright Room Called Day (The Williams Project). Nako is a two-time Gregory Award Winner for Outstanding Lead for her work in Little Bee (Book-It) and My Heart is the Drum (Village). Film/TV credits include Everything Sucks!, Raising Dion, and Outside In (Netflix) and Grimm (NBC).
Nick Edwards is an actor of scripted and improvised work, writer, and director. Most recent projects: co-directing Sound & Fury (CSz), Claim of Thrones (Jet City Imporv); acting in Twelfth Night (Seattle Shakespeare, Wooden O), A Bright Room Called Day (Williams Project); writing a play about the travel ban called Banned From Entry (18th & Union, Radial Theater Project); acting in Teh Internet is Serious Business (Washington Ensemble Theatre), writing TRUMP the KING (Theater Schmeater); and performing with 14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival (Seattle, Leicester, Wolverhampton). Selected credits: Bozo, etc. (Every Five Minutes, Washington Ensemble Theatre), Ari (Undo, Annex), Wagner’s Sketches (Seattle Opera), devising ensemble (Spectacle Lunatique, Redmoon Theatre of Chicago), Tom Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie, Mount Baker Theatre), and Jack Lovington (The Jammer, Balagan).
Thursday, April 30
starring Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako and Nick Edwards
(Seattle, WA)
Rachel Delmar has been working to get people to come see theatre since she was 9 years old. Her first stop, getting her degree & a very expensive crash course in how to make theatre at the University of Southern California. Since then, she has worked around the country as an actor, director, poet, teaching artist, producer, & marketer. She believes theatre can change the world. So she keeps figuring out how to do it [see you on Zoom!] Loves include Gavin, karaoke, & destroying the patriarchy. She also posts a lot of dogs, cocktails, & poetic ramblings on Instagram... @RachelDelmar.
Gavin Reub is a director, dramaturg, actor, and producer. He is the Artistic Director for The Seagull Project for which he was the recipient of the Gregory Award for Outstanding Production for The Seagull Project's 2015 The Three Sisters. Gavin’s the Director of Creative Development for Umbrella Project, a new play accelerator, which advocates for “radical dramaturgical support,” and the founder of the interdisciplinary performance group Cheat Day. He graduated from the University of Washington, is a member of artsEquity, and was a member of the 2014 Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Friday, May 1
starring Rachel Delmar and Gavin Reub
(Seattle, WA)
Noelle Viñas is a Uruguayan-American playwright, educator, and theater-maker from Springfield, Virginia and Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a resident playwright at Playwrights Foundation and a 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist. Her play Derecho won the 2019 John Gassner Playwriting Award, was an Honorable Mention for the 2019 Jane Chambers Award, a 2019 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship semi-finalist and a 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist. Her play La Profesora was produced by TheatreFirst and is in development for a podcast called Abuelito with We Rise Production. As an actor, her favorite roles include Katchen in Shotgun Players' Black Rider, Mercutio in LiveArtDC's R + J Starcross'd Death Match, and Rose of Sharon in Grapes of Wrath with Ubuntu Theater Project. Other past favorite jobs include being HowlRound’s first staff assistant at Emerson College, running Annandale High School’s theater program alongside Theater Without Borders in Virginia, and producing her play Apocalypse, Please in San Francisco with Kevin Vincenti. She is currently an MFA Playwriting Candidate at Brooklyn College under Erin Courtney.
Kevin Vincenti is a writer-director-producer based out of Brooklyn, NY. He's currently hunkered down in NJ avoiding COVID-19 and going on long, lonely walks. His plays include Apocalypse, Please and Customer is King, both of which premiered at PianoFight (San Francisco). He's also worked as a producer for the Ubuntu Theater Project. When he's not a gear in the Capitalist-Tech machine, he spends his time threatening to leave his family and friends unless they continuously shower him with love and gifts.
Saturday, May 2
starring Noelle Viñas and Kevin Vincenti
(Montville, NJ)
Alice K. Johnson is a Brooklyn-based actor/playwright who is originally from Seattle. She trained at Fordham University and The London Dramatic Academy. Alice works bicoastally in NYC and Seattle, creating new work with indie theater companies and acting in film and TV projects. Credits include 59E59 Theaters, Dixon Place, The Wild Project,IRT, The Tank, and HGTV. Alice is a proud board member of both NYC’s Stable Cable Lab Co., and Play Your* Part Theater Co. in Seattle. She also owns a cooking business called Alice Cooks For You. Find her at www.alicekjohnson.com
Grant Swift Glidden is a musician and Boutique Dog Walking Business Owner living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Raised in NYC and Connecticut, Grant studied acting through his teenage years and acted in school productions, in addition to his training as a musician. Currently, he's working on an upcoming solo album of psych-pop-rock material to be released in 2020, as well as writing and recording the soundtrack for an upcoming video game for iOS and Android. Impose Magazine said his music "brilliantly recreates a modern mashup sound" and Huffington Post called him one of the "Top 5 Must-See Indie Summer Concerts in NYC". More info at www.grantswiftmusic.com
Sunday, May 3
starring Alice K. Johnson and Grant Swift Glidden
(Brooklyn, NY)
Claire Idstrom is an actor, songwriter, musician, and taxidermy enthusiast. After receiving her BA in theater performance at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC, she moved home to Seattle to train and fulfill her lifelong dream of climbing Mt. Rainier. Besides hitting the trail, Claire is a company member with Dacha Theater (recent credits include Band Leader for Pride and Preju(dice) and an ensemble member for As You Like It Dice). Other credits include Ensemble in Assassins at SecondStory Rep and The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at SMT. You can find her original music on all major streaming services, and her latest single “End of the World” will be released on May 26th. She is so happy to have such a great piece of theater to work on during this time of isolation, and is very thankful to Danielle Mohlman for doing this project. Love to the cat and the parents!
Dylan Zucati is a Seattle artist who’s recent credits include the Ghosted education tour with Seattle Children's Theatre. He's been assistant directing with Dacha Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company, and hopes you can one day see the postponed Romeo and Juliet with Somniterum Productions. You may have seen Dylan off the stage in his capacity as the Front of House Manager at Book-It Repertory Theatre, he considers himself wonderfully lucky to get to provide a theatrical experience for his day job. In quarantine Dylan has been spending a lot more time with his cat and Dungeon Master’s Guide, 5th edition.
Thursday, May 14
starring Claire Idstrom and Dylan Zucati
(Seattle, WA)
Leah Sainz-Jones is an actor, singer, dancer, and poet living in Seattle, WA and finishing up their BFA in Musical Theatre at Cornish College of the Arts. Their recent credits include Ladislav Sipos in She Loves Me (SecondStory Repertory), Wadsworth in The Fabulous Fable Factory (Theater Schmeater), Xanadu (Cornish College of the Arts), Gwendolyn Rogers in Ghost Party: Remastered (Dacha Theatre), Javi Muleros in Sonnets For An Old Century (Cornish), and hopefully coming up after the world settles down-- look out for Leah in Danielle Mohlman's DUST (Dacha Theatre), as well as Velma Kelly in CHICAGO (Cornish). Their passion for Theatre and performance stems from their passion to connect with people and create more space for empathy in the world. Leah is a proud Native American Latinx Chinese artist and performer who hopes to contribute to and create work that is honest, bold, and inclusive.
Ben Swenson-Klatt is a performing artist, producer, choreographer, and arts organizer originally from Minneapolis, MN. They graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A in Theater and Dance and have recently performed and worked with Karin Stevens Dance, Dacha Theatre, Beth Terwilleger, The Moving Company at The Guthrie, ARENA Dances, Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater, and Leyya Mona Tawil. They have presented original work at the Center for Performing Arts, St. Olaf College, ACDA North-Central Conference, Future Interstates, and at Bearnstow in Mount Vernon, ME. They are also a current member of Washington Ensemble Theatre working as the Director of Development.
Friday, May 15
starring Leah Sainz-Jones and Ben Swenson-Klatt
(Seattle, WA)
Kathryn Metzger is a New York-based actor. New York: LORDES (The New Ohio) Pericles (Guerrilla Shakespeare/Hunger and Thirst) London: King Lear, (BADA). Regional: The Amish Project (Playmakers Rep), The Amish Project, In the Next Room, The Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua Theater Company), The Crucible, A Christmas Story, Comedy of Tenors (Cleveland Play House), Taming of the Shrew (Island Stage Left). CWRU/CPH: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Philadelphia Story, Three Sisters, Too True to be Good. Kathryn has also appeared in performance with New York Shakepeare Exchange. Certified Teacher, Michael Chekhov Technique, Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. MFA, Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House. www.kathrynametzger.com
Rob Hille is a New York based actor, director, producer and theatrical generalist. Rob is a founding member of Amios Theater Company, where he's served as one of the Artistic Directors. Amios's monthly one-act festival Shotz had it's 100th show in NYC last September and is produced regularly in NYC, DC, and the Bay Area. Regional credits include the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Actor's Theater of Columbus, and Norwegian Cruise Lines. Rob has a BFA from Otterbein College, an MFA from the National Theater Conservatory, and a Food Handler's Certificate from the NYC Dept of Health. Rob is very excited to be marrying Katie this October, Covid be damned.
Saturday, May 16
starring Kathryn Metzger and Rob Hille
(Brooklyn, NY)
Julia Holden-Hunkins was born and raised in beautiful Southern Oregon. After studying vocal performance at St. Olaf College, she moved to Seattle and graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in Theater. During her time here, she has created and starred in dozens of original productions, produced independently, with The Core Ensemble and Cafe Nordo. Her performance credits include Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance and Adult Women in Spring Awakening. She has also enjoyed choreographing children's shows, and teaching music theater arts to Elementary School students. She is thrilled to bring Danielle's intimate new play, Nexus, to the inter-webs with her fiance, Spencer!
Spencer Funk is an Oregon raised theater artists, trained at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts (BFA: Original Work). Spencer has a background in directing, playwrighting and acting. Regional performances include Much Ado About Nothing with Seattle Shakespeare Company (Claudio) and Shakespeare in Love with Tacoma Arts Live (Lord Wessex), as well as a many performances with The Core Ensemble, a company that Spencer cofounded and helped to run from 2014-2019 in Seattle. Spencer is grateful to remain involved with creative ventures during the Covid-19 shutdown, and is excited to share his take on Danielle Mohlman's endearing new play Nexus.
Sunday, May 17
starring Julia Holden-Hunkins and Spencer Funk
(Talent, OR)