Stage Kiss

Art imitates Life. Life imitates Art. When two actors with a history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the lines between offstage and onstage begin to blur.

Philip Hays as Kevin/Doctor/Butler/Pimp
Philip Lehl as The Director
Josh Morrison as The Husband
Molly Searcy as Millicent/Laurie
Luis Galindo as He/Johnny Lowell
Kim Tobin-Lehl as She/Ada Wilcox
Jennifer LaPorte as Angela/Millie/Maid
- REVIEW | Broadway World Houston: “STAGE KISS Tickles The Funny Bone At Stark Naked Theatre”
- INTERVIEW | Arts + Culture Texas: “Meta Theater: “Brandon Weinbrenner on Sarah Ruhl’s STAGE KISS at Stark Naked”
- INTERVIEW | Houston Public Media: “A Kiss Is Still A Kiss: Stark Naked Presents Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss”
Stage Manager | Leslie Kaye
Set & Properties Design | Jodi Bobrovsky
Lighting Design | Clint Allen
Costume Design | LA Clevenson
Sound Design | Philip Owen
Carpenter | Drew Hoovler
Fight Choreographer | Molly Searcy
Stage Crew | Valentina Olarte, Dustin Salinas, Faith Tenney
Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her plays include The Oldest Boy, Dear Elizabeth, Stage Kiss, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2005; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play (Pen American Award, Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play); Melancholy Play; Demeter in the City (nine NAACP Image Award nominations); Scenes From Court Life; How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday; Eurydice; Orlando; and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced on Broadway and across the country as well as internationally, and translated into fourteen languages. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN Center Award for mid-career playwrights, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and a Lilly award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. She teaches at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
(More info can be found at sarahruhlplaywright.com)