Fancy Jungle
May 6-15 | Sheila & Hughes Potiker Theatre
Written by Katie Đỗ | Directed by Shyama Nithiananda
About the Show
Margo Ho, a playwright coming off a hit production, has just landed her dream job writing for a television show about the AAPI experience. It’s a dream come true - or so she thinks until the reality sinks in. As Margo struggles to tell her story and have her voice heard, she’s also got to navigate a difficult boss, a slippery ex, relentless pressure, and unspoken rules. FANCY JUNGLE looks at the price you pay to tell your story, what it means to represent, and who gets the last word.
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The Cast
Margo: Sabrina Liu*
Lucy: Maia Nguyen
Anna: Ella Geonzon
Nicole: Maliyah Grammata-Jones
Cindy: Carla Harting*
JR: Yuchi Chiu
Understudies:
U/S Margo: Ella Geonzon
U/S Lucy: Xiwen Xie
U/S Anna: Saranya Vohra
U/S Nicole: Keanna Pye
U/S Cindy: Calla Hollingsworth
U/S JR: Clay Man Soo*
*Appears by permission of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
Stage Management
Production Stage Manager: Karina Ortega
Assistant Stage Manager: Meera David
Assistant Stage Manager: Natalie Kenyon
Production Assistant: Tyler Martinez
Script Assistant: Ellie Kim
Stage Management Swing: Ziyi Fang
Creative Team
Playwright: Katie Đỗ
Director: Shyama Nithiananda
Scenic Design: Ruolin Zhao
Costume Design: Maricela Alaníz
Lighting Design: Jake Olson
Sound Design: Nataly Ceniceros
About the Playwright
Katie Đỗ is a Vietnamese-American woman with a mouth from New Jersey. She’s a proud alum of the Sống
Collective's Việt Writers Lab and the Public’s Emerging Writers Group. Do is also the inaugural recipient of Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s Sokhary Chau Playwriting Fellowship.
Her play love you long time (already) was in Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, Atlantic Theater Company's MixFest, and is featured on the 2023 Kilroy’s Web. Her play who hurt you? was developed at the Sống Collective, The Public Theater, and Orlando Shakes.
She also wrote on the Netflix show Partner Track and is currently in development with MACRO.
About the Director
Shyama Nithiananda is a Sri Lankan - American director from Texas and a second-year MFA student. While
based in Dallas, Shyama worked as a director, actor, playwright, and taught theatre to high school seniors. She is interested in examining community intersections in her work and how converging communities inform our sense of responsibility to each other. She holds a BFA in Theatre Studies from Southern Methodist University.
Dallas / Fort Worth directing credits include Lizzie (Theatre Three) and Guards at the Taj (Stage West Theatre).