Theatre Performances
- Someone North Loves You
- Fancy Jungle
- Shattered Dreams (and where we put them)
Shattered Dreams (and where we put them)
May 7-16 | Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre
Written by Mack Lawrence | Directed by Kieran Becca
About the Show
Five teens are putting on a show, an elaborate PSA sponsored by their high school where they’ll recreate a deadly car crash designed to scare away fellow students from drinking and driving. Between theatre games, fake-blood logistics, and a Grim Reaper costume, the teens begin to deal with their secrets and the truth of one fateful night. SHATTERED DREAMS (and where we put them) is an exploration of growing up and the stories we tell about our past and future selves.
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The Cast
Stink: Sparrow Naito
Babe: Khyati Sehgal
Mira: Sage Evans
Tee: Samantha Lebedev
Stephen: Khalfani Louis
Grim Reaper: TBD
Understudies:
US/Stink: Madeleine Schnack
US/Babe: Bluma Lezak
US/Mira: Cat Evans
US/Tee: Molly Wazna-Blank
US/Stephen: Joseph Hunt
Stage Management
Production Stage Manager: Tessa (TJ) Twomey
Assistant Stage Manager: Mark Fraley
Assistant Stage Manager: Karina Sapkota
Script Production Assistant: Clara Rowlett
Production Assistant: Hannah Harsey
Creative Team
Director: Kieran Beccia
Playwright: Mack Lawrence
Scenic Designer: Muting Fan
Costume Designer: Alexis Ordoñez
Assistant Costume Designer: Belle Garza-Omae
Assistant Costume Designer: Issac Rosales
Lighting Designer: Taylor Olsen
Assistant Lighting Designer: Veronica Gomez
Sound Designer: Scarlett Shi
Vocal Coach: Andrea Caban
Vocal Coach: Ursula Meyer
Intimacy Coordinator: Jesca Prudencio
Fight Coordinator: Jake Millgard
Assistant Director: TBD
EDI Faculty Advocates: TBD
About the Playwright
Mack Lawrence (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, playwright, and dancer from Austin, TX.
As a trans playwright and a sixth-generation Austinite, their work traverses foundationally queer stories with a distinctly southern voice—using humor and queer normalcy as a way to challenge and provoke the way trans stories are told.
Mack has been a part of MOtiVE Brooklyn’s For the Artist! Residency program. Their project DINNER, a devised multimodal dance theater melodrama about a group of long-time queer friends coming together at a dinner party, was presented at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NY.
Additionally, Mack’s play Waco Boy Club, has been presented by Breaking & Entering Theater Company (Brooklyn, 2024) and will be a part of National Queer Theater’s 2026 season (New York). Mack performs with ARCOS Dance, most recently as a part of Ether Dust, a movement tour through rural West Texas. They received their BFA in Dance from UT Austin.
About the Director
Kieran Becca is a California-based director and dramaturg. Their work has been produced at The Forum Collective, Cutting Ball Theater, Quantum Dragon Theater, FaultLine Theater, Fuse Theater, Dragon
Theater, Utopia Theater Project, and more. Kieran is a company member at the Oakland Theater Project, a former Artistic Director of U.C. Santa Cruz’s Barnstorm Theater, a founding member of The Forum Collective, and a recipient of Theatre Bay Area’s TITAN Award.
Kieran has worked in Literary Management for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Parity Productions, and The Forum Collective. A fierce champion of new plays and living writers, they are drawn to plays that poke at the seams of our social fabric to expose contradictions and challenge entrenched bias.
As a Casting Director, Kieran has cast productions for many Bay Area theatres including San Francisco Playhouse, Aurora Theatre Company, and Panto in the Presidio. They received acclaim for SF Playhouse's 2023 production of A Chorus Line, which received numerous Critics’ Circle awards and was the first musical in nearly four decades to receive an Isadora Duncan dance award.