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Roberto Zucco

by Bernard-Marie Koltès

California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles • November 2022

Roberto Zucco is the last play of the great Bernard-Marie Koltès, who was to die of AIDS a year after completing the script. The play follows a young lost soul driven to commit terrible crimes, seemingly without motive. In a society explicitly described as a prison, Zucco is an outsider, a foreigner, a protean force seeking to burst through the confines of identity. The play’s main riddle—Who is Roberto Zucco? A prisoner or a secret agent? A lover or a rapist?A peace-loving student or a killer on the run?—is never answered. Instead, in a series of poetic, fast-moving scenes, Koltes takes his chameleon-like hero on a mythical journey through a landscape of strange and violent beauty.

cast

Roberto Zucco:  Ryan Nebreja
Zucco’s Mother/Ensemble:  Avalon Greenberg Call
The Girl:  Keila Cone-Uemura 
The Sister:  Magdalene Taylor
The Brother:  Ben Formella
The Father/Ensemble:  Alec Anderson-Carrasco
The Mother/Ensemble:  MaryKate Glenn
The Melancholy Inspector/Ensemble:  Rory James Leech
The Madame/Ensemble:  Josephine Núñez 
The Distraught Whore/Ensemble:  Gala Nikolić
The Pimp:  Oliver Gifford
The Old Man:  Paul Sohm
The Elegant Lady:  Chloe Le Lievre
The Child:  Sam Sutton
Prison Guard 1/Ensemble:  Sawyer Shine
Prison Guard 2/Ensemble:  Jack Goldwait
Sex Worker/Ensemble:  Sylka Feliciano, 

Production team

Direction:  Héctor Alvarez
Scenic Designer:  Jalen Colbert
Assistant Scenic Designer:  Charlie Jacobs, Zenith Hyden-Soffer, Ember Streshinsky
Costume Designer:  Ashley Kae Snyder
Assistant Costume Designer:  Jolisa Osborn Polakoff, Bailey Johnson
Lighting Designer:  W. Alejandro Melendez
Assistant Lighting Designer:  Max Okst
Sound Designer:  Ying Xin, Nick DePinto
Composer/Musician:  Drew Sensue Weinstein
Producing Faculty:
  Rui Xu
Producer:  Park Lytle, Elizabeth Barron, Joyce Qian, Vladimir Tuaev
Associate Production Manager:  Katherine Paez Froehlich
Stage Manager:  Lanae Wilks
Assistant Stage Manager:  Rebecca K. Hsia, Kellie Hageman 
Technical Director:  Michael Darling
Assistant Technical Director:  Kenzie Caulfield, Gigi Moreno
Video and Editing:  Rafael Lopez

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