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







