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Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
Michele Selene Ang. Photo by Jim Cox.
February 8 – March 2, 2025
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
Globe-commissioned world premiere
By Keiko Green
Directed by Sivan Battat
A major new American play that first launched in the 2024 Powers New Voices Festival. Kisa, a painter in Paris, returns to her small Japanese hometown after the 2011 tsunami to help her ailing father by driving his taxi cab. But as she navigates the winding streets and transports her eccentric passengers, she is haunted by the supernatural remnants of what the floodwaters left behind. This Globe-commissioned world premiere from Keiko Green (Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play) is a funny and poignant story that explores the uncanny ways that love can transcend loss.
Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar: Tuesday, February 11 at 6:00 p.m.
Community Night: Friday, February 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Post Show Forums: Tuesday, February 18; Wednesday, February 19; Tuesday February 25
Open-Caption Performance: Saturday, March 1 at 2:00 p.m.
Empty Ride is supported by Lead Production Sponsors Laurents / Hatcher Foundation and Paula and Brian Powers.
Keiko Green (Playwright) Plays: Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (The Old Globe, SF Playhouse; San Diego Critics Circle Award, Kilroys' List), Sharon (Cygnet Theatre), Hells Canyon (Theater Mu), The Bed Trick (Seattle Shakespeare Company; Sound on Stage Award), Hometown Boy (Actors Express, Seattle Public Theatre). Commissions: Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation, Kennedy Center/Seattle Children's Theatre. Other: two-time O’Neill National Playwrights Conference attendee, alumna of A Contemporary Theatre (ACT)'s Core Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Writers Group, Theater Mu New Play Incubator, and former Chance Theater Playwright in Residence. Upcoming productions: You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! (South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa), Gorgeous (Raven/Rivendell, Chicago), Wad (American Lives Theater, Indianapolis). Television: “Interior Chinatown” (Hulu), "Margo's Got Money Troubles" (AppleTV). As actor: Denver Center, Seattle Rep, NAATCO, ACT, others. Education: BFA from NYU Tisch ETW. MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego.
Sivan Battat (Director) is a theatre director and cultural organizer. Recent credits include: In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot by Sarah Mantell (Playwrights Horizons, world premiere), Problems Between Sisters by Julia May Jonas (Studio Theatre, world premiere), Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi (Yale Repertory Theatre), Layalina by Martin Yousif Zebari (Goodman Theatre, world premiere), Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery (Studio Theatre), Backstroke Boys by Xavier Clark (Fault Line Theatre, Workshop Production), Fellowships include: Roundabout Directing Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, TCG Rising Leaders of Color. sivanbattat.com.
Adam Rigg (Scenic Design) is an award-winning set and costume designer. Broadway: Illinoise, The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony nomination; Outer Critics Circle Award). Off-Broadway: Teeth, On Sugarland (Lortel Award), Cullud Wattah (Drama Desk), Fefu and Her Friends (Henry Hewes Award). BA University of California, Los Angeles; MFA Yale School of Drama.
Izumi Inaba (Costume Design) Old Globe: debut. Off-Broadway: How to Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop). Tour: Million Dollar Quartet Christmas (Evan Bernardin Productions). Recent credits: Noises Off (Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Geffen Playhouse), Every Brilliant Thing (Writers Theatre), I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Denver Center Performing Arts). Upcoming: The Play That Goes Wrong (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Cats (Paramount Theatre). Izumi is a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 and represented by Gersh.
Mextly Couzin (Lighting Design) The Old Globe: Henry 6, The Merry Wives of Windsor, El Borracho, As You Like It (assistant designer), Romeo and Juliet (assistant). Broadway: JOB. Off Broadway: N/A, Pericles, Job, A Good Day to Me Not to You, Here We Are (assistant), Straight Line Crazy, peerless, Tambo & Bones. Regional: MEXODUS (Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage), Das Rheingold (Seattle Opera), Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth), West Side Story (Centro de Bellas Artes, Puerto Rico), La Belle et la Bête (Opera Parallèle). Honors: 1/52 Project grant, 2023. Education: MFA from University of California, San Diego, 2020. mextlycouzin.com.
Avi Amon (Sound Design and Original Music) is a Turkish-American composer and sound artist. Theatre work includes music, songs, and sound design for projects with: Ars Nova, The Kennedy Center, NYTW, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, PAC NYC, Signature Theatre, The Public, and Waterwell. Avi’s film scores have been featured at Cannes, Disney, DOCNYC, HBO, Hulu, SXSW, Tribeca, and 2024 Venice Film Festival. Avi’s score for the documentary “Everything You Have is Yours” is available on all streaming platforms. Avi is a MacDowell Fellow, in-residence at The Shed, and has received additional support from the Jonathan Larson Grant, Berkeley REP, Dramatists Guild, New Music USA, and The O’Neill among others. Avi is the music director at the 52nd Street Project and teaches at NYU. aviamon.com.
Caparelliotis Casting (Casting) The Old Globe: Appropriate, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt 2B, Fat Ham, Stir, King James, English, The Age of Innocence, Exotic Deadly, Under a Baseball Sky, What We Talk About…, Dial M for Murder, Mala, Shutter Sisters, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, The Wanderers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Skeleton Crew. Select Broadway: Good Night and Good Luck, Eureka Day, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Jitney, Blackbird, Disgraced Additional theatre: MTC, Signature, Atlantic. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC).
Chandra R.M. Anthenill (Production Stage Manager) (she/her/hers) The Old Globe: Stir, English, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Exotic Deadly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Trouble in Mind, Krapp’s Last Tape, What You Are, Tiny Beautiful Things, Globe for All (2017–2024), The Lorax, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Guys and Dolls, Camp David, The Comedy of Errors. Regional: Derecho, The Garden, 2020 POP Tour, Junk (La Jolla Playhouse), Fun Home, Beachtown, Roz and Ray, Into the Beautiful North, Outside Mullingar, The Oldest Boy, Oedipus El Rey, Honky (San Diego Rep), El Huracán, Mud Row, The Last Wife, Bad Jews, Sons of the Prophet, True West, Fool for Love, Spring Awakening, Assassins, Company (Cygnet), Pippin (Diversionary).
Jess Slocum (Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Henry 6, The Age of Innocence, Twelfth Night, Under a Baseball Sky, Dial M for Murder, El Borracho, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Familiar, The Imaginary Invalid, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love’s Labor’s Lost, tokyo fish story, In Your Arms, Bright Star, Othello, Water by the Spoonful, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Robin and the 7 Hoods, over 30 more. Regional: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Indecent; Side Show; Ruined; The Third Story; Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse), Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Education: Vanderbilt University.
