In Leigh Fondakowski’s Spill, she uses the words of those who lost loved ones and were otherwise impacted by the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. LA Theatreworks is presenting five radio play performances of Spill at The James Bridges Theatre at UCLA starting on May 17th.
Fondakowski was the head writer of The Laramie Project which looked at the killing of Matthew Shephard and utilized a similar oral history approach. The cast assembled for these performances features Elisa Bocanegra, Gilbert Glenn Brown, Nicholas Hormann, Travis Johns, Jane Kaczmarek, James Morrison, Darren Richardson, Kate Steele and Mark Jude Sullivan. Martin Jarvis directs.
Photo of Jane Kaczmarek by Derek Hutchison