Fabuloso

A Play by John Kolvenbach


1/7/2010 - 1/31/2010

Do you have a friend who is the life of the party? But what if that friend never left and the party never stopped? Teddy and Kate are living a quiet existence in their one-bedroom apartment, until Teddy’s long lost friend, Arthur, appears out of the blue, with his fiancée in tow. A screwball comedy of living life to the fullest. (Contains Adult Situations and Adult Language, Estimated Run Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes including one 15-minute intermission)

Sponsor for show - Yellow Book

Fabuloso

CAST

Arthur..................................................Ed Jewett
Kate............................................Rebecca Harris
Samantha...............................Amy Kim Waschke
Teddy......................................Jeremiah Wiggins

CREATIVE TEAM

Director.............................................Kyle Fabel
Scenic Designer..........................Campbell Baird
Lighting Designer..................Paul Hackenmueller
Costume Designer...........................Deb Newhall

CAST BIOGRAPHIES


 

ED JEWETT (Arthur) Merrimack Repertory Theatre: debut. New York: 1965UU, Chocolate Factory; La Tempestad, Resonance Ensemble; Moo!, Manhattan Theatre Source; Thom Pain, DR2 Theatre; Below the Belt, City Theatre Company; Of Mice and Men, Oberon Theater Ensemble; Uncle Vanya, Chekhov Now Festival; Enrico IV and Crackwalker; NYU Grad Director’s Lab; Tea and Bedlam, Theater for the New City. Regional: Other People’s Money, New Century Theatre; Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons, The Wilma Theater; The Best Man, New Jersey Repertory Company. Film: Noise, Seven Arts Pictures, World Trade Center, Paramount, The Night Listener, Miramax, The Notorious Bettie Page, HBO/Killer Films; Waltzing Anna, Social Grace. Upcoming films: Cedar Rapids, Wall Street 2, 20th Century Fox; Going The Distance, New Line Cinema; The Winning Season, Lionsgate. Television: New Amsterdam, FOX; John Adams, HBO Films; The Bronx is Burning, ESPN Miniseries; Law & Order and All My Children. Education: BA, Theatre at University of Massachusetts Amherst; Chelmsford High School. Other: Ed is excited to make his MRT debut and pleased to be working with Kyle Fabel, once again. He is a proud member of Chelmsford High School’s Class of 1985. Thanks to Lynne and Terry, and my family, for all their support.


 

REBECCA HARRIS (Kate) Merrimack Repertory Theatre: The Missionary PositionOff-Broadway: LIFEGAME and Enter the NightOff-Off-Broadway: True Crimes, Gint!, American Silents, B & G, Voyage of the CarcassRegional: The Play About the Baby, The Alley Theatre; Mother Teresa is Dead, The Missionary Position, Mezzulah-1946, A Picasso, Fiction, String of Pearls, City Theatre; Scramble, Westport Country Playhouse; Centennial Casting, Virginia Stage Company; The Exonerated, The Birthday Party, The Real Thing, Pittsburgh Playhouse; Bad Dates, TheatreSquared; Frame 312, Alliance Theatre; Last Chance for a Slow Dance, New York Stage and Film Company.  Television: Three Rivers, Life on the Line, Sex and the City, Law & OrderFilm: Unstoppable, Road , How to Lose a Guy in 10 DaysEducation: M.F.A., Columbia University in New York.


 

AMY KIM WASCHKE (Samantha) Merrimack Repertory Theatre: debut.  Off-Broadway/New York: Living Dead in Denmark, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company; The Water Station, Pacific Performance Project; Grief, Manhattan Theatre Source/Estrogenius Festival.  Upcoming show for March 2010: Alice in Slasherland, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company.  Regional: Somebody/Nobody, Arizona Theatre Company; Tamburlaine, Edward II, Shakespeare Theatre; Cecelia’s Last Tea Party, Passage Theatre; Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon, Electra, Orestes, Iphigenia at Taurus, Hangar Theatre; Tibet Through The Red Box, Seattle Children’s Theatre; Metamorphoses, Weston Playhouse Theatre; Measure for Measure, Seattle Shakespeare Theatre.  Film: Eighteen Seconds, Black Milk Productions; The Choice, Wandering Scholar Productions; True, Brown Eyes Motion Pictures.  Television: Identity, Law & Order SVUEducation: MFA, University of Washington.


 

JEREMIAH WIGGINS (Teddy) Merrimack Repertory Theatre: The Art of Sacrifice (Aron); Something in the Air (Walker).  Off-Broadway: Avow (Father Raymond), Cardinal Group NYC; the world premiere of Fly (O’Hurley), Lincoln Center Institute & Crossroads Theatre; Good Morning, Bill (Bill), Keen Company; An Experiment With An Air Pump (Armstrong/Phil), Manhattan Theater Club; co-wrote, co-directed, and acted in Patriot Acts, Urban Rock Project/NYC Fringe Festival.  Regional: Candida, Berkshire Theater Festival; The Vertical Hour, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Elephant Man, Virginia Stage Company; Othello, Pioneer Theater; as well as additional work at The Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theater, Hangar Theater and Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.  Film: The Hoax (Miramax), Welcome to Purgatory (Sideshow).  Television: Gravity (Starz), As The World Turns (CBS), Cashmere Mafia (ABC), Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central), Hack (CBS); Training: M.F.A., NYU.

Reviews & Press


Family is where you find it in 'Fabuloso' - Lowell Sun review of Fabuloso.

MRT’s Fabuloso crushes inhibitions and salutes zaniness - Carlisle Mosquito review of Fabuloso.

Fabel Directs Fantastic Foursome in 'Fabuloso' - Broadway.com review of Fabuloso.

Freeloaders bear unexpected gifts in "Fabuloso" at Merrimack Rep in Lowell - Wicked Local Acton review of Fabuloso.

Chelmsford High grad's homecoming is 'Fabuloso' - The Lowell Sun previews Fabuloso with actors Ed Jewett and Amy Waschke, and director Kyle Fabel.

 

FABULOSO VIDEOS

 

In episode two, actors Ed Jewett and Amy Kim Waschke discuss their characters, Arthur and Samantha.


In our first video blog for Fabuloso, actors Jeremiah Wiggins, Rebecca Harris and Ed Jewett talk about learning the script and what the audience will bring to the production.


PSA for the upcoming production of Fabuloso, a play by John Kolvenbach.