Date of Birth

July 18,19 at 7:30PM
July 20, 27 at 2:00PM

Director: Miguel Ringler
Written by: John Kaufmann

This play had its beginnings at Mary Greeley Hospital in Ames when playwright John Kaufmann’s family made a cassette tape on the day he was born. By a fortunate coincidence, two years ago, the author took a trip to interview his sister and his mother about birth stories, when sister Gina went into labor.

The play is based on recordings of conversations and events during that birth experience. D.O.B. documents private moments from an important life event that would not otherwise have been remembered: simple moments that reveal the relationships, intensity, and absurdity of one particular birthday.

Cast

Gina ................................................... Becky Voas
Miguel ................................................ Kevin Woodard
Johnny ............................................... Brad Pingel
Dorothy .............................................. Belinda Merritt
Linda .................................................. Stacy Brothers

Also featuring:

RuthEllen Cunnally
Pat Gouran

About The Director:

Miguel has worked as an actor, director, and fight choreographer
around the country. His recent credits include directing the award
winning productions of Grease and Beauty and the Beast at Solano Youth
Theatre. Acting credits include: the Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway
production of Antigone in New York, directed by Michael Mayer;
Porthouse Theatre’s Henry IV, part one; GMT Productions’ national
tour of Julius Caesar; Co-Dependant Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same at
Toronto’s Rhubarb Festival and a brief stint on As the World Turns

About the Playwright

John Kaufmann grew up in Ames Iowa. After college at UNI, he spent
the last 10 years in Seattle, where he served as planetarium
supervisor at Pacific Science Center, worked as a Cranium
game-developer and created improvisation workshops for chaplains at
Harborview Medical Center. Original theatrical creations include
Starball, a musical astronomy comedy that toured planetariums across
the country and Line One, featuring actors speaking lines they hear
through the earpieces of their cell phones. Recently, John worked with
performance group “Awesome” on noSIGNAL and directed RnJ at
Seattle Children’s Theatre. John has just completed the first year
of his Directing MFA at the University of Iowa, where he directed
Harold Pinter’s The Collection and the world premiere of We Three in
the New Play Festival